a nerd we'll make a line without ears
okay and then he starts again oh what's
that he said that's the main no no make
it a line without of main and these does
it again
what's that it's the stomach he's in her
I don't want to stomach on the line he
said listen even God didn't make a lion
like this actually I can't do anything
for you and Rumi says why he's telling
the story is that this is people on the
spiritual path
he says they want they want without any
work they don't want the pain of
sacrifice of working date they want the
finished product just there for
everybody to see but they don't want to
do any of the work to get there so
historically you know Muslims this I
think what we tend to forget about our
religion is this religion is actually
about getting close to allah subhan
allah tala that that's the point of it
it's literally to get close to Allah and
not only to get close to a lot but to
experience the divine in our lives to
actually experience the presence of the
divine that we're we're in a world that
has angelic beings demonic beings and we
share this space there's angels that
come with believers and there shall
thing that come with with the people of
found us and misdeeds so drawing near to
Allah they're they're basically two
paths you know to getting close to allah
subhanho wa taala
one of them is the path of salvation
which is for common people that's the
path of just the man who came to the
Prophet he said Yasuo Locke if I pray
five times a day if I pay my zakat
if I fast Ramadan if I make the Hajj
will I enter paradise and the prophets
Allah said I'm said yes and there's a
revised said I avoid the Haram is the
prophet said you'll enter paradise and
then he said then
well lied that's all I'm gonna do and he
left and the Prophet said cut off La
Rochelle and in re y he used the
diminutive the little man Maharaja in
sadoc he'll have success if he's
truthful but that is the bare minimum
that's salvation that's somebody who's
getting close to a lot with the bare
minimum those are the people that just
do the bare minimum that they have to do
to get the Paycheck you know there's
jobs that you have and if you just do
the bare minimum you'll get the paycheck
if you do less than that they fire you
right but there's people that's all
they'll do just the bearment and then
there's people that they want promotion
they want to get close to the boss they
want him to like them they want this
this is the way the dunya works though
and that's the path of purification of
just kiya and sanctification and and
getting close to Allah of tuk DS of
drawing near to Allah through extra acts
these are the no acid so you have the
Farah up and then you have the no offal
the more no after you do the closer you
get to Allah but it's predicated on the
floral so if you're not doing the firaon
and then you're wasting your time doing
the northen and one of the signs
according to the people of that science
one of the signs of following hawa of
following your own desires is that you
prefer no afield over for Eyal so there
will be people that it'll stay up all
night and then they'll sleep through
Federer right really there's people that
do that they'll like do dhikr late into
the night that they have go to a mullet
or do something and then they sleep
through Federer
these are people that still be so he
bleeds
that's the way it briefs fools people
and tricks people
so the the the the path of both
salvation and this other way the height
this higher way of really trying to draw
draw near to Allah and and through
serving his own MA
serving his creation sacrificing both of
these are predicated on knowledge the
one that is the way of just the for I
help and doing the bare minimum you have
to have the bare minimum of knowledge
which is called 14 the other way is the
way you have to have the far I mean but
then you also do the key fire you do
extra and our tradition because of the
sophistication and the problems that are
attendant with revelation and in a
tradition emerged in the Islamic ethos
and the tradition emerged in order to
protect revelation from misunderstanding
the early companions Allah blessed those
people with a level of knowledge and
understanding that's unparalleled in our
tradition the first community they they
if you study the history they were
amazing brilliant people but if you look
at the Sahaba there are only a handful
of Sahaba that gave fatwa there called
the MOOC theorem there's only a handful
of Sahaba they gave Fatah fatwa people
like Al Merriman hapa a demon of your
party even a mr. rude or de la Abu
Huraira is not from the MOOC 13 a fatwa
even though he gave had many hadith
narrations he didn't give a lot of
thought to a fact he gave a moderate
amount the coordinated one rewire but
one of the things about the early
community is that they were loath to
give fatwa so if you went to ask one of
the Sahaba
a question they used to say go out
so-and-so
he knows better than me and then they
would go to him
Imam no he writes this in his book on
fatwa and then they would say go to
so-and-so go to so-and-so to go and and
