Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 41

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right so now that I've become a salon for hand Sajid Sahib kissing him up let's I see tuning in Omar al hello doing it doing it people I'm good I'm good I'm just a bit out of it mind whoa I'm a bit out of

it honestly I was like you know the body has a mind of its own and I was just so I've been to this retreat tell you guys about this retreat my alaikum as-salaam I'm not unwell that's just probably me I'm just a bit dazed is the word dazed Ayub al-maliki all right let me just log in back to the questions people right

where are they where are they and then we'll begin mm-hmm momento momento right here they are he's in people eyes in fresh shaker uh it's always fresh people it's always fresh keep it fresh always that's what I'm talking about right do I prefer let's begin first of all in the M de la vaca far or salatu

salam o allah rasool mustafa ala i body live in october Oh mummy ho Dahomey tada Oh Bea Arthur Almudena tougher were bad for Salam Allahu Allah come welcome for three enormous island sham animus Allen right people let me get my right with my crink as you can see now I bought the other one but Sam crow people Sam crow Sons of Anarchy that's what I'm talking about sons of anarchy right to

wake myself up as you can see it's got to do the trick it's gotta add some better so along with satin and what do we have today mother you know I just got back from this weekend retreat oh yeah it was awesome yeah imam hassan al almost Salman

missed you at the that's got ya seen a study a scene during a Jeff hahaha okay let's let me give you guys a little summary of how the thing went down it was so at this retreat it was for it was for the whole weekend extended weekend and I gotta say I felt it was

awesome great just great people chilling talking meeting people it's good to talk I guess it's good to me yzo all right people yzo was at the retreat right so so it was it was great to do that we'll start funny then on Saturn um I think only parts of it got

recorded I think a Q&A a kind of casual Q&A that we did in one of the the cafe kind of areas got recorded there was a lot more octave Aslam aka a Shahid Kapoor look-alike and also right so the thing is that I think well I was just reflecting over this retreat and I thought you know that the things that really stood out for me and that was the ability to just chill and just meet

people I guess people just get to chat and then we had we had a lot of these sectioned off I don't know if they were workshops in essence called workshops but they were more just discussions so you just kind of I don't know you siphon off to this area this room this class and got trapped discussions and and the midnight vampire discussions I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed honestly there there was some there was on both nights but last night as well we must have discussed from I don't know I must

have been like 11 right through till something like 5:00 in the morning and it was just awesome I mean we've got to to chat about and these were just just casual they weren't they there weren't formal kind of gatherings or anything like that they were just you know we're just sitting there chatting knocking back the drinks and just it was a say you know what I I thought about it and I thought what I liked the most about all of that was that in a way it was like a very like a

safe zone to just chat and discuss and bring up any thoughts that you may have the person may have we may have other scholars with this chef Adam kelwick was there chef Abdul Hameed from Leicester was there I mean it was just amazing seriously so just getting to bounce off ideas getting to hear what people are having to say there were other people as well I mean for the event I mean some of these

discussions you had I mean you you had Harley the machine artist doing a mica L doing it so that's college deke and Mikhail mala and and other people as well and I think that's the the kind of awesome I don't know what give spirit to these things and we're thinking in shell off of doing wand ourselves or to do with maybe Islam in the 21st century but I was trying to I don't know I was just having some thoughts that what makes

them outstanding is it the fact that this a you know like a classroom setting a lecture going on or or is it the ability to just people be able to just chill and roam and just come off and just have discussions if they want and and how would I don't know I mean how would something like that be structured if we were looking to just give people just freedom to just be there be themselves and then maybe the numbers would have to be a small amount then because because if there's so many people that probably just be lost and oh

I don't know I don't know these are just thoughts but I but it was awesome nevertheless there were other people there as well there was I'm tryna there was Imam Dawood from Luton there was who started the effort did some awesome talks especially for for the girls and I mean it's not dedicated to the girls but gave some special pointers and there was another there was another lady as well but I never got to make kick to her workshop on mental health and things

like this I think I started at Maryam something I I can't recall that and there were some other people who died don't think maybe they made it on the Friday and I didn't catch them but anyway let's get back to these people what is going on Martha Martha what's going down people what's going down right we've got a lot of questions I'll try to I'll try to kind of mix them up I'll try to mingle them it's interesting we're having a chat on

this word intermingling with just add them it's funny he raised that and he's like what a horrible word inter mingling right so anyway let's take some of these salams bro and what's with that cup come on man I got I ordered these special pint glossing sons of anarchy and I got another one mmm men of mayhem SAMCRO

that's what I'm talking about people don't hate on my cup people just hating right are there is there such thing as Islamic medicine I believe that the prophets sallallahu aleyhi land spoke of cures only available at his time so the Prophet can be wrong or medical worldly issues for instance the belief that a fly wing with disease can be cured via the other wing or that black seed is a cure for literally everything am i right

to hold this opinion mmm shukran shukran that's what I'm talking about alehsalaam on doing it the right okay this question I think first of all I would never word anything like that and I discourage and would it would guide Muslims to never speak with that kind of a tone as Muslims towards the the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam so i would always say we have to at all times maintain the utmost

respect for the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so we don't use things like like that like in saying so I believe he was wrong and he was this and like that we don't speak like that about and that is as a Muslim duty towards the messenger of allah who brought this deen to us right the other thing is do we when we speak about medicine of the Prophet right is this a science per se now people have disagreed

I take it but in my understanding has even a hold on the great Maliki scholar had highlighted that you see the messenger of allah salallahu alaihe salam on on matters like medicine was referring to his people who were all part of that narrative they were they were all part of the Arabian understanding and they had a way of looking at things so medicine when the Prophet spoke he wasn't speaking as a messenger he was speaking as a person that is amongst

them from let's say Medina or Arabia - doing it doing it people our I will defer criminal leading criminal solicitation the house as well right so the thing is an imam kerothi agreat Maliki and some of the Maliki I have been quite you know their work has been pioneering in this in in distinguishing between the states of mind of the messenger of allah in to these three states of mind one being when he is speaking as a messenger for every before mankind one is when he is

speaking as he is speaking as a a kind of a what imam Qaddafi I suppose the words could vary but he uses the words like an imam instructional for his state which was medina and one as a godly dealing with with a case specifically okay the Imam I suppose could be seen by in some from some perspectives is merging into The Messenger of Allah for the whole of it could be an and one role is

then allocated as just an advisor he's as advising as a common as a person from amongst the people there and even if the matter appears to be Islamic but he may even it may have like a so for example relationships could be seen as an Islamic thing I mean they're not Islamic the human but somebody could say yes they have an Islamic element to them but yet the Prophet could be advising on relationships and he's not advising as a Messenger of Allah he's not advising it he's just advising so it's important xico mean that kena is speaking in some

language no entiendo mano I do not know what on earth you're saying right so so so in that respect when the messenger of allah spoke of medicine he was speaking for his people he was not speaking for time and an Islamic medicine and I think this was in centuries after this was a kind of insecure reaction that certain people i kidnap amo josie and even later on people like gelatinous UT that this reaction they had that whoa we've got our own tradition of medicine why do we

need to pick up the Greeks this I I think the intention was was good but I don't accept the they take I think it was just an insecure reaction to what was going on in the world around them and so they started to say this is the medicine of the Prophet is to do this the medicine of the Prophet a thousand years later is to eat this and do this and do this or or do hey JAMA do stuff like this or that that's not true although some things the messenger may

have said may be universal so if the so for example let me give an example if the Prophet was to say that hey people you should drink water now drinking water would be for forever healthy it's not even though the Prophet made let's say he made a statement like this to a common to his people but this is a universal human and an act of nature so it doesn't mean but it doesn't hold religious value it's just accurate for all human beings and some things may be cultural so things like honey do have a

very healthy ingredient to them and they will be healthy for for people of all time because they are a part of nature it's not something which is so but it's not that the Prophet is necessarily teaching that as part of Islam it's just he's is telling these people but this also coincides with nature so that's important to know but the other things like I know the Arabs used to use fire to kind of like burn okay they would call it and I think the Prophet also told people off as well for that because it was dangerous but they still did use

