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Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth: Session 131

salat salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat haj pilgrimage hadj ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith sahih saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith tafsir tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas takbir takbeer takbirat takbeerat imaam imams prayer leader ramadhan ramzan ramazan ramadaan tarawih tarawih prayer taraweeh prayer eid al-fitr eid al-adha eid ul-fitr eid ul-adha eidul fitr eidul adha bakra eid bari eid choti eid festival maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school shafi'i shafei shafiite shafi'i school muftis hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam haraam forbidden dalil daleel adillah adilla proof riba ribaa sood usury mawdu' mawdoo maudu mawdhu shirq mushrik mushrikin kufr kuffar kafir kaafir kufar kaafirun iman imaan eemaan eeman sihr sihar jadu jadoo kala jadu magic jannah janna jannat jahannam jahanam jahannum quraan al-quran sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat tilawah tilawat tilaawah sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat hijrah hijrat migration khalifah khalifa khulafa khilafah khilafat khilafa madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib andalusia moorish spain shiah shiite shi'i twelver ithna ashari salafis salafism wahabi wahhabism 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs da'wah dawat da'ee invitation ummah umma ummat talaq talaaq triple talaq talak in sha allah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allah alhamdulillah alhamdulilah al-hamdu lillah alhumdulillah alhamdulillaah as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam greeting barakah baraka barkat baraqah blessing niyyah niyah niyat niyya niyyat taqwa taqwaa muttaqi god-consciousness fitrat natural disposition amanah amana amaanah amanat deen al-din ad-deen ad-din ibadah ibada ibaadah ibadat ajr sawab thawab thawaab sawaab

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just I take it this is life and unrestricted fry people are me just momento momento

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just one moment people I'm just pressing this button and it's

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depressing a few times and ah God right in al hamdulillah wa kafa well salatu salam o allah rasool allah hill mustafa ala i buddy levine October Oman Bay Hotel method Bobby Arthur Allen madinat active our bad for salam ilaha il-allah wa salim bikumu marhaban running lights bienvenidos a todos para la Ruche amma deed and swagatam people's welcome I'm almost certain become it's been a

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little while I've taken a little break thought I'd put people at Sammy's so right so RI what is going on

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when are you doing some more dropping at the arc I will be doing that soon inshallah I just put this on silent that's better right so i will be doing some drop ins at the arc just i've been I had actually

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arranged one just before Eid and then gotta be distracting I thought the it was too short notice so then I just thought ah what the hell shall let people enjoy the Eid afterwards and first and since allahu akbar first of all are very related and a very delayed Eid Mubarak to each and all I hope you guys have had an awesome time and we've got a few people on atom beak from New York Ali Mohammed shukran anima Simon Bick Imran Han na

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I come to NYC will take you to all the best stop spots well Sean ma let's see let's see right somebody said can you do a session about his bowtie real soon here's what the hadeel do they have a soon it's not really there's not much to say apart from well it's just a joke with a very poor punchline well somebody when we're

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going for food inshallah of course of course Hamas Sal and I want to come most welcome you're most welcome you know the just reach out and we'll set it up while safe Vancouver sugar and sugar and guys there's a lot to go over for tonight there's quite a few things which will include as well I will be presenting a response to chef Yasir Qadhi genius I will beloved our beloved

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chef here sir coffee now I I hear that a few i somebody sent me a video clip of his so I'm not sure if it part of a greater clip but it was just a short clip titled a Mufti and a guide or a guide and a Mufti something like this and it's where he speaks about reason the voice of reason and it appears it appears that he may be it may be and this is what I I got the impression and that's what the person who sent it to me

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as well was of the impression that it may be an indirect kind of response to me or my position on the voice of reason although the the morphine is parable is not he's not referring to me but that's something I'd like to address because I think it's very important since our chef Yasir Qadhi Sahib it would be rude for all of us not to address it so there's

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this that to look at this there is those of either of familiar with the Asadullah al-andalus see this been somewhat of a back and forth online between Assad Allah and the Lucy and me so I'll be addressing a bit of that we he it began what's the context to it but it kind of ended on this point to do with the age of Aisha but all the Allahu Allah and

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the usual the usual way they try to promote this view that I show was just a child and the Prophet married a child which is obviously utter nonsense and I'll come to addressing that a little later on and addressing Assad Allah Andalucia these comforts these converts caused so much trouble sometimes you know no sooner do they enter the faith that they start teaching it to us [Laughter]

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Chah hamari cat or humping attack it's like so this is so we have to address some of these issues set some of these people straight so there's that to take a look at this in so many oh so many questions so many thoughts I've been doing so much research of my own god it seems like a lifetime has has been by somebody said Assad is pretty cool not from my understanding if he was cool I wouldn't be addressing him like that

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[Laughter] from my understanding I said is another nutcase radical kind of preacher who I think may have kind of come away a bit from he was a hard-line Wahhabi from what I take it but I think he may have changed some of his some of his perception but not much I think maybe just his outward perception so he shaved the long beard and done all of that but I think his views are still very in line with the licking the Wahhabi narrative that is

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out there so I will I will take a look at that right so let's see some other questions that have been going on somebody said please answer please answer what's the question doesn't matter just answer just also got them take a sovereign sovereign sovereign salaam from Denmark ishaak Maliki power all right all right school of Medina long live right so I'll come to all of

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that later on somebody said what is the Wahhabi it's not just a hobby but it's a kind of certain mindset which is usually a very dogmatic exclusivist and hardline right-wing borderline fascist mindset which is usually part and parcel of the Wahhabi movement the Salafi movement but it doesn't mean necessarily all selfies have to be like that but it's hard entrenched in their movement and then has also spilled over into other so people don't have to be

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necessarily like that but have a very dogmatic mindset but we'll come to that we'll come to that what else is going on what's bothering me empty my social media people my facebook family those of you that I've also got this live on YouTube are right people so whichever one you're on Facebook or YouTube like she spread spread the love people spread it spread the fittin in facade right can you share a few a shower of yous Maya hi

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I panda not cheese we would I get a shot from I just simply do knock I love the great you know the great people who've who've been asked to recite something when Holly said couch topper a kilo cat there are jolly Brussels Serrano he says that you read something otherwise people will say today Holly he didn't he never read anything yeah one of my heroes

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that's that's that's what ah that's some other thoughts I want to know do you know about Mufti soundstage I don't know what Mufti soundstages okay right so who is olive olive is the legend the dawn of all to poetry one of my heroes right so those of you who do understand you should definitely check out some Holly but those of you don't then you should learn what else are you doing in

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this world learn some poetry people the ways has earned is still asking do you know about musty sounds to each obey I don't know what musty soundstages himesh hamachi yep ravu lo siento hermano lo siento I don't know what that is right so somebody asked divorce Fick rights of children interaction mustaqim said thanks for the birthday message no

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problem no problem no problem see I always feel that when you go when you're on social media if you're passing some something on your newsfeed if you're coming across something you should always say a kind word I believe that if you if somebody's going through some difficulty you try and say a nicely adora for them if somebody has passed away try and offer a little you know some condolence if it's somebody's birthday then or if it's somebody it doesn't have to be a birthday it could be a happy occasion try and wish them

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well and nothing you know it doesn't you don't lack anything you don't lose anything by extending some kind words and I try to do that I try to make a habit of doing that so I try to if I see anybody postings anything you know of reasonable I will try and like it trying she's some positivity people she's some positivity somebody said isn't birthday celebrating a bit higher of course it isn't celebrating birthdays is not a bit out of people Allah is the religion Islam is

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not about micromanaging people okay it's not something which Allah has sent to micromanagers on our tiny micro in our microcosms if you like in trying to what you do with this what do you do with that but some people have turned the religion into that Islam has immense freedoms okay it just lets you be TV alright let questions kind of tied up here first of all let's discuss some things

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I've been asked the right politics I take it way back all right I'm sorry

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if the connection kind of plays up a bit I've I'm just fed up with goddamn virgin media honestly I'm so fed up with him now I they they got me to leave BT where I was fine and they tried to they offered me all these things and and now this is playing up I'm just so fed up I'm gonna switch back now people are a con I'm telling you they're an absolute con they're our nightmare to get through to I tried to call him I literally I think they must have had me on they had me on the kind of the music just waiting

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on on wait and I was I must have got ready had my taking a shower had my food got my food ready had my food and everything and then they respond anyway right let's move on right okay so politics first of all some serious talk India what is going on right this thing about Kashmir right those of you that don't know Kashmir recently has come back in the news