it would go until it came back to the
original person now you have people that
are they jumped to answer and very quick
to give an opinion in my Maddox
tradition they called the fatwa Nazz
allah which means mo Seba and imam malik
if he was asked a question in FIP used
to say in LA he what in na la harad your
own which is what you say when you get
it have a tribulation because basically
a fatwa is a response of a scholar who's
trained and in that response he is
saying it is my belief that this is what
God wants you to do in this situation
that that's essentially what a fast way
is you're saying it's my belief that
this is what God would want you to do
this situation now you get another
person who can give a different fatwa
he'll say it's my belief this is what
God wants you to say and in many many
situations you can have different views
because one God is vast and two
understandings differ so the prophets
lies that I'm actually taught us that
there can be two correct opinions and
sigh and Behati the famous one that the
early scholars use is the one of praying
ah sir the prophesy Asim said told them
not to pray ah sir until they got too
many of Coretta and the group went when
a certain came half of them said it's
time to pray and the other half said no
the Prophet said don't pray until we get
there they said oh he didn't mean that
he meant get there before us are and the
other group said no no he meant that
that we should pray when we get there
and and we shouldn't pray also until we
get there
so they split so one group raid answer
before they got there and the second
group waited they delayed their prayer
when they got there they told the
Prophet what happened he didn't say
you're correct and you're wrong he just
left it at that
they were both correct they both made in
HD HOD there was initially Heidi's
situation and that was it now you have
people that believe there's only one way
in Islam and it just so happens to be
their way but you really we have this
problem that there's only one way in
Islam and it's my understanding the
reason that this happens well not avoid
them in bed Muhammad and Bucky and
Boehner home that they didn't start
differing until knowledge came to them
and they became arrogant with their
knowledge Fakhruddin or Aziza says about
that Buffy and Boehner home he says
about the home and about forgotten how
cool Maria wanted a status Sheikh he
said that it's one group saying oh I'm
right and you're wrong you don't you
don't have anything so knowledge can be
a source of conflict and this is why
Imam al-ghazali in in his the first book
he'd have an in of the yeah he lays the
foundations for a correct understanding
of knowledge what is knowledge what is
it a lot of people don't know what
knowledge is they don't understand the
nature of knowledge that there are
knowledge that are precise and then
there are imprecise knowledge as there
are knowledge that have a lot of
ambiguities in them one of the Aristotle
the great Greek philosopher he said that
it's the mark of an educated mind to
demand precision only to the degree with
which that knowledge allows it so in
mathematics you can get a very precise
answer but in in other Sciences that
answer might not be precise it's just
ambiguous by the very nature of the
subject and one of the greatest problems
with language and the reason why the
modern world loves mathematics so much
and is loath to to really explore
language in the ways that it did in the
past one of the reasons for that is the
ambiguities of language the modern world
doesn't like ambiguities and so
people have lost the sciences that
enable them to communicate with the
least amount of ambiguity because you
have to exhaust language studies and
that's why the Muslims did this and one
of these sciences that this was
predicated on was the science of what
they called mump and and its sister
science was called edible bath when Mona
vara in the West these are called logic
and dialectic logic and dialectic and
from these Sciences and there are
ancillary sciences that go with this
like in mid-water is one of them bailout
a-- is another because but i was
important these became the foundation of
islamic studies in the muslim world
everywhere you went they became the
foundation and all of our scholars right
from this perspective you cannot
understand any of the major works of
Islamic scholarship without
understanding these foundational
sciences that they were working with and
so what I thought I'd do tonight just as
an introduction is read from the opening
of a book which to me it's one of the
most important books in our tradition
because it's the foundation of what's
known as the science of to solve and
increasingly it's become clear to me
that one of the great calamities of the
modern Islamic situation is an idea
somehow that to solve is extraneous to
Islam that it's not part of Islam that
the reality of it is is that it is it's
a central core teaching of Islam which
does not mean that there are not a lot
of problems inherent in to solve just
like there are problems that are
inherent in fifth you have Fahad that go