it that wasn't something which is is a medical thing and hey JAMA contrary to popular Muslim myths that it's not actually Islamic per se it's just a must I mean if you want to call it Islamic in the sense that oh the Arabs used this in the time of the Prophet then okay you can call that Islamic but bloodletting was also very wide used by Christian monks and it wasn't something and it was something which the Christian monks really if you look at during the 15 16th and 17th

century the the kind of codification of things like what we would call high drama in the Christian Church it's almost spot-on and it's big they've got all the kind of contribution and so and so did this experiment and needed this experiment and so on and and just like the Muslims you should do it on this day of the month and because the moon is a full moon it has an impact on the blood and so on and these things I'm not saying they can't have any value I don't believe personally that they are necessarily healthy I think bloodletting is not healthy necessarily it's III get the fact that if you lose blood and you

reproduce blood it's it's it's obviously going to have that fresh aspect to it I get that but this is a belief that you know we do this and it detoxifies in all this way and it does all of these things these are not as far as I'm aware scientifically proven they've seen that I know it kind of clogs up and it gives this effect of that you know you've reduced extracted all this dirt and but it's not actually like that that's just the blood reacting to that pressure but anyway so there's no such thing as prophetic medicine in Islam and this is what novel dune writes about this but I

do get that in this day and age it is a big business as well and wherever this the churching religion my friend will be soon to follow right behind it so I think that's a something to to keep in mind but I don't think we should if anybody hears this and I don't think they need to freak out per se if you want to do it you know it's if it's your thing you can do it but it's up to you but I

mean it's this is just how on presenting things how many of the Ola in the past have viewed things like this and what is worth note worthy as well is that most of the scholars of Islam most of the scholars of Islam based their medicine so if you look at any you can name any amazing scholar of Islam and they would have studied Imam Ghazali no we call the evocative Lord we call the ERV Banaras all these great people if you look in their lives works they would have all studied the works of Galen and the Greek Greek Contra Greek science medical sciences and that was

what most of their medicine was based on it was it wasn't actually like herbs and things like this what people think I was herbes as well obviously medieval times did use herbs but it was the the philosophy coming from Greek understanding on the humors the full humors that are within the body and how the humors kind of like you know how they worked together in sync or how they react with each other and and it's interesting that there is a hadith which the Prophet it is internally where the Prophet is eating - he's eating I believe he's eating two things and one of them may

have been melon but he as he eats one he eats the other and he refers to he says the hadith says Maxiell Hara Hara be birthday hatha will break the hotness of this with the coolness of this now it wasn't talking about a physical heat the general understanding is it was talking about this kind of humor Greek medical perspective because even today in places like for example Pakistan India stuff like this they refer to certain foods as hot and warm

and this isn't the temperature of them this is like an intrinsic property so they might say for example fish is has a heat it's that like they will say is garam Zooey Juicy's this inner heat and reacts with the human they're not talking about it actually being cooked hot on the plate they're talking about an internal and it's interesting how this is also chefs at the Laplace Louis Atlanta roughness so they're speaking about this kind of quality that that we find perhaps originating in Greek thought so there is

this a lot of this world is common still in some parts of the Muslim world today and if its origin is in Greek kind of the early Greek medical thought and stuff like that anyway so let's move on people let's move on what's this sing up a lot on songs the Aria qui is this some karaoke okie going on here singing at outlaw songs have you heard of youtube my friend the week just goes flying by shukran shukran

is there any way let's take a question for wild animals to be slaughtered halal is it permissible to eat wild animals that are shot okay right good question wild animals are not slaughtered in Islam okay slaughtering is a ritual practice the slaughtering that is done is done for docile tame animals only wild animals you will never sack sacrif you don't need to sacrifice them like that because nobody sacrifices them or generally in the time of when Islam came

people never used to sacrifice deers or tigers or Lions to the gods they would sacrifice docile animals like camels you know cows maybe things like this sheep goats so these are the animals that Islam came to replace their ritual practices with the rituals of Islam and to say that because if you are rising a sheep even in the world today this is generally what is done people sacrifice these animals as offerings to the gods now it could be that you are

doing this for a heathen religion or pagan religion or it could be that you are doing this for Islam for Allah so you must make it clear I do this for Allah not for any it's Haram to eat anything mama or Hitler leave a Leela what has been made as an offering for other than Allah but in the wild when people when people went hunting the this was not seen as an offering to the gods hunting was just seen as done for either sport or it was done for from for food

and things like this so in that case that was just left alone except the Muslim would just say you know he could say Allah Akbar as he lets an arrow go or as he shoots in this day and age all as he let allow dogs to go and kill the prey so the Quran mentions this that you can use these kind of means and you do not need to say I mean you do not need to ritually sacrifice them because their rituals are not associated with them so if you were to eat a tiger now as bizarre as that may sound but in the

school of Medina all wild animals are not Haram there maybe they are discouraged but they are not Haram okay so eating a wolf eating or eating lions people you wouldn't try to get up close to the lion get it in a headlock it wouldn't work like that people I definitely wouldn't although I'm sure the lion would definitely like it right what is the ruling on shaking hands with women in the workplace

maybe nothing right or in general what are the alternatives to avoid being rude or discriminatory well hmm okay this I have answered this before right I have answered this before now so I don't want to be repetitive so sometimes when we come past the questions I will just refer you to previous questions in a nutshell I've just to give you a summary I've highlighted have people like Cher

Abdullah bin Bella and other people have highlighted that this given this kind of work setting or this environment is not Haram and I believe people like Cher Muhammad Ali aku B are also of that these scholars are of that same way of looking at things and this is my understanding as well I do not feel that to be necessarily Haram in that kind of work setting as chef abdullah bin baya has said so you can refer to his website and for much more detail and in previous sessions I have given i've elaborated on

that much more so pull all salaam sure they come salam right look at this question where do you feel more relaxed Mirko Medina let me get let me get back to that what is the ruling on modesty in dressing for men and wearing skin tight t-shirt or a skin-tight t-shirt to reveal muscles real muscles people muscles right or other body parts well Sal it is right

there it is as hollow as cold water as imam malik would often say he would say now an aluminium man L buried that was a quote sometimes Imam Malik would say say it's more halal than cold water right so I think the the thing is that look it is it is it is not required for men in Islam to to cover it is not

required to cover their tops like we and even even if you go to the gym even if you don't go to the gym or even if you do go to the gym you could still you're not required the laws haven't changed for you my friend right so now it's always it wrong to wear t-shirts well the answer I am this is the answer listen old Hal I am demonstrating the answer to you that he'll know it's not Haram it's absolutely fine people it's fine go with it roll with it roll with

it right so right next question oh the Makkah Medina one right now according to the school of Medina which is the Maliki method and my understanding as well I'm obviously part of the school of Medina people part of the school of Medina right now Medina the city Medina is the most virtuous place on earth as Muslims okay so we

prefer it above Makkah okay that has been the understanding of the school of Medina of Imam Malik and generally his people who who walk his walk and talk his talk that has been our understanding it is still it is my understanding that we do say Medina is of the minute maka and and both are amazing places okay the other methods the hanafis and the school of Iraq and the other Egyptian chef at ease and these are the people and these other people [Laughter]

right and there was another school as well what was it called what was it called the ham ham ham ham ham ham Belize all of those people they generally prefer Makkah of Medina but that's it's it's each two they're wrong that this has always been our our understanding because we say that the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is in medina and therefore that is the most virtuous of places on earth and even though the Prophet himself said that Makkah is beloved to him and he

would not have left Makkah if it wasn't for the fact that all this has happened but because of the blessing and the love for the messenger of allah we prefer the place where he is over any other place on the face of the earth from a religious perspective okay i the reason i say religious perspective is because it's important to highlight that some people might start thinking oh but you know I personally like going to a particular place to chill out that's my best place on earth or somebody might say you know I love going on a holiday

too I don't know Spain or I love going to a dinar somewhere and that's my best spot that's okay I'm talking about a religious perspective okay so it's not so so as not to trip people into feeling guilty because they don't need to feel guilty this is it's always important to highlight that because sometimes you get people saying things like oh and then there's this urge to islamís eyes everything you know like if somebody's gonna say something they have to drop in Islam always and you get things and I'm