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India has revoked an article which they had which was article 370 and it basically because in because Kashmir is a disputed territory had certain there was an article that protected its land and territory so non Kashmiri couldn't go in there and buy up all the land and they've revoked that so now that in and of itself personally I think I mean I don't know how big of a deal that is in and of itself one could argue that

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that's a national issue to do within the politics of a country and other people shouldn't really get a say and I could to some extent agree with that I could see that look country a sovereign state has its own rights and people have always been because the politics behind why they're doing this is to D gentrify to kind of dilute the population of Kashmir so they want to kind of move people in forced settlements I'm not forced but open it up so people will buy it up and and they'll kind of dilute the population within a few generations now to some extent that has been going on throughout

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human history throughout the world so that in and of itself I'm sure is problematic but to what scale can be argued by people but the greater issue is that you see it's not just that it's the oppression that is being carried out the atrocities the so when they announced this the Indian government they dispatched another I think 38,000 soldiers to the existing I think a hundred thousand at least soldiers they have that are stationed within within

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Jammu Kashmir so the Indian Occupied Kashmir and and the whole place is just a living hell so in the last few weeks they've completely cut off all communication cut off power sources electric whatever kind of media outlets that you have that I believe that they've even dis engaged all phone networks and things like this they've stopped supplies being brought in they've stopped people from allowing them to leave they it's just been from

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what I hear an absolute nightmare for the people that are living there sorry not somebody said it's not 100 K it's over 700 K 700 thousand troops they have--they that may well be the case I apologize if I understated that but it's a highly highly militarized zone it is not I mean natural isn't even the word it's a living hell hole in what is a acceptable paradise on earth and you know because when you get that many soldiers and then you have this rhetoric that these people are different

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they're a different race there were different faiths they you know you have this narrative or they're the enemy us versus them and then there's obviously targeting going on targeting the young men which naturally those people will get angry and then in retaliation they will just kill them or they will imprison them or mutilate them or blind them and things like this and with women they'll usually just harass the women rape the women kill the women molest them I mean these kind of things have become unfortunately a norm that's that's how tragic the situation is in

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Kashmir and and I know Pakistan it's kind of gone back and forth some of the things I don't know what a possible solution could be because you know now it is being brought to more I mean it's the attention in front of the international community has become heightened and more people are taking a certain interest in Kashmir I do hope that you know may Allah grant them ease I would hope that at least if India could allow an Pakistan at least a certain part of both cash means to kind

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of merge and become an independent state that would be I think the best possible outcome but Pakistan would have to withdraw from some of Kashmir and they would have to withdraw from a certain amount of Kashmir and just allow those people to be I think that would be the the best possible kind of outcome you know may Allah grant these people ease because suffering it's I don't know you lost for words I'll be honest you're kind of lost for words because you see all this and you think well you just because you're helpless it's just a

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tragedy honestly so I had to I wanted to share some words on that and and then India as a whole there's it's being plunged into this far-right fanatic state of mind I don't really understand what's why people are going that way but this seems to be this sentiment around the world in a few different countries like in America the rise of Trump and the far-right and you're getting that in certain countries I mean certain countries like even

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Germany and you know there was I mean even across some parts of Europe this rise of the far right we're seeing that or we've seen it in the UK with brexit and in India it seems to have just really plunged itself into an abyss because there seems to be all this propaganda that Muslims are taking over I mean Muslims are not taking over India I mean that's us ridiculous Muslims have always been a part and parcel of India they've probably constituted maybe 20% of India maybe 25% but that's it and

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there seems to be this this fear mongering that oh my god they marry four or five wives and they just keep producing children and children and I've seen these these kind of politicians saying these Indian politicians that in 20 years Muslims will become the majority in India and they're going to take over and this is going to become another Muslim country this is going to become Syria Yemen this is going to become Iraq and all this kind of scare mongering has been really it's taken the Indian a lot of the Indian public and I

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think India is it's a shame because it's just becoming ruined I saw some videos which I wish I didn't see honestly I saw some on being shared some viral clips the torture and just the bullying the oppression the attacking Muslims in just random places like on a bus on on a train on the street just random people just happen to you know maybe you could they could tell that this person was a Muslim just beating him up beating up the people accusing them of eating beef attacking them and I saw this one clip that I just could not

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see I just stopped it I turned away there was a horrific clip where they had this Muslim and they cut off his tongue and you know it said on thee that they that they made him eat it afterwards and I mean I didn't watch that I I when I saw I don't know what it was first and when I saw and they I saw these people doing it really it I won't lie I was trauma it traumatized me just seeing that and I couldn't like we has this hate come from how do people how do you

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I don't know sink so low it with such raw emotions to find this kind of hatred I mean wow honestly I'm it hurts you to see this to just know that this is going on and I swear seriously by Allah if the regardless of the people being Muslim if they were Hindu that that was happening to it would hurt me just as much regardless of the Ming Muslim obviously

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the fact that they're being targeted just for simply being Muslim is obviously that that strikes a chord with me because I'm Muslim but this is on a human level I'm saying how can people sink so low to torture people to kind of mutilate them to simply because they follow a different faith I mean what is different between those Hindus and a sari and between those Hindus and those Indian Muslims seriously ethnically what is different that is the same people

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they're not very they not a you know they're not a migrant community that have moved in this these are those people but it's it's it's shocking and what the the more the government is doing spreading this kind of hatred fueling it allowing it to persist they're just destroying what is seriously a magnificent country India they've just destroyed it and just let it kind of just wither into this kind of vest Asian of of a second state it's

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just it's it's sad honestly I I know some people said look it's been happening since 1947 and I think but recently there seems to be this kind of rise in this in this negative sentiment and yes Allah may Allah make things easy seriously i I just don't I don't get where this hatred comes from where people I get the fact that you get annoyed with people I get the fact that you and that happens with everybody but this much hatred I just it's sad honestly and it's sad for the people who

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carry this hatred that what kind of a miserable existence do they have but yeah may may Allah you know groan ease to each and all right somebody said is India really that magnificent in its potential yes I mean it's an amazing I personally love India as a country I would love to visit if it wasn't for this kind of nutcase kind of viral malevolence that is found but it is a

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magnificent country I mean there's no denying that but it's unfortunately a country that seems to be losing that radiance but yes so somebody said what do you think of the Battle of India that's actually a very good point thank you for say it Mia for reminding me you know people I want to say something look you know this what will hint Hospital hint is in authentic there is no such thing people this hadith is made up I'm telling you there is no such thing as Hospital hint

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okay we need to get off this kind of you know the battle the great battle of India that is to come and this fuels the kind of hatred that we are seeing right now in India seriously this because people there are unfortunately cancerous elements out there that use this kind of stuff and many Muslims fall victim to this propaganda of others were told him that the jail and the god damn all this this is a fabrication people these hadith

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were fabricated during the time of Bani umeå of the Umayyad dynasty when they expanded into into India this the Prophet never spoke of India behave let me just think about it this is people impose so many things on the Prophet it's ridiculous that if the Prophet was to speak of India I used to speak of a war with India I mean what is wrong with people and seriously this is like even you know this holds TV series that you've got very popular sacred games and part two the season of it is it's focusing even

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though it does show other elements and greater dynamics or of politics are played but this whole that's what will hint and a nuclear threat and really this Hindu Muslim rivalry and Muslims kind of preaching this jihadi thing about us what will hinder us what'll hint this is a fabricated hadith people there is no such reservoir to happen okay there is no Battle of India please please please stop this nonsense

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okay so right so I hope that that's so I'm really grateful for somebody for minding me of that point but I mean that you know there are many good you know I don't want to just sound because somebody had asked me look do you really believe the country's magnificent I don't want to sound like there there's no good elements in India there are many positive people who aren't Muslim and they are great human beings there was a story of just recently I believe last

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week there was a a Sikh by the name of I think his name was Harman desync who really went out of his way to help I think he helped something like 30 odd Kashmiri girls who were trapped in a particular thing to safety and you know potentially risking his own life you you get many stories and you'll get many activists who will condemn all these atrocities so don't get me I don't want to get it twisted in saying that look there's no there's many great people who do speak up for the voice of justice and you know God

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bless them that's what I'd say what if that's what will Hindi is real and it happens get a life is the only way these things are gonna happen is what people keep it's a self-fulfilling prophecy you keep pushing it and then you trigger the people so much and then you get this what you're having right now you know fear mongering and then people will just turn in on the Muslims and they will just Massacre them and that that's what's gonna happen that is what is happening in otherwise Hinduism it has

