The Ghosts That Haunt Us! Meaning With MALM #46

so alright Bismillah in alhamdulillah right so speaking of ghosts that haunt us Allah

right let me bring up what I want to speak about today um all right video file bring it up so what a topic huh ghosts that haunt us and this is actually it's

look at that I can hear the sound effects right here care about him so so now this is quite a I'm coming at this from a very diverse perspective ghosts that haunt us

and this I don't just mean actual ghost in the sense that spooky I don't know Halloween kind of stuff but all kinds ghosts in the sense of superstition in the sense of fears in the sense of hopelessness despair dismantled and Shattered Dreams and beliefs

our past that looms over us as a ghost our understanding which is crippled and and thereby reflects to us a a distorted View of a loving faith many and all of these things our methodology our approach in all of these things we will find cobwebs and ghosts

and it is these things that haunt us so I want to take a a look at that today and the fact that faith if anything has come to free us from such Fetters and shackles so so some quranic verses I want to take a look at in relation to that and so there's so many things this isn't just you know it's there's so many things that this this kind of pans out to and also

spinning from that I wanted to discuss briefly um our approach to faith and how we construct belief and how we do that especially in relation to Hadith so what is the construction of Faith the construction of belief constructs when we're building them up using um like what what are we using to build Faith Build belief not faith belief constructs so one of the things people may use is

Hadith so I wanted to share a few words on that an epistemology because that comes back to how do we know something and I want to speak about that when we get to it so okay first and foremost who has tuned in doing it yes look at that see Imran Khan saying to al-haram some one could read that as Haram

there is often a there is a um an inextricable bond between Haram and Haram in a way as well because often there is not always but when you go to the core of it their the the sacred and the Forbidden

many a times become indistinguishable but that's a different discussion I remember years back check this year's back when I was a teenager I went to umrah so I must have been about 16 you know between 16 17.

now I saw this everywhere you know Masjid Al Haram and Haram people and I thought what the hell are they saying why are they calling it haram is because I'd heard people say oh we call it Mash Haram and I thought uh okay so you think well maybe it sounds different slightly but Haram which is what it's called but yeah that's a discussion for another day we'll come back to that but shukran Imran Khan for

C for giving us this distraction huh there's a lot going on with Imran Khan in Pakistan as well right now you know this whole Pakistan thing got me thinking I thought I think throughout the world because I was thinking you know when I thought about Pakistan I thought and this whole Revolution it would be that A revolution is you know it's well due in India as well but then I thought in many parts of the world it's worldview

and I started to think about this and the more I thought about it it occurred to me that people I think are ready in all places they don't have a leader that's the problem all it takes is an undeterred leader that has you know unfathomable courage in the eyes of the people that's all it takes and

it's amazing that the kind of an ocean of people follow behind and I guess in in many ways that's always been the story throughout human history so nothing too different there but yeah it is interesting so right okay not to get distracted guts guts look good and sound just like you come up there yeah nothing nothing good I appreciate it I appreciate much love much

um uh I can use on my pee colic okay um foreign somebody else from Germany wow right you guys are doing it you're doing it so pigs are sacred

picks us I didn't say on every occasion but I've got a whole video discussing pigs uh so you can watch that and I think you know in some ways one could draw a distinction I don't know like maybe if we were to use the term between the Forbidden and the prohibited not if we were to use them distinguishably so so as to say that these are two very

separate things in terms of the of their goals what we are seeking from them hmm that would make a lot of sense to me yeah actually a little of course it'll make sense to me [Laughter] ah yes all right so

sending love from Cali Allah bless you shukran shukran um so what should be the length I ain't getting into that these Petty discussions um all right okay so let's see Paul usual pseudoscience right okay let's ignore all of that let's go to what we wanted to speak about um right so Bismillah

you see it's always I came across this quote people and I thought this has to be shared that if a man and and here you know by money they're going by the modern definition everyone so I in many ways when we think about it the the Ancients and where we're arriving in some ways is going full circle they also used it you know with to mean

anyone and everyone uh right so if a man knows not to which Port he sails no wind is favorable that you see if a person has no Direction they don't know where they're going then no wind is of any good to him or her that's and I believe this is a a quote from Aristotle but it's very I I came across

it and I thought wow okay we have to share this and in light of that you see I'm anchoring in the theme for today and why this is important about the ghosts that haunt us is because these things that shackle us we have to set ourselves free from them because if we don't it's us who lose out on life so while we wait for life life passes

care about them yeah that's very profound honestly there was a poem I shared not so long ago in order to do that that resonated a similar um similar theme where he said that

that live life otherwise it will just pass and this I think this aptly translates or you know stands in its stead that whilst we wait for life life passes a while in this case right so speaking about life poetry is something that we must always be Keen to take wisdom from people so here's a very popular poem those of you that have come across it that case

it really is something that gets you thinking is that he says the poet says that there are some people in life who asked soon as they set off from home they find their destiny right it's that people want to say it's luck it's Destiny it's whatever you know they they set up people have set the the worldly stage for them

let's say they are born into privilege or they are born into um well they are born into ease they are born into many things or somebody has paved the way for them or they got lucky or or however but it happened so immediately foreign I think that's how it actually is it

might be written here this way but I think it's it's the other way um and while some of us our entire lives we've remained in travel [Laughter] life huh but this you know there's a great a profound wondering

um you know there's something so amazing about that as well I don't know if I'd love to zoom into this I I'd seen this this is a classic I've shared with you guys a while back this is just one line from it but it ties into the same theme uh this is why a classical poet known as Shakil badayuni a legend of the Urdu language and he says

hey you know something about Shaquille by the Uni's poems is they're very rhythmic um you know this is a Melody that jumps out at you it's the kind of the the wasn't the the SK The Meters that he uses

that yes I've got my you know my my my sight I have cast my side I've I've got my my glance fixed on the morning to come he says Ah but there is this fear the ghosts that haunt us yes

that this Dawn that we are in right now and I've got my my glance transfixed on the sunrise to come that I have a fear that this Dawn too will gradually make its way to dusk Allah that to the sun setting again there's a lot of profundity in that now that that can be taken for all aspects of life

life with all its Glory with all its but does it make it not worth a living or not worth enjoying not at all of course it's worth enjoying even if a person you know there's an amazing quote that just because the symphony ends doesn't mean it's not worth listening to that just because something all its Glory or whatever it is will at some point disappear doesn't mean it's not worth

experiencing that is but even if it does so right so now right let's move on people Allah Allah I had as well that has to be shared I guess

since it's since it's and this ties in with what we're talking about as well this is from his famous hustle that he says that for the love of God do not remove this cloth from the Kaaba this Veil so

the Kaaba has it has a kisser okay or the kiss were it has a uh it has a cloth it is closed with a cloth that's just the the kind of um I guess the the design of the Kappa that we find it in it's not and it's from the kind of adab of it almost like the etiquettes of of how it is structured that it's kind

of uh given this this kind of cloak that robes the Kappa um so so playing on that Trope he says he says for the love of God do not remove that so he's he's using this cloak as a veil because in some ways the cloak avails us from the walls or from some of the part of the walls of the Kaaba so Raleigh was saying that for the love

of God do not remove this Veil from the Kaaba and he's being hot like you know don't zalim he's calling you Salim as you know trans it's difficult to translate Salim in the way it's being used here because it's almost in an endearing way as well

this is one of halib's most powerful couplets that one of his most powerful lines that he shares throughout his poetry on the complex on the complexity on the the lack of transparency of belief constructs that he says that do not do that we fear

that lest we find behind this Veil are the same Idols that we are turned away from see that's incredibly profound because at one point the Kappa was it was I mean it was surrounded by idols and it had Idols placed inside of it hidden one whether they almost well hidden from sight to many people inside the Kaaba all these false idols

and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the companions removed that so in some ways removing the physical Idols is the easy part you see that the difficulty it lies in removing the deeply entrenched idols that are so nested within our very existence that's the

tricky thing the ghosts of superstition of just all kinds of folklore of irrationality of aggression of disbelief of Oppression you name it all of these to remove them that's something incredibly difficult

foreign are upon faith and guidance that you're pointing to the Kaaba he's saying but if they've removed the cloth what if behind it you're simply prostrating to an idol

and he's taking this obviously to a metaphorical symbolic level which is why it becomes so profound right that and that really just ties in so well with uh what I want to cover today so let me just check some of these comments what's this Paradise for passengers and parasites especially that's a good one paradise and parasites a paradise and parasite I

like it I like it um right okay we have some of iqbalt poetry being shared Allah Allah I like it um somebody I I was unsubscribed from your channel and I re-subscribed today welcome back hmm

