Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 26

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all right so people in the hamdulillah aquifer or salat wa salam o allah rasool mustafa well i buddy latino Toba remember who da master o be a third Almudena tak toughie oh but for Salam Allahu Allah come warahmatullah wabarakatuh animal silent people animal salmon bienvenidos alright so can you all hear me okay

first question most important one if the sound is coming to me fine second most important question is have I got my right have I got my drink all right so let me just check sound is fine all right excellent right well we've got some incredible it's not that cold you're right but this my library is

slightly extended so I mean doriel o for public for public demand I'll take it off it's not I'm always I'm blacklisted as it is what difference does it make so right yeah je demande Tito you should have said so before right we've got some awesome incredible incredible questions people incredible questions right I'd also written down some other questions

which I'll try and recall them from the top of my head all right Omar people well had a break from last week as always needed it's good it's good lilo hunt but had some fiery questions right so should we just get straight into these our

awareness noches all right gracias just gracias pinions on its heart it's hot it's hot I'm not sure what somebody means by it's hot what is the O soul table kitchen a lot of questions let's get straight into these people because it's been a bit of a while right so share the Sookie mentions that the wearing of the niqab is extremism and his wording is warm in L who Louie he says and it is from extremism he actually brings this up in

his chapter of Sola and he speaks about a woman praying whilst wearing a niqab and he says wah wah Manila lui 15 it is from extremism in the religion and then in his commentary him understeered actually they say face Allah healthier ad huh whether it's in the Salah or outside of the salon do I believe depends I'm not in favor of

the niqab where I at all categorically I I mean let me give some context to that if you are in a I see the niqab as a cultural measure a cultural kind of tool or prop if you are in a particular part of the world where by not covering your face you would endanger yourself and then I believe obviously you should do the niqab and safeguard yourself your safety is paramount now so if you were gonna get kidnap gang

graved things like this then obviously killed sold off into you know modern-day slavery or whatever is these kind of things then obviously all harassed I mean I suppose harassed can be a spectrum because some people could say whistling could be a form of harassment right so and then actual physical harassment could be on the other end so I suppose harassment can be subjective because some I mean some forms of

harassment may be like well mmm you know it's it doesn't really bother people too much and it's although it may be annoying or it may not be but I mean but some form is completely unacceptable acceptable so now especially with the more serious side of things if you are in that part of the world let's say somewhere like walking around in Kabul if you're walking around in Tora Bora and obviously you're not going to be you know flaunting yourself I'm sure and neither would the guys actually I mean you wouldn't be walking around in a t-shirt or anything like this in that

part of the world right you wanna and definitely not if you're a guy with no beard because then you're gonna get you ready for some kind of special dancing classes because I hear the but anyway so the thing is in those contexts obviously niqab would be the sensible and it would be the thing that you should do because it's got nothing to do with religion is to do with safety now it's like saying if you're riding a bike motorbike you should have a helmet on it's nothing to do with religion is to do with your

safety right so now in this part of the world or in many other parts of the world with that kind of harassment that kind of you know you're not gonna get abducted off the streets and we're not living in you know in that kind of a climate so right so the thing is in in in this part it becomes then a religious statement and as far as religion is concerned I do not consider the niqab to be at all part of the religion as one of the leading Maliki scholars in the world today

no not myself I followed that on quite nicely actually though it sounded like I was talking about myself as one of the shemitah' Hara Yin who is one of the most senior Maliki authorities in the world today and who have had the pleasure of visiting him in his home right and he gifted me some of his personal books and in shall I do intend to god-willing visit him perhaps this year bismillah that would be awesome now he says and his his video is available on YouTube where he says that the niqab is not from no Sunnah it is not from the

father neither is it from the Sun it is a cultural kind of thing in the West I don't think people should worry at all right I think it causes much more of a barrier so what do you say about the wives of the Prophet covering their faces so it meetings hijab is part of the Sunnah is he there was this thing of that the process that Allah says to the wives of the Prophet that they should address people meanwhile Haeju was that hijab necessarily speaking about a face covering or a particular kind of barrier

behind which they would often address and teach people I think generally in their lifetime I think it was both they did they did used to cover but they had a a kind of covering for when they would offer extended advice and sessions and things like this and people would ask all sorts I think that was more for safeguarding them right because you have to remember that there were several in my understanding there were several attacks on the prophet salaallah Salem and and by

extension people would want to attack his wives as well I think it was more in my understanding to do with things like this because they weren't the only people you have to remember that the Arabs generally covered people covered their face as well in that time especially when they were traveling so it's like saying when I gave the motorbike example you get out you get on a bike you put a helmet on in the similar way as soon as they set out to travel due to the kind of dust due to the kind of desert desert like surroundings and that they would wrap up men and women they would all do that so

I think in that sense the prophets wives would do that as well but the covering they did have some rules which was specific to them one they became the mother of the believers and in that sense people would not people would not marry them and things like this that wasn't a kind of a sexist ruling or anything but it was a ruling it was it's it's a kind of compound ruling which has that one a sense of immense honor associated

with it so the thing is like the honor of the status being the of being the mother of the believers and to the fact that they carry an immense burden as well because they are married to the Prophet Allah Sodom okay now and after him they will convey the beam this thing about marriage and stuff like that in my understanding was once again done primarily to safeguard them but to to keep away people who may think of

attacking Islam the Prophet and the wives by extension so you have to understand that there were a lot of kind of plots against Islam as well against the Prophet as well in his time there were sassa nation attempts and there were people even saying things like just wait till mohammed salah salem dies and then we will marry his wives and watch what we do and they even now there is a culture in people I mean there's a huge I mean all the men will be aware of anyway but the thing is there's a coach ACC that

people they have this kind of like obviously that it's a very kind of macho and also this thing about like oh well you know if they get somebody else now like old now they've got somebody else's let's say I don't know girlfriend or something like this and and this is how culture involved even which he goes on to a lot to our day and age and we see in the you see it in all the pop thing and you see everywhere this whole thing about it being an insult to the other person that this is how they get people back that you know I did so and soul with your you know so and so and I did this and I did that and people then were not very different they were just people

like us so there was this kind of thing going on as well that people were saying that are just wait till Mohammed kind of dies and then this was part of their clocked that they were gonna part of the denigration was to marry some of his wives and then to kind of like have this boast about what they've done and stuff like this and this is why it was to safeguard then first the women the wives of the prostatitis alam the honor of the prophet and islam by extension so this is and they were given this choice when they married the prophet that look if the prophet says and certain the quran

that if you want the dunya allah will give you the dunya if you want the messenger of allah then it will be the messenger of allah and the akhirah and that is your choice i mean and and allah says that tells the Prophet to tell them you're free to go if you want to go and they's choose I share of the alarm has says for it's a high Arenado solid The Messenger of Allah gave us this choice and we chose to remain with him sallalaho aleyh wassallam & Rohde allahu anhu na jimmy on right so that's that okay next question people let's see this quota the I have to say this is a hell

of a lot of questions right so all a lot attributes what would you say to someone who says a loss attributes are contradictory either a lot either someone is all merciful or someone is strict in punishment hmm that's an interesting one you see that is interesting it's difficult to to say you see we understand Allah through how he explains and introduces himself to us Allah says he's all knowledgeable all