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always been a religion of peace Hinduism is a religion to do with nature they have hymns ahimsa they have like the concept of non-violence they have the concept of being at one with the earth they have they were always a religion of tolerance but you get people that preach this kind of Oh what will him us what to him then and then you you take off that many people and then that's what happens you see you're going to get this kind of stuff and I'm not blaming it just I'm not saying I'm not saying this is just those Muslims those people

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to blame those kind of fanatics but what I'm saying is don't add fuel to the fire that's you know don't add don't kind of exacerbate the circumstances so that's what I'm saying so yeah so I really wanted to say that on that note somebody had sent me on a slightly lighter not linked to India somebody had sent me the clip of Priyanka Chopra and it said well Musti can you speak about this can you speak about some Priyanka Chopra gee those of you that don't know Priyanka Chopra Bollywood star former Miss World

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dammit forgot to her any Miss World has to always be followed with so many doors [Laughter] right so so she she is asked in some interview I don't know whether it's an interview or an event or whatever it is but she some I don't know if it's a heckler somebody in the crowd says to her look we support you on so many things you have so many Pakistani fans how is it that you don't condemn what's going on right now in India and she gave this response which she said look she's

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a patriot of India a dish but all right so people were quite infuriated that oh my god howdy Priyanka Chopra G say you see well first of all somebody said a Pakistani sister she's not Pakistani I mean she's oh you meant the person who asked was a Pakistani woman that's correct here she was somebody said she doesn't look like Miss 100 Ottawa are we oh are you blaspheming like I said I

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mean anybody who's attained that status it's it's almost a blasphemy to kind of criticize them but you know who in for father for the voice of justice we will take this campaign even if it's against a former Miss World well so you know what it's it's because we have to after all how are we going to be answerable if we criticize if we

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criticize the embodiments the sublime embodiments of beauty right but no people no let's let's be realistic look I think people are taking for granted they're taking for granted freedoms you have to understand you I see that is right you have to understand that you know in India people are not actually that free you might think that these people are celebrities and these people are you know they've incredibly rich

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which they are incredibly maybe in some ways powerful because of the money and the popularity that they that yields but they don't actually have a voice on these kind of matters you don't you don't understand how ruthless the the far-right Hindu nationals are they will make their lives a living hell so if any Muslim in India let's say you have these great superstars like shadow Hawn Salman Khan Aamir Khan these kind

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of great Muslim celebrities of India if they were to question anything on politics linked to let's say Hindu interests or anything like this they would immediately be told to to get lost to Pakistan immediately it doesn't matter who they are they will shut down the movies burn down the promotion events they will seriously lock off their events and this is not a job I'm not over exaggerating there was those of you who remember this this a

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movie a Bollywood movie called Padmavati and it was had Ranbir Singh in it and and it was to do with aloud in Hill GA historical figure it was very dramatized and it wasn't actually based on that much accuracy of history but it's about a Muslim Sultan in the past who kind of takes over a huge part of India and he becomes obsessed with the beauty of this woman called bud Marathi now the thing is that this woman this some people say that this whole thing is fictitious and didn't even really exist but nevertheless if according to this

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narration before he can obtain her she commits suicide she kind of burns herself to death as an act of Honor so in this movie which is which is made by non-muslims this movies made by Hindus it's enacted by Hindus so you've got Ranbir you've got the female actress was Deepika who's a very popular bollywood actress she's not a Muslim she's a Hindu so there was allegedly was leaked that there is a scene in this movie before it was released that there was a scene in us that there was a song and in that

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song this guy Ranbir who is playing Hilkiah Loudon he'll G is being very intimate with Deepika who's playing this padmavati this princess in Indian princess now this is meant to be in a dream like so they're having some dream and there's some intimate intimacy now nobody's seen this because this was never released but a rumor was leaked now not only did the right-wing Indian movements ban this movie they blocked it from being released they burnt down the the kind of

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cinema promotions and things like this they actually put a price on D pick this actress they put a price on her head like I don't know how many hundreds thousands whatever will be given as a reward to anybody who brings her head I mean what the hell she like first of all I don't know whether this scene existed in this movie but even if it did it's a movie for God's sake and she's just the actress but they said that how do you

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play an Indian princess who kind of becomes intimate with this Muslim Sultan of the past that we want your head that's how crazy some of these people are so she actually was living in I think immense fear for something like about a year then they had to re they had to edit that movie they had to change the title of the movie and then they got it released a year later so I think when people say things like Priyanka Chopra or these people why are

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they not critical the truth is neither would you be neither would I be if you lived in India you don't have a voice when it comes to politics you can just speak about good things but you can't really criticize anything it's become a bit of a a kind of totalitarian state unfortunately so so yeah so froggy froggy said she can have my head in replace I'm not so sure your head on deepika would look just as good right so that's so that's some of these things so

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so I mean freedoms are something we take for granted actually especially in this part of the world and it just goes to show what an amazing gift it is to be able to speak your mind Allah may god preserve our rights of freedom I mean right those of you just tuning in click like click share people spread the love get this out there right what else is going on people what else what questions are we dealing with what let me just

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bring this up all right so all right we've got somebody asked a question whoa whoa sorry people I was trying to read and I flipped the screen luckily there were only books behind the

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screen god damn how our arm is drinking alcohol on a scale of you know this this Haram you know maybe ain't as as bad as people are thinking it right so haben

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bic right somebody had asked a question about the the dynasts bunny ohm a year and been like a bus and I didn't really see the question so I'm not I'm not too sure what it was bunny obey yeah I think of something to do with the hadith right okay let's take a look I'd like to I think my YouTube thing might be playing up people just bear with you I am going to get I've had you see it's the internet companies they just they're ripping me off people they're ripping me off I'm gonna get the

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whole thing redone right so let's tackle a question that is immensely important okay so it is to do with this hadith and Quran okay I've had quite a few people say to me that you see you problematize Sahil Bihari which I do I don't say throw Sahil Bihari away but I say treat it like any other book of hadith and so each hadith must be judged upon its own merits if it contradicts if it clashes mile mu by a

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nail mark all it doesn't go against reason well um you know Adele well let me Holly film and all it does not clash with the Quran or the Living tradition Wellum are you not getting a soul and it does not approach an Islamic principle then we will accept it so that's my point I believe that we need to scrutinize the Matan the much more than we have been doing the actual content of a hadith now some people have said well because you claim these systemic issues with some of the hadith are being transmitted why can't you say that about

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the Quran now and I've been sent a few different videos by different people saying this by the way so I was sent a video by a scholar who usually I mean I find his stuff usually quite amusing and good it's he's I believe his name is Mawlana or it may be Mufti Monzer mingle from Pakistan where he's got a a clip where he's speaking about where he says what or Pirani sorry or wattle had easy homra wattle Koran where he says that the people who transmitted the Hadees all the people who transmitted the poor

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man so if you are going to weaken hadith then they buy you have weakened Quran this is the argument somebody sent me a clip by Dawa man saying the same thing which really that the whole man is not a scholar so it's not that's not even irrelevant but some way it's the same argument and we've heard quite a few other scholars saying this I've heard a few scholars saying this now so I want to address this point you see anybody who says these people first of all

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there's there's a few important points to make one is that these people have not truly understood how the Koran was transmitted okay these people who are saying these they have just been institutionalized and they don't realize they haven't deeply actually fathomed how the Quran and how Islam and his tradition was transmitted and I will go through that in just a moment secondly I feel that it's such a shame such a shame that these people feel that

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they can strongarm somebody who questions who questions the authenticity of certain hadith based on sound reason by throwing the Koran under the bus now I find that to be such a an act of cowardice that way you could not substantiate those particular hadith that are being questioned or you are being presented by a narrative of realism that look you they buy your only

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response is to throw the entire Quran under the bus in an attempt to save Bihari I mean that is the most I find despicable and cowardly act done by Muslim scholars who truly lack an understanding of how this tradition was transmitted okay so so I'd like to clarify I'd like to expand allow me to

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elucidate expand elucidate see if I don't use these words people say yah da Mosta couch but by me people will accuse me of not even being educated so one must resort to an expansive reply so right so okay so let's take a look at how was how was the

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quran transmitted how was the so people islam when the prophet lived amongst people and the companions after him there was a living tradition of islam if we can call that a living tradition okay living tradition is what people will just teach parents will teach their children they will be it will just become a kind of folk practice it will just permeate through communities and societies it is part and parcel of the

