Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 2

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right okay right so goodnight there it's all good right alaikum Salaam in that Islam you can hear me loud and clear alright people are I so ml hamdulillah wa kafa or salat wa salam o allah rasool mustafa who are alive at in ladino da ba mama Miho da homie tada Oh Bea Arthur Allen Medina tough were bad for Solomon wahi aleikum folks let's let's see what's what's going down I've got to say I do apologize today's

session is going to be ultra uber sha the reason is this I mean there's this apart from this so much going on I've actually got to fly out this morning so because of that I've just been overwhelmed trying to sort things out and I got a set off in a few hours and there's still so many things to do that I've haven't kind of still pending so no bathroom robe today I would have done it it is sleek but I'm getting that ready in the luggage so cool what's going down lucky shop sugar and sugar and why did the chicken cross the road

hahaha really mom cerhype whip ah that donkeys floppies is flown now he's flown out the legend Salim chef your world is a falafel for doing this or why you thought impermissible tea of tatoo tatoos I think on generally the Islamic cultures that they're not permissible there has been contrary to up there has been some difference of opinion I believe among curavi transmits some difference within the Maliki method as there being a position as some people believe the money to be mikaru and not Haram but this view it is a bit blue reasoning he said my camera is a bit

blurry now don't know how to fix that I mean is that is that just simply me wiping this you see if I can just wipe this all right HD people I sorted out the problem look at that so for technology I still haven't sorted out my iPad pro Facebook bloody doesn't it just doesn't it just still says downloading I did everything complete reset logged into

iTunes and everything doesn't work I'm just sick today long anyway right let's deal with your questions people or actually from interest in the history of it what do i what do I always the door from all the do I read I made that up I did actually I made it up way to share no invite some paths but you must walk along now I just flying abroad some some work-related kind of matters gotta take a look at that's it yeah so we're flying out to to Morocco you know part of some some kind of the

business we do you but anyway you camera is a bit blurry hope that's a lot better now not of those who invoked your anger those who can refer to can it refer to Jews Christians or Kanak refer to atheists Hindus or other religions etc thing is yes I damn disc off right I think also the you know when he says well ladle model model barely him people said traditionally this was you know was it the the Jews or so on I think it can just mean people who do

really cruel things as well that kind of thereby invoke the wrath of Allah upon them that's what I think but yeah I mean I'm sure it can do ray saying get Hinata to you sure is it better it's getting better yep so wasn't all sort of worked yeah that's better awesome awesome Obama mattie mattie HD noir all right I work as a care assistant without is that you working as a care assistant error and can get a bit

of urine huh okay just things just got awkward and feces on Mike I thought you I thought you raw I can get it on my face for a moment I was thinking well okay talk about occupational hazard clothes can i still bring these clothes as in can you completely I don't know like smudge these stuff all over your clothes and then just completely just arenal take like a a mud bath in this stuff well it's over to the Masjid like

that I mean the thing is if it's an occupational hazard in shall I believe you can pray like that yes that's okay because especially the Mali Kia they say that the harvestable purity of clothes opinion I should have transmitted only a Sunnah to you know what I'm a see what the a burka was the a Bahia its multiverse and therefore we could have referred to clothes because they couldn't have been an obligation because Allah was involved back then so the thing is that what a lot of the Illuma said I mean someone like a chef he believed it was only Sunnah

even what happened lived as forward regardless like many in schools and it will cost him transmits the understanding from Imam Malik that is to do with B they say be shortened Kouta or what they kept so as long as you remember and you have the capacity so if you don't have the capacity it's okay let's get on with the business all right what's your opinion on women singing in mixed gatherings pure lyrics I'm thinking more casitas Nasheed's look at this who is this person Heba trying to scandalize me look at that hey come on you know this is controversial people problems isn't it

like as soon as you see something I mean I don't believe that the woman's voice is aura but okay singing in mixed gatherings I mean I don't know I mean I'm sure people say it's okay yeah just go with them no worry buddy so pizza / Yanni definitely / Yanni unless Domino pizzas are pretty good though to be fair what do you say to the earning of people entertain Muslims who act produce and direct movies dramas I believe that that's permissible I mean dramas movies stuff like that that's not necessarily Haram only why

would you I think we've got to go easy on that trigger-happy on Haram you know if you think of it like this this is how I think of it I think of Haram before I am about to say Haram to something I think Iran by definition is that which we think that unless a large uses otherwise unless he does so then by default this person for this action deserves to be burnt by the Hellfire that is a huge huge kind of statement do

