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Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth: Session 76

salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith sahih saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam prayer leader eid al-fitr eid al-adha eid ul-fitr eid ul-adha eidul fitr eidul adha bakra eid bari eid choti eid festival maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school hanafite hanafiyyah hanafi school hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam haraam forbidden makruh makrooh makruh tahrimi makruh tanzihi mubah mubaah mandub mandoob mustahabb mustahab sunnat sunan prophetic practice dalil daleel adillah adilla riba ribaa sood usury shirk shirq mushrikin kufr kafir kaafir kufar kaafirun imaan eemaan eeman asharis ashaira asha'irah ashariyyah ash'arite 'ayn al-ayn nazar sihr sihar jadu jadoo kala jadu sorcery akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter janna jannat jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran sura soorah suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayaat aayah aayat tilawah tilawat tilaawah sahabah sahabiyyah sahabiyat mecca makka mekka madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib salafis salafism wahhabi wahabi wahhabism sufism soofi 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs ummah umma ummat fitnah fitan strife trial deobandis deoband zinaa zinah adultery in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allah alhamdulilah al-hamdu lillah alhumdulillah alhamdulillaah subhan allah subhaanallah subhanallaah as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting duaa duas duaas supplication tawbah tawba taubah repentance fitrat natural disposition al-din ad-deen ad-din ibadah ibada ibaadah ibadat rahmah rahma rahmat ajr sawab thawab thawaab sawaab

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I'm not joking you up until you start whoo yeah right all right let's do this people let's do this all right oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah

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I need bussy whoo yeah all right people teeka I'll go be done right okay come on Zahra me John okay bye now okay finally I've got rid of her ha ha ha

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so I Louis Allen Allen wasallam become nothing was silent people let me just share this getting started so I'm just gonna share this shouldn't take long right

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mmm there is just about to right so people click like click sure you get this out there whilst I'm just sharing this onto my page okay so almost done

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no is that done no all right so that's done in the hamdulillah work refer or salatu was-salam a lot of so little mustafa why Brad in Lavine of Tobar remember who da master da hua be a third a little Medina certify were bad for salam ala llahi a little comb an asylum become long wa salim become people right so marhaban marhaban just waiting for people to just tune in well so I just

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set up my drinks here special Wow special brew I'm just making myself yet Oh almost just spilt a bit almost can't be having that folks alright that's done this will help get me into form right so bienvenidos a todos Kshama deed and swagatam people swagatam

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we are back Monday nights it is what does my shirt say god knows what does it say Vikings so my feed and some people always write about my haters huh uh you one will always have haters in this world I'm actually coming to you

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know thinking about it I'm actually very grateful to my haters on a serious note I am kind of grateful T that they take my message so far and wide and they do it for free and they do it with a passion you know they like it's it's amazing I sometimes just I just I think wow like you know I feel like just making a check out to them or something saying like hey thanks keep up the good work I've got so much more for you to

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hate that don't worry it's coming people search is the life of this world alright sure a nice is in the house hello Asylum people an amazing gifted young British born scholar is in the house do you reach out to him with questions let him inshaallah illuminate you with his knowledge right so what is the definition of a Mulvey malaviya i suppose it's like a mallanna type of

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person just another title movie like we've got a few movies sometimes it's maybe a Maulana with a bit more of the backwoods home mentality still kind of overwhelming them right so those of you just tuning in if you can click like click share people let's get some of this out there we're gonna deal with some of these questions what's been going on yep so

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right let's test test your faith people because you know you know when you share my stuff that truly goes to show you know it's like the test it's the hallmark almost like it's the benchmark of just saying like I don't give a damn that ah forget the world I don't give a damn you know I'll just click like and share move the Abu layth stuff that's cuz boy

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I lose friends don't worry about it those friends are no real friends those friends are no real friends people who can't tolerate a difference of opinion these people they they ain't worthy of being of being called friends really but they are helpful like I said they're helpful motivators haters are your motivators that's it but I mean I gotta

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say that said you know sometimes I don't share the the kind of support that people are giving which makes it look like sometimes it's just haters but there's much more much more support out there by people amazing people I actually wanted to some that remind these I've brought up here Sarah I don't know I'm gonna be pronouncing you probably wrong my name my name man man ma I think who is a comfort really I received this gift an amazing gift sugar

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and sugar and I really you didn't have to do this may Allah bless you and your family it's if you're into that kind of exotic it's not cannabis people some of you are probably thinking what but shukran once again may Allah bless you and your family and keep you guys forever smiling so chakra chakra right so what's going

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down people what's going on what do I think about Javed Hamidi Sahib I think Javed Sheikh or a llama Javed Hamidi Sahib is amazing I think he's amazing I think he he's just he stands as a testimony really to what countries like Pakistan and can produce if they put their mind to it that's the only thing so Micah stand doesn't really in

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contrast with the regular kind of you know that the hate-filled movies that you get sometimes he is amazing that countries like Pakistan can produce him and he had to leave Pakistan like almost a an imposed exile because people wanted to murder him I mean this is this is it's amazing isn't it the religion what it does to people what it does how was

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my visit to to Leicester it was amazing I went down just over the weekend I mean Friday night met up with some amazing al Ahmar amongst them chef Abdullah Abdullah Mead an amazing young up and rising scholar from the Midlands and the UK he's on Facebook active and somebody you should reach out to and I think it was amazing there were several other ala mathy I don't want to just bring them into just in case they become blacklisted no

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you know it's amazing people have this this kind of schoolyard mentality like you can't be why you being friends with him for you can't be friends with him if you won't be friends with me you can't be friends with him but that's what it's like it's amazing these are religious folks who are like that they like her hmm [Music] so the amount of blackmailing that goes

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on he's amazing shocking but that does go on unfortunately so you know it was an amazing visit I loved it had some awesome discussions some questions it's been I loved generally meeting up chillin out with people getting to see people's points of views you know just conquer just having discussions I'm all about that people I'm all about that in fact I've got this coming Friday this coming Friday I've got a hangout session

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so hang out with mafia believe people so it should be called how to get blacklisted but it's a hang out chill out session so you can all right start with the series in the house along with Sandlin Alamos Island right so it's going to be a meetup session I've got going on it'll be in Birmingham in this Center called the arc I have put her up on Facebook it's in the Alum Rock area but you can reach out to Mohammed Saban

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if you've got any questions or details it's not it you don't need to kind of book before coming but it's just it's good to reach out so here so so we have an idea of people how many people to come so we can have some kind of food food and snacks and things like that in mind and generally we'll just chill out it's very informal it's just you get to ask questions or chat or discuss or if you've got anything private that you'd like to discuss there will be separate rooms that okay you know you can discuss private matters too but it's just generally an opportunity I get a lot of

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people saying to me that I you know I want wanna come down meet you I want to do this I want to do and and and it's a good opportunity I guess that why not pop down let's have some GUP shop what's up with this angry face who's miserable out there miserable people some miserable people I feel I don't know whether to I just look at them sometimes

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I think I think well you know I think if I was you I'd probably hate me too [Laughter] anyway let's move on so what's going down people chill out Vaughn job though

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Vanja see this is what happens we don't lock the door so right so hey what's been going okay so politics people politics in the UK Sajid Javid right shukran right now Sajid Javid has been appointed a Pakistani I believe British born

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Pakistani has been appointed the Home Secretary of the UK whoa it's a very interesting kind of I think it's an interesting time it's it's mixed emotion because on one hand I think it's a huge step for anybody of an ethnic minority let alone a Muslim to be awarded really such a position one of the most key positions in the entire country really after arguably after after the

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prime minister so Wow so so it is an awesome kind of time on one hand I think definitely it's an amazing achievement there is a flip side I think there's a you know you've got to be kind of you can't be naive you you have to be a way that what kind of a name is sir Sajida is saying what kind of a name is sighted this you see we're all too from

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we're all aware of the Windrush kind of fiasco that's been going on and the final rug the the previous Home Secretary has resigned there's been a huge embarrassment really the government the Tories have I mean it's a joke what they've been doing this latest those of you are unfamiliar with this whole Windrush immigration kind of fiasco that's been happening it's basically to

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do with immigrants who came over on and the reason it's called wind rushes to do with the ship it's a particular ship that that it took its name from and the ship I believe was actually captured I think it may have been a German ship or something but it was captured in the world war and after the world war they named the empire Windrush and this ship say would sail to the Caribbean and it would often come back just empty it would kind of take people there was soldiers over there and it was a common part of the Commonwealth

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so after World War two there was a huge amount of infrastructure needed within this country that needed to be built there was a great amount of work that was needed a labor force was required so the British began to advertise in their colonies so they began to advertise things like that we you know why do you come over and work in the UK stuff like this now so initially a few hundred I think four hundred or so people from the

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Caribbean came over and then between the years I think it was 1948 or something till about 1970 they say about half a million people came over this is what allegedly some records say now the those people that came over Kidd came over because Jamaica and the Caribbean was a part of the Commonwealth so they were deemed British if you like so when they came over here obviously and then the whole racism and everything and that kind of on sued but they were kind of

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held as you could say like Paris citizens like citizens that were already and I don't know why I mean I don't know why for some reason all these years they they weren't given passports but recently when recently with Theresa May what she's done is she's really tried to clamp down on immigration and she said that you know anybody that's we're going to deport people unless they can fully prove the residency and all these kind of requirements and they've started shipping people off but amongst

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these people they've set back several people who are from that Windrush kind of generation and this the extra kind of shocking element to all of these is that they've been asked so these Caribbean people who've lived here for decades on end one person who'd lived here about sixty years of his life they've been asked that okay proof you'll show us your documents your landing documents when you got here and then they've been asked to do this I mean it's not funny

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but on the other hand teresa may herself in 2010 when coming into power and being Home Secretary she herself instructed to destroy these landing cards so on one hand she is responsible for destroying these landing cards and then on the other hand she is the one now as Prime Minister pushing for okay will produce all your landing cards and and the government now have kind of acknowledged okay we've sent back some people in error we've made a few mistakes so all of this is going on