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living tradition now the Quran was transmitted on mass like people you know they just taught it they taught it to their children they taught it to their neighbors they taught it to their friends people conveyed the message of the Quran before the arrival or advent of institutionalization so as a natural as a Dean of fitrah the Quran was being transmitted so if I knew the Quran I would read it in my Salah I would read the Quran in my daily praise I would teach it to my children I might sometimes have a discussion on me this

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was just a natural living practice that people were passing on the Quran one could say from father to child okay there was not an institutionalization to it it was just a natural tradition the other thing is and this is something nobody would really deny that Muslims who were doing this I mean even non-muslim historians they acknowledge that yes most they had this scripture they had this thing called or on secondly the Koran by its nature ontologically by its essence

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okay is a Koran it's a recitation it's a recital of something it's not it's not prose it's not something like here's a book right it's not a book like you just read like I'm just reading this book it was a recitation which meant it had a rhythmic essence to it so people would recite and we know that the Koran was preserved by memory so people would recite the Quran they would read it in

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in this Allah they would read it in during Ramadan in taraweeh it was being conveyed it was just being taught and this is how it permeates through the communities it was just part and parcel of the living tradition of Islam now we have to pause that the pause posit people buzzing now we're going to come to this question of people who corrupt a message right so when people decide to

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interpolate when people decide to add to fabricate to manufacture a message there may be many motivations behind these many motivations amongst them for examples there could be good there could be beneficent believe it or not they could be kind of like kind-hearted motivation so people think I know I'm going to invent a teaching I think more Muslims should do hatch for example so I'm going to invent something about the benefits for Hajj and believe

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it or not people have done this it's like some of them used to say that we don't fabricate again the profit we fabricate for the profit right next people aleyhi next people la who we don't lie against him we live for him one to go for this this one not nice so this is what some people were doing right so they were so there are many reasons why people fabricate things they bring things in it could be that there's

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misunderstandings they could be false memories so these are all kind or benevolent kind of non humph I mean I don't know if that's the right word but let's say if we call them you know kind-hearted kind of manufacturing of of Islamic teachings it could be because people have got a good intention it could be because it's a false memory a person actually thinks oh here wasn't this also part of the teaching and he gets it wrong that could be then they could be negative

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you know like malignant kind of intentions bad intentions where people are they want to corrupt a faith they want to kind of mess it up for people all they want people so that could be one reason they want to corrupt the faith they wanna or that they have a personal vested interest so somebody wants to I don't know somebody they sell vegetables or to buy their vegetable so they start saying do you know that that Islam encourages eating vegetables now that's believe it or not actually happened as well you had somebody who

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fabricated a hadith to do with the bath in German nothing John is what we call in Otto Bingham you apologize

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for the disconnection disconnect their way back so there were people who invented hadith to say that we invented teachings to say anybody who eats the aubergine plant has will have such in such a reward you know the being and the merits of the being in but this is so sometimes there's a vested interest sometimes there's political interests so people sectarian so there's a lot of teachings that were fabricated to to create an uprising against the State against the Omega dynasty for example which a lot of

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the Shia people did and hence they really pushed the whole messianic vision that there will be a messiah that will come and a maddie will come and all these things and then there were a lot of teachings fabricated to consolidate the state so the omega dynasty came up with a lot of rulings that would help them like when they wanted to take over india apes it's very convenient that all of a sudden is a hadith that the prophet said all the great battle of india so these things were just teachings of convenience so there's a lot of reasons why people fabricate something so now

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this is important that we clarify that now let's just pause that for a moment it's come back to come back to the working working board here people what is the problem I ask you what is the problem or the challenge is a better word with trying to push your false teachings into the floor and what do you think would be the problem if if you were a person pretend you are a person who is intentionally because if we take the the worst-case scenario first we can deal with the other cases but by

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extension easily so those people who are intentionally premeditating an attempt to corrupt the faith they want to mess up the teachings of Islam what would be your challenges if you were going to add verses into the Quran you know very well that that will not fly it would be so difficult why number of reasons one Doran is so widespread people are reciting it all the time so if I wanted I don't know say add a

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ruling into the Quran I have to match the entire context of the Quran so let's say I want to invent some hadith to support the state of Bani Omega D Omega dynasty now I can't just add a verse of the Quran saying hey and they will be a great dynasty call Bernie Omega because the Quran it's not its style to speak like that so this becomes very difficult the other thing is the Quran does not often delve into tiny issues it seems to

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have a very universal approach it's speaking about things universally and fabricating a universal is very meaningless like you know if I want to fabricate a universal ruling the problem is so many people read the Quran in different parts of the world all these people read it it's part and parcel of the tradition I have to then make sure this thing matches the exact style it matches the context it doesn't go against the overall message of the Quran so some people did try this with the Satanic Verses and it flopped why did it flop because

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it clashed with the overall message and people spotted it as a contradiction and so that the return on investment here is very little it's not worth trying to corrupt the Quran in that in that you know with that in mind because you're not going to get much back out of it okay this however is not the same with Hadi the hadith don't have a content the hadeeth were not being taught from father to child they were not part of this living tradition unless you know

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maybe a one-off story may have been but hadith weren't had he'd start to get documented almost a hundred years after the Prophet by that time many false hadith are in circulation for me to make up a hadith all I have to say is the Prophet said whosoever doesn't watch Monday nights with Mufti has lost out on a great big fortune for example that's it trying to add that in the Quran is impossible next to impossible

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why because one the Quran doesn't talk about things like this in general so people will spotty - I have to match the rhythm that nothing that the flow of the Quran I have to choose a particular surah to add it into then people are all reciting that surah in different parts of the world it wouldn't really fly so this is why people did not corrupt the Quran in that way it wasn't it wasn't a project that they could see a return on investment in so when people say are but if you problematize hadith then you by default problematize the Quran no you

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don't at all the Quran was never transmitted through a soul transmitter it was just taught on mass that's it now yes when the hadith culture takes off the hadith project becomes so powerful that it has it posed in to many other aspects of Muslim tradition so the way in hadith you have a chain so this chain and everything started to get documented over a hundred years after the Prophet so when hadith were first documented in

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the time of Umarov not elaziz hadith the chains weren't being documented but then within a decade or two after him people start to document the chains and then they started say well that person were not so sure if he's reliable or that person and that way and they did a great job of trying to scrutinize the chains but it's not infallible okay so it's still susceptible to error it's prone to error it still does have some mistakes that's why whenever a hadith clashes with the Quran or clashes with the principles of Islam we abandon that

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hadith because there's no way could have clashed with this now later on this hadith project becomes so fashionable that people start to have chains in everything you see becomes the thing it's not like it's like like I give an example you know snapchat for example has stories had stories which was so the stories that you have the 24 hour stories which are still they became so fashionable that all other social media

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outlets started to adopt stories you know a facebook Messenger as a story Instagram has a story bloody everything you know Microsoft Excel I would probably have a story so my everybody just takes up something that starts to really take off now in a similar way once the Hadees project became a dominating project which it did you see everybody even if you're learning Arabic grammar which has got nothing think about it what is Arabic grammar got to do with the chain of transmission but all of a sudden they to now have chains of transmission oh I took this from my

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teacher who took it from far ah who took it from cursory you took it from I mean it's nothing to do with you know who cares it's grammar but no we're gonna have a chain of transmission in it oh where did you learn this from I learned it from here where did you learn this poetry from I took it from him who took it from him who took it from this Imam Shafi East Point so this chain of transmission is not just as a superfluous event not as something carrying actual meaning as a trend it trickles into all other

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sciences which were just normal teaching normal thing and some were part of the living tradition so thick for example people say well if you don't have hadith how do you know how to pray because it was part of the living tradition see the living tradition predates the documentation of thick it was just what the parents told their children and it was part and parcel of the Muslim community so this fit now all of a sudden people start to have a chain in it oh where did you get it from I got it

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from him who got it from him oh wow I like this chain don't get moved and don't get it I don't want you misunderstand me I like this as a as a kind of as a décor something decorative of our legacy I like it too I obtained recently in the last few years a chain of transmission in in fact even though fit is really the chain doesn't mean really anything but it's it's nice it's a collector's item to people who are part and parcel of this tradition so what started to happen is the Quran -

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people started to transmit in chains late you got it from this guy okay I'm gonna take his name I'm gonna take his name now some people centuries later naively began to assume that the Quran was you

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to kind of right sothey i don't know why this is happening just bear with me people but so some people naively thought that because the quran has a chain as well now oh so it must have been taught only through chains the way hadith was taught that is a mistake on their part that's like saying because Arabic grammar had a chain so everybody who ever knew Arabic grammar knew it because he must have studied it all through this one guy who taught it through a chain that's ridiculous

