argument and our scholars dealt with
this argument extensively but people
don't read their books anymore
and one of the simplistic views of some
of these modern Muslims that deny the
ology and the tradition of theology they
have no response to these new atheists
they have no response other than to say
ku fog but this is not enough because
Muslims have always dealt with these
things intellectually in a tradition
called the shubo hat which is refutation
above the amputations that are brought
out by the atheist so it's important for
us
to remember that that we were created to
adore allah subhana wa ta'ala to know
him through modify and this is through
the intellect
first and foremost and our intellect is
a spiritual concept the intellect is
immaterial it's not of this world and
this is why we don't know where we go
when we dream but we know that we leave
this place and we enter into another
realm because we're in a realm that's
immaterial so this is important for us
to remember that now as as our young
people are exposed to a lot of these
ideas we need to address these ideas in
sophisticated ways we if we don't have
trained intellects that can address
these problems metaphysically the second
thing that I wanted to talk about so in
terms of our tradition the human purpose
is cultivation of the earth which is
also true civilization not a pseudo
civilization not the civilization of
monetization to use a word that is very
popular in corporations of how we
monetize everything Muslims did not
monetize everything there were things
that Muslims actually did for altruistic
purposes now the dominant belief if you
believe in evolution you believe in The
Selfish Gene that everything a human
being does is for his selfish nature
that people are not altruistic this is
not true this is a lie
this is one of the lies that they teach
human beings have a dual nature we're in
the feasts and one manifests we are
precious but we're also and manifest we
relieve people of their troubles but
we're also manifest we're competitive by
nature all of this is taken from the
same root of the soul so the human saw
has monetha it has competition it has
ten feasts it has relieving the
sufferings of others and helping others
and it has Natasha
it has preciousness this is the human
nature Allah has made us a hybrid
creature we have three components we
have the Porsche hanya bow-wow ba-ba-ba
and the
Kalea this is what an imam al-ghazali
adds a fourth and he's unique in human
history as far as I can tell for
departing from that traditional model he
added the the the just the pawa add
video or balance that balance was a
necessary Faculty of the soul these
three faculties if you look at the
appetites human appetites the human
opposite appetite is insatiable the
prophet sallallaahu said i'm said that
lo can in low canon ribbony adam how low
can you leave me Adam what if if the son
of Adam had a valley of gold
Minda Abin la ba la dia na ha oh ha ha
bah Anakin Allahabad eonni he would want
to mountain to valleys of gold and he
said Lenya Lenya ma who in the Torah or
Allah - ah palpably the only thing that
will fulfill that will fill the mouth of
the son of Adam is the dust of his grave
that's what will fulfill so that
appetites are endless and that's why
people that pursue the appetites will
literally destroy themselves through
that pursuit and they will degrade
themselves because they will take their
Hawara
their appetite as a God beside Allah and
it will take them to utter despair and
this happens many many people the second
aspect of the human being is the hubbub
ayah which is the irascible nature human
beings have an irascible nature this is
put there for a purpose just like the
appetites are put there to preserve us
we have an appetite for food and drink
which preserves our bodies and also for
sexuality which preserves our species
but these can be perverted and they can
go into perversions that lead to
overeating or sexual incontinence where
people begin to do things that are
harmful that cause diseases to be
brought upon themselves and then the
irascible nature this Omaha Libya which
is
where anger comes from this is there to
protect us from harm to ward off harm
and and and this is an important quality
and then he's given us a rationale the
alia and this should be the ruler this
should rule but what's happened on our
planet is the appetites and the anger
have ruled and this is what the Prophet
said dubba alaikum that Oman the the the
disease of civilizations will creep into
you pathetic woman has to do what
bah-bah-bah that Envy the appetite for
more and Baba hatred which comes out of
this other these will creep into you and
then he said well bah bah bah oh he'll
Hallie paw and hatred is a destructive
force and he said it it literally shaves
everything and he said I don't say that