up you know each to their own but I've I've highlighted this before sometimes you'll get people saying okay we've just got married and for a honeymoon we are going to Mecca [Laughter] okay that is like completely incomprehensible to somebody like me but each to their own I guess you know each to their own but people want I don't know it's it's like they feel I mean maybe maybe it is

them that they genuinely do like that or maybe they feel that they that they this is the thing to be like the Islamic thing to be that I did this I don't know it's it sounds strange as hell to me that anyway I don't want to get into that why why maqam Medina will be the least of places I you know a person normally would think of because because you're thinking this is some sacred place and I'm gonna bring the heat of

the devil to this place it's I need to be in a place down there right so anyway it's like thematic here say the Malik you would say that when a person and they still say when a person gets married they would say he shouldn't even emerge or you know let's say he's in this particular which could be like a honeymoon place or it could be a house that they are in that or wherever they are the marital place they say that for seven whole days and seven whole nights

this person should not even be seen this is what the Maliki they say some of them say forget Juma honestly this is the fig box they say forget about it you are busy causing chemical reactions and so you shouldn't be even worried about so many of the fifth books say you know you don't even need to praise your mom don't worry about it and so some of them say oh what the hell go on then make the Juma but so this is the perspective that the school of Medina had so this is why I just find sometimes people have this

thing that they think if I start something like this he'll always work out I don't know each to their own but that's my take on things anyway how are you I am good I'm good right Salomon muy bien muy bien so my question is this is it not possible for a non-muslim to touch the Quran right for non-muslims you touch the Quran generally we ought to have will do to touch the Quran right somebody's asked a

question about the activate Imams I'll I'll try to come to that insha'Allah I just so hopefully let me he just rum Sahara right so this question non-muslims ok Muslims generally do would all to touch the Quran this is the general understanding there is an understanding that it is Sunnah most people understand it is an obligation some people have said it is a Sunnah even within the school of Medina or the earth for example said it wasn't an obligation it was a Sunnah but I would advise people

that look generally with the norm like where you can go by the norm do consider it a must to be pure so whether that's you know even hotel or you've in a state of voodoo or it could be TM mum if that was you know for some reason but you I believe or to like you should be in that state to touch the poem but if there was some reason where it wasn't possible so let's say I don't know you're moving things and you've got to pick up a Quran and you can't go and you know just do

will do and come back and in those circumstances exceptional circumstances I mean I don't mean exceptional eyes in dire like you're about to die but exceptional as in just odd in most cases if you needed to touch the Koran to do something like move it or do something and you didn't have to do I would say that is okay but generally going the norm is that it is mandatory Carlos Santini Oh muchas gracias mere ma no that's although I don't think I am I think I need to hit the gym but shukran

shukran right now so the so this is my understand now non-muslims obviously there's no point asking them to do wudu if they wanted to read the Quran or take a look at the Quran I would believe that it is possible it is it is permissible for them it isn't generally advised to just say here non-muslims take the Quran take the Quran right take the Quran take that oh yeah hablas espanol okay Claro que si Abu trim hell yeah that's what I'm talking about orale right so Spaniel Spanish is just

too awesome but I'm gonna digress right the thing is that this shouldn't you should have respect towards the Quran so if non-muslims you know if they're not bothered or if they you know so that's the key thing so somebody's you know just throwing the Quran over there or doing things like this it's it's hurtful to Muslims but I think if they are being respectful that is fine they can take a look at it they can kind of go and ideally they should you know if they want to get one either English or with Jules so they've got English and Arabic

on day that's fine and then people have given the fatwa that because this it's 50/50 doesn't require will do anyway okay let's move on I know many PA theists Jewish people who have read the Quran is it yeah that's true Omar is it possible for the custodians of the two holy sanctuaries to have deviant beliefs you see when we say custodians I take it you mean by that the Saudi Kings is that what I take it that's what you mean

the the household of Saud hmm you see the household of as I call them sometimes Saud or Alice out right they hmm they're just Kings who have in my understanding not much respect for human rights and I don't really take much of a liking to them but is it possible of course it's possible for people to have to have you know deviant beliefs or

whatever beliefs I know this is not I don't know personally walking Salman believes or walking for hug believe I don't know personally just because he was sympathetic to the salafiyyah was he sell if he wasn't he I'm not saying he wasn't but I don't know I I'm not here to judge other people just as other people are not here to judge other people so we're not here to kind of condemn but what I do know is from the world political because beliefs are in there I guess we don't know about them unless somebody's talking about them all the time but your actions may not

reflect your Islamic beliefs but they reflect your views on things so the way they denigrate women the way they refuse to give women rights the way they have this attitude of controlling people the way they feel that it's okay to allow these things the way they you know they're and they've I don't like that kind of thing at all and this kind of impunity in this attitude and and I'm not here to judge I'm just saying this is known this is like if you know it's something that they portray to the world it's not something I'm kind of looking in and prying in there I'm like I'm not

trolling the Facebook accounts and trying to figure them out this is what they are doing to the world so I thought because of that I don't really hold them in any high regard at all but yeah so they could be whatever makes no once the first person to take the title hardly multi-domain was not king fahad first person to take it was actually Suleiman a wall from the Ottomans he was the first of the Ottomans to call himself the the Calif as well at that time and they used to also call himself many other things like Caesar of Rome and all this kind of stuff but Suleiman

oh well who is the father of Solomon alkar muni the he and he comes after Mohammed l-fatiha now he was the first person to take that title first call Hakim of haramein and then I believe as well Cardinal haramein and he was known for fratricide like he was one of the first things he did is made official as he stepped in he killed off all of his siblings as a as a present you know they were kind of when you think about it in the past they were kind of like the

sarcasm that the actions would show it's like they would send somebody to get killed and what they would do is they would give him a letter and and they would say hey take this to someone so he's gonna give you he's gonna give you something and the person say yeah and when they're opening it would say is that a camel or how the to loo if the person coming carrying this comes to you kill him so the person got ok one moment Wow off with the head with the sword so it's a bit like listen goes running go I'm

gonna get a prize and so I take you they did have some sense of humor although I'm not sure the guy carrying the letter really appreciated it can you imagine he gets there it's like I thought it's one of those candy crush things I thought it was gonna say sign up to candy crush what the hell anyway right so right let's take a look people let's take a look what is going on are there any vicar after the father

Salah in the Maliki I mean I think when it comes to ask our vicar they're the same across the board in general when we're talking about vicar from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi assalam that have been established right now look at all of these questions you got temporary marriages and marijuana and whoa you can do as much liquor as you want but if you want if you're asking did the Prophet highlight anything after Salah the Prophet in some narrations did highlight reading something like ayatul kursi

after salah but generally the practice of the Prophet was that as soon as Salah was over he got up and left but he probably read that himself like as in maybe ready as he went to walked or well you could just sit there and read it's not a problem but that's generally and then some Salah do have certain vicar with them I've miss my landlady liable Roma asked me shake and fill up they were life is Samar what was the meal aleem that in the name of Allah when whose name no harm can come on to you from the heavens of the earth is

something that you know could be read three times after Suba had the hadith says it's good after soba and after Maghrib it's a good thing to to kind of if you can do these kind of things to do them but you can just buy a book on the are a popular one is fortress of the believer in English has more Muslim and it has usually as far as I'm aware so he kind of narrations in there right so marijuana guess what's going what's up with this marijuana question okay

somebody asked me something now the other day at the retreat and I wanted this marijuana question before but I thought you know what because of the way the person asked me at the retreat I thought maybe I owe it as an explanation which I do believe I have given in some sessions before but what the hell you see I have said which I do still stand by that the issue of smoking cigarettes or smoking marijuana are more a matter of legality than they are of theology so I have said that and I don't necessarily

change my view on that and I don't smoke by the way I do not smoke so I feel these are more matters when you're talking about do's and don'ts primarily but I want to follow this up as well I believe I have done this but I need to reiterate this because this was brought to my attention in this retreat right now that okay primarily it's a legality issue but I have followed up by saying and I say this I tell you that I advise everybody not to smoke I do not

smoke myself I do not I think I'm just in a high state always I think my brain is just wired to be kind of high so sometimes I come off just really high to people but I'm not I think that's just my default settings right either that or either that or I need to lay off this powder stuff right it's a joke so the thing is now I primarily I do not