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so I hope that shed some clarity on this on this kind of fallacy that the way hadith was transmitted is how the Quran was transmitted it was not the Quran was transmitted as part of the living tradition was transmitted on mass hadith was transmitted as a tea as an institution so people sat down and taught it so cool so I hope that explains that I did feel that that was very important to kind of cover let's let's move on people what else are we

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looking at what's going on what is going on so could the hundred and twenty four thousand prophets include prophets from the other worlds other than earth what are the worlds are you aware of where people inhabited by people so I mean I've got no idea is the Voorhis method more suitable for the West and the school of Medina no I don't think so I think the school of Medina is pretty awesome so that's but motor hubs you see

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really in all honesty our theft is so out of sync with our age we need to resync everything there's certain things that are fine but there's a small percentage we need to resync the whole all seriously we need to we need to do that okay what else has been going on people what else has been going on your opinion on whosoever swears on anything other than Allah has committed shirk you see there is a hadith that man halluf ability ler he forgot a shock but this

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it depends it depends if it's done in that religious way then it falls under kind of silk like falls under not really having you know having that true faith in God but most people who do this won't do this under a religious kind of banner like they might just say so for example people say things just out of cultural norms like they might say things like I swear on my life now they say that

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because they've heard that so often and and it just becomes an extension of a public you know usage I don't these people are not thinking when they say that that I'm saying something of like a religious ceremonial value so I don't believe that that when they do it although I wouldn't you know encourage that kind of culture of this kind of I swear on my like people say I swear my I don't know if their parents have passed away for example I swear on my parents

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grave and I swear on this and I swear on that I don't like that kind of culture I find it a very medieval kind of way of thinking and I discourage it and it's it's not and that's my understanding of its status within Islam it's not seen as a good thing but I don't think it's shirk the way people do it yes if somebody felt that you know this is a religious act now I'm taking a holy oath and my oath instead of on God will be I don't know on on you know I the holy

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planet Mars for example or Saturn this kind of stuff would be then considered but most people don't do it like that in fact I don't think yeah I don't think most people I told it like that right so okay right let's take some other questions people what else is going on I see the the YouTube in connection seems to be wave wavering I don't know I don't know what's going on today people

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I do not know I just had it up to here with this Internet company right so you the

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scripture came to reflect the human condition human beings by their very nature are dynamic human beings have and face elements of mystery in their day-to-day living and scripture would reflect that it would be equally dynamic and I do believe in something which I call super positions in the Quran based on the theory of super positions within quantum physics where particles can be at multiple positions and they have an inherent in predictably unpredictability

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about them now you can't actually be undetermined until you engage a particular particle so in a similar way I feel that human beings we have an an indeterminate stance when it comes to certain verses of the Quran and based on where we are in life and what our circumstances are that verse may give us a certain meaning okay so I call these super positions within the Quran right

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so that's so that is something that I do believe in that super position so I don't believe that all verses are always locked off with certain understandings I feel that there is some fluidity okay right I know that the connection has been impacted today yes I don't really be confused on what to do well let's try to get through this if there's some issues I can I can disconnect it and start it again but I'm hoping you guys

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[Music] right let me just send a message to I take it you guys can still see me and things like that a serious question there's some Quran followers and they're very strong arguments a lot pro hadith is video working right are they is this I is it working I think it's working now because I saw that it was rapidly kind of decline the whole Facebook thing so I wasn't really sure

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if it's if it was working so I tell you what let's try to bring some of the important things in today because I know it's for some reason it's I think the the viewing is being impacted right so right let's let's take a look people at this issue as presented by share yourself I'll call the right sorry I'm just gonna send a message that is this

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being can this be seen properly right just okay so cool all right so right so right

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okay so right okay cool let's take a look at shaky I saw oh god these horrible people the parable so Chevy Arsenal call thee dammit but a car to whom about a car to who shall we say whom Allah Leah I'll call these barakat right so so what's happened people is chef yeah Cyril Cathy has has kind of in

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one of his lectures he's given a parable on why we can't trust reason and he calls this parable the the guide a guide a name of P and in his parable he is trying to exemplify his trying to illustrate that you can only use reason to find God but once you found God reason must be suspended so that's like

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saying that God basically intelligent people are fine God doesn't mind intelligent people up until the point that they found him at that point God wants them to be dumb all right so now so God basically the following of God must be a dumb down following he can't be very not very intelligent you know you can you can be intelligent but just not very intelligent just in case you

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find a mistake tell me do these people like evidencing god I don't get this like they just like we used to have one went when I was studying in daughter hadeeth there was one of our teachers and they would be so insecure if the students had books with commentaries in front of them so I remember one of the teachers he saw this student who had I used to have books with commentaries in front of me I just that's just because they were

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the books I bought so I bought let's say if we're gonna study Sahil Bihari over brought it with a commentary or saw a Muslim I'll report it with Baba yards commentary and so I I would have brought you know brought these things so now so one of the teachers he noticed that a student had a book with with a commentary and so he said today so he whilst he's reading he wasn't a kid says to the guy he says he says a child he says LTI Agena da ba da da da so he says to him that if I if I make a mistake

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then you correct me okay like but say he said it in a very sarcastic manner he wasn't being he was trying to say to him that why honor he was trying to say to him that why on earth have you got a commentary is it must only be to catch my mistakes out so if I go wrong just correct me that's what he was trying to say and so this approach is that we can use reason but only to help us find God once we found God then being too smart too smart

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this one not nice no no no yeah both you can one day it's like the Angels will think what are we gonna do with this one he's gonna catch out all the mistakes I find this hilarious so so let's get back to yes it'll call these parable so yeah sort of call these parable is that a man

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once a man turns up to a new town Inuvik a new city where he's a stranger he there finds the most reliable guide that could show him around the town now he asks this guide who is utterly reliable he asks him that I want you to take me to take me to the most learn it the most wise the most accomplished scholar that you have in this city take me to him

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take me to him to this Mufti so where else would they go obviously to move the Apple a no that's not part of yes of God these parable so this guide who's utterly reliable takes this stranger to the you know to this Mufti who is the most learning most accomplished most talented most intelligent scholar there is in this entire city once he takes him there this scholar

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starts to give answers to this person's questions but when he begins answering the guide then tells this person ah don't listen to this Mufti he's he's actually messed up he's making mistakes so this stranger then says to this guy but aha but you told me he was the most learning so now that you've brought me to him your job is done my friend my friend is are not nice so this is the parable the

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great parable given to us by chef yes it'll all be the guy being our uncle and the mostly being God so our uncle has led us to God but now that it's letters to God we must you know stand back and not listen to this to this voice of reason ever again if it questions anything to do with God so this parable as you can imagine has so many flaws and fallacies in it let's unpack some of

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them so look first of all and what what yourself God they will play on here they will this there is there is a great con at play in these arguments people because she has a look are these not the only person to say that you shouldn't be relying on you on the voice of reason but there is a great con at play and let me explain this come to you this con since chef yasser ah de he is a sub-continental scholar from the Indian subcontinent

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in the Indian subcontinent there was a great con man great con man wants known as not werlla so let her love was such a great con man people that he sold so many things con people within India he sold the gate you know the gate of India they sold he so he sold at one point he sold the house of parliament with the parliamentarians

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in it so all great con artists or anything have been called after him in especially in that part of the world network la okay and the Great Khan of Natwarlal has like three steps to it people three steps you know this one three steps you know one step one people step one step one is the claim the Dawa okay you have to so they have to make this this claim which seems

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like war step two is they will provide you a narrative which will distract you and with that distraction step three the con comes through so what's happening here chef has an Adi is also maybe unbeknownst him maybe subconsciously he's not doing it with intention obviously we love Cavite yes sir Adi Saab

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but he's also doing the network Adi right so so what it is is they will elude people like sure here so far the other others two elements that have some truth in it so they will say things like ah but there are so many things see there are many things that are sometimes unfathomable mysteries and that's true there are some mysteries that you know appear unfathomable or that appear very elusive and that is

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true and they will refer to them Oh consciousness Oh dark energy oh you know the unknowables or certain things that are I'm not saying consciousness is definitely a noble but certain thing oh look in the Quran this her offal methought Alif LAAM Meem what does that mean nobody knows and whilst they are spinning this story of the unknowables they then smuggle through their so-called miracles that which is actually meant to be scientific

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and knowable they smuggle them through as well and this is the Great Khan the network lon Khan is taking place people is that play so it's very important if we just unpack this this example you see it's not first of all God is not like a Mufti in this parable okay Clark is connecting with his creatures with his creation okay and it's not about the unknowables we're talking about things