it shaves hair it shaves the religion it
will remove your religion this hatred
and you can see this now in amongst
Muslims where this disease has entered
into their hearts they no longer have
mercy they no longer have compassion
they take innocent people and and chop
their heads off out of this anger and
then they say well this is what they do
it to us but they're not our teachers
they're not our teachers no matter what
they do to us we don't do what goes
against our Prophet SAW lies to them let
alone who can Adina Adele Musa don't be
like those who harmed Musa in other
words don't harm the Prophet Mohammed
Salim bhai besmirching his good name by
attributing deeds that are not from his
religion to his religion don't disperse
the besmirch the name of the prophet
muhammad's allah azza wa ma arsalnaka
illa rahmatan that al-amin he was sent
as a mercy to all the worlds he was sent
as a mercy he wasn't sent as a terror he
was sent as a mercy to all the world and
these people miss quote the Quran the
Prophet Allah said I'm said at the end
of time there would be young men he said
as man they're young in age soo Fahad
they have empty intellects lay at the
jail was an Amana Hannity row home a man
will not go past their throats and in a
rewire yappari owner quran well i at a
johanna your own they will read the
quran but it won't go beyond their
throats in other words they won't
understand it
Yakub lunamon heylia founded barrier
they will speak from the words of the
best of creation william raccoon a
minute islam come I am quorum young
salmon min Romney they will they will be
shut out of Islam just like an arrow is
shot from its bow and he said in a in a
sahih wire he said whoever can kill them
let him kill them because in killing
them is a reward from Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala this is the situation that we
find ourselves in everywhere there's
fittin the prophet said set hakuna death
was it a noon well for cotton but
telephone there will be events momentous
events there will be tribulations and
civil strife there will be sectarianism
there will be differences and he said
for in Kanaka darica eNOS Tabata and
tycoon and Mac toodle cot alpha fan if
you're able to be the one being killed
instead of the one killing them do that
in fitna what is the point what is the
mad and all this madness that's going on
human beings that have lived for
centuries together suddenly they're
being driven from their homes look at
all the people fleeing and you're lucky
in in in and we believe in luck houses
is is is is a blessing because how God
gives it to whom he pleases health is
something that I've got God gives to
some and deprives others you are very
fortunate in Malaysia because you have
been blessed with relative security
nothing is secure in this dunya I am
into Memphis Somalia so that you come at
all do you feel so secure that God won't
open the earth and swallow you up and we
know about sinkholes now which is a sign
of the end of time cuts for Mama's home
prophet said that there will be
sinkholes swallowing people up so you
shouldn't feel so secure but you have
relative security this is a blessing the
way you protect the blessing is
obedience if you're outside of obedience
you lose your blessings Malaysia has you
have the blessing of a uniformity of
faith I just came from Turkey it's one
of the few countries where you go into
messages and they pray the same way it's
a great blessing to have uniformity of
faith this is the way that they used to
be in North African countries when I
first went 30 years ago people prayed
the same way now that everybody prays
different ways because all these
different factions and ideologies have
come in and people read the Hadees
directly and they think they can derive
the Hadees just by oh I follow Quran and
Sunnah brother as if Imam Shafi didn't
follow the Quran and Sunnah did you go
and study 17 years did you go and study
17 years the Arabic language to follow
the Quran and Sunnah like Imam Shafi
Imam Shafi he went 17 years he was
amassing he was one of the greatest
scholars of the Arabic language that's
why he was able to write his great book
in a super thick because a solid step is
based on language it's based on
understanding the nuances of language
and what the BA is in in in in wiping
your head buta Lucy Coe what is that bad
what type of bat is that is it Tobiah
is it is it for zyada what is it this is
the debates of the Fatah ha
there are many Hadees you have to know
what Minh means there are many types of
men in the Quran Wynonna zero minute
operon that's mineral by an Allah super
Hanna the Prophet SAW Allah he sent him
said man sama Ramadan Watts palace in 10
min show on the Sherriff theory said
that's men from the gibreel
in other words six days of Shia Imam