Abdul pass it Allah Allah how are you keeping um I did respond to your message so you yep I think you did get that I I know you sent out um what you were asking I did reply right so okay yep I think we've answered that so people sip of coffee before we

let's write let's take a look at today's some verses I wanted to uh I selected that Elizabeth I want to highlight this since we're speaking of things that hold us back one of those things very clearly superstitions okay now Islam came to free us from

superstitions and here sometimes some of us can find ourselves slipping up again and I say some most of us some worse than others but everybody's sleeping and people one of the things that they can often fall into is the The Lure of superstition

now Islam is entirely antithetical to Superstition if you if your faith is making you superstitious then you need to check yourself I advise you to immediately distance yourself from anything that you that is pulling you in a superstition and there is a beautiful Dua if you find

yourself ever being drawn to superstitions good luck bad luck bad almonds something terrible might be happening to me ghosts and people you see well we people say well you know maybe we don't believe in ghosts islamically yeah but it's just given the next best thing it's just islamicized so people will say ah but if not ghosts then chin if not Jin then churails

if not I mean you name it in Arabic they came up with rule where you get the English Ghoul from um so it comes from the Arabic rule and some people are fabricated um attempted to fabricate Hadith literature on that as well on Rules and Things and and I have a book as well here somewhere by Ace Carlo trying to collect the works of our rules in Islam this is it you see people will go to the next best thing

next terrible worst thing in this example I'm not using best to mean best so beware of these things Allah Allah is none of this exists none of this nonsense and and certainly not anything of a superstitious nature

unlucky stuff bad unlucky numbers horoscopes um you name it all of these things the utter it is just such a uh it is such a slope into distancing you from the grace of God

so whenever you find yourself in things like this and and with that I would include things like people believing in demons demonic possessions people thinking they're gonna get possessed by demons to to do things or to become catatonic or to become a schizophrenia called to become uh Afflicted with dissociative identity disorders and these things by way of gin by way of possession demonic possessions

this is superstition people will say about Magic this is another thing people will throw into to anything to take you down that that path one thing for sure whatever it is it is not the grace of God it's not for the law so that's a very simple way to understand it and nothing is

just a lies so these things don't have how can you believe in these how dare somebody believe in these things if they believe in Allah how so it's so and these things they they kind of they suck people into them it becomes an abyss an inescapable Abyss

people will throw all kinds of things in there and they will islamicize them they will bring you Islamic reasons to maybe why you should believe in these things it's not difficult finding Islamic reasons think about it look over the history of humanity and the history of religions and the history of Islam people have always managed to find what they're looking for you know that if they're looking for something in

a text in a history in a religious book in the Quran in Islam in they'll find it they'll you know they'll say oh but this could mean this and this means this or not this means this to me and this means that so people will islamicizing I told you people islamicized um rule this the ghoul creature they they came up with certain Arthur and Hadith to do with them they

it's not you see the question is all you have to the Hadith said that that which is sound it will find peace in the heart and that which finds itself in turbulence in dissonance in disharmony with your soul and heart

that is not from Islam so you can ask yourself on one hand if I say that I believe in the Creator who is all powerful who is truly real not even like us I mean to what extent are we truly real I mean we're real as far as we're concerned but then [Laughter] you know there's a

a version of you in the mind of every single person that knows you and that version of you in the mind of each and every one of those people is different even if it's by a Nuance even if it's by a degree but it's different and every single one of those versions of you that people have in their minds of you is different to your version of you

which is not in the mind of anyone who has ever met you dollar Allah so truly only on lies sure we think we are as well but ah now

so people will speak of all kinds of these ghosts that haunt us and and amongst that I will be these demonic possessions will be things like magic will be things like the evil eye it will be things like horoscopes it will be things like unlucky rituals like unlucky numbers unlucky movements moving under a ladder I don't know a black cat crossing the road a black crow crowing or doing whatever it is in cultures that people

have come up with all of these all of these idols are nothing but idols right so now with that in mind there is a verse in Surah Ali Imran verse 1 4 0.

that if something is to if if some harm is to afflict us then harm has Afflicted other people prior to us [Music]

you see Allah has allowed these days to rotate between us things are holding us back we need to understand now this this multiple ways multiple lessons we can take from this verse one is that if if we at times have sustained losses have sustained tragedies suffering we're not the only people to have

suffered people before us have suffered but have we not also had amazing experiences have we not had countless blessings have we not had the grace of God that's one way to look at this verse that Allah wants to know who will stand true with faith another way to look at this verse as well is that if these things if you have been

afflicted by these things other people have been Afflicted too but we one that another way of looking at this is we can learn we can learn from the mistakes of other people that have been before us what were the things that were haunting them what tripped them up

that is to say that we do not fall into the same mistakes that they did yeah and thereby Allah rotates the days of grace and goodness upon us so that's another way of looking at the at that verse

not many of law and before that was this verse 139 that do not lose heart Allah this is honestly one of the most inspiring verses amongst the most inspiring verses that whatever difficulties you are finding yourself in and when I say the things that haunt us they can be right here within us our own mind

how many of us have that critical voice that is operating Non-Stop so many people are afflicted with that oh you're a loser you're a failure you've done you've never achieved nothing you what the hell have you done with your life oh you're useless oh you you know this critical voice some people cannot stop this it goes we all experience the critical voice

one may say ins in some ways the Hadith saying that each of you has a Kareem or has something with him that Whispers good and Whispers bad that that is the negativity within us within the unconscious mind that how It's Perfectly Natural to have that we all have that but some people they can't they cannot

switch it off it's just ah you haven't done anything what have you done oh you loser blah blah blah blah blah you're a waste you're a blah blah you've never done anything you've never achieved anything you're absent and that's terrible I'm telling you that that is you know the mind it is it is the one thing that if it spirals out of control

there's very little hope very little you know what damaged bones damaged limbs damage organs people can they they can attempt to repair they can attempt to substitute they can attempt to strengthen they can attempt to rebuild through nutrition exercise medicine through care through therapy they can do all of this but the mind

when the Mind goes Rogue those are Uncharted territories that very few ever return from if the mind wanders and ghosts I don't just mean to wonder but if it goes wrong it is so scary science hasn't psychology Psychiatry hasn't really got anywhere I mean it's cut somewhere but relatively if you take all the other if

you take medicine as a whole if you you know 70 years ago went into cardiac arrest you had a heart attack I mean you've they didn't know how to revive you I mean today it's almost common knowledge almost every field has I mean it has exponentially an astronomically grown to new like mind-boggling Heights and Frontiers it's

crazy like we're Science and Technology have got to except when it comes to the brain and the mind it's like we haven't really got hardly anywhere it is it's like um you know okay there's some drugs that might suppress a bit of this suppress a bit of that but that's not really treating I mean it's not curing it's not you might be able to just numb out you know take these antipsychotics and it'll just numb this part of the brain

but that's not really that's not how medicine has worked in the other fields it's act it's ridiculously excelled yeah so it's amazing I mean it's it's amazing in just a Wow way that the brain and the mind we're still where we are so this for people who are haunted by negative thoughts negative by ruminations they call it ruminations okay this kind of like internal going into this negative

kind of in spiraling in Psychology so this negative ruminations that people have it's crippling so remembering this verse and that do not lose heart do not be sad you will be victorious you will come out on top in quantum mock Mini

so long as you believe Allah if you can believe it you can achieve it it's amazing it's amazing honestly so often all a person needs is that belief that's all they need all right so and this expanding on that

from Surah verse 61. so that Allah says we have created in Sun we know what this self of his we know about this negative ruminations we know what is going on

that these things they we know that they engulf in Sun they envelop him that this human is completely surrounded this is how they feel at the time this is how people feel they feel that it's in escape this completely walls me in my negativity does these negative thoughts matter to us we should be enough so

but then this verse gives you something so you see just as it says that it spins if that negativity is close it it's surrounding you it's world you in it is it has engulfed you

then we are closer to you than that even Allah you somebody here one of the comments said about suicidal uh ideation you know the thought to suicide because that's part of this these ruminations can be suicidal ideation people who are transfixed or they they can't escape these um obsessive thoughts of wanting to commit suicide and

may Allah make things easy for them and make things easy for everyone I mean what they want to do is stop the very life that is within them the very heart that is pumping blood and by extension life keeping it going around them they want to stop that and this verse is reminding you that when you think of these things that are so visceral So within you so inescapable so