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and and the previous Home Secretary just resigned and so now I think this is kind of like maybe a stunt to say well let's get a brown face in the like that could kind of diffuse the tension a bit because they're obviously being deemed racist and the way they have dealt with this and they've lost a lot of confidence and vote you know the kind of the confidence vote if you like from especially the ethnic minorities and other people so maybe by putting a brown

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face and a Muslim face it would help them regain a certain amount of popularity nevertheless and interesting spectacle people an interesting spectacle so that's I think it's very relevant so I thought it's worth discussing but yeah so what else is going on folks what else is going on all right don't the trip yeah the tories I don't know how on earth they went I sure hope they do not win in the next election

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Corbin all the way people Oh Jeremy Cobb let's see right so what's going on do we get an extra reward for going with the majority position within Islam and less for the minority well us Shah good question right majority-minority these things are not actually to do with how correct something is the majority and minority

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are more to do with powers of position sort of positions of power within Islam okay right so that's what it's to do with they're not who determines a minority majority position over a ruling so for example it could be small matters within Islam like do you raise the hands in prayer you don't raise the hands in prayer do you do will do in a particular way you don't do with all other things to write out too controversial things

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within Islam can't a lot be given in three instances in one go can that count as one can people wipe over regular socks too can people perform temporary marriages all of these great controversial debates that have occurred within Islam really you can looking at the evidence is not determined I mean you can I'm not saying now don't get me wrong don't get this don't get it twisted okay we wrong people there are absurd opinions in Islamic FIP which I would

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consider absolutely absurd and dumb and sometimes stupid and I feel you can say that there's no harm in calling something stupid stupid you're obviously not these examples they're not necessarily stupid but there are other examples within fixo rulings like when people have said you could marry your own daughter if she was born out of wedlock I think that is absurd and stupid like people say if you're really hungry and you're in the land of non-muslims you can eat non Muslim

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people I think that is stupid you know these kind of things you call stupid is as stupid does you call it stupid but what I'm trying to say is how you determine the accuracy of a position of a ruling within Islam is not based on the Democratic following it has so the majority of the people can be following something that doesn't equate to accuracy necessarily that it may be that

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some opinions majority the people are following them and they do happen to be accurate the most accurate positions but it may be that there's several positions that people are just following and the fact that there are majority doesn't prove anything so the majority on the of the people in the world today reject God as we understand so the God of Abraham is rejected by the majority of mankind so democracy does not prove anything so when the Prophet began his message he was an absolute minority he was

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considered a rebel against his society the people would say to him had you know this is what we found our forefathers upon you are going against what we found our forefathers upon and the Prophet was going against what they therefore for zhan and he was a minority so people who chose to follow him did so against a majority so this ruling of majority minority it is not it shouldn't be conflated with accuracy right those

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of you tuning in if you can click like I want you to click like people right with my finger going click she get that out there gone click like it and there's a quote actually I wanted to read what you're doing that I think I shared a picture of this a little history of religion I really like this book I've been going through it the first people the first people tell

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me I look like Jesus well okay I've never seen Jesus to be honest with you so I couldn't really say if you do look like him or not right Billy is in the house people below Riley are you doing mine are you doing right people take like clickshare I want this out the right now this is a little history of religion it's an amazing book I'm going through the audio book and often I sometimes buy the actual book as well was whilst I'm going through the audio

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book and those of you asking about Chevy Bharat or Leila to mr. Schaben I'm going to go through that inch online in detail discussion a little later on inshallah right now but this this is an amazing book it may not be for the faint hearted of faith you know those who are very weak in Iman it may not be for them but for other people it's awesome but I love this discussion that he was speaking here about Abraham the wanderer okay Brahim Alesana

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but he said an interesting thing about you see because ibraheem alehissalaam even in the quran he's portrayed as somebody who challenges the norms he is a minority he's that minority voice rebelling against the majority so ibraheem alehissalaam and it's interesting when he because his his family had a business of making of making idols statues and selling them and ibrahim ali salam of in some of the especially the other traditions of Abraham that he challenged that and he mocked people and even in the Quran he's

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seen as mocking the idols hence it I've argued that it is permissible to mock beliefs that you disagree with and in other narrations not Islamic narrations but other traditions of Abraham it shows us that he that a person came in who to buy an idol and Abraham said to him well you know how old are you and he said I'm 70 and and he said well don't you feel kind of stupid buying an idol that was just born yet that was just made yesterday and you know you're you've had like all decades of life that are much more and yet you're gonna pray to this

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stupid statue which can't do anything and the person kind of thought about it and thought well you've got a point so he didn't buy the statue so it's interesting but in light of this I like the way Holloway here he writes that this was dangerous talk for two reasons challenging the settled religion of a community is never a popular thing to do but it's made worse if the criticism also threatens the local economy Allah

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that is so true it's like you see when you challenge religiously held views that may be superstitious it's never a popular thing you will get the world of hey so and I especially relate to this with all these what today the institutionalized religion and all these sects what they have is not pure Islam it is a very diluted adulterated sectarian eyes diversion of Islam and

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challenging what they have brings about an excess amount of hatred from people but sometimes like when I challenge the concept of demonic possessions that they don't exist in Islam this really wound people up but if you think about it why because it also tapped into an economy a multimillion-pound international economy that survives rather thrives on the back of this

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superstitious belief of demonic possessions so it's interesting but he goes on to say something here he here and I wanted to share this it's to do with how human beings have our emotions okay so he says about because Abraham is seen historically as the father of monotheism changing everything he says this is an important turning point in the human history and it's worth another

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moment's thought it is obvious from our history that humans are good at hating each other and it is usually those who differ from us in some way who become the objects of our hatred race class color sex politics even hair color can prompt ugly behavior in us so can religion in fact in fact people religious hatred is probably the deadliest form of this human disease

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because it gives human dislike divine justification it is one thing to hate people because you don't like their opinions it is another thing to say God hates them too and wants them exterminated so it is worth noticing how intense religious conviction can add a dangerous element to human relationships as they another incident from Abraham's story will remind us I think it's it's

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amazing to to kind of think to kind of imagine understand that this basic concept that human beings we are almost exclusive as creatures who hate animals have a kind of instinct to attack other animals and they may do that and they Amin they do do that so that's something that does take place but they don't really have a hatred human beings we are

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really unique in that field and then religious hatred is just something else it is amazing what people will justify by religion see that they will say that it's not only me but God too once that person dead amazing subhanAllah I mean I've had people say about me that can we I mean and I'm sure about many people can we make dua that Allah kills this

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person Wow this is religious people people with religious likes religious Muslims like that pray amazingamazing I've seen sometimes some people who will be Imams of communities yet they will find no qualms whatsoever in attacking people they disagree with

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in bad-mouthing them in backbiting them in spying or you know in just spreading kind of stirring up trouble against them and they will justify using religion amazing I see it all the time honestly I'm I'm not joking I've I see people sometimes in the past I've for example people will do in fact somebody had asked a question as well about some of the hate against me in the past I've been a member of certain groups religious like let's say forums or whatsapp groups or things like with all

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imams and scholars on the who just because they disagree with me and I've left them in the end because they will feel that it's okay to attack it's okay to try to bully not in person god forbid would they try in person but from a safe distance to join up gang up to attack to bully to kind of let's say to quote out of context to to do all of these things they will feel it's anything is okay against that person specifically because oh the religion

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says it's okay because he's a deviant but for normal people backbiting is haram of course before here no no no this ain't backbiting this is a warning against evil you know find people quote humor that sometimes I've said humor out of context they've tried to quote that stir up from What nonsense Karen life people get in life there anyway let's move on but it is it is interest and you won't see that amongst regular

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people in that same way so regular people when they hate people they just hate them so they'll just say I hate him I hate this person but religious folks when they hate people they'll say yeah God gives me the justification the license to bad-mouth him because they say Reba this is an amiable Maru fan a anil munkar this is warning against the but it's true it's true subhanAllah you'll see I have people tell me that almost somebody told me that he's on so

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many different forums and every single forum is discussing me in bad light but they teasing and saying oh my god Mau Mau Mufti Abu layth al Maliki he's causing fitna facade this this this I just say oh yeah see the way I see it is like these people it's like somebody said that there's two kind of people who

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walk into a room one who says there you are and the other who says Here I am so if these small-minded people want to talk about me at the end of the day it's me they're talking about chance Thai boss tell pie you know you're remembering me so and not vice versa so so it's all good I like I like it you know I like it right now let's keep what's going on

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let's have stairs take some questions what is Al wanna walbro this is one of the most distorted misrepresented ideas in Islam which originates amongst the Hawara JH annex three missed sect the first extremist sect in Islam the the grandparents the great-grandparents of Isis they were called Al Huaraz they were against people many of the Companions like ali radiya llahu xavier of the allah on all

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these people they were against them in fact they were responsible for mortaring sedna highly road alarm in the end and they considered those companions to be Kafar careful they considered anybody who committed a major sin to be a Kaffir sorry he's seen all sins were major sins if you committed a sin you were a Kaffir right so that was all right we got Keyser söze in the house oh no silent an academic and staff Killeen and Noah salmon Alison so this was the Huaraz the

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early sect extremist sect within Islam right now they really were the kind of fathers of this concept that Islam not only teaches you to love but it teaches you to hate so al wala is your allegiance so having an allegiance for a lot and well bara Allah Allah well bara and Baba is like like how people who speak about lailatul bara from the same word Oh surah tauba bara I which is cool para as well brah I took mean Allah he wanna sue Lee that

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you know there is like we've got nothing to do with somebody that's called bara when you've got nothing to do with it also comes from like being free from free as in in a blemish kind of sense so having no fault being free from and so they came up with this concept or they've really pushed this concept of that you must hate for the sake of God now it's interesting because some things they say you can find you know sometimes there can be some hidden

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to some of the things they're saying but what they're teaching is distorted so it's how save now earlier on the olavo unsaid to them Kelly my to happen or either be held bottom that the words you use sometimes are true words but you intend falsehood by them so it is true in Islam there is allegiance to Allah and His Messenger our loyalty lies with Allah and His Messenger that is true but the way these people use it is false it is true in Islam we hate certain crimes against humanity but the way

