Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 163

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Give me a bit of freedom. Yeah, I don't like the, you know, I don't like it. You know this one don't like the this this constriction restrictions in front of me. So you miss Turkish salutations. Ah right. Of course. What is the Turkish salutation? I'll have to I'll have to check that one out.

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What is going on? I came across an interesting uh clip of a dua. I thought, you know what? I have to share this with you guys. Here it is, people. [Laughter] Thomas is making a dua. [Music] [Laughter] That was one of his first times in the masid.

So, you could see how he signs off the dua. He says, "Uh, thanks God it's Thomas." So, just so God knows obviously just in case God's like, "Which one was that again?" And he says, "Oh, it's Thomas." So, [Music] Monday night Sunday morning session request I I I do have the mind traps.

Uh, salam from Bangladesh. Much love. Much love. Right. Do you admire respect Sheikh Assar? Respect. Respectto. Respectto. I I'm sure I do respect him. Don't I? All right. So, what is going on? What is going on, people? What are some of the questions? What's some of the fitting and facade going on?

Somebody said, "I always sign off with yours sincerely as well." Of course. Of course. Unless you sign it off as yours faithfully. and head it with to whom it may concern whichever I take it that's in a ch I better stop I better stop people won't be able to handle the humor within Ramadan they'll be like

what is this miy on about uh rashid embarrassed UK I don't know what that means right somebody's asked about um my opinions on in the Quran right I have I have spoken about that previously let me just check I have spoken about that quite in fact I've got a clip on YouTube do check it out uh it's just type in type in the keywords it'll come right up that is it Ezra as many theologians many kind of

Muslims scholars have assumed or was it Osiris us. Mhm. Mhm. Who was called user in Arabic um obviously Egyptianized Arabic but in the Quran. So and I've inclined and leaned that way that this uh in the Quran was Osiris.

He was not Ezra from you know because the the simple belief that people had was that because the Jewish uh Bible was lost to the Jews during their exile in Babylon. So after centuries they rewrote it and one of the key scribes his name was Ezra. Now, some people say some Jewish sources kind of describe him as a as a a nasty piece of work and others highly praise him, but he's not he's of mixed um kind of reviews.

He's not uh just absolutely loved. So, he's somebody some people think he wasn't a good person, some people think he was a great person, but he definitely contributed to the restoration of the Jewish Bible. Now the question was that is this restoration why Allah has said that they said Allah that is the son of God um you know but it didn't quite you see I'm not fully convinced because it mentions that about that the yahood say is the son of god

and the Christians say that the msiah the Isa is the son of god. Now, because there's a liking of the two within the same verse, it does not really sit right that the Jews considered Ezra by any kind of standing the way Christians consider Jesus. So even if even those Jews who highly praised Ezra who consider him a you know a masterpiece but they considered him like an amazing let's say rabbi or somebody who you know has done a greatma

a service to Judaism but not divine in any way. So that that's a bit of a stretch in to me to me. So I feel um this fits more right with Osiris because Osiris was the the the kind of the god of the underworld and he was a divine uh avatar.

He was an avatar of the divine and he himself was the most compassionate and he was somebody who really fought the cause for humanity against you know the the sun deity and and he was like a favorite of u many Egyptian of the Egyptian folk. So Right.

So this uh this one no nice you know no mea right. So the yeah so the so because they uh the early Jewish tribe the Israelites that were exiled or not that were exiled but that left the exodus that left Egypt with Moses they would have carried this baggage with them. So even if they turned away from let's say polytheism or whatever it was, even if they were never into polytheism the way the Egyptians were, it would have been very difficult to have grown up in Jewish culture, sorry, in Egyptian

culture and not have been influenced by these myths. It's I think it's very difficult um especially when the Egyptian culture was so doineering and dominating and uh so they would have always held Osiris as a hero and even though they you know kind of said well he's not a god but maybe they still carried that thing and I gave the example of Ram in the Hindu um in India how Ram is uh venerated you know Sri Ram G.

Now the thing is even so you can imagine those people who convert to Islam that are Hindus but they would always still have a special place in their heart for shaman. Now that's because they've just it's been part and parcel of their culture. So that's in a similar way I felt that it was more I was in line with those mu that it's more fitting. Right.

So right what is going on? What is going on? Peoples peoples peoples what is going on? I've started uploading my recitation. All right mas mas I've done surfa right.

So what is going on? Azerati has mentioned your views on virtues of lead. Now lead you see what does mean? Does it mean it's a specific night in the sense that um the way people understand it

that this you see this whole surah speaking of that we reveal this verse on a night of immense power uh or or it could be argued on the night of the decree. free. Do you understand? Um, so h I Right.

Okay. So there's two ways to look at this. Two ways to look at this. One is the general folk not folkloric. Um, but the general narrative it I suppose it is folkloruric as well. the general narrative that Muslims uh that is widespread and that is that is a recurring night that happens every um that happens every year annually.

Then the scholars massively disagree amongst themselves when is some have said many said it was in Ramadan. Some said it was out of Ramadan. Some said it may have been the night of Hajj. Some said it may have been 10th of you know. Some may have said it was a different night. Some said it moves around every year. It's an un uh determined a nondetermined night.

Some people said it was in most of or many of them I think that's a better word. Many said it was within Ramadan. Then they disagreed when in Ramadan. Some said it was in the first ash. Some said it was in the last ash. Some said it's on the odd nights. It's on the 21st, on the 23rd, on the 25th, 27th. Many people took the 27th. And this became kind of uh almost somewhat iconic of uh people say Im Abuhanifh said it, other people said it.

Um other held a view that it it kind of rotates between the last nights, the odd nights of Ramadan, the last 10, 21st all the way to 29. Um someh felt that there is no such thing really as in that sense depends what we mean by of course what what the general people understand by it is it's a night of immense virtue and some people say that it is like you know if you worship on this night it is as though

you know it is like a thousand months of worship that you have on. I mean I would say fine. I would probably go with if you want to understand it as a um a night of virtue then there are certain hadith saying that seek it out in the last odd nights of Ramadan. Personally I I feel on my personal kind of basis my personal understanding that this hadith that seek it outla in the odd nights in the last odd nights of Ramadan was more a kind of encouragement to make people really

optimize their Ramadan. Um that's what I would probably feel and I wouldn't in my personal understanding I don't feel that in the Quran is necessarily the that people have understood today to mean one of the nights of you know this night that we're meant to worship in and do things and uh I don't think it necessarily was that because was a surah there was no I mean Ramadan existed but there was no uh fasting or worshiping on that was ever documented or ever transmitted the prophet never taught

people. Oh, by the way, it's we should be doing this later on in Medina. This talk kind of uh manifests. So, h so that's that's but I feel fine. It's a good thing. It keeps people engaged. It keeps people you know seeking out. They try hard. You see another interesting thing is nothing is told on what to do because nothing is set for this.

In fact, um the the simple uh the hadith the simple teachings found in the a hadith are just to make dua and that is of the simplest of ibadat. But if it helps people, you know, if if it's something very that makes their Ramadan much more meaningful, then fine, you know, there are many look what we have to understand is that there are many things today um which are part and parcel of the established narrative of Islam

which may have been in that exact way in the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi alaihi wasallam just to understand that. So a good example is like is another good example you know I im Malik when asked about it was like you know he said that the salah he had never ever really did that.

He he was like nobody seemed to have practiced it in Medina but you see but it works for people. So sometimes there's a difference between you know what is necessarily accurate and what works for people. These are not always they don't always go hand I mean I suppose they go hand in hand but they're not identical or or they don't mirror each other always.

Okay. So I hope that helps. All right. Did you have a haircut in the lockdown? Ara people, the Lord pro Huh? Did you think that I was bound by the same restriction, the Lord provides people? The Lord provides. See, that's the difference between us. You see, I have

and whosoever. See if you have tawul upon your lord he will suffice Allah Allah during could gates of conscious mind open in order for desires wishes to be impressed easily upon the subconscious mind to be fulfilled.

Perhaps I mean these things about the unconscious mind about consciousness we don't really understand them. There must be some you know there must be some kind of things going on in this world that we don't fully understand. So yeah, somebody said, "What was the reason of the absence of the Malikis in the Indian subcontinent?" That's by Yasar.

That's because people, they were awaiting my arrival. Allah all in the words of the poet Allah Allah Allah he says even if I have come a little late don't worry nor to despair even if I've come a little late I'll do that which even the predecessors were not capable of

it's an epic poem in Arabic [Music] So do mabs follow the right yeah they they do uh this the mab of Medina of Im Malik is based heavily on I I won't say it's exclusive to it's not exclusively based on but it's heavily based on what are called Omar So the judicial uh judgments of

is what the of Malik is heavily based on. You're doing it. You're doing it. All right. So what's this? Miy, do you need a full fist? Huh? To lead the prayer. Let me read that question again.

Do you need a a fullfaced beard? [Laughter] I was about to say that the are the not locked up from Ashak. I was going to say no, you don't need a full fist.

Is that what the karisab's telling you? No, don't listen to the karis. Don't listen to the karisab. You don't need a full fist. How many fing? Four. Four fingers. Yeah, four fingers. Two fingers are enough. Two fingers.