merciful that he's doing things in accordance with his will now the question is well hmm how can he offer punishment how can he do this but you have to remember human beings work in a particular way creatures work between motivation they between hope and kind of fear they it drives people so Allah will address his creation in a manner that he knows them

in a manner that he understands in a way he understands them and he understands them much better than themselves so he addresses them through this hope and fear construct because that is to which they respond it's like human beings all not even human beings creatures or they respond to stimuli and so Allah is addressing them with that so I don't think that's in any way contradictory I think it has to be done for people in general to kind of respond

why mondays I have school well that's why this is available to watch later on people that's why this is available right so there were some other questions by the way I that I've been asked previous just trying to recall some of these from the top right some people have asked about right there are some some personal questions and I want to tie this in with I'm gonna come back to these questions that being asked but I

want to tie this in with a previous show that we've done and the kind of uproar it caused okay right in one of my previous questions I was asked a question about masturbation and I answered the question of and I've answered this on more than one occasion but for some reason it generated quite a bit of an interest the last time I answered this so people got really passionate surprisingly and you know tried they went on this whole trolling

kind of spree to to kind of mock me to to kind of do all this this whole charade about oh my god why don't you do this look what musti's saying look at these people got so annoyed so annoyed it surprises me how annoyed people go based on this one response first of all I'd like to tackle some of these issues that have a reason in relation to this masala and the first point is what is the why am i discussing this issue well

I'm discussing it because I was asked this issue another question another point is but there are women listening perhaps children listening okay now this is what some people have said now look I don't and they may be young people watching this they may and they definitely will be women watching this right but why do you feel these things are an issue it's not a religious issue this is just this concern that some people have raised is your cultural

kind of issue it's not Islam doesn't say oh people can't know what masturbation is it's just your cultural heritage that has said that in fact if you read the thick books that have been written that have been written for young people in fact you could read the result of hypnotized Aid or any of these books which they say in the beginning that I have written this lisabean for young children to learn it they covering them with surprising detail all of these kind of issues they covering

them about penetration about issues like these and that so discussing these things I understand there may be a taboo especially in certain parts of this Indian subcontinent indo-pak world but we are not in India or Pakistan or Afghanistan or Bangladesh we are not over there we are in the UK okay so I understand it may affect some of you you know you may feel oh my god I get embarrassed every time I hear that well tough I mean okay if you don't like it you don't like it but do you really think look they teach children sex education in schools they want to teach

them and they've introduced it at primary school they've introduced this I mean it's mandatory at a secondary level from the age 11 onwards even when we were at school they started teaching us at the end of primary school I must have been about 10 or 9 when they started teaching and that's how this all my stop is how this all went wrong so the thing is look so they so it's not that these people it's not that people don't know and it's not women like women don't know these things it's oh my god oh my god a woman's gonna

hear these like people need to stop freaking out okay three people like adults so that's our monitoring that look if these kind of issues bother you my show is late it's past the watershed right which is nine o'clock I could never be before 9:00 I can't even seem to make 9:30 so I'm and I write on my 2n a unrestricted so you can ask me anything I will answer it in shelf-life I can so so I want to say that look if you're offended by that I first of all I don't mean to offend you that's not the purpose of my thing isn't to sit here and say yeah I'm gonna

offend that person over there but secondly I don't care if you're offended people have a right to know they ask Bible answer okay this is not Islam when the prophet salaallah salam was being asked you see this is an interesting point because modesty is defined culturally there's many things that were happening in the time of the prophet sallahu salaam that people today would consider immodest which is shocking so you would have it there's a hadith in Sahih Muslim somebody comes and asks the Prophet I should say you write this this is the hadith inside Muslim the wife of the Prophet is sitting right there the

Prophet is seeing somebody comes in the house and they talking then they say I want to ask you a question I was having sex the other day and I didn't ejaculate do I still need to do listen and the Prophet responds oh yeah me and I shall do that quite often and whenever we have sex like that we don't need you and I don't ejaculate I still do listen people today would consider that response to be immodest and that is the message of Allah so Ali something chef Adam kelwick has joined us Hasani Shahana a legend people legend those of you that don't know somebody who really are a

grassroots level is making a difference so if you're not following him follow him add him stay in touch with him an amazing chef right so the point is look this this is something which today would be insulted by if you said something can you imagine if if your wife was sitting there and you spoke about sake people will be like yeah both Bashara me they'd be like Sharon thunk oh my god Anna here T you know it's likewise wrong with this guy oh my god he's you know his wife was sitting there and so on and so forth and I almost said

almost that girlfriend I'm joking that's that what was that clip with a guy one of those sports people says I just want to say thanks to my wife and girlfriend no no I mean it was a viral clip but anyway so the thing is people would get really offended this is today and that is the Prophet saying this so when we speak about modesty really your understanding modesty through your own culture not through Islam so I just want to answer that so as the hadith says yes that in Allah Allah is the lie - there is no higher regarding matters of the theme okay

next point on this okay some people said fair enough if you are gonna answer the question on masturbation boy this must be making some people very uneasy they said why is he joking and laughing about it why is he laughing why are you saying nothing at a why can't he be like this why can't okay he wants to discuss say it's a matter of the Dean okay this is some criticism I've had all right this

is some criticism okay it's a matter of the Dean he could discuss it I never said he caught hmm but why can't he just discuss it like all the other shoe huh why can't he just say this is what Imam so-and-so said he said it's okay my mother said is okay and he said it's okay others disagreed and there's some hadith on both sides and there's a difference of opinion and this controversy worth it at that wanna and alhamdulillah he replied me why can't he discuss it like that why does he have to do all this hahahaha hope you stay with us to the end of the

show hahahahaha look I want to ask something why does my laughing bother you so much but they say oh he's turned this into a joke why have I turned it into a joke what I can't laugh now what you know this is poet he says that he's an Arabic he says

the hick to follow I'm a tactician he says the hick to are newer I'm attached to him but he back a twofer paru I'll add up to him he says that I I laughed and they said to me having you got no shame he says I cried I cried and they said why don't you smile somato for

our local even listen not dr. Falco Luca Cyril kill him first that's the he says I was silent and they said and they said God you know this guy has known no eloquence to him useless useless person just say in the he says when I began to speak they said daddy talk so much the point is look you can't please people you can't please people you know the heck to faqad or other tactician this is it like ok I'm

laughing saying don't you have no shame but cait of a bottle I'll add up to see me look I realize I will never be able to kind of please right I will never be able to please all people so right so the thing is so I've recognized that I won't be able to please all people but this comes back to your

personality right mmm the thing is sir people so people just a little emergency here

right just give me give me a moment sorry we lost my little ones not been well so just give me a moment got it gonna be right back this hang on Tajima mellitus there's some pictures like hurting in Kate don't tell my dad

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right sorry about that people bit of an emergency there or my little one the little or devil isn't too well right so right so the thing is look this is the issue you have to understand that this is this comes back to our personality okay everybody has a different personality we shouldn't try to what one thing we shouldn't do is try to be who we're not like why do we feel that the religion can only be transmitted through a serious a kind of morbid seriousness we

