Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 13

right people and Isis has gone live to going live I apologize for the right so apologize for the delay people Alamo Simon assalamu alaikum in al hamdulillah he

woke afar or salat wa salam o allah rasool allah mustafa well I read ela Dean of Tobar woman be hotel method will be our third Almudena tava bad for Salam Allahu alaykum Margaret an aura well as no no second become or bienvenidos people of rice Salam Rizwan ma who's a mere animal silent people animal and sorrow I think miss Salam shukran shukran is an is miss let's get straight on to some of these questions first of all I just want to apologize for the

delay well what can I say it happens right it's all forbidden in Islam Saudi Akbar likewise big Salam right back at you salamander alaikum Salam right now let's take some questions awry less prone to us so is art forbidden in Islam you see this is this is actually quite interesting they say there's an interesting interview called it's based on a book by somebody who's who just kind of done some oriental East

when I say were interest as in Muslims Middle Eastern Studies he's a Muslim and I suppose termed a scholar from that perspective but not maybe necessarily a full-out kind of fatty but it was an interesting book and and intervene on the less that he lives on a podcast it's called Aisha's cushions and it's based on the whole hadith of Prophet Solomon saying remove the curtain because it was distracting him from Allah and she then make with it

a cushion okay so you see art we have to understand that the the culture from which Islam originally emanates the the first kind of the bedrock in which the first where Islam is first implanted the Arabs are not necessarily a people of art at the time they are people they are into poetry but beyond poetry they're not really into any kind of artistry they're not even into writing okay at the time of the Prophet SAW Allah sonim and they definitely are not into

painting they're not even really into sculptures they are into idolatry and they make I feel that their idols weren't necessarily so fanciful and this is it's important to understand sometimes what the background in the context is because it then shapes future mindsets because these are the first people that will take Islam forward now they're in my understanding art is not forbidden in Islam okay and in fact it's one of the greatest human exploit

expressions okay so and this this definitely includes paintings and even I don't know monuments and stuff like these that people make or whatever it is I mean I'm not so I can appreciate our two stomachs tell mean I'm not an a connoisseur or anything but I I mean I'm not an artist but just like most people you know I see something that's that has Beauty to it and we can appreciate that so coming back to why do people feel art is for

they mainly based this on some a hadith the Prophet Allah Islam said al-mussawi rune I said to other Bannerman p.m. that muscle were on the people of that are making these they see now how you translate this will change everything some people even include this to me in photography because more so we're in this day and age in modern Arabic means a photographer although der they were not photographers back which reminds me a bit of that you know on Facebook there was this but this kind of article or

something where it says massive kind of like this thing instrument and he says wow this was the first camera that was invented in eighteen and somebody's wrote a written that well did your dad take the photo haha who the hell took the photograph of the camera then but anyway the point being that there is this there is a this kind of view against based on this hadith people thought that okay all kind

of idols all kind of things statues anything based on that or Haram within Islam and in all essence the truth in my understanding is that this kind of prohibition was really aimed the community being newly new Muslims who have just recently left idolatry this paganism which they had been so for generations it had been entrenched in them so I think this is why the professor Allison said things like otherwise this ayah D that they certain figurine kind of sculptures and like

dolls if you like that I shadowed a lot on her had and she had other sculptures as well she had she had made a horse with wings and the famous kind of hadith in bihari of the Prophet and the hadith describes there was a whole setup that she had constructed it was she had it kind of tied to something the horse and and and people you know they come up with I don't want to sidetrack here oh that's because these are kids toys that's not necessarily true okay the the the kind of description of

what I shop zest sounds quite advanced and detailed like the horse being tied to a particular part of this those of like a building a semi building structure there's a wall there was different things and people sometimes have a fascination with certain you know whether it's gonna be figurines or certain kind of things and even grown up so you get a lot of people who are mature not into this myself but they will collect kind of like little war statues and not statues but little toy I don't know kind of figurines where you got loads of little soldiers and they

collect these and it's not that you know they don't then who kind of like oh hey I'm now going down here hey what are you doing you know they're not playing with them like the way I suppose kids play with them but they collect them is there's a fascination with that and that's in my understanding while I shadowed a lot on her had and there were other people and she had this set up she was making a settlement the prophesy isin comes in and the fact that he could immediately see and describe what it was shows it wasn't so duh like it wasn't so primitive like just a blob with like wings or something because he say

straight away oh he says I had a little ferris Jenna Han that kind of horse have wings I mean you didn't say donkey didn't say mule didn't say you know camel or sheep or goat so it's very clear from the figurines or whatever they were that what the animal was but anyway my point being this demonstrates these things were not Haram later on as Islam expands and you get especially during the Abbasid time some form of art does emerge but I think this taboo of photographs and of sorry of portraits and pet of people

it kind of really loomed over the Ummah right throughout the centuries there were people who did do paintings but he never really prevailed as as a very common kind of practice in that sense okay so I hope that some help you're most welcome people how's the weather here UK weather as always it's completely unreliable but it's good Lille I'll hunt so what starts July