astray
you have Mata kalamoon that go astray
you also have the so we fed that go
astray so there's just like any other
group and in fact they're more
susceptible because of the nature of
their science to going astray but one of
the things that modern Muslims have done
is that they've thrown the baby out with
the bathwater to use a English idiom in
in in trying to purify our tradition
from all of these innovations and all of
these problems that came into it they've
they completely dismissed this science
and so this book was written by C
deokman's a rope the Great North African
scholar who was from fast
he died in Misurata in Libya but he
wrote a book called Hawaii to solve and
in this book what he wanted to do
because he was a no sulie scholar and
this is called toxiel which is to give
the foundations of something toxiel is
very important in our tradition because
a nanaka lee right
shahe Mardan who dared le imam abdul
tena EG he says that the one
transmitting something has to prove that
it's sound but the one claiming
something has to give his his Delisle
for it
so if you say a Paula Ebben a Masood K
to a kata you you have to prove that
even mr. rude really did say that that's
part of our tradition
so the knockin the one transmitting has
to prove the soundness of his
transmission but the Madani the one
claiming something who's just saying
here's the foundation of this that or
the other he has to give his Delisle to
show why so if you had-even is Tim
bought like where did you get that idea
from well I'm deriving it from the fact
of this this and this and then you make
your argument and these arguments are
done through reasoning and this is why
reasoning is foundational to the human
condition
one of the teachers in Turkey he was a
he was a logician they called a month
opee you know a lot a legit
and he had a student and he taught him
logic and when he finished all these
class because logic is it's not that
difficult
it has abstraction x' that are sometimes
a little complex to grasp but basically
all of you are logicians everybody in
here is a logician unless you're
McAuliffe ugly and you know like
somebody who's just handicapped
intellectually or Majnoon which is
possible also but if you if you are a
sane human being then you are always
reasoning your your eyes are doing it
well or you're doing it poorly but you
are definitely reasoning the heart has
reasons that the head has no knowledge
of but if you fall in love you get
married people say love is irrational
Stephanie got some irrational components
but there's a reason why you get married
there's a reason why most people love
for reasons they fall in love with their
beauty their goodness in fact they say
about the prophets lies to them that the
reason why you learned the Shema hill is
because attraction to the beautiful
qualities of a person is one of the
reasons that love is cultivated so just
reading about him he was very beautiful
he was a very physically a very
beautiful person he was the most
beautiful of men and he was everything
was was was balanced with the Prophet he
had beautiful hair
he had very wavy black hair it wasn't
curly it wasn't straight because
everything about him is balanced so even
his hair was balanced wasn't straight
and it wasn't curly the extremes those
are two extremes of hair you have curly
hair yep straight hair his was right in
the middle of those two extremes he had
wavy hair parted in the middle
it went sometimes to the bottom of the
earlobe sometimes to his shoulders he
had a very very beautiful complexion
they said it was like the moon
and I asked one of my teachers we were
watching a Harvest Moon rise and it was
that beautiful color that's not white
it's off-white it's like a wheat color
and I said is that the color they meant
he said that's the color they meant it's
not because you could let me put um ha
he was not pasty white like the moon
when it's right up on the sky
no he had a reddish tint to his
complexion he had beautiful eyes he had
very very white his whites what they
call ophthalmologists in America called
happy eyes when the yeah very white
he had very very white that the whites
of his eyes were very white and then he
had very striking dark eyes that were
penetrating he had a beautiful aquiline
nose which is an aristocratic nose in in
many many cultures an aquiline nose was
seen as a beautiful nose and one of the
reasons that it's called aquiline is
because it's it's apana in arabic but in
in in english they call aquiline because
it's like the Aquila the eagle an eagle
has a very beautiful I once saw an eagle
perched on a fence outside of my house
and I just watched it for a little while
and I just I realized the eagle
completely is aware that it's an eagle
if you observe an eagle even for a short
amount of time you will see that an
eagle is so aware that it is superior to
every other bird and the way it just it
just looks around like I am Not Afraid
of anybody or anything it's just got
this amazing and so the Arabs love
Eagles and they name their children
after them they're very very noble birds