Look. So, what is going on right? All right. Charles Muhamad. halls. I'm quick off the trying to fared. Sadly, Fared called you the Jal of Birmingham.

Let people call me the Jalard. You see, you see as I say, Joe Blogs, your view on occasionalism. All right, you're doing it, Joe Blogs. You're doing it, man. Uh let me just come to to to you in a moment. Right now as I say to such people who say these things you know misjal this mis that let them you know if this brings peace if this brings them some peace of mind let it be.

You know I at the end of the day the way you see to these people my message is whichever way you spin it. The center of the discourse is still me. You're still preoccupying yourself with me. You're still talking about me. You're thinking about me. You're obsessed over me.

And who who are you again? Ah these people these people right so Joe blogs what is going on your view on occasionalism so occasionalism is the belief that it's a philosophical kind of belief held by many people including Muslims and non-Muslims as well including Christians and other people as well it's was debated amongst the Greeks uh historically that does God have a primary

um causation? Is God the primary cause for everything? Or does he set systems in place and allow them to uh kind of take place as for example pretty much uh Aristotle or other people would have kind of deemed as well. this is with the you know the Greeks that God doesn't need to that's the opposing view that's what I would fall in line with that uh Allah doesn't need to be doing everything every single thing he would just set systems in place that would do it he wouldn't need so Allah would have laws of forces of

nature like gravity would set the law of gravity now he doesn't need to himself directly be pushing everything to the ground and resisting it with and you know at the same time simultaneously and doing this and he doesn't need to be doing that and he's given humans free will he doesn't need to be making them like I picked this glass up now oh sorry this cup up now god is making me pick this cup up you know this kind of stuff um in my understanding it's flawed because it kind of really uh does away with

uh it does away with free will. That's in my understanding. Mhm. The Quran as external proof of Islam be a language that most people have to undergo years of training before they can somehow understand its miraculous nature. All right, that's from DKK. So, first of all, Joe Blogs, I hope that answers your question on occasionalism.

I have got a very detailed video discussing occasionalism. uh with uh Muhammad Hanife. It's one of my mind trap shows. So do check it out. It's on YouTube. It's about at least an hour and a half where we're discussing um or at least an hour of that whole thing. We're discussing occasionalism back and forth. So all the arguments you can imagine he puts them to me and we go back and forth.

Right. So, uh, DKK, the question about the Quran being in Arabic, why is it in Arabic? Well, the Quran would have to be in a language. And then the same question would apply. If it was in Latin, then why Latin? If it was in Greek, then why Greek? If it was in Persian, why Persian? If it was in Arabic, why Arabic? So you can never kind of bypass altogether that question of why this language because it would have to be in a language or another.

So yeah and it's does everybody have to learn Arabic? I don't think ah right okay I okay there's a personal thing and then there's a religious thing. A personal thing is I believe every Muslim should try to learn Arabic. That's my personal belief. But I and I would believe that it's like a duty upon them to learn it.

But when I say duty, I do mean in an a kind of compulsory sense, but not one to do with like punishments and things like this. I don't believe that they are um I don't believe that they are kind of oh that you're sinful for not learning it but I believe it's it's important if it's important to you then you should all right Hakeim on Facebook MUI love your blend man you're doing it you're doing it well right so Yina has asked

necessary if Pregnancy contested tested negative necessary if pregnancy is tested negative. So see this is um you see but this is assuming that the is only for pregnancy and I've got detailed explanations explaining the um explaining the wisdom some of the wisdoms behind uh now it is you're right it is uh part of it is pregnancy and

it's universal so everybody everywhere it um can observe the EDA. The other part I I've said in the past there's also a social element to it which people are over they're kind of um they're you know overseeing that they I mean they they're kind of neglecting or you know maybe just blindsiding it at the moment because it is an incredibly important part I would say in some ways as powerfully important as the pregnancy Because quite often when relationships break up

um like and by relationships I mean like marriages there is a lot of resentment and there is a a lot of hostility and this kind of antipathy towards one another and there's a lot of allegations being held around. So people and unfortunately unfortunately a lot of the time people are trying to shame the woman. Okay. Now this is utterly unacceptable but it is unfortunately what happens in human societies.

Um it I'm not saying it's an you know it's acceptable by any standard but it is almost it is not uncommon. It's it's very common that people will be like oh well you know uh she was uh she was just having an affair anyway. I bet she was sleeping around. And a lot of the time they [ __ ] shame uh women. Now if the woman imminently engaged in another you see this may cause a kind of tear on the social fabric in in in terms of

ignorant consequences that are once again not justified but they you know if we're going to be real they would probably happen in many societies even in the west. I mean even here don't think that oh in these societies where people are literate and educated that they don't have basic human emotions they do I you know the amount of times I've dealt with and deal with relationships the amount of time amount of times I've heard people and the stuff they'll say and you know they could be people who they could be professionals you know you'd think oh a professional wouldn't never behave in that way I'm telling you they they they

they go erratic people are like you know they they I suppose rejection is difficult for people to handle. They can't seem to they don't handle rejection well. And the irony is even if they don't want it, you know, so two people living together, it could be a toxic relationship. And then one of them says, "Well, okay, I'm going to file for divorce." And the other one feels rejected all of a sudden.

This is the problem with suddenly being shown a mirror. But it's true. you know, at a subconscious level, people are they they can't um they can't deal with the fact that the other person doesn't want them. Even though it's a known it's a known uh fact that look, I don't want you, you don't want me. This is toxic. Yet, the moment that is said, the ego gets hurt.

And so, this can cause all kinds of backlashes and things like this. So it's better that there is a grace period something it's only at most 2 and 1/2 months be before uh the woman embarks on another nikah and by the way I am of the opinion or as many as many that the only prohibition for uh women during an is just one of nikah they can go out they can meet people they can work they can shop they can chill out it's just nikah that's Cool people.

I hope that helps. Miy read. Uh, do you really want me to break the screens of Do you really want to be tortured that much? Somebody wants a long detailed lecture on a Why does that whiz true? Why does that need to be long- winded simple?

You know, if you're going to ask for the unseen help, like divine help, then just ask Allah. You know, I don't I've never understood why people find that so difficult as a concept. like why is it okay for me here to to pray to let's say uh data GBA or to Abdul Kad Gilani to uh kind of miraculously heal me of the corona virus but it's awkward for me to pray to God

see this is the jah that people are stuck in you know this but this this is The problem people are by and large you see this is unfortunately this is the kind of um the Frankenstein effect almost it's nian almost in some ways that religion came to destroy the shackles of superstition and the Frankenstein in its wake is yet nothing but superstition you know it's it's it kind of in this fight against superstition.

Eventually the the ritualized institutionalized religion became a form of superstition for people. And this is why I'm always against the institutionalization of of religions. All right. Somebody said farin gangutelli gangutelli gangutelli's written done a tweet against me gangutelli yeah gangutelli mother [Laughter] what is going on people what is going on

right so oh right there was a clip I want to show you this clip people check this out Um, where is it? Where is the people? People. So, [Music] for the first time, the call of prayer will be played over loudspeakers in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood five times a day for the next 30 days.

Many of us have never heard the Muslim apostle prayer before. Holy month of Ramadan begins tonight. And this year will appear one tradition in parts of Minneapolis. I did not expect the Aan to take place in the United States of right now. This is followed by a is that a tweet or a Facebook post by Tar Fata while the rest of us fight COVID 19 mosques in Toronto.

So that was in America and in Toronto also. Get permission to use loudspeakers to blare Allah Akbar for the Islamic call to prayer. Why does the fable of the Arab and his camel ring a bell in my ear? So um and I think further on in his message he goes on to state that he will be I believe taking it to court. So he will be kind of taking this matter to court uh in saying why does that get to happen?

So, I wanted to kind of discuss that. All right, let me just bring back the Right. So, I came across that clip. I believe unless it's a fake clip, but from everything I've read, it seemed legitimate. Um, now I don't really take so much of a liking to people like Tarik Fat. Uh, reason being I I feel that he is, you see, people a person can believe anything.

I have no issue with him believing whatever or not liking Islam or not liking I have no issue with that. I you know there's many atheists I'm I'm friends with I you know I speak with them we discuss we even debate we you know I I I don't hold that against anyone but I feel he's very kind of always very hurt just always very bitter against religion and and I find that um disappointing to always see that you know an educated person always So, you know, just like

buttth hurt really just about religion like always saying that. Um, so yeah, but that said, I'd like to speak about this phenomenon and I brought his example because here's somebody who I don't generally uh agree with in many things. Maybe in some I may but but I want to say this thing about calling the adan.

I personally do not agree with this. Okay, with calling the adan out on loudspeakers. Um this in my view is a it has never it is an innovation in Islam. uh it was never uh what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would have taught. Neither was his purpose to blast so loudly over a people the adan.

If that was the purpose then the prophet could have done what he could have had was every person in each key let's say residential block blasting at the top of his voice the adan as well not just one person from his masid he could have had them in each of the door you know the way the houses settlements were he could have had a person in each kind of kedar settlement uh blasting the adan even with just human voice.