Allah says we are closer to you than that still is the blood that is being pumped even closer than that is Allah his grace but we have to see it that's the thing sometimes some things are so close to us that we can't see them see when something's so close

you don't notice people they that's the that's the the very thing that some people don't notice the grace of God but a lie saying we we know what what what it's saying those negativities those don't worry about it I said do not be sad do not give up Let Die alone you will make it

so long as you believe Allah honestly these verses are so powerful they are reminded to us all the time I want to share them with us right I'll so I hope that of some help may Allah make things easy um for each and all let me take a look at some of these comments All right so um

I wonder if the complicated nature of neurons and synapses and their Mysteries are directly related to the mysteries of fundamental particles yeah well if what you mean by that is obviously things on all Martyrs made from particles but if what you mean by that is that this mysterious thing that we have this brain that

deep down at a you know an infinitesimal level it is connected perhaps to the quantum World in some way is that where Consciousness is coming from it's a question but even taking it just right from the top that yes these neurons firing these Action potentials you know the accents going going down the accents triggering um

other neurons and just having the whole thing going through Millions of synaptic connections but where is so where is thought where is where are ideas in the brain where are you know we're our constructs is it in a neuron [Laughter] is it in the action potential to charge the current that runs down but then we all have a current inside our brain well not just us other creatures too

but all humans definitely the you know the operating mechanism of the brain invariably is the same amongst all humans then why are the ideas so different it's amazing isn't it and even then how much of this the unconscious if we think about that because

you know here we're reminded of Freud Cha-Cha Freud uh you see Freud you know if we mention Freud today this people will you know people will be like uh ah you know Freud huh and

and they and they'll probably come up with things so you know if I asked you guys that oh what do you think of Freud people might go oh he's all right weirdo oh you know but I said well what do you know about Freud and and people come up with his lesser you know there's like his Universal accomplishments and then there's the lesser the particulates so people may say things like oh he was a

freak he was a weirdo everything was about sex everything you know the fundamental human Drive was sexual According to Freud the Oedipus complex oh my God he said people fancy their mothers this is disgusting and sure and all of these things but you know Freud these things are dwarfed really in comparison to what Freud actually did for us you see Freud

discovered for us and you know he's he's a victim of his own success this is this is the crazy thing see Freud's Discovery was so successful so successful his discovery of the unconscious mind it was so successful that nobody assumes Freud discovered it because nobody can picture the world today without the unconscious mind so it's so such a given that we assume everybody always knew

about the unconscious mind that that is to say that we don't credit Freud for it then because we assume everybody knew this but they didn't think like this people did not think about the unconscious mind this was not a thing so Freud really expands on this theme and comes up with it and and I'm not saying there were no precursors and people obviously he he understood there were people that had certain but he constructs it the way he did and presents it

and then he highlights that the in his wording he says that the unconscious mind is um is a fact without parallel which defies all explanation and description that's Freud's wording yeah that it is a fact without parallel which defies all description and explanation meaning that you can never truly understand you not truly you can never understand at all

ever the unconscious mind that was Freud's angle obviously he kind of made it almost metaphysical when you think about it because it became unknowable by any measure it's a bit like saying this like let me look if I asked you to introspect as into look within and to kind of you know with concentration and almost meditation to look within to introspect by introspection no matter how hard you

introspect you can't become aware of your kidney functioning or your liver functioning you can't you can't do it it doesn't matter how much you or your blood cells you you you could do all the introspection you want you can't um I'm gonna focus it doesn't matter you cannot tap into that you cannot start having a realization of how I mean you can be told through mechanisms that that your kidneys are functioning at so much percent and so on but you through

introspection cannot just become aware of them doing it that is how the unconscious mind is you can never become aware of it so that's just whoa now and what Freud had said and this is interesting and I think it's important because it comes back to this theme as well of what you know the ghost haunt us he said well you see the things we do in life we think we know why we do them

but truly we may be driven by the unconscious mind so somebody I like if I was to ask you oh why did you take that job oh why did you move to such and such an area why did you buy such and such thing such as such property or such and such you know such a such a car or why did you marry such a person why did you marry that person why now your answer to these things may be you know why did you take this job you may say well it was to boost my

career and it was to do this and I really wanted to do this why did I marry that person because you know they're they're an amazing person they're caring they're loving and blah blah blah and that's not to say that these things may not also have truth in them that that person may be a loving person a caring person maybe somebody marries someone and and he's a caring man and he's you know he's such and such and and what if and all these things but unconsciously maybe they married them because

that person reminded them of their dad or reminded them of somebody that they once knew long before and had forgotten about or some that there's an unconscious Drive making them do that but they're not aware of it just as we're not aware of our kidneys operating but we are aware of other things so that we may be aware of other reasons that we think are the reasons but actually in actuality the reasons may be something completely different

so that's just whoa so really that that that's amazing so it's yeah we digressed and went into that but it's it's definitely [Music] um something that I feel in it does tie into this whole theme because why are we sometimes held back by fears you may say well oh I'm afraid of these oh I don't want to do this because uh why are you not doing it why are you not taking that opportunity

why are you not taking that leap somebody perhaps always wanted to do something take a particular degree take a particular course somebody probably always wanted to take a particular job or take up a particular passion or maybe they wanted to marry someone or maybe they wanted to do something but they they don't do these things why there's a fear now to them the fear when they ask themselves what what is why am I not

doing it the answers they're giving themselves may not be the deeper deeply embedded reasons that are in the unconscious mind that are truly haunting them so all of this ties in uh

see now that's the beauty even if we don't know Allah is telling us he is away of the unconscious mind that's fascinating that is then reminding you of a trust in God so yeah that's uh I think that was quite an interesting digression from just as a side note Freud had declared the unconscious mind completely unknowable but where it slightly begins to change is

with LA Khan who comes and says that the unconscious mind is structured like a language so that's interesting because that then so now he's saying it's not a language but it's structured like a language as a whole fascinating discussion in and of itself because how is language structured and who determines language and language cannot exist with an individual it exists with the collective

and it doesn't even so you know the people that you are speaking to and the words that are being spoken so what so what what they speak of these things like lalang they call it long like language with a capital l or whether it's like the wiring in our brain full language or whether it's um they call it he calls it what parole but whether it's speech or whether it's the person you're speaking to there's a part of language that none of these things in

and of themselves determine but its rules are resting somewhere else in a greater Collective unconscious so like let me give you an example um and this is digressing but it's it's fascinating so let's say you're speaking to someone now there's an etiquette in how you speak say hey there how you doing you're right you're right what are the greetings what are the replies to a greeting what are the these things even the structure they are ritual like

like when you meet someone you ask them how you doing how you keeping how are things oftentimes these questions are not sought after in and of themselves they are all they are just a pleasantry an appetizer to get into the conversation now the question is that that is not in the question itself that's not in the in the speech so when you ask someone how you doing how you keep it how are you it in that how are you how it doesn't

tell you that this is an appetizer this is just an opening speech this is a and the person you're talking to does not tell you that that either that this is nested in a greater Collective Consciousness that that people of that language speak so it's fascinating that language doesn't really um but it it's not the property of one person and a group of people just happen to

belong to it so and no one person can determine language [Laughter] it's crazy because now when you think of that and then you think of the unconscious like that the unconscious mind there's a collective consciousness and that may be this unconscious in that way no one person if you think of it in some way structured like language it's fascinating