I'm gonna say well I'm gonna be like this and I'm gonna speak like who oh so you know this is what why do we feel that who told us that and they say well this doesn't suit religion what I understand what you're saying but I also understand why you're saying it you're not saying it because the religion taught you so you're saying it because you're saying it because your concept of religion is perhaps more influenced by culture and things like Catholicism then you actually think so the thing is that

you see you you have to understand alright okay so the thing is look anyway coming back to this point even in the time of the prophet sallal ISM there was some people who had a personality that would often be laughing right so amongst them there was a one companion by the name of Nariman and he was known to constantly be laughing you would laugh his head off he would laugh so loud and he would always be ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha laughing and he pranking and he played pranks on the prophet sallahu

lucidum and he did right so the thing is right so the thing is now the of Salalah solemn didn't condemn him he did things like he would do stuff like you and he would actually prank I mean it actually inconvenience so he would do things like he'd goat like hit by something and then say yeah I fought this yeah the bill yeah he's paying the bill and he would send them to the Prophet eat it and disappear you'd do things like this and so people

would be like is the property would be like what what are you talking about Evan I haven't purchased this and they'd say yeah that guy just said so and the prophets like no a man I think that's what it would be like and he would prank several pranks on the process of an asylum he in fact he played a prank on I think it was over kur once where he he went to somebody and he said I'm gonna sell you my slave you're by my slave and he pointed to this other I think it was up about Cairo is another companion he said that's my slave and the person said okay yeah fine how much you wanna sell him for he said look I need some quick cash so I'll do you a good deal so the guy said alright fine he said look ease

of world civil you know proper on the ball person help you out with all sort and of stuff so he made a deal and he said but he's got one issue I'm gonna declare his defect right so they said what's his issue he said his issue is that he's got this kind of complex that he seems to be deluded he keeps saying I'm not a slave I'm not a slave I'm a free man I don't know what you're talking about and keeps going on he goes I'm fed up with that but other than that is a decent person so they say not a problem and then so what happens is he sells him cooked him and he says what the hell are you talking about I'm not safe they go

night night a they go we know we know that one he goes but I'm not a slave and they say he's like what the hell mostly and they're trying to grab him and then they realize oh it's a prank so people complained to the Prophet about him people complain to the Prophet that this guy is always laughing off and he's always doing this stuff that how whoa you know what's tell him off and do you know what the process of Alison said they said tell him off or

we're gonna tell him off fix him or we're gonna fix him and the Prophet said that that hope that leave him alone that he will be entering paradise and still laughing his head off yet halal gender wahoo I am Huck that was the prophets response about about an or a man and he goes on to prank I mean he does this right thrice life to even with earth man he was incredibly in Osmonds time we play it was man's time he probably

placed this prank where he sees this blind guy and the blind guy is going and he says hey let me help you so the guy says are thanks thanks so he walks across and he says well is there anything else I could help you with and he says look I really need to take a leak need to go to the toilet so this can I was gonna like obviously the blind person had a usual spot where you go to but he said if there's a spot anywhere close by here this this you know I'd be of great help he says not a problem my

friend says labbayk was a take I'm has it wounding up so he says look all right oh yeah no problem I'll take you says yeah come with me hold my hand and take my hat so he takes him into the mosque and he takes him into the corner and he says yeah here nobody's he said nobody's around here go for it so the guy sits down and starts taking a leak in the Masjid so the people jump in they go to him you got damn so and so you know how dear you desecrate the Masjid and blah blah blah so he's obviously now as you can imagine

well you know I been beaten up and must have obviously wet himself as well and he's and he says I'm blind so then they go over are all everybody back off back off all yours is so they say to him look what he says I said I wouldn't come to the Masjid somebody brought me here I said take me to a quiet place so they say ah he says who brought me who brought me so they say that was not a man she says all right he says I take an oath the day I catch not a man I will beat the hell out of him all right

so now what happens is he now a man finds out about this so they say you know that blind guy that you did that to he's really after you so nine months is really he says our eyes I said are ah I got this so he sees him one of the days and he goes up to him and kind of this what is he kind of disguising his voice a little says hello you know how's it going oh I hear you're often this guy who did something really you know naughty naughty with you and he says yeah yeah yeah yeah he's not a man and

he says I know where he is and the guy says Allah he please please you'll be doing a favor to this blind man this old man if you can take me to him he says not a problem no no I don't worry coming completely come with me then get on me go I saw the thing is he takes him with him he says come with me it takes it into the Masjid again an earth man who happens to be at the time the ha'la'tha of the Muslims the head of

states the whole the Holly fertile mostly mean right is it seeing there I mean he's actually praying is in sama and he takes him up to him and he says he says I'm gonna take you up to him he says he's not looking so we gotta be quiet and when I kind of put you forward that's him in front of you so he says okay then and he takes this to gets his stick ready so he says go he starts walking with mine

buying sauce mine as you can imagine is in Salaam dad ah he's liking attacked so because what the hell's going on people think who the hell is attacking the halifa of the Muslims they jump him again so this guy so he gets now beaten up again so now Oz man says well what happened so they tell us man this is the issue so they tell us man you have to punish him knowing man and Earth man's response was how can I do something to somebody who

the prophet tolerated himself you see so the reason I'm sharing this with you people I'm not trying to say to you should go out there and prank what I'm trying to say is people have personalities okay my personality may be eccentric I mean it is eccentric is definitely weird it's warped all of these things are you don't need to tell me I'll tell you I'm totally warped okay so I get that but you see we're different people are different you don't need to think oh this person should change he should fit

into a particular box which is all about morbidity being morbid and being like always sad or being kind of very serious or being very and somehow we see people equate a long thing to the inability inability to comprehend the seriousness of things that's not true laughing or a laughing mindset where you're always laughing thing is not the inability rather it's the ability to respond to

all levels of seriousness with a sense of lightness Watson was not the ability to respond without becoming so stressed that's what it is it doesn't mean that oh you know just because I might be laughing that I know comprehend these shoes or I can't understand them or I can't realize what is serious and what isn't I do realize what is serious but they just ain't funny enough so that's just me so I mean if you you know if you

don't like that fine the other thing is that look I don't understand how people who seriously hate me so much are so emotionally and mentally invested in me like if you hate me if you can't stand me then don't follow me don't watch my videos don't look you know what I'm about you just have to look at me and I obviously don't look like you you're kind of you know some share from the Arabian Peninsula so and I'm obviously not of that mentality so look don't follow me don't you know don't listen to

me don't like why are you getting so you know you these people follow me so closely they almost stalk my things and then they get upset well you know that's what hate does to you that's what hate does to you I would say to you look chill out don't worry about it people don't worry about it what what's that there's a poem he'll come to me will come to me right so the thing is

now if so that's what that's what I would advise people don't hate life's too short to be really hating any and it really just punishes you as a person it doesn't punish anybody else there is something in my chef area actually says where he says he says cooler water torture more data in LA Adel Waterman hidaka and hazard a the everywhere every kind of animosity can turn into friendship

except the person who opposed you based on hate and that is so true that is so true so I mean that's what the other thing is what I'd like to say is I'd like to highlight what this masala actually was okay this must Allah which are highlighted about obviously about self-indulgence as you might want to call it you see I explained to you that there is a difference of opinion I explained to people that this it's not

clear-cut Haram some people have said it's Haram other people have disagreed I highlighted - you are agnostic brings narrations from the selleth saying that we would command our youth to do this so they can still remain modest so they can remain pure and they can remain they don't become so distracted with thoughts and things like this and I said that look that that's you know that's a and understanding that was also the view of Imam Ahmed even handle that what that this at the end of the day it's just it's it's a personal thing if a person does it does it if he

