Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth

i want to discuss the satanic verses reason being is that there was an attack on salman rushdie several days ago and in new york during a um during a conference that he was speaking at i want to first of all very clearly in categorical terms condemn this attack for the cowardice and the abomination that it is okay

islam does not teach anybody to do things like this let's just be very clear this brings nothing but it just brings absolute negativity to islam nobody is doing islam any favors by harming salman rushdie or harming someone that speaks against islam okay you have to tackle ideas and you have to speak and sure you can condemn you can speak or you want to about him

and let's be let's be real salman rushdie was out of flavor he was long forgotten his book is incredibly old it was published in the late 80s i was in primary school when the satanic verses was published 1988 i believe and it's so out of flavor it's so irrelevant now not the topic can be still discussed but has him salman i would have doubted that most younger people have even heard of him

so that is from the muslim perspective of the islamosphere the older people sure they remember they recall the book but most younger people i i doubt they would have known his name even or let alone who he was or what the satanic verses were or stuff like this so just and he's now i believe 75 years old at this age bringing this kind of trying to attack him decades and decades after he's become he's just fallen into

oblivion in a such a way that nothing does nothing but demonizes islam now and gives him the the light the limelight once again that he's now being uh nominated for you know global awards once again and his name is being put forward for unprecedented awards that he never achieved during his lifespan i i i don't see what this person um what was his name

mata something hadi matar did and it's very clear to me this is very clear to me that this person hadi matar must be suffering from mental illness it's clearly mental health and i hope that that is recognized for the mental health it is just as when these other crazy people in the united states go and shoot up cinema halls and they go and shoot secondary schools and kill all these people and e and and racist bigots that do this

and they make videos saying we're doing this for the cause for the the white cause and all of these are clearly deemed oh they're just mental health because let's face it most of these people are mental health cases but and i accept that that they are most of these people are always most of these people are mental health cases including the muslim ones it doesn't just change when they're muslim that oh the muslims are not mental health those people are nut cases too they need to be sectioned so it's not oh when they're muslim oh no now it's legitimate it's the guy knew

what he's doing and every no these people are equally cases they're clearly mentally uh they they have mental instability they have some severe mental health problems so i just want to make that clear in condemning that attack okay um

right so right now that said moving forward following this attack the satanic verses and salman rushdie its author have been now brought back into the limelight many people are discussing him people have been googling he's become one of the most googled in the last uh two weeks he has become one of the most googled entities people are trying to find out what it what was he all about what are all these things so let's discuss him let's assess

let's evaluate the book the context the history let's psychoanalyze as well what is this person's story so i did a bit of research and i have to say salman rushdie right i find this person's character and personality so abhorrent and just so full of a kind of like a negative he

gives off such a negative vibe an aura well like i this is just this is my i don't know if there's people who just if you see them you find this ah like like just negative energy about them and i really feel that with him just looking at him i sense this unease just looking at him honestly and and that seldom happens to me

um not so it's not a common thing to to see you know just to find some kind such strong negativity sense it from certain people and i sense that from salman rushdie um this the i don't know it's one of those things that's inexplicable i guess um now some people say is it about carrying trauma no not that negativity i almost sense a malice

like i look at that face and i don't sense like goodness imagine i never knew who he was and you showed me his picture and there's something you know in the hadith the prophet sallam in this hadith where he said that you find ahead in certain faces and and i guess it's it's kind of adverse thing is true as well that you sense i sense just just something very unsettling about him so me researching him this

last week or so was was with a heavy heart shall i say because there's very few people i find as unsettling as as him but i've been researching him because i thought well since i was going to speak on him that let's make it as fair as possible um i'm serious wallahi i don't know what the devil would look like but i wouldn't it's just something so devilish satanic about his face it god honestly but let's speak a bit about him so he was born as you could see in june 1947

in bombay under the british raj so where he was born it was still under british rule and it was in the following months in august that year that india and pakistan were subsequently to receive independence but when he was born he it was still under the british raj and he's there's something important to learn about salman rushdie is he was born into privilege his family were quite privileged his father was not your common kind of person his father his name was anis ahmad

was very privileged and came they were they came from money and status his father anis traveled to to the uk he studied law at cambridge he was a lawyer in that time of the british raj for the british empire later his his dad fell into some issues with um his dad fell into some um issues with the authorities over fraud and they prosecuted him and they he was kind of shamed and he left

england and went back to india and from lawyer turned into a very successful businessman and they were already very connected i mean you're talking in the british raj time where people were highly um impoverished they he came from a family of wealth and he was a muslim and used kashmiri ethnically but living in in bombay now known as mumbai and salman his son his dad adopted the name this is interesting his dad adopted the name that wasn't his name rusty was in light of his admiration for

ibn rust he was a fan of avarois of the great maliki legend from muslim spain this was his father so he adopts the name rusty his actual name was anis ahmad and so he adopts the name atleast ahmad rusty after ibn with the being for nisba and this is where salman rushdie is given the name now salman grows up very privileged he

he goes to he studies in a private school english school in bombay he then travels as a young boy to england he comes to rugby uh worcestershire sorry workshop and he he studies at a boys boarding school he lives there he always had this thing you see now the whole family had this this from uh and many people had it this inferiority complex to the angres you know the the ruling white class um and they were very much a part of those

upper class elite circles so salman rushdie always looked up to the kind of the the gora class and always wanted to be like them and he actually writes how he was very um it was to his stubborn dismay that he found some some things to be true about the gory that he never wanted to believe so he mentions that he was told and even his mother who was a teacher and obviously had married into that class as well but she wasn't as convinced of the of the gora

elite kind of british raj thing as many of the of this society that upper society was so she had told him that you know these gory they're not actually so clean and uh and she had told him this that they don't even wash their behinds when they go to the toilet and she mentioned he mentions this himself by the way at a later stage in life um she mentioned to him and they don't they're so dirty this is what she had said kind of trying to put him off because he was so obsessed with the gori

that she said you know they use each other's bath water and he mentions this in an interview much later in life and he says that i was like these people are just envious of the gorilla you know get out of here that's not true and he mentions that when he went when he came to the uk as a young boy and boarding school he came to learn that they only used tissue paper see because in india it's common this lotta to have a lotta and wash your behind and it's not just muslims like people in india do it muslims do it because the faith teaches

us that we must wash after going to the toilet but in india even hindus will wash they take the lota and you know they go out to the fields even sikh everybody in india it's common so in india he didn't believe it because it was the common thing there for indians that everybody just used that it was in all toilets aluta was always there when he came to england and in rugby he was in a boarding school he realized that they only used toilet paper and then he realized that because in the boarding school they had to bathe that they bathed in each other's they shared the bath water so he in later years admits to

this being quite a shock for him an unpleasant shock because of how he really holds even though he still doesn't he's he's kind of um half-heartedly admitting because of how much he held them in high esteem so uh so so they feel that these people they are the ultimate standard gori especially the british raj and the british rather so so he comes here he studies he goes to college here he then goes to cambridge