you understand and when you think of things like that all of a sudden you you become very weary that I can't be so trigger-happy on things like Haram shut up mean D a shelter messy all right thanks now as far as you can actually see me Messi or Ronaldo share don't watch football don't watch any sports actually now where are you flying fly now what is your view on celebrating the Mawlid I don't do it myself I tend to stick with the understanding of the early school of the male Kia the Imam Malik's view and those who came after him for a few centuries that badad is not divided into good or bad

but I don't object to people who choose to do mul it that's an understanding of the latter school of the Malik here almost from like if not our first time onwards so the last maybe 600 years have been very kind of so I'm just being distracted so the thing is they've been very permitting permissive and pro Taksim division of vida I don't do it myself but I don't object necessarily to people would be do you consider selling fees outside Alison you see my understanding is really a big issue

because worries Alison are really right what is Alison who came up with this term and what did they actually mean because the Sahaba the terrain and the earth twelves are varying in my Malik's time and though they never used to go around saying we are Alison now they never even used this term Alison man they were just the main body of Muslims this term some people say was used maybe I don't on post 200 and then it became a set of beliefs but what is what makes somebody how can we be so certain that

these beliefs were the beliefs of the early communities the early communities were not completely expressive about what they believed so we don't truly I mean we have an idea of what they believed but truly what they believed a hundred percent of the time there is a lot of speculation in there as well so what is Alice Turner really says that claim to legitimacy I guess I do believe that in my understanding what Ahlus Sunnah means it's people who belong to the main corpus of the slim Alma who claim to want to be upon

what the prophet and his companions and the early generations were upon so so for example the Shia would be in distinction to that they dismiss the early communities and the companions and so on the Huaraz dismissed them and so on I think that's the broad understanding and in my understanding a listener would be people who say we believe in Allah his messengers his angels his books the day of judgment and destiny whatever destiny means predetermine predestination I guess but whatever that kind of means nobody truly understands it half the time but the thing is that they these things are set

out now you are a Muslim one of the best examples that always comes to my mind is that the process of al Islam when speaking about a particular person who had kind of really surveyed of lies entire life when he was about to die ask the children to kind of cremate him and scatter his ashes in various places so he may avoid an escape of laws wrath now there the Prophet said that Allah brought him together and asked him that what made you know you did this out of my fear and therefore you can go to Jannah now the thing everybody transmits

this hadith it's sorry and everybody kind of loves it but what they forget to to analyze is that the hadith if you analyze it shows that what did this person believe he believed that Allah did not know what he was planning that Allah was incapable of bringing him back he actually believed he could escape the hereafter that there will be no hereafter for him now all of these beliefs are absolutely heretic like you are absolutely clearly outside of the fault of a listener so yet in the hadith he is granted gentleness so it goes to show it's not about a labels thing although I do at the same time I'm not saying we disarm this understand I do

believe that Allah Sunnah represents the orthodoxy of Islam which has diverse schools in it I do consider the the Celebes to be part of that although they are kind of anthropomorphic and do believe la has body parts and stuff like this although they say we don't believe body parts like human's body parts but we just don't know what the body parts are like I would strongly disagree with that kind of view but I still believe it's part of the main corpus of this online right people do you think Muslims need to physically counter-protest groups like you know sure why not in sha allah mean these people I think many people are doing things like that and may Allah protect them and make things easy for them where are the malachite is getting it

together the Maliki is don't worry the school of Medina is on route people they re routing to Medina it's all going down it's all going down right current being more being on one of these like Q&A right but how does this work just knocks everything off balance right so okay now set this straight so I'm gonna have to get sure

let's see you should put a pre live message asking the questions we want to ask and pick the ones you go through yeah you can do don't worry about it fares fares hell yeah here we come right do you consider selfies outside nope I don't Muslim charities who do not give information where the money is being spent yeah I mean there is a lot of shady business as well going on with charities but I mean this good work as well I I just don't know it's a tricky one it's a tricky one really shower in it right Salam alaikum Farid are they chemists Salam you really learning the rules easy

vertical of fixed are here so is this just open Q&A hell yeah Halil that's it that's what it is it's your favorite football team again I don't watch football mostly what was the best TV series you've ever watched hahaha that would be telling now watch quite a few actually the marquee method evil other ha every person has to go to a family member can a family member can offer sacrifice on behalf of the entire family that's valid within the school of Medina meeting up with the Don Mufti bank inshallah I'm trying to meet up with mostly monk I was

due to meet him earlier on this year in May time and then he just got hectic and then I think his schedule was kind of rushed and but insha'Allah insha'Allah let's meet up with the legend move Dominque were you for remain or break say I was actually for remained but uh not that anybody listen to me praising Malcolm mr. Shafi method body the same I'm too after month yeah the sullen of all Salah are pretty much the same throughout the methods accepted every day usually they soon have before for this for the other methods sometimes that you can before to