doesn't he doesn't do it and and the thing is that people who get so worked up about this it's surprising how much they actually resemble things like Catholicism how much of maybe a subconscious Catholic influence they have on their understanding of religion more than Islam more than Islam because it does not make sense that within Islam you would have this kind of Puritanism this kind of it does not make and I've said to people I've said look and here's the irony look things like this I've

asked some people sometimes okay so tell me self-indulgence is Haram as you say is it Haram for your partner to to do that to you so they say no that's okay ah okay all right so it's okay for somebody else to do it but it's not okay for me to do to me so you say okay let me let me add another layer is it okay for waltz my partner did that to me that my hands are

above is that okay so they would say yeah that's okay is it okay for me to adjust the speed levels by my hands so they would say that's okay so I say well so what if she accidentally moves her hands and my hands happen to touch my own organ right at that point it now becomes Haram and then they say I've turned they're releasing into a job I mean seriously does that even make any sense it's okay for other people to do

this to you it's just not okay for you to do to you but it's okay for you to control it the people doing it to you but it's not ok if that medium suddenly gets room I mean how ridiculous is this how ridiculous is this what kind of a religion is this this is why I say that this is what these are the kind of things the Prophet was warning against when he said you will end up following the Jews and the Christians he wasn't talking about things like he wasn't talking about things like or dressing like them like some fools and naive people believed he was talking about

turning the deen into this Puritanism saying christianity they had all this celibacy and this is a sin this is all this and and over the time yes many Muslims also many scholars as well started to see that kind of outlook and they got influenced as well by there and other people disagreed with them but it's a it's time that people do evaluate and see what's right in line with the Quran and Sunnah and Allah says in the Quran ma farratna fi l-kitabi min shay'in' not left out anything in this book by default all things are

permissible so if you can show me where Allah has said it's Haram with God said it's Haram or the Prophet said it's Haram everything else and then the ironies and I asked the irony these are the same people who will support advocate that oh it's okay you know I had somebody trolled me and say or even a hasn't actually said it was bad manners I said okay right and the and these are the same people who say oh in our Islamic books

they say sex slavery is okay they say it's okay consent is not necessary if the female if you have a female sex slave you can essentially rape her they say it's okay because she's your property they say a sex slave doesn't even need to cover breasts or anything she just needs to cover between the navel and the knee like a man and they actually say and a slave wasn't even allowed to wear the hijab they say she should be stripped off her hijab so we can tell she's a slave these are the kind of views that they endorse in their books

how can you endorse those views and then find this immoral how like is this not an inconsistency but you can you can somehow support all of these views you don't find them problematic but you find a little you know somebody touching themselves all problematic so my point was look have some consistency learn your own religion so I mean look why why is it that you are so quick to act all Puritan I'm so puritanical I'm so

puritanical and and ask these same scholars you know these same scholars that say this is Haram Haram Haram they will protect they will defend all of these things that I said they will actually say oh yes they would say oh we don't do it today they would say oh we don't do sex slavery today but but it's okay but it's okay in this file but we don't do it today you see so I asked you so what's different then between what you're pushing and what Isis is pushing what's different and why do you act so why do you act so puritanical when you speak about small things like this okay so this is my

point anyway so I wanted to clarify that because it really did bother me that look I mentioned to you great a man's I told you there were chains of transmissions going back to people like Hassan Abbas Ali the great tablet II who met over a hundred companions they were competent relations going back to the self saying we would command our youth they were narrations going this statements from imam ahmed in humble saying look what difference does it make it allows people to distress and it's carry on with their lives what you can disagree with that view i understand you can disagree with that view but why are you so and why does it bother you other

people do I can understand look if you don't want to follow an opinion don't follow it why are you so bothered about what other people do why do you want to control everybody I mean okay I don't want to do it let's say I say I don't want to do something I won't do it why is it like huh huh why is everybody why are the other people on this job who happened to be her self indulging like what the hell is he gonna do with you mate it's the last I checked you weren't God these ain't your people ain't your creation so look leave people alone so this is the thing so mean that's that somebody

had asked me what do you think of for a young chefs up who is for a young are you talking is that that I mean Hans wife Pharrell I don't know each other for elu speaking of and I have no opinions on such people I mean I don't really know them so I can't really speak about them alright so the thing is look the thing is coming back to I've been asked as well how do you cope because other people out there struggle as well how do you cope with these kind of things people trolling me people that set up certain kind of pages dedicated to trolling

things like this and I would say look don't my advice to other people as well people would they would always be haters out there there will always be haters you set your eyes on the girl don't worry about these people I mean have fun tease them wind him up a bit but do not let them bother you okay they are far too insignificant okay I

say to people look I'm just want you have liked in the UK we must have thousands of ulema thousands I mean every year the Medeiros system must be churning out about 400 at least orlimar we must have thousands and I don't know maybe 10 15 thousand or the mine the UK we must have although most of them are voiceless but we must have so many like that right so the thing is right why am i view I'm just one person you've got so many you've got hundreds you've got

thousands of people with the opposing views so feel comfortable follow them I mean don't why are you getting so insecure over one person so that's what I would say is that look don't and this is going out to other people as well who face let's say just in their day-to-day lives hate or things like this don't worry about it keep your eyes on the goal keep going inshallah greatness awaits you these people are way too insignificant people who are obsessed about other people the punishment is poetic justice is that

they just suffer throughout their lives and I want to add another point that I want to address another question here you see there are different this is to do this question is to do is really just City okay who is all this there's a lot of comments about us even who there is a Steven right right okay right so he's blocked all right anyway sell the thing is there's a question about religiosity who turns to

religion now I understand that the vast majority of Muslims like I've said before are not really your kind of religious religious people so to them religion is a kind of rite of passage something that they resort to on for ceremonial use so for example births marriages divorces and deaths so these are the four rites of passage that people will resort to religion on in addition to that they will resort to religion for redemption okay when people are feeling guilty they will come to

religion to redeem them so they can feel better and linked in with Redemption is for a kind of source of blessing that they want some peace so they come to religion now this is generally the vast majority of you can call them non-practicing kind of regular muslims regular muslims now out of these you're gonna get different types different strands you're going to get the strand who want to become more associated with religion but they see religion is too polarized so they see this mallanna

this moldy sob who wears this long kurta unfortunately many of whom may be kind of you know not maybe in the best of shape and stuff a bit disheveled and they've got this look and and they think to themselves to be religious I have to be like that Coke looks flat I love flat drinks honestly drinks but I honestly Pepsi unsurprised they haven't done a flat version I would definitely be buying it all the time so anyway that's a side note right so the thing is look now these people they see a polarization

so they see I can't look like that v4i can't be religious so they dissociate themselves from like that golf grows farther and farther apart okay these kind of divergence these are the people that I'm reaching out to okay this is my objective and maybe the objective of many of you here to kind of show that the theme is a natural part of our lifestyle that it's not something which should inhibit your life it should complement your life that you can be however you want whoever you want and