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these people use this was wrong they taught you not to just hate a particular crime but to hate the people to hate Kafar to hate Muslims that they considered non-muslims they considered most Muslims as care fields because they were sinful and this concept Alwar walbro has been absorbed as well by mainstream Islam with some fluctuation so some between themselves or some Muslims more than others so everybody like I said

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that the concept could be found like in Islam you could find the concept of having allegiance to Allah you could find the concept of hating certain crimes against humanity you could hate obviously murder you'd hate these things but it doesn't mean you'd hate the people but this concept got kind of morphed and then absorbed and today it is often pushed by certain groups today the Salafi is push this a lot I really am highly suspicious of this I believe this is all false some do Bundys

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sometimes push this and other people as well other extremist groups push this even these not necessarily extremist groups although some people amongst them maybe but generally the I wouldn't generally put them as an extremist group I wouldn't understand them are maybe the cult amongst them maybe borderline having some issues but otherwise no but other groups as well like Al Muhajiroun or other jihadist groups Al Qaeda Isis all these other groups you can imagine Hezbollah Hadid all these kind of groups have this

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understanding of you must hate the people as well and I would be very wary of this so if you hear people saying so you know hate people hate them hate the kuffar hate the deviants hate the hate them of their blades be careful that is an inherited gene that they have from the huar age okay so these people have inherited and a gene an ideological gene from the huar age which was the great

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grand for ancestral Isis the Isis ancestral legacy so be wary okay if you if you start hearing I mean you can ask you can clarify but be wary so this is really misused I I AB this is why I distrust this concept entirely anybody pushing this I'm very wary and suspicious of them right let's see right

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moosa aleihsalaam sent our messenger back to allah for less praise you know these things are a narrative it doesn't really mean it like that these hadith have some questions to them as well how true is it or is it symbolic was it more symbolism the like I've said before the Israel maharaj was a vision okay it was a vision that the Prophet was the messenger of allah sallallahu and he was inland so this is what Allah Himself says in the Quran

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in Surat Annisa imagine aruhya modular reality our America in LA Fitness and Linna we did not make the vision we showed you except a fitna for people so that sorts of Israel Maharaj so the things that took place on that are simply symbolic or you know it doesn't mean that moosa aleihsalaam is literally doing these things and these things these are hadith transmitting this are not entirely conclusive and established like that but nevertheless it's

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symbolism to show that look you can handle five prayers that's what it's to show this is not an equivalent position on the marraige this was actually the understanding of aisha radi allahu on her this was the understanding of ma how we are or the allah on who the companions of the prophet so i'm people after them and people like a so Haleyville customers so Haley mentions this I've read it out in my previous how the yard transmits the difference of opinion amongst people and there were several of the scholars that in the past that took this position today for some

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reason people are becoming stubborn like they want to force everybody to believe this was a physical event I mean if you want to believe it's a physical event that's up to you the Quran is seems very clear that this was a vision now I accept it can be interpreted I accept that so I do accept the the the physical thing to be a view but I would say the more authentic view by the Quran and the Sunnah is that it was a vision no king

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and that would make sense as well so yep is the SARC an attribute of allah somebody's asking me to check my inbox well I'm not going to do that whilst I'm on life so I hope that's okay boy vision mean the soul was ascended no boy vision I mean a vision okay that's what I mean I mean a vision so it happens in a vision so yeah as the Quran says right so people need to get over this you know

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no like it must be super miracle so I heard a scholar say I understand that human beings can't travel like this but the prophets are not like normal human beings okay I mean if you say so but then doesn't that also destroy the entire message of Islam then what kind of role models are they if they're not you know the prophets not a normal human being it's okay he the prophet in that book he's not a normal human being so exactly so these kind of things and

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then it comes back to as well you see it comes back to things like reason it comes back to reason because when we ask things like Jesus why couldn't why can't Jesus be why can't Jesus be the son of God that was sent to redeem mankind for his for their sins why that's an example what's all absurd about that oh because it's it doesn't make sense because why would God if God wanted to forgive people he could just forgive the why

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torture allegedly Jesus for the sake of that because it doesn't make sense alright okay why can't hanuman do certain things why can't Ganesh why Karim why can't Vishnu like on these things happen oh right because it doesn't make sense ah yeah but if Hanuman can't fly and do these things and ROM can't do these things but then you're okay with saying but you're your prophet can do these things but then they will say yeah but rom isn't like any other man either

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so we how do you draw the difference like it's okay for us to say that yes okay but you know profits have incredible superpowers where they break but your profits and gods don't have incredible superpowers they'll say well why not our profits and gods have superpowers - they all say well rom could do amazing things - so ROM did all those superpower things and there you go and Vishal has the superpower to be reincarnated why not why not why mission is not like anybody else

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so exactly so once you rule out other people you have to be consistent the Barack is just in a vision it doesn't make a difference it's a vision so there is nothing to worry about the Barack what it was it's just a vision right so let's move on what are the question have we got here right so are these supernatural beliefs only in recent times no on the contrary I think these

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supernatural beliefs are historical many people believed supernaturally in the past in fact most people probably believed like that I think with human development with especially with the post industrialized era within the age in the New Age that we're in with modernity or the rise of science reason once again you see the voice of reason has always existed the difference is today it's got a major platform but unfortunately it's got that

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platform with non-muslims leading not Muslims which is a shame because Muslims ought to champion the voice of reason but they've decided to some of them some of them have decided to just become more stubborn in the Anna point and oppose the some reason that's like oh you don't want to do that but now well I know I know this is I'll go bright idea I know let's go against the voice of reason

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oh well yeah but Rama and Vishnu who said rom and Vishnu are necessarily mythical figures who said that you the Vedas speak about wrong they don't speak about Rama zhim as a mythical figure Rama was a real person sharee run why is he just because the Quran doesn't mention him why does that mean he didn't exist the quran doesn't mention everybody who existed the quran wasn't a like a census book all right we're gonna

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start naming everybody who existed in this world and anybody whose name i misdoubt didn't exist what's that supposed to mean I mean is that what and if quran doesn't mention Aristotle the Aristotle not exist Quran doesn't mention Socrates Socrates not exist Quran doesn't mention Buddha the Buddha now exists quran dimensions confucius the confucius not exist I mean what is this what kind of absurdity is this the Quran didn't come the Quran was a book a reminder for you to practice and worship Allah it was not something to rule out

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mankind by yeah so I mean so I mean so these things so wrong did exist who said ROM didn't exist um all these people Krishna these people they've got yes how accurate are some of the stories is a different thing but why would you be dismissive of these people they would have been good people to uh you know I would have nothing against Shalem it's just that maybe the way the teachings that have been passed on may have been distorted but why would you dismiss

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their entity I was trying to win the wings of the Knights will keep the devil's come out I'm not sure what that when did monotheism come out hmm come about that's an interesting question I don't know in that sense obviously from an Islamic perspective we would believe Adam aleihsalaam recognized and was chosen by Allah and was worship just one God and we would believe all these prophets and nor Halle

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Salam and these people but in recent documented history people the general understanding is perhaps sir touched okay so Zarathustra is perhaps considered like the father of monotheism and equally one could say Abraham especially Abraham with this tradition that we have but in some understanding

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people say also Zarathustra but these are the kind of founding fathers in recent history of monotheism right so okay let's take some questions folks what are we looking at in Christianity they started rationalizing away things they do not

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understand they rationalized away their faith religion is how one worships and connects with Allah when you tale away the miraculous from the religion you tale away you take away also the first one must have meant take okay so when you take away the miraculous from religion you take away the need for a god that's interesting right I disagree entirely i disagree entirely what this question I think was a Catherine or somebody asking this question that question rests on a

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supposition that mankind's need for religion is one of superstition and mythology I disagree I think I accept that many people do only want really like they do relate to superstition and mythology but I think many people don't as well so and is God that question can be reduced to God can only be understood through superstition and mythological beliefs I disagree entirely I disagree I think

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in fact I I believe is that in fact the way to truly understand faith is through reason and you said Christianity reasoned a way well we are not Christianity okay Islam never based itself on such absurdities and one thing that many early Muslims did do al hamdulillah is many amongst them recognized that this is about reason and the Quran time and time again brings us to the voice of

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reason every other so many countless verses in the Quran Angela alaykum Keith Urban physical come the lies from Allah come talk saloon in the hope of a Fallot afternoon or ayat only only know her a little absurd - I the who nor do they know a fella yet the broom do they not ponder do they not reflect do they not think do they not use their intellect time and time again in Nan's Elna Quran and Horeb en la allakum taki

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loon we sent it down as an Arabic Quran in the hope that you may become a people of intellect this is a verse of the Quran surah Yousuf now so these things you can see time and time again so yes Christianity had huge problems some Muslims who followed that Christian method have led many other Muslims into the problems we're in today so you're right I agree with you certain Muslims who did follow as the Prophet said you will follow the Jews and the Christians many Muslims followed

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them by institutionalizing our religion and by robbing it off that natural fitrah deem that it is so I this is one of my message is that I I always encourage people to return to the Islam which is a Dean or fitrah which is a Dean of fitrah that naturalness and away from this institutionalized religion that we've that certain clerics are presenting this which is about power and sectarianism and control and this kind of thing was not what a line is messenger sent this is what happened over the centuries so Islam is a Dean of

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fitara now Christianity in its early stage would have been a Dean of fitrah so if you see Jesus Jesus is always reasoning things with people he's always giving parables he's always trying to get them to think even when they're trying to trip him up you know good render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and on to God what belongs to God I mean this is Jesus he is a man of deep insight a man of deep thought an incredibly intelligent human being he's not somebody who is and he's trying to get his people to do that and I would have believed that they

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would have done that but in the in the centuries that followed Christianity became institutionalized it became as soon as it got linked with Empire and it became about the church and it became about power structures and about the council's trying to control it it went down the drain so that's my that's the whole thing