I had some food for thought people let's go back to um right let's go back to some of the discussion I was just looking for um

right okay so I speaking of how we come to uh know things I want to share some thoughts on um on how we construct beliefs okay and why I think that's important because

because it's in many ways we can build on this example of the unconscious that we just spoke of now how do we actually construct beliefs and I don't like believe construct sorry how do we arrive at belief constructs so that's not to say faith as a whole because I feel Faith as a whole is that faith is an internal personal

um realization and entity it is something within but then there are belief constructs that are part of the the psychosocial reality which we are a part of where people have fears where people have uh taboos where people have superstitions where people believe in bad luck where people believe in um in myths where people believe absolutely you know phantasmagoric kind of like all crazy

like just whoa kind of stuff that people may believe in laughs now where do they come up with this from obviously they hear it in society but they hear many things why do they why do those take root that's an interesting question but with that in mind I wanted to how we arrive at certain belief constructs I wanted to um reel Us in more to the Islamic side not just greater beliefs out there but more

the Islamic and Hadith uh as a concept that people when we read Hadith do we construct beliefs from Hadith that's a fascinating discussion because um well you can one would say well can a person uh construct can a person arrive at belief constructs from a Hadith this is going to get a bit

spirally because we well we're going to say well what what what exactly do we because we can mean many things by belief constructs because belief constructs can just be small things like oh it's good to be kind it's a belief construct now these kind of things of course a person but these kind of things are deeply rooted in the Quran the main uh kind of General broader a principle for goodness for esan for all of these things are nested in the Quran so you may find certain Hadith that

that reflect that kind of spirit of kindness and goodness and of course you can take that and embody it and this that's absolutely amazing to do um but then there may be other things that you may you may say well I've read Ina Hadith that that there's a particular thing now can this become a belief can I with that arrive at a belief construct so here the scholars of Islam have disagreed okay now

you will get you will get some people but these are a minority when you look at the overall looking at the numbers of Islam and the majority of Sunni scholarship so you will get some people that will say every single Hadith so long as it is sahih can be taken as a categorical belief construct so if you so for example um let's say in a Hadith it said something um no matter how at odd odds it feels

with your let's say understanding of the world or your understanding of things you take it as a categorical belief so it is we believe it we believe it as Faith like as Akita so there are a a group of ulama that believe that and amongst them are also like the cellophys are also amongst them as well so this group of people feel that well if a Hadith is sahih then it is it is conclusive and we're not going to consider it to have

any doubt as far as we're concerned so okay so for example let's say there is a Hadith of a very popular Hadith of tamima dirty in sahih Muslim where he come where he is Shipwrecked and then he eventually comes he is making a journey and he finds himself Shipwrecked and then he eventually he doesn't explain how he gets back but he gets back somehow and then he comes to the prophet and he tells him so this is a Hadith now

in this Hadith he says to the prophet well I found myself on this island and there was this Beast which looked a bit like so you might say today a bit like uh almost like the kind of Bigfoot character so this this Beast that is almost a bit man-like but it's covered in here and you can't clearly tell he says I couldn't tell almost it's you know it's front from its back it's just this this piece that is a bit almost uh humanoid a bit ape-like

but it's not an ape and it's just this strange Beast and it communicates with me and it asks me you know what are you doing here and then it it takes me it's called just sassa so he he names it and he says and it takes me to the this person who is then the Antichrist and the child who is tied up in Chains and he's uh and he asks me these questions so at this time tamim a dirty is not a Muslim so he's experiencing this and he says the person asks me has this messenger

appeared in Arabia and so on and then he says well it's not long before I'm Unleashed on the world okay so then he comes back to the prophet and he asks who the prophet is and he comes to the prophet and he Embraces Islam so the prophet says to him and the people out there and the prophet says he asked them to quieten down and he says listen he says this person's come because he's not from Arabia he's not from from them he comes from outside and he was a Christian and now he's embraced Islam so he then tells them this with

his experience his his what what he feels has happened in this story and then he says and I testify that there is no God but Allah Muhammad is his messenger so this is now a sahih Hadith so did these events categorically happen with certainty modari for example really experience this creature and did he go and find this giant Tied In Chains and did this actually happen

so a group of people will say that this is Akida this is categorical this is anything as long as the chain is connected inside it is faith we take it as faith then the majority of Sunni Scholars which um are known as the asharis or the martyridis so these are the main body of Sunni Muslim Scholars you probably I mean it's difficult to throw a percentage but you're probably talking what like I don't know 85 percent of all Sunni

Muslims something like that so between eight to nine out of all ten or most of Sunni Muslims is historically and so so all of these and the philosophers and the the kind of Mystics of Sunni Islam they say that you see a Hadith being sahih this this is sahih meaning the chain is connected there is still there is still a potential that this is

not accurate that somebody made a mistake that somebody got this wrong somebody brought up a false memory there's a potential even if we say this person is a trusted person trusted person trusted person but there's a potential it doesn't mean it was made up it doesn't mean they did get it wrong it doesn't mean but there's a potential so these things are called nakatai they're called means that there's some conjecture there's an element they're conjectural there's some one some kind of doubt a margin of error in those things so we

cannot call them conclusive and categorical so they are good enough so what that means is most of these Scholars will say well they are good enough to use if you want to make like let's say you're practicing Islam by them but if you're trying to take rulings from them sorry if you're trying to take rulings that's fine like I need to pray I learned this from here or I learned something from it they're good enough but if you're trying to you don't build Akida based on

me sources so you don't base it if you did as a person that's up to you but it's not categorical in Islam okay and we're not going as the main so ashadis the main body of Allah is them the on the other side you had uh some of the mahadithi many of them maybe and you had the hamblies who today are also go by the name of atheri or salafi or wahhabi this this whole thing they

don't usually go by wahhabi other people call them wahhabi but this whole group the salafis the atheris the uh the humbalis that's the same group they've just used different names they are part of Allah as well so it's not you know some people say these people are not so means they say they're not so need in all honesty all these people were all that we also need but that group is a minority the humbly they believe that oh we take these things to mean so if we find this it is clear

we believe it it doesn't matter so there's a Hadith in sahil bukhari for example that Adam Ali salaam used to be so 60 you know cubic lengths like 60 meters long or 60 yards tall sorry now there's a Hadith inside so they'll say well the chain is connected Hadith isai so now this is a belief construct

is will say no no no no no we know beliefs and things like this these are these Hadith are problematic generally considered by other Sunni Scholars like IBN hajjad for example who is ashadi he writes in his commentary on bukhari that this Hadith is most likely not even though it's sahih but this doesn't make sense because Adam would not have been they they say it's very difficult this sounds like it just came from the judeo-christian literature and we just kind of imported it so other people ibnafurak he puts that in his mushkil Hadith as well so these are examples of two different

methodologies of how we can how we arrive at belief constructs in Islam okay and it has information if you ex what you are ultimately saying is the chain is connected and if you're trying to take your ruling from it well it's good enough for people who are using it the fuckaha and the majority of Sunni Scholars they have a different methodology they say well first of all we don't base beliefs on on conjectural

sources so sure you can accept it you can practice Islam by it but you don't build Iman based on it you don't build Akida based on it that said that said you will find contradictions because you will find at times many Sunni Scholars who say that sometimes will accept as as belief constructs so it's not just because people have principles doesn't mean they're always methodical so you will find some Sunni Scholars

that and Hadith Scholars as well that will say anytime a Hadith clashes with reason it is that goes to show that it's it's not acceptable these are the three golden criteria but that said many people sometimes you'll get from the Sunni tradition they will write that in their books but then in practice sometimes they may contradict them so it's not always a very

um well-followed well lit neatly organized and well orchestrated um kind of path so I wanted to just highlight this um in light of that I wanted to speak um as an example the myth of the Fallen Angel so what is this speaking about and I thought well one of the things that got me thinking about this