Malik said no it's men and if tada it's
the it's the initiative men in other
words it means beginning and show al you
can do it in any other month before the
next Ramadan comes these are valid he
not bad but who knows these things
who studies ammonia ammonia Labib of
Ebony shaman masters that book before
they can talk about this in the hadith
the Prophet Sawa - in a hint in the sahi
collection Hin comes to the Prophet SAW
by him and says to the Prophet that Abu
Sufyan withholds money from me and the
Prophet said holy moly heap in my roof
take from his money in what's the the
norm of your people in other words for
your socio-economic class take the money
that you need and that means without his
knowledge
the lunamon differ on that some said he
was because any hadith the Prophet is
acting as a body as a judge or he's
acting as a Mufti giving a legal
position or he's acting as a hakham as a
ruler or he's acting as a malenda just
giving or he's acting as NASA he's
giving wow these are determined through
a solid fill and the OU sunni scholars
differ about these things now every
ignoramus every time taken Abdullah
picks up the the Quran and picks up the
hadith and they say whom region region
they're men and were men we followed the
book and the Sunna as if malik didn't
follow the book and the Sunna Imam Shafi
said either the current ruler
mathematical measure if you mentioned
the anima mannix the star the prophet
predicted imam malik abu hanifa and Imam
Shah Suri and Anna rewire ammama but all
of them were mentioned by ishara
in in the Hadees literature or anima
agreed on these for the Sunni scholars
agreed on these four without synods
without counsels nothing our Quran is
one book we have no other book when you
heard this party reciting he learned the
seven Quran if you go to Morocco they
recite with rewrite wash and NASA if you
go to Libya they recite with Ilona and
NASA if you go to Iran they recite have
fun awesome if you go to Malaysia house
on awesome they're all sound rewire how
did they all agree on these because of
is net all of them came from the same
source no other religion has a unified
book no other religion the Christians
differ on the Bible the Jews differ on
their Bible
Buddhists differ on their their
scriptures the Hindus differ on their
scriptures no tradition accept Islam has
a unified scripture not only that we
recite it the same way if you're in
Malaysia you learn the Maharaja the roof
are the same as they are in America if I
teach Maharaja the roof the whole roof
will help are the same ones you teach
the same ones how do feel Joe far the
same ones
how do they listen how do all of them
are the same that hey Shyam it's the
same how is that possible
how because all of them came from the
same source no other religion has the
unity of this religion if you go to
Mecca and Medina and you go into the
Masjid at market of time you will have
an e bar be next to you you will have a
sheet in next to you you will have a
Hanafy a Mauna Kea Shafi you'll have as
a D all of these different groups and
yet they all pray three Rockets they
stand they go into ruku they exam back
up they go into sajda
some of them might move their finger
some of them might keep it flat some of
them might put their hands here some
might put it here some might put it here
but the prayer is the same no other
religion has that uniformity and there
are people that are coming into your
country that are starting to confuse
your people about your religion you have
a good solid foundation the people you
know people that spread Islam in this
country they knew Islam if they didn't
know his thumb you would have never
accepted Islam and the thing about a lot
of these modern people people flee from
them you look at all the people fleeing
from the cities in Iraq when they come
into town people run away and the law
says in the Quran Fatima Ahmed terminal
my heel into the home it's a mercy from
Allah that you were gentle with them
welcome to full on honey the LV Ellen
full boom in Hanukkah and if you were
harsh and hard-hearted they would have
fled from around you and this is a proof
that these people had nothing to do with
the way of the Prophet Muhammad's a lot
ISM nothing at all nothing whatsoever to
do because his way is a way that brings
people in in unites people it makes tell
Eve Allah super Hannah now I'm
them up in RT man left of a NAPA Newby
him what a canal AHA and lava bein okuru
be him Allah will unite the hearts if
you follow the Prophet fell yeah here in
ladino Haruna and Umrah he but woe unto
you if you go against his way if you go
against his way I'm to see boom fits in
atone they will be afflicted with a fits
in a horrible tribulation or either want
aleem or a painful chastisement and his
way is the way of the in the son of a
Sadiq not how people interpreted today