declare these things Haram because and and I've highlighted in the past the evidence from the scholars like a man per our fee and stuff like that who said that you couldn't really say it's Haram right now I stoned by birth Araiza now because I feel that the threshold for something to be Haram is not as low as people place it and scholars before I've said this and this ionic Li was the practice of the selleth I tell people if you're asking me do not smoke do not even smoke cigarettes

do not smoke cigarettes I feel that your health is much more valuable than that okay I do believe that also the issue with marijuana is that it's not just the fact of the kind of high or the health issues but it's the whole social implications right so let's be clear about that that there is a whole unless in certain parts of the world where is legal it bypasses that and in some parts of the world it may not matter it may not be a big deal might just be like a plant plant growing somewhere but in the in

the developed world there is a whole gang culture associated with marijuana and and that is the problem so being part of that way you are part of a drug-dealing culture and you are doing things like that and you are and the drug-dealing culture doesn't usually stop with just things like this it usually involves very dangerous drugs heroin crack things like this which poison and destroy the lives of many people and these drugs may be like a kind of a ladder to other drugs as well so and the fact that you are breaking

the law whilst you are doing this all of that is clearly Haram clearly Haram all of that causing harm the way you're doing that poisoning the the fighting the dealing the getting all these toxic dangerous kind of poisonous drugs out the destroying families with them breaking the law doing all of these things are clearly hana i i'm i'd like to i believe i have reiterated this in the past but i would like to reiterate that so everybody can hear it okay so I

do believe that whole culture is Haram for what it does I don't mean the culture pissed like a culture can't be Haram as a as a concept but the this what I've said this whole being involved in this see of criminality breaking the law destroying families spreading poison and and they are and they don't just restrict themselves to marijuana they spread to crack cocaine ain't no crack and heroin and I don't know all these other kind of I don't know all these other kind of drugs that are out there now this does destroy clearly destroys our societies and

Muslims are unfortunately some of the leading drug dealers I mean I'm pretty sure they pretty much run and control a huge part of the the underworld drug scene within the UK I know I feel that's my understanding anyway and in other parts of the world too so I think this is clearly unacceptable and it is Haram now the question is if marijuana and the other thing is the drugs that are pushed on the street are not just usually those drugs they are usually quite often they may be laced with other drugs to make them more potent to make them more

addictive so people keep coming back okay so these things are clearly Haram okay now if there was a state where you could go into a coffee shop and buy some marijuana I'm just saying and it was because it was controlled by the state it bypassed all this criminality this drug scene is a gang culture of killing and beating up people and robbing people and it bypassed all these and it was just actual marijuana it wasn't actual let's say he wasn't laced with other dangerous kind of you

know more Class A drugs and things like these in that case what would I feel is the ruling like I think in America this Colorado and other places where this is legal the Netherlands in the UK and other places in my understanding I think that that then takes the same ruling of cigarettes I do not believe that is Haram I would still I would still strongly discourage it and I wouldn't necessarily advise people to do it I mean I would but I don't believe it's Haram so that is my understanding because I and this is how

the Imams of the self would answer and people you know they attacked me for this but am I not doing what the true self did they wouldn't declare things Haram because Haram threshold was up there so they would say now your LG boonie doesn't like alcohol or each time it avoid it they would say I ain't gonna say it's Haram because to say it's Haram I need here cut conclusive evidence for evidences from the Quran or Sunnah right so marihuana is generally I think it was a Class C and then I think it was moved to a Class B or whatever but the point

is it's not a class A drug now so the point this is what I'm trying to say so in the country's way and I genuinely feel from a state and criminality perspective and this is my view people may disagree with this I feel that the gang culture is so bad around things like weed that I think that the state should legalize things like marijuana I actually do believe the state should legalize marihuana and cannabis because it would cut out all this criminality and make it a product for people who are going to do it and they don't need to go through all these dangerous means to get them so that's my understanding and people can take that

or disagree with that but I'm not gonna lie on behalf of Allah and pretend a lie saying something else I have highlighted that this culture and all of this that goes on the criminality is Haram but the thing per se the actual plant and whatever is not Haram but I would still say that it is because you know it's although some people could argue it has good product good effects on your health but I would say that it impacts your health negatively and therefore is discouraged and I would advise people to stay away from it right let's move on

let's move on and I have heard this that the cannabis does cure a lot of carcinogenic or cancerous kind of things right so so I think that's definitely interesting and and I do find honestly because I'm all about I'm all about consistency people I'm all about consistency and I find it hypocritical from illegal and I mean an actual legal non-islamic estate perspective that how alcohol can be permitted and which

causes countless deaths per year violence and and things like and they and they I'm just saying you know from an objective perspective and for somebody who doesn't even smoke I see that they they they demonize a plant which cool has this zero there's no reports of a single death from an overdose of this plant and alcohol which results in actual death and if you OD on E the liver destruction the the alcoholism the dependency the violence the dangerous driving and that is all permitting and legal as long as you are

18 or 21 or I don't know whatever the ages so I see this as like wall a hypocrisy and I'm all about the consistency people and I believe that's what Islam is about right temporary marriages right marriage and this whole caste system right okay caste systems are just nonsense there's no such thing this caste system is just another Hindu remnant who here within the indo-pak and especially the Pakistani world you know whether you are Chuck Chaudhary or you

are Rajput or Raja or whatever the other costs as well in essence it's just all nonsense I mean there's no harming people I mean there is harm because it leads to this tribalism people could just be something but they never just leave it to that it causes so much discrimination between people and it's so stupid now more on the through mug learned you know more that'll n2o but my understanding is all for my sister this is they think yeah

but your so I'm sorry to say your ancestors you know may Allah have mercy on them yeah and I think many of our ancestors will you know had lands and were farmers but your ancestors doing this obviously didn't send off the intelligent genes in DNA to you

only they contributed that that there's a poem in Arabic territory marine you Turia WA Allahu why uterus coração inside Alta Houma who but you know that there's no point of a person going on about his ancestors and then when you ask him what what are you and he has to dip his head and say oh me I'm just riding on the back of so you know this is an amazing this is saying by Satan Ali Road a la Wanda he said climate

Ulmer God Rama using that the value of a human being is is the skill and the talent that they possess that's an amazing saying that a metal my god room is in the the skill and ability of what you can what you can do well is you're valued and I think that so sometimes we forget all of these things so anyway and it's important that the Prophet said that one of the things that might oh man one of the things that

my OMA will never fall go is that well J Helia is this that one of J and he's from the that one of the jahiliyyah that this kind of tough are horrible Abba that has a oneness herb and this is kind of all my lineage and my this and that and this is why you know I I find this stuff very uncomplete Lee against all of this kind of stuff and I feel a person does whatever they can off the wrong back like if you if you want to be respected show me what you're worth right now the

the a debate question sure age as I will come to that let me just get to this marriages thing and finish that since I mom D so the cost thing doesn't really exist from an Islamic perspective I know the hanafi madhhab did try to honor the castes and this kind of stuff and lineage and and in all honesty I think they absolutely lost the plot on that one

the school of Medina got a 100 percent spot on that if you were if that if you are a Muslim you are the same as any of the Muslim and they said it's my piety that if you were to discriminate you would discriminate based on bad and good actions like if somebody was I don't know like if somebody was up to no good and they're into all kinds of things and based on that you might say no I don't think they're good enough but not based on any kind of lineage or social caste system and and this was the

understanding of Imam Malik this was worried man Bihari rights and the Maliki method supports this the other methods fell into this thing of trying to incorporate social costs under an Islamic veneer and the Hanafi method did this as well so it believes that Arabs are better than non Arabs by the way from an Islamic perspective so they say that all Kufa al-kahf I offend Nika the Arab or Akbar little Adam this is actually what they say they in mafic books they say the Arabs are better than the non Arabs and then Quraysh are better than the Arabs and so if a Koresh

