Permissibilty to seek mercy from Allah for non-muslims who have died - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossaryso there's Stephen Hawking's thing people so those of you that know all right so this Stephen Hawking's thing is so Stephen Hawking's passed away and I made a post and if other Muslims did where they said something like like I like a nice word like rest in peace or they said something like like I said may Allah have mercy on him
so okay right so now so he's just trying to read some questions now people really you know threw a fit and said oh my god oh my god you know this car filled eyes and people are making dua for him he was an atheist and he didn't even believe in God first of all let's clarify this question I'm not saying but I'm not saying that he's who's gonna go to heaven nobody can say that my belief and that
of the majority of Muslims a Dina Rousey say states in and many most I mean you'll find this in the iShare era books you'll find this in in most Muslim books that Allah can send anybody to heaven he can send anybody to hell he can reward anybody can punish anybody be the micariff or be the Muslim he can do that with anybody that is a loss Audra he has that power nobody disputes that and I never said a lot you better do this or you have to do this and I never said in my DA oh I hope Allah gives him an elevating my arm in general something like this I never said
that I said that may Allah have mercy on him asking for mercy this masala of what they call a Torah in Arabic seeking Rama Oh Catherine LL Cool for seeking a ladle Muslim in seeking Rama non-muslims is this problematic and many people jump to this is you can't do this you can't because in the Quran this this verse and this this and they and they quote the verse of the Quran that were my canister faro Ibrahim Ali ABI he alarm or editing wada
who either ha year that and Ibrahim did not seek forgiveness for his father except for a set period which he promised and then they used and more so they used the verse of the Quran that were mark anna-lena beaten when my kennel in Abbeville Adina am Anu and yourself a role in motion Akina it was not it's not befitting for Allah and his and the people who sorry it's not befitting for a lost messenger the prophet salallahu alaihe salam and those who believe to seek forgiveness for the mushrikeen minbar deimata bayon Allah
whom after it becomes evident and manifest and clear 2 billion lon unknown mean ossible Jaheim that they are from the people of their of the Hellfire now people were using this these verses to say that you cannot seek forgiveness or you cannot seek mercy for people like Stephen Hawking now this is not true because look yes I accept that can be an interpretation I accept that and interpretation I accept the
interpretation I believe it to be wrong I believe it to be inaccurate you ask me why we know from the Quran that yes the father law uses the word father of ibrahim alaih-is-salaam now some people say he wasn't his father wasn't Allah uses the word father that his father disbelieved and opposed him and was a sponge kind of opposition during his time now in this surah allah says wama kana stefarr Ibrahim and he only did this for a promise time he sought forgiveness for him
that's it was this during his lifetime of the Father or after his death now I would argue and I'll show you in a moment from the piranha that was during his father's lifetime why do I believe this because the priority of the prophets was to prioritize they that one they were not to kind of get sidetracked in just seeking forgiveness for people who were opposing lead our especially key figures who were then tormenting the
followers because that confuses and compromises the dawa you see it's different like like let's say in the prophets time abu jahil he's one of the key figures who is standing and opposing the prophet but whilst opposing the prophet he's also punishing muslims these weak and poor muslims is having them tortured he's encouraging that people should kind of torment them for the Prophet - now focus for the Prophet - now focus on Abu jahil and start making dua for him start
making dua for him would compromise the message of Islam with its believers just as it would for Ibrahim Ali Salah right those of you just tuning in if you can click share I'd like you to share this we're discussing the Stephen Hawking's thing about iman right now people I'm gonna take you to the Quran people mentioned ibrahim alaih-is-salaam i think that's beautiful that they've mentioned Ibrahim Ali Salim why because Ibrahim is the perfect example alayhis-salam right guys those of you just tuning in if you can click
like and click share right now let's go to surah Ibrahim the surah Ibrahim in surah Ibrahim which is dedicated to Ibrahim Allison and he speaks about many things but in the Ibrahim making da okay Ibrahim says Ali Salam what is honor Ibrahim and when Ibrahim said and this is later on in his age when he's an old man now look he's moved to Makkah this is much later he's moved to Makai he's re-established the Kaaba with his
children and he says well if allah' ibraheem arabic al hurdle Valletta a mannan oh allah make this land Makkah a safe haven word look beneath Majnu boniva Bonita and a bottle a snot and save me I'd say right guys if you can stay focused please do not digress in the comments otherwise you will get blocked those of you just tuning in if you can click share get this out they were discussing the Steven Hawkings issue and saying and seeking mercy for
