Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 25

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All right. Mhm. All right, folks. Just give me a shout if you can hear me. Okay. Salam Omar. Amin. How you doing? Momo.

All right. See, we're in an age of immediacy. where there's a sense of salam. We're in an age of immediacy, the sense of urgency.

Things need to be um all right. So, what's this? Things need to be there. And then this is uh it's the curse of the age, right?

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Anyway, so let's see what's going down people. What are some of these questions? Godamn. Question one, did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam encourage attaining felicity or rather in ways not related to Allah or Islam?

Or is is it always instructed to somehow tether whatever you did back to the dean? Mustapa, is that you Mustapa? Is that you with the question of felicity? All right. So, well, it depends what you mean by this in general when you're saying felicity.

Uh depends who you've got in mind. So, the thing is if we're talking about general happiness, the pursuit of happiness people, well, that's according to the Americans, that's our birthright. But the thing is look that's something which um Islam allows.

I don't think the dean speaks too much about things like that. I don't think it um is kind of trying to say um you know who people get out there get into the pursuit of happiness and things like although I think that that is the part of the message of Islam. I do believe that but I don't think the dean back then was saying that.

Had of the dean been revealed today it would be highlighting things like this but back then I think you've got to look at the kind of Maslo's hierarchy if you like. It was more about survival. uh it things were a lot more tough and obviously speaking to people then you're not going to make your message all about this state of mind of being happy and all these kind of things because although people would love that but they are in slightly more tense times so the message aimed at them had a certain

focus to it although this is you know Islam is all up for I mean it's it's down with people up or down or whatever you want to say with people um you know pursuing what makes them happy. Okay. Of course. Of course they should be and it's not always an Islamic thing. I mean people I don't know why they think they think that um everything is like somehow listed in the Quran and Sunnah like uh um I don't know I've got a problem.

Uh let me go to the Quran and Sunnah. Well you know I don't know how to tax my vehicle. Let me go to the Quran and Sunnah. What does the Quran and Sunnah say about this? Well the Quran and Sunnah just say live your life. God damn it. You know, you should have that much sensibility to be able to live as a normal human being. Um that's therefore matters of the dean.

Okay. Then you have a huge realm which is the dunya, your life. You can live it. There's no uh live it. Do whatever makes you happy. All right. Live your life, man. What's life if not lived? Talk to me people. Talk to me. What is life if not lived? Okay. So um and this thing of you know this like is this Islamic?

Is this Islamic? This is a very recent phenomenon by the way. You know this is a very us people 21st century recreating Islam and superimposing it onto everything. Uh it's very artificial and synthetic. It's not um so you won't find people of the past kind of living their lives like this. So if you went to if you read about I don't know these great scholars let's say

noi all these great people of Islam they wouldn't have done things like uh so let's say I don't know let's say they they they like doing something they won't say oh is this Islamic as in what does Islam say about like obviously it's from the realm forms of permissibility. If they liked it, they did it. You know, if somebody wanted to, for example, be a carpenter, somebody wanted to back then be um I don't know like a craftsman or somebody wanted to learn ma mathematics or somebody wanted to travel the world or somebody wanted to do business.

They didn't spend their times trying to um live this this kind of veneer of oh is this Islamic? Oh, I wonder what Oh, I wonder what Islam Islam was lived back then. Now it's very it's like a filter like we want to apply an Islamic filter to our lives. Okay, so that's why it's it's obviously very artificial.

Anyway, next question people. Next. God damn it. Bring the next question up. I have three questions this time. Allah abar. What is the difference between Ali? Uh-oh. I walked into this one. I'm trying to take some simple questions and I've walked right into a This is why things should be screened.

It's why I should have a few assistants sitting around going right pass fail block delete. Right. Okay. Let's see. Uh what is the difference between Ali and how did Im Ahmed safe save you mean the sunnah and is he misunderstood today do you require the study of formal logic or arisatilian logic I don't know do I okay the thing is look you have to understand something

when we Say today we are not talking about immida is creed. These are two different things. One is a substance albeit uh albeit intangible and the other is a theory an abstract construct about what you believe.

So im was what the Sahabah had. They had iman. They had faith. They had belief in Allah and his messenger in this mission. In this they had an understanding that was im. Okay. When they were asked what is im? The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that you believe in Allah, his messengers, his book, the afterlife.

This is how simply he said it that everything comes from Allah. Allah is absolutely in control. You believe in these things very kind of um simply put not simplistic. Simplistic is is is has a negative connotation to it. Simple. So simplicity is the highest form of sophistication people and I believe Leonardo da Vinci conquers with me on that since it's his quote.

All right. So the thing is so now the thing is that they had iman then Islam starts to develop. When I say Islam as a phenomenon, it starts to spread and expand and people are coming into Islam and all sorts and and politics is at play and and then you start to get people breaking off based on matters which may or may not be matters of faith but they're making them matters of faith.

So obviously the early split is with the Shia the Shia split and then you get thear followed shortly after. So the kawar become this super extremist group. Even the sh I suppose were extremists in their sense of passion. They they were kind of emotionally extremists. Uh but the kawar kind of theologically become extreme in the sense of saying well anybody who commits a sin is a kafir.

Uh then they're followed by people like the Mazilah who are extremists again who say anybody who who commits a sin he's not a Muslim but we're going going to invent a new category for him called this purgatory state called mansilain. So you start to see groups emerge during the time of the Sahaba um they didn't have this belief written down like what do you believe?

Oh, I believe this book here is my belief. Can you see how it's that would be an absurdity for them? For the Sahaba, if you told them, uh, what is your belief? This book, I carry this book, it is my creed. To them, this would have been an absurdity that what are you talking about?

That belief was something. It was a lived organic thing. this im. But then obviously as sects start to emerge, people start to differentiate themselves by the sects. They start to say we are not them. But surprisingly, they still did not have a written creed.

Okay? So they did not have uh not hench enough. Not hench enough. I'm trying I'm trying. It's so hard when you cut down on your diet to put on size. Oh my god. To put on lean size is so difficult. Anyway, coming back to this. So during the Sahaba's time, they had nothing written down like this. They during the TBA's time, they had nothing really written down about what we believe.

Uh I don't mean like a random snippet. They did have like a random snippet like obviously we believe in Allah. We believe Allah is all powerful. I don't mean like that but as an organized creed during the time. So we're in Immalik's time. The dawn people of Medina as I'm talking about it's all about it's all about Medina and Imam Malik. Right? So the thing is in his time there's still no uh there's still no creed no written creed.

Are they simple in their time? Hell no they ain't simple. Imam Malik has written a book called the M which is the oldest compilation we have of Sah hadith. Uh his which is then transcribed as in the teaching he gave the is like the which were called initially the kind of notes that were taken from him today is in six volumes.

People were writing people were making immense notes. They were making immense documentation. Did we have creed documented from A to Zed? No, we did not. What's even more shocking is we didn't even have this name called Sunnah. This name did not even exist. So the Sahabah did not even know uh the name. Like if you asked the Sahaba, they knew the word.

They didn't know as a group. This word did not exist. Okay, the word did exist. They used to call it or the word did exist because said about them they've kind of like you know they've kind of transgressed against us or whatever did exist because said that they have and these names were given to them but did not have a name.

So if you asked Imam Malik are we he wouldn't have known what what what I mean he may have understood what you're talking about got the gist of it but they didn't have this term they or if you asked Imifh [Music] sorry people right so if you asked Imifh who are we did not have this term called this comes a lot later.

Okay, so this is a shock as well to a lot of people. They don't know this. Okay, so they think that this has always been there and people were always part of this creed and we always knew what we believed and we always uh I hate to break it to them, but that's not how it was. So if you went to the Sahaba and asked them, you may have got come up with different opinions, different versions of creed. First of all, they didn't talk about them that much.

But if you let's say we had the opportunity to interview them, they would have come up with maybe different versions of creed because and maybe disagreeing on key elements. So because they didn't have this document, the prophet never taught them like that. He never say, "Okay people, today we as Muslims must believe in these 40 things. Memorize them." Or right now I'm going to list 152 different things.

Make sure you memorize them. This is not how the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam taught. Okay? This is not how the Sahaba taught. This is not how their students taught. This is not how their students taught. The the imams, Imam Malik and so on, the dawn imams. Okay? So this up until I imanif and so on, up until their time, none of this existed. After them this as in decades after them, this emerges and you get this thing of like oh we are called.

