certain any sort of nonsense can go
through one's head because also knots
actually projected through there even
through the overt media so if we are not
able to analyze it and dismiss it and
understand it's real and from at least
we can refrain from speaking about it
and acting on it and thereby promoting
the actualization of insidious
suggestion so ignoring see consider your
suggestion I think is one over one of
the best suggestions the prophet has for
us today
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well let me just conclude with a few
general remarks this has to do with the
place of religion and everyday life and
the melding of religion in everyday life
again going back to the first statement
I read about the the idea of
reintroducing the sense of the holy now
in the Quran it says there isn't a
there's to be no compulsion in religion
there is to be no compulsion in religion
I realized that this is not the image of
Islam that is commonly projected in the
West I think that one reason for this is
because religion in general not just
Islam but but religion in general here
is often associated with compulsion and
compulsiveness hardly I think this might
have to do with the history of this
country and the reason why lots of the
people originally came here had to do
with religious persecution which
unfortunately and continue at once may
not onto these shores but I think that
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fanaticism compulsiveness in religion as
in anything actually tend to alienate
and alienate an individual from other
people and of course the group from the
larger body society and you can
contaminate the individual from his own
real nature I believe so it says in the
Quran 2x tests in your religion the
Prophet said to his companion Abdullah
have I not been informed that you fast
all day and stand in prayer online
Abdullah replied yes o Messenger of God
the Prophet said don't do that fast then
eat and drink stand in prayer then sleep
for your body has a right over you and
your wife has a right over you and your
guest has a right over you
and I can't think of any better way to
end and by quoting them from the ending
of the my second chapter of the Quran
which again illustrates I think this
attitude that religion is supposed to
uplift us not intimidate us and
terrorizes the Quran says God does not
compel a soul to do what is beyond its
capacity it gets what it has earned and
is responsible for what it deserves our
Lord please do not punish us if we
forget or we errant and please our Lord
do not place on us a burden like that
you put on those before us and please
our Lord and do not make us carry that
for which we lack the strength and
please grant us pardon give us every on
us you know Peter helps against time
great now if from the audience
this will be the time and bring them up
please come to the mic if you will
oh well I guess we all have enough to
think about tonight
that's good we don't really have to do
this ritual
oh please step up to the mark what I
would like to hear you talk about own
bit well the relationship of women in
the society I understand that when
they're not allowing them all that true
and it's not do they have any formal
formal place or rituals and all that to
worship or whatever and then
particularly what is their relationship
in society women okay well the first I
can quote the proper thing if your wife
wants to go to the mosque don't prevent
her so it's any wives are prevented from
going to the mosques that's on their off
their husbands have to answer the proper
for that and it is going record also the
positive set aside time special times
for the women to talk with him I didn't
talk a lot about the issue of women in
society we're staying for a couple of
reasons it's one of those actually it's
one of the areas that is clouded with
lots of prejudice in Western society and
some of these prejudices are actually
quite ugly one thing is that this fire
if I do think about that but women
attended here on that evening precisely
able to evolve every get 7 million new
opener on this is it among it's about
within 4 or 3 also says in the words of
God I certainly do not overlook the work
of any worker among a male or female it
seems to suggest right of women to work
in society
I read in a interesting book by a
contemporary young writer on this
particular subject who said that the
there are a minority a song from women
who have objections to traditional role
in society his estimation of this is
that it's because the men are I'm going
to be men so I'd rather I'd like to
conclude this with this by saying that I
can be I think that in song talk to
learn from this long just to start with
on this one is that can't even really
see all of the place with one gender
delay because that isn't the way society
really is mmm how can talk about the
place of anybody in society and as we
talk about it relates that people those
other people in society so I think are
the real thing for us to ask ourselves
is how we normal to each other and if
there's any weekend or how can we event
so to me that is what you were there's a
lot about a lot of things written on
this specific issue issue in so called
women's issue but I think really if the
real issue is a couple vision actually
how many when you get along with each
other I thought of that I don't see
where where there is any discussion
frankly speaking no place for men and
women in society well sorry that I know
that was not terribly no what was that -
mother you got too harsh
anyone else you talk about the
historical interpretation of jihad and
then maybe what the practical value of
it is it's an islamic spirituality and
maybe how we could apply it out here
and understand the Islam better okay so
has me struggle okay oh this actually
brings up an interesting answer to the
soma question for women that's actually
saying for women's you have this taken
care of her husband I think that's
really true that's the prophetic general
statement yeah
now I think there's quite a lot to that
station let's think about that a little
bit um but I won't go further for me
I'll let y'all meditate on that one yeah
one of my favorite sayings of the
Prophet on this subject is we've
returned from the lesser struggle to the
greatest struggle and the left the
struggle is the struggle against an
enemies of truth
you know when over it attempts to
destroy the innocence and truthfulness
struggling against that is yeah that's
the lesser struggle the greatest
struggle is struggling against one's own
egotism so now I know what we certainly
yeah we have discussions about this in
our civilization here and I think we
definitely do need a more extensive
jihad against our own ignorance and
willfulness or any well okay very good
thank you very much