and does his degree in history see what's interesting is salman khan khan salman he has a very difficult relationship with his father he never got on with his dad and this is important because i feel it shaped the dynamic for his life

you see and part of the reason is that later while salman rushdie is here in the uk in boarding school when he reaches college in the 60s now his father who is very successful see his father was not i'm not aware that his father was an atheist as far as whatever i researched his father may have been critical of the mullah class and things and not liked the movies but he embraced his muslimness maybe he wasn't religious as in praying

and stuff but he embraced that he took pride in his own kind of rational islam this is why he loved ibn rush they named himself after ibn rush his father started to become more conscious of his muslim identity later in life because in the 60s whilst salman rushdie is in the uk studying his father moves from bombay to karachi in pakistan so he abandons india and moves to pakistan this always puzzled salman rusty he writes

later in life that i never like this was something he could never understand why his dad moved to pakistan like why now because partition was in 1947 why move in the 60s and it was because his father was becoming more conscious of a kind of and by muslim not to be confused with uh like a practicing islamic so it doesn't mean he became like a maulana but he started to realize that what is the status of a muslim in india now surrounded by

a majority hindu major populace so he moves this unsettled salman rashid quite a lot and he never got on with his dad and he had this bitter now it's interesting that you will see as freud explains that the authority of the father comes second to what the authority of god because god often in many of these faiths is almost portrayed as an authoritarian father figure

very clearly in christianity and although in islam we don't call allah the father but some people they present this the this not as a not as if they don't say father but this this this understanding of god that he is like a strict father almost as an as a kind of analogy that he loves his child but he will beat the child and it's interesting that in um freud's uh illusion of a future he

explains that he tries to explain it backwards in saying god is actually just the projection of the father figure onto the sky so that's how freud explains why people believe you know this whole understanding of god is people just having the image of a father and then projecting it onto the onto the heavens and that is then god so you see this this this this kind of strife this gulf this gap unsettling gap and very problematic

uh gulf between salman rusty and his dad and muslimness being an issue and his father moving to pakistan which was never salman rushdie never was happy with that when he goes back to india later in life he goes back to india he doesn't want to go back to pakistan he doesn't really want that and he never felt that this and he feels that this muslimy thing is ah just backwards and he hates his dad for it and by extension hates the faith now this is an important point in

understanding his mentality and why he always till today has this very strong being is bonnet so to speak and it's very constantly like uh has to make a point in hating on islam because it's a it's like a uh anchored in his childhood and it was something that he never truly resolved because you'll have atheists who find they don't believe in religion they may believe religion is a fast they may believe it's all stupid they may believe all these things about religion

but they're very secure in themselves they don't need to be making a song and don't need to on every event be bring it's sure to them people believe in religion maybe they think religion is dumb and stupid and nonsensical take it but they're very calm about it they have a serenity to them a calmness you'll find some atheists like that tell honesty now you can check almost i must have watched several of his interviews um you know my own

with a heavy heart i must say always disturbed he's very like he has this spitefulness towards islam as in all of his lectures in all of his sorry interviews and and he has that and you can see it in child in one of his interviews he claims that he resolved his issue with his dad in later life i think he may not have resolved it to the extent he liked to have resolved it if he resolved it at all i think this may just also be

a kind of wishful back projection uh that he kind of feels as in to bring some peace to himself claims he resolved it um i think the truth allahu allah speculation may be that this is he never actually resolved anything um and he then plays this back into his mind because you see the characters in his books with this issue even in the satanic verses uh the character saladin and we'll come to that and his issue with his father and although in the end he tries to find some reconciliation where his father is and i'll come to that

where he's he's kind of shaving his father for once and he's never had this comfort of even being able to touch his father's face and he's touching it time and time again as as the character saladin uh shaves his father and finds some kind of conciliatory peace in that and a truce but the truth is that are they or is it just what he's feeling and i think this is what's happened with salman rushdie he was the only boy in his family so he has three sisters so you can imagine from that age the

uh especially back then the image and men and they what they expect from their sons and he's only got one son and let's face it from his father being a a bright intellectual who understood philosophy and inspired by these great philosophers and ibn arush then a talented lawyer from cambridge who turns into a thriving businessman coming from this elite thing who has a son who's just doing history at cambridge what a disappointment absolutely disappointing so you can see

this dynamic between the father and son appears to have characterized salman rushdie's entire life so it's it's fascinating to to see that from a psychoanalysis perspective um and i thought i'd mention that the rest is i mean we know a lot about him look he he has written several books as salman rusty has and he had a prize for his midnight's children which is most of his books speak about things like partition between pakistan india the struggle because one of the things that you find

in salman rushdie's life is look as a child he always wanted to be this yet this inferiority complex for the gori the british raj the british the ingress he comes here and he's not truly one of them the brown kid you know he's the oh from india and he tries to he speaks well he's very very eloquent he's very articulate he tries to copy them he tries to do everything tries to shed his indian-ness almost but whilst he's shedding his indian nurse his dad leaves india to become a

pakistani this child who then resents his father has no anchorage of secure identity is he an indian is he a pakistani is he a muslim is he british this deeply troubles him right throughout his life so most of his books are him putting this into characters having identity issues and struggling which is also one of the themes of his book the satanic verses so he does get his book midnight's

children has been praised by many people and it's he received that was before satanic verses and he had an award for it he did go into once he published the satanic verses went into hiding for 10 years and lived by the alias joseph anton and we know the fatwa of to la romani against him for his death and there had been several attacks uh there had been a a failed assassination attempt on his life but his his book satanic verses which is the center of our attention right now um

very briefly i won't take too much time the book what is it about okay so the book which has 546 pages and it has these key characters gibril farishta saladin jamcha pamela lovelace reika you got mohand the last two are the point of concern okay but the story to just to bring you guys up to speed rapidly it's a novel okay and the story is about these two key characters

one is called gibril farishta and the other is saladin champcha now salman rushdie sometimes he tried to play off that oh i wasn't even speaking about islam and i don't know why these people uh he clearly knew what he's doing in other more especially later interviews he acknowledges of course it's about islam i have the right to insult islam i have the right to he feels do these things so in several in fact there's several interviews of his on youtube where he's asked by non-muslims by indians

that look but sure criticize and this is an important point here i want to say every person i i firmly believe they have the right to criticize if they don't believe in something they have the right to criticize it even if it offends but there is a difference between just criticizing and insulting now sometimes like a venn diagram sometimes there may be an overlap but not always like if i just say to you if i say to someone oh your moms are this and this

that's just insulting them i say oh i'm criticizing him no that's insulting so you see people conflate freedom of speech so in one of these things he's asked that look but you're insulting isn't there isn't there a point about showing some respect and he says why should i show respect why he says you're trying to border freedom so the person says but in india there's a law the blasphemy law and it's about showing it's hate speech is hate speech not a thing so in that lecture on youtube he says that uk and i think i'm pretty sure he's

misinformed on this but he says the uk restricts hate speech to things like racism and he says america doesn't even do that and i agree with america so in that lecture he's saying that even racism isn't really a thing which you know it just goes to show that if if there's no you know you know like the poem says not my and i mean it's it's attributed it's a hadith as well