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that God has asked you to do he's asked you to see who feel oddly from the rule look that Allah says that traverse go through the earth and look Thunder okay for better along how did Allah begin creation walk through the earth and discover that's the verse of the Quran Allah could have said well it was like this but he tells you too that you know do they not look in a little ek for a holiday party creation how the camel was made how this happened how Allah brings

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life how this how that how plants plants emerge how you know the barren earth comes back to life do they not ponder over creation so nature is meant to be from the fathomable so when you're saying Oh you're addressing certain aspects that might be mystical that might be unknowable you can't smuggle in the knowable that this one not nice see this is part of

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the con a play so that would be like you see that that would be like in that sense if you sorry I was just seeing a message over here right so imagine a person if you gave the example a parable of something that is known like let's say arithmetic now you go to a teacher who's an excellent teacher but he's making mistakes in arithmetic not in

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something unknown in a different science you would say well actually that's a mistake because you have your sound reason it does not make the concept does not make this thing or make this person infallible now to say God wants us to use our amazing intellects to discover to say that look or why shouldn't we worship statues because it doesn't make any sense you know it doesn't add up to the voice of reason why should we turn away from polytheism it doesn't add up to the voice of reason why should we do all of this

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so Allah appeals to the voice of reason it resonates you turn up to God and then God starts telling you to do all unreasonable things or unreasonable stories once again just like the gods of old and when you question it you're told oh no now you're not allowed to use reason so this is an utter fallacy okay a lot right throughout the or an tells us to use Arthur after let out the lunar losses do not be people who use their reason

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Allah says this has a message lyonnel absorb for people who have inside this has a message literally no ha people of deep understanding the a philosopher Quran do they not ponder with the or with deep thought and reflection so Allah is inviting you to use reason so for what crime did you kill your daughter's exactly that's a good example you see when Allah says that and you know Elmo oh that is so I let behavior

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than being mortal and that you used to kill these daughters of your some of the Arabs not all the arrows for some of them used to kill their daughters at birth because they didn't want didn't want daughters now a lot calls them to reasoning but just think about it bees I mean courtland's now what did that child do this is calling you to the voice of reason think about what you were actually doing so so this kind of parable this sorry this kind of parable and this kind of

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allegory are completely absurd and they to me just reflect an insecure sentiment people who lack confidence in God because to say that God wants you to be clever but just not too clever that's the that's the craziest you know thing I've heard that just reflects an insecure that just means you haven't truly discovered God maybe you've stumbled

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upon a statue a false god a lies still yet to be found because a live not insecure of your reasoning and I tell you Islam and faith stands the test of reason you do not need to be insecure that you know people this is only the institutionalists they they they obviously fear this because they fear that they will lose control and the institutions will crumble and Islam is a natural Deena Deena Fatah and he does stand to the voice of reason to the test

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of reason it is a faith it is a faith I accept that but it is firmly rooted in reason I hope that helps people right so what else is going on let's it would be nice if you could have a dialogue with sure he has a father you would be awesome but surely our God II doesn't accept this humble if shell he also called thee if this message can reach you here so far thee share G let's have a dialogue it's good to talk let's discuss this like to civil people to intelligent people

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no seriously on a serious note I would love to have a dialogue with sure here Samadhi but I don't think chef how godly would want to have a dialogue with me because it's to some of these people unfortunately they see as a lose-lose because what if they have a dialogue with me and they may feel that what if this person you know gets the upper hand or what if this person but it's not really a like that it's just a civil friendly conversation it's not a debate it's just a dialogue friendly right so

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what is going on people right so what is going on what is going less to tackle some other questions what do we have going on I've been by the way I've been really going through a lot of history recently it's been just wow honestly this book has been an amazing book it's called Arabs the title is boring as hell it's called Arabs a 3000 year history such a boring title but the book seriously it is the second most powerful book in English that I've ever come across

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it's just wow the author you know it's Tim McIntosh Smith this guy he does not speak he casts a spell his words what is this sorcery you know this sauce honestly I'm just mesmerized by his his style it's so amazing I mean it's not audible if you're into when I'm researching and these topics so it's really resonated it could be that it's

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because of that that it's come at a time yeah you my

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pork and our right we're like now okay so all right yep sorry about that people this is supposed to be two hundred Meg's I'm on what a joke what a joke oh just the tyranny of the institutions people the tyranny of capitalism right so let's take what what were we taking a look at right any interesting questions and interesting thoughts what is bothering the people what is on your minds let me just see

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take some of these questions I don't know man this is meant to be 200 Meg it's a joke honestly it's a joke I'm gonna seriously can you do with all with soap can you do with all with soap just use water god dammit don't stress too much right and were the earliest Arabs black I mean Arabs Arabs I guess but they would have been Arabs were from

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really like the Middle East that's where they emerge from so they wouldn't have been black in that sense if that's what you mean by black if you mean skin tone I don't think they would have generally but maybe some of them would have been darker than others I don't know but the interesting thing is what does it mean to be arrow that's an interesting topic that is actually discussed in this book as well that this Arab identity is perhaps a forged identity it does not actually exist the way people think it exists that Arabs really are simply Arab of forms now people who speak this

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language called Arabic and that's an interesting discussion in and of itself really that weirdoes where do you know this Arabic language is truly a conquering language it has conquered the hearts and minds of its friends and foes seriously it has you know it has taken over and it's subsumed people into it that they then become or assume that they are also

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Arabic if you like but it's an amazing discussion in and of itself all right somebody says were was Arabia dark-skinned I don't think personally it was dark dark skin like that I don't think so that's my understanding but I mean the Arabs in essence it appears that there were people who emerged around the Middle East sorry around what may have been the Levant region today so maybe that was the origin of if we can say they have an origin but it seems to be

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that people who dispersed from there and have some loose connection genetically they have some like they share certain Apple groups from in terms of genes they dispersed they lived mainly in the Middle East and then they migrated to the Arabian Peninsula they did not emerge from the Arabian Peninsula I think that's actually a later created myth that Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula and I think that the southern Arabs the Yemenis in essence may not have been Arab but they may have been

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kind of related to the Middle East and Levant Arabs and these people but there was a project to Arriba sighs everybody and bring them and so this whole thing of Carthon I think I think was made up by people and subsumed the southern tribes the ancient south arabian tribes of hem ER and the christian and jewish tribes that existed there was mainly Christian kingdoms from way before Islam way before hundreds and hundreds of years before Islam and and like so you would have had the the queen of sheba Sabah the

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seventeen and the dam of what they say of the Mari the married dam which is mentioned referred to alluded to in the Quran those people I don't think that they were Arabs in the way we understand Arabs today but later on they were kind of brought into this identity that you too are obsessed got absorbed into it so that's my I think that and I think this whole other nine thing was made up as well to kind of rival athon and there's

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a whole broad discussion about if you look into it but yeah so if that makes much sense cool what else is going on people what's your opinion on dating ah good to see somebody watching this as god his mind in the right place dating Ali Mohammed like yeah what's going on

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about dating huh no no no no what happens when low when low takes over people as holid said ishq named nakum mccurdy Ali that love has rendered me useless what not to be admitted come Allah say otherwise you too Holly had great potential it was just never

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actualized that's all low low low let me tell you a little story on love people a historic story since we we've spoken a bit about history spoken a bit about and then Muhammad Ali here has brought up the topic of love those of you who know the Calif see this is what love can do to you people this you need to take heed you need to tread carefully so

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there was a may yet Calif by the name of Yazeed the second not use either so the famous Yazeed or the infamous Yazeed is the son of maharaja one but much after him those of you that have heard of the caliph Umar ignore tell Aziz the great Calif so he reigns for about two years now when he's given the Caliphate the is given the Caliphate he it is a double allegiance so Suleiman if dr.