Karachi was to marry a normal Arab the parents could object and it feels to marry a non arab then the parents have the right to cancel the prevent the my region all this kind of nonsense and the words of the messenger of allah said that the arrow is not better than the non-arab except bit taqwa yes that is our Deen people that holic knock'em me enough Singh wahida from a single soul from a single source we created you and we created men

and women and in another verse Giacomo boom Wakaba L and we created you as a people or as tribes and litter are a fool so that you may come together to know one another that were in Arabic Ummah in the llahi at Arkham the closest of you to Allah is the most in awareness of Allah not in this kind of bloodline of being an atom of being an Arab of being black or white it's nonsense so anyway when I see that kind of stuff in

the books but anyway I'll leave that temporary marriages now right so okay before I move on to that somebody asked an objection didn't the prophets say people marry for this people do marry for that I get that in some customs so the Prophet wasn't saying get married for these reasons he was saying this is what mankind do people he said will marry for he said people marry they marry women I mean it could be vice versa but the example the Prophet gave because you're speaking to men who would marry women and he said that you would

marry right so sure I had shukran shukran in academic Ummah inda llahi otaku of course sorry I said Arabic um but also in and that's to do with justice not to do with taco by shukran I stand corrected that closest or the most noble in the sight of Allah right now the thing is the Prophet said that a woman because you speaking to men is married for her beauty which I think unquestionably still goes down with most people that's the thing is they were saying well I'm beauty is subjective it's subjective now the thing

is that he said Lee jamali how well he has to be hawala Nessa be her you know and and for her status although he didn't say he said for her status okay and and for her lineage and for her wealth not you somebody might think you know what and this is vice versa as well like somebody could think oh yeah you know it's like I was watching this show and watching the stand-up comedy and the guy says to the person in the public you know the camera goes on the public and you've got this guy like I got this woman with him and the guys like whoa

she with you he's like and and the point is that any Indies and he's kind of cracking a joke about him punching way above his weight and then he says right okay so what's really going on here right but the point was that he says is she like this this this or you just really rich so wealth is always an incentive and I'm not saying these things aren't necessarily these are not necessarily wrong but people do this like they do marry for status as well

but the Prophet said far far far far visited Dean why didn't you marry you know you'd be successful if she had Dean and Dean here does not mean what we today would mean in it does not mean that hey that she you know let's say she's wrapped up in a hijab and she's you know doing her five salons although that is a part of them that is a part of being right because if you think about it all Muslims were kind of expected to

do their five salons and stuff but Dean was holistic it was the greater it was a lived thing like ethics a good a great human being who has that connection as well to Allah that is being so a Dean is Dean is not just some people say wow that guy's got a beard he has Dean you think well you know the guy could be a freak I speak to so many people seriously they contact me about kind of marriage breakdowns and stuff like this and they'll say oh you know

he's like this he's very abusive he's like he's into that he does all these things but you know he had a beard and he prayed I don't get it and I think but why did you make that assumption why did you make that assumption just because I can you know take out 15 minutes a day and pray a ritual that I'm not some kind of neurotic sociopath like why would you so this is the interesting like Dean here when you look at the hadith of the prophet sallallaahu I leave send him on

when he defined Dean he said Dean was he said what is Islam the rituals are but what is Iman faith oh but what is a son and this awareness because and the awareness I know some people just focus on the connection but it was if you have this connection you would be a good person if you were a decent human being and you have all of this he said attack homely or olymic Ondina come that

package was Dean the thing on its own wasn't Dean so any so I mean this is so the Prophet said yeah but also be successful with Dean it doesn't mean you have to that looking at beauty is wrong it doesn't mean that like if you saw somebody beautiful and you thought wow what one tree that's wrong it's not wrong but it was just that the Prophet was giving this putting everything into perspective right now so right moving on from that there's a question on three times the Friday prayer

but I'll come to that right so marriages temporary marriages okay in Islam in general okay mainstream Orthodox Sunni Islam okay I recognize and the general understanding in Shia Islam as well but although she I slam does incorporate clearly for temporary marriages but the general understanding in Islam is Anika is done and no Monica does not self-destruct it doesn't self-terminate but right but you can bring it to an end if you want to okay so that's the general

understanding what are or a temporary marriage is not contrary to what people believe is not actually a Shia thing okay it is not actually a Shia thing although it becomes symbolic with the Shia kind of way of looking at things but that's just sectarian politics the truth is the mota was one as an understanding that the Arabs had at the time of the Prophet that we would have I suppose you could people say is it prostitution I don't think it was necessarily it depends how you're viewing prostitution it was an

understanding that you would be married a temporary kind it was temporary companionship but with a clear defined understanding and it was usually done the way it was done with the Arabs then it was done like usually for maybe a few days so like two days a weekend it was like it was what made the week worth it

right so the thing is that now this was something that was there in the time of the Prophet and it was being practiced and then the Prophet brought that to an end but said that okay this is Haram we're gonna carry on with normal marriages and I shadowed the Allah on her says that there were several marriages used to take place that was still people used to do them and there were four popular types and they became out Lord and the marriage that carried on is matter are awfully in NASA Leon is what

the people are practicing today is what Islam continued to endorse now the Prophet outlawed or prohibited this temporary marriage because of the problems that it may cause and and then you see in some hadith he once again said it was fine and he said that look you can look because he saw that the Companions were struggling and they were in this place and they had obviously and you know one thing about early Islam which I like is that it was just very honest and very transparent and one of the things I kind of a bit more about

institutionalized religion today is this facade it has of just it has a different face and everybody knows that that's everybody knows the truth but it has this face that oh everything is for the sake of God everything is for the sake of these everything is for Allah everything you know this it just is fake in a lot of the cases and but in early Islam like in the life of the messenger of allah things were just real so you see that the Companions were like look oh you know they were on a journey and if they just said look we really badly that they they want to have sex and so

the Prophet said okay why didn't you do a temporary marriage and there were these women that were were they and they were up for this idea so so they did they did temporary marriages now and and then in this hadith the Prophet after that said it was once again prohibited now after the Prophet there was a difference of opinion amongst the Companions whether this temporary marriage was outlawed or not now people like hip not a bus for the aloha on and a moronic machine and some other companions continue to teach that the

Prophet never outlawed that he may have looked down on it but he never outlawed it and they continue to teach that people could do Mota so the the method the general this popular understanding from if not bus and other people was that motor was still okay that temporary marriages now the majority of the companions felt that it was outlawed and there was no need for it and things like this and so therefore now these views existed the issue was that the moment the I mean it is history is what it is it's unfortunate but

because the sunni-shia divide happened and the Shia went adopted this view it then got politicized into sectarian debate I suppose if the Shia didn't embrace it as an example then maybe Sunnis wouldn't have turned it into a sectarian issue and therefore they would have been more accepting of it but they because it became a sectarian issue they start saying all xiè xiè and then vice versa and and then they kind of really demonized the whole thing and so it became clearly unaccepted but according

to general people what's interesting is if na are sure the great Maliki legend in his top seed of the Quran we he says that the verse of the Quran which begins with one Massenet that those which is the beginning of the fifth juice and he says that way Allah says that speaks about the Allah Muslim Tatem be he except that which you take as some kind of like I suppose like a bit of fun and but you've you've given something and you've got that he said that this referred to mota which the apparent verse does read like so he said that

much I was not necessarily Haram was not necessarily abrogated sorry but wherever there was a need people could still resort to it and I mean I think it's interesting that from a relationship perspective religion today has no solution I like the the current let me use this word the current 21st century Islam we have today all the

the culturally appropriated Islam let me use it like that because if I say Islam and then that sounds wrong because it's gonna cover Islam as a whole but the culturally appropriated Islam we have today has actually failed in tackling matters of relationships because in all honesty we do not have a solution our solutions are uber uber ideal they are non realistic and they most likely just

fail so let me give you an example we live let's in this part of the world in Europe in what is very sexualized societies with with leisure and people are people we are creatures and we are creatures of instinct now it's okay to live in a society where you have more leisure time and everybody thinks on let's say and people will think sexually and they will think like this and it's seen as ok to think like this but what are people supposed to do in them and this question has been presented to me

on many occasions people will say oh I'm 19 years old I'm 20 years old I'm 18 years old I have a girlfriend or I have a boyfriend should we get married I mean let's face it that is the most disastrous thing you could possibly ever do get married at that kind of an age the immaturity and sometimes I think maybe the guys are more immature than the girls I think the girls may be slightly more mature and ahead of the guys in their age I mean I don't think they're necessarily incredibly mature either but I think

they may be slightly more mature but the guys like nineteen year old guy a twenty year old guy getting married is a disaster they can't handle these minutes and and marriages today have turned into something absurd absolutely absurd so we have so you've got all of this like have you seen the marriages today Wow like I have to you know I'm I was saying this at the retreat I'm on snapchat yeah so if you're on snapchat you can add me at