the Dean is very much you it will be like the air that is around you you will not even notice it okay now this that is the people and the message that I'm trying to get out to and get to me and then you get another strand of these people who are not you're not the same let's say not religious and religious crowd but they're not religious crowd that I'm speaking to regular Muslims you get another strand of them who are not trying to necessarily connect to religion but they need religion for redemption you see to these people

redemption is important so they feel guilty with all the sins they're doing and they want to be redeemed a bit like the Christian confession like they have this thing of absolve me from my sins or Father forgive me your father for I have sinned so the thing is now this thing right these people will naturally have a problem when they see me why because you see the image I portray doesn't offer Redemption it shows them the very same

life that they're already in okay so you see to these people they already in this kind of life so these people would already like they wear a t-shirt or a necklace bracelet chill out maybe not spiky here I don't think many people have spiky here think I'm just an anomaly with that but maybe a goatee or you know chill down and they might think music is not haram anyway they might indulge they might do these kind of things so these people the last they don't want to see somebody like me because I just offer them religion but like I offer them that

other Deen is like oh you can be good like who you want to be but you need to connect with your Creator to them that's not they need something that they need to feel redeemed so they need to feel like they have suffered so when they come on - right when they come on to a religion they need to do something like change their attire grow a beard look have people look down on them they need that as a rite of passage to kind of feel that they have

been redeemed for them to say look I've I know I've started praying but I can carry on looking like this isn't enough so I understand sometimes why these people they get so disturbed when they see me that strand of people I get that look they will be bothered when they see me because I don't offer that level of redemption for them but you see first of all that's not I'm trying to aim this at people who are trying to reconnect with the Dean who through a naturalness okay now for other people who need an attire

who need an absorb and absolution they need to be absolved of their sins they need to be kind of go through this rite of passage they need confession they need this kind of very which are really to me very Catholic kind of things but people that need that obviously I'm not your obviously not your guy and I get that I respect that you have thousands of other people that you can go to in fact the majority of all people that you will ever turn to in religion will look like that so my advice to them is look just don't be so judgmental you yourself have come out of this like you want to connect with religion so let

not the commandant you hold on to be let's be judgmental because that's not a commandment okay so you've just come out of this world or life where you feel wrong that you've wronged people or wrong things so the last thing you should do now is be judgmental of other people that's just hypocrisy are you better than that god damn it you sow you shall Lots up I just want to give though not share those words insha'Allah with all

of you okay so write that about the Adil jumper and he face that was that was the thing that was the the poem right I'll share that with you actually this is this is actually a good one Parvathi Adil Jabbar nahi phase key seeker vote douche manager here to block you nahi data see this is the thing when you hate on people it's your choice if you want you can forget them so it's not it's your choice to be preoccupied with

people right let's take some of these there was some really fascinating questions sorry to be I've kind of gone on about that but it was important so that's why I did kind of go on write 'what's the ruling on feeding cats Haram food what are you gonna serve them haha roti right so the thing is look animals can eat anything okay relax people they're not human beings and they're not governed by the Sharia they

don't follow fit right so will that gel really have a garden and fire with him or these metaphors in my understanding these things are more metaphoric about about realities which perhaps even we don't comprehend today or maybe we will in time I don't think there were little things like is going to carry this and carry this say you want to choose this or this I don't think it's literal but that's my understanding people may disagree malachy opinion on raising hands in congregation officer but just to come back to that look there is a lot of metaphor in in the Quran and Sunnah

there's a lot of metaphor okay there's a lot of religious speak and it's nothing new we don't need to get worried about that we don't need to kind of think oh my god oh my god there's a lot of speak like that things like that the Prophet I give this example with the Prophet says Oh a person traveling on its own is a shape on is a devil of two people traveling or a devil but three people that travelers now why does can you wobble share so mmm I think that guy's just got blocked alright so the thing is

now my that the point is that you see when the Prophet said that about people traveling what he meant was to safeguard them okay that's what he was trying to do look out for their best interest and sometimes that's done through religious speak okay so it's nothing to be kind of get all worked up about there is metaphor and Muslims were so used to metaphor I'm telling you they were so used to metaphor there was metaphor in everything before poetry so much

metaphor right honestly immense metaphor look in the Quran Allah says oh and when Musa went up and in fact he came this he came across this wall for watch it a day there and they found this wall you reader a young cub and the wall wanted to fall over woods don't want things and they know you know they don't have desires and determination there are inanimate objects but the wall wanting to fall over this is language its metaphor okay so these things exist

all the time those of you I said an ordered o power a little earlier 102 poetry I mean is it's awesome the reason I'm given that as an example is because you can't perhaps understand many of you Arabic poetry but poetry in any language has so much metaphoric or do poetry prior to and the kind of even actually practice mmm even after the British thing but prior to that when it was a lot more independent a lot so if you look at the classical poets like me and all these people so much metaphor so much metaphor when they often speaking about some when

they're praising beauty for example they will refer to so let's say the beloved whoever that is as an example of whoever they want to praise they refer to them as as almost like false idols false gods okay alaikum Salaam Kem so the thing is look they refer to them as idols which today people would hit the roof over but this is poultries full of that so they would call them they would call them the in fact the order word sanam which is used for like beloved or something like this is

actually the Arabic word sanam with Assad sanam which means like which comes in the Quran Aslam statues which are worshipped false deities is a sunnah and the reason they call this is because it's metaphor to say that the person is so committed and devoted to this person in appreciating them that you'd almost think he's worshiping her or him whatever as a false deity so this is so they call them sometimes like both stature which we still use today commonly in Urdu and many you know common kind of dialects as well which

means idols statues they still call them like butanna but Kedah you know this kind of what does me say is in one of his points he says that let us now go from this place of from this house of idols let us now go from this up to chart a up to Cheltenham put kadai Samir let us go from this kind of Idol like a temple idol worship please pay me Lengai

girlhood Elias he says that we will meet again if if God wills it if God guides us to this again so so you can see the kind of irony in false deity and God guiding us to this again that we will meet again if God guides us to this again so this kind of thing you know when he's saying things like this this was so common but today people obviously get really emotional over all this kind of stuff and this is because a lot of our influences come from certain parts

of the world so I know that the Salafi group for example they deny any metaphor being in the horns although there is metaphor in the Quran they can't deny in language but they don't like to accept there being any metaphor generally maybe they might debate one or two instances but they say that there's no such thing as metaphor in the Quran and these are the influences that are impacting many young people in this part of the world unfortunately due to the kind of reach that certain mediums have through the finances that they can provide okay

right will Maliki opinion on raising hands in congregation after Salah look the thing is raising hands after Salah it's a common practice Imam Malik and the early school of Medina did not like this they considered it an innovation because the Prophet never did it that everybody does to us like after Salah I mean like everybody does this to be honest with you so I would personally be with the early school of Medina which is the Imam Malik and several you know a few huh at least several centuries after who didn't really they

consider it Haram but they consider it better not to do these innovations because they say as Imam Malik said the Sunnah is enough for us that why do we need to make things up if we've got the Sunnah now however the later Maliki I did say it was fine they agreed with the chef at a school and the Hanafi school in saying that innovations can be good as well so I mean if you want to do it it's fine it doesn't really bother me personally I don't do it myself obviously I mean if I was in a place where everybody was gonna steam stare down at me if I didn't I would do it but I I wouldn't normally find a choice I wouldn't do it but if somebody chooses to do it it doesn't bother I wouldn't be