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Malik is the Caliph before him who gives it to him but he gives it to him with the condition that after him it will go to his other brother so Solomon's other brother he's eat ok so and this Year's Eve is known as you see the second because you've got the first Year's Eve so you see the only rules for a few years about four years approximately and then dies but he dies the death of a lover in torment Oh so let me tell you what happened to you

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see the second you see when he wasn't the Caliph he came across he came across a slave girl a fine maiden as you do in your royal pursuits hahaha so he came across this girl called ha ha Baba some people say hey Baba but I think the actual thing was however now he he came across ha Baba and he was infatuated Allah as Beauty you know as it

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leaders to the feeble hearts of men so you see became infatuated with this slave girl so he gets her he gets her he obtains her she comes to his place but he's just one of the princes at that point so the Calif at the time was his older brother Suleiman and Suleiman was a bit of a a bit religious and a bit kind of like strict so you get now and then you'll get a strict ruler so prior to him were lead I think was it wasn't really on it like that I think it was even involved in some interesting

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affairs but so Leon was quite strict and he doesn't rule that run long but he saw that Yazeed was getting distracted by beauty so he got the this girl and he he got rid of her I mean good harmony just set her free and said you off you go get out of here you and he told his heed off that you can't kind of cut off with she this one too distracting you know so you see the second anyway he gets on with

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life now as events turn out as time unfolds he becomes the Caliph after Omar ibn Abdul Aziz and things are going smooth and he's got his palaces and he's got life and he's just chilling Oh live living life he's like I'm the Calif he's rockin it so one day he's he's asked by somebody and some stories say it was actually his wife one of his wives they asked him that do you have everything in this world is there anything is there any desire

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unfulfilled in your heart God if only women still ask these questions today say funny you should ask that I actually wrote a book it's it's only 20 volumes on so she says that is there any desire that is still unfulfilled because you've got it all Polly's lease that Kingdom and he says

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haha for my help oh Allah little happy bill oh well II uh ish camina camina this is the C so he says Ababa so she realizes okay an out of sacrificial love she gets old tracks down a Baba and brings her surprisingly women obviously that that would not happen in a 21st century scenario the

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21st century version of that story would have been that Annie was found dead in his bed in the morning he appeared that he'd slit his own throat right so this yes so she this wife of his brings him however so she says to him at one point she says well she asks him again after a while she says you know I asked you before is there any desire that you still have and he says oh you asked me this previously

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and I told you hey Baba and she says AHA and from behind the veil emerges the epitome of sublime beauty in the person of her baba Baba Beasley so you see the second is he's fly he's floating he's in cloud nine he's off is living it he can't believe it oh my god is so his soldier is over the moon this guy's like there's all that

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Bollywood background music has come on so this guy is having so he's now in a living paradise he's with hey Baba he's having the time of his life he's spending time with her and then he decides you know he's got a palace like a seclusion palace where they go off for for like you know like holidays brief holidays and things so he says I'm gonna take hey Baba with me to the palace and we're just gonna chill thee I'm gonna have the time of our life we're not to be disturbed not to be disturbed

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no do not disturb so whilst he's chillin with hey Baba in this palace having the time of his life it says that he contemplated that somebody said that can they ever be a day in a person's life which is totally total bliss can that even happen and it is said that you see ii pondered over there and thought der this is total bliss in the arms of hey Baba Baba body however deep so they're chilling and they're eating all these

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kind of exotic fruits and they have pomegranates and things like this whilst they're doing that she chokes on a seed not a metaphor here her armies on a pomegranate seed see this is the kind of crowd I get your filthy wine did we well she chokes on a pomegranate seed I'm not exactly sure they say it kind of tears her I don't think you could tear an actual could you Oh so unless it blocked

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the trachea something I don't know but she actually chokes and dies she dies people these these games not nice so in tragedy so she actually dies and you see the second is so shocked dismayed with discipline in disbelief that he refuses for anybody to remove her body so her body is in the Royal

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chambers and they say he would just embrace her hug her kiss her after a death for days on end weeks until the body began to decompose and had an obscene odor to it and smell that the other people said to him you need to get a grip of yourself and you need to let us bury the body and they say they buried it and he went and dug it up again and embraced it and hugged it and

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he just would this guy was broken and it was only a matter of maybe two weeks after that maybe three four at most and within days Yazeed the second died out of loneliness that is tragedy people this is what love can do so beware people beware for many an example has passed before you in history ich kameena

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ishka me tragic oath very very very very tragic but but I suppose the connection people have sometimes it can be that powerful but this was a king a ruler a dynasty who was not only brought to his knees but he himself died because he lost ha baba who he was deeply in love

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why Navidad iculebra Allah and as it said woman'll happy as it said in in Arabic that this and from love is that which kills Oh all right people let's refocus let's bring ourselves back right so it's getting late let's take a look at he died from heartbreak he did he did

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tragic tragic I thought I'd share that interesting story with you so that's easy the second the son of Abdul Malik who ruled I think from 101 Hijri to about 105 or something right so somebody said wasn't that the who slaughtered imam hussain oh that's Yazeed the first this is easy the second there is then a you see the third as well who comes afterwards right so right let's focus people

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okay let's take a look now I I said Allah andalusi and just have a quick discussion on this right what's going on just to bring you guys up to speed so I'd recently had a dialogue with some X Muslims and because the dialogues were quite friendly but they were quite intense they were quite deep I mean one was with Hari salt on its in order to it spanned several hours about four hours long the other was with Abdullah gondol in English both are on YouTube and that

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was for about I think over two hours as well and so but they were respectful they were civil they were kind of friendly but they were I mean they were very like I obviously had my position my angle and they had these and you know we I suppose our views were at loggerheads but we weren't as people I thought wasn't kind of hostile to them and they weren't hostile to me and and and I and I said that I I hope we can build bridges with X Muslims or anybody who has issues with Islam whether you know whether you accept the faith or

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don't we are human beings first and foremost and we should be able to at least talk and discuss and and have a human connection you know to think about it those people who embraced Islam in the early stage of Islam they went Muslim but it was because of that human connection that they connected so so I said this and some people obviously took offense amongst them was a certain law this his name is oh he goes by the name of Allah and Allah see now he made a post saying look some people are trying to say we should build bridges with X

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Muslims and so on and so forth and let it mean let it be you know let it let me be clear this is him that there's no way on earth I'll ever be friends with these people they hate Allah they hate you know he's prophet and I can never be friends with somebody that's like an act of betrayal and bla bla bla bla bla yeah so basically I don't build bridges I build walls and I kind of soak on myself in until we're so secluded that we just diminish so now I responded by saying look I strongly disagree

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I do accept that there are some people who are Islamophobes there are some people who just hate on everything they will hate religions faiths no matter what there are bigots out there unfortunately I do accept that that said I feel that there are many people out there who are X Muslims who are maybe they appear they do criticize Islam but I said is that not our own fault that we present certain things so he had said in his initial post they call our prophet a pedophile I said in my comment look you can't

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teach people that the Prophet married a six-year-old and then say when they say over that's pedophilia you you throw a fuss and say oh my god oh no you're not allowed to go sorry I'm at nine like that makes it any better that doesn't change anything so and then you get all offended that they say yeah but that's pedophilia they say no neuro is not pedophilia here NP pedophilia everywhere else but not here and you think well no that would be pedophilia because so so these people didn't get so I said look

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who's to blame because it's not even true this story is not true that I share was six years old or seven or nine this isn't nonsensical this story is miss related it is wrong right and I've got a little detailed video explaining that she was in her late teens a specific age we don't know because the Arabs would to acura documenting ages but she would have been anything at that time between it comes as anything between seventeen to nineteen it comes as some people say maybe up to twenty but that's based on all the evidence is based on all the hadith evidences in bihari another thing

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her being around from a certain time I shall being older than her elder sister her elder sisters age was so much herself being allowed to go to the battlefield when Omar even home are the son of Omar wasn't allowed and he was fourteen so she must have been much older than that and so all these kind of this a lot of and her saying that oh I remember when such a surah was revealed and it was revealed years before the hijra a monkey surah she says I used to be a young girl who could reason and understand things and I remember that surah Ange area is usually a young girl

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not like I I don't mean young like as a kid it's usually anything you could say and this is when that surah was revealed which was years before the hijra even took place and she speaks about a particular verse she says and you you might say that at that jolly is often anything let's say between eight to early teens or at least eight to twelve you would have they would call that Acharya at least now if she was that at that stage then years later when the hijra takes place how old would have she been the fact that she

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was already engaged when the proposal came according to this story because she was engaged for about three years to jebaited numata i'm now according to this story schwa she would have been engaged if she was two years old or three that's ridiculous and so this whole thing nevertheless I said look you can't be promoting you it is irresponsible of you to be promoting as a Muslim that the Prophet married a child age six and then get all worked up

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when people call that pedophilia because you are to blame first of all it's false but why are you promoting this nonsense so he then responded to me I saw the law by saying real scholarly research shows that you're wrong that I'm wrong and I Cheryl the Alana was just a little girl was like six so I

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said I said gee I said look escuchame hermano that if you when you're saying this are you simply blind following or is this your research as well because if this is your research and you're not blind following then bring me the solid undisputable chains of hadith that prove this bring them to me