Okay. So people say okay or what is damn look at that the ice god what is a drink without ice it's it's not a drink people it's not a drink right so the thing is look Akbar is not actually I imanif's book but thank you for raising that jun it's attributed to Imuhanifh it cannot be Imuhanifh's book there's been huge research done on it it's most likely uh one of the ism it's their book uh one of them and it's then attributed back retrospectively to Imam Malik how do we

know this well we know this by terminology that is in the book did not even exist in the time so for example let me tell you a word called kamat which many people believe in which is the miracles of uh olia of kind of pious people this terminology did not even exist in the time of the salah so if you said let's say you met Im Malik or you met Imuhanifh or you met Sahabi and said to him do we believe in theat now means honor they would have understood the linguistic meaning of what you're saying but they wouldn't have understood the

technical term if you said to them uh I mean you couldn't have used because was only for prophets Uh so if you said we believe in the they would have pro been shocked but if you described it to them in words like we believe that they can do certain things then they would understand what you're talking about but they couldn't they didn't have this word called kamat okay this they had the word Arabic word karamat but it means its linguistic meaning which is to do with honor and it's not the technical meaning which people now use to mean miracles of holy pious people of saints right so this

kind the stuff didn't exist. So you know that this book cannot be from that time. So just as if you got a book today from uh I don't know let's say we we picked up uh uh Einstein's book and Einstein in in in his books or in his writings is saying and anybody who has an issue can just send me an email to my Gmail account.

Well, you would know that's what we call a smoking gun people. A smoking gun, right? So, you have to at that point realize uh this cannot be his work. Anyway, coming back to the point. So, the thing is that so so these groups were made later on. So, people said okay, what what do we believe as Muslims?

This was also part of the institutionalization of Islam. Okay. So Islam starts to become it moves from this stage of being an organic faith into what is an organized religion and it moves into this stage of becoming an institutionalized religion in which now there will be set criteria. So to be this you must you must be of all these beliefs.

You must follow not just A, B and C but A, B, C, D, E, F. Everything listed in this book. Should you disagree with any point, you have left the fold. You are no longer a a Muslim. You are no, it becomes about control. Okay. uh control is usually linked in always with things like empire and it's always linked in with um you know subordinates and and keeping people in check right so I uh I mean I always feel that once anything has been institutionalized that the

institutionalization of something is always the death of it that it robs it of its um its true energy It's true. It's it's its real self is kind of taken away in this process of making it fit all these compartments. Anyway, so Abassi a great scholar of Islam and a legend.

He uh is presumably one of the first people to use this term called and he was initially of a sect and then he breaks away according to so following on from him you get these splits you get the mura which is a split further away from him uh in some ways you could and then you have obviously you have another split known as the the the habula the halles which is attributed to Imam Ahmed.

Now to summarize these very simply, this is these are groups trying to deal with the challenges that arose in their time. Uh so in their time because we're talking about like the we're going into the late 200s, 300s or the mid 200s into 300s, we're going into that era. uh even from the early 200s right going right through that third century of Islam you have a lot of challenges that come into that face the Muslim community a lot of these are for example the henistic kind of challenges so Greek philosophy is

translated on mass into the Muslim world Muslims become very intrigued by what's being said in these books it's very sophisticated amazing and intelligent and So kind of um it's it's it's so enticing that Muslims start to read these things and then they they become somewhat baffled with some things because they don't know how to answer some of these questions now because they're facing problems because Henistic thought was all about philosophy.

So it was dealing with things that were the Abu Khadijah are the humblies. Okay, they are the halles in right. So the thing is the philosophers of the past going to prescrates the you know Thales and all of them uh Heracitis and all these people up to Socrates after him you know Plato Aristotle and and much after him as well whether it's you know within the Greek whole tradition so uh all of these people they they've got ways of looking at the world and questioning reality questioning truth questioning this questioning that so Islam is now getting bombarded arded

with all of these things and this is so new so new that the Arabs and the Muslims at that time had never come across this level of sophistication intellectual sophistry and they're kind of bewildered by it so they have to deal with this was the challenge of their age so they started to devise that okay before Muslims go you know become totally confused let's set for them their creed Let's set it down what they ought to believe in this process.

Remember the they do start there are many things like they're human beings so they're going to put in a lot of other things as well but they start to document and how do they react to this. So the the ash are in general a um they are and the mata are a reasonbased in essence they were a reasonbased a rational kind of response to the challenges that were facing the Muslims.

The humblies are like what are today's copies. Okay, they are humblies. I know they don't like to use the word humbly because because of their strong you see the Salafi today is more than just humbly. It's a it's a it's a kind of movement which is uh anti- um and against following the mabs and so on and because the mabs of have this name humbly as well. So they don't want to be associated with this name.

So therefore they they kind of try to they reinvent this term of nobody in the past called themselves at okay because that would be just ridiculous. That's like saying I'm of the tradition. Everybody was of the tradition. I mean what are the other people nonari? I mean what what's that even supposed to mean? So um so today they've tried to reinvent this but traditionally so all of their books in the Salafi books whether it's barbahari or whether it's going to be uh you know you're going to look at or you're going to look at other people or all these people were humbly both in and in the

humbly is a very kind of literal um response to the challenges of their age very Um and and a lot of this was to do with God at the time. How do we respond to the concept of God? So a lot of their thing is very anthropomorphic. Um I mean I'm not blaming I mean obviously I don't agree with them but they were trying to uh they were trying to come to terms.

Okay. So the thing is now right so they were trying to deal with certain things like does God have limbs? Does God have body parts? Does God exist in a particular place? Does God um these kind of questions were baffling people? So the the Hannabila really kind of took this literal approach in saying God has body parts but they're not like our body parts.

And I know the silhifies today try to I don't know why because they're ashamed of this you see. So so they try to say no we don't believe God has body parts. That's stupid. Duh. Uh we just believe he has uh hands feet sorry a foot. Uh one leg uh two eyes. Teeth. Some say teeth. Some say no teeth. Uh fingers uh um a back and a face.

And but none of these are like ours, which is so honestly it's so embarrassing because once they've they've given you this picture of this disfigured, disabled kind of like bodied like a like a really freak body that you're going to imagine now and then they're going to tell you don't imagine it. But you're going to be like it's too late now, bro.

You can't tell me these things and then tell me don't imagine. If I say to you, look, all right, guys, there's a car. It's a pink car. It's it's got two tires missing, right? And it's it's it's a twodoor. Uh uh it's got uh you know, it's got, if I describe, it's quite bright lights. Uh it's convertible, but uh right, it's not like any car, you know. Don't imagine it. Don't don't don't Well, it's a bit late now, bro.

I mean if you so so this is what the the the Salafies do today. So if you read some of the books like what has written and and things like this it's it's very very anthropomorphic but then they they also deny they say oh my god anthropomorphic is are like have lost the plot but really it's just the same thing. It's just semantics like they're trying to say oh he's got hands not like our hands don't imagine hands.

Well, it's a bit late because you're going to imagine hands now. Like if I say hands, you're going to imagine hands. If I say, "Oh, he's got uh" And they say, "And they say he's got two right hands. He's not got he's got two right hands and he's got two fingers." Then they say he's got one leg and one foot. And then he moves. They Oh my god. And And they say he laughs.

Okay. So I suppose laughing is a good thing because God does it. So the thing is to be honest with you that kind of today is only for extreme simpletons. Um it can never stand the test of today of our time. It would be ridiculed within a second. You could not you know people who are very anti- relligion atheists and things like that.

Uh, I mean I to if you were going to say that's how you believed in God and I was next to you, I'd ask you please tell me so I can leave the room first because they're going to destroy us so so bad. So it's going to be really embarrassing. And that's not my god by the way. So I don't worship that thing that you're talking about. So the thing is that um today you couldn't stand the test of um atheists and things like that with that kind of belief.

In the past the humbles did and the world was a different place. So you have to remember a lot of people believed in an old man living in the sky and stuff like this like Christians did. And so it kind of fitted into that world picture so it wasn't too out of order. Right. So um so so but this was all dealing with their challenges. The thing is today our challenges have changed.

Our today we're no longer henistic thought is not our big challenge today. Our big challenge today comes from uh from I think two things. One primarily from atheists because you have to remember historically there were no real atheists because people didn't have answers. So when they didn't have answers they didn't know what else to believe. They generally everybody accepted God one way or the other.