know the prophets Allah lightest him his
Aruna man were rightly guided
he said yea middle had an end mikuni -
rue du Loup whoo yeah whoo Nana - ah
ding once he hadn't moved it in with
that real Janine this religion is
carried in each generation by just and
upright people they will negate yen foo
now I know they will negate the
extremists and they will negate the
decontextualize errs the people that
take his religion out of context and
they will negate the the the
interpretations of the ignorant ones
those are the dual are the people have
scented the people that took from the
people that took from the people that
took back to the prophets Alliance and
this is our tradition and this is the
tradition that was in Malaysia and so
I'm warning you as people I am warning
you I am a Warner and I'm telling you
because the properties Bashir and nadir
and his people should be people of
Bashara and people of Nevada they should
give good news
but they should also warn people if you
allow these seditious teachings into
this country you will see factionalism
you will see sectarianism you will see
your houses divided you will see
religion become a source of fitna and
tribulation you are Shafi this is your
tradition your Activa is a sound a PITA
and you believe in two skia this is your
tradition hold to your tradition and
don't let people pervert your tradition
and all traditions need reassessing this
is the job of the scholars you have to
reassess things always there's TV you
need renovation things get in that maybe
should not be in that's true all that is
true but don't let that be an excuse to
throw the baby out with the bathwater no
don't let that be an excuse this is my
warning to you because you're the people
of Malaysia are good people generally
everybody has bad people and all of us
have some some bad qualities in us but
generally that I've been here three
times I'm amazed at the kindness of your
people I'm amazed at their
thoughtfulness I'm amazed at your add up
I'm amazed at your gentleness well I I'm
telling you the truth I'm and you still
have smiles on your face despite what's
happening in the world you hold on to
what you have hold on to the love in
your hearts this religion is about
loving each other in the medmont monona
aqua the the movements are brothers and
sisters were in solidarity and anyone
that wants to so division and strife be
reminded of what imam ali said aljahmeir
to massif wa Maluku Dora
Hiram men El Fattah man a Massif wa that
the group with its impurities is better
than the sect or sectarianism with its
purity did you hear that the group with
its impurities is better than
sectarianism with its purity so one to
those people that tell you that we're
following the the Panaji that were the
only people that are rightly guided all
these people are astray no
these are Muslims they say Lenehan Allah
Muhammad Rasul Allah they deserve
dignity they deserve their honor some of
them are astray at Hanukkah Ramadan
se-yeon hassanover ofrece yeah they mix
good and bad that's true
Allah says surah al kitab and ladina of
afina many budino we have given this
book to those we have chosen from our
people from our servants Furman who
amongst them very mundane FCE he's wrong
in himself he's still Mustafa Allah spa
Fajo he is still from the chosen men
whom Wadi Meninas woman who mocked us
hidden woman whom sat upon bare Herat be
is in Allah and amongst them are the out
strippers all of them are from this
Ummah and we should love all of them and
care about all of them and have rahman
our hearts for them and want to see them
make tawba and now in conclusion
towba if you look at this planet
everywhere you look we have strife
everywhere you look we're seeing
environmental degradation you're a fish
people you you historically Malaysia has
has lived on fish
we've lost 80 to 90 percent of the fish
in the oceans that people eat 80 to 90
percent the fish have been completely
depleted from the ocean there's us us
the foremost expert on jellyfish lives
nearby in new zealand nearby relative to
where i'm from
she did her PhD at UC berkeley and she
wrote a book called bloom about the
jellyfish that are taking over the ocean
the jellyfish are now taking over the
oceans jellyfish are spineless mindless
they have no brain and they have no
spinal course and and their consumers
they just eat plankton they're taking
over the ocean because this is the ocean
is metaphysically representative of
human consciousness and this is what's
happened to the human being we have
become spineless mindless consumers like
jellyfish we're like jellyfish and just
as
the jellyfish are taking over the oceans
the spineless mindless consumption is
taking over the ocean of consciousness
people now without thinking they consume
they don't think about future
generations all of this all of this