like oh my god yeah you know why do you do this diversity you know mean as I said before that the Deen of Allah that that this Deen of ours is incredibly fast and more vast than that is the mercy of Allah so we shouldn't forget that people it's been asked many times having pictures in your house and then hazard Ayesha when she used to use a picture on pillow Prophet did not into the house that's not you see I've answered this before that you can have pictures in your house the picture that she had on a curtain was the Prophet SAW rights and we see a code to the Maliki

math of these two opinions you can either when you're standing in pray can look at Institut at the place of sujood like by the way I've done the praying how to pray according to school of medina video so people image to a plug in right there if you haven't watched the watch if people like it share it god damn it right get it out there and I know a lot of you are asking before so inshallah hope that's of some help in the molecule method this - you can either look down at the point of soju that's called the yard said oh you can look straight ahead now if you look straight ahead now according to this hadith you see the Prophet was praying now that my lackeys would say well that's because he was looking straight ahead at the curtain

and there was a picture so the Prophet said I find myself getting distracted by this picture so I Cheryl the lonja removed it and she made a pillow so some people interpreted this to say oh she cut it up and made a pillow it doesn't say that in the thing that she cut it up and there's a hadith which asahi with the Prophet said Allah rock mumfie thought except what is a drawing in a cloth that is okay pictures of falling people even idols figurines statuettes these things are fine that was early Islam when there was a strong fear that people were so close

to you know leaving idol worship that they may fall back into it today this kind of stuff isn't gonna happen if you see a statue you're not gonna stop thinking oh my god maybe this is a god I doubt it anyway right so wearing red clothing isn't allowed in Islam due to a hadith in Sahih Muslim you see there are conflicting hadith about wearing red that's not inside Muslim that's actually in other books like even imagined and other books of the process some forbade red now however there's a hadith in Sahil Bihari and another sahi where the Prophet is being described and I think

it's a Ana's bin Malik and I think his Baba who is describing the messenger of allah salla listen and he says I worried I saw him in a red suit they used to have their versions of suits which were like a top which went with the bottom kind of sarong and is art and they had a kind of like a shirt thing that went with it and a matching one was called a suit it's called a hula in Arabic so he says ah a tuna ba sallallahu alayhi wa sallam fie her Latin hammer ah I saw The Messenger of Allah so handsome in a red suit and he says and it was the best I'd seen anybody wear red and so

from here many ala ma imam malik and other people said look there's no harm in wearing red the messenger of allah so handsome himself wore red some well mi tried to say look oh this was maybe how do you reconcile and they said well maybe those other hadith don't clearly say right there like when red is mixed with something so they said maybe it's to do with when red is tainted with something some people said oh this is a woman like color and I think the Hanif he must have kind of seemed to have gone down that way of saying this was a woman like color and therefore a feminine kind of color and therefore women should worry some people said this was just textual and you see there's an

interesting thing since I'll be hard from if not bus he says when it comes to clothing do whatever you want do whatever the hell you want mine but he says as long as two things are being watched he says one do not be kind of do not be unnecessarily extravagant in squandering wealth every buy a nice expensive suit buy expensive stuff but not unnecessarily squandering the

extravagant so like I say you know what I'm gonna buy a t-shirt I'm gonna buy this t-shirt for a thousand pounds I mean but I mean it could be expensive but it doesn't need to be unnecessarily like extravagant right so he says that he says I remind you of serif and then he said Mithila and he says and don't be arrogant in your clothing you can you can feel good feel confident but don't be arrogant don't look that arrogance it's not when you feel up it's when you look down on other people

feel up all you like people because when you feel up your confidence levels are raised and your productivity as a person is enhanced so feel up all you want just don't look down on other people that's all so he says these two things which I think are awesome some people like a man poverty he he has an interesting kind of mix he says that look it should be based on the day in age he says in his day and age scholars don't wear red so he doesn't like it but he doesn't consider it Haram but he says you shouldn't kind of you should go with your day and age that was his understanding and even a higher kind of goes along the similar

track to a body Amba right okay I have a question about how the hadith showed the severity of missing celina congregation interpreted if it is Sunnah entailing no sin you see the thing is you have to understand when the this ruling on praying in congregation is a Sunnah okay why was it so strongly emphasized by the Prophet because in his time they were the first effective community in his time it was important that they maintained regular contact

with the messenger Allah regarding revelation regarding rulings regarding strategy it also was a deterrence from hypocrites who were conspiring and plotting to destroy Islam it was important that people had this kind of bloodline this this kind of heart that was pumping into the people now this is still important today but it's not an obligation I understand that the humble Emeth have does consider it an obligation but the other methods don't now so and some people felt that oh if you are a neighbor of a Masjid then your

salah is invalid unless you're in the masjid but that the most most methods like the school of medina the Hanafi mother Shafi mother didn't really accept that interpretation so I hope that helps in sha allah and i understand look up enormous road does say he says that look it is a sunnah but he says that if you leave the sunnah of your messenger abdullah atham you've been misguided and so on but once again i understand that to be strong rhetoric to keep something alive okay imam Ilyich himself actually didn't attend the Masjid and did not pray in

his local mosque for almost 25 years of his life which is quite shocking considering who he was the dawn of Medina and when he was asked why you know you don't do that he just said some people tried to say it was because he was ill but it wasn't because he says he actually responds in some of these things and he says he says if I go there he says I can't be there not be critical so he said I'm just

gonna leave it and that's why his actual response was when he said he said I can't be there except I will want to be critical and then he said so I just shot chose to not be there and the thing is which is really interesting I mean you see sometimes we have a perception of what religion was like how people were and then there's the reality we need to understand that our perception is what is not on point people today when they think of Islam through the ages I'll tell you how a lot of people think they look back to

something like because a lot of people let's say they have a rural background in let's say in the UK from like India Pakistan now they will say they'll look back to their grandparents yeah who lived a simple life in a village that isn't metropolitan cosmopolitan and they will picture oh this is how people must have been for hundreds and hundreds of years until now recent modernity that is not true you are looking at people in a village who are not your normal day without rural people who usually lack things like ambition they just I mean I

don't mean to denigrate them but they are usually people who just have a particular mindset they grow up they farm they live through farming and they pass and that's their life people historically are not like that they actually very much like modern city folk people today except you just remove some of the modernity tools we have they were as conniving as clever as sharp as kind of twisted as kind of whatever that you can think of people today they were just like that they were as reckless they they weren't

like these people think back to like the ancestors in some village and think oh all people were like they are here they weren't that's just because these are some people who live through some very hard times in a rural part of the world and they didn't have much external ambition they just said that that's not how the world was previously the world had that as rural parts and it had cities so people need to understand that historically people were just like like they when they think back about scholars they think are not

now we're asked you know they look like they refuse to accept that scholars were influenced by their environments by the thought that was going on in their time there's a question here about like food and the Bihar bat thing that is sacrificed in the name of of other gods Orden you see you have to understand that historically all people usually went when it came to docile animals they sacrificed them as some kind of offering to they God this was the norm throughout

the world hunted animals weren't usually sacrificed his offerings they were just hunted now so Islam says that what is Haram is what has been sacrificed for another God so the thing is that but historically that was the norm so my point it what I mean what I would say to people there by the way is that obviously as far as if I understood the question correctly Hallel we as muslims would stick to halal what is the veha meat which is slaughtered kind of meat and this is one