that if there's no sense of at all that look so there's nothing so i mean would you and this is an interesting question so what if somebody spoke of the glory of pedophilia is that something that is is not problematic if somebody wrote a book glorifying uh pedophilia that they're having sexual

relationships with little children and toddlers and infants is that not an abomination it's not like this and if somebody starts writing a blog about this and promoting and saying that this is is this not of concern there are there are there will always be parameters it doesn't matter and him saying this i my american the viewers can correct this he claims in the thing that america does not have um i'm sure that's wrong he claims that under freedom under freedom of

expression in america you can make openly racist remarks and say like for example all black people are like this or people such as such people are dumb or all such and such people are he says that that's allowed in the united states he's saying in a particular conference to all these journalists and stuff so it had me a bit baffled because i'm sure that's not the case but allahu alam but in the uk clearly that's not the case you can't do things like that so this is where this person he's making a point about insulting he says i have the right to insult because it's freedom of speech

and and that's the difference between freedom to criticize and freedom of speech because i'm free to sorry freedom to insult they're two very different things that they may be an overlap but they're different things when you peripheralize them so yeah so he this is a good point that look somebody said um uh that yeah you can't say things about lgbt you can't say things about the jewish community you can't it's anti-semitism it's you know people i'm sure they get

into trouble for that even in america i'm sure they do but um so and and isn't just but that's it look let's not digress here so this is salman rusty with his point of the satanic verses so he has this story where which is a novel about these two main characters one of them is and he gives them the name gibril farishta one of them now this is him clearly knowing look furishta is not a name it means angel everybody knows that jibril farishta come on it's like saying here's the protagonist

of my story the archangel gabriel oh no but i'm just using this as a name why do you think i'm referring to the archangel gabriel it's like yeah but first of all frista is not a name in urdu nobody names their childhood just means angel and jibril is jibril so jibril farishta in his story is a bollywood actor who plays all these deities and plays these kind of characters hindu deities and he's very famous then he gets ill and he gets some kind of illness where he excretes blood from his penis and anus

and does all these really weird stuff i don't know what's going on in rush these uh salman rushdie's you know twisted mind but he is is he's obsessed with this woman reika he's having an affair but then you know she's having an affair with somebody else he's now depressed anyway he wants to give up india and move to to the uk uh and he uses a different name for the for the uk but uh he spells london as uh la out of a dowel or something he calls it like he gives it this the play on names like

london and he plays on the name but they want to come to london so okay he's on a plane with this other guy saladin jamcha who's also another unfulfilled individual and this plane crashes and the plane crashes and miraculously these two get saved but as they get saved all of uh jibril develops angelic-like qualities he becomes like a he has these wings he becomes like this kind of angel uh person and saladin uh chumcha develops horns like a goat and he develops these devilish character characteristics and then he they come to the uk

except uh jibril foreign is kind of doing his business they both miraculously survive saladin is picked up by the authorities because he looks weird now here he's bringing in the um immigrant perspective because he looks weird he gets picked up by the authorities the authorities say they don't know who he is what's his story how did he get here they can't believe his they believe there's something wrong with him they're trying to prosecute him they was in the they're putting him through all this kind of turmoil he's hoping that jabril farishta will come and vouch for him who he doesn't now so okay the story is about these two characters

now during this let's the rest of it is a lot of it is kind of you know waffling on and and he has certain interesting terms what happens is this gibril farishta has a kind of schizophrenia where he starts to believe that he is maybe there's something special about him and he is an angel maybe or not if not an angel he's somebody special god gifted god's chosen person now this jibril foreign travels back in time now it's a bit vague how he's explaining this whether he goes back in time some or whether it's he's doing it as a vision but it's he seems to just shift to this other

dimension in this dimension now this is where the satanic verses come in jabril farishta who is this character in his novel ends up on this mountain where he finds the individual mohammed mohammed is muhammad that's why he's using the prophet but he's changing the name to mohammed so he finds this person on this mount in this mount in this cave where this angelic or this person who's in the novel who saved was a former bollywood

character developed wings and can fly off and either time travel or end up in this other dimension somehow or is it a vision you know however it is but he ends up there with in a different epoch but with this mohand who's in this cave and he now in his schizophrenia jibril farishta utters these words to him mohammed thinks it's revelation and sincerely accepts it he goes back to his people preaches it his people uh embrace the message

jibril first has several other kind of dimension trips uh where he sees other things there's something going on in london and he has several dimension trips with this character aisha who's a different character in different times one time there's this character in london another point this jabril phrase that tries to go back to mohammed to tell him that actually what i told you was false it was just my schizophrenia but when he goes there he finds that the people of my house have actually embraced his message and now mohan is a powerful person and he's got these armies and you can't

resist so they try to resist and they realize that muhammad is coming to attack them so some of them hide in a brothel in a brothel there are these 12 prostitutes who uh happen to have the names which correspond with the names of the wives of the prophet now this is not look this is not academic and the and the biggest prostitute or the most popular prostitute in that brothel her name is aisha and aisha then mohammed comes and invades and aisha then marries him and she becomes the most beloved of mahan's wife and she was the most

popular prostitute and he uses the word who uh who from that brothel now you know this is utterly disgusting every there's nothing academic about oh i want to critique a religion about this now what he does put him there is he puts in there that oh um he does put in there that oh this satanic verses and he has this little play on

that um he has this play that there's some narrations and we'll come to them in a moment where some muslims said that the prophet was compromised his message or the message of the prophet was compromised because gibril got it wrong or because however they want to interpret it but that the prophet got part of the message wrong like it wasn't actually real but people accepted it these were known as the satanic verses

because they didn't come from jibril they came from satan to the prophet either to the prophet or to the people imagining that they came from the prophet so these satanic verses did impact the people so similarly in his story this jibril first is not an angelic entity he's actually somebody with almost schizophrenia and he's he can be very messed up but mohammed thinks he's an angel and therefore takes the message and then spreads it and people accept it

now when gabriel first realizes in his novel that actually i was messed up and delusional when i told you that it's too late so he's anchoring this part of the of his dimension trip or vision or whatever and his impact on muhammad on the satanic verses and he mentions them in his book this is why he calls it the satanic verses now true this is only i think about 20 pages of the book this part to do with muhammad but it's enough to show the kind of vitriolic uh spiteful

um venom that salman rushdie spews towards islam and the unimaginable harm that it does to muslims because look there is nothing and the rest of the story sure it is about just this saladin champion and this jibril first and right through to the end and the kind of other trips and the other visions so at one point you really first is picturing the imam the promised imam and it's this cult is this delusional guy who's fighting against this woman called aisha once again a bit

of a play on maybe the shia kind of thing going on there but he's using it and how the imam has all this security around him maybe that's he's nesting in maybe this that kind of maybe not but it seems to reflect a bit of that but the point is that okay he says but most of the book is a novel i mean the book is a novel sorry but most of it is just about these two characters sure but look he knows what he's doing and there's nothing about criticizing a religion in that it's just about insulting a religion it's just about being rude and offensive