that's happening on the planet it can't
go on
you cannot keep producing the garbage
that you're producing we cannot keep
consuming at the levels we're consuming
if people consume at the level of the
average American around the globe we
will need three Earth's to supply all
the goods we represent five percent of
the population we consume over twenty
percent of the world's natural resources
we are mobile Jeanine and Allah says in
and mobile arena counter wanna shell
pain that those who are extravagant are
like brethren to the demons they're like
brethren to the demons we should be
turning away from this fortunately we
have people in the United States that
are speaking out against this
consciously we have people that are now
where I come from we have people that
are downsizing that are going to small
houses that are getting off the grid we
have people going back to simple farming
techniques because they realize this is
untenable it can't continue on but
they're not enough and this is why
you've here in Malaysia you have to
think all of this affects all of us
we're a global community the part and
the whole cannot be separate anymore and
those that are polluting in one place
the pollution is affecting others in
other places we have now radiation has
affected us we know that the Fukien what
happened in Japan it's affected us the
radiation is levels of increase there's
a massive the size of Texas there's a
garbage pit in the middle of the Pacific
Ocean between you and my country is a
massive garbage pit the size of Texas
this is what we're doing to the planet
Allah says the herald facade Oh Phil
Baroni well bury bamako Sabbath Eden s
the you the poem bag on the emiru
landowners your own and this is in Sura
Turin
in the in the chapter called the
Europeans that corruption has manifests
on the land and in the ocean because of
what humans are doing with their own
hands and a lot allows that to happen do
you the poem in order to let them taste
the harm of what they were doing that
perhaps they might make Toba that
perhaps they might turn to God we have
problems all over the planet we need a
global Toba we need people to turn back
to a loss of Hannah Montana we need
people to understand we cannot continue
we have children I have children I think
about my children's future I think about
the world that they're going to inherit
but not just my children I think about
children all over the world I travel all
over the world and I see education
levels in Africa are abysmal education
levels in Ferguson America in Missouri
are abysmal that there are there are
people that are neglected simply because
of the color of their skin there are
people that are neglected because they
don't have that socioeconomic status
these things are wrong and we need to
work as a community the Muslims should
be sure had that an S we should be the
witnesses unto humanity we should be the
ones showing the world
that's what allah subhanhu wa tada
quantum hydrometer Aquajet Vanessa you
are the best OMA that came out for
humanity not for yourselves
he didn't say quantum hair omitted
origin liam Fujiko he said the mask for
Humanity why because you enjoying what's
right you forbid what's wrong you
condemned vice when you see it and you
believe in allah subhanho wa tada this
is the function of our community we
should be condemning what's wrong we
should be encouraging what's right but
the prophets all the lights have warned
us he said man to me the Mirage Adina
come what Sufi could be man
well the Hara to Xena was sheriffin
Bunyan he said what are you he used mad
he didn't even say man who are you he
said what are you if your religion
becomes confused and you start shedding
blood and you your luxurious and you
manifest all your luxury and your
buildings become exceedingly tall what
are you man - are you fulfilling your
purpose this plan
NEADS global Tova there was a time in my
country in the United States where the
presidents used to tell people when they
had difficulties to fast they had days
of fasting that were actually national
days of fasting in the nineteenth
century where they told everybody to
fast and to ask God forgiveness this is
a United States of America it's no
longer a Christian country we don't even
know what it is I don't know what's
happened to my country all I noticed
when I was a kid
nobody had tattoos now everybody has
tattoos when I was a kid everybody got
married now people don't get married
other than homosexuals like nobody gets
married the only people that want to get
married are the people that used to not
want to get married
Annie Leibowitz brilliant writer from
New York Annie Leibovitz
was asked about that she's a lesbian she
was asked about she said when I was
young that's why you were a lesbian so
you didn't have to get married and she