but they have these beautiful aqua line
beak and the Prophet SAW I said I'm had
a beautiful
forehead and he had very strong he had
broad shoulders is very strong and he
had beautiful he had a very small light
hair that went down and but he wasn't
hairy at all he was his body was very
his skin was did he did not have a lot
of body hair but he had very slight
hair on his on his chest that went down
to his navel very strong legs he had
strong hands he walked in a very
distinct way those are all qualities
that if you studied them you it actually
makes you want to see him you want I
want to see that I want to experience
that and then they described how he
spoke and the mellifluous nature of his
speech it was when people listened to
him they were enraptured and when he
spoke it was like birds perched on their
heads Coliseum FAO it was as if there
were birds perched on their heads they
were just so intent to hear what he had
to say but the reason that they
described that is because that's one of
the reasons that you love a person for
physical beauty and then you love them
also for their character and that's
another reason but the main reason that
people love is because of sin when
people do good to you and that's why I
lost behind with Diana
he's the moissan I mean he's constantly
doing good to us and that should
engender love in you and so love has
reasons there are reasons why we love
it's a rational thing as well and so
anyway this Turkish logician taught this
this man logic which is basically three
things it's it's it's understanding is
the first operation of the mind basic
understanding what they call a what they
call a a solar savage it's a simple
apprehension just understanding
something what it is glass of water and
then the second act of the mind is is
judgment custody or the proposition
making a statement either negating or
asserting something about something so
it needs a subject that a predicate the
mold or and the Mamun and then the last
operation of the mind is PS or reasoning
going from what's known to what's
unknown men and monomi in an image fool
and so he taught him these things and
then he said
I want you to go into the marketplace
spend the day in the marketplace and
come back so he went spent the day in
the mark he finished his cuz he's gonna
give me Jazza and month up right so he
went to the marketplace spent the day in
the marketplace he came back he said how
was your day
said I did what you told me I was in the
marketplace all day he said did you
notice anything said no he said you're
not ready so we need to do this again so
they studied logic second course did it
all understanding judgment reasoning
finished his course so he said to him I
want you to go and spend the day in the
marketplace okay here he goes spends the
day in the marketplace comes back he
said how was your day in the marketplace
all day just like you told me nothing he
said we have to do this again did the
course in logic again went through the
three operations of the mind when he
finished it he said listen I want you to
go the marketplace spend the day in the
marketplace come back he goes spends the
day in the marketplace comes back he
said how was your day he said oh my god
I couldn't believe it they're all
practicing logic cuz that's what that's
what it is the whole world is people
reasoning making understanding basic
things asserting things or negating
things and then making arguments that's
what's going on everywhere you look
that's what's going on come in there's a
discount today all right there's a
discount today so what's going on in the
mind Oh
if I buy today I'm gonna save money
therefore I should buy today right it's
logic the whole thing is predicated on
reasoning and that's what the student
finally got that it
happening all around you and that's one
of the really interesting things about
studying logic is that you begin to
refine that process and are better able
to understand what's being said to you
and better able to communicate what you
want to say to others so I just want to
show you this is the book by CDI module
called co-editor solve and I'm gonna
read to collide and talk about them
quickly and then we're done
the first guy that he says at Kurama
fish a feral tesora mejia t he was Aida
Tuhoe mafia that he be sure and any and
mocked a seaman or battalion
lyosha aleyhi via ferrata Mahakali
rotten wat abullah siren watashi de
Falla symmetry mode Erica and unholy
fihi lemon be he with a hobby then
alayhi wa ma and he met that he value of
him so he says that clam before we can
talk about it
thing in other words before we can do
make judgments about things we have to
understand what the nature of that thing
is
you
so I'll hook moron - am fahren Antasari
this is a Qaeda before you can make a
judgement about a thing you have to
grasp what that
thing is so this is what he's saying
he's saying that akadama fish a 402 so
woody Mejia te it is a branch of
comprehending it's s
since well fati dead t he and and
comprehending what its benefit is be
sure Auden the nyan so this occurs in
the mind
you
tessa been OBD Heon it either occurs