of the functions it serves is it an identity that has unites Muslims worldwide and it also kind of gives us a certain one adds a ritual element to it that it's been sacrificed in the name of Allah but two it unites Muslims through a kind of identity and it is important and identity this was the identity that the Prophet gave us he gave us the food and he gave us the Salah but people seem to abandon and then they've made it into all these other things and not that and which is ironic so that's what I would say but my point of mentioning the food thing is that you

see people don't understand they get kind of shocked like when they think of religion today they have this understanding that look let's take a look at the school of Medina according to the school of Medina this will be a little to freak you out right according to the school of Medina very few animals are ever actually Hara to eat pig is haram animals which are dead or Haram so they already dead animals have been sacrificed for other than Allah so if you sacrifice an animal for Vishnu or although Hindus are generally supposed to be a vegetarian but let's say for

some for Zeus Thor right well for holding you know if you're sacrificing then it's Haram other than that no animal is Haram they might be discouraged saw a lion isn't Haram according to the school of Medina a tiger isn't Haram a wolf is a Haram elephant is a Haram giraffe kangaroo none of these things are Haram according to the school of Medina wild animals wild animals only mackerel like but they're not Haram everything in the air everything that flies is halal

Eagles vultures crows are not that people eat them but everything that's in the sea is Halla including amphibians including crocodiles including Turtles total these crabs everything right so I actually recently just had a croc burger so I wanted that for so bad I was like I want to taste the crocodile book so finally got to eat one right but the point was look these things stops or not that's shocking to people because that's not the perception of religion but surprise surprise and nothing that you

have had your perception you prejudged and I accept according to the school of Kufa the hanafi madhhab the Shaffer amantha of the humbly mother many things are Haram but the school of Medina with a profit lift uh-huh uh-huh people the school of Modena yep I ate a crocodile I ate a cross I want you to eat a crocodile for so long honestly it's been now finally got to eat once I was like whoa I actually tasted quite nice I have to save sweet crispy and it was a I so badly want to taste something like like I wonder what lion meat or

Tiger meat actually tastes like but anyways you see that these things people get shocked because their perception of religion is different but this is the school of Madinah people it is different so get used to it when somebody came to imam malik and he said i want to learn the deen he said then take up residence in medina he said that the Quran was not revealed at the at the river banks of the Euphrates he said it was here and that the messenger of allah salatu salam

lived and taught it was here that the Quran was revealed it was here that the angel jibreel descended and it was here that the messenger Allah rests so he said so if you want to learn Islam get yourself to Medina see that this is the thing that people they they find the school of Medina all warped and they find it all strange that's you know that's the thing right okay right people I think I better stop trying to wrap up

some of these there are so many amazing questions I really wanted to get into as well let's see what else has been is studying at a most erm level more intense in Pakistan India Syria or the Middle East countries you see the thing is that studying an island course you have to remember that you will take away from it what you bring to the table right like they as long as they can provide you the the content but you are the vessel so some places it's it's kind of like a mix thing because in places like Pakistan I studied in

Pakistan I stood in the Middle East as well and I visited other countries as well to benefit North Africa Morocco Egypt but the thing is and obviously here in the UK some places are excellent in some things like Pakistan India excellent in providing the kind of the hadith coverage and things like this the content the breath fitting it in to the syllabus and stuff but then their mentality sometimes is very rigid and they condemn critical thought and they don't like you being free open-minded they don't like you analyzing or evaluating and you might get the odd share that might be kind of okay with

that but finding somebody like that open-minded I did have some xu who are slightly open-minded in in in pakistan but they were a minority okay so in the arab world you get sometimes depends where you are you'll get sometimes more open-minded people but you might not get the same breadth of syllabus that's set in the institutes because I think the Institute's unfortunately in some places are not as army places like al-azhar obviously massive massive but I mean the smaller Institute's are not as well-funded and things like that and then you get places like the UK where

you will definitely suffer in terms of maybe the content but you if you if you do secular studies as well where you mix with people it will give you cognitive openings so sometimes you have to mix up all of these things okay and you have to mix up your teachers I studied in in a brave Emad rasa in beer kerim Shah who is an amazing amazing one of the the the best scholars that Pakistan has produced if you want to call it Pakistan obviously I'm sure he was from around pre you know creation of Pakistan but peer kerim Shah Saab who I highly revered he was one of the early chief

justices the supreme judge of the federal sharia courts in Pakistan and he was very forward minded very forward-thinking very inspired by Shaolin Liddell away and his calm said his version of mohassid of the objectives of the Sharia way ahead of his time Piazza was he would if you read some of his Futaba even then challenging things like why people have said music was Haram and stuff like this way ahead of his time he was the first person in Pakistan to infuse contemporary education with religious education in the matter so the first of his first Mother's of his kind to do that now almost mothers do it but he was the

first he was a graduate from also from al-azhar and a student of people like a you know chef a bizarre-o who is an amazing outstanding al-azhar kind of legend so so you see that kind of influence I studied in a Deobandi Madras some amazing ma sha if I had people with incredible kind of devotion and commitment people are spoken about previously like chef Abdul Armand Tully who I highly inspired me in many ways to you know his humor his kind of his things of but at

the same time his devotion to to the studies to hadith he's his kind of commitment to to saying that where the evidence takes you you should go people like a share as either a man who is a major share for happy he was in the same madrasah he taught he teaches now Bihari taught us tirmidhi taught me personally in his home the Mokpo and amazing a person with so much of a reverence for the thought for this beam and the sciences seriously so much respect he had for when studying hadith and teaching hadith and hummed allows

fortunate to have a very personal kind of bond with him when I was studying and and these people were from that day that was at the open the Institute I studied our Salafi Institute I took the exam I would often go to they they had an amazing library it was funded by the Middle East no surprises there but it was an amazing library I read through I actually read through oceans of things like ignite Amyas that are a little after one knuckle of the clash between reason and text and scripture in that library when I was

would attend the samovar carousel afiyah and I gave their exam for a BA for a bachelor's and past right so the thing is so I studied there my shoe have been and I think it's important to diversify because then you humanize all groups and it doesn't become about a group it becomes about a mentality there you have issues with people as opposed to having issues with with us you have issues with that's not that wrong there you have issues with mentalities of people as opposed to issues with groups okay so it's the mentality which is an issue

okay so I mean that's something that I would encourage look if you ask gonna study try to diversify try to learn from everyone look even if you disagree with people I tell you that they I studied with Azhar Harry Shearer believe it or not when I was in Damascus I took something is an amazing one of the most eloquent people I use a major fan of it NASM somebody who who kind of against my will against my will he forced the love of igner has him into my heart against my will I mean when I met him I didn't

like it has him very much and I would mock you know like like you know like be sarcastic and stuff like that and and against my will of it he really just like just being just showed me that you know he was an amazing legend and and I had to say that you know what he he was an amazing legend and and so that was somebody who is this this share his name was Bothell actually which means he role he was a Somali share he was a legend honestly one of the most eloquent people in arabica ever come across and I got I