Mount 2014 ma LM 2201 for and through I don't actually you know as a person I have my own kind of social lifestyle like chill and I enjoy doing a lot of that I do my own reading my own stuff my learning I do my kind of gym lifestyle and my work and whatever but I don't actually do things like go to weddings much oh I can't even remember that maybe a few years ago I took one of my parents to a wedding or something but I don't actually go to many weddings now based on that I don't know what waiting what I

like weddings for me was still 10 years 15 years ago but through snapchat because sometimes you know when you're bored and you're like clicking I wonder what that snapchat is I wonder what and I've got loads of people who add me our atom back usually and so I'll see I've seen weddings today the weddings that people go to like because people are hey I'm out of wedding and they've got it on snapchat and all this I I'm just oh I didn't realize the amount of things that have changed like I was like seriously Wow like and I'm not passing a value judgment on good or bad I'm just saying

they've changed so much too I'm so out of sync with weddings and they've got things now like obviously okay I remember they were bringing in cakes then but they've got these massive things they've got they've got concepts like I've seen parents give away the bride like I don't know that I don't know Pakistanis for example did stuff like that but they I've seen them where they walk down the aisle the parents and and the bride away performances now dancing I think the husband and wife offer performances they and I seriously I mean kind of like it's such a learning thing for me because I am and it's amazing that through

snapchat and these things we get to see so many different lives and realize that all this is going this speech is going on so I don't know this happened I didn't know people gave speeches like these people your speeches about the groom and the best man gives a speech and it's just like so you know I'm not passing any judgment but I feel that I have to say I saw that I see these and I see them all the time and I've seen loads in the loss because it's some I've seen so many I've thought to myself that you know what I'm I personally would

find that very daunting as like it's such a big deal like I I wouldn't be like I wouldn't want to as a person undergo something and I'm so glad I I would never undergo something like it's just too big of a deal man like I find it like wow that's so daunting like if if if I was in a relationship like that which probably I had to spend let's say 70 thousand pounds to make today happen or fifty thousand pounds and and what is the person meter you would be under so

much pressure to think this better work [Laughter] woman this better work god damn it so so I think it's really all this is so Wow so the reason I was saying this is there's all this pressure relationships ok plural relationships don't work although I did hear at this retreat I heard that there's actually a network of professional women saying we only want to be just companionship and we're not really looking for more than that and I think all the guys were like

[Laughter] these people actually exist but okay I think that might be a minority but generally plural relationships are looked down upon divorces is outcasted and people don't want to marry divorcees and they don't want to and so women they speak to me sometimes they're in such terrible miserable relationships but they like but I don't want to be a divorcee and and I get that but I think to myself is this really like but you don't want to live in this misery either so any supports are looking at all of

this right you've got all of these situations what are you supposed and somebody actually highlighted to me we had some people at this retreat who'd spent some good time in in Mauritania and they were telling me that in Mauritania there's still a culture of where the women want to and everybody marries and the more times a woman has been divorced the more kind of value she has and it's and it's such an amicable is unbelievable the person was describing the whole event of how it is the culture emerging and they and they Muslim and obviously many scholars

amongst them now that a woman who's for example been with one husband for like 10 20 years people would look at her like what the hell have you achieved in life and common women would have probably been through a dozen husbands in their lifetime or they've been through and he was speaking about one lady who was good and it was very so like everybody was accepting or the men were accepting the women were like yes now I've got more people want to marry me because I've been divorced by another guy and and it's like it was highlighting how one woman was going through the husband and it was it was over 40 husbands at least she'd been

married to but this was seen as a you know like a not a negative you're seen as a positive thing like wow that's Goldust but so anyway coming back to all in some ways look at that they live in a desert but they are so lightyears ahead of our liberated societies now this society we have no solution we have no solution what do you tell people to do people like people but sometimes they don't want to be in life long you know

it's like you see we have this Hollywood romanticized pressure like let's think of this for a moment before 50 60 years or definitely a hundred years the entire humanity generally almost always got married just for practical reasons and it was frowned upon to get married for romance hardly anybody ever got married because of romance like they never thought hey we're in love we're gonna get married almost if you go a hundred years ago and then go back as far as humanity has ever existed hardly anybody

got married for love that's like we are in such a different world and what I'm trying to save the day and age has changed so how do we so we have no solutions and it's interesting so I think if you got somebody saying divorce the best thing that's happened saw some money is that now the thing is that look this so we have no solutions and I think people say oh you know you should do this so you should do that but it's not a solution and that's gonna that brings me to another question so I think maybe temporary marriages maybe scholars should look at things

like what if not sure has written in stuff's here maybe these things maybe people need to deconstruct this stigma around you know what is it around this sunni-shia sectarianism and see this must allow for what it actually is and if people and I actually find it kind of so condescending that people should tell people about like like as in dictate about how they can have a relationship like I just find that so condescending

it's like see you don't do that in it you don't do that for friendship like hey this is how you should have a friend like wait they make this clear first make that clear okay your friend must meet you every evening at least three times a week your friend must be like well yeah you don't do that for friendship you don't do that for any other thing in life but yet when it comes to relationships we feel that religion or - or the or the clergy or to dictate how people can have relationships so anyway that's my thought on it I think we are in a day and age where we have some very serious

question marks right so I love to torture my right so so that's what I'm saying so I think that the current cultural appropriation of Islam we have has unfortunately failed when it comes to tackling relationships in the 21st century we have no solution and maybe we need to change our cultural view of Islam right now let's take a look at another question and I want to come back to an interesting question on right okay

sorry there's what was I asked about a debate the Shia Imams or who are generally the Imams within Anderson as well like people like Imam Muhammad Alberta the the offspring of said highly people like Jafra Sadiq and Muhammad Ali back there and I mean Jafra Sadiq is the son of Muhammad about it but but these people were in a time that kind of came with Imam Malik or just before and Abu Hanifa and so on so do they contribute

to their understanding it's interesting because we don't have much documentation of what they did how they contributed I'm sure they did contribute and I'm sure because they were definitely respected figures and figures who were seen as having a kind of venerated and having this kind of respect so in my Malik obviously respected venerated people like imam ja'far as-sadiq and muhammad about their an imam about honey if i did the same but yet they don't seem to say much about their teachings like they don't seem to say that you

know he used to say this opinion or this was his opinion and why was this I don't I I don't know the answer I it may be one answer is that maybe it's those Imams had their own following who they would only teach that's one interpretation and therefore these people although they respected them didn't used to really learn much from them although I don't I'm not sure if that was the truth but that's one interpretation another interpretation may have been that maybe those people refrained from openly teaching much due to the politics

of the age and therefore these people didn't you know go to much of the teachings because of that or maybe they did teach a certain amount but because of the politics they didn't express it and the students didn't express it but for some reason it's not conveyed hardly at all like we hardly have any traces of what imam ja'far as-sadiq had to his views within Sunni Islam it's even the early Imams don't mention them much at all they don't they when they do mention them they respect them highly like they don't disrespect them in any way they

consider them as very noble and learner dand and amazing people but they don't seem to transmit their views so why was that I don't know I wish I did but I genuinely don't know and I don't want to just make some maybe investigation into this would be interesting right okay people there was a question on jizya okay a question on before we get to the GZA three friday prayers are missed do you become a hypocrite god I need a refill people my

sons of anarchy glasses come to an end yeah that's a question a beader has highlighted about marrying and children and and the environment doesn't isn't necessarily so conducive to stepfathers and so on yeah I get that I get that but I'm just saying I'm not offering I wish I had I wish I had a solution to offer but I'm just saying that our current vision or our current answers are

nonsense they don't you know this thing of what and and this and I'll come to this a bit more a bit later on so let's let me take a look at this question right now so somebody's asked ahmed Sadiq is asked a question do I feel the hanafis in India and Pakistan have become shaffer in methodology I've answered this before I absolutely do and it's been a few centuries since that's happened what I what I referred to I quote dr.