I don't know salmon salmon just senior salam digging the coast shukran shukran always right I won't actually I recently watched the conversation you had with no monolith on on your YouTube page that was a really big pleasure to watch sugar and at hand sugar and appreciate it I do try to see what I'm trying is well when I meet up with special people really you know amazing thinkers or Olimar or SRT there and stuff like that we in private

sometimes have some incredible conversations incredible really kind of mind blasting and kind of so incredibly thought-provoking now the problem is these kind of discussions are not often in like regular people will not be able to catch these kind of discussions because they happen usually behind closed doors or they happen when people you know it's just they're on their own they won't so if a scholar was going to give a talk he wouldn't talk about something so deep and something so the

talk is just usually Muslim Islamic talks I usually just you know be good you know they're just always be good and it's not they like very preachy kind of they're not like Islamic talks are seldom about ideas or about like you know like perspectives of concepts they usually just very the very simple simplistic like they're not they're just like oh you should be good you should remember last watching you you should do stuff like these quote a few hadith called a few Quranic with they're not actually

there isn't much kind of really that the nectar isn't they from an ill me perspective from a knowledge perspective so when Allah ma are having these conversations you see what I like to do and I'm trying to do is have some of them recorded but then it's it's actually a great challenge you know I mean it's like a social experiment because what happens is as we're recording them sometimes you have the you have the observer effect okay the boys you know and then that the observer

effect it changes the dynamics so then we've had to work out some ways around the observer effect and stuff like that and there's one two things that we've we've recorded and we will release them insha'Allah in time to come but are we different all amount but these conversations are sometimes really they just had a different level okay and that's what I would like to kind of get more out there for people to see the real worth okay because that's what really Elm is about ok knowledge is

about in the past you had I suppose preaching is fine I mean it's good hamdullah but to preach you don't really I mean actually actually you're sure you should be learning it otherwise you get people like these YouTube wackos trying to go out there and preach a different form of religion but I mean in essence what all am I have I would love for that to be more accessible anyway so moving on right now there was a question I was asked last week and I still say I'd love

to to answer that and I did see it today somebody kind of refreshed my men and it was to do with what's this oh I'm gonna come back to that question free mixing it was not to do with free mixing I anyway I'll come back to that that was to do with Hitler Ali Salim okay now Hilda is who is Hitler and the question was is Heather still alive okay now Hitler is the the person in the

story or in Surat al-kahf where allah subhanaw taala tells moosa aleihsalaam to set out on this journey to embark on this journey and the journey generally teaches some lessons although it raises some questions i don't think it's trying to raise questions but it raises some questions which are incredibly intricate and I myself have kind of struggled with and stuff like that and try to discuss with certain ulema to gain their insights and and I'm still working on

some on some some coherent kind of understanding but anyway the main thing that's not the purpose of the of the incident in the Quran the purpose is to teach some morals and to teach some kind of you know per the purposes or to teach that that there is much a wisdom many wisdoms that are hidden from us and moosa aleihsalaam and this person go off now in the quran he doesn't mention his name for what did i obtain mean i Bertina that they found this servant of us the a

hadith and other explanations refer this person to be hidden Ali Salaam now Hitler or her there or however you want to pronounce it generally people tend to say Hitler it's referring to a sense of greenness like an evergreen and people disagree first of all why he's named that and that some explanations say that because he would often be found amongst INRI or where he sat once he kind of got up and it's being underwear he sat and so on but whatever the reason behind his name the main first question that comes

is who is this person is he a prophet now Oh is he just like a like a special person of God there is no definitive answer people would generally say that this most likely may have been a prophet because in the verses that follow he says that all these things I did I didn't do them and Emery I didn't do them as my matter like as from my volition or decision that Allah told me to do this and the fact that Allah was

speaking to him is the understanding that people say he was a prophet and fair enough I mean there's no harm in either ways whether he was a special person or he was a prophet of God it's all good the the subsequent question is is Hitler elisa.landi him Ali Salaam with the understanding is a prophet I personally kind of am inclined to that understanding that he was most likely a prophet of God now this thing and hence the Ali Salaam now people would say is he still alive today because in the

story of Moses what happens is he rides as an example one of the incidents he rides a ship with Moses and they will be going and then what he does is he damages the ship intentionally he causes some kind of damage to it and then they disappear they they're off on their way and he says and moosa aleihsalaam rebukes him for doing that why on earth you cause damage to somebody's property and he stays well he doesn't tell him then but later on they say that what kind of war are a home malecon yahu the coolest Athena teen husband there was

there was behind them a say behind I get sidetracked the see what up here means ahead of them yeah but I suppose it means behind but behind from the perspective of the person looking this way so so it actually means ahead it's this incident where somebody in Arabic say he's trying to be super eloquent like they say where is this and he says war arc and the person is looking behind him and he says he says we're because oh there is it's in front of me why did you say voila because what is behind and he says haven't you heard