because you believe you have the right to just be rude it's like i go out and i believe i have the right to just say you if you you your mom's like this you you're like this why because i believe i have the right to speak it's my right to speak no but no human society operates like that the book is just pure vile and to say that in this brothel each of these 12 women who have the names corresponding to the wives of the prophet and then the biggest amongst them to say that and then becomes the wife of

the prophet and it's yes do you see what i mean the sheer kind of hatred that this man has it's absolutely it just comes forth and you can see it from him and there's nothing this book does nothing it doesn't argue against islam it doesn't bring a point it's not about look he he makes a point in one of his conferences he says if we're not allowed to criticize religion then we where would we be sure because he's saying that look people

criticized religion and therefore they had reformations sure you've got you know you've got several reformations have taken place he speaks of in one of his conferences about copernicus okay about martin luther about the you know not martin protestants and the whole thing see sure where is your critique of islam what that you're just going to say that old the prophet was this this person who was delusional and he

you're going to call his wife the biggest prostitute that there was and you're going to say and then you're going to say it's something oh no i'm talking about the prophet what made you think i'm talking about the prophet oh and then later on he's very clear in his later interviews oh i was talking about the prophet i have the right to talk about him so now this is the so this goes to show that these things are i just want to explain give a kind of an overview of the story and and anchor in in the kind of evaluation the mental evaluation of this individual

who struggled all his life with identity that where does he belong you know coming from privilege coming from money his family were from an elite upper class in india his his dad was a successful lawyer from cambridge in the time the british raj you know coming from that but his dad still embracing his muslimness his dad's disappointment in him which baffled him he resented his father for his dad moving to pakistan because of muslims him hating this

him going back to india but not really fully fitting in where do you fit in him wanting to be british english but back then see now okay there's a lot more cultural but back then you see you you're still brown it doesn't matter it's very articulate but you're still brown and he always resents imran khan and imran khan refused to attend the conference that he was at any place imran khan had this policy that i refused to sit at any table that is so there's a an interview of salman rushdie on not an interview he speaks at one of his confidence really

you could see how hurt he is so he is about imran khan he goes oh you know when he used to be a playboy when he used to be he could see the resentment coming up now imran khan clearly had a lot more acceptance in the uk just because of how good looking he was i mean let's face it randhan's an absolute stunt so that's different

right so you got this this guy who's i mean just and you've got so a lot of these things led to his complex his issues and and then obviously i'm sure he wasn't happy about certain things muslims did as well that added to it but him thinking i this is my personal opinion i feel that he never you know with the book satanic verses i think he never expected it to get the reaction he got and he never even

wrote it for that kind of diaspora the muslim to cotton onto it i feel he longed for a fame because his family were from this elite privileged class and he wanted the kind of notoriety and he did get a book award for his midnight children because he spoke all about the the the partition and how separation and identity and not knowing where you belong and the i think his book satanic verses was firstly first and foremost a big middle finger to his own dad

it was to his father and then by extension to that kind of maybe that mullah class that he was fed up with in india because remember in india he still always reminded his name is still muslim and even if you know you're always still at some point a muslim and this is what so i think his first thing was it was almost it was this middle thing this is what i feel to his father first and foremost who he was really upset with

and and then upset that he was upset with him because to him the reason one of the reason obviously it's more that you see one of the reasons his father was upset with him is because he wanted to be this this he was doing a degree in history he wanted to be this leftist culture anti-kind of right anti-people on the right you know it's all about being new and all for freedoms and but in his interview he says this in his recent interviews that you can watch that he's gutted that the left now is hates people who criticize religion and he says this isn't how he used to be

or watched this interview he's saying you know it used to be people on the right the pope criticized me for criticizing islam now people on the left they say oh why are you criticizing islam leave them alone and he's like what's wrong with these people and he's so [Laughter] because he felt his dad saw that as a waste being on the left and he stood up for he did his degree in history which is a waste let's be honest for people from his dad's perspective that you're a businessman i've sent you to cambridge spent a lot of money on you and you're studying history what on earth are you going to do with that oh i'm going to write books

so his dad saw him as a huge disappointment and he's stood at it for this i'm championing this leftist cause and a part of this was a big fu to want to his dad and then to the right of religion which had clearly been an issue for him but as time moves forward it had this huge reaction which he wasn't expecting this hateful reaction so people start boycotting him people start don't what even if it's maybe many people don't have an issue with him but they don't want to share a stage with him because they don't want that negativity

even non-muslims like in india there's many literary people who have a muslim audience as well i'm thinking well i'm gonna you know jeopardize my audience because this guy maybe they haven't got an issue with his book but they feel so he sees all of this and as time progresses the left which he thought he was championing is anti-him because they feel he's a bigot like why are you attacking muslims so it's it's really left this guy in quite a pickle but yeah so that's um my psychoanalysis of him uh a person who really yes

he's reached this stage of life and still if you watch his interviews even in his 70s so resentful still i mean but then again you know you look at him and you can sense almost a malice an energy of unsettling ah like i mean i mean you don't even know where the forehead begins and we're

i mean now i get why he hated muslims because it's like bachara didn't know where to do wudu from he's like at what point do i start doing masa of the head is it like from here [Laughter] do i start washing the face wrong

right i'm understanding his grief now it's like the guy is like yeah i can't understand the fake of these muslims the guy got lost in he was like ah you know if only if regain was out in his time

[Laughter] just think of the tranquility you would have brought to his heart he never know he might have been like uh yeah you know finally i've had peace no let's let's focus people let's focus right so now honestly i but that you know that said seriously i this person that attacked him clearly had mental health issues but all he did was just gave him limelight this person didn't really deserve that he

deserved a hair transplant you know if salman rushdie had had reached out to me and said look listen you know i've struggled here with this hairline that i don't know where to draw the line because of this non-boundary i've lost all boundaries

because of this the lines being blurred i've all values have blurred the lines in my life i would have said yeah you know what send this bachara to turkey istanbul i would cover his transplant costs just to help him out you know maybe you know you help him skin allah gives you allah would have seen it's all about love

[Laughter] it was uh you know let's move on let's move on uh let's not get distracted by uh by the by the runway i wanted to actually discuss the satanic verses themselves so before that let's just move to some questions um right what's

uh aptly rational choice theory to religion instead of having to state back islam let's just just let all flourish let every religion compete like them sure look i'm not saying people have the right to shove religion down your throat they don't and i have no qualms i feel that people who do not people have the right to criticize things if you don't believe in something you have the right to criticize criticize it you have the right to show where it doesn't make sense but there's a difference between just being rude and insulting and between

being analytically critical about something because that has a an objective to it you see when i criticize something when i critique something when i satirize something and i show the points people can see oh yeah that makes sense when i just insult something just call their mama this uh call the wife for this call them this this is just this is just dumb it's petty it's like there's no end game to that except just like a little child i'm just um trying to get hurt you i'm trying to

but it's not yeah there's no human compassion about that so yeah let's move on to um let's move on to and this was the thing you know he he always wanted to live in the uk but it became an issue he had to go undercover he had to as he had the alias um joseph

i mean just look at that beautiful face right there does that but does that look like a jersey from all people [Laughter] god some say i am beauty i'm beauty yeah beauty is in the eye of the beholder but he is at several marriages for marriage is something beauty is in the eye of the beholder also is the bank balance

see if when looks fail bank balance makes up for it so it's not difficult to you know they say well he's had he also one of his recent marriages was a model from from india but she aptly moved on as you can see and went to a status that she felt was clearly more befitting but in the process

of bank balance this way divorce settlements so this is what happens you see these things were enough really you know for this person and i tell you something about being bitter in life it never ends well because you know there's a i um i believe it's actually nelson mandela's quote where he said harbouring bitterness against people or someone or it's like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die