But yet the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam never taught that. In fact the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam actually taught that to call somebody to pray after the adan is done is a bid and that's what Omar and other people um uh sorry that that's what they uh highlight as well in in the books of Sunn that it's actually a bid to call somebody to pray.

But I'm not getting into that petty thing. But this this blasting it on loudspeakers now I understand it's become the norm in Muslim countries. So you know it it doesn't bother me although I think it is religiously wrong. It is not I don't think it's a good thing but I think that I think the adan if they said it in the masid just with their normal voice then it was a good thing to blast it on speakers.

I feel is a haraj and an inconvenience for people and you're not meant to inconvenience people with religion but so okay fine but in Muslim countries it exists there's no problem you know it's part and parcel of the culture now introducing this in non-Muslim countries I think this is one of the worst damned ideas whichever nutcase of a genius tried to come up with this and get this through is going to be responsible for the rise in Islamophobia, in hate crimes, in persecution of

Muslims. Stop annoying people by feeling so insecure about your religion. Look, Islam is, okay? It's something that's in your heart. You don't need to shout it at the top of your throats to feel good about being a Muslim. You know, we're not a minority in this world. We are a substantial amount of people. Islam is not going to disappear.

It is here to stay, right? You don't need to feel good about Islam by trying to say, well, let me look, the majority of the people that would listen to that adan won't be Muslim. Now, this is going to trigger the far right who are then going to come back 10 times harsher against Muslims. I guarantee you what's going to happen in these areas. They're going to start attacking women with nab. They're going to start doing things like maybe petrol bombing masids.

They're going to start uh persecuting in any way, discriminating against Muslims. Uh prejudices will be on the rise. Why? Just because you need to push things in people's faces. So, I would say look, don't do this kind of stuff. What do you get out of blasting the adan Allah abbar Allah abbar you know we know we are Muslims we know Allah Akbar but this remember for non-Muslims this is associated with terrorism this is associated with bomb blasts this is not

to them now they may not say the maybe the majority of the people may not say something okay they may not say something but it will take a substantial minority to just lash out. So that is why I really don't like these kind of things when I see them. And I want you to look listen be honest with me.

If in these areas, let's say in London, in Birmingham, let's say in Toronto, wherever that was, or I don't know which other American, I think it said um I don't know where it was, which state, Minneapolis or somewhere, but wherever it was in America that they're blasting the AANA. Imagine they started to blast Hindu budgeons.

Imagine in Birmingham we have to listen to Hindu budgeons being kind of like sung out loud. I have to listen to this. I wouldn't like it like because I would think look why are you imposing your religion on me? I don't have to listen to you know like you know Jam or or Jagadish or whatever. I don't have to listen to this stuff. Why should I have to listen to it?

You know like by all means you want to be a Hindu be a Hindu. Why are you imposing it on me? So this is the problem with doing these kind of things and Muslims get some Muslims get so excited. Oh wow, we've got the adan in America now. calm down people because the backlash that's coming on the back of that you know # are coming on on the back of that you know you're going to seriously see some days of wailing and crying so I I'm saying that I whenever I see these things it really annoys me uh because I

think like what is wrong with people just put yourself on you I don't want to hear Christian hymns being sung really loud from a church I've got a church right in front of me right where I live now. I wouldn't want them to be blasting blasting, you know, Christian hymns every morning and every evening and every afternoon. You taking the mick? Think this is some kind of a house party going on. I mean I I wouldn't even So we have to look the neighbor has a huck in Islam.

They have a right to be honored. The prophet said in a hadith that look none of you believe if your neighbor goes to sleep hungry whilst you are full. In one hadith, the prophet said that I was advised by Giblisam about so many rights regarding the neighbor to the extent that I feared. I feared that he would inherit that you know he would be inherit like he would get to inherit from the other neighbor almost as in I feared that.

So yes, I'm just saying now somebody said look they like Christian church bells. Well that's fine. Look, I'm not saying maybe some people love the adan being played. That's fine. That's why you have earphones or you sit in your house and you play on YouTube. Play Christian bells. Nobody's I haven't got a problem with Christian church bells. If you want to listen to them, listen to them. You want to listen to hymns, you want to listen to Hindu budgeons. You want to listen to Judeaic kind of uh recitations or seek recitations, listen to them.

Sit in your own comfort of your house and play it on your TV. sit there all day but don't impose it on other people. So people that is my message uh I hope that uh lands there. So I actually on this occasion I felt even though I disagree with people like tarik fat but I felt that you know he he's got a valid point here uh I'm not I'm not saying this and you see it's already begun.

He's already started being denigrating about Islam. Oh, why do I have to hear the Arab and camel fable? You see, but this is just the beginning. So, I hope that makes some uh some sense, people. All right. What else is going on? Mi did Yazidia fabricate hadith for his agenda?

Umh I I would I would think the Umayads later um definitely did just as the Abbisids did just as anybody did just as the Shia did just as you know many Sunnis did but did Yazid per se fabricate hadith? Personally I don't think he did. Um, reason being that you see in Yazid's time it was still very early and I don't think you see now this is going to sound ironic.

I don't think they I think they just didn't care. There wasn't this kind of uh they had kind of they had manpower authority to do what they wanted to do. They didn't need uh religious kind of superiority. if if that makes any sense. They you know whatever they wanted to do, they would just do it. They weren't really and it was still very early in Islam.

So I think the problem with fabricating hadith is that several Sahaba was still alive and things like this. I don't think they that Yazid or other people at that time would intentionally just fabricate hadith. And I don't think that was Yazid's uh kind of goal that oh I want to appear as a very holy person. I don't think he was ever trying to do that.

Right. So, somebody's saying, "My did Epstein kill himself?" Hell no. Epstein's murder was a huge cover up. I'm telling you, it's a shame really because we would have seen some horrendous some horrendous confessions going on. It would have changed. You think corona virus is changing the world? that would have changed the world.

Somebody said about poetry, right? There was actually uh a poem I did somebody, you know, I came across this poem. Somebody said to me, can you read a poem? And I'd come across this of Marah, one of my favorite poets. Uh I always find his poems kind of kind of slick but there was one uh I was reading so I thought well this is from the book by the way aid that the the kind of punishment or the suffering of

I suppose it says of vision but it's it's of seeing someone of seeing the punishment of seeing being um right. So he says, check this out people. that by mentioning the evening of separation, he or she too would be would have fear that the way I loved somebody, she too

loved somebody. You see, I too had an infatuation with wanting to see novelty, new things. Yeah. New things.

And he says, likewise, she too had an interest in always changing her paths. Wow. Wow. He says that for a while that night we remained in deep conversation that I too was not so occupied that day and she too had some time on her hands.

that after separating from me that she seems to have easily settled in in the city even though she was averse or she had antipathy towards city life. Allah Allah Allah see you know what having to translate is a problem ruins the flow but he's saying that that maybe she it could be he as well but she

had even greater control of themselves hence they lived or else every breath they took was no less than doomsday in itself that they still continue to listen to old narratives and stories.

Perhaps they too are in need of companionship. that after being alone on a journey did I come to realize that they too had love for the shadow and hate for the heat.

[Laughter] He says, "Min, I couldn't get round to saying what I felt in my heart, and they too seem to have a a preoccupying calamity at the time." Anyway, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. You know this, you got to say there's some epic uh

[Music] here. I'll I'll here's another very short one. I'll read it, but I'll I'll just read this straight through. Those who understand it understand it, I guess. those people who give. So why be indebted to those? He's saying that let's this bowl, this beggar's bowl, let's let's get rid of it.

Basically [Music] Sometimes laugh at yourself as well. Somebody had asked about udu poetry.

So why not people? Let's get back to some of the questions that are coming. What's going on? Even I am struggling to understand. Somebody said that's very difficult u come on y what is difficult what is um somebody who is the poet that's maki who by the way it's very unfortunate that he was uh uh actually killed martyed I'd say um killed in a sectarian um you know the kind of civil sectarian

warfare that happens in Pakistan. He was a Shia uh as you could guess by the name. That's a Shia name. Um but I I find that so disappointing that he uh and I know he he did used to provoke the kind of Wahhabis and sometimes theundis and he would provoke them but still to kill someone you know over being provoked it's a sad state of affairs honestly.

It's sad. I remember watching that on YouTube about and because he's one of my favorite kind of poets, it was sad that you know what this is the kind of world we live in and and I get the fact that he was provocative cuz he's got this poem where he's really going at it and he's very intelligent as well but still you know this kind of murder sanctioning murder executions on the name of religion it's where has this come from?

Where has this come from? Right. So and that on that thought people speaking of death and two great legendary actors had passed away. One especially one of the best Bollywood actors there was Van Khan. I was uh uh deeply saddened to um deeply saddened to really hear that he had died.

he was he's probably you know maybe amongst the best talent there there is in that whole industry so yeah it's it's a shame you know may Allah and Rashi Kabo died as well but I I mean I suppose he's of some age but still and but they both died to a dis uh I think both had some kind of cancer uh I believe that's what it was but yeah and I was asked that is it permissible to say things like um

um is it permissible to say things like rest in peace and stuff like that. Uh of course it is. Of course it is. And I've got a detailed video where I explain that in the Quran. I speak about um um I speak about uh Steven Hawings at the time and is is it permissible to say things like may Allah bless them in the afterlife and things like this or may Allah forgive them and the answer is of course it is of course it is and we have verses in the Quran but you can watch that uh detailed video where I explain that in much detail.