They disagreed on their understanding of God but because they didn't have any other answers. They didn't know where the world came from then. So today we have this whole new phenomenon. So people will atheism and the other thing which I don't believe ought to be a challenge for us but it has become is science because Muslims have placed themselves on the wrong side of science.

So, they get bashed by scientific uh knowledge. Once again, one of those things that I think if you're ever going to make those arguments, let me know so I can leave the room because that's not my belief. Anyway, right. You shouldn't laugh at those people that go by those texts. Uh I think they don't go by all the texts, by the way. So, they only go by the text that they want to use.

So they don't go by the text that says God says I'm everywhere. They don't go by the text that God says his hand is above your hand. So it's all pick and choose. But anyway, I do believe that whatever sunnah means the main body of Muslims does incorporate all of these. I don't feel it's restricted to just ash or maturis. I feel it's restrict it's it embraces all of these people.

It embraces people like uh uh the the the Hannabila, the Salafies of today. Uh even though I I feel that it's totally u I find it totally um embarrassing what they believe but still I do consider them to be part of the main body of Muslims just as I consider many people of the past like Rush who didn't fit in any of these categories the great legendary Maliki Don um and other people amongst them as well.

they they were from the main body of Muslims. So it's interesting but this look this is going to really go on. So let's uh let's move on into another question. Right? So the whole point of the me saying that was that these labels that have come did not come from the Quran or Sunnah. They were engineered to handle a challenge of their time. So today when people say, "Oh my god, you missed out on point 42B of the particular creed, you're no longer a Muslim." I think people need to just ease up.

Uh these things were designed for a particular challenge. They weren't designed to the prophet didn't go around testing people like this. Okay? And Islam is about inclusivism, not about chucking people out. It's about bringing people in. Okay? That's it. As the prophet said, bring people in.

Do not frighten them away. And that's what our has become today. Right. Okay. Are the opinions of considered part of the hali madhab rulings? I believe so. I do believe they are. Yes. You know obviously pushed really hard on his. The difference he wasn't the first person to come up with his beliefs before him. The whole humbly school generally existed in a difference is that uh pushed the belief that the

humbly alone is the of and everybody outside of that is outside of this is what caused the the kind of rift. But to be fair uh to be fair his rulings although I completely can't his his views in are so uh just would not work today the the saying the sali kind of humbly think but his thinging thinking is is good alhamdulillah and it's it's great and he thought actually very in aidi sense and it was all about the of the and I like that about he also

thought that the uh the school of Medina was uh the principles of the school of Medina were legendary and he said you couldn't touch the principles of Imam Malik school so for that I'll give it to him you rock on that point on that point you rock right so let's see is it f for a convert to have aul after taking shahada even if he is not in a state of impurity.

Well, how's Gemrock? How know you? How do you know that he was not uh in a state of impurity? Indeed. Indeed, you've been taking too much of an interest in this fellow Muslim. The thing is, look, this thing of taking a people said this was for the major ritual impurity. Um I disagree and there was on this issue amongst the I believe this is part of the ritual of embracing Islam because sometimes people they need

see people need rituals. It kind of gives them that um and water is an amazing kind of ritual which symbolizes purity symbolizes purification a kind of new start a so it's this ritual of doing this that I've entered into this zone why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told them to uh and this is a technique used by psychologists in many things you know this entering into a zone that they will have something to do that Right.

Well, Solomon, right? All right. Solomon. So, how I have a question about dogs. Um, but in the case of one in the case one converted. [Laughter] All right. All right. All right. All right. That's interesting that your dog has got a friend uh um lived with his family 9 years ago.

What can he do? I've answered this before in great depth. Please, most of these Monday nights with Miy are on YouTube now. If you run a search with the word that you're looking for. So if you say dog, I know you're going to have to put that next to my name now and run a search, which doesn't make me feel very good, but nevertheless, I'll take it as your expression of love for me. And so if you run a search on YouTube with that, it should come up inshallah.

Okay? Right. But I've answered that it is fine inshallah and they can keep that uh keep that. My question, what is a hijab? Is it covering of the hair? Bush trying to drop in the the heavy questions, trying to really mess me up, right? Trying trying to say, well, you know, this is how we really trying to say, well, Miy thinks he's been uh blacklisted by people.

Just wait. You see the thing is the general understanding within uh the main body of Muslims is that the hijab is a covering of the hair. There has been some disagreement on that. It's interesting because um I know Ash in his does highlight that and some he he says that you know what is it and it's it he says that you know you must cover the hair and you must cover the like the only thing you don't have to cover he says is the is the face and the hands and then he

says and it has been said the hair and the feet Now, that's interesting, you see, because that's a a kind of a smoking gun. Okay? Because it's a smoking gun because he's obviously on to something, but he's not telling us fully what he's on to.

You naughty naughty, you teasing us, right? So you like to play these games, huh? So the thing is uh so he writes this in his tapsi. Now it's interesting because now he's kind of you see now he didn't have to say that but now that he said it it's like what did he come across that we have not come across and that's interesting.

So I think there can be research done to unearth certain opinions maybe or to look into who is it that disagreed with this view and um and I think in my understanding he may have been alluding to certain obviously I do feel he was alluding to certain maliki positions but I've not fully come across them. Um so I think um uh I I found something close in the sense where I im Malik is speaking about a woman who has a slave uh a servant not

a boy servant man uh slave man and according to the Sharia she must do a hijab with him at all times. Uh now I im Malik says if he was somebody who isn't all that. You see once again this is weird because what is all that got to do with anything? Imagine that.

Imagine being told uh you you're all right, bro. Don't worry about it. So, Imam Al Malik says, "Well, around him, she doesn't need to cover her hair." Now, this is interesting because according to most people, it would be haram for her to uncover her hair in front of this slave. But Immalik's fatwa regarding the slave specifically and this is specific to the slave where he says to the slave man that uh she doesn't need to cover her hair if if he was somebody who's like you know

he's not uh he's not all that. So obviously one this is a diss against him. So he would feel like damn I was kind of hoping uh I I am all that but uh I'm not. And the second thing is the second thing is that uh it's it's interesting why has Imam Malik said this and what has he said it based on?

So this is u you see this is what I call a smoking gun. There needs to be more research done to unearth other opinions and and look into the problem is that these opinions are sometimes drowned out over time as uh as kind of Islam continues every decade, every century, Muslims continue to through this institutionalization standardize the views that they have and they drown out through their standardization any dissenting voices to the extent that it can become difficult to sometimes find these

fossils. Uh these are kind of fossilized fatwas if you like. But where are these fossils today? We have to really kind of struggle to find them. Okay. So so as it stands the the mainstream view however of most Muslims is that hijab does include the here. Okay. I hope that answers that. But I I I I kind of expanded here. Why I expanded? because this is part of our legacy.

We shouldn't try to I do not believe in this kind of censorship of kind of drowning out other dissenting voices. I believe it's it's an enriched legacy which we ought to kind of celebrate, learn about and try to uncover other other issues. Right. You briefly mentioned Harut and Marut. Uh-oh. I've done a whole thing on these people. Um what does Allah mean when he says that they learn from them?

What caused I did explain this look in that uh and please watch my 2hour long bloody uh uh session on uh what is magic, the reality of it or the lack of reality of it within Islam and magic between fact and fiction. And as you'll see, it's more really fiction than it is fact. But I did say magic comes down to three things in essence. One is like mind control, hypnosis, subliminal messages, things like that.

Two, it's actually substance uh manipulation. So you're using elements, chemicals to cause influences, to cause harm, to cause psychedelic effects. And three, it's deception. So when you say that Harut and Marut were teaching people certain things that were that they of from what the Quran seems to uh the connotations are that these people seem to have to have had a mastery over these three kind of skills over hypnosis over using some kind of chemicals to to kind of induce experiences and to create to create aversions as well as you can

do today through cognitive beh cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, and things like this. So anyway, these things are psychologically proven. Beyond that, it doesn't exist. It's all hocus pocus. There's no wizardry, sorcery, uh none of that superstition that you know, you wave a wand and I don't know, you kiss a frog and it turns into something or you do all this kind of nonsense. Um that is nothing but an embarrassment to Islam.

Okay. So my question, Allah says in the Quran, I I don't burden a soul. Well, Sam Kent, people nowadays commit suicide because they feel their problems are too burdensome. How would you reconcile? Well, uh, well, Sam Kent, that's definitely a dodgy fake profile. Come on. There's no way on earth your name is Sam Kent.