non-muslims is that permissible or not he says oh Allah and protect me and my offspring that we should worship idols a rugby in na hoona of the line like a theorem in earnest Oh a lot they have misled many people ferment a bear I need for in the home in me whosoever follows me then he is from amongst me woman Hasani for in Nutella for whosoever disobeys me and look what he look what he goes to whosoever disobeys this now
ur in Makaha for arrival you are most forgiving most merciful let's not stop here people will say yeah but that's only during their lifetime he never said that but I never said that but let's read on he says rub bana india's consumed in the real TB word invaded Iran in the vertical Muharram robbed an ally of him o salafi i love a determiner sita we lay him wars of hominis a Marathi la la coruna is say about a live settle my offspring here you know make people's hearts kind of come towards the city McCann it makes
to half of that then he says that you know Allah what we hide and what we express alhamdulillah they were heavily a little kibble is Milo is hot in Nairobi Lhasa Myeongdong all praise be to Allah who gave me now listen this is old age how do we know it's old age listen to his the are alhamdulillah lady what all praise be to Allah who granted me a smile and his heart at this old age he's saying that indeed Allah responds to the doors rubbish all Nemo tea masala women do Realty o Allah make me somebody
who establishes the free and my offspring rubber now with a bubble tire rub and a fiddly our love forgive me while he worried there and my parents he's making this door it's in the Quran in his old age why little mock me Nina yo may Akuma Liza I'm for the believers on the day that the judgment shall be established he is saying Rob enough fiddly Wally Wally they yeah people say oh he must have said that when he was
young the verse before it says al hamdulillah they were happily smile always have a little keeper that all preview what Hibernia a little keeper who gave me despite my old age is myelin his Hawk in arabela semi-auto indeed my lord he is the praise rubbish al límite masala make me and my offspring he goes to his offspring and then his parents his parents had died a long time ago this is the Quran I show you I'm not making this up this is the Quran
Udina Razi when doing a trial commentary on that mentions as the first point he gives three interpretations he says oh this initially there's a problem because Tim wasn't his father a Coffield he says well there's three responses the first response he says because maybe it's Ibrahim Ali Salam then understands that's not Haram then you can do that you can do that he says that's the I'm not making this stuff up and then he gives other interpretations oh they say maybe he was making dua for Adam and Eve come on look guys and then other morph
Assyrian say he was making dua for Adam and Eve Adam was a prophet we need to get off this thing of Adam being sinful Adam being sinful why do we keep thinking Adam was sinful Adam was a prophet for God's sake he was a prophet of God you know like we don't need to keep making dua for Adam Ali sallam he was a prophet of God so you know we don't have this first original sin concept from Christianity this now these are I've shown you clear proofs this is from the Quran people and people say oh what about Abu Talib Abu Talib yes you
know about abu talib radiyallahu anh if you want to accept that he was Muslim I personally in my understanding feel that like I I feel it isn't convincing that he died a non-muslim right if you look at the hadith that that they bring in bihari they bring three hadith about a believer been passing away as a non-muslim all Muslims agree that Abu Talib was the source of strength for our Prophet that once he was alive Islam was protected with his death the Prophet was
deeply troubled because the Muslims became vulnerable and they were attacked now look I'm not I accept that mutton most Muslims sorry most Sunni Muslims generally accept that he didn't he wasn't a Muslim but I feel that that is debatable why because look when you look at the hadith that they bring they bring these hadith saying that look oh there's a verse of the and they say things like in that there's a hadith in sahih muslim by abu huraira that in Nicoletta demon are baptized you
cannot guide who you want to love Allah says this and Abu Huraira says this was revealed about Abu Talib but that's problematic first of all the chain has a problematic Rahui india's aided in the case on but put that aside Abu Hurairah wasn't even a Muslim when the incident of a battalion happened and this verse was revealed so it doesn't even make any sense so he's obviously telling this from somebody else so and then there's another hadith that and this happens by the way you know these a spot they bring these verses and they say you know us Bible knows all the reasons for Revelation but the reasons for revelation are highly disputed look I'll give you one in Buhari this is a hadith
in Bukhari that from the story of use of a leaves and I'm sure he - ah he don't mean I I mean shy he - I need them in alia that a witness testified from it's from her family now in Buhari they say this was to do with art aliveness Allah who was a Jewish person became Muslim that's inside Bukhari shall be rejected that so harshly and he said that how could that be he became a Muslim in Medina this verse was revealed in Makkah and he said that this rewire of abdomen or made who by the way is one of the people who transmits Jesus a second coming he says
that this is unacceptable because this person became a Muslim in Medina this verse was already revealed in Makkah now my point of saying this is that look even the hadith in Sahih Muslim in sahih hain showed this a hadith in Sahin in Bukhari and Muslim that the Prophet said unloads on Felucia party Yama niyama that maybe my maybe my intercession will help him on the day of judgement so his punishment is lessened it becomes less that's inside Muslim it's inside Bihari but when you look at the Quran Allah says now you have to for unhuman either be her that the adapt cannot be lessened that it can't be reduced