[Laughter] but it's going to be within you not in them you know this as the arabic poet says that um and in another poem that is it

no but he gives the example of that they say it's like fire or that it consumes itself if it has nothing else to consume and the poet said that allah has kind of set a justice in envy and this kind of spitefulness that it begins with the person who harbors it and it kills them as in it's the end of them because they just have this bitterness that eats them up from within seriously honest there's a point here that i want to say that may allah

grant a shift to people that carry this venom inside them a bitterness may allah heal their hearts seriously let's make dua i mean because there's many people and sometimes they maybe they felt they've been wronged for some reason but um yeah may allah heal these wounding hurt hearts because they just carry that hatred throughout their lives and they hurt so many people along the way sometimes people very close to them their own children their own spouses

their own friends their own family people at large society right let's move on i mean uh is there super chat uh no i answered that yeah no i answered that let's move on to the actual satanic verses and um what were they so what are the satanic verses

in arabic so right let's just bring this up the satanic verses so let me give you the incident and then play it back to you okay now we can go by certain statements okay in makkah

in relatively early islam relatively as in a few years had been the prophet is preaching the prophet sallam recites suratu now let me just bring that up for you here it is beautiful surah after quran very it just has such an effect on you it's words it's style the kind of

rhythm that it brings with it it's very it's undeniably formidable so the prophet is right reciting surah najim that allah takes an oath by the stars or the star as it settles that your companion your person the prophet is not misguided he hasn't missed the mark or lost his track

he does not speak out of some desire to get something or from his desires it is but revelation revealed unto him the prophet is reciting this aloud

he reaches the verses as you can see verse 19 do you not see these three goddesses allah calls out three goddesses as in specifies them amongst the many they were popular deities that the pagans of makkah were worshipping

there were others as well hubble and many others but these three goddesses they're all female allah now some people and you can see the other um if you google you you can find the correlates like some people say this might have been the corolla of a particular god is it ishtar or is it these or is it that whatever uh the point is these were three popular goddesses okay

alert um [Music] i think manat was for good fortune and was for military strength and a lot i think may have been for um bringing good luck so these were like uh titans like demigods so and goddesses so allah mentions the name as you can see in verse 19.

now the prophet is reciting this the people fall into sujud they go into such that this incident is documented it is in bukhari it is in muslim it's in other books as well in other books now it doesn't say what what happened it just says that they went into sujood when these things were right now people speculated why did they do that because the pagans did weren't accepting some people said that it could be

that they were overwhelmed by the or of the surah could have been but then they didn't do this for other cases some people say that it could have been that um [Music] they saw it that that this was that in the moment they saw the validity of the message of islam i'm not so sure really that makes that that stands its way another reason could have been some ulama have said

that they did this as a respect to the names of their gods that's very possible that because they saw the muslims obviously they used to prostrate as well they understood what prostrating was when allah says [Music]

do you see these that they prostrated because the name of their god is being mentioned and to glorify their gods it's possible that actually makes quite a bit of sense now this incident up to there is documented now some people claim that when these people were asked why did you prostrate

they said that the prophet glorified our gods so we prostrate now here some people added some narrations so they said that what how is it that the prophet prostrate uh glorified your god so they say that the prophet read this what you can see on the screen there is not a verse of the quran they some people say so some allegedly allegedly this is all false by the way but this is that that allegedly said that the prophet said

till gaurani these are lofty elevated entities titans huge tycoons huge entities

and indeed the intercession will be sought on the day of judgment now this is the alleged story that the prophet said this he praised the deities and said this is the satanic verses why the satanic verses this then finds its way into this finds its way into islamic transmission people start saying there's narrations about this

once again you get certain common names they start saying yeah these narrations oh look this was said these people said the prophet said this so okay how could the prophet have said this some people very sad that oh the prophet said this because he really wanted to he wanted his people to come on board that much that he felt what if i compromised a

little bit and just praised them once and he did it and it worked and then later on he realized i made a mistake i should never have praised their gods and they said this is apparently what this verse of the quran is talking about the verse we covered today that

this verse right what's going on here that of surah hajj verse 52 that we did not send a prophet before you except that when he desired something shaytan threw onto his desire like he added to it so allah rendered it invalid

so allah then corrected the quran so this is what some people said they said well now some people then said oh nobody right yeah that's an issue so maybe what happened was the prophet was reciting surah najim he reached this point and went quiet and the shaytan spoke this in a voice people hearing thought that's the prophet's voice

and therefore they said the prophet praised our gods we've got no problem with him all of this is ridiculously absurd and utterly stupid utterly because look first of all let's let's just take a look at this and i'll show you that and i'll show you i'll bring up some of these things in a moment first of all this verse is not speaking about anything to do with that okay

this verse suratul hajj right is in the surah of hajj which is an issue of madinah the surah of hajj is to do with madina now somebody could say well this verse came before but no but the surah is from medina to start off with secondly let's okay let's see this hypothesis what's the hypothesis so the hypothesis is that the prophet first hypothesis the prophet was so keen on his people embracing islam that he decided to praise their gods

well then all he had to do was what they were saying it is well known that the early makkans had said to the prophet look just compromise a tiny bit we will give you you know the famous incident that we will give you the moon and the sun in your hands and you can marry old we'll give you all this world just tone it down a little bit they said that look we have no problem with allah just accommodate slightly for our gods this was the thing this is why they were persecuting the muslims so if the prophet was

okay to do that what was so what was going on then to start off with secondly let's just take a look at what is being said which were what statues carved out a stone what do the other sur ayat of makkah say that these statues that do they la they don't speak they're dumb they're blind they don't these are just stone carvings how inna these are such

lofty beings that they that these that these stone carvings are such lofty beings that on the day of judgment wow we can't wait for these to help you out ridiculously absurd this is why many of the ulama of islam oh sorry especially the malikiah very clearly made it very clear that look all of these things are utterly absurd they have no standing the is nerds are utterly let me just bring this

so you could see there a wakarib the maliki legend from muslim spain very clearly says people who had issues with islam he says that they just crept them in and people transmitted them now somebody could say look why did they transmit them then and this is something that uh mentions of what could been audibly mentioned later on people say tabari mentions them in his tafsir he does double he mentions them with this verse that we surah hajj