Get out of here. Anyway, the thing is look, these issues that people have are not what Allah has burdened them with. This is what they themselves have kind of burdened themselves with or found themselves in or been caught up in or people have done to them or the it's not Allah doing it to them. Okay. So that's how you reconcile that. Okay. So obviously I give an example.

So let's say a person at a very dumb level if a person walked in front of a truck and then said well Allah won't allow me to do anything that I can't take and stuck his head out then headbutting a truck one person zero person nil it's going to be one of those obviously if a person for example gets into let's say debt and then you become like you borrow money and you do things you become in you get into debt now obviously this is burden some now Allah didn't get you into debt.

That's come come on behave. You'll be like, "Oh, I'm overdrawn again." Allah, what are you doing? You can't do things like that. Allah didn't get you into those situations. You got into them. Okay? So, but always seek help. Always seek help, people.

There is always always some help out there. Okay? If you're ever having these kind of thoughts, speak to someone. Look, sometimes we get into a rut. Okay? You need to understand that life is it works. You know, it's like, you know, it you have this thing that that like money pulls money, right? this kind of thing, this kind of almost an axiom in economics that the more capital you have, the more money you can draw in.

And it works. It's true. It does work. And it's the same in many other things. I know it sounds bizarre, but like happiness pulls happiness. Like you know when people are kind of like joyous and they're joyful and they're happy and they have that kind of like happy go you know this term happy golucky they become like that because it draws that in.

So and and this is we can all do this. Look in life this when you're in a situation there's two things to remember. One you can either do something about it or you can't. If you can do something about it, then stop whining, stop crying, and do something about it. God damn it. Or the other good thing I didn't have my hand the other way.

The other thing is that you can't do something about it. If you can't do something about it, then stop crying, stop whining because you can't do anything about it, right? So focus, right? Try to try to smile people. It's you know by smiling you actually even if you conscientiously are smiling like let's say you force a smile on your face you will actually after a while feel happy that's there's actually such an intricate kind of bond between feeling happy and smiling that the muscles on your face will trigger those neurotransmitters because they have a birectional effect and this is why the

prophet said smiling is soda it will make you happy right so the thing is People always be happy, man. Watch some standup comedy. Watch some comedy. People enjoy life. Anyway, the prophet is the seal of all prophets. Is there a seal of all saints? Yeah, it's the pope.

Oh, sorry. Wrong religion. What are we today? We're Muslims today, ain't we? Right. So, oh, uh, guys, I don't know. I don't know really about all of this kind of stuff. People get into all this look about, you know, this saintthood and the pontification of people and turning them into It's not really my thing. Don't really um I mean, if you want to really do that, you can do it, but it's not really my kind of thing.

Islam ought to be natural, organic. I ain't really into all this kind of folklore. Is watching Dragon Ball Superharam. I don't know what Dragon Ball is, right? So, damn, I sound like one of those like, you know, when you're totally outside the joke and you're not like in on the joke and is wearing the hijab compulsory, Aisha. Well, I've answered that already. I mean, so according to the majority of the scholars, it is okay.

According to the outright majority, and there is a tiny difference, but according to the outright majority, what is the Islamic view on the theory of evolution? S Khan, what an interesting question. Now, I've answered this a lot of times. Um, the thing is, uh, the chuff guy is the last of all saints, right? Well, he could be.

He could be. You know what's fascinating is he reminds me of a friend of mine. Honestly, he looks so much like this friend of mine, this Maliki friend. Mazeri, are you online? He reminds me so much. Mazeri, give a shout out if you're on the So much reminds me of this guy. I want to actually set up a fake one. I want to kind of put him out there and we can lure people in, sell tickets, and we can all chill, go for a holiday.

And I'm serious. He looks so much like him. My mate does. Right. So anyway, uh evolution. Look, evolution people. Um he's from Mayans back home. Haris Nadim. Okay. I didn't know that. But I mean I somebody's trying to keep tags tabs on me. Uh the thing is look evolution people evolution happened.

Okay. There is no we can it is silly trying to negate evolution. Yes we can speak about Adam. Adam I believe was a miracle but he was a miracle in what was a series or of events. Now the the things in general they were evolving it's you know things like Neanderals and and this this is so it's evidence it's factual.

There's no you know I don't know if people know this but the Neanderl genome project was concluded in 2010. But we're like seven, it's 2017 now. So look, the thing is that people because they're not part of these circles. I advise you to do things like follow the paleo uh anthrop anthropology uh kind of pages and groups and read about this kind of stuff all the time.

It's just because you're not a part of it, you think it's it's just in people's head. It's not. I'll give you an example. It's like this. Look, imagine back home. So you take a country where I don't know some like let's say Pakistan in a village somewhere how people live. Now in the village imagine telling them that oh uh somebody explaining to them things about like the internet how it works.

They send this, they send that. They can do surveillance. They can shut down your bank accounts. They can freeze it. They can do all this. They can track you. This person will say, "Look, I think you're buying too much into all of this. Relax." They're just blacking. Because in their world, this stuff doesn't really exist. I'm talking about a simple kind of village where this stuff doesn't really exist. They're going to think, look, you are buying too much into this.

They, you know, power what where is this internet? Where where is where is it? So you imagine trying to tell them Wi-Fi and how it works and you can do you see they're going to think and this is today they're going to think look you can show them your phone and say look watch this watch this do they'll think look relax it's not how you think it's not exactly like that that's because they're not part of that world so they think this is just a theory this is just something an idea you've got in your mind but it's a reality understood and known by millions of people.

It's the same thing with fossils with things like you know like uh the kind of fossil records the carbon radiocarbon dating the things with DNA the genome project being deciphered decoded uh having matches doing actual digital these kind of doing DNA analyses doing the these things are today they they've altered DNA I mean it's not this stuff is not just fictitious this is real.

It's happening. I advise you watch I'll tell you I was watching this documentary recently. It's it was awesome. I loved it. It's called Decoding uh the Neanderal Decoding Neanderals I think or the decoding the Neanderl gene or something like that. But if you write in decoding Neanderal on YouTube uh it's by Nova and it will come up. It was awesome and it was showing recent research demonstrates that Neanderals actually most likely very much had language because they have the FOX P2 gene.

They have that in their DNA which is the which is responsible for the development of speech and language. So it's interesting not to mention the fact that non-Africans today have inherited anything between 1 to 4% of Neanderal genes. So denying this kind of stuff today is a bit silly. Okay. So um and things like uh and I mentioned things like they say straight hair stuff like that comes most likely from the ends.

So if you're ever thinking why the hell does his hair look like that? It's because the Neanderals. God damn it. Somebody said to me, "Oh, do you think they I don't think that would have been right because I don't think they would have been doing halal nikas." And that cracked me up so much. I thought, seriously, do you think the Neanderls were going around practicing fit?

Is that what you think was going on like 50,000 years ago on Earth? like they were you see their their purpose was to kind of like spread out that was their purpose okay their purpose was to survive their purpose wasn't to practice fick okay right uh if a non-Muslim for example a Christian donates and has a good character and believes in God and follows the Bible and believes that there is a life after death um like all will he still enter Jannam look fat As I've said before, Jenna Jannam is not

our discourse. Allah can send anybody he wants to Jenna. He can send anybody he wants to janam. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said none of you will enter Jenna uh by your actions. It is simply by the grace of God and that's what we believe. Okay. The truth is I actually believe that the message of Islam in our day and age is so distorted that I I feel the way I imami said in his age that the Christians uh the of the you know of the the b the baantines that of the empire and even the aftermath and people surrounding them that had um had received an

understanding of Islam. But he said that it was so distorted and vilified and made evil that he felt that they were excused altogether. I actually feel that today expands for most of the globe especially the west and places like this Islam come on let's face it we wouldn't would you become Muslim face it would you become Muslim if you weren't Muslim and I know there are converts today and there's probably converts watching this and hats off to you uh but I let's face it people if you were born as let's say I don't know many

let's say you were born as I say Like if you're from the Indopac world a few miles across the border and you were born as a Hindu you wouldn't really come on let's face it would you really renounce uh kind of like reject the faith of your forefathers I mean you might not believe in it but would you really convert to Islam the truth is I mean ask these are hard questions we don't need to be emotional just be honest you wouldn't like it's seen as backwards it's seen as barbaric it's seen as controlling it's seen as like misogynistic It's seen as like uh like bloodthirsty.