I was I want to share with you um my thoughts on the verse of the Quran you see where Ibrahim Ali Salam this first got me thinking about him Ibrahim was debating the people the Canaanites about who is God and it's and he says that when he saw the Coca you know which uh would translate really

generally speaking as a planet people could say star as well but usually a star is a um a legend okay cocoa would be a planet that is obviously because the stars in their constellations are static but the planets are moving you so um so when he says uh you know this coke up he sees this so the the the the dialectic in the Quran is Ibrahim challenges his people and he says uh and

first of all he says that oh this this is my Lord but then when the the the star or the planet as it kind of disappears he says he says oh you know that's not mine Lord because my Lord would never disappear and then he says well you know uh when he when he sees the moon he says oh this must be my Lord but then when the moon disappears he says oh well you know surely God would not disappear and then you know

when he sees the sun rising with all its Glory he says surely this must be our Lord but then you know when it sets he says surely my how you know my God is not one that sets and so on now this dialectic that's taking place in the Quran between Ibrahim and his people this huge discussions in the books of the farseed why is this happening is are these genuine questions why Ibrahim or is he just be is he using it to debate his people as in is it not that he actually was genuinely saying oh wow I'm impressed by this he was saying it more

almost uh to lure them into a debate and through sarcasm almost and to kind of show well oh you know being uh sardonic and just saying well you know this this this in a way showing them how stupid it is satirizing and and thereby patronizing it almost but but through debate not just saying hahaha saying look oh oh yeah yeah oh no look that doesn't so there's a whole debate on why Ibrahim is

doing that but this debate is mentioned in the Quran now what was interesting is this coke up I was just thinking one of the days that what was this kill curb and and I was reading up on other things and I thought I wonder what have it been Venus so as I was looking up so some of these uh tafasir I believe the uh you've got the one is even our Shores this extract is taken from and the other um

I believe from uh from but but they all mention this so as you can see here that let me just bring this up this is blocking my view here right so it mentions here while Murad will cook um and I don't know if you know what mushtari is but uh you see if those always here I would have said Zozo what's Mustang so I'm always saying to her which one's that

so mushtari is Jupiter yeah so but qatada transmits so other people have transmitted it's been mentioned to us and zohra is once again all about to test so so we've been trying to get her to I've been teaching her the names of these planets so zohara is Venus okay now that's also in the other taffa seed as well

it's a very bright uh Planet foreign okay now people were in debate was it uh Mercury oh sorry was it uh Venus or was it Jupiter now it makes sense in a way it being Venus because Venus is the the Morning Star okay so Venus is other planets so right now where we are in the northern hemisphere Jupiter from last year actually to this year it's very clear

it's the brightest one of the brightest uh you know bodies that we can see out there in in the nightlit sky and you can actually nowadays see Mars as well so Mars appears obviously quite orange but Jupiter if you look up in the Northern Hemisphere and you see something really bright at night just most likely that's Jupiter right now but obviously depending on the years and things like this in the Earth's orbit but Venus appears often it will appear right at morning it will be one of the last stars to disappear I say star because people

are traditionally assumed it was the Morning Star they used to call it the Morning Star because they could always see it in the morning um so this that you can see here in the Canaanite mythology to share with you now there were certain beliefs about um now people believe that Venus this this kind of star that was this morning star was a deity and people had different they believed it may have been Ishtar which also correlates with the

Arabic Ursa but another um another kind of character that emerges is from Kanan this God known as hellel now Helen as you can see here I don't know if I've waited let me make this slightly larger so you can see it um yeah so you can see there the the that this uh Warrior kind of God known as hellel uh some people say hello or they say hilal as well which kind of correlates with almost hilal in Arabic but that's not what it's talking about

that this God it was his this Warrior God it was his ambition to rise to the Tower of or the heights of the other God or the Mighty God and take him over but what happened is he got caught out and then as a consequence he is Then the Morning Star because what happens is he's trapped so whilst all the stars disappear he's still trapped it's the last star you can see I mean it's a planet but we're calling it a star in this context and then it

disappears because as a punishment the gods he was then trapped this this this kind of warrior or this deity that tried to rise and overthrow the mighty Gods was then punished in that way um a quite an interesting piece of uh you know mythology that you've got there and it makes it's fascinating that whether that was uh in the time of Ibrahim that the Canaanite god but I mean it seems quite uh interesting but following on from this Fallen star

mythology we also get Lucifer and that is because Lucifer is just one of the it's it's actually a very it's a minority translation because it comes from Latin to mean the one which brings light the lightbringer and it's almost it's very confusing why Lucifer the devil was called Lucifer because it's in essence the Morning Star um that you see

it's speaking about this this kind of if we're speaking about Venus okay uh most of the Renditions of the Bible did not they translated just as Morningstar but you get some that said oh Lucifer and then eventually this this name is given to the devil because of these myths that already exist that Venus this star is being punished that it's kind of there and and it's really fascinating that the confusion around this because then because the lightbringer in many ways is meant to be Jesus who's the lightbringer

because the Lucifer meant the one bringing the light so look how art thou have fallen from Heaven oh Lucifer son of the morning now this this is from Isaiah you've got but the light bringing big but because you say the old Lucifer but if it's a lightbringer son of the morning how many of how most of the Bibles have translated it and this term Lucifer only appears just once uh in that translation now the actual Hebrew for this

was Halal as you can see here it was Hillel uh which is then translated as the light bringer um which then gets is rendered into Lucifer I mean the light bringing Latin from uh looks or loose and then as you still have in Spanish as well loose for for light so Lucifer so the one bringing light but in Hebrew was hellel and I find that fascinating if it has that connection still and you can see here as

well um that that this alludes to right at the bottom uh just carrying on with that story of this this deity that tried to climb the walls or this Warrior of this Forbidden City and then was punished in that way so what we're seeing here is this uh this development of a fallen star because people are seeing Venus in the morning for Millennia and they're thinking well this is the only star left behind it must have fallen

but got trapped because all the other stars have gone and then this story develops that maybe it's a punishment from God and then then they apply it to different characters and then over time you know whether it's uh Halal whether it's going to be Ishtar whether it's going to be um Aza and or whether it's going to be Lucifer so you can see here as well you can just have a quick read I thought I'd share some of these to give you um the interpretation that this caused uh in the Bible but this is interesting

because we're seeing here this whole myth of a fallen star um now what's fascinating is I want to bring us to the Islamic uh uh context here and there is a story about Venus that is transmitted in in the books of Hadith as well and the books of tafsir and the stories as you can see here that on the planet Venus is that it's to do

with harutan marud and that the Angels they were shocked that how can Bernie Adam be so astray that they asked Allah to give them Free Will and desire and they want to show God that they would obey then they chose these two angels now that's according to this this narration was a beautiful woman with great you know Allure who came up to them and seduced them

and these two angels then disobeyed God because their whole test was they said to God that give us free will and we will show you that we will never disobey you but they could not stand the charm uh the irresistible beauty of this seductive this woman that came to them with their beauty Allah then punishes this woman by turning her into a uh a planetary a planet a star a Coke up in the sky which is Venus zohra

and the rest of the Angels saw forgiveness now what's interesting is that you see this rewire as you can see there it is actually transmitted uh from in in one narration with what is deemed as sahih is not uh now that's quite fascinating goes back to ibnormal but then they say well this is from Kabul ahbar okay and and in the past we've spoken about Capital Ahmad and a lot of the judeo-christian

uh tradition being or narratives being uh imported into the Islamic Torah the Legacy through Kabbalah but you've got that narration where the chains are deemed sahih so you can see here look here is one of um transmission

okay now you get there will be other variants as well so there's other chains as well now the other chains come with some problems as you can see here they're going to say well this one has some problem in it it's in the Muslim of Ahmad it's in IBN sahi that same story that I just read it is there but these other chains do have uh problems in it now I'm not saying that the the top chain is not problematic according generally I mean I would consider it problematic being you know with Kabbalah but generally according to let's just

say the average muhaddis methodology that chain is sahih and it isil now they will say well that one we're going to say does not go back to the prophet but it goes to IBN Omar and it comes from Capital Akbar so you see now that's one way to kind of uh work you know to kind of try to explain it but then there is a problem here a challenge and that comes from who says in his whole which is to do with the Muslims of Ahmed that he says

that look we feel that this story must be sahih must have some validity to it he says foreign which has all of these stories put together and the story of Venus the Fallen Angel and he says this is he says that anybody who reads my book will be almost certain that this uh that he is certain that this incident is real and occurred he

says this is because of this how solid the chains are and how many chains actually exist so you see so not what why is this really fascinating because well this is showing to us straight away the the Divergence between the methodologies you see those people who how we arrive at belief constructs based on Hadith so you will have the fuckaha you will

have the uh uh the theologians like the Asha irada you'll have the philosophers which is all the bulk of Sunni Islam they will say that now we do not um arrive at beliefs and we cannot accept most of those people will struggle we cannot because they know this story is nonsense you know Allah did not send to Angels who then got tempted by some beautiful woman called Venus and then