but read on tabari mentions them brings all of them and says at the end these are utterly battle utterly battle he says that these ribayats are utterly partial and they're false so by saying that loktabri brought them he didn't bring them and affirm them or say that they have validity he brought them if you read through the pages at the end in his conclusion of this verse he says that they are bartilla and

this is what called the yad side same awakening besides him and what's really fascinating and uh sorry what's what's what's also very useful to see as well is called the yard's discussion on it is amazing in the shifter see the malikia were very clear about something about the honor of the prophet salallahu because some people started to say and this is later on see some people were so committed to the hadith project that they started to say well what if it was true but it's just not that the prophet said it but that

maybe it was the shaitaan said it what if it was true now this is where cathy yad has an incredible discussion in the shift which is a uh a seerah book about the prophet saws this so one of the best discussions you see on it

and i'll bring this up they say imagine you found something a rewire that sahih but it goes against the quran that rewire would clearly be battled because the prophet could not be preaching on one hand the quran his whole life whilst teaching simultaneously that is coming through just one person saying he said this that's not he said if it was sahih it would be rejected if it contradicted the quran he says what do you and what's

what about these that are utterly weak and unacceptable and fabricated so that's something this is why i want to bring these i'll show you some of these discussions we you can see here now one of the problems was some people like was a problem here you see ibn hajj for no reason hundreds of years later 700 years we're talking after the prophet salallahu and after we're talking you

know one two centuries after khadiyah then avocado arabi and all these people and he has issues with you see it's not he doesn't have necessarily issue with quality or a workhorse but here's an issue with that school of thought the school of thought that is a hadith relativist why because ibn hajjar is an utter hadith dogmatist in fact the canonization of sahil bukhari to become the

what it is today the the the way the makam that it has the kind of cannonity of it it didn't exist before like in uh obviously sahil bukhari existed in the yards so let's say 4th century islam 5th century islam these books are there and people respect them they highly rate them it's not that they don't but it hasn't emerged to the phenomenon that people that it later becomes it becomes this it is utterly kind of

bulletproof in a way that really happens by just two people and they shafe because the shafa is hadith dogmatist they believe that if the chain is sahih nothing else matters if you bring me a sahih chain throw everything else against the wall it is it is now a fact just because one from one from one and these people are verified and the people who concretize this method who really crystallize this is first of all ibn salah but then after salah ibn salah the

real person is even he is so invested in the hadith project so invested and with sure he's got great intentions i'm not saying he's malicious or he's malignant or he's trying to spread venom he's committed to the hadith project sure and that's you know more power to you you've got a passion but sometimes you know just sometimes that as it says that mean

sometimes some passions lead you to your own destruction and i'm not saying it led ibn hajj to his destruction but this point of his was very destructive out of a kind of zid a stubbornness being upset at the yard for saying in the shift that these things are battle and even if they brought a chain throw it against the wall like we don't accept any chain that tries to disrespect our prophet he in reaction to that writes this in his fatal body he says

he says that look many chains show that this hadith has an origin so he just say look these people don't accept it however he says if a chain hadith has multiple chains even if they're weak we this shows it has a solid thing why

if i get that's the equivalent of that is saying if i got five peop if i got one person who's a liar and he says something now five people who are liars say the same thing it must therefore be right because there's five people saying but they're untrue they're not trustworthy say but now there's five but there's five untrustworth

you know if i've got a bag of money here and i say well you know i'll leave it with one but here there's five of them that is like but this but they're unreliable they're not trustworthy so how can you take unreliable people and untrust non-trustworthy people and accept them for the messenger of allah and you wouldn't accept them if they were unreliable on something let's say something very material like money but you accept these people are

unreliable but you throw a number in there now we'll accept them about allah and his messenger never now and he's upset that abu bakr ibrahim arabi and qaddad attacked the hadith kind of project on that so he says he says that i found three chains where they have the narrators of the people of the sahih india

but they don't they're not connected to the prophet now check this this is his thing back at the malik he says and then he says and he says in another point as well um that that these people accept mursal are the other accepts more because the mother of malik accepts morsel mursal is where the chain isn't connected to the prophet but the taba e says something about the prophet but he doesn't tell

you who he heard it from so he's kind of saying well these people accept mursal so why are they accepting this this is ibn hajjar's clear blind mistake that he it's and i'm not saying he he i'm not saying he did this out of malice he didn't what's ironic is he did this out of sheer passion and love for his com and his commitment to hadith the hadith project that he was so committed to the hadith

project that he didn't realize what he's saying or maybe he realized but didn't realize what he's actually saying here the absurdity the irony so you see this and just to show we'll kind of quickly go through some of these and suti does the same thing and siyuti's wording is very misleading he says

some of them the chain is but it's not you see it's just that the rijal are of the sight the sunnah there isn't a single one with the sun at sahi and there's been a lot of criticism of this sentence because he says oh and some of them the sahi no it isn't it's in the synod of people of the sahih but it's a cut chain and that too will bazaar the this one that he's trying to um that he's referring to so you can see these shafa is like ceoti is a big chef

once again very involved in the hadith project jalaladina silty now people have clearly torn these apart now they mentioned them um i'm just trying to read the end see him he says look ibna jared he brings that but he doesn't quote this is why it's so unfair he doesn't quote the end where ibrahimovic says they bottle all of these they just say oh he quotes them he does quote them but he goes on to say the

invalid so it's i don't know this passion for the hadith project siuti was really involved in trying to be the the hadith reviver of his age he really longed to be ibn hajjar in fact he says in his thing that when i went to do um uh hajj i drank from the water of zamzam and i made dua because there's a hadith that whatever you drink zamzam for you can become it it is a cure for whatever you drink he said i drank it with the intention ya love make me like his hero

and you can see his commitment maybe to that is what has kind of blinded him here i don't know but it's um but you can see here that it shows people who clearly uh critiqued analyzed and destroyed this hadith of it's called uh and and it mentions that look at said he said that people brought this because it was something that would catch

attention so many of the mufasirin put it in because it helped them uh and bhai mufasirin he doesn't mean the super popular one but he's saying but even them later on but people in the early days because it caught it sold it it went like oh my god this is like what's this so he says this this is all it is you find it in the books of tafsir says it's he does bring it but he clearly refutes it and uh does mention that

he said look this is clearly anybody investigates this is fabricated it's haram to be transmitting this to be saying this and check you know the beauty check the surah that they fabricated this in they fabricate this in surah najam which allah begins surah najam by saying

the verse the surah they begin this with is the one where allah says that how can this be fabricate this that this is revelation he does not come up with anything there's a verse of the quran that allah says if he was to fabricate something that we would have seized him and he would have we would have uh he would have had such a tormenting punishment in several places of the quran allah is saying that this is from allah revelation and that allah says in another verse

which which ironically is surah allah says that the shaitaan will say on the day of judgment i had no power over you i couldn't physically do anything for you in the mother auto comfort stage i just whispered and you responded shaytan does not have the power to be talking impersonating your voice this is what qadha yad mentions this is what ibn arabi mentions this is why they say look this is absurd on every level so let's