in the Quran when Allah said whoa okay nawara over are they meant in front of this is eloquent expert level wait nobody has a clue what the hell you're on about so anyway so the thing is the point being now so so this is now him doing these mysterious things going around causing things which people around him don't seem to be able to see that he's doing does this figure still go around in

creation doing things like yeah I don't know let's say for example you got a punch a tire today and I don't know you were gonna take a particular route on the motorway and they happened to be this deadly accident involving the schools of cars in that on that particular part of the motorway where you would have been but you got saved was this Heather ELISA Lam who came and punch in your tyre and therefore saved you from this calamity a bit like what was the movie final destination the thing is and is he still alive today

aloma in the past have disagreed over this okay now I personally do not entertain these kind of views I do not I find all this like very hyper mystical kind of stuff I find it counter rational and I don't feel it does much good to our overall understanding of the Dean in itself it may not be so problematic but when you compound it with all these other it becomes like a folkloric religion like a folk religion it becomes something just full of superstitions and

weird kind of practices and beliefs and they were and now I do accept many people in the past have continued did believe and have continued to believe that Hitler Ali Salaam is is alive and amongst them were people like Imam Noah we and court OB and even a Salah and even even at a meeting one of his oh my god selfies had a fit over this right because even it's a me and one of his things it's very clearly saying of course he's alive he says I'm man hiya TFO wahey he says he's alive duh and he really goes into it so they

are they this is a wrong narration to attribution to him and but when we look here what I don't pay him is saying it contradicts him and anyway so the point being other orlimar have challenged and critiqued this beginning with people very early on like 'man Bihari who wrote about when he's asked very clearly and he quotes the hadith that the prophesy ilysm said that there isn't a single soul on earth today except after a hundred years it would have Dimpy it would have demised okay that it would no longer be this is to be this is an

evidence that that includes people like [Music] hither alley Salam and and then other people have come later on as well even Oh Kathy very clearly kind of argues for it in stuff seed the verse for masha'Allah that the verse about Lea had him in public I'll hold that we haven't given anybody before you eternity FIA Mata formal colleton if you were to pass away today would they live forever I lost the thing is or Matalin Ali I had him in public I'll hold that this we haven't given eternity to anybody before

you he says this includes Fiddler's a Lisl Auman it is a delete and people like the legend of Muslim Spain called the able worker even our abhi the Malachy dawn as well very clearly argues that silver Ali Salam is not alive and that is my understanding I think like it's just more in line with the general reason based reason based faith really because the and I know there are certain transmissions people say oh Marin Abdel Aziz met him and some of the Sufi acclaim to meet him and all these these things are not kind of

authenticated narrations or transmissions and as far as people are claiming to meet them that's just experiential right so that's just their experience okay let's move on how did you come up with the name Abu layth I just came up with it people I just came up with actually came up with the term with the Kunia when I was very early my studies so perhaps around the year 2000 I came up with that looking like Harvey Specter well he is a Don he's a Don Hanafy method is the best okay thanks for that right if men cannot control

themselves in front of women and women ought to cover to avoid the harassment shed men not stay in their homes in aisle asses Krista haha Alice Alan Alan crystal holding down the feminist fort for her for her for the women's species out there the thing is I agree with you that look I agree with you that many of the rulings historically that may have been given stem from a patriarchal perspective that's not necessarily the

Quran and Sunnah it's more the opinion that him from men that really in some way they were just doing what they were just trying to sorry I'm just trying to hold these questions so they don't keep moving right so in many ways they were just trying to deal with the context that they had that's all they weren't trying to be sexist or misogynist in their time because that's how the world was in their time so I mean sometimes I think we've got to cut some slack for some people in the past but you see if they

were here today they would tell us that look you ought to be reflecting your own time some I think you know when we think of Muslims in the past we don't have like we kind of have an eight temporal view okay so we have a kind of a view that is Dee Dee historicized right now the thing is let me give you some perspective if somebody was to ask you what do you think of people certain people's views reflecting you're wrong

people will struggle to say that their parents generation thinks like them let alone their grandparents generation let alone their great grandparents generation if somebody told you do you think your grandparents mindset and your mindset today is the same like how do you think you would respond to that and that is my point exactly now when people think of Muslim history they kind of D history sighs or they have an eighth import they remove time so good way to think of it is think back to when let's say the UK were from the UK when it was all the anglo-saxons

living here so when the Vikings used to come and rape okay so if you think back so those of you that of bra perhaps watched Vikings the the season think of that era when the Vikings were coming on the ships and around 1066 the Battle of Hastings and Normandy and William the Conqueror and all this kind of stuff think of that Iran those people living here farming and doing different things do you think they would have had a similar mindset to you that is the era by the way that a lot of these decisions and opinions are emerging okay so now when you think of it like that

you probably think whoa you know like wait a minute the world has changed way too much and the Dean has always promoted that it reflects each time in era okay so right so okay I hope that's of summer so as far as men staying at home and stuff like this is not about some things you have to recognize that Islam is being it is true that I think anyway the way men perceive women and women perceive men is not necessarily the same