those are kind of sometimes they don't they just see those as lesser swimmin and the main Sunnah or the one after fought come East London all right chef at inshallah when I'm there I'll give you a shelf I see you sir kept okay Baltimore shout out from there bigger all right allowed partaking me medio-cam Matt medica MA madam with to commemorate Imam Husayn I'm not really down with all that kind of stuff you know I'm not

really down with all this kind of gothic you know crying over lamenting over death of people and it's done isn't it what is it - you know what this is buying kind of prove I mean to me doesn't really I see a lot of Shiism as a very emotional kind of see it's which is ironic actually because in our dearly very rational accepting this year believes but this year and of course EE there are actually a very rationalist kind of variety driven

theological group but the thing is and most of the understanding of this is extremely emotional it's all about emotions crying lamenting it's all in kind of like killed driven in that way bears some resemblance to like Catholicism and stuff like that a sense of guilt they are down with all this kind of stuff I don't believe that we need to be guilt tripped and guilt driven into stuff and you know we we we on this earth to live life I mean Emma you know say Donna saying rhodiola and I don't I mean I

obviously was one of the best of creation the ground you know the grandson of the prophet Elijah time he you know he took an action and unfortunately in his time he was you know barbarically kind of murdered and along with him a lot of his family and you know may Allah bless his entire family and the Muslims by extension but I'm not really down with all this you know and neither was Imam Malik ever down with all this kind of really Pro you know well so just because somebody claims to be over lineage why might belong to the family of the Prophet they

found special and Imam Ali disregard all these kind of things actually and when he was asked he went to that extent that he said when we say al mohammed al means the followers of Muhammad then it doesn't mean his family and he was very very not down with this stuff at all I mean to the extent that when he was asked who are the best of people after the Prophet and he said oh but they said who then and he said home are they said who then he said was mine and they said who then and he said after that there is nobody better all the same and the person said but what about said not Ali Brody Allah and he said they're all the same and he said that but it does and he

said that and his actual wording was somebody who set out seeking something is not the same as those who did not seek it now history is incredibly complex and these were great figures and some of the best people of Islam and we need to obvious always have that veneration but at the same time I think we shouldn't fall into this kind of kill driven culture of likes of kind of like nepotism like when somebody belongs oh this person belongs to the family of the Prophet I mean okay that's it's nice you know it's good it's a if it's true I mean nowadays everybody comes to be from

you know the whole of Iran claims to be from the family of the Prophet and they've all got lineages you know people say hey I've got lineage I mean they've all got lineage they've all got tree isn't these kind of family trees going back to the Prophet stuff I'm not - to me the prophesy lies and said all Muslims are the same okay that's what that's what I see there is no you know you're not if you say to me you're Hashem me or your father me or you are Alawis by Nessa or your or your Qureshi or you're a non Arab to me you are all Bani Adam we are all the same right it is by your understanding or

your reason and by your faith that you reach a map are in a Croma come and Allah he at spoken that the most features of those who are god-fearing God conscious who have an understanding of God a lot that is a verse of the Quran it is not a heavy you know this is what I was saying I was discussing with some students I was saying that the issue is today the Quran is no longer authoritative for us that you know the verse says why that new face a face or and when the when is the trumpet is blown fala and survived a Gnomeo meeting there will be no lineage between them on that date yet people say what they will be you see the thing is what the issue is

that the Quran is no longer our number one go-to it's just background to reinforce our views we need to move away from this code we need to reinstate the Quran as our primary understanding and then build our understanding around it that the spirit that the Quran teaches us it's we don't find that what we find in fact people turn away from the France so easily like this thing like in the Parana says there is no compulsion in Dean or regarding tea people turn away from that so easily like it always just a whisper lorry but I mean something else I mean why that's the first of the four honey

is the most authentic thing you have you know Allah says in the Quran in economic means a lot akhom that oh I don't care you know me oh you came from a single soul and a single partner you know Allah sent you say you forth as mankind and know you up to the masses in the Quran universe show Oh Robin just like you know each other that you different tongues and races and colors and things like this are sign of Allah they know it's not a meritocracy it's not a hierarchy Allah says fella you know that in academic Amendola at home that is most pictures and when also the worst when the trumpet is blown for