actually ended up living with him for a little while and so I benefited from him and so the thing is you have to diversify and then you get obviously my allegiance and love primarily is with the school of Medina but the thing is there's no look this is all part of our heritage it's all Islam it's all our Deen it's all yes my general thing is with the school of Medina but it's all it's all the-- and and I think in shall life people are gonna go out and study then why not kind of why not indulge sure why not inshallah and it's amazing

to see that people I think true somebody saying without just cuz you can't whoa what's that about I think a sensible right without being exposed to alternative perspectives you can never grow I totally agree cognitive growth only comes through conflict through cognitive conflict there has to be dissonance okay cognitive dissonance which will result in growth okay so that is

immensely important people are there any other burning questions if not a Mia the legend did not say Mia was a legend definitely in many things mostly Tuppy worth money mostly Tokyo smiley is an amazing individual I have to I have to say definitely I mean mostly Tati I was asked a question about women traveling and I've said before that women can travel in in groups they can travel on their own they can travel in airplanes trains they can do this the key thing was safety if their safety is generally there like it is in this part of the world then it's

fine they can you know if they're gonna get into a plane and land in a certain air poor and then go that's fine they can do that and many people have given that fatwa including people like I mean traditionally within the school of Medina like people religions like I would Walid al bhurji in his commentary on the mob boss says about women traveling he says if they're in a caravan a caravan is like us he says it's like a town what difference does it make he says the main thing was this safety and it's in short people today like chef Muhammad Al Hassan added oh he legend from Mauritania has spoken like

that and I heard must be ducky in his private that's in when I say private I mean in his class lecture is not private but I mean he's his thoughts on Bihari he actually said that's what he personally believes as well I don't know if he'll come out and say that to the public knowing the pressures in Pakistan but he said that two people who were witnesses who told me that yeah I mean they're in his class right now and they told me look this was what was covered and Sheriff made it very clear that was his choice and so I respect this kind of thing that he is doing although I would disagree with him on certain things I came across a fatwa of his recently about some women being troubled in some

parts of Europe regarding the hijab so they asked him that share what is it necessary that these women have to wear hijab I would say that look look I've highlighted this before how a jab fits into the Sharia I won't repeat that again it's in my previous thing about the the the kind of stages that the Sharia places importance on right so you have the necessities then the kind of needs and the kind of D cool but I see me at and that's where he Japanese if you are feeling threatened or intimidated and that the a so the real reason he jab came was for modesty so I

would say look as long as you're just modest you can dress in a modest way if you're feeling intimidated you do not need to wear the hijab okay like that so this is for people who are being threatened in certain parts of Europe that are facing threats some women have been attacked there's awful awful videos of of like women getting kicked down subways and all these kind of things going on may Allah protect them may Allah protect people everywhere I mean but the thing is anybody that's fearing that's fearful they do not need to like they want to take off the hijab they can take off the hijab the main reason this came was for modesty okay preserve

modesty that's the main thing if you feel comfortable then you can resort back to the default ruling of wearing the hijab now the thing is what I heard mostly Ducky's response to this I've ready actually was that he said well they should just migrate and I thought I thought come on get real I mean that's you know I I love and respect multi Duffie and considering from my definitely from my indirect teacher he's one of the teachers of my direct kind of teachers and stuff so the thing is but

that is not a pragmatic solution hey I know oh you're suffering and why do you get up and leave and go away Pakistan what the hell will you just get kidnapped and gang-raped like what kind of you can see the kind of turbulence that's going on in Pakistan it's become rip infested with terrorism bombs going off everywhere zero value for life corruption I mean look but don't get me wrong I love Pakistan in that sense but I'm just saying it for what it is when you say things like this watch what you want people to do just get up and leave go away go where do you want them to go

what and is that how life works there you just get up every time you don't face things you just get up and and just disappear that's not how so I would not endorse that kind of fatwa I would be critical of that kind of mindset of this how every time there's a problem how well you know well you shouldn't really live with kuffar anyway why should he live with go far let's face it this part of the world let's be honest this part of the world today holds more rights for for human beings for men women children elderly disabled the sick for employees

for for citizens for animals for the environment for it holds more rights for all of these things as a society than any civilization throughout history throughout human known history it's not perfect but it does hold I mean let's let's be honest you have more rights here at all of these in the environment has more rights here I mean more some then anyway throughout human history so if you are an alien coming to Earth today if you're an alien and you've come

to earth and you have to choose where do you live let's be honest you will choose here because this is where it's happening like you know there's nothing wrong in saying that that it's because it's what's leading the world today so you wouldn't say I know I want to live in a in Afghanistan or in Pakistan you wouldn't want to live there mean the people they don't want to leave the people they want to live here so these Fatah WA I find them almost hurtful I find them the reason I because I find it hurtful of like kind of almost disregarding the suffering of the people like I find it like a very like huh well why are you

living amongst cook for what and you telling me people in Pakistan don't get beaten up women don't get kidnapped and raped in Pakistan what that doesn't happen there they don't get attacked women are getting attacked every day in Pakistan they get acid thrown on them they get forced into marriages they get raped they get they get sold they get like it's going on much more statistically much bombs are exploding in all these cities over there you have to pay corruption you have to pay what is it you bribe bribe everybody yes I'm not trying to bring out the mistake so I know it sounds like I'm not I'm trying

to say let's not be dismissive you know it's like somebody comes to you and they say look I've got diabetes right and and then your response to them is well where you shouldn't have eaten so much sugar that's insensitive you can't say that that's wrong right because it it's not do you understand like it's hurtful to the people because you're obviously saying to them huh well who told you to live in a Catholic country why do you get up and leave but that's not a solution you can't do that so look so let's be realistic if we can understand Allah can definitely

understand right so Allah definitely understands these things right so and they have been man and a woman's here and not wearing a hijab isn't the end of the world right most Muslims don't worry anyway so if a woman felt intimidated but she was gonna dress modestly then you know as long as she's intimidated she can resort to that foot well and once she feels comfortable you know she feels secure she can go back to the hijab and I respect all those women that are in the face of adversity wearing hijab and that's you know respect to them but I don't judge people people who

don't wear hijab or wear hijab doesn't that's the personal thing it doesn't mean they're necessarily better people you see like we stir we've set this kind of thing that oh if you've got a hijab on she must be a good girl if she's got if he's got a big beard he must be a good guy and this is why I you know the amount of people I have come coming to me for things like relationship issues and this is one of the reasons why because they judge them based on this they oh oh but but she used to wear a hijab oh but he had a big beard over you know he used to wear a thong Oh BRR well why did you judge people like that what about their

character what about talking to them what about their personality what about whatever it was that you wanted to actually marry I mean if you just wanted to marry a a garment then just buy a government and go home and get your fix but the thing is you I'm sure you want to marry a person not a garment so so this thing of look don't judge people not positively not negatively by what how they look many great people there's many great and those people who are doing this I highly value and respect these struggles but what I'm trying to say here is that it shouldn't lead to a judgmental character

either right people in short law with that I'm gonna have to leave you have taken away too much of your time inshallah do keep firing your questions at me if you've fell on facebook and you don't follow me follow me in Shalala if you have any questions send them to me I will try to respond my bloody voice I usually send voice notes and it's playing up for some reason I can't seem to send voice notes but oh if you're on Twitter add me it's the same most able a snapchat mount 2014 that's ma LM 2 0 1 4 he can snap me your questions I'll try to respond in sha Allah other than that people take very good care of yourselves

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