Um I do explain that even the dua of Ibraimis the now this was said in Makkah much later stage in life uh his father had long passed away and his father Ibraimisam's father was not a Muslim right so um all right so I'll come to the question here is has sent a question.

I'll come to that in just a moment. Right? So this um but this dua is said that oh Allah forgive me and my parents the day you know in the afterlife. Now this is a dua for his parents who were not believers and that is one of the uh the interpretations of that ayah then the way to one of the ways to understand that ayah that it is permissible and razi speaks about it and other people as well.

Right? So right, I was asked a question about how do I differentiate between tradition and the sunnah? I'm not sure what tradition by tradition I take it you mean hadith. So as I imam Malik, this isn't just me. The Maliki Madhab makes a distinction. So does the Hanfi Madhub actually they make a distinction between hadith and Sunnah. So not every hadith is a sunnah. Not every sunnah was necessarily a hadith that was documented.

So um so that's the difference. So I im Malik the Maliki Makes that distinction. So the sunnah is that which the prophet lived by and taught as his way. A hadith may just be some interpretation. It may be something that as a oneoff. In fact that's what Imam Malik said to Abu Ysef.

Um you know when Abu Ysef came to Medina and saw that the adan was different and this is another shock by the way people will be shocked to know how many different adans there were you there's a huge variation the adan of Medina was not like the adan of Makkah which was not like the adan of Basra which was not like the adan of Kuf they all had very similar Allah abbar but they differed in how many times they said Allah abbar they differed in the style in which They say it in fact Basra had a really strange one but the the point is that different people had a slightly

different adan. Now when Abu Ysef came to Medina and noticed that the people of Medina only say Allahbar twice. So they say Allahbarillah and then when they've said then the quietly says and then goes back to now the point is that Abu Ysef said strange

he said that oh the people of Medina don't know the adan. So, I im Malik said um IM Malik said that uh he said that look maybe the prophet one day or one night somewhere traveling did the adan like how you guys do it. Maybe you know but the problem but he said this what you're hearing here the children have taken from the fathers who took from the

companions who heard from the prophet himself in the city of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and this has always been a death blow. you know, an absolute crushing, a skull crushing argument against any of the other Mabs whenever they come up against the school of Medina, the Malik Mab, is that when Imam Malik was asked by the people of Kufa, the Hanfi Mab and other mabs about things, he said that he said to them, I mean, I know sometimes I'm sarcastic,

but his words were he said that the Quran An was not revealed at the bedside or at the rivers at the side of the Euphrates. He said it was here in Medina that the messenger of Allah sallallah.aii wasallam lived and taught. It is here that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam is buried.

He said it is here that the angel Girrel manifested himself. He said do not come to us and teach us about religion. And this has always been one of the most powerful arguments of the school of Medina, the Maliki meth that it is, you know, I would feel undefeated from this approach that it I imam Malik was the voice piece of the practice of the people of Medina.

Right? Let's take a look at some questions. Somebody said, "What a clown. Is he wearing an earring?" Uh, regardless of how eloquent he is you, you teasing me, you ly how eloquent.

He's causing cognitive dissonance. On one hand, he's trying to diss me, then he's trying to praise me at the same time. [Laughter] This one, this one causing the confusion. You know the hashel, [Laughter] right? So, what else is going on people?

There was a question nearby um Jove Trader. Joer, you're doing it man. You're doing it. Why Arabs do not acknowledge the contribution of Iranian people to Islam? They often take credit for Iranian scientists of Islamic golden age. Where these hatred come from?

It's a good point in some way uh that look it is it is true that the you see I don't I'm a bit uh I'm going through a book right now the history of of the Arabs uh I'm going through the audio book right now actually and it's interesting that even in there they do acknowledge um that several of these of the Arabs oh sorry of the the Persian scholars of that time

um this book is by Albert Hurani I'll show you the cover of it uh if you guys can see that that's the uh that's what I'm going through right now so that's on chapter only on chapter five a history of the Arab peoples by Albert Hurani but it's very fascinating book. But you see even in there they do acknowledge that you see when spoken like when the not when spoken to when you read a lot of the writings of the Persianized scholars the P if I can call them um sorry not Persianized if I can

call them uh Arabized Persians because they were people that wrote Arabic. They spoke Arabic as well as Persian, Farsy. They wrote Farsy as well. But they many of them kind of consider themselves kind of Arab in the past. So they will speak of themselves almost as we when they speak of Arabs and things like this.

In fact, there was just a chapter where they were addressing this that even such and such if you know uh um a writer who despite being of Persian origin when he speaks of different civilizations uh like the Indian civilization and others but when it comes to uh the the Middle Eastern he will say Arabs and he will use we as opposed to saying like making a distinction.

So, it's if we're trying to get into the minds of the um you know the the Neareastern civilizations that were Muslim that they had a kind of like they themselves felt a that they were kind of part of the Arab civilization because if we're going to be fair Arabs civilization from the time of the Umayads the ancient the tribal you know the Mali era which is the Omeayad era that really because in the Mali era what they were doing was they were treating all like they they were saying every

there was an Arabization that every if you weren't an Arab then you were useless to them like we wouldn't stand a chance in front of money like they were just like they you know we were thirdass citizens and and what all citizens had to do was they had to either either they were Arab Arabs or they would have to take on a name as in a clan name of some Arab tribe.

It's up to them who they chose. So I might just go with my neighbors who are from let's say I don't know wherever they're from. They could be from Ban or they could be Tami or they could be or they could be whatever and I would just call myself as well ali or you know ali or al you know I I would just go with them. So this Mali era was very different.

Later on in the Abbisid era, the true people at the forefront are no longer the tribal Arabs. It is these new converts to Islam who are like kind of Arabized. They are the new Arabs. The abbisids are really just run by the you know first of all the Persians and then the Turks and then the bunny boyid who were still Persian uh you know Shia uh and you you see all these people otherwise if you're going to look at them most of them most of the people you know or razi or anybody these people

were were like not from Arab origin in that sense nobody would have been I want to say nobody the majority so and this hatred hatred. I think the hatred is more recent. Uh although it has cropped up, it has kind of like crept up time to time. Um and it goes right back to pre-Islamic times with the Sassinid Empire versus the Arabs. And every time something happens that comes back up.

So now because Iran is Shia, you know, it gives them that kind of excuse. Um, all right. Somebody's going on here about Billy. All right, Bill. Love right back at you, man. Billy. Billy's in the house. People doing it.

Some guy on here. Oh, I You know the irony is these people who they watch me. I suppose I'm kind of grateful because they still contribute to my views. You know, even in their hatred of me, they still aid and assist me.

That is pure sacrifice. As Galib says that you know don't absolutely dissociate yourself from me. He say, "If nothing at least be hostile." So, so you get these people, they're so obsessed that they can't stand me, yet they watch me for hours on end.

They watch all my videos. They contribute to my uh they help the Facebook algorithm. They get my videos more out there. They share it amongst people. I I love it. I mean, they do my they work for me for free. All right. All right.

Miy, what was your experience like when completing Hajj? I haven't done Hajj. I've done Omrah. Um, it was good. It was good. Alhamdulillah. I mean, nothing to I won't say something. Uh, we all love you, man. All right. You're doing it. You're doing it. Harris is in the house. You're doing it. Haris, you're doing it.

I've got another person to speak about in my masala segment, right? So that is going to be uh Mulvi Navid. See, Navidiv is like good news, but he's anything but good news. [Laughter] All right. So,

you're somebody said you're a MUI who ain't done Hajj. I'm sorry, God. I forgot that with the damn. Can I bring his name back? Junior. Junior, Junior, Junior.

Your mommy's little boy. Junior, [Laughter] you're you're awake late. Parents let you stay up late, have they, Junior? Yeah. You see, that's the thing really. You know what? Why I allow these people to to be like this?

Because really they are just expressing their depression in words. [Laughter] What kind of a muty doesn't do Hajj? God damn it. Yeah, exactly. I'm sorry. I didn't realize God had sent me a message on my YouTube live. God said, "My you ain't done Hajj yet.

[Laughter] I'm like, "Oh, sorry, God." Right? So, but this is, you know, this is the the thing about judging people, you know, on that. I want to share a thought. I was having a discussion with some of the lads actually and I was saying that you see this is something I think this is reasonably I don't know maybe exclusive if not

definitely disproportionately found in Muslims the Muslim community and I don't think this is found as I don't think it's found really in other societies as much other communities you see Muslim Muslims. I feel we were having this discussion and I was just kind of analyzing it that we are probably amongst the few only communities that have such a fear of being judged about what we believe not about what we do.

So many societies may have fear of like like let's say you could be embarrassed or you know oh I don't I can't play this sport. If I play, I'm going to make a fool of myself or I don't want to go out dressed like that. People will laugh at me or I don't want to, you know, ruin my haircut because people will laugh at me. I think that's a like that's an even evenly distributed kind of sense of social shame or embarrassment.