Sherman Jackson in what he said the crypto Schaaf ization of the hanafis and the Maliki's in the later centuries where they started to become covert crypto literalists you're right that has happened so but I've discussed that before so I don't want to go over that again now right okay coming to this three dramas the hadith which says that if you miss a Juma you get a dot of you know this kind of stain on your heart metaphorically and then you know your heart can kind of blacken out and you can be a hypocrite or the person is

deemed the hip has a stamp of hypocrisy or you know he will go to the Hellfire these kind of this in my understanding is simply hyperbolized speech to get people to attend Juma during the prophet's time Juma are was more than just a ritual it was a political you have to be careful in how I heard this because some Islamically politicized groups may misconstrue this is Juma what has an two aspects to it has a ritual aspect which

was not the reason why the Prophet was emphasizing these kind of things in but it has a sovereign aspect so this thing of this it has a kind of it's also a political statement now during Juma Muslims would also get to know certain things okay in the prophet's time it was seen as a kind of unification a demonstration of unity to the rest of the people it was seen as a

kind of like a sovereign structure to it so therefore it was highly emphasized I mean highly emphasized isn't emphasized enough it was absolutely I mean you had to be there unless you were ill or something you had to be there for the men because it was a sovereign kind of statement now and this carried on after the prophet's time so you see yamaha became a method by which so much I had Juma you could not historically just read you mean your Masjid you would be in serious

trouble with whoever with that region and whoever your local king was or dynasty you would be in serious trouble with them Juma had to only be authorized by the king and so you could you could build your own Masjid but you couldn't build a German I must say that holds Jamaat you could be an imam leading somebody in your own little house and doing things but you could not be any man in a Masjid at least Jamar unless the King authorized you to do so so you see this aspect the King's name must be mentioned during Jamaa so the people know who the king is

and these kind of structures developed which lasted right throughout Islamic history so these are the things that always took in so these great Imams I've mentioned this before like in my Malachi bouhanni fell these people in maan Bihari they can imagine most of the people you can ever know they never ever led a single jamar throughout their entire lives they were not even part of that structure I mean they weren't even most of these people weren't even Imams in a Masjid right so it's interesting because it knocks your very understanding of Islam and that's

good right let there be tremors right so somebody had asked a question about jizya jizya was historically a kind of a truce mechanism that look you don't want war fine we don't want war why do you settle you can contribute in your tax to the kingdom annually once and that's fine you can live within a protectorate

you will be protected you will have your rights and someone GZA is not defined Islamically as in the quantity quantitive I mean speaking from a quantitative perspective you don't have like this is what the jizya needs to be like 10 dirhams or 20 dinars this was just made estimated by the people of its time sometimes it was just one D now a year and in different regions varied whatever the king of the region thought I know the term Calif is used as well by

Muslim kings that's fine there's no harm in using the word Calif or sometimes they use the word salt on or they use the word but they were just malik as well King had they used the word Ceaser they used the word Emperor of their own whatever they wanted to use the reason I say Kings is because to show it as it truly was this Bollywood version of a kind of highly romanticized myth of this one Supreme Islamic ruler called the Calif who led the Muslim world is nothing but a fairytale nothing like that ever

existed our history had anything the rulers hardly ever were involved in any Islamic Islamic Affairs they were just usually interested in expansion in collecting taxes they did use to build things and do things because that's what Kings would do and they were usually involved in in in in military expeditions taking over stuff and then usually in politics in watching out from their cousins and brothers who are trying to kill them and they would be

killing them off and that's what usually always happened so as a sadist grimace and as grim as that sounds that was the unfortunate reality right so anyway jizya was not set it was not a predetermined amount it was subjective and very arbitrary right so okay and in this day and age not that we have we do not need Empire anybody who's calling to Empire is still deluded with this myth of Islamic Romanticism right but the

thing the truth is that today we have nation-states in a nation-state the concept has changed so Islam embraces and reflects the ear of its time so today there would be no such thing as jizya there would be just general taxes collected for more people okay and that's how it would work and we would have citizenship so citizenry a would necessitate by default equal equal rights okay so that's fine it's a taxation without representation no I mean they had representation too

right okay now I want to take this on to a question this is okay shall we take some simple questions before going into a slightly difficult one folks all hair systems permissible will the rulings change when using synthetic or real hair any effects on wasalamu I do believe that hair systems I take it by that you mean like hair transplants or implants or where you get that kind of I don't know the one that John Travolta has it's like a it's like a wig but it's kind of semi it's like

semi permanent as in they glue it on and things like this I take it that's what it's meant by a hair system unless you mean something else I do believe these things are permissible they're fine hair transplants without a problem I think there's nothing absolutely permissible but things like okay sticking a wig on is fine but and the hair the semi-permanent ones they are permissible but I would highlight I would highlight that if you are about to get into a relationship

yeah facelifts all of these things off are fine there's nothing wrong with any of these and all things by default are always permissible and less proven otherwise through conclusive evidence which of which there is none right now and coffee mom coffee has highlighted this changing the creation of a lot doesn't count as a sufficient evidence because he says that well that's nonsense because why do you trim you here then why do you cut your nails why do you have circumcision if Allah wanted people circumcised could have had them born circumcised is that not changing the creation of Allah so that argument doesn't work but what I

wanted to say here about the hair thing is because I have dealt with a case in the past where this guy had this what one of these John Travolta kind of things transferred raised it can be cool though he's cool guy you gotta say so but the point is that he this here thing that they have it's like a semi-permanent because I don't know what it was until when discussing with and so he sent me this clip so I watched this clip on YouTube where they advertise them and how they work so they kind of apply this glue and you can stick it on and then you can actually

even pull the hair and everything and he won't come off it's like really it's semi-permanent and to remove you could swim do everything to remove it you have to place some kind of chemical you've got to go to this specific hairdresser or whatever and do you remove it two three times a year they fix it up and put it back on now if you are doing this and if you are going to be in a relationship that is a meaningful long-term reasonable relationship then I think maybe at some point you might I think you should be honest about what

you have got going on there because in this case right what had happened was this woman felt really she felt like totally deceived that as this guy after the wedding removed that and he was just pure bold although I think people could rock a ball look to like I think if they were bold and they just grew a goatee I think that looks cool all right hit

the gym gotee Bo look I look solid in my perspective but anyway I think but this person had it as a so he probably had like some hair here but he was pure bald here and yeah just have these semi weeks of the woman was really shocked when she saw that and she felt betrayed and he hadn't told her until like maybe two days after the wedding and and then I suppose in this case there were some other issues as well which are important for marriages or relationships but they

were issues too but anyway but this so I think that's fear and that even with a woman if there were issues which are so shockingly different about you then some you should profess them and if a person is cool they'll be cool but if they're not that least they would say that yeah you know like I'm not you know what you know what mm-hmm I'm not so sure if if Kojak is what I mean - but so at least let's be honest that's all I'm saying there should be transparency I think

deception in relationships is haram you see there's low level deception which everybody might do I don't know if I can call that deception or just have playing a mask that isn't haram necessarily that's just what human beings do so you might pretend to be slightly everybody has a sense of pretense about them but then there's clear outright deception like I'm a doctor when you're not a doctor I live in this fancy bungalow and this when you don't that's as clear outright deception oh you know this is

my my real self with this filter and when you see the person or that's not is here or when you see the person the filter was like I don't know reducing them from from a cousin it was reducing them from a cosmic scale to a quantum scale just to look normal and when you see them you're like what the hell is I think these filters are another problem because nobody really knows what I think women as well they use so many filters

you do think I wonder I mean it probably looks so different in real ah anyway it's like can you imagine that the reaction people probably like that they meet for a first time oh yeah a Salaam walekum huh god damn I think makeup is all fine and good as long as it's not like completely transformative as long as it just enhances so shall we

take on a a simple question then I'm going to go to this heavy heavy philosophical question people right so and this and the heavy question is how is Islam relevant okay so let's take a look at this so here transplants I've answered are absolutely permissible right so right so the question significance what is the significance of a solar eclipse and salata Kossuth I think you can pray the salat and pursue if you want but solar eclipses don't have any significance

like that they are a solar phenomenon that occur and that is it's shocking and it's interesting how the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and it's incredibly awesome how the Prophet was so transparent and just honest about these things to people when any religious ruler could have abused that situation you know that the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam child passes away and there was a solar eclipse and every people like wow this is an all