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I will show you how each and every one of these chains that you bring is massively flawed it is unacceptable they have criticism you base your trying to this you're stating this as a fact based on so many problematic narrations now you might say oh I blind fall such-and-such chef said the hadith is okay also you're blind following fine if you're blind following then don't raise your voice you just a blind follower you know you can continue this kind of

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advocacy of this ridiculous propaganda pushed by Wahabis it's not only pushed by Wahabis but mainly by them and it's pushed also unfortunately by some do Bundys and some other people as well who lost their mind right and they think they're doing some kind of service to Imam Bihari you

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right I was just waiting for that to reconnect so these people feel that just so they can preserve the sanctity of Behati it's okay to throw the honor of the Prophet under the bus and that is utterly unacceptable bring me these goddamn chains that prove the eyes showers and I want something that cannot be criticized we wick chains can you bring wheat chains can you bring based on his Shan who Imam Malik refused to accept from him based on at mesh I'll tell you they don't even I'll tell you

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they rest on they rest on at mush Hisham they rest on Zuri mom coming from maqam are they rest on a booze haka severe eye all of these are floored major moodily seen a boost after severe eye much major modernly seen they blacked so many everywhere they used to pretend they heard them ah pretend you heard them a cha-cha cha-cha let's pretend look they may have been good people they may have had some reasons for why they did things

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but let's just speak facts how much I was Hakka sir bie right sorry bring me your chains let's talk hadeeth talk you want to talk a bit let's party the truth is these people haven't even studied are these they can't bring me any chains bring them jump Jaheim or car balaji whenever they want bring them let's talk I will rip these chains into pieces that they

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bring they come on lie be complex these change just because I know why they're doing it because they their allegiance to their sect they allegiance to they can't question the sanctity of a book called Sahil Hardy right so they can question the integrity of the prof it's ridiculous and all of these narrations just come from you've got they just come from Laura that's it readin the nephew of I shall of the along on her and they are either made up all these props some buddies misheard them all that this was a false

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narrative that was then spread and the reason being is because yes it is true that some people some elements in early Islam in the early first century of Islam did have issues with the wives of the Prophet and some of them fabricated stories against the wives of the Prophet especially Ayesha and they said things like she had had affairs with men and things like this and you know well I gather beloved likes on rates in Oran but still people had issues with Aisha and they made up these stories and so it's very likely if this if they can trace this back to Ottawa that Ottawa

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may have said something like this to push her age back just so it comes across no no she obviously she was way too young to have been with other men and things like this that's a possibility but they cannot prove these chains to begin with okay and then the other thing is that these people have a conflict of interest if they use these hadith to justify their own marriages to little children because they say well I sham was only nine and that's the truth

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that's the God's honest truth many of them have done that and maybe they don't I'm not saying they all do that today but that they use it as a justification and it's nonsense it's nonsense utter nonsense okay so I did say you know to a certain law andalusi and I know he was referring to your pain Institute and I say to them as well that look if this is what you're promoting you need to seriously revisit you sir okay because first of all these people

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haven't even studied Islam like that these people you know these these kind of institutes they're good for social work they do I respect chef Omar Suleiman in all the great social justice thing he does in he goes out on protests he leads protests he rallies the cries of people being discriminated against against black people suffering against Latin American people suffering they were the Native Americans in their rights and and I highly I applaud that I think that's amazing what he does but the truth is these people haven't really studied Islam to that depth you know they get

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the title shirt and stuff like this they haven't really liked they haven't studied the books like Pahadi Muslim things like this they've never really been through a formal Institute of learning they have not really qualified in any Islamic way they just give nice sermons and preach and and they're intelligent people I'm not saying they're not intelligent and then they get given a pedestal and then now because they've been put there by the institution by the clergy they back and they have to then cement the institution and most of these people were at one point anyway very Wahhabi inclined I

2:11:00

don't know about today maybe they slightly distance themselves today from that the kind of but they still that is their religion that is with the kind of views that these people kind of learnt initially about Islam and even this Asadullah I'm gonna see here is some ridiculous views on how you should kill X Muslims and apostates and he had this channel called our films and the ludicrous stuff the nutcase things that that were being said I think he he's turned away from that and it was a proper he was just basically like the

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poly man what was this about yeah this is another problem which sometimes comforts and I'm not problematizing comfort some many people who embrace Islam it's a magnificent look you guys take a step which I think seldom like IIIi don't think many Muslims would take that step if they were to exchange places so I applaud that I think it's amazing and some of them have gone out to study Islam deeply and they've made great profound changes within Muslim societies and in touch the hearts of men like

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Sheikh Hamza Yusuf who many of us are highly indebted to there's other great we've shared nor other great you know people they've converted to Islam they've done you know studied so much and done things and made great kind of pathways but then you get some people who they become very passionate about Islam because they've embraced it maybe because their background was very turbulent and they needed a cause and now they find a cause which is now oh I found a new religion and then no sooner

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do they embrace it they start teaching it to us he says manzil been upon Chelsea Restonic torch Arak Adams elliniko chal nani you know this this this the path that doesn't lead to a destination this this route is not called upon and by taking simply two or three baby steps you have not accomplished a journey you

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understand it coming Jocasta here they don't go be open on it - mojo up no copy up Nanak you know we that with this we embrace even those who are not part of us and you don't even embrace those who are us you know it's so it's so true you know it's an amazing poem that monarch is a monarch Amir hum borassi be boring he says mana Khemia

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hum - bro say be boring couch loco a chunk o be a chanak you know it's true that ok we may be so really bad and wretched and I'm not saying I'm a good person I've never made a claim of piety but they are some who even if they even if there were good people out there they won't call them good manzil been up on Chelsea Restonic door char Kadam Charlie coach Alan Annika you know this it's great that

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you've embraced Islam and done this but you know as Allah says in the Quran iam unknown aleca and Islam s anchor they do you a favor that they become Muslim so this it bothers me sometimes when I see and it's not to be faith it's not just exclusive to people who embrace this unfortunately many Muslims who tread this wretched path but my point of saying this is look this is a journey Islam is about humanity not about boxing other people off if people have a hatred

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for you meet meet it with love you understand see that is how Islam actually was spread in the early time if somebody hates on your prophet question first of all where did he get that story from because he never met the Prophet neither did I so did he just make that story up if he did inform him that that last that didn't even happen did he get it from us then we need to sit ourselves down and question what are we doing have we

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betrayed the Prophet why are we forwarding stories like this so don't you know and if if somebody to me if somebody says to me I hate Allah I hate God take it stop being you know the thing is look if you hate God it doesn't hurt God it's fine like I don't God doesn't need me to hate you this is not that's a personal journey you need to take you are still a human

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being you are still God creation you know I don't need to kill you I don't need to attack you or unleash I don't know a tsunami of abuse against you so you hate God even more so I just prove your point that religion is bigotry religion is hatred religion is this why should I prove that point I can extend a hand of humanity a bridge of compassion so let us at least be human beings on that human connection let us connect I

2:17:17

can still be friends with you I can still you know that all these people who hate know there are some people unfortunately who are just bigots they will hate anything you know it could be a beautiful picture of something in there just the Lord's it's wretched because that's the wretchedness within them that they reflect out okay many of these people atheists are people who really the issue was that they had such a great expectation of faith

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you I'm not saying this to look I I'm not saying to X Muslims or atheists that you should become Muslim I've never said

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that okay but the truth is many of these people are simply hurting okay they just you know that they wanted so much which from the faith which really was there but they couldn't reach it maybe because some people became a wall being between them and the faith so I feel that if anything if you can't if you can try to understand them they're suffering why do they have these issues

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with God at the very least just extend a hand of humanity you can be friends you can be a decent human being you don't have to hate them you don't have to kind of abuse them you don't have to kind of say oh in an ideal Islamic state I would kill in an ideal Islamic state I would kill you what kind of nonsense is that of course and then you expect them to

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then you expect them to love you of course not yeah so ah well people I hope that I hope you know these words find you know some that they that you that you can rest that they resonate with you that you find some understanding and comprehension in them insha'Allah guys let's wrap it up it's been it's getting late over here the Internet's being intermittent today I apologize for that sugar and for hacking it out for hanging bearing it with me inshallah till next week take very good care of

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yourselves if you want to reach out to me reach out to me any message Facebook Instagram if you do reach out to me on Facebook it's better Facebook Messenger is better but still either way guys Shalala till next week Salaam alaikum to light the ILA or butter cattle

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