Allah and survived a know whom you made there will be nothing there are no lineages but kind of relations between you on that day and the thing is where people turn away over someone so is the grandson of what what did he do to be the grandson of the Prophet so he did nothing or you know he what I don't mean Imam Hussein by the way I mean people saying it today about people being the grandson obviously Imam Hussain is of the best era he's from the you know the Sahaba the tavern and that hole over the Blessed Irae I mean people say today he's from the so-and-so is from the family of the Prophet I mean what you want us to do like I mean I don't have a

choice I mean I okay I wouldn't mind being from the family of the Prophet Elisha but you know I mean this isn't how Islam works you know all right it's about what you do not about what you were born into right so I mean I'm not down with this kind of stuff but I know people are but anyway so let's let's move on right how old are you I'm Way too old now what am I now 36 37 37 I think another controversial do you think women can we like perfume I believe women can wear perfume here but that's absolutely fine I don't mean they need to ground themselves in it but I think they can and I think they should I think people should always is part of the

hygiene of the day and age we're in you know person should deodorants things like this and light perfume smell nice look nice as in I think I don't mean by look nice as in like OTT over the top I mean just presentable and and we're in a culture with this you see people you know sometimes I asked a fluster Frost around all this and I've said before you know chef chef that Oh Muhammad well it'll hasn't that oh the legendary Musti grand mufti of not the crown but the legendary Mufti of Mauritania he's already given the fatwa that women can we make nothing wrong with that and they can wear it outside

people have said they can use as proof or pitch now you know even with perfume now people say well oh my god oh my god is fitna is this this is already out there you know women already like this they they much you know they're wearing next to nothing now the problem is if you if Muslim women are just going to be they're just going to be ugly the thing is I don't mean to be kind of like if people what you see I believe everybody has beauty to them but it's about making yourself look like dumbing yourself like kind of dulling yourself down to that extent then let's let's be real what's going to

happen is people are not going to be interested now Society so what happens is people say oh yeah but you know so in Seoul's practicing the faith nobody's interested in marrying her or nobody's interested in because people are too because people have an inbuilt attraction to certain things now yes it's what I'm trying to say you see I don't want people to misinterpret what I'm trying to say I'm trying to say is taking the profits that take care of yourselves be presentable he told a person off his beard was scruffy and he was scruffy he said what's wrong with you you look like a predatory beasts get out of here fixed easel and then come back not had these internally and

the thing is you know looking presentable is good in especially in a contact I'm not saying you walk around like that if you live in Kabul probably get kidnapped I mean like where we I'm speaking about our own context it's very northern hemisphere Western kind of like everybody so you're just gonna look really weird and then the religions gonna get blamed for it and then on top of that you can probably have a hard time in life and you're gonna think well hamdulillah chose the religion but the religion was more elastic than then you think you chose an aspect and I'm sure you know Allah will reward you for that but the

point is if you undertake some hardships then it's your choice but I believe there is there is grounds for things like that but I'm sorry I don't mean by that people are ugly they're not there they're very incredibly beautiful but the point is that what I mean by that is that people sometimes dull themselves that make themselves look weird whereas you can choose to be gracefully with modesty very beautiful you can choose to be that and that's with the grace and elegance to it it doesn't have to be kind of like very you know like kind of almost you're kind of like highly

it don't have to be like so true sultry like it doesn't have to be like that it can be very graceful elegant yet modest yet amazingly beautifully can be like that and but we shouldn't kind of I think we need to move away from this understanding that the beam is asceticism it's not it's not about abandoning the dunya as Allah says well that censor and I see burka you know do not forget your portion of this world all right people I'm going to have to I'm gonna take a last question and then we're gonna have to cut it short I'm so sorry I really really am gonna be we're

gonna be kind of like heading off to fly out in a few hours I've got to kind of sort out so many things yet I did want to squeeze in a gym session to you junkies the thing is so right people he dare to now inshallah maybe next time gonna help on grandma I do love grandma scholars say in regard to perennialism too lengthy of a question yeah come on Kamala there we are you expect me to answer that as a as a loss shoot off question Hamrick has do Molly keep reins from 9:05 prey I mean the Sun and prayer

like so for example in Baja after for this to with soba before I suppose some people say this - some people say that's not some nights and let's assume never - before Roger I'm sorry they actually called that forger they called the fourth pre-super - - after the heart before I started they don't really say it's an emphasized sooner but if you want to you can pray to or for after Maghrib - after a shot - okay and the winner is something as well - drinks and a third one comes out is it okay to keep the third one Harvey hell yeah it's okay to keep the third one have a drink on us and on that note

people let's call it a night in Charlotte it's been awesome choking on Baraka la fille come your questions have been firing away and I totally love Q&A the only thing is I've got a shoot so ever so sorry if I can't get to the rest of your questions feel free to snap me if you're on snapchat add me Malan 2014 mal M 2 0 1 4 you can message me but snapping is a quick way snap me up and I'll try and get you those snap was other than thine shall our people take care of yourselves until next time next Monday and shall on Monday nights with Mufti on next week Q&A live I'll catch up with any questions I've missed there we can fire them again then take good care of

yourself people salam-o-alaikum or at multiply to Allah or Barakat or