But we about what we believe, just belief, not what we do, just belief. You see in the west to think out of the box is seen as a kind it's seen as a kind of like a visionary uh status that wow this person thinks out of the box lateral thinking critical thought wow you know this person is he's a leader oh he's got leadership skills he's a genius he's a these are accolades in the western society yet even in the west Muslims a A lot of us are so

fearful of what people will think about what we believe and if it's anyhow any different to what they believe. That is such a shame, man. That is so disappointing. Honestly, I I find that so disappointing. You know, I that's it. What what triggered this conversation with with my mates was that I was speaking about, you know, with my mind trap, I've reached out to several people and I've got several people lined up for the Minecraft trap shows and episodes and

I'm kind of like just throwing out loads of invites and and kind of juggling them along. Now I had a few people but I had like and I'm sure many people think this but some I had this message where this person said look that I would love to to do this and and the person's generally very decent very safe very you know very kind of friendly uh with me I I would say I would assume takes a liking to me and things like this even the views everything like this in fact I would think maybe things similar very similar I would think in many of my kind of thoughts But he said, "Look, I by coming on your

show, like my family, as in my distant kind of family that like I I can't do this because they would kind of judge me." And I'm thinking, "What? I'm sorry. What are you? Are you four years old this year or is it Is it five now or four and a half still?

Is it I mean this is such an unfortunate uh state of affairs really that many Muslims still have which other people I feel other communities don't really have that not with belief like people think yeah I believe whatever you know like what has it got to do with you but with Muslim we're so fearful and that's just wrong. Yeah.

All right. So right, what is going on? Thoughts on how Christians claim to speak to be Shami is a charlatan crook who's saying that was true. H you see Shami Sak Shami Sab I kind of I do kind of like him. I'm going to be honest in a certain I don't obviously agree with him in many of his and neither would he agree with me but I do kind of like him uh uh in a way for I mean I do like him not in a way but I like him for he's done a lot of good as well.

So even though I disagree with all that kind of be muridi that kind of stuff but I think for some people it works. So you know for them I think he has helped uh a lot of people. So in that sense I'm not going to really say anything about uh not at all. I'm not Morgan Freeman.

Judgment is not a good trait. Right. So no what's this? Can you tie your hair as a man in Islam? You tie your hairs in of course you can. In fact, the hadith in Bkari mentions that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had up had four plats at at a particular time when he were and when he was traveling especially but many of the companions would braid their hair.

They would actually have braids. Yeah. Right. What is going on? What is your thoughts on uh alcoholic beverages served at all? Mi, my wife and I are converts. Is it permissible to have alcoholic beverages served at our wima for our non-Muslim family and friends?

If they purchase it, yeah, if they purchase it, that's absolutely fine. There should be no difference uh on that really. Right. What are my thoughts on Muawi? I'm very respectful uh of Muawi. I do um have a lot of respect for him. I think whatever happened has happened. Um but I've got a detailed I've got a detailed video on uh criticizing the companions and I explain in much detail.

So, if you want to watch that, I do explain that it doesn't really um it doesn't, you know, I if we're going to criticize the companions, which I think I I give two options. I say, look, you either take, you know, where I give the red pill kind of uh scenario if you guys remember it. And I mentioned that this one of them is very critical, the other is just venerated, you know, we're just praising them.

But I feel that if you're going to take the critical route, then you have to truly be critical of everyone. Somebody mentioned Shaw Shank. Shaw Shank Redemption. One of the best movies of all time. Epic. Epic. I in fact I'm pretty sure late last year I watched it again. It was amazing. I watched it after so many years and I was like, "Wow, still just as amazing.

Somebody's saying it was born before it was I mean they it was made before they were born. Of course, I'm sure many great events happened before you were born and some of which led to you being born. The great big bang. No, the the cosmic big bang.

are you dirty dirty minded people you know right so what is going on what is going on people what is going on how can you idealize them when you know what they did after the death of the prophet who is this who are we talking about oh we're talking about the companions.

You see, look, let me tell you something. [Laughter] Right, let's just chill out. And uh you see, you see the situation is like this.

right that there are some things which are good for people okay at a certain way a certain understanding there isn't I don't know like there there isn't much you get by like people have a need for certain things okay like certain narratives certain understandings um the companions of the prophet right does do I believe that they were perfect human beings I don't believe that they were superhumans if that's what you're

asking me but I feel that there is a need for people who are Muslims who believe in Islam to have there is a need that they have to venerate these figures and you know whether people agree with that or not, but they can understand the need like you can understand that right there is going to be this need like these will become the the the kind of the figures within Islamic history.

Now whether some of them ever did something which was questionable or somebody did something that was bad even let's say does that have to be constantly brought up and like I don't see what they will gain by this um cuz the question of no but we're just being critical isn't really true because if we're going to be honest this you know the let's say the uh way of looking at things and I'm very you know reasonably very respectful I've got a lot of good Shia friends.

uh you know regularly we'll speak to some of them back and forth and messages on WhatsApp and and I've always called for respect and building bridges with all you know different sects and different groups but the Shia faith in my understanding it doesn't have like an endgame because it's not really like what what I mean by that let me justify that you see it's just speaking about the past it's like crying over spilled milk like We can cry and cry and cry but then what like what do you want people to do like whatever like if I say you know oh let's say such and such

person great person but let's just say like if I said as an example like they were much greater people than I Malik but let's just say I say Imam Malik you say yeah and now say oh you know the wii at the time broke his arm I say godamn now I'm just going to sit every time and I'm just going talk about this forever incessantly like there's no endgame to this like what what's going to happen like I can't now save Imam Malik's arm from being broken and like I don't see the purpose even if I let's say I popularize this

person as a negative person this wor of the Abbisids who broke Imam Malik's arm there's no endame to that like nothing actually happens so I would say that that you see I I don't see any per but I do understand that there is a need that people have to venerate you know the companions and and and fine that that works you know so it does um and if we're going to be honest if we're going to be honest now I know this will offend people but I'm just being honest here if you can criticize you know if you can

find let's say errors or mistakes with one companion you find them with another because they were all human beings. None of them were, you know, supreme or sublime. Um, and just as let's say Bakr, let's say he made a mistake. Let's say Omar made a mistake or got something wrong. Ali got things wrong, you know, like Ali wasn't somebody that came from heaven. He wasn't somebody that you see.

Now this is the inconsistency that I find with the Shia kind of uh perspective that they do are very critical of many companions except Ali. Anything S Ali did was always perfect. Why? Why? Why does everything S Ali have to do has to be perfect? Why? I mean I'm just being honest. Even Imam Malik when he was asked he said no about S Ali even though about the others he said fine.

Imam Malik being controversial you know they asked Imam Malik who do you think uh s Ali is like the best of people and so on uh and and he said no Abu Bakr Omar whatever and then they said do you think s Ali and he said that the person who wanted to rule is not like the one who didn't want to rule now I'm not this isn't to kind of criticize Ali obviously s Ali is an amazing one of the most amazing people in Islamic history.

But my point is that you see that swings both ways. Like if you're going to like if we open the gate to criticizing companions then we've got to criticize Ali as well. He doesn't get a free pass whilst others don't get a pass. Either they all get a free pass. either this consistency in one way or the other like either we're going to go full out all guns blazing on everyone because if we're going to criticize the wives of the prophet you know the best friends of the prophet his everybody then we're going to criticize members of his family as well are the wives not his family they're his family as well so I would say that you see this is the problem because I would consider his wives his

family as well his and in fact Imam Malik said they were his al And Immalik said that in fact all of the Muslims are isal. So I you see this is the inconsistency that I find. Now I don't really like the whole debate thing. I don't like the sectarianism but I'm just saying that here that this is the issue. This is why I would just say that look people have a need to praise like let's say I you know to idolize let's say people of the past religious figures.

So they are going to idolize the companions of the prophet and his wives or whoever is around him basically t you know like you know that that's in fact they need that narrative let them have it like I don't think if we get super academic with them super critical with them all it will do is just ruin everything for them because that's not how it works you know on this point I'm gonna say a point actually I was somebody asked me about this recently maybe it ties in uh there's a question here about are statues of Buddha or Jesus allowed in Islam uh okay I'll come back to that

question hound um Hound is his name right so look somebody asked me a question recently um and and I and I thought well I was speaking to and at the same time whilst I was asked this question in those days I was also speaking to another friend about this issue so I thought look I'll answer this live on one of my lives and it seems uh relevant. Um right now the the question is that let me just

Oh, Harris, I wasn't trying to put you in uh timeout. Apologize. That was by mistake, right? So the I was speaking to somebody about uh learning uh basic kind of Islam and stuff and they were speaking to me and asking me questions about look how do I teach my children about these miracles and things like this and um and you know how do I explain to them the right narrative because they kind of agree with me on many things.

Let's say that a lot of these miracles that are given as supernatural miracles were not supernatural but the story is just presented in that way. Now I said that look I I want and and just maybe this might be helpful to some people like I said look my own children my own daughters they study Islam at their kind of school and at a kind of like a they have like an after a weekend madrasa kind of at their school.