It's seen as like terrorism. It's seen as uh I mean I'm not saying it is these things. I don't believe Islam is these things. If Islam was those things, I would have nothing to do with it personally. I don't believe it's those things. But I believe this is the manifestation that people are pushing and that's getting pushed by the media. So the media is pushing this thing that some idiots are doing and the media is kind of like amplifying it for people.

So of course you're not going to It's like saying look would you become a communist? Why do you feel communism is bad? Have you actually ever read anything that Stalin wrote? Would you seriously would you become a Nazi? No say here. But would you how did you ever read any of the literature that the Nazis wrote? No. Because you've received this understanding that that was just evil.

So you wouldn't become that. You wouldn't become a Nazi. You wouldn't become a communist because communists were portrayed as so evil. Now the same thing, let's face it, they're not going to say that about Muslims because you got to be politically correct. But Islam and Muslims are portrayed by the media as being evil. And obviously that's wrong. Muslims are not evil. I mean they, you know, they are just human beings like everybody else.

And like everybody else, they have some elements. We have some elements amongst us who are nutcases. Okay? And these nutcases are control freaks that give the rest of us a a horrible name. Anyway, let's move on. Do people who have raised in who are raised in a Muslim family, miss years of prayers, have to make it up? Look, the thing is about salah. If you've not prayed salah, uh we don't need evidence that Adam was the first human on earth.

They were several feet taller than us. Evolution does happen, but only by the will of Allah. And he created uh thanks for that. Uh every it happens by Allah. Thanks. Oh, it happens by Allah. Oh, and here's me thinking that Allah wanted something else to happen, but something else happened.

Come on, man. We look seriously, you know, it's like one one of the Sahabah, one of the companions asked somebody a question and the person said Allah and he said, he said like, you know, we must be totally dumb and wretched if we don't know that Allah knows best.

But that's not what I asked you. You know, I didn't ask you does Allah know best. Like Allah knows best. Like the Sahabi said like you know duh like of course we know Allaham. I didn't ask you are you or is Allah? So you answer my question Allaham. I never asked you is everything happening ultimately by the will of Allah. Of course it's happening ultimately by the will of Allah. He created it for God's sake.

You know so he created the ability of life. He created the nature of genes to self-replicate to evolve. He created this. These are from his and you will not find a change in how Allah has set things. Allah says and he created you in stages.

Okay? And these this is what we are talking about. When Allah said to the angels, I will place a I will now I'm ready to have this final specimen. And the angel said nothing special about him. He looks just like the others. I mean, and Allah says, I know that which you do not know.

But this this insan is something else, right? It will reach heights that you cannot imagine. Right? So this was something that Allah was trying was teaching the angels to teach to us. Obviously Allah has done it. I don't I don't mean we did it against Allah's will. That's silly, right? So to constantly reiterate, oh by the way, Allah do you do that in everything by the way?

Do do you know when you go to the doctor and say, oh would you give me some medicine? Oh is Allah doing it? You know when you're driving your car and you say well you know the copper stops you and says were were you holding that phone say no but uh Allah was making me giving me the ability to hold the phone at the same time he was allowing the phone to have the natural forces to resist gravity at the same time he was doing it he was doing it he was doing it I mean do do you do these things everywhere else in life as well or is it only when we want to be religious so people Let's, you know, let's kind of

let's mature a bit. You know, we need to move beyond this. D we know Allah. Thank you for telling us about Allah. It's like we weren't Muslim before that. Just going to make me swear for no reason. So, look, the thing is this is how Allah says in the Quran, isn't it?

That What's that poem that uh Aziz Mia used to say used to say in the poem Javani Javani Javani he says in lovei we gave our youth to love. So she says that

[Laughter] So that's the thing. Anyway, so coming back to this point, look, if you have a lot of salah to make up, so let's say you haven't prayed for several years or whatever and you start practicing Islam, in my understanding, you do not have to make those salah. If you choose to do so, that's you. I do not believe that Allah would burden you with that kind of uh because it's generally impractical.

Okay. So I believe as long as you do, you know, Allah says in the Quran that you have this sincere turning to Allah, this repentance, that's what Toba means, a turning to Allah. And and then once you've done that, inshallah, that's fine. You just make sure you don't miss a salah from there forward. If you do miss it, make it up. Okay? I don't believe you have to make up like 10 years of salah and so on.

Um because it would be impractical. And this is the same thing with why a woman did not have to make up her salah during menstrual cycle because it would be unbearable. Uh I'm just checking right. Uh oh. Damn. Have I skipped some of the uh where's this flying donkey that the dal is going to fly around on?

Uh I mean any these kind of things mentioned in hadith are all to do with metaphors. Okay. Um I read I bought a book by Alazali and there was this sentence in that book Allah created the earth and never looked back at it. Okay, that's interesting. I've not read that. Um maybe you can share that. Uh send me a message to the to the book inshallah and I'll check it out.

Right. Okay. All four mazabs follow Quran and Sunnah. Of course they do. Of course they do. I do not this. All four mazabs do follow the Quran and Sunnah and other principles that they have kind of arrived at. Whichever mazab you want to follow people is entirely up to you. Okay. Do not let you see. All right. You uh Arun.

All right. So the thing is look whichever mhab you want to follow is uh is your choice as says says in his look any mab which people follow is their choice. They do not need to go with the mhab of people around them and things like that. It's entirely up to them. And then he does follow as well and I will concur with the dawn of Muslim Spain as well which he was that he said but what better than the school of Medina it is a dawn school people you know what listen to my talk on let me put a plug in there godamn it right listen to my talk the the way of Medina in the 21st century on

YouTube it's an audio and I cover this on why it it is most suitable for the test. Um, right. Is another Mhab needed? Do you think there could be another Mhab introduced to tackle the issues of scientific breakthroughs? Shakil, I think that the Mhabs have the sophistication. They have the ability that Mhabs are built on with the core understanding to evolve.

That is the whole principle of the shukran. That is the whole principle of maths. Okay. They are built with an innate. You know, somebody asked me, do you believe that Islam needs to be uh uh what was the word that he said that is is I mean what he was trying I can't remember the exact uh but it that do you think Islam needs to be reinterpreted or re you know like reviewed.

I said look I don't think Islam needs to be I I do think our understanding but I think Islam carries within it this core construct this core belief that it reflects the age and era that it finds itself in. And it's for the people to interpret it accordingly. So Islam carries that naturally as part of it.

It's part and parcel of Islam that it will reach every corner of the earth that it will reach every time and Iran has stood the test of time but it is for the people of that time to to interpret it to understand it. You see the core message will always be the same. You see people say about the core message of Islam the core message is about Allah is about his messenger about you know things like this.

These are the core message of Islam. The other things will always reflect, they will bounce off. So that's the thing, right? So do you think uh what do you think about having a girlfriend? Oh man, what do I think?

Are you offering message me the thing is do you seriously expect a kind of fatwa to say that that's okay these things it depends of course what you mean by this um look there's certain things that Islam just will not allow like and there's certain things that for for example one is you could mean just friendly as in like salam how are you stuff like I suppose that that's you know just human interactions.

There's nothing wrong with things like that. Um then they're saying something like um I want to uh have just a casual relationship. You see the the issue is that Islam will not sanction that. Um which is to be fair a challenge in our age because in our in in our age and in our context. It is a challenge because I think um you see I think Islam kind of set a parameter but what happened is the parameter got changed but the core construct stayed the same.

So Islam had a kind of parameter where marriage was something really simple. It was never kind of complicated and if things worked that alhamdulillah if they didn't work people moved on uh nobody found it difficult to remarry not the guy not the girl uh everybody like so if you look at the Sahaba's time they you know they remarried all the time with ease including the women constantly without any issue uh whatsoever no social taboo uh sex wasn't a social taboo uh people.

I suppose men are polygamous by nature. So there was a you know polygamy. Uh they had countless obviously slaves which today they're going to call sex slaves. Uh they things like things were just organic. They were very um if women had an issue they would just separate. They would just carry on uh marry somebody. In fact they would probably divorce. You see in Sah Bkari a woman takes a you know she's freed from a relationship.