voila after no one whom it does not be reduced for them and in another hadith let and far the Kafar return from chef at sous chef Alain the people who intercede for coffe re will not be accepted now you're saying that Abu Talib's punishment is reduced because the Prophet interceded well that shows that it worked now all I'm saying is look I'm look whether a person wants to believe that Abu Talib was a Muslim or not a Muslim it's up to them I'm not saying that people have to believe this I have to believe that I'm not you know forcefully kind of pushing this I myself I'm not convinced that he was not a Muslim like
I think he most likely was because why would he so passionately spend his life defending the Prophet and defend or you could say because he's a relative but he defended Islam to that extent that it had so much strength and his famous poem even the Prophet would have it recited that that but I mean he's kind of support for Islam so I'm inclined towards the understanding that I think he did have faith and I think his last words when he said I died upon the understanding of Abdul Muttalib is because after mother leave was from the people of Fatah of the Muttalib is not from the people
of hellfire I think that look but I this more importantly if people want to they can believe what they want I'm not imposing my understanding on anybody but what I would say is that look let's stop obsessing with heaven and hell for other people judgment is for Allah judgment is for Allah okay we need to kind of chill out with this out and asking for mercy for somebody doesn't mean God has to grant it's up to God may Allah have mercy Allah my Allah my not we all every you know the creatures ants anything animals we all belong to God
what Allah can't have mercy on us a lot kind of mercy on us if we are alive can't why not if we're dead people say yeah but Stephen Hawkings never accepted God of course he didn't let's be honest well llahi let's be honest for a moment we would not accept Islam if we were were not born Muslim let's be honest like if I wasn't born Muslim if I wasn't born in a Muslim family that's what I being born Muslim in a Muslim family and brought up as a Muslim would you really accept Islam and I had this awesome conversation this day with with dr.
Imran from Birmingham Metroflex Jim and it was really Slim's behave like let's say it's Juma they block all the roads like let's be honest if you were a white person growing up in this country who was not privileged you would probably be part of the EDL you probably be a llama phobic and racist because you think look every time I try to drive past when it's Friday they block the roads what use is that Jamar if you're gonna cause inconvenience to people but my point I'm not trying to attack a single point of John I'm trying to say let's be honest we seem to have this kind of Baptist culture that just because we've said la
ilaha illa-llah wait god save children we can do whatever the hell we want muslims have got huge problems in this country we've run a huge part of the drug industry in this country in the UK muslims they've run huge parts of the kind of sex care and gang grooming kind of things they are heavily involved in whatever usually recently recent times acts of terrorism and stuff like they are a huge crime rate massively kind of unjust amongst ourselves like just being honest like we do massive tax evasion we do massive claim benefits we steal were massively unethical look I'm
not saying I'm so epical I'm an angel I'm just being honest for a moment right we're all about you know just living that life and Muslims that we're a small proportion yet we make a huge proportion within prisons disproportionately Muslims now the question is why would you be Muslim it hasn't you know like we've got this kind of Baptist culture like you baptize a child now he's saved it doesn't matter he's definitely going to heaven now because they baptized him as a child oh he said la-la-la-la Mohammed or solo he's definitely going to heaven this cafe who helped humanity did all of these things they're definitely going to hell and I think another reason we do this is to make
ourselves feel better right guys I think I'm running out of battery so I'm gonna have to kind of all this to a name the reason we do this is to make ourselves feel better because we think that it's not fair other Muslims who are practicing thing why did I have to quit doing all of this and this Muslim got non-muslim got to chill out go around have all these sexual liaisons or do this or drink alcohol or chill and he gets to go to heaven hmm I never got to do that mmm you know and it's not fair well guess what right you haven't been shortchanged you still get your reward why are you angry for other people if Allah is merciful to
them in a widely matobo year for worse unless the Prophet said why do you hold true something that is sold out and this by the way what I've said is the fatwa of that lifestyle mystery if you go to their website the great data lifter of Egypt and he is Sheikh Ali Al Jeffrey is on YouTube we can go there sharing a platform with Osama say it and these are grown kind of scholars and Muftis within Egypt today and the world they are saying the same thing you can say may Allah have mercy on them as an you don't pray their janazah of course they want Muslim but you can say that it's up to a life he chooses to do that
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