So they study Islam. They study these stories. They study like uh I see them sometimes come home with this like they'll like I remember they had the story of Ibrahimisam and the fire and things like this or about Moses. They read these stories about the miracles about let's say he was thrown in the fire Ibrahimisam and he remained unharmed and he came out. Now I don't personally believe that and I've explained that the Quran never mentions that he was actually thrown in the fire.

It just mentions they prepared a fire that's all but Allah saved him from it. Now but I don't what is it try to correct my children like I don't try to like like I've seen them with that story. I mean they're young. Um to my eldest Ila, she's now eight and Zo Zara is only five. But I don't correct their story like I don't say to them, "Oh, by the way, this um you know this isn't how it happened that it happened like this or this is how they that's you see because that's just silly.

That's petty that look people need certain stories at certain stages of their lives. And that's fine, you know, like that. You don't need to feel that you need to kind of be always correcting things. There is a developmental stage that human beings go through that there is a need for certain things that this is a child stage.

You know, there there is a need for stories. There is a need. In fact, this is probably how and the child stage probably reflects the uh non actualized like the nonactualized adult mind and that is probably the reason why these stories are about in the first place for for people like that. So and the understanding is that as people mature they will find their way.

I'm sure that you know as my children grow up they mature or other people once their minds reach a level of that kind of maturity they will find their path. They don't need to you don't need to kind of come to a kid and try to say Lord let me explain this to you you know rationally and from physics and from you know that that doesn't that's just ruining the thing for them because that's not the need that they have at the time.

So, so that's what I would uh say that the same thing I know that's um tying I was tying that on to the early uh discussion about people have a need sometimes and if that's their stage where they're at then let them be right okay so what's going on people don't unnecessarily block people please uh Mui has done a video on sex slaves I have done a video on sex slaves.

I have explained um I mean look it's not uh I it doesn't mean that it has to answer the question for everyone. Maybe it doesn't. Uh but I've tried to in the best possible way give an explanation um on how sex slavery existed. And I've explained that you see you've got to understand first of all how slavery existed because that's because when you're coming to something you've got to understand the greater question first like how do these things exist in a society.

So it's like if somebody said well you know I don't know how does uh 28 day refund work but they live in a primitive society let's say where there are no uh where there ain't there is no statutory law there is no uh standardized version of commerce and like so you have to explain to them well first of all this is the backdrop there are laws there are things like this the commerce rules regulations This is what it's protected by.

This is how it works. So you've got to give people a kind of a backdrop to understand. So I've got a video. It is in two parts. The video itself contains two parts. There's a part where I explain about slavery and then there's the latter part where I explain uh or I think first I explain about sex slaver sex slavery. I'm calling it wasn't actually sex slave concubines but then I speak about slavery as well.

So yeah, in essence, once we've understood how slavery worked, not to justify it, I've never said it was a good thing. And Islam has never said slavery was a good thing. In fact, Islam did encourage at every opportunity to free slaves, but it didn't abolish slavery. Now, not in its first goal. Now I would believe that Islam did set a trajectory that once people reach that trajectory slavery would become abolished and hence a lot of the fatawa of many including the Malikia you know some of the Mashiah of Ash

mention other people I mention people uh Ahmed Baba Ahmedi from Timbuktu and other from Mali and uh great Maliki am who had written way before the United Nations resolution on prohibiting slavery, outlawing slavery that they had written that slavery is haram in Islam. So I do believe it was haram once people arrived at that stage.

But I get the fact that it you know it's it may not and slavery I do explain that you have to understand that in that day and age I know this is going to be really difficult to grasp really but that's why I explain in my second talk about social consciousness once the social consciousness is adjusted everything changes but you see prior to that social consciousness it's not there and then I give the example of ambiguous images and so on it's better to watch the actual ual video.

Cool. Adris, you're doing it. You're doing it. Serious questions only. All right. Zeba, you're doing it. You're doing it. Right. Harris, first warning. Right. Come on. Harris usually doesn't Harris isn't a troll, so you know, we don't need to worry about him trolling, right?

Um uh Muhammad Habib, yep, I'm well. Shukran Shukran for asking what do you think of the philosophers? Yeah, I I love uh the philosophers. Innena wasn't actually from main, you know, people. It's interesting. He's a lot more popular today than maybe um he was previously.

uh but a great thinker of this um I interestingly enough somebody had mentioned about uh cannabis he was one of the few scholars who wrote that cannabis is the benefits of hashish but but no but by the way I've got a detailed video on cannabis on marijuana do um check it out I do explain that it it is not I do feel that it is prohibited forbidden for people under a certain age and I say ideally 25 is the

age when the neural plasticity has kind of come to an end. Um so prior to that it could interrupt disrupt kind of the sinapses and things like this and the the kind of the infrastructure of the brain could be damaged. Um, so I do mention that and therefore that would constitute haram after that if it was done it's I don't feel it's haram. I don't think it's nec I'm not saying it's a good thing in Islam but I just don't feel the evidence is there to make it haram.

Right. So what is going on? Right. Was there a question I had to answer? I think Hound had asked a question. I said I was going to answer it. Right. Shadi uh Jibali has asked, "We live in Mexico City. There is no mosque. Can that be a problem for Maiden?" Salam Shimano.

Right. Mexico doing it. Doing it. Right. Uh that's not a a problem for your faith. No, you you can. But I'm pretty sure Mexico uh Oh, you live in Mexico in a city. I thought you said you live in Mexico City. I was going to say I'm pretty sure Mexico City does have a masid, but um um but no, if you live in a different city, it doesn't have a masid, that's fine. You know, it's not uh in any way damning for your iman, so to speak.

Cool. All right. Was there another question? Since concubines and sex slaves were permissible, is the Quran not meant for all times? In ayah it is meant for all times but watch my video on uh trajectory hermeneutics. So the Quran is meant for all times but you see certain verses we do believe that certain verses do get the rulings within them get abrogated.

Now you see the abrogation rulings within the Quran are at most like if you take the Quran it's what 6,000 let's say about 600 almost verses. Yeah. Now over 6,000 verses only 500 of them are to do with rulings. So over 6,000 verses of the Quran have no nothing to do with aam. I mean one could still take rulings from them but they are not the aam verses.

So the aam can be abregated at times and the Quran itself discusses that gradually with alcohol with other things like slavery now would be abrogated. uh certain things would be abregated with certain times and amongst them would be this as well concubines. So um because that would just fall under slavery. So it's not that the it's not for all times. It is one can still take heed.

See reading the Quran you get to understand many things. Even the verses that were abrogated like that are still read in the Quran and were abrogated in its day and age were still there to read as a reminder of gradual development of how people were in certain stages, how how the times have changed. So it is still um there. But that said, these things are are a very small portion of ayat in the Quran.

A very small portion. So yeah, I hope that makes some sense. Are statues of Buddha and Jesus allowed in Islam? Um there is a hadith that angels don't enter the house where these things are. Yeah, I think you know the hadith about angels um not entering the house. I have mentioned that you see that was just simply creating a distancing that it was like a kind of social distancing with these things because people were new to Islam.

Now, I don't statues per se. It doesn't mean if you've got a statue in your house. I haven't really got a statue or anything, but I was thinking if there was an idol of something. Idol. I meant like a figurine of something just in case, like a doll.

In case one of my kids left a doll, right? So you see dolls are statues as well yet there's a because the the meaning behind them is different there there was clearly no problem with them many of the companions children's had children had dolls so yeah so I uh so the point is that this isn't something that is necessarily I don't believe it's haram in that sense but I could understand that if somebody was knew from a certain faith.

Now let's say a person just came out of Christianity to Islam then yes I would advise that they do you know they shouldn't have these things like crucifix and these kind of things because they've made they've opened a new chapter and it should be kind of wholeheartedly um as opposed to kind of because for them this is probably very like it holds a strong value still or if they've come from Buddhism or Hinduism or something with a lot of statues but If somebody had like let's say somebody bought a little, you know, you get those laughing Buddha kind of little statues with the fat tummy and he's I think he's

scratching his tummy or something. But let's say you you bought a little, you know, you bought it as a souvenir. You're on holiday and you picked one up. Does that mean you're cursed now and this is shik and this is No. No. I don't believe any that is shik or or even haram in that sense. I don't believe it's haram. you know, if you've got it for just as a oh, you know, I was I came back from Japan and look what I bought.

Um, but if you believe in it as superstition like this is going to bring me good luck or this is going to change my future, then that is haram. Okay. Uh, right. No, the eyes thing is I find that ruling a bit um I find it a bit if I'm going to be honest find it a bit dumb or if it doesn't have eyes.

What's that got to do with anything? You know, if it doesn't have eyes, oh, it can be their picture, but it just can't have eyes. You think, well, why can't it have eyes? You know, such such a dumb thing. Oh, because then it's not a a complete picture. And you think, well, uh, what if it didn't have hands? And you say, no, no, but then it's still a complete picture. What if it didn't have a mouth? No, it's still a complete picture. What if it didn't have Oh, no.

Then it's not. And you know what that comes back to? That's the Christian kind of uh impact, which I mean whether it holds some truth in some other way or not, but that you know, the eyes are the windows to your soul. That said, I do believe that people can make an incredible connection through the eyes. I do believe that and maybe consciousness can be kind of in some ways um you know connected maybe through the eyes and things like that.