so I think that men have a much greater kind of emphasis on visual perception and that and for that Islam has put certain kind of you know it's got its advised modesty and stuff like this but really nobody has the Cathar of this we are not in position ist's okay we need to step out of this imposition east mentality and and this is one of the huge problems this this kind of because orlimar some don't have sometimes hard power in the world like they don't have actual control when they're given a certain amount of power they just go

wild with it then and this isn't everybody but this is it's common so a good example is I was not so just actually recently on this particular ulema it's an Arab element group and they were discussing some issues and in the Middle East there was some I believe some refugees in some of the refugee camps some woman who was a widow and she was asking could she get married now and she didn't have a woolly so these people answering all the way you know in a different part of the world

sure saying no she must find her woolly because it said something like if she was to get married oh this was one question another question was that oh this guy is trying to get married but his father has said he doesn't like the girl I'm and these guys say no she must find a woolly this is the first part of the question she must find a woolly oh you know this Nika will be bottle and they must do this and they must do this and I obviously said on there look they resist a laugh on this okay there is a

transmission from Imam Malik as well allegedly there is an opinion finding its roots with Imam Malik that is permissible to to get married without a wali and that's definitely the method of imam abu hanifa and it's what even a rushed argues for look there is it the laughs why are you guys trying to over it the woman poor woman has had suffered enough she's a refugee for God's sake her walk from a war-torn part of the world her husband has died you know like God knows what are the sufferings she's been through this is not the place to stamp your authority or control that you have anyway and and the other thing was

with right there's a question they are trying answer about vegans right the thing is that and about the guy wanting to marry a girl from his choice but the father was it was objecting they said no that thought I told well attained is formed okay that you owe that obedience to the pure appearance is an obligation and I'd like to take this question of it because I actually only said that look he they can marry and Imam Malik when he was asked about somebody said to him that he's his father had told him to

divorce his wife what should he do he said no you do not need to divorce her and the person said but he's saying Omar instructed his son Abdullah to divorce his wife a man Malik said if your father is Omar then okay but if he's not then no and the people on this group the Allah manuscript most of them was struggled with this like they said no that doesn't even make any sense how could anybody is that be Omar I mean that that wasn't even the point the point was that he

trying to say to him that look get real people have and you know some anima on they ask some questions that really shocked me like like wow how could somebody's father disapprove like why would he disapprove like ah why would it is disapprove of it it's like whoa do you live in the real world people are blood cruel I mean I don't think you understand or maybe you're just not a Pakistani I don't know if the questioner I don't think the questioner was a Pakistani either but the point is you know this

concept that everybody brings children up with this whole everything's heavenly and everything is done for the pleasure of Allah and everything is done with the utmost righteousness I mean it doesn't even exist in the bloody fairy tales let alone in the real world everybody's actions are are driven by motives everybody's actions so people need to stop being so surreal and be real look I I answered on there I said the person can marry but it's his responsibility he will face his own consequences if he

wants to do it let him think about it and then if he wants to do it then let him also shoulder the responsibility now that's the point anyway that that's one friend said this thing of obedience to parents it's a good question and a complicated one Islam does instruct that we have obedience to parents and but what does this obedience mean this obedience is in line with general guidelines general with the general obedience that has been kind of instructed upon us to it's better so for example taking care of them providing

for them helping them with expenses helping them out if they need help stuff like this not just any it's not like any kind of obedience it's not like and people say I don't mean you know like so I've had people here say I don't mean things like you know Latta I tell him look infamous it's alcoholic there's no obedience in the disobedience of God but I'm not even talking of the disobedience of God I'm not talking about if they say abandon the pre do you need to abandon the pre but even uncommon things like if if your parents said I want you to stand on one leg

stand on one leg and you don't do it that's not a sin you know like your parents said I want you to have two spoons of sugar not one I want you to have one not two I want to drink coffee instead of tea I want you to drink tea at four o clock and not five o'clock I want you to I want you to not weigh the color brown I want you to wear the color red instead I want this they don't have no authority in these kind of things this is irrational okay so this obedient is restricted with reason and it's within the framework the general framework of being kind and supportive

to parents so what if the stems with that okay I'm preventing harm not just anything in this world so yeah that says I forbid you from my BMW you must have made this tenet off doesn't they don't have authority they can't turn that into an obligation now by Allah just because they they happen to be you so the point is what Islam has said is you ought to walk fit the home Jenna has the lumina Rama and lower your wing of humility of humility and compassion to them Allah says so it's about serving them helping them providing for them being kind to

them do not raise your voice at them why does Allah say this in the Quran you know like ulama orphan well at an Haram ah because parents by their very nature you see you will be growing up around them by their very nature they will treat you like a kid and it's the part of their nature that they can be annoying at times that they will be like I'll get this hey come here do this hey you know it's like as kids you all probably remember this like