uh move back through some of these siuti mentions this this was the problem with some of these people mention this now some of the people who do speak and condemn it clearly and show you that even the cathedrals he says in he says that yes people have built the foundation the hustle of this incident they're basing it on what is in bukhari and muslim about the prophet was reading surah najim and people prostrated mentions nothing about this stuff he says

this is not there is the incident that the prophet was it just says the prophet was reading surah najim and everybody in the haram prostrated including the kuffar of quraysh now look at them now just moving on this is what abu bakr ibn army says and this is so important he says he says

make the quran always your center not these one narrations the do not parameterize the quran with non-quran where has allah said these things where is how are you putting this in there just as speculation he says

and he says well look why has this crept through then he says well people have mentioned it but like anything allah has given you an intellect and the tradition has reached you the quran has reached you read it don't blindly just follow and if you see this as a test then it is a test investigate it and see it

so and we've got here some let me bring up some right okay this is uh from actually albani has a very interesting book uh dedicated to the ranik i think it's called uh manjani or something phil and he shows the whole fabrication but he brings many interesting he brings a lot of cardi because khadiyah is one of the most the maliki legend one of the most outspoken of wikileaks one of the most outspoken in fact uh just copies and pastes almost a lot of what even audrey had to say

but albany does bring other people he brings these dissenting or these kind of weird voices and and here is um you can see this is uh citing uh now this on the right hand side um he says look at so he's mentioning look how certain verses of the quran then it doesn't make sense allah is saying this and he says look the quran is showing you that this couldn't be true like how could the prophet come from how could

the prophet praise stone and at the same time be condemning stone as the these these statues are useless he says if there was something like that now you move to the second page the one on the left hand side these rewa if there was something that contradicted the quran he says hadith these verses would weaken the hadith law if they were sahih if the hadith was sahih and it clashed with the quran it would weaken the hadith see that's the the principle if the hadith was sahih and he contradicted the

quran he says you can see there he says if the hadith had it been sahih it would have weakened it if it clashed with the verses so what do you think about something that isn't even sahih so and then he goes on mentions more verses of the quran and he says look uh that many of the people of quraysh and zakrif um they would say uh that look please do this for us please do that for it

this this is antithetical to the entire message of islam and the whole struggle of the prophet what was the struggle then because clearly there was a struggle so it doesn't they're just showing the absurdity uh this is actually ibra tamir now this is the problem you see you've got ibn tamir here giving his discussion in his fata much more uh and i'll i'll just explain what this is this is muhammad ibn abdul wahab in his book says

but he didn't mean to say it and um and allah corrected it so and and so you've got uh ibn samia saying the same thing except ibn tamir also is inclined to saying well the story is true the prophet um this was said the prophet either he said it the shaitaan put it on his tongue and he said it all the the the prophet was silent and the shaitaan impersonated the prophet's voice and people thought the prophet said it so if the tamiya is saying that

that wheel that he's coming with that muhammad is just saying the shaitaan just put it on the prophet's tongue ibn hajjar is probably going to the fact that the shaitaan said it and impersonated but he's saying look there's some story it's got some truth to it because of the hadith project isn't investment look this is where it comes back and this is where once again you've got at the end the ibn huzzah one of the great who very early in islam who was just really just after the time of imam bukhari he just passes away in the 300s

you know just a generation i believe he's yeah just a generation or two after the after imam bukhari so him at that stage saying that when he's a major hadith uh collector he has his sahih which is called saying he says look it's clearly people who look they were look there were issues as well it is true it's not always but they have look there's always been some people who will let's say go with the flow it's that

in any given time are against the the the overarching uh authority so you will find many places where even in the past you'll find uh in muslim lands there will be certain people who let's say their father embraced islam they don't really like it but they just don't want to make a hoo-ha because maybe they worry in that day and age as you can imagine a bit of lawlessness here and there and people are afraid today of blasphemy so back then so you get these were people that they used to call zindiq that they weren't really muslim

but they were just going with the flow and and just being muslim and some of them maybe they were muslim but brought in the other cultural stuff that was part of their baggage so let's say they were christian before so they bring a bit more christianity into islam some of them were jewish before they bring a bit more of that jewish element into islam some of them maybe don't like islam some of them were zoroastrian so they bring about a bit of that zoroastrianism into islam and they get a chance to transmit and they transmit it sometimes maybe innocently sometimes false memories sometimes they're mishearing sometimes maybe intentionally maliciously

there have been several narrations where people own up to making up hadith several incidents where people say i uh to so many hadith i fabricated so many hadith because i thought it was good for such and such many people say that i mean not many but there's several people who have said that that i fabricated such and such hadith to defend such and such cause so very early on you had great hadith specialists of the caliber of imam buhari ibn khuzeiman just a generation two after him very early on in islam who clearly said look this was

people who weren't happy with islam just kind of built on that story that was about all the people prostrating and people said why would you believe it because the prophet actually compromised for a few days and or the shaitaan deceived the prophet and then the prophet later on re learned oh oh my god this wasn't the jibril this was the the prophet the angel sorry this was the devil that told me this or the prophet went quiet and the devil spoke impersonated the prophet's voice and read utterly just ridiculously absurd and totally

stupid but then you had some people that made a huge mistake and look amongst them is ibn hajjal it's even a team here it's people like muhammad ibn abdullah it's yoti and these okay especially and hypnotamia that in their own way they done a lot for islam as well like they've done a lot for islam most of what they've done has been has been a huge effort in the legacy of islam

okay at least definitely these two i would say samia has done a certain amount as well certain amount i don't but a huge amount of legacy i know to the salafia he's done a huge amount to the rest of the muslims he's he's he's kind of he's done a certain amount but he's not to the other muslims he's not as huge as he is to the salafis to the salafis he is their go-to imam that's it there is nothing other than greater than hypnotamia to the extent that certain scholars of the salafi have said that if it wasn't for sahaba the companionship of the prophet he excels

above certain companions of the prophet that's as absurd as you can imagine as the statement gets but that's for their blind following and blind love of ibn samia sure and he has done certain things for islam unquestionably you know not knocking he has done certain things for islam and he'd obviously dedicated his life these three they've definitely contributed to the contributed to the legacy of islam they have muhammad not so much but the the if anything the

detriment of islam is probably harmed islam and the people but the and he was not really a scholar of any caliber writer muhammad i know the uh wahhabi and the salafi obviously rate him but there's nothing really to demonstrate his his kind of core understanding or i don't know i understand but his um his kind of like depth of grasping because ultimately he was just a bedouin he was just a bedouin who was very zealous about islam he had a great passion for islam that's unquestionable he had you know a great but he had a

misplaced passion like his passion was very passionate about islam wanted to do something but ended up doing a lot of harm just kind of fought against the ottomans murdered genocide of normal regular sunni muslims who declared mushriks because they they were sufis and he killed people that came to the hajj uh declared them kuffar raided them took their women raped them that kind of stuff said it's halal because they're mushriks and a lot of really that that you know the the kind of isis image

that's that's where it's stemming from muhammad but if you want to learn more about him i know um maybe excessively uh bro has got a lot of a long series of videos about muhammad abdul wahab on youtube personally i don't know why he's got that many videos dedicated to muhammad look to me these are just facts of how he was sure people admire him and i think maybe many people don't know about the things he he did in their depth so that's why they

they just hear of him as a great person so because of that they think oh he's a great person so that's fine and to me it's there's no point in being obsessed about people because as the quran says these are nations that have gone they have you know they whatever they put forward they received whatever you put forward you will receive like don't be listen this so this is not about me trying to attack