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how do you make sense of the concepts of the unseen world unseen world is not counter reason it is exactly that unseen so it could be talking about anything just using certain frames of reference that maybe certain people can relate to in some way or another it is not indicating a reality so let's say as an example like you've asked about angels angels angels what do they mean nobody understands what angels mean nobody understands that anything you understand

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is definitely not what an angel is it's just saying angel just simply means that it is a mechanism which Allah uses to do certain things what are they we don't know now you could say yeah but I picture this thing floating around with wings and doing things like you know like a theory and you could picture that but Allah never told you that's what it is you could say well law uses descriptive language sometimes in the Quran yes sometimes in the Quran descriptive language is used so people can make sense of it in their time so I

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had somebody say by the way somebody sent me a clip where somebody saying about me that I believe hell in heaven to be metaphorical look I've never said that so I mean this is once again a Miss attribution to me just people you know I mean maybe some people maybe that person sincerely is miss attributing it to me but really because I've got a lot of haters people miss attribute I've said I believed in an afterlife we as Muslims believe in an afterlife how does the afterlife continue

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what I've said is in the Quran the the descriptive language given in the Quran is simply a frames of some relatability it is not a it is not saying that that is what it will be like in fact the Prophet himself said that the agenda that male I know not not a single I could ever see has seen well I also known semi art and neither as anybody ever heard well Avatara by Bailey by Sharon cut and never has a human ever

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even conceptualized gem man the afterlife so when you think of trees and Gardens and Jenna by the way means the garden it means the garden today when people say heaven that's more a Christian thing that's coming to Islam heaven like that heaven more to do with the sky but in for the Arabs in the Quranic was more about Jenna the garden a bit like how the Vikings had Valhalla the great feast and the great halls and the valleys and so the Arabs they had Jenna and the garden because they lived in deserts and the garden was something

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that they always desired so and now we obviously say heaven and think of clouds because of the Western influence on us because here heaven a CLO like in Spanish or the things like whether it's the sky and and this is why people translate sometimes when some are the heavens above the skies above but Samar in Arabic is the sky some are what it is not Janet jenna is gardens some are what is the skies so when you're reading through the Quran and they translate us that the heavens above they're not talking about heaven like paradise

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heaven this is the word referring to the skies above so we've got a huge confusion like so Muslims we think heaven like we get this picture like Oh like the Christian picture like clouds and stuff like this but the Arabs never had that picture when they read the Quran the Companions of Sahaba they always thought gardens because that's what Jannah actually means so and then you see but what I've said is that yes why did Allah use this wording with them because they could relate to it does it mean it actually is a garden no it doesn't mean that it has to actually be

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a garden we don't know what it is it's as simple as that we don't know what it is does it have to be a garden with shade because look the Arabs to them shade was something they wanted now if you live in a freezing country why would shade be appealing to you it wouldn't you'd be like what the hell I don't want to be in shape you know like rivers of alcohol why would rivers of alka I'll be honest with you rivers of alcohol are not appealing to me why would they be appealing to me I've been brought up with a distaste and borderline hatred for alcohol the hatreds a strong word but I've been you

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know conditioned as a child to really hate abhor alcohol so saying things like you're gonna have a river of alcohol I wouldn't want a river of alcohol but yes because the Arabs at the time drank alcohol they wanted alcohol so to them it was said now saying that you're gonna have gardens and fruits and people probably don't some people probably don't want they I mean if you live in a place that's full of valleys and Gardens I don't know in Switzerland somewhere you probably sick to death of that you

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probably don't want that so Apple and you see to the Arabs because they lived in a desert of fire the heat was always something that and burning I mean all human beings can relate to the concept of burning but I suppose if you're constantly exposed to heat so to them this was an amazing which obviously really brought home the fear of hell but does it mean it has to be fire and it has to be it doesn't have to be like that that's what I was saying so I that doesn't mean that is the concept Amit is the afterlife a metaphor I never said that

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what I said is these things that were mentioned in the Quran were just mentioned as frames some kind of relatability that's all he didn't mean it was actually gonna be like that so it didn't mean that this actually has to be it's nobody as the hadith says not a single human can conceptualize it so that's a full stop and people disagreed in their understanding from some maybe have had literal literal understandings others - this kind of understanding that I'm saying in general in saying look we don't really know this is just the language Allah has used to some like

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even a rushed who said that however it may be more it's maybe just it's not many people probably won't be there with their physical stuff will maybe be the raw which is like a consciousness as he interpreted it to other people who felt it's all also just about the raw like if nabis aid and even obey our who felt that it's not about the body most people felt it was a physical thing just some people like the sufi even our abhi Maha Dean even our abhi who felt that there will be no real burning no fire in the afterlife it is just a distance from Allah that is described as a punishment so my point is

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why are we hiding things this is this whole discourse is the Islamic mainstream discourse of Islam I don't know which one it is I'm just saying that we just don't need to censor opinions that's all let's just this is all part of the Islamic discourse on the afterlife so that's all I've said right ok let's take another question folks what's going on what's going on right I've

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if men will have in Jannah what will women have who's right people chilling out in paradise see this is interesting isn't it because you watch all these movies encourage people all about entice them about sex in the afterlife and yet they act so pure like purity lists in this world what is what are these double standards you know it's like I remember watching a

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clip of a Saudi Shearer going on about like like really long you know like one of those proper hard-line kind of like Saudi scholars and he wasn't a populist color but he was just going on and saying like really oh oh my god and you know how we're gonna have sex and Jenna is gonna be like this and it's gonna be like this and then we're gonna have this and it's gonna one it's gonna last for so many years one episode and then we're gonna have another episode and he's really everybody I think was in some

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lecture and everybody's so excited I'm thinking but why are you acting like a Puritan assist in this world I don't get it like you know if like any opportunity you get all you want to talk about is like having sex in the afterlife so what is wrong with you guys like the way like you act like in this world like all so this this is why movies have the bad name that they do see we know nothing

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about the afterlife here's a question here's a little spanner in the works and I'm not saying I believe this just in case my haters have a field day but here's a spanner in the works what's to say they'll be gender in the afterlife it's a decent question isn't it what's to say what's to say that there will be even gender in the afterlife you know I don't know I mean I'm not saying I say that that is how it's going to be genderless but what's to say how do you know that people would have the same

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gender like gender how we understand gender here ha so exactly I mean you don't know anything about an afterlife so what makes you think people say oh many scholars in the past said it will just be a roar it'll just be the soul or consciousness or whatever consciousness is it a mind consciousness consciousness meat man woman is that how it works or I don't know how it works so what's - exactly so people don't know about the afterlife so why are we so obsessed on the detail why not enjoy

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this world that we are in if not last given us this world why do we enjoy this let's be grateful to Allah let's begin with that you know and and Allah says well I ain't shocked Artem if you are grateful lousy then knuckle I will give you more and more so let's enjoy what we've got here let's live life to the max people and you shall know when we get there well enjoy that - how does that sound so I think all of these things that are mentioned in the Quran this is imagery as I mentioned before that look the

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quote that the truth is one the sages speak of it by many names and I gave the example previously of saying when a child asks that were how are babies born and the way a parent responds by saying something like the stork theory or they come from hospitals or from mother from the mother's tummy none of these things are actually true but does the parent actually consider himself to be lying like would the parents say would the father say now as an example that

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would he think I'm lying to this child now he wouldn't think it's lying he would just think it's a different version of the truth it's a truth that you could relate to let's let if Allah was to speak in categorical truths to us nobody would accept the message because we couldn't relate to it so let's us say Allah spoke the truth the truth is that this universe in which we live is colorless is odorless is soundless it's insipid it has no taste it has all of these things color is simply the way

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light is being reflected and then is being interpreted by the visual cortex in the brain color does not actually exist like this yes certain materials reflect light in a certain way that's all it is color is not an objective entity does not actually exist sound does not actually exist it is just sound waves that are being picked up by your brain and you are being told that this is what's being said taste does not exist it is your brain interpreting certain and reacting to certain things that's

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all it is smell now all of these things now imagine a lot of --dress ters that this universe is actually colorless it is actually insipid it is actually tasteless there is no sound in this universe how would you how would people accept the message of God no nobody would everybody would have just been like ha ha ha ha ha look how stupid these messages exactly so Allah had to address them in a way that they could relate to it

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because so is this a lie so when a lie saying about colors is lying because surely God would know that really colours don't actually exist but no these are versions of truths that people can relate to so the truth is one but the sages speak of it by many names and and that that is what it is so yes saying that the baby comes from the mother's tummy or comes from the hospital or comes from these are not lies these are truths that the child can relate to and so in a similar way Allah

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addresses us as human beings in similar ways right so let's take some questions that have been submitted who write what's going on people what's going on let me just those of you just tuning in I want you to click like click share what does it mean that one who purifies himself other flaw Hammond's occur her that yes of course who purifies himself that would be who purifies himself from from doing wrong in this world who

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purifies himself from superstitious beliefs who purifies himself from the shackles of disbelief from the shackles of idolatry and polytheism who purifies himself so I'm just going to try to bring up some questions that that person is successful as Allah has said okay right those of you just tuning in all right people I want you to click like click share how do you view the hard problem of consciousness I really am it's an amazing topic I wish

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I knew the answer to consciousness it's amazing I kind of feel that that the raw may be synonymous with what we are referring to as consciousness I also kind of feel that maybe consciousness is connected maybe at a quantum level and I feel that there is a kind of maybe a sea of consciousness a collective consciousness which and maybe it's more out there than in here but we have the ability in here to perceive it like just as light is out there but the visual

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cortex in here tells us what we're seeing but really it's out there so in a similar way maybe we have the ability to work with consciousness to produce consciousness by bodies may be connected out there and and the Haditha lry general doma generator that that the souls are kind of connected and I feel that this and hence we have I do incline to a kind of collective consciousness and hence in every era ideas are mutually kind of accepted and people are against things in a general way with the

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era of that time and discoveries are made in similar errors and stuff like this that's my kind of inclination but Allah WA that's what I you know people can disagree with it Khaleel Muhammad Allen was Alan Alan or salmon right I've watched that a clip that you've produced the lip lip sync one one I did find it funny I must say those of you that haven't seen it it's on my on my wall