discursively through reflection through
being taught or it's intuitive you just
grasp it immediately so you have
immediate knowledge and then you have
mediated knowledge so immediate
knowledge is - is greater
than one nobody needs to teach you that
a child will understand that but that
one that 2.5 percent in Socata is 140th
that's market Esav that you have to
understand because you need to
understand what fractions are you need
to understand what decimals are and you
need to understand the relationship
between the two so that's a different
type so those are the two types so he's
saying that before we can speak about
something we have to grasp what its
essence is and what his benefit is
through this mentation through this
mental ratiocination would be a big word
for it in the West and then he says in
order
lyosha via ferrata Mahakali these are
all logical concepts so this is called
extension in logic so the a fraud that
this is all those things that it extends
to because you have what's called
comprehension and extension
all right the comprehension is is the
the tussle water or the understanding of
it what it is and then the lima sadoc
and then the the Limassol dock is what
it applies to
right what would it would it apply so
all the things that it applies to an and
B with the Hobley then an e so in order
for you to for it to be understood
through it and also the encouragement to
know its fatty dad to know its benefit
will encourage you to study it what a
manly mad daddy he
and to to be able to articulate its
subject matter and so you should
understand this so here's the beginning
of a book on to solve which is all based
on month up like you cannot understand
this if you haven't studied month up
so here's a this is our tradition if you
read tafseer if you read
peda if you read any of the major
sciences of Islam especially also
landfill you will find that they're all
relying on the the readers understanding
of these most thought a hat and not just
these but several other sciences
especially when you get into the later
scholastic tradition by the time you get
to somebody like an imam
about jewelry he's he's got Binaca going
he's got mom Tucker going he's got
grammar going he's got what that going
it's it's
monster hunter hadith tafseer Osuna
happy de felt suffer hikmah all of these
subjects
as well-versed in and this is how he's
teaching so then he says mariya to share
happy cut to who
the essence of something is its reality
the essence of a thing is its reality to
understand the essence is to understand
the reality right well how can you cut
two who madhulata Leahy Joomla Tahoe and
its reality is what it it's some
summarily means what it means by
summation what it can be summed up into
with charity for that it could be had
and the definition of that is through a
head which is a term in Latin terminus
means the end of something so a term is
is the end of something in Arabic had is
the end of something had douche a part
of a whole our hero
so the the had is the end of something
and so this is Watchmen that's that is
the most comprehensive is a definition
but then you have what's called a rossum
which in Western logic is called a
descriptions so something and and when
we get into I'm just giving you this is
just a you know it's like at the
restaurant when they give you a sample
so don't we're gonna go into this in
detail over the course of the next
couple of weeks inshallah so don't worry
about not getting any of this right now
when when you get a hand or Rustom you
need to know what are called the five
predicate predicate bulls which are the
L father Kamsa right so you have gins
the genus you have the north the species
you have the hosta the diferencia and
then you have the the the the outer
which is like the its you have the
propria is the and then you have the
fossil sorry the fossil which is the
differentiate the hasta which is the
probiem or the property and they have
the arab and some call the those two
types of accidents the adult eliza moon
and then I don't own out of them so
those five things are going to enable
you to give the head the definition or
the description the HUD is is
is the genus and the difference so the
genus is what you can say about a lot of
things the hafsa is what's specific to
that one thing so with a human being
what's our definition traditionally in
in in logic what do they call the human
being what's that
Hyeon not the Conan which in Arabic
means the speaking animal but they
really mean the rational animal in the
West we call it a rational animal so our
genus is rational this is different from
biology because you know they talk about
genus and species so yeah those are
biological terms this is logical terms
there are two different Sciences so
don't get them confused
the GE I mean they're they're related
but they're used very specifically in
these Sciences for different for things
that they mean in that science so that
the the genus is the general and then
the the fossil is the difference so with
the human being we're an animal but many
types of animals so what makes us unique