[Music] most scholars in islam have contributed to the legacy of islam but some of them many of them okay let's back that up they're all humans so they've all made mistakes you're making mistake i'm making mistakes we're all making mistakes some more than others and some more grave than others and it may be that their mistakes were their grave mistakes were just one-offs tk we're not here to judge them i'm not here to say

uh ibrahim was a no i i personally as a person as a scholar for his efforts and his thing that was a great person i love reading his stuff at times i love childhood stuff is great i mean his stuff speaking at times about the love for the prophet salallahu is great and amazing his love for the appearance of the prophet he has a book that the parents of the prophet anybody who says anything bad about them is unacceptable showing his love for the prophet islam these people love the prophet don't i'm not saying that they but on this point we always defend the prophets the honor

of the prophet above any individual it doesn't matter if it's ibn hajjar it doesn't matter if it's suti it doesn't matter if it's hypnothemia they were wrong even if they had good intentions they were wrong shaytan does not impersonate the voice of the prophet shaitaan does not put the words on the tongue of the prophet salallahu

so the this is why this point is anchored into when i said my whole thing on boharike as well even though this hadith is not in bukhari but it's that same concept in saying look when you come across something that tries to sling mud on the character of the prophet sallallahu and it's in a book this incident is not in the the quranic thing satanic verse is not in sal bukhari in any of the sahih books

or any of the major books but if you find an incident that is doing that your loyalty is first and foremost with the prophet salallahu not with this great mahadev great person he may be maybe a great human being but he's not the prophet you don't owe him any loyalty don't think tomorrow this mahathir this faker this scholar is going to be upset with me i mean i mean a classical scholar oh but if i don't defend him no what what on earth is that about they

couldn't care less imam malik's famous statement somebody said something to imam malik and even his own opinions sometimes he would change his own opinions people sometimes say to him look what about you you said this once trying to catch him out he said because imam malik would for a certain while teaching the prophet's mosque he was in he lived in madina he said

every single person you take from them and you leave from them you accept and you reject at times and he points to the prophet's tomb he said illah accept the one who rests here the prophet salallahu nobody else everybody else we respect you know we we can love them we can we don't need to be disrespectful look i

and i said this before i accept even delivery i i accept that i've my way of saying things in the past i've tried to emphasize this message that the honor of the prophet always comes first i think that i've been mistaken in the way i've said it maybe it's put it's made people react to me saying it and they've doubled down and so we're all learning you know this is a journey we're all on it you know we're all on the same thing it's our own journey but we're all on the same path it is the honor of the prophet salallahu it is not it is it is not up

for question it is not it isn't it is not something that oh if we had to choose between a mahadith or a great imam or any imam anybody imam malik people like imam malik and abu hanifa were from the very early islam they were never in these kind of controversies they had like the utmost love for the prophet i mean imam malik wouldn't in the inner part of medina he would never wear shoes in that part of medina he said that this this is where the prophet salallahu his foot had said had

he had walked on these streets on this soil that dear eye he refused to ride a horse or any whether it was a mule or anything inside the inner part of medina said no i won't do it this is where the prophet walked out of love for the prophet salallahu so when we see these things it's it's just it's this is just a reminder okay i really wanted to recover it because of why it was relevant the whole satanic verses what is it an overview of salman rushdie sorry [Music] not not any

to him but to uh because the name is actually not his surname as i mentioned it's actually an affiliation decided by his father to the great maliki so an overview of him a psychoanalysis on why he may have authored that book his lifestyle his way of thinking what his book was about the kind of characters the novel why it was blasphemous we covered that it wasn't just that he was critiquing islam he has the right to critique islam any person doesn't accept islam or believe in islam or anything you if you don't believe in something you have the right to critique it

but let's not conflate that with i just have a free license to insult you i can just swear at you i can just call your mom this and this and this and this just because i have the right to to wag my tongue and i have to i have the ability to do it that's not how human societies are built you know people say oh the human society this is democracy no it isn't democracy is showing people courtesy that they get a choice in things you see just coming out just saying democracy is my right to just swear at

people and insult them and insult them no it isn't that's that sure that's a very twisted way of looking at it but then what were these satanic verses in arabic called okay hadith so we looked at that we looked at where um first of all how these were utterly false and there were a story that was uh scaffolded uh it was on the base of an incident of surah najam where the where everybody in the haram

prostrate prostate prost prostrates and the question was why did they do that so some later people gave an explanation this start to attach it to this verse of the quran which we covered in the beginning about the verse being that it's nothing about that the verse is a general verse and it gives meaning it gives strength to people it reminds us that look sometimes when we have certain wishes some wishes can derail us some wishes we can be we need to focus always on the present and the future and we gain strength

from that so we are taking a look at verse 52 from and some of us serene just saw the the trade cells they had to start putting this in but tabari even though he put it in but he mentions at the end all these are before him the um or around his time his kind of era in the 300s you've got ibnakozema mentioning it's absolutely fabricated from people

then you've got goddamn you've got many we showed many people many people showing this is utterly unacceptable it's disrespectful it's blasphemous it's haram it's like a jews they said you know you can't say this kind of stuff but yes you had some people who were so um committed to the is nad project of chain that they felt you can't just dismiss any chains even if they're weak because they invested in the project like even hajjar and

after himsuti and you also had ibn samia now they said well in that case we're going to say this has some basis which was actually incoherent because even by their principles by the way the shaffer is to do not accept mursal so the rewayats that are not connected at the end they don't accept the masahi so for him to say that oh but i suppose he's saying that well uh i accept they're all weak but because there's several we're going to say it has a basis but if it has a basis are you going to say well it has some basis based on okay these people prostrated we don't know why

or you're saying well no this incident actually happened and then they start justifying that which was absolutely unwarranted but they did it but that's fine i mean okay it's not fine but it's them and we don't need to blindly follow them they did it they were wrong and you've got clear explanations got lengthy anybody wants to read can read detailed explanation i advise you for further reading you can read the shifter this section of qadhafi's which he cites is a very similar to avocado artery if you want a very good and more recent

several books albany's book on this it's actually really fascinating because he's bringing all these people he's bringing he brings him to me as well and he brings uh called the earth he brings our work he clearly shows that this is unacceptable this is utterly unacceptable we can't be saying things like this so that's the summary of what this hadith is and the satanic verses i hope inshallah for anyone that want to have a certain grasp on the topic this has been helpful cool