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right does fear uh sir those of you just tuning in if you can click share please click like there are hadith that talk about allah having hands feet and feet etc right okay Ferris ah terrassa does Ferris ah counter superstition soup supernatural no it doesn't piazza simply means intuition that we as human beings have a sense of intuition I accept that we do have a sense of intuition I think creatures have intuition some creatures have far greater intuition maybe than us and I

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think there's a lot we can learn from animals seriously I think I really wish Shalimar would expand I remember hearing dr. Omar Abdullah speak about expressing his wish that if only Muslims would take more from sociological studies and other studies out there from the social sciences and I wish people would do that as well Muslims especially and from like psychological studies and biological studies and and things will we animal studies because it shows us so much more

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about ourselves as well because we too are creatures fundamentally what's your reasoning why Allah had only male prophets and messengers I don't believe I believe there were female prophets as well why weren't there female prophets I believe Maryam Ali as salam was a prophet of god so and people you know can disagree with that but Allah says in the Quran him addressing Maryum Ali Salaam and Allah addresses prophets so she was a prophet of God so I mean so I

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don't think that there were only male I think they were females as well that's but obviously with each time you could expect you could expect prophets or messengers to reflect their societies so if societies were massively or heavily sorry patriarchal then a person that may be able to bring about a change would more likely be a man than a woman because society that society may not be conducive for a female messenger but in

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societies where they needed to do something it was the case as it was with Mary Aliyah Salam if it's a Mia's opinion on on Maria Molly slime I don't know I know even a Haslem does have a whole discussion on it in his book and he argues in favor of her being a prophet okay so right Xena of the eyes is it real no it isn't and I spoke about this previously and I did

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mention that look these hadith I do not accept them to be conclusively established but and if you did accept them that's not what they meant if you did accept them because it wouldn't be fair to just be branding everybody an adulterer that's just not right okay and it's not my understanding it goes against the the character of the prophet of God who was a mercy for mankind and was upon hope and Athene

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upon the best of character so if the Prophet wanted to tell somebody don't and I think I not sure if I went through that one previously but I did go through several others about I'm not sure but if the Prophet wanted to tell people that look do not do not kind of stare at women or do not do this or do not do that he would have just said it he doesn't need to kind of call them like

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be insulting that is not from the the attribute of the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam right so and and and I did mention the other hadith as well and about the perfume and you can listen to that it was in last week's episode I was just checking if I didn't mention I don't think I went through that breakdown but I went through the breakdown of the Haditha where the Prophet said be cool or I mean in every eye that looks at that woman is a zania and I said that's false and Imam Malik said anybody who says things about

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people in general like this would be in his day and age whipped so that's for general people how could it be that we attribute such words to the messenger of god sallallahu alayhi wasallam and I did go through the whole breakdown of the hadith and the hadith or not established and all of those simply came through abu musa al-ashari i believe and they all had problematic chains and i go through that you can check last week's class on that right okay enough of the drinking

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with the getalife how will you do radicalizing Muslim I'm not sure if I can if you can I mean you can't look people who have these views hardline views of Islam it depends because it depends how long they've been indoctrinated and it also depends on what factors have contributed to that so there can be many factors so

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psychosocial factors other factors things with just personality traits people who are insecure people who are frightened intimidated they're reacting to the environment usually you find it's people who feel insecure about their environment or something and they have a lot of hatred within and then they justify that using religion so they need to kind of vent and focus that hatred towards an enemy and then they given

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this enemy and they're kind of channeled and targeted and told that God wants you to hate these people and do this and and this is how it kind of usually works and people are are sincere as well you know they're sincere people sometimes and they buy into these and there's a lot of this you see my life is messed up because I haven't done anything for God so people think sometimes like why am i suffering why is that and people are guilt-tripped sometimes their life is messed up sometimes their life might not be messed up but they show all this

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other suffering around the world and they told and they told that why don't you like this is your you're responsible for this so the birthdays why am i responsible and they'll say well what have you done and the personal last war my supposed to do and they say well why are you sitting here comfortably eating food whilst they're starving you should be going out doing something so eventually a person becomes so guilt-ridden that they might go out and just attack somebody you'll conduct a blow themselves up or do something ridiculous like that and and this is

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part of that process you see it doesn't mean they can't be stopped and they can't be D radicalized they can but that's they need to work with people for a long period of time they need to have a rapport they need to kind of be pulled out of that environment they reign they need to see that will they need to normal human eyes regular human beings Muslims and non-muslims and understand that normal non-muslims or I mean they've regular good human beings as well so they need

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to understand that okay so what right about to get interrupted right objectives this this is what happens I'm never gonna leave that door opening hey alright so I have that ferocity palasa look I don't know many people maybe have Pharaoh so it's intuition hungry I just wouldn't look I don't deny intuition I

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think creatures have it as well and human beings have this as well but I wouldn't be obsessed about this kind of stuff so I wouldn't be like oh wow someone's always gotta feed us so and so Scott I'd just be yeah it's good hamdulillah you know that's that's me right so why are okay why are Muslim so weird what a question right i I don't know how to answer that one somebody asked a question about Sam

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Harris right Sam Harris and other kind of militant atheists somebody said about arm string I think personally I do like some of the discussions that Deepak Chopra has had with him I think they're really interesting and I think they kind of work really to fit on Deepak really because in some of the because it's happened on several occasions they debate and I think they just kind of mocked Deepak of it but I really liked some of Deepak's kind of counter responses and stuff like that

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that said look these people I think some Harris in the last few years has become a bit I don't know like I think he's kind of become way too bitter and almost a bit rotten against Muslims and it's a shame really because I think his older videos are not like he still didn't agree with Muslims previously and was obviously against Muslims but he didn't appear so rotten against them and kind of like I don't know like kind of just spiteful he didn't seem like it yeah he

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kind of really killed certain things and laughed them off and did that but I don't feel that he he disappeared to kind of laugh it off as opposed to be hateful and his recent things like saying oh you could justify nuking Muslims and you could justify I mean I find that kind of stuff I'm shocked that a person like some harris would think like that and and the fact that he is thinking like that is really disappointing otherwise these people look whether it's sam harris other people have not been that kind of

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spiteful against Muslims like Dawkins or Hitchens or Dan Dennett or or other kind of leading militant atheists that these were known as the four horsemen I think we can learn a great amount from these people and we should learn from anybody well I I don't know why people feel that as Muslims you have to hate them like why do we have to hate like we don't need to hate anybody I don't think we need to hate these people at all I think you can learn a great amount from people like Richard Dawkins I think you can learn a great amount

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from people like you know whether they're Muslim or non-muslim you know people say neil degrasse tyson I love Neil deGrasse Tyson I think they do amazing they these are the the voices of our Eva these are people who are making history and people think like oh you know you should but you have to hate them but they don't agree with this slam hate them relax I'll be honest with you you wouldn't agree with this farm if you weren't born a Muslim let's just be honest like what what is wrong with people

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people sometimes keep going on about [Music] vast majority 99% of all Muslims on earth were just born Muslims and if they were born maybe several hundred miles in an opposite direction would not have been Muslim nah but 99% of the entire you know the one point whatever billion Muslims on the globe I'm not talking about the convert hamdulillah converts are amazing and and I absolutely salute salute them for their commitment to the faith but I'm not speaking about them

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right now a 99% not speaking about the 1% that I've converted to Islam the 99% of Muslims are just born Muslims they don't really know about Islam and they don't really and under what 3% who are like scholars in the world if I don't you think 3% are but the 3% have been deemed as practicing hard-core practicing muslim but even if you take 5 to 10% of the muslims who are practicing Muslims the rest of the muslim world are not practicing they don't pray they don't do anything like that so you know

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people say well you should hate these non-muslims why should we hate non-muslims why should you hate these atheist even if they hate Islam don't hate them love them in return like I think like why not why is your messy like return hate with hate first of all they don't hate Islam and don't hate Muslims necessarily these atheists some of them may but other people don't I don't know I mean I don't think I mean I was disappointed i did say i think sam harris seems to display some some hatred but other than non-muslims neil degrasse tyson atheist leading

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atheist other people these even Richard Dawkins I I don't think generally in his interviews he doesn't come across I don't know what's in the heart but as hateful to its Muslim but let's just be honest if you were born as a Hindu or as a Christian or as a what let's just say in the UK as a non-muslim you would not think favorably of Islam either so just be honest with yourself so stop this kind of bigotry or or we must hate people like them learn from them these are the greatest minds unfortunately today the greatest minds in the world happened to be atheists so what do you

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want us to do oh it's like we're in an age way and so and look a theist scientist these people are just after publicity but so what what's wrong with that they're after pool do you think these wolfies are not after publicity let's just be honest do you think these movies are not after publicity they were after publicity as well look to these scientists this world is everything so why wouldn't you want to be famous you would because you only live in this

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world for the Muslim for that movies is supposed to be the afterlife but they too are all about the publicity let's just be honest look let's not lie it's true everybody's you know to say that oh I don't want to I don't want this I don't want any I don't want any fame or attention not nice you know this on because it's not true so that so let's just be honest with it

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everybody wants recognition now how do you translate recognition it depends some people wanted in the form of promotion some people want in the form of praise some people want it in the form of money some people want it in home of Fame some people wanted in the film everybody wants recognition what does Allah say about prophets in the Quran saying Roger I'll leave lease an assist in a little a hurry and those who come after us make them speak good about us so what does Imam good to be say about he says that there's no harm in

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saying in wanting people to speak about you this is a human thing is a human kind of quality we don't need to be fake we don't need to this is what annoys me you know this fakeness of pretending like oh I don't want I don't want recognition or dutiful or get out of here well that right there is a lie so I mean what it could be what it could be is multiple this could be multifaceted so people could be sincere as well and

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they could want Fame as well and they could want money and they could want praise and they could want to do good and they could want to bring about change human beings can have dynamic multiple kind of processes right so let's our South Asian claims of having sayeth heritage real God knows I honestly couldn't care less if somebody's a saith or not to me doesn't mean anything I've answered that before to other people it means a lot to people like me we're all the children of adam'