But I feel that said that this is where this belief is coming from. If there's no eyes, then there's no think. Is that where it is? So, blind people have no no. What's this? Yousef. Any good sources on learning about slavery, abolitionist movements in the Muslim world?

I don't know, you know. Honestly, I honestly don't know. Um maybe some Muslims have done some research, maybe some PhDs on it. I don't know. I I I did read up on it, but I a lot of my this kind of reading is done in Arabic and I just I just search stuff. I research, I find papers, I read things. I I cross reference. I find something. I ask questions all the time.

Like I'll be reading something. I'll be like, "hm, what does that mean?" And then I start searching about this person and who is this person? Let me read up. Oh, what what kind of views did he have? Oh, this. Oh, what's this view? What is that about? Oh, now I'm learning about that. Oh, wait a minute. Who disagreed? Now I'm learning about. That's how I learn. So, I don't actually learn from just one book. So, this is why it's difficult sometimes when people ask me, can you recommend a book? I genuinely don't know what to recommend to them because they they want a particular topic, but my learning of a topic is so scattered that I can't quite bring it down to just one book.

And people think I get this stuff from just like a book. Sometimes it's I mean in this topic obviously I'm reading but in other topics it's you know sometimes it's my own kind of thoughts. Uh right so what is going on people? What is going on?

Right. So, so, so um MUI is the hadith on the conquest of Constantinople referring to Solomon um because he was in d like the hadith and it mentions the Byzantines did he fabricate it Abd Malik Solmann Abd Malik did not conquer Constantinople Constantinople wasn't conquered till uh what was it 1560 something it was conquered by Muhammad Al Fatya and his um yeah so it's nothing to most of those hadith I feel were kind of made up and

stuff um or maybe they were false memories that people kind of projected back onto the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam all right people what is going down if you look at the letters it's both a and a what's this if you look at the letters is uh I don't know what this person's talking about. Both A and M are both Sanskrit.

I don't understand that. If you look at the letters, uh they're both Sanskrit. [Music] Imam Kaz in the house. You're doing it. You're doing it. He's saying that's how he does research as well. That's the best way really to just um just read different things. I I read a lot of things from script as well the app. I'm reading up papers. Uh I was reading an interesting paper the other day actually about um it was based on Wsbor's kind of but I mean it was in I suppose inspired by his somebody was writing about how

Islam they felt was different to um the books like you know people of the book the Judeo-Christian narrative they felt that it was radically different although it's claimed that it continues but it wasn't really because they were arguing that uh in that paper that Islam's tohed seems very different to the kind of monotheism the Semitic monotheism what it's called Semitic monotheism it doesn't because they he argues in this this person he argues in his paper I've forgotten his name now

but it was on script but he's arguing that the Jewish and Christian monotheism seemed very tolerant of other gods as in saying that you guys can worship other gods only we the Israelites don't worship other gods whereas Islam kind of rules them out altogether and Judaism to an extent Yahweh was from a kind of pantheon of gods so Yahweh was one god from like the house of l and so there were many other gods and Yahweh most likely had a wife or a consort called uh ashira I think her name was.

And so what happens is Yahweh becomes the sole god of the Jews, of the Israelites, and he is then this kind of warrior god who's a very jealous god and he doesn't want them to worship anyone but him. So this thought that you see what Islam came with was radically different to the Judeaic monotheism.

I don't know if that's true. Um but it was, you know, it's okay to read, I guess. I mean it would depend if that's true as in if that is what the Jewish people um actually believed back then. I do believe that Mus Alisam, Moses was one of the uh you know first one of the most vocal people against um as in a a vocal voice for monotheism and and as being for every as in there

is no exclusivity of monotheism that there are no other gods that monotheism really is for everyone. Um this is the understanding I have. I have read a bit more of the other book by the way um by Ahmed Osman claiming you know he's put the whole uh chronology absolutely in different order.

So according to him you see David David Dawud Alisam was the pharaoh Tat Moses III and he is a contemporary of Abraham it's a complete different Quran I'm telling you it's a mind so you see and his son Solomon which means the man of peace was Ammon Hotep the fourth I believe who is I believe then uh

contemporary with Joseph he's putting because so he has a totally different chronology and according to him David was not from the line of Abraham neither from Moses or an Israelite David was a a pharaoh and he was an Egyptian and He feels that Ibraimisam's it's it's really strangely kind of intriguing.

I don't know whether I buy all I think some of it I'm finding some angles h quite interest like the Ysef Alisam angle is very interesting about Yuva. He says that he is uh sorry Yuya uh Yuya I believe uh or Yuva right but he's the Egyptian kind of uh the father of the pharaoh um Yuya I believe his name is but that's Ysef Alisam who then uh it's his grandchild who is Moses he feels and you see he feels that Moses was also um a pharaoh

he was Akenatan and it's really it's all like you have to complain it's like the the chronology the normal chronology is just torn to pieces it's really strange some of his kind of things and I'm just reading through it and trying to h where is he going with this and I've been listening to some of his lectures on uh YouTube uh I'm trying to connect if I can get him on a show of mine trap but it's so difficult.

I can't find him on any social media site. It's like impossible to get hold of him. But yeah, it's really interesting. And he he has this thing about um I I tell you what I did find interesting that he says that it's most likely that um this is his view. I'm not saying this is not my view, but this is in the book Moses and Aenatan and in the other books.

He argues that when Abraham went across with Sarah Sarai um Sarah and by the way according to the Bible as well I think she was his half sister. So um but she was his wife but that said I don't think in Islam it's mentioned that part about the half sister but the Bible mentions that. So when he goes to the pharaoh the land of the pharaohs, he fears that they're going to if they find out that's his wife, they're going to kill him and snatch her.

But they wouldn't do that if the woman was your sister. So they do capture her, capture them and Abraham says to her, "Say that you're my sister." So he says that and Pharaoh says, "In that case, I will marry her." And according to him and the biblical version, some readings of the Bible that Pharaoh does marry her and she stays with him for a while and then she leaves when Pharaoh realizes that actually Abraham lied and that was his wife and from the gifts he gives her is the slave

Hajar. That's what which she then gives to Abraham who is the mother of Ismael. Now later on the mother of Ismael. Now when Sara leaves Egypt with Abraham, she's pregnant. So he arguing that Isaac is most likely the child of the Pharaoh and not the child of Abraham.

And and this is why the and that Pharaoh he's arguing is David. But it's really and this is why you see I I'll tell you something I didn't know is that the pharaohs are the are amongst the oldest civilizations to circumcise. So he says this is why then Abraham begins the circumcision. And he says because it was to Egyptianize that kind of thing and and keep on this tradition.

And um and he has this whole thing on this is why the Jewish people always put David up there because he was the true kind of father of their lineage. But it's a really it's a strange read. It's a strange read. I'd love to be able to quiz him and ask him questions. But yeah, I I'm sorry I got carried away with that. It's just so strange. Uh somebody said, uh yeah, that's true.

If it's normal to walk uh uh right, can you explain the incident? Somebody's asking again about Constantinople. You see, the Muslims always had their eyes on Baantium. Yeah. Not just the Muslims, the Arabs, the Middle East, the Byzantines were a huge empire and they had become considerably weaker by that time.

Even pre-Islam, the the Arabs had been fighting them. The Bunny, you know, the the Hassanids had been fighting them. The Sassinid obviously the Persians were fighting them. But the point is that they were a huge dynasty. Everybody had their eyes on them. It wasn't something that why did all of a sudden the Omeayads have their eyes on Constantinople? They've always had it. It's been like the land of gold paved with gold. You know, they always thought, "Wow, Constantinople." So, yeah.

So, this is why I feel maybe people false uh remembered the um these hadith, false memories. You know, some somebody mentioned here didn't tuten marry half sister. This actually reminds me what's interesting is I was thinking about this. You see in the Bible it mentions the daughter of Pharaoh finds Moses but in the Quran it mentions his wife finds Moses and why this discrepancy.

And so I started looking into it and you see there's two theories. One theory is that the Moses sorry the pharaoh that is in the when the pharaoh in the infancy of Moses dies later on and is replaced by a second pharaoh. So that first pharaoh is like let's say according to some theory seti the first and the second one when Moses has grown up is Ramsis II you know the great Ramses.

So according to that theory, I was checking this up that how does this work then? Why daughter and why wife? So the second pharaoh does actually marry the daughter of Seti. But it gets even more bizarre still. And three of his own wives like he had I think six or seven main wives, the Rams, the great Rams, if he is the Pharaoh of Moses, three of his wives were his own daughters.

So the pharaohs used to marry their own daughters and used to marry their own sisters um especially half sisters but even full sisters. So it was quite common incest was only exclusively to the pharaohs. So the common public didn't do that. So that's strange and I thought wow okay that is very interesting since the Quran mentions her as that his wife but the Bible mentions his daughter yet they were the same person.

I just thought that was wow I just came across that and I mean I was just researching I was surprised. Okay. So, right. Okay. People avoid the debates within the groups, please, within the chat. Uh, right. Okay. Please stop debating with people. If people are atheist or if they're agnostic or if they're Muslim, this is not the chat rooms are not the place to be having I mean the chats here are not the place to be having debates.