No sooner is she kind of she's already getting proposals. People are saying look hey would you marry me? Would you marry me? This was the kind of society in which Islam set the laws of nikah. The problem is all of that kind of fell apart but the laws stayed. So it really just creates a a difficult um thing really because all the other demands are still there but the but society has just created taboos and complications and it's made life

difficult. It's kind of uh outlawed things like let's say for example it would outlaw polygamy but it would outcast divorce. It would make they they would refuse to remarry women who have been divorced. they would uh uh yeah obviously I mean so this whole thing has but the laws stayed but everything else became complicated so I I don't have a solution if that's what you're asking uh unfortunately but the thing is that this is a challenge I agree with you it is a challenge of our time okay so what do what do you think

about studying philosophy um I think philosophy is awesome It's amazing. Um, it does it kind of sharpens your your kind of cognitive faculties. Um, the thing about Allah hates divorce by the way Ahmed Ali that's a fabricated or an extremely weak hadith. It is not true. If Allah hated divorce, then why is it a surah in the Quran? Why did the prophet himself divorce uh could a few of his wives the prophet divorced?

Why did the companions divorce so many so many wives? Uh this is cultural. Okay, these things are cultural. They're not what Allah hates or likes. But the problem is, you know, we we give everything a religious spin. That's what we do. So we kind of throw Islam onto everything.

Like so when we've got a problem, we just And it's all about control as well, isn't it? So see like even this hating divorce is really about control. But anyway let's let's move on. Uh so the the thing is I think philosophy is is a good thing studying philosophy. Okay. Praying the compulsory salah five times a day within is this something that defines a Muslim. Does it have to be done? It does have to be done. But look if you are missing salah just pray them when you can pray them.

Okay? If you're late at work or if if you can combine the prayers then combine them rather than missing them. If even if you for some reason cannot pray your daily prayers pray them before you go to sleep. Inshallah time will come that you are praying them on time. But look don't abandon them. They are part of the identity of Islam. Okay. It's like that rope that you kind of cling on to.

So I would say do not abandon things like salah. Uh what does a smoking gun mean as you keep using it? Okay, a smoking gun uh obviously it's used in uh in things like crime, but it is used in science as well and in other uh narratives. What it means is that you see when you find smoking a smoking gun, it means that obviously it's been fired.

So although you can't see the incident but it tells you that okay something here happened and it's for you to unravel it. So when you find a u a smoking gun it shows you that all right this is interesting like you haven't quite maybe found the absolute core evidence but it definitely points to something right.

So, you know, it's like if you walk into a place and and people say, "No, there's nobody was nah, nothing here happened. We're just sitting here having a civil conversation and then you see a drop of blood on the floor." That would be a smoking gun that well, looks like something happened here, mate. So, the same thing that I was saying in we find sometimes smoking guns, but we have to find the we have to hope to find the the fatawa, the fatwas, the rulings if they've been fossilized.

Okay? Because they would have been said, but maybe they've been kind of drowned out by the standardization over time. A friend sent this to me because I wear man bracelets. Shehikh Salan said, "Young men who wear bracelets and string around their wrists, uh, this is haram for males. It is an imitation of women. It's something specific for women." Okay.

Okay. Well, She Fosan, I like the way you think. Well, if I'm ever sitting next to you, I know where your thoughts are going. Look, the thing is, is that true that you think that men women only wear bracelets? If that's the case, then tell me, why was the prophet giving Saraka glad tidings of bracelets?

Was he giving him glad tidings of something haram which only women wear? Would you give, think about it, would you give a guy glad tidings about high heels? Would you say, "Bro, and remember the day, a day will come when you will be wearing high heels. Remember me on that day?" Would you say that? So the other thing is why is Allah saying in the Quran that in Jenna we will have we will wear bracelets mean of gold?

Why would we want to look like women then? If bracelets were haram then why would we want to look like women? So that's like saying and in Jenna you will wear I don't know high heels and lipstick. I mean why why is Allah enticing us to a paradise which is confusing us with our gender?

Exactly. Because Allah is saying he's saying bracelets but they will be of gold. So now you're wearing bracelets of silver but in Jenna you will wear them of gold. See this this is a lot. Read the Quran people. Yeah. She knows that this is why I say look people us living in the west we need an understanding of Islam that will emanate from here people you know the like I respect them I'm sure you know Salan and all these they love the way they write all the extra vowels in their names as well in English Abu

but the thing is look I I respect them and you know they're great people who've dedicated ated an entire lifetime to Islam. But look, in all honesty, look, these people grew up pretty much most of them like bedins. They grew up in a desert, you know, and they grew up Saudi Arabia wasn't even raving like, you know, like rich. It was a poor place that when they were kids, right? They grew up like living amongst camels and tribes and memorizing tribal names and doing things like this and which I'm not dissing.

It's their way of life, you know. uh and yeah I have actually read that she fa believes the earth is flat. I mean but this is these are people who grew up as young boys in in deserts and around camels and and and you know like involved in tribal superiority and I mean and then obviously they've entered an age now where obviously the world has become a bit globalized and that's fine.

Look they are good for their people. They're good for people who live like them and live like them in in deserts and grow up and very kind of simple and they couldn't cut it in the metropolitan cosmopolitan life of the western world. I mean this isn't for them. They didn't grow up here just as we couldn't cut it there. I mean would you know how to milk a camel?

I'd have no idea. I mean would you know how to ride a camel? I'd have no idea how to ride a camel. But I'm sure those mash can do things like that. But I mean these people, you know, they're not suited for this part of the world. So when they start giving their Islamic advice over here, this is where we have problems because they're imposing their way of looking at things over here. We are not them, you know. We don't we didn't grow up in Saudi Arabia, you know, and and I don't I mean I look they great people Saudi, you know, obviously and I'm sure there's great people in Saudi Arabia, but I look I'm not Saudi,

right? I don't have to follow Saudi culture for God's sake. I don't want to follow Saudi culture. I'll be honest with you. I actually despise this thing of this concept of the black kind of abaya and stuff like this. I find it very denigrating and I find it like like why can't hijab be in any color like it is in other parts of the Muslim world like it is in Pakistan traditionally or in India or Morocco or in places like North Africa or in other places or in in Syria or in Turkey you know why this black black like why are we so you know like what what is this like and women it's true like they come across very

oppressed like like I don't mean to be raw but this is what they get called then, isn't it? They call like black bags, like bin bags. This is and and that's what goes on and that's their culture. I look, they can live it. They say we're happy doing it. Okay, fine. You know, it's your way of looking at things, but it's not my way of looking at things. And I won't let you stamp Islam on it and give it to me, okay?

Because look, I respect that you are from a part of the world where the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam lived. And I respect that and I honor that. Okay. And that is to me the greatest place Medina on the globe on the face of this earth and and that's you know okay there's no dispute about something like that but that doesn't mean that you have this superiority of the religion now okay I hate to break it to them but the Arabian Peninsula from the time of the Sahaba from the time of Ali the major major thought and the major top leading scholars and everybody moved you

know like the the prime was taken to Iraq. So yes it did it did still have it trickle through with major dons and culminating with Imam Malik but after Imam Malik once he passes away you start to see that that school of Medina it still exists there but it starts to shrivel and a few generations later there is no you know where are the huge people of the Arabian Peninsula throughout the centuries they were mainly all from either Egypt, North Africa, Middle East they weren't from the Arabian peninsula.

The only people who were were those who went to Makkah, Medina and Haj and stayed there. They weren't even originally from there. So, look, I hate to break it to you, but the academic breakthrough apart from the time of the Salaf after the Salaf was never in in the Arabian Peninsula and it still isn't today. You know, Medina University maybe, you know, I know it's got that name, but academically speaking, seriously, where is it?

Where what their research? what is their research like? It doesn't meet places like Alar doesn't meet places like the like Zetuna or many of the other uh you know Muslim throughout the world. It doesn't touch them. So anyway, let's all right uh if you foster or adopt, does the female have to wear hijab in front of the other? This is an interesting question.

and julab. Uh what a name jalab is that uh jalab uh it means diarrhea in uh certain parts of the world. Right? So I would say look this depends on context. This is a modern issue that we have with this kind of adoption I would say and it requires a modern fatwa.

If the child was an absolute child um when it came to the family an absolute um like three, four, five may you know like like a young child coming to the and it grows up. I would feel that psychologically speaking the western mark effect and things like that would still take effect.