Emunah ng of the messengers to feel the grief and you know you can imagine all these shares and peers today and what their followers would say oh my god you know that this happened just because i'll share you know i share who was walking and that there was a galactic kind of pause and time Stood Still for a share and so yet when this happens and the Companions said wow this is maybe because the the cosmos the universe is feeling your pain and your and the

Prophet said relax relax he said in the shumsa well III attorney min Ayatollah yes he said he said knock civilly lamode say aha generally Hayate I heard he said these are from the symbols and the creation the signs the things of Allah they do not are not impacted by the life or death of anybody relaxed people he said look Lee yes I'm going through a very difficult time but I'm not gonna lie I'm

not gonna deceive you I'm gonna be honest and this to me is the testimony of the great characteristic of The Messenger of Allah and his honesty and truthfulness because anybody would have misused that situation you would have at least said maybe it is you know if you want you to be slightly humble you may have said maybe it is maybe it's feeling the pain if you were one of these charlatans kind of bees and sheriffs and

you definitely said hell yeah people that's my power you questioned me that's my power but the messenger told that this was a one light one of the great you know people say they want miracles that is a miracle a miracle of humbleness a miracle of refusing to deceive people with thick with miracles that is a miracle because the Prophet could have deceived people they with miracles but he was sawed eponymous dope

he was the most truthful and this is why his message pierced through the hearts of the people around him and when we take that example and we take what we have today we are worlds apart we're too busy wanting to show off a miraculous nature of ourselves and of Islam and of this and of that so in my understanding look these are not this is what the Prophet said these are just a solar phenomenon and if you want to pray that yeah you can pray rock I

tend to remember Allah and to bring calmness to yourself but that's not something Islamic okay it's not an Islamic kind of doing there's a question here on tattoos which I've answered explicitly before so if you refer to my you can search these words on Facebook and my name or on YouTube and you should be able to find them as soon as we have the the website up it should be even easier to kind of allocate these questions if it's always awesome to catch of self statements nothing but

love for you if that Shareen yep I'm well sugar and chicken right so okay the question I want to there's a question on here on rebar I've answered that before once again just refer to my things right this - I've answered in too much depth before right there's a question which i think is a very important question and that is and it's slightly deep I mean it is deep and that is look let me ask you how is this Lomb relevant how is Islam

meaningful if I bring you any product the first thing you will ask me is what does it have to offer if I bring you a new phone you will say what can the phone do I'd say it's got these cameras these facility these features this that's what makes it unique what does Islam have to offer people today what does it have to offer this will ah he is a question that we

need to as a collective contemplate we need to have an honest transparent open discussion especially among scholars and think and people about this what does Islam have to offer what here we are in in 21st century let's say in the Western world I I asked this column came to preach to me about this and he couldn't offer me a single response I said well I he I will take anything he said he said shut that why should I give from what

angle I said I'll take anything show me what Islam has to offer now I want you to hold this thought and I want to take you back in time we're gonna go back to the time of the messenger Allah and his companions you see he was one of the Companions of The Messenger of Allah approaches a king in his time and he says that Bharath an hour a bull a bird that the lord of the people has sent us

to you Lenora july bird minibar data Liebert voila Avada terrible a bird we have come to remove people from the worship of people and myths and superstitions liberate them to the worship and recognition of the two true creator womanly he doesn't stop warming liquid

dunya this tightness this claustrophobic characteristic of this world it asserted to me in a certain Arcana to the vastness of the afterlife and how that is stemming into this dunya not the akhirah into this dunya let me expand on this be let me expand on this people in the

profits time were trapped by superstitions by myths by beliefs of demons and and and Wizardry and and things like they've got concepts of all these kind of evils and and all this mythology and worship and rituals that they don't mean that this whole kind of culture exists this kind of pagan thing that has trapped the minds their lives

they have no rights they are being tortured they there's no rights for there's hardly any rights for women for general men unless you are from a an aristocrat within a society or a certain tribe slaves are being tortured people are being butchered wealth is not being preserved it is being taken there is no there is no there is absolute tribalism racism there is brutality there is no structure there is lawlessness there is

no structure of giving back to a society there isn't a concept of giving back to society this concept does not even exist right Islam comes at a time and what does it have to it offers everything everything not just an are Hira forget the al-qaida for a moment it frees them in this dunya it gives them rights it tells them there should be structures they should be law

and order it tells them they should be economic kind of structures you should they should be formulated taxation they should be a responsibility for the masses they should be human rights they should be men rights they should be rights law for women for slaves it brings these things in that even in war there should be a code of justice that justice should be above everything it should be above you your own tribalism it should be above your own royalties and commitments it offers them an ethics that is lightyears ahead of their time

it offers the mind curiosity that question everything god damn it question go forth and learn even if your learning would make you question Islam don't worry about it go ahead and do it Islam's began Muslims began to rise in a civilization that then sees foreign sciences embraces them translates them builds on them if they start to have develop ethics they start to develop a code promote good character they stir

Aslam was relevant for every aspect of life it was relevant it offered everything for you name it it offered something I'm not saying it's lab so for example Islam did somebody could say oh that Islam offer physics they didn't offer science or mathematics it offered curiosity and unrestricted rain to go out there and learn whatever the hell you can so even if it led to you having

wacko beliefs just learn it you will not know until you learn it it emphasized social change you see people people want to know something that bothers that impacts them in their everyday lives this matters to people why did when Muslims reached Andalus or when they conquered Constantinople why was the public who weren't Muslim prepared to accept them because they wanted social change they wanted social answers and Islam gave it to today I asked these questions what does

Islam have to offer we could say a connection with God but that's all we can say because mankind seems to have independently arrived at better solutions a better ethics than what we culturally are pushing as Islam its arrived at better social recognition so what should we be doing today Islam or to reclaim this true this initial this prophetic trajectory

we ought to be at the forefront of civil rights movements this is supposed to be Islam offers this Islam offers freedoms you had the black lives movement in black lives matter in America Islam or two must be at the forefront of that you had the Native Americans and their suffering and that thing this is in America Islam or to be at the forefront of that you have the environmental atmosphere thing going on climate change Islam must be at the forefront of that

you have a less eliminate poverty Islam must be at the forefront of of that you have let's discover the cosmos let's learn about science let's Islam must be at the forefront of that you offer like how can we work towards people will say how can we work towards I don't know like currency that could be maybe contactless and things like this fine we've gone through our evolution of currency Islam ought to be at the forefront of that these are things which

Islam is offering as well it is promoting this thought this has to be part of what Islam offers because Islam offered this in the beginning but today mankind has outdone what Islam off but then but that's obvious because Islam came when it offered that it was in seventh century for 7th century offered all these solutions today we are in the 21st century we need to offer solutions for the 21st century people are still trying to offer the 7th

century solutions so that's why they have no response Islam has nothing to offer then apart from saying a connection with God which somebody could say but I don't need Islam to give me the connection with God I could just connect with God but Islam offers a systematic approach on liberating humans in every field this is what it ought to do relationships Islam ought to offer some solution not just an ideal romanticized thing Islam oh this is what

I'm saying so when I asked this to this environment to even people at this retreat or other people that look what does Islam have to offer how is Islam relevant this is why we don't have these solutions human rights I cannot overemphasize how I think Islam must be even if it is rights for homosexuals or anybody some must be at the frontier of liberating humans for their rights then they make their own

choices this is how in my understanding Islam will must be relevant so it begins with the dunya and then he connects it now look at the hadith he said 'my dear type dunya from the tightness of what this world is offering islam will take you out of that to the vastness of how the akhira is so vast compared to this dunya will offer you such vastness the Sahaba said today with the dunya seems to be so fast and Islam is like like this and we're

saying at ey why don't you come into this tight little nobody wants that who the hell wants that let's face it who wants that part from odd few people so I think in sha allah that was slightly serious right so i hope that some food for thought inshallah I think I should wrap it up with that as always it's been an absolute pleasure people if you do have any questions for you reach out to me on Facebook message me like my page like my stuff get it out there share some of

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