said or you said you were a homosexual
just to get out of the army he said now
that's what everybody wants to do so I
don't know what's happened to my country
it's changed a lot and you're going to
get the same diseases in this country
you will get the same thing if you allow
these things in without thinking about
what you have your families will break
down you'll start building old folks
homes instead of taking care of your
parents you'll just put them in to let a
caretaker take care of them this is
already happening in some Muslim
countries this is what happens because
the Western civilization is a package
deal don't think you could just take
part of it Arnold Toynbee said it
doesn't work like that you get the whole
thing and that's why you you you're a
creative people you need to be more
creative really you need to be more
creative you need to think about
Malaysia being a model country you're
one of the best Muslim countries there
there's a few Muslim countries on this
earth that that I go to and I I think
and I'm do that there's there's some
Muslims that are actually normal and
they're funky
and Malaysia is one of them and may
Allah bless you and keep that will lion
may Allah bless you and keep that so
Imam and Noah we in his in his famous
book called really sorry mean he has an
introduction the first Bab is applause
that's the first chapter is sincerity we
need sincerity but the second chapter is
Toba we need a sincere Toba to belittle
aji Yemen you know turn all of you
together back to allah subhanaw taala
the Prophet said a stop few durable
convenience tough little ma Sabrina Mara
as forgiveness of your lord because I
asked forgiveness every day at least 70
times the prophet who was sinless he had
no sin and yet he's asking forgiveness
of our Lord we need to ask forgiveness
Allah the Prophet SAW I sent him told us
he gave all the diseases of the world in
his final address he said that the blood
of jahiliya is over there's no more
revenge in my religion and he's the
first blood he put down with Robbie
right
even at hadith then I've been a part of
his own family so if anybody was going
to take vengeance it would have been his
family he said no and then he said so
this jihad Lee hatred it has to end and
in our tradition we have the ability and
dr. Elahi who's one of your Muftis here
will confirm this the prophets all I
said I'm said that it was permitted for
a Muslim to give security to anybody he
can give security to people but these
people don't know the Sunnah of the
Prophet if we give security then they're
supposed to honor that and let those
people go they don't do that anymore
because they don't know the Sunnah this
woman who went on television on YouTube
to speak to these people that are
holding her son hostage she had a better
understanding of Islam as a non-muslim
than these people in in Iraq had she
said I studied your religion and your
religion says that one soul is not held
to account for what other Souls do
that's a zero a zero to Mesirow ultra
and she said my son's not responsible
for what American foreign policy does
and then she said and then I read that
your Prophet Muhammad he had amnesty and
he and he forgave people so I'm asking
for my son back she said I just want to
hug him
now that's one woman and I know that
Muslims have untold suffering I know
that if you look at what's happened to
the Iraqi Muslims at the hands of these
people it's worse than all of the
Christians but they only talk about the
Christians I'm aware of that I'm very
aware of that and it should all stop but
for me the most important thing in this
religion is the preservation of the
honor of our prophet sala de san em when
we harm each other that's what we do
amongst ourselves but when we harm
peoples from other religions and other
cultures it harms our religion it harms
our religion and that's why it's so
odious to me all of it is bad what the
Jews in Israel have done to the
Palestinians is is heinous and
condemnable it's heinous and condemnable
but what muslims who claim to be muslims
are doing to people in these places is
to me more heinous because when it
Israeli attacks a Muslim it doesn't
affect the religion of Islam but when
these people attack innocent people
it makes our prophet people think that
his religion was a cruel religion and I
want to end with a quote by Amir on the
father of Josiah one of the great
Muslims of the 19th century who died in
1883 he said when we think how few men
of real religion there are how small the
numbers of defenders and champions of
the truth when one sees ignorant persons
imagining that the principles of Islam
are hardness severity extravagance and
barbarity it is time to repeat these
words Sabra and Jamil Ilan Mazda and
beautiful patients and our help is with
God does our Kamala Harris in America