Okay. So, all right people. All right. So let's take a look guys. I wanted to mention let's go to the masala segment shall we? Right. What is going on people? What is going on? So I've got a little clip for us by the great the great Ashrai Mulvi Ashrai.

All right. So when is saying the now according to the strict Sunni beliefs and alhamdulillah we all want to be pure Sunnis strict Sunni beliefs uh a little wobbly here and there you know we don't want to be like that Sunnis this about they do not regard the adan of the deviants as as an adan we do not regard their jamaat we do not consider that jamaat to be a jamaat Okay.

So another one and I personally do not even respond to their personally don't even respond because they misguided. We do not regard their this is what our told us our pious predecessors that their aan is not an adan. Their jamaat is not a jamaat. Okay. So that just you should just make you aware that yesterday.

OH MY GOD. WHAT THE [ __ ] This is the same Navidid Shari that I once replied to on tweet on Twitter with a tweet as you can see there. This was years ago when his account got hacked where he said, "Muy, oh Muy, what part of Maliki fit teaches you that you are allowed to shave your beard and style it like Muy Remington?" And I said, "The part you haven't studied yet."

Right. So people this is uh Mulvi Navidid Ashisab and he seems so bitter about other sects the wobblers. He's like you know if they're wobblers if they're wobbly we don't want to be a bit wobbly. [Laughter] I don't even consider the adan to be adan. I don't even respond. I don't you see to me it's all but I mean it seems so bitter.

I could say the only other bitter person I've seen a bit like him is this mom. [Laughter] Let's check that again, people. Right. So, let's see if I can bring that up again. No, it's not. Right. Let me

That was a clip I found of a mother in in some argument. Let me see if I can bring that up again. Uh, who gets into some kind of an [Laughter] Oh no, it's so I mean this is the kind of this is what we're facing people. This is what we're facing that this kind of bitter sectarianism that we not I don't even consider the adan to be adan.

I don't even consider the uh salah or jama to be jama. I don't consider the you this is utter venom pure venom being pushed uh you know in the name of religion. And you can imagine how many people are watching that that are probably taking guidance from this guy who's teaching them that you know I the you know this this is how we treat it.

This is how our who the hell are the aslaf by the way? people from 80 years ago. The predecessors are people from 80 years. They're not like the Salaf as in the companions of the prophet. He's talking about our Islam like from let's say from Brarif or wherever. And I don't personally I don't think all Brilies to be fair would agree with him.

So this is I don't think it's right to hold all of them to account but this is nothing but spreading hate. Okay. Um, and every group, you're right, somebody just mentioned is in their own bubble. I totally agree with you. I 100% kind of second that. But this is just utter, you know, like one is, okay, that's very disappointing that people are in a bubble. But this is a new level of lull, you know, like like I don't consider their adan and aan.

I don't consider this salah a salah. I don't consider their masids masids. I don't consider the what kind of I mean what level of I mean how much are you trying to constrict this bubble [Laughter] you're spreading the spreading the the the poison the venom so this is something that we're really you know we got Uh, somebody said, "Come on, you can't backbite on that man.

It's okay." He'll probably consider me a wobbler. He'll probably say, "Look, he's just a wobbler. His wobbling. I love you." That's got to be one of the most sadest terms ever, though. You got to You got to love that term. That is such a dis, though. I love you. Damn, that's just lethal, man.

That just hits that. I mean, you'd rather be just sworn at than saying like, you know, vabro, you know, you know, in the in the Muri kind of uh community, they they say like vo just like a uh the acoustics are like so right.

So yeah, like to wobble, you know, wobble. But then I do get the fact that some of the wobblers don't do themselves any favors. That that is true as well because they also preach a kind of level of hatred. But I just saw this and I thought, come on, you're taking the mick. He's taking the mick. Cool. Guys, I tell you what, if there's any quick rapid round, we'll do that and let's wrap this up.

It's been way It's gone way too late. Uh, it's gone way too late, PEOPLE. [Laughter] I just saw that. I couldn't believe it. It's like, what the what the hell is that? This these two ladies having some kind of an argument and she just just kicks the kid as well.

That that too machara. She goes straight in the nuts. He's like, "What the hell?" Right. What's going down people? I tell you what, some quick rapid round. How many parate for Sahari? You know, I don't really have parate for Sahari. I did I actually I did actually have some fortar but sahi don't really do parate much but yep head wobble what to do h what to do fine

what's going on about paying zakat on sh that's an interesting one paying zakat on sh that is a that's a tough one really you See it would depend. I would say that once you personally what I would say is once you cash them out in my opinion once you cash them out you would pay zakat on the cash received.

Um I suppose that's an opinion. Another opinion is each year whatever the asset value you could be paying zakat on that. Um, true. I suppose it's feeding the poor, so why not? Um, it's, yeah, I suppose if it, you know, I'm sure it does help the poor. But yeah, so I should be having on tomorrow night, by the way, when speaking of charities, the Wazio, the Wazio on Minecraft people, those of you that know him, uh, Wasim from Facebook is involved in all these humanitarian efforts.

U, you're definitely going to catch him. We'll speak a lot about the kind of charity and stuff like that tomorrow night. All right. Miy, do you know Hatimal Hajj? Hatim. Right. I only recently saw something by Hatimal Hajj. I didn't know who he was. I had to kind of search the name and it came up. I think something somebody to do with Yin.

And I think he's like a if I recall correctly is he a PhD kind of doctor that they've got or something. Mui what kind of tea are you drinking? Do you like masala chai or Kashmiri? I love Kashmiri chai. I do love regular thisi chai. I even know your English breakfast. I like that as well. Rather rather people rather.

Yep. Somebody said was mbar. Yep. Wazio is going to be on tomorrow night. Did I call wine as Nab? No, Nabiv already existed. So Oh, right. I wanted to make a uh do you have gas muy? I think I I do, you know. I think the I try to cut down on stuff, but Right. Um I want to make a correction, right, people?

I saw somebody sharing a clip or something of me. So I thought look um I watched it the person was saying oh look how how can he get this? So in this clip I've said speaking about Ibraimisam and I'm answering a question and I do answer it incorrectly but it wasn't people are going to say no. See, I knew he was a fake muti, but I watched it back and I thought, "No way.

I wouldn't make a mistake like that, but I did it while speaking." Now, it was not I actually I've always known the answer. It's not that I've not so some mistakes I I'm actually wrong and I do admit to things like that. I say, "Oh, look, I've learned about this. I used to think this, but now I think this." This was to do with the the dream of Ibraim. Salam. So I've been asked this on multiple occasions that did Allah ask Abraham Ibrahim Alisam to slaughter his son whether it was is now I've said on several occasions because I've got this on other occasions as well so you can watch it I've

answered it on several occasions so it's not just on this I don't know which clip where this particular clip was from but it was was me speaking half drunk as always. So what what I've said on most of these occasions is that look I don't believe that Allah told Ibraimisam to sacrifice his son but rather it was a dream that Ibrahimisam had and his son tells him so he is the Quran relays the story that he's telling his son I seen a dream that I am sacrificing you

and his son says if that do what you have been commanded to do. He says that you know do you will find me from you know from from the people of patience. Now it is the son who is telling the father that no this is revelation. It must be a sign from God just do it.

But Allah never says in the Quran we told Abraham to do it. Now this is what I've said on several occasions. However, there was this one clip where I'm saying that oh that it is a dream. I do say that part but then I say oh is his son has this dream and he's telling him that's obvious obviously I do know that it's Ibraimisam because it is in the verse of the Quran itself. He says that I'm seeing in a dream that I am sacrificing you that he says that oh son.

So I it's not like I didn't know it but it was a slip. So I watched it. I was like I was like yeah you need to be more sober when you're answering questions. So I do uh I want that to be corrected. And there's no harm in, you know, if you make a mistake, you make a mistake. But this was just when I'm answering so many questions and I'm reading things and I've got things on my mind and got all kinds of things going on.

Sometimes you just mix stuff up. But don't worry. Ah, don't stress, you know. Don't stress. All right. So, all right. So, what is going on? We won't ban you, Macau. Okay. All right. So, any quick questions? What is going on? What is going on? They're saying vaccines are going to be mandatory for everyone.

H, you know, I read something today about them saying we're going to have health passports. God damn, that is so Orwellian. I mean, that is just pure like if that's going to happen, we can say goodbye to our liberties. Honestly, that is utterly unacceptable to have a health passport. You taking the mick. They think this is some kind of a police state, right? So people, let's wrap this up.

Some people uh quick question. Jews say Isaac was the one to be sacrificed versus Muslim. There's actually a good book by uh called um is it called is it or something like this but it's by I have got it somewhere and it's on who was the sacrificed son now many of the many of the have disagreed saying used to believe it was Isaac

I believed it was im Malik believed it was and not. So many people did believe it was Isaac from the Muslims as well, but the majority believed it was Ismael. Cool guys, let's wrap this up. All right, looking f Shukran. Shukran. Guys, as always, much love. I'm going to put up my other pages. If you haven't already like shared then people you're just being haters.

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