God turned Venus into a planet that then you know is part of our solar system that's nonsense nobody's going to believe that not even for for a split second now the challenge is if we want to call it a challenge or a hurdle is well oh but there's a sahi sanon so this group of Scholars will say well even well Asana just means that the chain is connected it doesn't mean the information being relayed is is accurate in this case we clearly know it's not

accurate because we know that planets were not people so and and then some people may find other reasons to justify it as well so they may say well you know so so this is Vanity and so on and on this side you will have people who will say well actually you know if the Hadith is sahi then we can accept it now to be fair even amongst this side like let's say the atheris the salafis they don't really want to believe this because and they won't believe this because they look because everybody knows that's just

nonsense the planet Venus was not a woman so in this case most of them will interpret so they will say well this chain even though it's sahih from IBN Omar but he's getting it from Kabul Akbar and we don't believe he's getting this from the prophet We Believe capital a bar is the one inventing this because they know because if most people know this is you know this is just something that clashes it goes against reason

and even people who don't like to accept the criteria of Reason here must accept it because this is just outlandishly you know it's so ridiculously against reason so in this case people will try to say well okay let's find so people who are very committed to the Hadith the isnad methodology they don't want to abandon the methodology whereas the fuckaha and these people are more flexible with the is not methodology so that to them it's like well you know even if there isn't it's not and it's not too as a margin forever

so but to the is not project people they have to justify why they're going against this is not so they will say well this is not then even though it's sahih but we don't believe it goes to the prophet we believe it stops with IBN Omar who is teaching it but he's getting it from who is smuggling this in from his judeo-christian sources and this is not something the prophet said so they're justifying why they're not accepting it but then you will get some people and this is fascinating like IBN hajjar who's so heavily invested in

the Hadith project the snap project that he argues that actually this story must be true why just because the isnab is true so it's quite a a fascinating phenomenon that we've got here that how people are you know how do we know what is true the epistemology what we know how well to some people well it's enough to know just if certain people have said it but what if it goes against our

understanding of the world well to many people well if he goes against the understanding of the world well there clearly can be a mistake in some people even if those people are are mostly always right doesn't mean they could never have nobody could have ever made a mistake right so and to these people well our understanding of the world comes through us directly through our senses and our you know our observation so we can't just it's it's we can't just turn a blind eye to that so easily so we can't

say well the planet up there used to be a woman that clearly sounds you know bizarre so it is it's Inc this is really fascinating honestly it's it's so fascinating seeing how people were arriving at epistemology this here um this is another uh part of what I mentioned some of the other chains that were going on so some of the other chains people said well some people in them are problematic other people accepted them uh uh Ahmad Shakir a great

Mahadev of the last century he uh also has attack economy then he criticizes then IBN hajjar for saying that so he says he said look that ain't true he says it's not true here so what's fascinating we see now Ahmad Shakir is also invested in the Hadith project but he's somebody also more drawn to the voice of reason he's saying that look

all of those every single Hadith to do with Venus the Fallen uh you know the Fallen Angel myth this every single Hadith is weak or unacceptable he says look is says it clearly goes against hakun clearly he says

okay so he's saying look not just the fact that we believe angels are infallible but because planets look how huge planets are he says they're not just like the size of a human being that's sent up to the sky so he's saying look this is dumb this is silly it is is it is bizarre we cannot just have a belief that Venus is a woman who Allah is punished by putting her into orbit around the solar system now IBN hajjar on the other hand is

saying this these Hadith is also a great mother he is saying these chains are so many and they're all sahih or so many of them are so strong so on one hand you've got even a hajjar saying so many and so strong on another hand you've got Ahmad Shakir saying not a single one is is valid so it's a fascinating observation for the the isnab Paradigm where it finds itself at odds with one another um yeah I mean it's the reason I'm sharing

this is it's interesting from an epistemology perspective how we arrive at a belief construct in Islam and our faith is always should be rested in the voice of reason okay because Allah would not create this world and then give us all humans as a collective Consciousness the voice of reason and then go against it himself that doesn't make any sense now there may be people who believe that and sure and then they are Muslims and

we academically as an academic we can respect that we can say you know this person is a great Mahadev this person is a great Sunni scholar you know he is unquestionably but his his passion for this is not project has led him to that extent that he ended up accepting that look maybe Venus is a woman that God has sent into orbit just because he did not want to he was so committed to

this now project but it's fascinating seeing that and the scholarly discourse and unpacking it and you see that time and time again and another thing in the hajjar we discussed previously the Satanic Verses he went to accepting um the Satanic Verses because he felt that there were so many chains his commitment to this NAD project but then you get other Scholars who will say look is not Islam is not is not Centric it is tradition Central like the tradition comes to us through the living tradition from father to child it has been passed

out the Sunnah not the Hadith so the is they don't disrespect we accept the Hadith as well but it comes after it's just a historical record it could be accurate doesn't have to be accurate we don't reject it we don't reject Hadith but we don't take them to mean that they become the polar you know the axis of Islam the Quran is always the axis of Islam and everything else has to has to kind of find itself in orbit of the Quran okay

so I hope this has been helpful I really wanted to um share some of that so uh right so right there's a question there um I I put the question and the person into timeout because look if you're going to ask questions and he's asking about Sydney Ahmad why did say Namar

um you know and and you can see here here Amy's saying as well show some respect and I totally second that um you see the the question that the person was trying to ask is why was um but the tone in which it was being said and these kind of similes being given of a dog wagging a tail and things like this this is is very disrespectful because these people are the symbols of Islam uh the question if the question

correctly uh formulated is can be Val is a valid question that look why was certain people accepted from what they were saying is this not a point of contention did people challenge this did that that's a valid question okay now say um did not say to you that you know take up to be the source of Islam or anything carb embraced Islam in almost time he was a very learned rabbi so when he came from another tradition

any person who comes from another tradition they're given a um they're given a certain amount of Honor there's there's nothing wrong in that if a person came you see people as soon as some celebrity or somebody popular Embraces Islam everybody gets so excited why are they getting excited why don't they get excited when Just a Nobody Embraces Islam or equally excited because people as human beings they've recognized social structures and they understand that oh my god wow oh wow I didn't you know expect this

person to or you know that's it it has a social impact so say no Omar showing him respect he embraced Islam and he already came from a very uh respectful he was a scribe and a very it was like an a very well known and a respectable Jewish rabbi who then left Judaism and embraced Islam so naturally he was shown and he did this in the time of uh um now the question is that why did he not Embrace Islam in the time of the prophet and I do feel sure that

it's a valid question and that is a question people have raised and people have raised the question that did Kabul Akbar not uh uh you know his it's not his he's coming to Islam is beautiful anybody coming to Islam is amazing and that's their Journey between them and God but then not everybody who comes to Islam always benefits Islam Islam might benefit them but do they benefit Islam so some people may cause some harm as well to Islam we spoke about this with the Andrew Tate thing

you see becoming a Muslim so not every person who becomes a Muslim sometimes they start you know and they may do things sincerely but they may do things that cause harm to Islam so one of the questions is that did a lot of his teaching his rabbinic teaching which he continued to teach whilst he was a Muslim now because he was a Muslim then many Muslims or some Muslims were more likely to become influenced by him now you see because now he's a Muslim

and he's still very learned and he's quoting things so sometimes when he's quoting things people think oh he probably heard he got this from an Islamic source and they're mixing things up so there's a lot of that in fact a lot of the reports to do with uh a lot of the reports to do with the the Jal come through and they're from the um you know from the Jewish Bible and the Jewish literature so you get a lot of reports like that that uh when you compare them they're