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. to me you know it doesn't these things mean nothing race caste religion in that sense we should be number one decent human beings okay so to start off with and as Muslims we should be people who uphold the religion in the best of manner right if we're gonna present it it should be presented in a way that Allah and His Messenger they honor and dignity is always first right that that is to me that is above above these little things too me it is above how many raka art you pray above how many voluntary fasts you

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keep above any how much liquor you do in a day and how many machines you sing and how many people you call a Kaffir and how many deviants you expose and how much backbiting you do in the name of God and how many all these kind of things it is above anything it is above you know even the amount of tell hour you do in a day your recitation it is above everything that you should uphold in the utmost respect and dignity the name of God and His Messenger that comes first and foremost okay so if you do with you if you are somebody that is

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allowing Allah and His Messenger to be denigrated it doesn't matter how many voluntary fasts you keep you are an affront to Islam that's what you are right so okay the 15th of Shaban let's take a look at these people I'm just opening this up someone I know has been trying to get married for two years what can they do to help the process I think

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I've answered that before I think they need to actually do something about it they need to go out the may take active steps right you know I spoke to somebody recently as well I think you need to make sure you don't get into a negative mindset always try to have a positive mentality try to be always like I don't always think positively and good things will happen insha'Allah I seriously believe that I've you know I try to be

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very generally I'm a very positive kind of person it doesn't mean you you don't get taken down you will at times but generally you should always be very pause if person enjoy life be happy even if there's difficulties try to and people feel that charm and then it has a positive out kind of like output to it and Allah and inna Haditha and I'm the Abdi cos only he be and I treat my slave as he expects from me so if people want to somebody saying the law of attraction

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if this is what you mean by the law of attraction fine I don't believe in it in some other weird superstitious way but I believe in it like this that it comes down to the power of the mind okay if you are positive and islam teaches us to be positive the Prophet would encourage people to be positive a hadith intern movie says that the prophet sallallaahu salam can in your head bootiful if he felt something gave off a positive vibe he loved that what can i yeah crowd to show and he disliked however anything about kind of negative vibes or negative

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kind of omens or following dismiss any superstition right don't think oh I'm cursed oh I'm not you know people think oh I'm not getting a rich star or I must be cursed or I must have the evil eye evil eye evil eye people evil eye or somebody's done a magic spell on me oh the evil eye or the magic spell oh this is nonsense there is no such thing as this evil eye of these kind of magic spells going on right but yes if you think like that then bad things are gonna happen to you because you've got a

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negative mindset and people pick up on that so people pick up on you know if you're a negative person people pick up on these vibes so they don't want to be around you they don't like what you're giving off so this college a do Kali ma Shakti de Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom none of that stuff it's all nonsense I tell you you know and I came across people are gonna say now you know I came across somebody highlighting a book of you know you get

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these Muslim book of spells and there was one there's a book actually by hazrat maulana ashraf ali Tanvi sahib rahim allah may allah have mercy on him and i have mercy on everyone but he has this book on called malik irani right the Quranic actions and really it's nothing ironic about it except the MIS misrepresentation of these verses so

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it's basically a book of spells on how to do kind of like get things done and this is how you're gonna get somebody to fall in love with you write this verse and write their name and do this hocus pocus and and I was and people have a whole kind of I came across this whole video warning and he had one about how to make people hate each other that you get the verse of the Quran where Allah bein human but I dare what's available that allow humans to Emma and that they will be at our well busbar between these people until the day of

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judgment this verse of the Quran and write it and then write their names and then bury this between two graves and but I suppose you know you think after hearing these things that the cult of the opened now you know the hardcore cold since they can oversee these kind of shortcomings and be very loving that these these will be a people of great tolerance when it comes to me when it

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comes to this kind of Messiah I was reading actually he you know they say a Maulana by the name of somebody sent me a video clip this is a Maulana by the name of engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza and he has this whole he speaks in Urdu and doesn't belong to any sect but yes like these whole kind of things brought up these issues oh my god and he brought up some of these issues but it made me think that wow that look at these issues going on and people can turn blind eyes to them a hamdulillah and I think that's

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great look despite a lot of these things that let's say people like maulana ashraf ali tang we saw him rahim allah may allah have mercy on him has said I wouldn't declare him a calf even though these things have been brought up some of the things that somebody sent me this link saying we it's a popular issue we he's trying to differentiate between this whole bravery masala of the Prophet having knowledge of the unseen and in his book which is called evil Iman he

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goes on to say he's trying to justify and sometimes you overdo it and this is why the verse of the Quran Waluigi Menachem shanahan Allah Allah Allah Allah tardy you do not let the enmity of a people lead you to injustice but he's trying to show that the Prophet doesn't have the knowledge of the unseen but in showing that which I think foreign this is an academic discussion but he gets so carried away in saying look that the Prophet he hasn't you know his knowledge is like every Joe Bloggs or whatever because everybody has some knowledge of the unseen that another person doesn't have but then in get so carried away and

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I believe he must have said this by accident because no normal Muslim would ever say that he says all whether it's of a child or a madman or an animal and you think and you think what is he saying and these things are year Kufa that said right this person obviously that said we would believe that generally this person would have

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said this maybe not thinking you know I'm sure because the person was a Muslim who tried to serve Islam throughout his life and it's interesting how people can oversee these shortcomings quite easily they can say dough doesn't matter it doesn't matter it's it's our share our stances okay and this Mesa engineer Muhammad Ali miserable he brings us so many things he's so interesting but he said on this point I look even the idol had these shares of a Dallas I agreed that look this is cool farm this is disbelief

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although do we have to call that person a Kaffir is a different issue now I would say I'm against calling people kaffir but I would say that look how great the heart of the anima of the open these that they manage to oversee such sure you know that people would say this they would be able to oversee these issues and say alhamdulillah still you know we're going to let's turn up a blind eye to to that you know because as a mama Shaffer he said in this point well I ain't no softy took Dylan Masseria you know the eye of when you look at something with hatred it brings out the

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shortcomings and and it's interesting that you know some of these do Bundy's were saying what not nobody nothing they were critical why doesn't mean you know they were asking and I came across this interesting thing it was in in this clip that was sent because people say oh I've said things and they say look he says things and somewhat you know they completely disregard context now this was interesting somebody came to Mawlana a Shefali Tanvi sahib Ramallah and he said I had a dream and and he said in this dream I my dream was that I was

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saying the Shahada and the Shahada was la ilaha illallah Shefali Tanvi rasoolallah this was the person's dream so now so mallanna a charlatan me he kind of responded and this is in his own article he writes this himself he had an article called a limb dad and it's written I think is in the 1336 edition of 1333 I think edition in the year 1333 of suffer it's in that one I believe now he gives this he says that my student came to me and told me

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this dream and I interpreted it and I told him that all that means your chef meaning himself is upon the Sunnah so it's it's ok don't worry Bob and then what's interesting is he has another dream a few years later it's in the same reseller he writes it so by the way so ash Maulana shovel autonomous I rhyme Allah marries one of his own female students underage students he marries a young I don't know I think she may have been like 10 years old or something

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right 10 11 maybe so he marries an underage student of his of of it of his own he writes about this himself in in birth so he says oh yeah because people must have said how come you married this little girl so he says one of my Marines came to me and he had a dream and in this dream he said he saw the eyes shall roar the Allahu Allah came to your house like as in to Mawlana a Chevelle autonomous house so I should well eat on me Sahib rhyme Allah said I

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did it stop it I interpreted the dream to mean I'm gonna marry an underage girl I thought behaved but anyway I mean this so I not heard this but this has all happened so he then he goes on and he marries this student of his who was an underage girl and he says well this is because of that dream you see so it was gonna happen and this is himself he writes this in this is in the year 30 this is the Edition 1336 suffer the month suffer addition of

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his monthly journal called the in that he himself used to publish it so my point is that you see it's interesting when it's your own shares that you people will turn a blind eye marry and rage you don't worry about it Vasu mala don't worry about it disrespectful to the Prophet and don't worry about it oh but somebody else will have a difference of opinion we must expose him we must accept this they say yeah there's a poem actually I just read the

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other day on Facebook and it said news in Urdu and it said su a Maradona jati to kuch aur baati if you didn't go in the direction of the of the wine house it would have means something else vulgar Vinita Montsegur pilate the couch or bottle if they've given us to drink from their eyes then it would have been something else would have been

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something else and then the poet says that go haram chaos they say Papa monkey who dotted that it is true that by taking the road through the harem through Makkah they eventually reached God it is true that by taking this road go Haram caste vopo monkey adopted de rigueur de rigueur Kira no Terry Raghu

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sir Sage art a to kuch aur baati now have they gone through your Street and your alleyway to reach God then it would have been something else that would have been something unique so it's it's this kind of favoritism that when we have somebody who's our own it's ok doesn't matter what they say but my point of mentioning these things is that we need to add all point at all times remain objective in Charlotte and and dreams we can't get carried away in interpreting dreams because people

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coming back to that point the topic that I was talking about that this thing about mindsets and dreams and all this kind of stuff people give it way too much importance okay way too much right folks let's take a look at this issue then we'll come back to some other questions what do you think about Buddhism does it have any connections to Islam what's your take on personal impersonal God what's more sensible right okay that's a an interesting question what's with all the eyes and

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stuff being sold mysterious I'm not sure what that even means I urge you to search about brother John right so coming to this 15th of Shaban right now okay so first of all there is a belief a common belief what is this issue Leila - mr.