So they would naturally lose uh they would not have that kind of sexual attraction for siblings and things like that because if you grow up with somebody you you lose that um kind of that's why siblings do not they you know they're not uh generally sexually attracted to each other because of what they call in psychology the u the western mark effect but the thing is so I would feel if that was the case and they came as a child then we would need a modern uh understanding a modern fatwa which would allow that look they don't need hijab and things like that that they would be like a member of the

family. Okay. So the way you would treat your normal uh daughter uh if they came or if she came as such a child or your son then that's how you would treat this this boy for example. All right. Okay. Is celebrating Christmas allowed? I've answered this before inshallah. Watch my you can read my thing on it. It's called tinsel in a tangle.

It's on my notes. Is it waj to mention bismillah in a Muslim Christian Jewish slaughtering an animal? Um the thing is that bismillah is is generally as long as a person remembers and he doesn't intentionally leave it. Allah says in the Quran and eat from that which Allah's name has been read onto. So we do read bismillah.

Obviously Christians and Jews don't um but that's fine. If a Muslim forgot to then there is a difference of opinion and several have allowed it if he forgot not if he rejected it. There's a difference. Okay. Uh on the evolution topic inshallah in time to come right we'll do something on the evolution. Right. Do mabs have official standard fatwas on most issues?

Right. There is a uh there is a thing of uh you see mhabs some mhabs are more strict than others in trying to control okay so the hanafi mazab is incredibly strict on trying to have control and regulation uh very strict in fact you know and it's a shame which scholars they push you know I was coming across some of the I was reading up on some of the works of this uh scholar from the last century who was a legend legend Hannfi scholar honestly I'm so I was like wow this guy is so cool his name he has a commentary on the famous Mela that they have which

was a book written an axiom book on principles uh like kind of laws written in during the Ottoman era and the Hanaf do recognize it as a as a good text and they've done commentaries on it and his he has a commentary on it his name was the same and the thing is he shares an era with Ash, the legendary Don Maliki and he has the same name Muhammad Tahu and Muhammad Tahasi alandi and I'm telling you people this guy is the bees knees man honestly and he looks so cool godamn it honestly you need to you need to Google him right Muhammad Alasi

Alfundi he looks like proper like and he has a commentary and he had fat and he was the dawn scholar of humps the the the major the the sheh Islam if you like of that of of of Hamus in in modern day Syria and he was the key kind of uh representative or the leader in the resistance against the occupation the colonialism just as Ashur was in Tunis he was in Hams but he wasn't for the whole country he was for that city right and the region around it Hams and he was a legendary scholar

Seriously. And I was like, "Wow." And his fatawa. So, and and why the hanafi chose not to follow people like that beats the hell out of me. But anyway, the hanafi are very strict on this kind of uh institutionalization of the mad. Um so everything is basically abid. Whatever said it was it there is nothing else.

It's just abidin. He is the end of the be all. He is everything. Right? though, which I think I'm sure he was a great person, but I think I think really they gave him so much power. I don't know why they did that. U if you disagree, you can't even disagree on one issue, you're out of the mab, right? The Malikia, for example, some people tried to do that with what they call a mash, but it was such a nightmare.

Such a nightmare. Uh they couldn't do it because the Maliki meth was too diverse, incredibly diverse. And the other Malik's obviously told them, uh, get a life, you control freaks. It ain't going to happen here. Uh, what's that? We need one of those. Hell no. It ain't going to happen here.

So even so, the sad thing is you get some Malikis today trying it. I love tearing them to pieces on it, by the way. when they try I ask them always oh can you give the definition of what mash means they so struggle uh uh it means uh so say oh can you just name the books that have all the mash in there what what is the book cuz in the malik all the major textbooks disagree with each other the madab still has them regulated so they're all kind of like almost replications of each the Maliki mother because it was so spread

out. It was in the Middle East, it was in Spain, it was in Sicily, it was in North Africa, it was in Egypt, it was in Medina. It's so spread out that and they all were autonomous. So, it's so difficult trying to do that. And I really don't like I I abhore this kind of control freak mentality. Why Why are you trying to impose? It's an insecurity really, you know, like, oh, I must control you. You must also do like me.

Like what the hell's wrong with you? Like why must I do like you? I mean just chill, bro. Chill. Is it not enough that we are all Muslim? No, you must do exactly like me. Oh, I'm sorry. Right. Right. Okay. I was trying to reply to Salam regarding Neanderals. How do we reconcile inheriting things from Neanderls and all being the children of Adam?

Right. The thing is we are all in essence the children of Adam. Now along the way those people who did like now now we do seem to have what is conclusive evidence to demonstrate that there was hybridization between Neanderls and uh Homo sapiens. The thing is that those people that were hybridized, so those infants that they had, they they produced them normally usually, not always, but usually whenever hybrid hybrid children or whatever offsprings are born, they are usually infertile.

But these seem to have been fertile. Now they would have obviously been part of uh the homo sapiion because that's where they were imbred into. Now most research pretty much shows um I mean it's not conclusive but what would have most likely happened so for example they may have uh uh wherever the hybridization took place I think mostly it may have been with female neanderals but even if it was with males the offspring that they had were generally very capable and were uh part of the whole insan thing because they were part of they one that's who

they would have generally been You have to also remember that these were at a time where way before things like and stuff like this. This is way before all of that. So their mission in life was not to like Allah hadn't instructed them with commandments and things like this. Their thing was just to populate the globe and to kind of develop to set the stone to kind of set into motion a path that will lead eventually to human civilization.

You have to remember that the these journeys they took to inhabit the globe would have taken them generations upon generations. And you know they what the out of Africa migration 60,000 years ago they enter Europe what 15,000 years maybe after that so or maybe 10,000 years after that. So look how so their mission was not to to kind of like oh let me practice their mission was really just to just survive and populate the globe.

Now everybody as as as you know probably what like maybe 30,000 years ago uh at the latest or 40,000 years ago Neanderals become extinct. Now let me give you an example. The last ice age finishes at what 12 10 to 12,000 years ago. 10,000 years ago, 9 to 10,000 years ago, humans discover uh agriculture and they from they move from being foragers and hunter gatherers to becoming uh you know farmers.

Now you have to see that everybody that's left on the globe is only carrying predominant they are all homo sapiens. We are all homo sapiens. Along the way, them having influences of hybridization doesn't affect their usel. It does not affect because this is who they are. Yes, they may have been impacted with certain genes and things like this, but that was to create the diversity in human beings.

So, it's not a clash and and taken and rulings only come much later. So they've come what in last several thousands of years but not like before the ice age for example. You wouldn't have like uh things like that going on then cuz there wouldn't be a point because the whole purpose of humanity is just to survive. Right. Okay people. Oh whoa whoa whoa.

There's uh um there there's no scientific proof using the scientific proof of microwave. You know what it is? You know, when people read this kind of stuff, micro evolution, macro evolution, and they think they're on to something. Anyway, right, so micro evolution, right, you can't deny because it's in your face.

Now, micro evolution over thousands of years is evolution. So, if you can change so much in a short span of time, within months and years, you can change a certain thing. How do you think it would change given hund given thousands and hundreds of thousands of years? It would change massively. And people say things like, well, how do how would you grow a leg here and how would you grow things?

You know, it's actually much easier than you think. It's not like you grow a leg out of your body and things like this. It's only gene manipulation. The gene gets manipul manipulated and the effect is shocking. And and they do this through experiments today. So, this person obviously has no idea what he's talking about. Um, right. Okay. Is Jenna guaranteed? Look, I can't answer that question. If Jenna is guaranteed, uh, right, Miy hope you're well.

Can you still marry from the people of the book in this day and age? Look, if Allah says it's permissible, you can do it. But obviously, you have to take into consideration your whole context. Okay, you have to understand that look there will be uh naturally they it depends as well what people want marriage for. Okay, now marriage can be sought for multiple reasons. Um I think I answer this in more detail in my um I did this Q&A unrestricted a while back and I answer it there and you can check it there.

But it it can be done for multiple reasons. Now, if you're trying to have a family, then yeah, I mean, I think you might want to take into consideration certain clashing conflicting factors. So, if I say, look, I'm going to um if I'm going to have uh uh I'm going to marry somebody whose religion is different and how much the religion or the lack of religion means to them.

Sometimes people, it's not that religion means something to them, but to some people not having religion means so much to them. So people say, "Oh, no, no, trust me. She's awesome." Which I mean, I'm not debating, but what I'm trying to say is people say, you know, her personality is awesome or things like this. And uh and that's all fine. Look, when things are awesome, you don't have a conflict, okay?