actually capitals reports so yeah so it's a valid question but it's not it doesn't give anybody that question in in and of itself it's not uh it's not a kind of validation or a Vindication to say that a person or a justification to say that a person could say well because he embraced Islam in the time of Omar so this is somehow say numbers fault no well I guess we love because anybody can Embrace Islam it's like we discussed the other week to Andrew Tate embracing Islam and all so many Muslims so excited and we discussed this that look okay

sure that's you know and everybody's welcome but we'll have to see what he does because not everybody who comes to Islam always does good to it some people harm it as well so yeah I hope that helps yes so they are ridiculous tales in the talmud um right okay don't uh right so again England is mufti's last stop on his World Tour all right I should do a world tour I should do a world tour

ah right so all right somebody said if they come they want to come to the UK they want to meet me most welcome in fact as we speak I've got Professor faisalmir coming to the UK tomorrow or technically today I'm meeting up with him so that should be great fun um yeah you're more than welcome guys you can meet up accessible guy yeah I'm always I'm always about him somewhere should if you want to just chat and be part of the patreon join the there is patreon.com forward slash malm

we do our monthly meetups on the bus virtual Meetup but TK it's one step closer and you can if you want you can have your one-to-one you can book your one-to-one uh sessions on there we can have that as well and then you know as you you build a little Rapport and then when you come I'll be like yeah of course you come down yeah all right people so uh you know what whoa It's got very late shall I shall I take on one two live callers

shall I share a let me see go on then people I'm gonna share this uh somebody said about uh mind traps yeah I've got to get back to the Mind traps you know I've been distracted mostly can you please do a world tour of course of course why not let's do a world tour inshallah I mean I mean uh coming to USA yeah let's let's come to USA I I will come to the USA inshallah um

Allah bless you always doing another Mind Trap with Dr Mead I will be but um not when he's here because when he's here he's just here for the day he's traveling you know he's got a lot on which this is just chilling we're just gonna be just um but when he gets back to Canada I will do a Mind Trap with him inshallah um right uh what else is going on love to see the Mufti on The Joe Rogan all right Joe Rogan I'm a huge fan

inshallah why not why not um so all right people who if we uh um how are you I'm good yeah [Laughter]

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it is true man this uh John Elia he he has these lines that just hit so deep they're so brutal yeah it's like it goes in and then it cuts down it's like it's like yeah have mercy on these on these weak Hearts you know but this this is uh John Elia is as well yeah

wow that is that he did a bit in the style of uh a few people have done a similar kind of style one where uh in like where halib says uh uh you know what to say foreign that

he you know he was Warren may the Lord have mercy on him that he truly is was an amazing guy that wow you know the way they speak about but he's doing it there personified about his heart that buddy Veronica like you know when we hear his money it feels like it's very easy but yeah you're right that skill is called Salon Montana uh it comes from the Arabic settlementana but in order to as well so sahil means easy

but mumtana is something very difficult to do so it's put together so easily that you think oh I could have done this yeah but if you try you can't meet was a lot like that as well I mean not the way Johnny Lee is even more his words seem so natural when you say this speech is like a conversation

yeah yeah I really wanted to talk about like uh yesterday I saw a post so where people put some comments in it and they are talking about evil that uh why I got created evil or something like that so I really thought about it and I realized that God didn't really create an evil like he created um lack of lack of goodness in something that like evil you don't really exist is just

God's hand on something is more or less in something like uh if you say that like if you never experience the night we never really uh acknowledge or uh experience the day like we experienced a day now [Music] um like you have we have to uh we have the idea of a polar opposite to maybe to really become something a separate world to us

yeah yeah you know in Arabic it's part of a poem as well but it's it's it's it's an axiom it's a principle but it's in a that is and by the opposites Things become clearly known because you see you wouldn't know Health unless you knew illness you wouldn't know virtue unless you knew Vice it's not things like light is appreciated by the the knowledge and

awareness of Darkness so it's because if you never knew anything I guess it's yeah but when we really come to terms with something if they're smaller opposite didn't really exist like will we really acknowledge the good if lack of goodness doesn't exist like uh whatever thoughts that this evil really exists or just yeah because that's because let's because in many ways because if we could not

let's say we couldn't harm anyone there was like we just didn't have the capacity to harm like we just couldn't do it like anything of harm it would just we just couldn't do it it would be it would be a weird world wouldn't it because yeah like what to look forward to like it's so boring [Laughter] like sometimes sometimes I feel like that uh

in Paradise like if everything is so gloomy and everything is so happy and jolly like wouldn't it be really boring like everything is just about pleasure and happiness see but even pleasure it's interesting because obviously it's you know it's epic but pleasure is almost for pleasure to be truly you know kind of like absorbed and to be

celebrated it has to be an escapism almost because it can't because if pleasure is uh consecutively sustained it would just result in desensitizing the pleasure and it becoming mundane like it wouldn't because it wouldn't be pleasure anymore because unless you got to for example escape from the the mundane to do it so imagine now like like imagine uh your um you know you're working or you're studying and now you get a day off

you're like I'm gonna sleep all day I'm gonna do this all day you know you're it's fun but it's only fun because you're getting to escape but imagine every day you just had to sleep you'd call mental and and you know there's a an amazing um an amazing um thought experiment that Alan wants he conjures up in one of his lectures really amazing honestly so uh mesmerizes you he says that imagine you

he says like imagine you every night as you went to sleep you were to dream and in that dream the dream was to last like let's say 70 80 years in a dream world sense so it's like you're living for 80 and you have complete control over this stream and it's a dream world so you can be whoever you want you can look however you want you can do whatever you want all the power the wealth the women the whatever you want you could do it all in this dream and it's kind of last Line it's gonna

last like it feels real so it's lasting for 70 80 years he said what would happen is you would do all of these things so you would do all these crazy things you know you'd be this celebrity you'd be the Superstar you'd have all these kind of mind-blowing scents like kind of like sense numbing kind of journeys of you know just incessant I don't know pleasures and orgasms and everything and you do all of this and he says and and then every night as you go to sleep you this would happen and he

says and then what would happen is you would come to a point where you would say right okay I want to be surprised like I don't want to fully control my dream now like I want to be a bit surprised like like surprise me with what's gonna happen because you know you you'd 80 years of you in control of everything so you're going to come to a point where you say yeah I want to be a bit surprised now you know like I want to give up some of that control and he said that imagine you could do this forever and ever every night you're

living a lifetime what would happen is eventually you would want to just live this very life that you're living now like it's it's actually it's inevitable you would just eventually say right okay I want because it just becomes meaningless everything else I yeah ah

it's not it's really I mean it's it's a beautiful honestly uh thought experiment yes I don't know yeah it is it is um yeah it's really here's a a question somebody's said Tim M I think that this idea can be extended to the present-day Collective unhappiness being due to constant dopamine responses as a result of short-term Pleasures via

social media Etc your thoughts yeah I kind of agree to some extent that I feel you see the more in this day and age we are constantly um we're engaged so much which isn't like our human selves are not that like we haven't yet evolved we haven't caught up with the technology technology that we've caught up with so it's like it's so new because you know

50 years ago or 100 years ago human beings were like and that that's not that long ago that's like our grandparents time so and now we're like non-stop like we're being engaged engaged dopamine dopamine releases I I honestly try to avoid things like Tick Tock because they're just too goddamn strategically manipulative because they're so Tick Tock is so addictive because it's just it's short enough to just cling you in the thing yeah but also you see what Tick