what's the Fussel what differentiates us
from other animals rationality this is
the definition so this is a logical
definition everything can be defined in
this way and this is the foundation of
defining things because when we speak in
language we want to know what a solid
fit is right what is also load v very
often it's in the thing itself all
Siouxland fit if you understand those
two words then you'll understand what
the definition of all Sunan fit is and
these are called tatty feds right so
this is this is how this works and so he
says well what old ah the the rasam the
description is clear oh tafseer or it
can explain something or tembu leave a
knee or sorta a famiiy and it helps you
understand it quickly
well put the sole see now all of this
was to introduce the definition of
tussle wolf
all of this so he's giving you now he's
told you before we can talk about
something we have to define it
what's its definition it's it's reality
what is the reality of Tessa Wolfe
well the tasawwuf Oh
LaRue Seema well for Serie B will do him
Tessa wolf has been defined it's been
described and it's been explained in
many many different ways tab local now
ll feign it will reach up to about 2000
different definitions merger aku Neha is
sitteth ilaha illa-llah Tana all of
those definitions go back to one
fundamental meaning sincerity in your
God directedness it's sincerity in your
inner direction towards your Lord that's
the definition what in the mahir will do
and fie he will honor so what does that
mean what it means is the genus of Toso
wolf is if loss that's the genus it's
sincerity but the difference because you
can be sincere as a doctor you're
sincere like you say he's a very sincere
doctor just means he doesn't cheat you
he's doing what should be done right so
that's the genus sincerity applies to
many many different things he's a
sincere student he's a sincere son we
can apply that to me but what is the
difference
what's the Fussell it's sincerity in
your directedness towards God in those
things that apply
to your Lord so you are sincere in your
ebody you're sincere in your more I'm
glad for the sake of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala that's that's all and that's why
you can be a Sufi and and and be like
have nothing to do with that word
there's people in in places that they
might even not even like to solve then
what I mean they do with it but they
have sits back toward you to a loss of a
note down and in that way they have to
solve so the name is just a name what's
the reality of the name if you're stuck
on the name you're a nominalist the name
is just a name whether you call it a
soul Fortis kia ora floss or Mahara
Pajaro to nufs right whatever you call
it it doesn't matter those are names the
Muslims for centuries called it - so
wolf there's no reason to abandon that
name really there's no reason there's
people that have tried to get rid of it
but there's no reason to abandon it once
you clarify what it is and the early the
earliest Sufis Imam al Junaid said no
one can speak about this matter that
hasn't mastered the book and the Sunna
that's what Imam Junaid said a moment to
study said I hear things about this
matter but I always go to to just
witnesses to hear their testimony the
book and the Sunna and this is why
Caesar Rock says the Sufi has to submit
to the FUP II and the doesn't
have to submit to the Sufi if you're
tasawwuf is not in accord and not some
narrow-minded provincial Fuffy who only
has one way of doing thing no to the
broad based interpretive tradition of
the folk aha which includes the
methodology of the great Imams of this
Ummah so there's Imams that say that you
can do the Mawlid and that's the
majority of the laters
there's really moms that say no don't do
that that's fine it's a real F issue if
you don't want to do it that's fine but
if you do do it it has to be free of
things that are moon cut out but to say
it in and of itself is a moon car no
because higher to my yoga Rehema crew
arrived to my yoga the worse that can be
said about it is that it's macro
according to the Aruna map but to say
that it's prohibited or something like
that and that's an extreme position that
very few scholars ever took so anyway
that that's my introduction so in
childhood tomorrow I'm going to start
with the Tenma body which our foundation
on our tradition what are called the my
body and I shot in the could in the my
body could defendant Azshara and had the
one more daughter in math Amara father
who nice for tomorrow are there or
dismissed and dad or hookman sharing
massage in mobile doable Bartok tefa
moment Daryl Jimmy has a share of a Imam
of Seban one of the great 18th century
scholars versified the Tenma body in
that it's in your book and then I
versified it for you in English if you
want to memorize it in English so those
are the 10 my body I'm gonna do those
tomorrow and shawl and that's usually
that was the introduction to any Islamic
science always began with this it begins
from an early period they started doing
this and the reason for it was to give
the student a comprehensive view of the
subject be