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Schaben so the night on the 15th of Shaban which we are kind of embarking on now right so before just as we're going into this those of you just tuning in if you can like and share please I want other people to tune in and benefit insha'Allah as much as they can so just mix up my potions the couch or about the healthy let's get this

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so this right now what is this belief so this belief is that they're the 15th night of Shaban is a very special night the on this night people ought to stand in pray Allah descends to the lowest heaven and asks people is there anybody who wants forgiveness I will forgive them and he goes on to forgiving them and he forgives anybody except and somebody committing idolatry mushrik or a Masha

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anybody who's hateful so that's that's unfortunately a lot of people but putting that aside so put these two things asides on lies forgive forgiving many people in a particular hadith as many people as there are kind of strands of hair on particular animals or wool and fur and whether it's gonna be on a sheep or things like these kind of descriptions are mentioned in this hadith then there is an Associated

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belief with this that there is an Associated belief with this that on this night a book of decree is written so all the people who will die in this year so let's say from this 15 charbon to next 15 shaman everybody who is going to die his name will be written in this book or according to some people there is a tree and the tree has a as many leaves as many kind of leaves on this tree and

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each leaf contains the name of every individual who is alive on earth so it's got let's say eight billion eight billion leaves on this tree now any leaf that is going to draw on this night in that sublime threesome way means that that person will die another kind of angle to this belief is that the Angel of Death is given a list molecule mote oh here Mirage according to the Hindu tradition a

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mirage a mirage ji is receiving a list of all the people all the souls that he will be taking during this year so this belief is all linked with Layla to mr. Schaben the night of the nice fish upon which is also called lailatul bharata the night of bharata why because are either bharata from freedom from sins or bara bara are meaning that they are then free or linked to this death or they've

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this so it is called lailatul bara as well and cheb means is the Farsi Persian word for night so shabby Bharata or as is often said in Urdu shubee Bharat and then in the more slightly pakka fide version Chevy Barack and then just sometimes shall be rot I don't know how they say so this is what it's talking about the night of the 15th of Shaban yes here Mirage is the Hindu version of the angel of death that's correct I am

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Raj the gatekeeper of hell ok so just in case he turns up right so anyway so what are we looking at so first of all let me just clarify this night has no significance all of these concepts that I've told you are increase superstitions folklore and

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false beliefs that have kind of originated and Gottman kind of spread right throughout the Muslim civilization with variations to them so whether it's a tree with all these leaves or whether it's the angel of death with this kind of checklist for this year or whether it's a book with names being put into it all of these things whichever version you have has reached you it is all fake okay fake news hashtag fake news people fake news none of that is happening

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stuff so the good news let me give you the good news people the good news is he a mirage before is not getting a list of names this is not happening Noli leaves are falling off a tree with your names on it that doesn't happen and then it would be a shame if you've changed your name throughout the year you change your name and somebody else changes it to your name so your previous name so the Angel of Death is like these

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ID that would be ashamed and you like so so no no trees no leaves none of that okay these are all superstitions so that's the good news the bad news is life is still finite and I guess you gotta go when you gotta go so that is still the bad news so I mean it doesn't mean you're gonna live forever folks so do enjoy it while you can

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so that's just a kind of overview now let's get into these details there are several hadith right that have come about this now the ADI have been transmitted from many companions from to eight companions at least transmit these beginning with mahadji Benjamin radiyallahu anh elaborate rhodiola an afterlife Narmer abu musa al-ashari you've got a brain and you've got a buck already low on Siddiq you've got all fitna Malik you can I share the law and

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how all of these companions they are a hadith transmitted from them and one to others as well but let's take a slightly at these people what is going on and some people have tried to argue that there is a basis for this let's just get that out the way first some people have tried to argue so you will get people including people like Hypnotizer try to argue maybe not in line with that whole story of the angel of death and the death the annual death toll kind of

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story but this night being a virtuous night people have tried to argue for that you've got people like even at a mere people like what they mean even try to argue for it I'm so surprised being a Salafi he ought to realize the a hadith or not sorry but unwell shop Kashmiri who taught who said that was a Hari Wyatt he fondly lailatul bara I said this aji and were shocked ich merely claims them to be sahi who also claims the hadith of the second coming to be sahi but this one these are not

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quite precise you know we will come to this one so from the Hanafi scholars mullah huh sir all Hanafi in his dural tom says it's from the recommended actions say no denied no no Jane mentions it it's in the mundo birth is from the recommended actions and he mentions the hadith have been established about this okay so and a popular Hadi now first of all none of the sahi hain of any hadith to do with this okay not sorry not sorry

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Muslim not Buddhahood there is a hadith in tirmidhi that not links to the death toll the annual death toll theory nothing to do with that but about this night having some virtue and there are an odd narration in even imagine okay most of these hadith are found there's one two narrations in the most of the backman but most of them are found outside the major books of hadith so bay hockey does transmit quite a few in his shuttle Iman you'll find they're

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transmitted in certain books of zihua Eid and stuff like this but a popular one let's say even imagine I mean be happy from Cigna a little dilemma and is that either can a Leila to miss Manish min Shaban if it's the the middle night middle of the month night the fifteenth night of Shaban Amol a letter hawa sumo Yamaha then stunned during the night in prayer and fast during its day for in a lion's allah fear allah who Ruby shuns so as soon as it is sunset no it's definitely not in the mothball of

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Imam Malik Imam Malik was clearly against these kind of things right now in this hadith a lot descends to the low to the lowest sky at sunset and and then he says is there anybody who wants forgiveness is there anybody wants a risk I will increase your risk I will give you forgiveness I will do this I will now this particular hadith as you will see is is this is not only weak but weak redeemed malgor fabricated because it's from transmitted as somebody called even abhi Saburo in the chain who is accused

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of fabricating Andy many other people and one variable elbows theory if Naraku of all of them considered this week but what's interesting people is even more arabe the legend from Muslim Spain or Walker if Nora be the Maliki Don says Walesa feel a let's in Eastman Shaban hadith Anya well Holly there is not a single hadith to be relied upon in Laila to nice fish are burned and he says laugh 'if ugly huh neither in its virtue one happiness till

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agile and neither in this death toll annual death toll Theory philosophy to alaihe do not even bother paying attention to these hadith he says and then he mentions a hadith as well he gives an example of denarii mentioning from Russia the Mossad feel a little missed that in on this night you hell of with a molecular motor Allah says to the Angel of Death take the names of all the souls and he says this is my life okay bye and people try to base this on the verse of the Quran in that until now feel a

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Latin America that we reveal this Quran on a blessed night in a among the rain that indeed we were to warn you see how you threw cooler a marine Hakim in solitude on that on this night every matter was set apart now they ache Rahman some other people interpreted that that in this night every matter is set apart to mean this annual death Theory right this annual death log theory takes place but that is not from the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but let's take a look at some

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of these honey and so one hadith is transmitted in by even if I asked him in his book and even I had burned from my eyes if double radi allahu and McCool transmits it from Malik evening Hummer from Earth the hobby mentions Mahal la miel Carmel echidna yamir he didn't even meet Malik evening Hamid this hadith is life life people die next hadith Abu Salah ba this hadith and our signal Hakim transmits it from maja saravana Habib which is transmitted in tabarani

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and 1/2 of this and not so reliable works of hadith now this hadith well our signal Hakim is what did him mine say about him lay Sbisa he is not strong yeah he woke up and said he's weak well Joseph Annie said he's weak if a band said his life I mean humble said his life and the hobby said he's naive so this is live people unreliable Hadees next hadith is transmitted from Abdullah Narmer the sahabi this is transmitted in the books of

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Muslim Ahmed even Allah he Abdullah hey I transmits this he says had doesn'r here you've got the LA who says this is from Abu Abdullah man I'll happily write who transmits this from Abdullah grammar right now even Allah he are okay right even a famous very famous scholar but when it came to matters of hadith probably my me amigos problema in hadith you know it was a great scholar however it was a great scholar but in hadith this one big problem you know this woman

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so yeah him of Qatar yeah him decide in return say / a is nothing nothing this one right I leave your Medini and Abdul Rahman Ahmadi say nothing it is one less a Bechet raha be Cesaro Waldman ah here he transmitted monka I had these time-to-time Nessa I left most of his hadith nasai he says I only ever transmitted one rewire from him Abu surah now even Allah he uh he used to transmit you see some people say because

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his books got burnt and in his later on in his life we can't rely on those hadith so do we differentiate because some people have said like even a high bar did say the ABA's illa allah wa ha when he transmits from these four Abdullah's will take from him and that was after lebanon mubarak after lebanon Wahab after la McCray and I'm don't let the Muslim Academy these four we will take but otherwise no and that's especially if it was before his books got burned however a boozer our rossi the dawn on hadith said when he was asked liar he said lay off the juubi he we do not take

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him as an evidence they said is this before his books were burned too after he said oh well then why lie after and not before and not after so naive right now the fourth hadith from abu musa al-ashari this is transmitted in even imagine once again even Allah here transmits this from surveillance lame from the hack from Abdul Rahman from his father right now first of all right this the father of the Rahman is much rule and then you've got even here in the chain we've already discussed

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so this one is problem you know this one is problem next fifth hadith is from Abu Hurairah this is transmitted in Bazaar many of these a hadith or in Bazaar by the way right so I'm in the Salah it as well so this is transmitted from Hashem even a man from a mesh from Abu Salah from ABI arrival of the Allah one now first of all an ambush about her team says he used to you the list you the list this one would black you know a blank sometimes black it he would kind of black it sometimes so if he does the

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Anna Anna you have to be weary and yell it and he would mix up now here when we look this one Anna you know he does a non so he doesn't say he heard but many people said look hmm you know when he transmits from Abu Saleh we should just accept it because we don't think he blacks from Abu Saleh however upon closer in affection yeah yep the Marine says aha well when we look at his hadith as Allah he transmits yeah him mine saying the

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famous hadith I am a Mormon the Imam is a guarantor well Muslim Ottoman and the person of Adan who gives a damn is a trustworthy reliable person a lot much transmits this from Abu Saleh however in this hadith he does Ana well um yes my human abyss Allah there was a person in the middle who he kind of he kind of just dunked him and just slightly black the chain but he got caught out on this one you know where he was a Solomon I mean this Solomon a lot much I'm just saying

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it doesn't mean in every chain you have to reject him but here this problem you know there's two people in the chain him and the father of the rock man okay so let's 6th rewire from over karate allow on in the most honorable bizarre and in a Buddha Husain Abdul Malik Abdul Malik transmits from Muslim we've now be them from Kozma Muhammad from either his father Oh ankle first thing is Abdul Malik ibn Abdul Malik Buhari said this one not nice you know he said this won't be another you've got a problem with