I remember like being called all the way from upstairs happy called sigh laughter alright come all the way downstairs and and we weren't I wasn't just one sibling we were six siblings alright so anyway I come all the way downstairs I yeah just pass me the remote will you like yeah pass that cup of tea will you

so the thing is it's from the fifth era of parents and I'm sure we would do the same thing right so the thing is so you are likely to get frustrated and as people sometimes get older and they're I say women as they fall victim to nagging nagging can be so annoying honestly so annoying one of the it can be one of the most annoying things tonight and the thing is so Allah is saying that look should you face something like this because it's very likely that people

will not and if they happen to be your parents so you must you must contain that frustration you cannot see crystal they're trying to say about women not nagging did you know in the early 19th century they used to have this ducking chair with women on that was convicted of nagging they would duck them dip them into the river right so anyway coming back so Allah says or don't even say oh do not rebuke them you want they are at the end of they are your parents have

that humility and respect so these things are what this is where obedience to parents comes in so it's not just absolutely anything in the world you know so just to hope that shed some light are you a seller fee come on with the seller fees except me I just look at me for God's sake I be like from the deviants of the deviants outside be what did the guy say on that show five star a great cook for what a ridiculous thing to say five star kuffar what does that even mean can

we dine in restaurants with wine is served yes you can Abdul good question you see the thing is there Oh Lamar look at things from a majority concept so there are some places so what we're interested is in is the primary function okay so the primary function of something if it's to serve food you can go and eat me if the primary function is to serve alcohol then you should abstain so going to a pub to eat you should not go to a pub really to eat okay going to a restaurant that serves wine as well but its primary

function is food is fine okay so I hope that it helps can you be a vegan and sane right Ricky I've I've got no idea the question earlier on can you be a vegan and Muslim yes you can they have been certain well-known in the past like the famous poet I'm ribbon or Allah al my artery famous poet already was a known vegetarian I don't know if it's vegan the ones where they're only eggs either I don't know if that's but anyway he was a vegetarian so you can be

it's not contradictory to the faith it doesn't say you have to eat meat although I must say I do love my meat so I can't really I don't know if I could be vegetarian but uh are you um are you mad any follower as in I am Matheny hell yeah the school of Medina go right back through him a Malik to The Messenger of Allah Allah is Allah his lottery allowed generally lottery isn't although I don't personally believe it to be a general lottery

it isn't allowed but I don't believe it to be something of them like the major major kind of sins or something like this I know what the National Lottery is for example it's as people you know there's a shopping and they want to buy something and but I do believe it is generally forbidden okay because not so much that in itself it's harmful but because gambling is so addictive and it's so destructive I mean even in the UK if you look at the reports on those who are kind of burdened with gambling

debt it's so massive it's crazy it's crazy just making wudu naked I'm not sure where you're going with this someone is it sufficient is sufficient for for me you don't have to give such offerings I ask this because we were taught 'angels leave our side when we are naked no I mean angels don't leave our sides like that I mean there is certain you see these hadith that are they they are not a literal they are they to kind of encourage modesty they're not so much to say oh you don't have Angels now so if somebody thought

oh no I'm gonna die I know strip me on my clothes the Angel of Death can't come it doesn't work quite like that so the thing is it's it's more about encouraging modesty okay so it's not about the fact that our angels have to leave you they know they don't get offended at stuff like this you know they're not human beings but your will do is absolutely fine and it's actually continued recommended to do your voodoo as part of us first time I'm seeing this live for oak a Louis Allen is great to see that you've managed to catch it and

hid or pops up okay salam wa salli wa alaikum as-salaam let's take a look are you allowed to jab up I'm not sure what jab up is they call him hither in my language some people call him women working yes of course when can work there's nothing wrong with and women it's really weird our you know it's it's weird because let's say the UK Islamic understandings here the narrative is shaped mainly by the Islamic understanding in two places

the indo-pak sub-continent and Saudi Arabia both of which are you know and a disastrous example and model for the UK for the UK that is four fold over there they can do you know whatever I'm sure it works but over here it's nothing to do with the UK but anyway people that come here and have this understanding women should sit at home women should do this women should let's take a look at Pakistan yeah Pakistan which has a massive population of like I think it's

about 180 million or something right now yeah I said that right yeah yeah that's predict million now Pakistan the majority of Pakistan remains rural it's a rural country still I've read somewhere that just over 60 percent of Pakistan still lives in in very rural lands okay so 60 to 70 percent of Pakistan at least over just over 60 percent still live in rural land so it's the way they have for agriculture farming and that's how they live have you ever lived there have you ever even

visited you know like I'd like to ask these people here that you know they come here and they have these weird views right they have they know about Pakistan go to the villages I've lived in the villages in Pakistan most all women in the villages work all women they all work in the fields who the hell works in the fields who the hell gets the rice and the wheat and not the rice so much in Pakistan but the wheat more so but even rice too but wheat and who the hell sorts it all out who the hell grows vegetables who the hell men and women they work side by side they go out they play