People don't have problems when they're all uh so happy. problems are when things are no longer so happy, when things are no longer so loveydovey and so and usually when children are involved and so some people may say look I don't have a problem with you being Muslim but come four years from today 5 years from today 8 years from today if your child tries to learn the Quran oh I don't want my child learning the Quran I think you know all these terrorism has happened around the world and I don't want that Now I'm not saying that will happen.

I'm just saying that there's a strong outcome that that may happen. These kind of things need to be taken into consideration. Another interesting thing is you see to be Jewish only your mother has to be Jewish. So to the Jewish woman her child is Jewish. Okay? So I know to you he may be Muslim but to the Jewish mother the child is Jewish. So these things will clash at some point like we you know because we live in societies where relationships are difficult now I think and I I deal with so many people you know I speak to people and their

relationship issues and things like this and it is difficult it's difficult and I say this and I've said this before that it's almost like a a divine comedy that we have today because you know because we've got all these in fact we've got all these tools tools for communication, but we just we can't truly understand each other. The the genders they can't this isn't an advert to turn gay, by the way.

But the thing is that we have, you know, it's it's so difficult communicating. And then we have these new social realities of what relationships are and how they ought to be and being in each other's face, living together all the time. and and then expecting this to kind of be sustained and I don't think human beings I don't think they evolved really for this kind of this the way things are today.

So it's they're struggling with it. We're struggling with it as people. So I think these institutionalization these institutions of relationships and everything like this is all new and people trying to understand each other and trying to so it leads to a lot of issues and so when those and when religion is different that can be really problematic honestly and uh is it difficult if it is difficult why is it allowed and maybe it wasn't difficult for all people maybe it's not difficult today in some parts of the Maybe I mean I I don't think it's been always difficult.

I think historically people share you see more than religion it's like sharing a particular world view. So people in the so let's say Muslim Spain now if you grew up in Muslim Spain or in what is modern day Turkey in the past right like uh Anatolia whatever it was that kind of that region if you grew up there in the past where there was a mixed uh multicultural kind of environment society there were Christian Jews you all kind of believed in God you you may have prayed slightly differently but a lot of people spoke the same language they spoke Arabic or whatever they all called God Allah are uh they you know and it was just about life like okay

you've got these practices I've got these they all kind of had rituals regarding food they all recognized that religion was important and the most important thing was kind of this god consciousness and not being you know having ethics of the time it was important and so you shared a similar worldview even if it was so life would get on today everything is so fluid so changing And you could have a particular worldview.

Your neighbor is completely different. And so there's a Yeah. So okay, Abida says that there's a lot of interreligious marriages in places like Nigeria. And I'm sure it would work in certain parts of the world where you share a similar worldview. You seem to trim and style your beard. Doesn't that go against the hadith? Uh you can watch my thing. Uh uh actually I shave. I don't just trim.

just haven't managed to do it today. Right. So the thing is um you can watch my thing called the cutting edge perspective. All right. This is Malik. That's what I'm talking about. Right. So you saying Omar Nope. It doesn't go against the hadith. There isn't a single hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam by the way about how your beard should be. Not even one. Right? Not even one.

So uh from the prophet. So this is another that's an example of this standardization this image that got created along the way and it got standardized. So uh you have to bring me a hadith where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said how to grow the beard. Not just grow a beard but how to grow it. And if he didn't say it then you tell lie. Got him.

So the thing is uh does celibacy exist in Islam? Oh well ra I'm not sure what that means as in do Muslims are Muslims celibate some people may be out of choice I wouldn't advise it but I mean I don't think it's an Islamic thing it's definitely sorry let me sorry let me rephrase that it's definitely not an Islamic thing so if you became celibate in Islam um I don't think Islam would recommend that you become celibate but if you did it for whatever reason then fine it's your choice is it's your life.

Islam's not going to say you have to go out and get married, but most people would want to because it kind of closed off certain doors and allowed them through marriage. So most people would um do that. Why does it mean by grow? But grow, what does grow mean? It's interesting that you feel that the prophet obviously his words are not enough and they need to be explained by your words. The prophet said grow a beard. Is this not a beard?

Is it a beard? You may say it's a goatee, but I got news for you. In one of the prophet said, he said, "Grow your goatees." And you can check it up on Google. Is a goatee. So, is that not what the prophet said? Am I not following? Oh, you say, "Oh, but the prophet said, "Grow your beard." Is this not a beard? You say, "Oh, but I want grow in a particular way." But the prophet never said grow it in a particular way.

Oh, but it was understood. Understood by who? Obviously not understood by us. So it's a good thing you understood it. I'm sorry. Did your Saudi Arabian sheh tell you that it was so? Ah that explains. I think for that point refer back to my thing on bedwins and what I answered earlier.

Why don't you to learn of misa? Okay. It's not a beard bro. All right bro. It's not a beard, bro. Well, sorry, bro. Well, it's also not on your face, Abraim. Well, Abraham isn't a name, bro. It's Ibraim or it's Abraham. It's not Abraim. Just as your name ain't a name, bro. So, my beard according to you ain't a beard.

According to me, it's a beard. According to you, your name's a name. Well, tomatoes, tomatoes, right? So, Indopac HannFes, right? Well, I a Hannfi people school of Medina all the way. Right. So, right. No, no, no. I'm not I'm not I'm trying instead of picking on the brother. Right. Okay. People, any quick questions? I think we Oh, bloody hell.

I've gone on for so also said don't see every moolah doing that. Exactly. I mean, you see the the trimming the tash. Trimming the hadith said trimming the tash and these things. Look, the hadith is in Sah Muslim. They're from the fyra. This was a natural thing. That's all the prophet was speaking about a natural order. So late at night, I am a vampire people.

Very nocturnal. I It is a with darkness we rise. All right. Oh, incredibly nocturnal. I am. So, all right. Why is it not allowed for other women? That's a very difficult I mean, not difficult, but it's going to take a lot. So I won't go into that today. Some sh are really far and say wearing certain clothes means imitating. I've told you that hadith about imitating people is one of the most misqued hadith.

Tell them to quote the full hadith and tell them to preach it. I dare them. They'll never do it because the beginning three lines are all about killing non-Muslims. [Laughter] So tell them to start from the beginning of the hadith and quote it that I have been instructed to kill non-Muslims until they sayahillahill.

Why don't they teach that part and the other part about the the sword and the spear and the oh they only preach the last part of the hadith? Are they go oh no but the first part of the hadith is talking about a specific scenario. Oh, well, you don't think that the last part is also talking about that war scenario as in if you're going to be from them, you're with them, you're either with us or against us. He said at the time of war.

He never said it for everybody. Right. Okay people. So, right. Anyway, inshallah, I think that's it, man. I think I've overdone it with you guys. Uh, right people. Inshallah. Look, it is incredibly important. It is too important people that we learn our dean for ourselves. Okay? It is too important people learn your for yourselves.

Okay? Learn your learn it right. Start from the beginning. If you don't know how to do the purification, go through purification. If you don't know how to do and go through these things. If you don't know how to do salah, go through it. Learn the basics of our dean from scratch. Okay, learn Arabic for yourselves. Okay, learn this. It is not impossible. I'm telling you, 6 months from today, you could know Arabic at least enough to start getting by with by one year you could have a good level of Arabic.

Just do 20 minutes every day. People do these things because it is incredibly important that you yourself have a connection with the dean. Folks, with that, I'm going to leave you to it. Sahib, who's your barber? It's Dol in Birmingham. I'll do a plug for them. All right. So, people, if you have any questions, feel free to uh send them to me on Facebook. If you don't already follow me, you can follow me on Facebook.

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It doesn't even cost anybody. You should see the amount of likes I give to every almost everything on my newsfeed that I just think that's okay. I like it. I like it. People like you give them a bit of control. No, I won't like this misly people. Oh, I swear they must live a miserable existence anyway. Right. So, get these things out there. If you're on Snapchat, you can add me Malm 2014204.

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And if you haven't watched my thing on jin possession, sorry, on magic, which I did this week, then you can watch that. So that's some things you can do in the interim. If you want to give me your feedback, feel free to give me your feedback. Always appreciated. Take very good care of yourselves. Khaleim got to leave you to your shuk for joining right inshallah take very good care of yourselves