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this one so we can't accept Abdul Malik Abner Abner Malik about how Tim said as well mmm not all that is not all that so it's a problem let alone the fact that you know the uncertainty in who is transmitting Qasim is transmitting it from seventh companion is a fitna Malik once again this is transmitted in the Muslim of bazaar by evening Lahiya who transmits him from Abdul Rahman evening I'm from a budget of lunacy wright from kathena madras from alpha blue malik now Bazaar himself

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who is transmitting the hadith says he says it he gives you the heads up straight away this is life so after a medieval humble says Lisa Bechet al-hakim says he's not strong oh but Colonel Marazzi says moon Carol hadith Amazon is naive naive then the hadith from Aisha of the law and which is in even imagined which I quoted earlier on to you guys the hadith is transmitted by her judge from yagna be Kathy from Ottawa from Aisha this had judge people is a judge even Arthur who

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is live but unless even mine said Lisa below kawaii yeah evening sir I didn't know Catan said is much Luke Nessa he said is weak even Assad said is naive and when Buhari was asked about this by thermally he asks him about this hadith he bihari said his wife yeah yeah Abby Cathy lamb yes ma'am me Norma he didn't even hear from Allah so people they you have this understanding there is no single hadith that Asahi in this matter right now it's what's so interesting to know that

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sometimes they hadith always that time sometimes it's interesting to note that even though a hadith can have many change through companions but all of them can be weak okay so take note people this night it's just a regular night in the book of Alvida by the Maliki dong ignore BA from Muslim Spain over a thousand years ago he transmits this from many of the early scholars of Medina that look that none of the people of Medina would give this night any

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preference over any other it was just the same and this and this would also apply a worker talked to she mentions the same thing Imam Malik also wasn't really down with just having introducing religious elements unless they were established by the Sun so that's what I would say that this night has no special virtue if somebody wants to practice something that is up to them I wouldn't condemn them you know there is a difference of opinion I accept that although none of the hadith Asahi as

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I've clearly established their life and we ought to really always go with the Quran or Sunna Quran was Sunnah and be wary of just the opinions of people right so that said if people want to handle allow mean you know the Deen is about Rama and about accommodating for people and if people have a need and usually this is part of folklore religion and stuff like that so people need to do these kind of things that's fine I wouldn't go around condemning people at all okay they can do it it's up to them but I wouldn't advise if somebody asked me I wouldn't advise it I

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[Music] wouldn't advise it myself okay cool I hope that of some help it's been Wow quite a bit of a session people quite a bit of a session I think we should really wrap it up on that I don't think was there any urgent question that I had documented I was trying to think I can't really sometimes some people have asked some very urgent things and I try to document them that I will there was

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there was something I wanted to talk about I'll discuss that next week I suppose about things like cyberbullying I've come across certain I've seen things on Facebook but I've had other people reach out to me as well some times that they're really struggling because people are trolling them they're hating on them I had a couple reach out to me who have an online kind of Islamic business and because it's very soothing oriented so a lot of the seller fees were hating on them and they were really trolling them and

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making their life a misery to the fact that these people got really they were really kind of hurt by a lot of what was going on that's an example but there were other people as well that have reached out to me because sometimes I faced a lot of trolls so they're curious that you know what's going on with you and how do you handle this and so I would say look these things in Sharla as look as time moves forward and the virtual and the actual are kind of merging and the lines are blurring and our social media lives are becoming more

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and more like everyday lives for us I would really advise people that look we can't stay it's one of those social media is like one of these damned if you do damned if you don't kind of situations please do try to keep a very healthy life balance okay make sure you do visit your friends you chill out with your friends with your family have a laugh enjoy yourself take care of your health take time now go to do whatever you don't know what people like doing go to a spa if you like going to a spa go I don't know go

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out wherever you go whatever is your thing do it or I take that me timeout chill have fun watch TV watch stuff new stuff don't just be immersed by this like let this be an important part as well because people are cruel people are cruel in general and it's easier for people to be crueler online because they can hide behind fake profiles they can create false personas and attack you me i i'm very kind of fixed in as a person you know it will take a lot for people

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to get to me and these people these haters they make to me something like me they got nothing i mean it's all water under a bridge it's like in fact i would say to them you know what that's not trolling i troll them back and I just laugh a ma and usually you'll see I'm always doing kind these kind of gifts or just kind of some people calm gifs but these gifts that I just put in return just mocking them and I just have a laugh and that's how I do it but other people sometimes are not as strong in the you know knowledge they're more sensitive and

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they get hurt and so just remember that look block people if people are crawling you block them and this kind of cyber bullying is utterly if that you know if people want to speak about Haram this is utterly Haram Allah cyberbullying is utterly Haram and the shocking thing is you know once I spoke about this previously that and and even today what I touched upon you will get religious people sometimes because religious hatred as i-i've read it earlier on from Holloway's book is of the worst kind of

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hatred that humanity ever has and people if they hate on you like in the example of that couple because they're Sufis and the people hating on them are selfies so they consider the mushriks or whatever so they feel it's religiously they feel they're doing a good thing religiously by attacking them and and this is true that they are some of the worst people I've had people hating on me you know I've had Imam Xena Imams Imams in a group bully and try to bully me try to do things try to and they will justify I've had for example conversations in a

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whatsapp group let's just say or online just as they will try to say oh let's share like let's say you're talking to somebody and you might say something or you might crack jokes they will say let's share this to publicly we wouldn't do it for anybody else but it's okay here because God wants us to do this to expose this deviant like let's say so people say oh he's had banter he's had humor what kind of a joke is this why does he all people have said he's had these discussions on let's say I've discussed I must allow about the nature of the Quran or

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something let's expire no does this sound controversial not that it is it's not controversial but let's expose this oh let's say for example I critique somebody on a group of critiqued a scholar for attacking me in public they will say let's expose his personal conversation here too because God wants us to do this so this religious thing is the worst kind of hatred and I really feel certain my two eyes are with that couple who are friends with me on Facebook and anybody online that is

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going through cyber bullying and this is why really this thing we have to understand is utterly Haram people there are people out there that commit suicide seriously like you have to just google suicide they kill themselves because of the way they've been bullied online that this there is no space it is anybody wallahi who justifies a bullying this kind of bullying in the name of God and His Messenger wallahi I'll put my hand

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on the Quran here this is a Quran and I would swear that these people have betrayed Allah and His Messenger anybody who uses the name of Allah and His Messenger to justify bullying other people online has betrayed Allah and His Messenger right and they will be answerable they will be answerable in the afterlife for what they've done and Allah will show them that so these things and you know what's interesting is I've read sorry not read I watched I

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you know I watched an interview and you know like sometimes you're on YouTube and things are just shown up and and some of you who are into Bollywood you might know that there was a very famous comedian called I mean he's still a la ku Kapil Sharma and I ended up watching his interview and this guy went through clinical depression like clinical was he had to be hospitalized and he was suicidal we want to commit suicide and he was really funny and he was like an overnight success and within like one

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two years became like a multi-millionaire but what was interesting as I was watching his interview because I couldn't believe like wow what had happened to this guy and he but what was it so he explains a lot of the things that led to this breakdown mental breakdown but what was interesting is his own words saying like he said look I locked myself into my office for days on end right now now I just wait to think about this this is somebody who rubbed shoulders with top superstar world-renowned celebrities yeah like the likes like Shiro Han and these kind of people who are amongst the

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world international leading and highest-paid celebrities in the world these are people who are million himself a million you know these are not like small kind of people I'm and he said look I locked myself in my office for days on end and my friends came and eventually found me and they said what are you doing here I was just listening to this interview and he said that they said look come on you know you're not a criminal you're not wanted for murder I mean why are you hiding like this and he said well I it like this person said you know with emotion he said that I have to

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tell you that I genuinely believed that the whole world hated me because of what I was seeing on social media because everybody was sharing things against me and and he said that I felt that the whole world hates me now it's interesting that this I just quote that as an example because you see people who are getting trolled online you get all these fake accounts kind of trolling you and bullying you and doing something like this right now to that person you'll see a lot and I see this myself I'll see it

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you'll see a lot of ganging up people will try to gang up on you they want you to think this is the whole world around you so it's important - ehind advice - to anybody going through this this is important to realize and to keep connected with the real world first of all these people are cowards just understand that not forget nine out of ten almost 99 out of a hundred wouldn't have the courage to say whatever they're saying in real life not in your face so these are just cowards

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either just troll them back block them but keep connected with the real world keep in connection with with you see whilst I'm saying this you've got somebody cool cast on who decides to come on and say suit your be Adele now that is the example of of a troll who just got blocked alright so now my point is keep connected with the real world and keep you always keep always be like remember

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friends family this this is the stuff that life is made of enjoyment chill do whatever you're into I don't know what people are into but whatever you're into do more of it live life you know like enjoy enjoy things laugh uncontrollably seriously watch as much comedy I feel any moment spent in laughter is never a moment wasted laughs uncontrollably that's what I say love passionately these things do whatever you do

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enthusiastically like God do not kind of enjoy life you know don't be these people who hate it's because they have an emptiness don't let them get to you so insha'Allah that's my kind of naseeha - and remember that look it doesn't matter how many people that you think have turned against you just remember that in this like - this couple for example who are selling things and even if it is sufi inclined or two other people who have reached remember allies with you it doesn't matter whether these people

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these cowards in their tens or even in their whatever or numbers they come in remember that Allah is with you okay because Allah is always with the oppressed remember that and there's an amazing Holub really says this so well in a thing where he says that began agir hulks they did not move on him that even if people try to turn away from you don't let it this hot in you Holly

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koi nahi tirado Mary John who died that you know if nobody if you perceive nobody to be with you then remember at least God is with you so these things in sha Allah take them as some advice you know may Allah keep you all safe protected may he shower you with his countless blessed blessings and keep you forever smiling and laughing inshallah take very good care of yourselves till next week people in sha allah Salam o aleikum what I've met a lighter Allah or butter cat

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth: Session 76}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {5},
  date = {2018-05-02},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xt0agdj15r0/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}