you know they they deal with the crops they organize them harvest them watch over them take care of the animals you don't do to take the animals for feeding or whatever it is and all of this stuff who is doing it it's everybody the women not sit at home they don't sit at home and they're healthy and they're actually very healthy it's my my grandparents you know write him on a lot passed away my this is my paternal grandparents passed away at the age of I think there were 92

yeah they were both walking okay walking around okay at that age my grandmother more so her back had been kind of really kind of like it mean obviously with age lowered and stuff like that but but she would still walking around fine going to the village still asking people talking and my grandfather okay at that age had started to lose a bit of you know become slow forgetful a bit and things like this and they passed away six months within each other and they had that as an age difference as well six months and that's how they actually passed away may Allah grant him Jinnah the thing is they

had good health I saw them I lived with them I and and they ate health and they worked right throughout their lives women worked as well and so this thing of we come to this part of the world and we act like women should just sit at home or they should just and I'm not saying look if somebody wants tit it depends because like obviously if somebody's a mother that is like a full-time preoccupation it's not a it's a mission depending on the case it's few Gospels not just like I require an observation avoids routine but I Quint is just sort of religion not of

practicality but out of religion is wrong right as a hadith um the prohibition of striking someone in the face is this prohibition acted upon war over in self-defense Muhammad's Salman Duke of the fish-like somebody on the face in self-defense don't worry buddy haha the thing is this hadith is speaking about generally people who kind of sorta discipline

somebody and so for example as obviously discipline in the world is even with June let's say in some places you know people shall some people some places they do corporal punishment you know they would like kind of hit them kids and stuff like this or slap a kid for example a child for misbehaving guys and this is is perceived differently and reasonable force is defined differently throughout different parts of the world so anyway the point is here Islam's were speaking about not striking

somebody on the face okay do not and and and it was it was kind of giving guidelines it wasn't speaking about self-defense or you're getting attacked and oh my god I can eat you but I can't hit you I can't hit you on the face that's what it was to see my money as a commodity halal or Haram selling money as a commodity money itself is not a commodity but didn't buy that like selling a five-pound note that has a specific if that's what you mean by if money had an a kind of rare feature to it if a specific and isolate so for

example you get hold of a five-pound note that I know some of these had ak-47 and people going mad over them and so they were prepared to pay I don't know 80 pounds for one five-pound note or 100 pounds or whatever in said check I believe such things in my understanding are not Haram like that because it's like you're selling the rarity of something so it's more like a collector's item so the person who's gonna buy is not going to really buying it to use it as five pounds because he's not dumb or something he wouldn't pay you know something like ten twelve times fourteen times that amount to just go

and spend one of its kind he's buying it as a collector's item so that is fine he's boxing Haram no it isn't boxing is fine Salameh are they can people how many books do you have God knows I never counted them like that do you mind telling me your opinion about Islam that's really interesting that one for us can you tell how much of an influence did Imam al Barkat and have on Imam Malik in his fit for Han um that's a

that's a good question right newcomers that's my right hand selfie camera for the millionth time anyway Imam Baqir and Jarrah Sadiq I'm not sure how much of an influence they had on Imam Ali obviously in my Malek you know respected them and stuff like that unquestionably he doesn't I think there are one or two there are some transmissions through them but in general they don't seem to be too many

transmissions from neither of either neither does Imam Ali called them much for fatwa which in my understanding gives me the impression that the effect must have been different otherwise why do they never quote them in fact I don't know I mean but it's not I'm sure there was a great set of react but III don't think he necessarily he necessarily in front of the people of Medina that's my understanding Allahu Alem you need that jacket oh you could take it man take the

jacket take it please move on spending way too much time on the hither issue right all right Mohammed I had sorry about that that's Maulana I had by the way for those of you that don't know I've P the doubts keep occurring doubts will always occur and the thing is you know with al Qaeda we seriously need to update our we need to understand how schools of law were developed okay they are kind of in a way they like Islam what has been inherited it's like a puzzle

okay these are this part of a puzzle and Muslims that come after are just trying to put that together that's that's exactly how it is so people like Al Hassan are shadi you know rahim allah and even after him a woman saw al Matuidi and these great Imams of are free that they in their time tried to put together the puzzle pieces of the puzzle for it to make the most sense it possibly could for their time and it worked and it was amazing and it continued to be amazing for

several centuries however we in our time do really need to evaluate some of these things because in our day and age they don't really kind of all add up okay so so one of the things is ethics is huge is huge ethics is huge so this thing of so the motto Reedy's for example were on tennis and the matter e these are generally trying to say they represent the a leader of imam abu hanifa now they were onto this understanding that they called ethics

historically al hassan al kaba halakha Leonor Tassie Mitaka baihe luckily people today translate ethics as a clock and this is in mind standing wrong ok I even asked several Arab Illuma that you know about this question I didn't get much of her you know people they hadn't thought about it much really but the thing is that ethics is wrongly translated in my understanding when it comes to a concept you might translate it linguistically in Arabic as a ahaha but a lot is understood as like good manners and that's not morals morals are