Tock does it uses part of its algorithm it is genius stuff so part of it is the short clips that catch you and the short clips that catch you they obviously release dopamine sure but then you see what they did is they did psychological experiments where they found that if a person didn't know what was coming next um like let's say you have to guess like you don't know what like there's this box and you don't know what's inside this box you've got to check there's a greater dopamine release that is released like like there's more the

dopaminergic drives are kind of like they Excel so so Tick Tock really uses that formula so you don't know the clips that are going to come afterwards and you can't even you know in Tick Tock it you can't really navigate so easily you like the way let's say you could on Instagram or whatever go back and do this like sometimes you can go back a bit but often when you try to even reopen the same link after a few times you can't even open the same link because the whole algorithm is designed to keep giving you something new

an unexpected so it's not only new you don't expect at all what's going to happen and thereby the dopamine is like and then you're like wow yeah you're like just kind of boss you know it's like you're hooked on so yeah so I I I guess you know sometimes I'll be there I go through some of the Shady pages and stuff you know like the Poetry but then I just like when I when I can I try to always avoid Tick Tock I'll go on the others Instagram other things are tick tocks are so addictive I think this is damaging and I think

especially younger people like after YouTube shorts I really struggle to watch like uh one hour lengthy videos like it become hard to watch like you I couldn't really find the patience to watch like for long like it was never been the case before but after the YouTube shorts have come like it really um yeah making it that way that I couldn't like it's it's really struggling to watch like two hour three hour lengthy conversation yeah true true I'm I'm with you I mean that's

what these things are doing obviously you had some comments there sorry yeah you're breaking up uh is saying is is it okay now yeah that's a lot better yeah yeah sorry I never heard like there's a saying of the Prophet that uh there's a saying of a prophet that died before you die right like what he really trying to mean by

like dying before you die is like it's like I'm the annihilation of the self or yeah because I think so I think this is more a saying of I think it said so it's it's one of them too but it may be attributed to the prophet as well but this thing of die before you die this theme it's found in many places that um I think from Satan Ali there's this other one that anasu Niam uh

that you know people are asleep but when they die they wake up and and it kind of ties into all of this that there is it's as if this world is illusory it's as if it's an illusion and it's it's it's a it's it's a sport this this world is a game and in the game there's all these constructs of some of which we spoke about today these rules there's regulations there's all this stuff but it's just a game

ultimately you know it's it's like a sport and even if it's people take Sports very seriously but still it's just a sport you know it's not and so so it's like you know in football for example well in foreign it's a game and it's a distraction that let's say in football uh at least non-american football but like the rest of the world called football you can't pick up you know the regular players can't pick up the ball with their hands you

know that doesn't mean in the real world these rules apply it's just in the sport and I feel that in in that kind of you know in that vein you see that it is important that when we're in this world to recognize and be a part of the world I don't think cutting yourself off from the world is necessarily uh helpful but it's good to get that realization where you could and part of that

would mean especially when it's this death thing it's that there are certain ways to at least to either encounter or experience or I don't know to flirt with almost like this this this ego death okay it does people do what the mystics in Islam spoke about as fanaa

that you kind of you achieve this concept of annihilation that the ego dissolves and it like for this to be experienced even or at least to be you know slightly at the very least you kind of tantalize but yeah like but but ideally to be tastyard the people of thought that this it is something that is experienced in this Dunya and I think what it does is it then just like it just it's like you have a

different filter you have you see the same things that people see yeah but it's just like you have a different filter on you know people they take a photo and they put different filters on the photos the same photo but it's the filter can change radically how how good the photo looks it's amazing isn't it and in that way these things this kind of though it can it's the same photo you know we're looking at the same Dunya that everybody's looking at but maybe for some people it's like you know and for some people it's ah yeah

you know so I think here you must lie mostly I once saw a microscopic in experiment on the tears of uh like tears of happiness and tears of uh pain wow oh wow like I saw a video like I'm gonna do a video about that sounds that sounds epic because like in that video I saw the microscopic uh experiment on the like scared to yourself happiness like it does uh not really that colorful but the

tears of pain it was like like so colorful like it was just seriously yeah wow it's really true I don't know uh I don't really know but I wanna like make make my belief in that moment just like yeah because it does Define doesn't it it's it defines character it defines things you know look everything I guess everything has to go and you know I'll tell you look you know um not so long ago

I I was quite kind of uh you know like like part of me was grappling with this this whole thing you're aware that I don't know if you are aware that my mum her health hasn't been good yeah yeah been diagnosed with stage four cancer and so seeing some of these things and so they some of the days um this is going a few weeks back it it was it was a bit tough yeah now and it

was kind of on the back of my mind and it was kind of you know person and then like sometimes you're just normal but then maybe there's just a little thing that is done and and it just you know like a little uh mannerism or maybe like my mom just said something one day like just just a little and it just hits you a bit because the helplessness of and you know what one of the days I well let's say you know when you lower your State of Consciousness to a certain or you reach a certain stage of

Consciousness and I I was I was on a I found myself on a certain stage of consciousness and you know the this came to me and it kind of this because it was on the back of my mind anyway this whole thing with my mother and this whole thing and and it kind of all opened up to me and it seriously and this realization like concretely kind of just manifested that look that even like what we think of as pain

or Agony or the these things they're they're not there like that like nothing ultimately like even honestly like what you said from a perspective the the tragedy when as a whole for as a whole of the story it carries the there is beauty even in the tragedy part being an ingredient and the fact that free one of the most you know the most powerful thing that that I I felt in that moment was

that nothing ultimately is except Allah and these things there is no you know our pain our suffering now pain and suffering are two separate things I mean sure you know the the they're strongly related but suffering is the meaning we're giving to something yeah you see people put up with pain when there's a different meaning somebody could have like oh you know they're in the muscle they're putting they were in the gym working out it's hurting them but they're like happy to do it somebody's going through surgery but they're happy because they're going

to come out stronger somebody's people put up with pain suffering is a meaning that we associate with it and I thought you know ultimately look every single person before us has appeared on the stage of this life you know like if this is a stage and we appear in this Dunya in relation to one another like we've been casted like you are somebody's brother somebody's son maybe somebody's father at some point somebody's you know husband like you play these roles with people but before you hundreds of thousands and millions of people have all gone and played their

role and they came and they performed and they went you know it's it's our time and we so you know we're getting so bogged down we're getting so like depressed and yeah yeah you know it's like this is it's life isn't it so everybody's done their part we we do our part and honestly I think yeah you know may Allah shower us with with his grace and with this Enlightenment I mean because it really it frees you you know this is what I was speaking about today the ghosts that haunt us as well because

all this this these thoughts these negativities these people being depressed these these things they need to these things need to go and it goes with this realization it's been epic here uh catching up Allah bless you keep your waist smiling yeah uh I'll wrap up because it's got really later I've got a very early start um foreign

I saw this poem on your uh like it's downstairs on my walls I've had it I had somebody that knew was a calligrapher they they hand wrote they charged me quite a bit many years ago when I I will write for you [Music] of course yeah of course but nowadays I guess people could have them printed but when I had that made it wasn't as easy to get things printed uh like if I can how to switch cameras like

right okay so can you see all right I'm just saying sorry I just saw here some buddy being uh a bit digressing in the comments and being rude uh as being rude too is being rude to you Scorpio and Nora well I've blocked him anyway so that's fine right okay yep sorry USA ashik show start again sorry uh yeah foreign

look at that neat handwriting yeah it's all in it's all in Dhaka people that's are you you're in Dhaka yeah are you in Dhaka yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah with all the with all the goodness and you've looted it all this is it Allah [Laughter]

and he said he would often say you know the beauty of bangkal he would speak about it because part of at that time Bengal was the whole thing and it would be part of Kolkata and the whole thing was as as well and and he had this uh they say I think he saw us this Bengali some some Bengali woman he was really infatuated by and he wrote a bunch of poetry about her as well but one of one of them was uh somebody later on when he's talking somebody once mentions Calcutta they just say and he says a

active he says that you know the fact that you mention uh Calcutta and obviously it's Beauty that's what it means he says it's as though you shot an arrow into my heart and he says hi hi all right so um

[Music] much love um yeah I really invite you see you to come to Bangladesh I I will do inshallah we've got to go explore we gotta see you know God's grace on his green earth Allah right I should take care we'll catch up soon yard much love take care all right people people that was

right as always it's it's always wonderful chatting to him it gets so lost in conversation and get carried away uh guys you know what let's wrap this up uh uh people you have to keep it uh Pleasant in in the comments I think some people came on today that may not be so familiar with the meaning with malm uh episodes I mean this is episode 46 now but um maybe they're used to you know from a few years back Monday nights with this is not that and the whole thing has this

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oh people P.S I forgot uh crew this is the the book Lounge people we've got to do the the book club I will drop on the Discord server reminder let's get it I know it's technically December so let's have that uh uh the book uh the book club Meetup um I'll let you guys know on there but it will be within a few days so it's basically before the end of this entire week we'll we'll kind of set a day so make sure it is finished on

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