like your understanding of right and wrong now because the usher era traditionally believed and the other groups like the Hannibal and so on believes that there is no good or bad in this world that everything is just like if Allah told us to do something that is what we call good so Allah Tala pray praise good praying is good I lost it don't eat pork pork is bad anything Allah said don't do is bad anything unless I do is good so this then becomes a very detached dehumanized view and it leads to the ridiculous kind of statements that I just shared on Twitter the other day those of you that

are on Twitter in childlike and add me or follow me and I shared this kind of tweet of this share Saudi share saying anybody who leaves the morning prayer has done less harm than committing incest I mean what kind of how [ __ ] do you have to be to make statements like that I mean I don't know why I don't know what your end game is like what were you going somewhere with this

like couldn't you just say people please Oh people pay attention with the morning prayer couldn't you say the morning prayer is very important people couldn't you say you know be sure not be sure to wake up on time for the morning pray why did you have to give a preposterous juxtaposition like place it next to and actually sorry place it above incest so these people are having a field day about this that all you know

having sexual relations with your sister is not as much of a big deal as missing the morning prayer and the thing is what why are they thinking this well they're thinking this because these scholars are thinking with that kind of mindset that oh there is no good in this world there is no bad in this world good is what Allah has commanded but is what Allah said no to so therefore dehumanize everything and then just give roots as though it's some kind of a textbook it's not a textbook if that is an embarrassment to Islam okay it is an embarrassment seriously it is an affront to the message of this theme and it is a

an affront it is offensive to the prophetic guidance that The Messenger of Allah salon Islam left us so these things need to be reviewed we are actually working believe it or not you know like in the arc either that they that we currently have the books they teach things like oh there is no causality in this world there is no cause or effect everything is just Allah there are no forces in this world everything is this is pre Newtonian we're actually working at a pre Newton stage I mean for God's sake we don't even accept the three laws of motion by

Newton like what the hell like and and people would say uh do we accept them so wait a minute so things are in motion or forces and counter forces and but in the ugly the books we're teaching everybody nothing is happening nothing happens when I pick this up it's actually allah putting the power emitted it's actually when something burns it's not fire burning there is no causation Allah is causing that to burn we don't need these unnecessary mediums of trying to say things like oh when something Falls allies pushing it to the ground

that is stupid okay it sounds stupid right and what okay what about Newton's counter counter force the natural force that's pushing up what is allah pushing it up and pushing it down i mean what how silly are we going to get so the point is things need to move up a bit right allah has set certain laws in place he set the laws of physics he doesn't need to be kind of doing things the laws of physics are his creation so the point is we are still so behind on these martyrs and let alone now science has reached a quantum stage so it's gone

beyond beyond what was classical mechanics or normal mechanics Newtonian and it's now gone into quantum mechanics and people were still free but anyway let's let's move on let's move on Salaam brother I thought men wearing chain is not good in Islam well bakov that's exactly the problem you thought now men can wear a chain you know this thing of jewelry jewelry is not forbidden okay in Islam we've got this really strange understanding once again and it's very cultural ok jewelry is not forbidden in Islam not for men not for women yes

there's certain restrictions like gold for men that's the only restriction now yes during the time of the Prophet they had different types of jewelry different types of ornaments that we perhaps today wouldn't wait ok and this sums that some that we would so for example the Companions wore bracelets this is known right bracelets they were bracelets the prophecy latinum gave Soraka glad-tidings that he said up share that you will receive the bracelets of kiss rob was the Prophet giving glad tidings

of something Haram why is it when kiss Roy and his kingdom collapsed Omar said bring Misaka I will make him with and he said I want to be the one that places them on his hand and he said you know al hamdulillah who made this prophecy we realized at my hands were they doing something Haram when Allah says in the Quran about Jenna that they will have a cell wheel that they will have bracelets men will have bracelets to wear that are made out of gold and this and that you know I saw it mean that from gold what if bracelets was such a foreign

concept to men why would they be like oh that's weird you know what why why isn't it something like a men will have anklets I mean they don't so the point is it's because they wore bracelet now okay whether they wore necklaces as much or not as certain other cultures it doesn't make it Haram okay they actually wore these other not anklets but they would their bracelets were like these long kind of you know you see in these old movies sometimes they were these kind of things that come kind of like they they kind of clip on and they wore them on the lower leg to above the ankle like these kind of like it was like a

thick strap that kind of went round you wouldn't wear that today they wore them so the point is that these things are culturally defined and I and I wear this and I wear it on purpose to show people that it is not Haram and we need to stop superimposing our understanding of Islam on others could you clarify Quran honey when a person dies Quran honey is where you gift the reward of something you've done to somebody else it's called a neighbor fill a bada fill I bother or sometime called Issa Luther Bob or

Hibbert or so up okay gifting reward or sending the reward to somebody now this was not accepted by imam malik he did not accept this neither did the Maliki school in general except this the early school did not the later school did accept it Imam Shafi didn't accept this either so they made this very clear that these things the verse of the Koran will easily in Cerny ulema say that in turn only has what he strived for okay now and the hadith is a massive item in Qatar on who I was am allahu allah means the last

that that when the son of Adam dies his actions have cut off from him except from these three now it wasn't just these three exhaustively these three are all things that are his initial investments so any action you do that is an investment it has a direct link back to you you will always get the reward for in sha allah so the thing is so let's say I set up a well and people drink from that well for forever I will always continually get the reward I set up an institute that Institute creates people they go out wherever they teach people whoever they teach it always

comes back to me it's like a pyramid scheme okay this is talking about something where you have no connection so for example I read some of the Quran and I say Ya Allah that person sitting over there give the reward to him like there's no connection between me and that person this according to Imam Malik and the early Maliki school and Imam Shafi he was it was just void they didn't mean anything today it's a very common practice throughout the Muslim world personally I don't accept it to me it does it's once again doesn't make any sense like the fact that your action was

even accepted you don't know let alone donating the reward doesn't make any sense if you could donate reward why can't you donate sin if you could and also this understanding of absorbs responsibility like people should do for themselves they should achieve for themselves right and your life use whatever learning is used whatever investments exponential growth you make is yours other people who have no connection with you they shouldn't you know it doesn't make sense to me and what even up the board the legend of Maghreb said about this the great have faith of Margaret from Muslim Spain he said

all Muslims agree that one person can not pray Salah on behalf of another he said that should be the basis in this entire discussion that said people who do do this and this is widely practiced today it is in fact you if I may be many people may not even know there's a difference of opinion on this it's that widely known I would say don't you know don't cause arguments don't cause kind of fights respect you know if people want to do that then hamdulillah sometimes it's the way of not wanting to feel helpless and I after many years only learnt that through experience you

know when I remember I shared that I ain't gonna snapchat those of you that are on snapchat added me by the way mal mal m20 one for 2014 so mom 2014 but I shared it on a story once saying that look there's a dear friend of mine and his and a close friend of his had passed away and he was telling me how shocked he was that you know he grew up together with this guy and they did all these things together and he can't believe that he's dead and he said to me you know he said I'm gonna go and recite surah yaseen for him and at that point just hit me that I finally get it

that it was you see it was there's a sense of helplessness like can you imagine somebody you can't help them they've died you there's nothing you can do but here there is still some hope that there is something you can do that I would still help you by sending you reward and I think in that meaning at least it is very beautiful and so and it definitely gives hope to a lot of people this is why I wouldn't I would never condemn this kind of belief and I don't believe even though I don't personally I'm more with with imam malik and the

early school in rationally i don't believe it actually reaches the person the way they think it does but i think it it serves so much it does serve a lot of meaning for a lot of people and i suppose you know to give them that meaning or to rob them of that meaning isn't fair so i hope that makes some sense but I mean that said sometimes it is turned quite fast achill with we're gonna pay all these people to read you know he's read 150 qur'an's for me and he's read this and then I think it robs the spirit or once again of these practices what language do you speak to you children generally besides English shall be or do I speak to the minute oh

I did the self belief Jesus Christ wasn't crucified white you see for hon I don't believe this an issue in accepting that Jesus was put on the cross Muslims many Muslims have said oh Jesus wasn't put on the cross I personally believe that a low Harlem I mean I don't have like such a strong belief about it but I'm more inclined to the understanding that it was Jesus Ali Salim that was put on the cross and it wasn't somebody else it was him

and the fact that he wasn't killed on the cross was because they were rushing the whole thing because it was the fraud it was a Friday afternoon and normally they would leave people up for at least a whole day a whole night or two days or three days but they had to take down Jesus because of the Sabbath was gonna kick him at mother up time so he was hanging and it was and it only been on the in the afternoon so he hadn't been hanging for so long so what they did was just to check that he had died they kind of punctured I mean that's what the Christian narrative says you know we'd Spears the side of his lungs to see if it's kind of filled with blood or not

and they said oh it's enough and they've took him off and said he's died but misconstruing the dead from the living is something people have commonly done throughout the past and even so till our time you know people that's why they say we have to check whether they brained it because sometimes they they not actually dead and you think they did so this does not go against the verse of the Quran by the way or market Allah who a masala boom also a masala boohoo maka - I like it should be hella home that they did not crucify him and they did not kill him that's because in Arabic has even no rob6 planes in his history Aaron in other

books that in Arabic the verb can be used with two from two angles either from the point of beginning initiation or from the point of completion so if say I ate I ate dinner at nine o'clock yesterday do I mean I began to eat at 9:00 or do I mean I had finished eating at 9:00 now you might say began to eat so if you say began to eat okay fine that's that's one understanding but you could say I ate it at what at this time as in I finished eating it at this time

now based on that or masala boom or they did not crucify him meaning that the verb with its completion as in they did