SMIL r-rahim wa salatu was-salam wanna
shut up an MDI one more sitting by the
eddy here I even offer him also have the
teehee on until they are only axon and
EDA unit Dean what October to do nothing
hum Dillard's about the hot dogs I had a
friend who came from Persia and he
arrived in London and he was going to
study there and so on Englishman picked
him up part of the university and he
told him he was hungry so he said oh you
have to come I know this place that has
the best hot dogs and he said my dear
friend in my country we neither eat dogs
hot nor cold
now I had that Englishman taken the
advice he wouldn't be susceptible to
what they now call mad cows disease
although we didn't need any scientific
studies to prove about the madness of
the beef eaters so but that's a that's
one of the nice things about difference
of opinion if you tend to follow the
more strict one you rarely get in
trouble so about eating beef in this
culture I for me it's not an issue of
halal or Haram it's really an issue of
Ayub or hadith which is pure and impure
because if you notice in the Quran when
Allah mentions haedong he always says
had Adam by a bet that follows haddad
which means how not just how / missed
ball but a year which means pure and one
of the Quranic injunctions is to look
for escapa amma in solitude calf the
purest of food so what you you know
build your cells within your bodies is
based on the food in fact there's a
twentieth-century naturopath in the
United States that coined the term you
are what you eat but in fact if you look
even IML josiya him wallah actually said
one of the reasons that it is prohibited
to eat the move Teddy sets meaning those
animals that that as what do they call
them carnivorous animals you know but
most eros is more than carnivorous it
means like something that really attack
other animals the hunter animals and he
said the reason is is because you don't
want to take on the qualities of that
animal and and so he had an
understanding that you know that what
you eat that's why the muslims
traditionally ate lamb because they're
gentle creatures they're not they're
humble and the Prophet this is a fact
the Prophet SAW lyceum said the people
who
who have camels are tend to be arrogant
people that that's true it's in a Hadees
sound happy they tend to be arrogant
people and the people that have Lam tend
to be gentle people and this is lamb and
goats
the early all of the prophets have
looked after lamb and goat because it
teaches that gentle quality in
characteristic what doesn't mean which
washing right gentleness is not
wishy-washy in other words there's a
time for Jib and harshness when the wolf
comes the Shepherd doesn't act like a
sheep right he acts like a wolf and
devours the wolf before the wolf devours
him or his flock so there's a time for
both but the dominant characteristic of
the prophets Eliza miss Rama not either
although he also has a quality that is
hidden or that seriousness that
necessitates at times severity I just
want to say about the some of the things
that I wanted to cover were covered by
chef Jemil
before me but just generally about the
Islamic intellectual heritage I think
the first thing there is a modern
concept or an idea that I've noticed
that some people have that Islam is
somehow a simple religion that it's
presented as this simplistic what guy
eaten in the destiny of man calls the
boyscout religion and I think that
that's a great disservice to the
tradition of Islam because the Quran
actually directs the message to what are
called allah al bab the people of
innermost core Lube is depth lube is the
thing that is the innermost thing of a
fruit the lube is the inner most and so
the people who the quran really is
speaking to are the people that have
depth that have innermost core now there
is a hadith that says hadouken watanabe
own that the people of Tonopah are
destroyed that happy is sometimes
translated as those who delve too deeply
into matters get destroyed which is
really a disservice to that hadith
because the Hadees is actually talking
about the Rabbinical deviation which is
to go into great detail about matters to
the point where you get lost in the
detail and then can't see the big
picture and those people get destroyed
and those are the people that will go to
such an extreme about every little picky
detail and they get destroyed by that
tendency and so the Prophet SAW lisen
was warning about that and he said yeah
c'mon Luther Deen
beware of extremities in this teaching
were also in the hadith and elbow hadith
Lenya shed Medina had only loved Alaba
no one goes to that extreme and he's not
talking about depth or proven duty of
understanding he's talking about
becoming picky in the details or
attempting to encompass the whole of the
Islamic teaching because the teaching
cannot be encompassed by any one
individual and that's why we are on Ouma
we are a body of believers and the body
if you look at it is not the same thing
even though it's structural foundation
is based on cells the cells make up
different organs different elements
different aspects so the body has bones
and the OMA has bones it has a
structural foundation which is is the
Islamic hokum or the governance it's the
the system of justice that is
established by the people of Justice and
then it has the heart which is the heart
of Islam is the people that are
maintaining the life of Islam both its
intellectual and spiritual they're
pushing the blood to the far reaches of
the body and the lifeblood of this Deen
is is in and by him
going to go into that inshallah by
knowledge we don't understand it as
information the Muslims have never
understood in as information because if
knowledge was information what that
means is is that the Orientalist is an
alum you see the one who studies like at
McGill or Harvard University Islam and
learns all of the different aspects of
Islam and can come and give a lecture in
a Masjid and give you tafseer of Quran
and quota for Toby and even al arabi and
all the Abu Bakr and ivory and all of
the great Mufasa Dean and even his he'll
just make you amazed and yet what is at
the essence disease vehicle be him model
he has a disease in his heart and his
diseases in AD its obstinacy that he
hasn't submitted to the message so the
annum is never the one who has the most
information and the idea here is in the
words of him America rattle on when he
said they said any cutter to rewired
knowledge is not having a lot of rewired
of a lot of narrations wa lakin alma
neuron Halawa who Allah who via Alban
movement but not true knowledge is a
light that a lot of places in the heart
of the believer and that light is the
light that is the result of the the
intellectual aspect of knowledge
literally beginning to merge with the
flesh and blood of the human being
it's what even Raja for Hungary calls
MOBA genre tool in albin movement when
the the knowledge literally begins to
have a penetration into the heart of the
movement and begins to permeate the life
blood of the movement and so this
knowledge is literally in and reading
the human being and he becomes gem she
the nor he walks with this light and
this really is the essence of Islamic
knowledge neuron Allen or it is light
upon light in other words the
informational aspect the the analytical
aspect the intellectual aspect is norm
but then
new or it's on another light it's light
upon light and that can be looked at
also like father Dean arrazi rahamallah
and his great tafseer which has been
maligned in this present age they say
fee equal fee
kullu shay'in illa tafseer in it is
everything but tafseer a great untruth
one of the superb intellectual
contributions to this Ummah is that book
despite the fact that there are aspects
in it like any book that need to be
watched carefully and avoided because of
some of the influences that that he was
affected by through Hellenistic thought
and ideas but this has never been a
reason to reject the knowledge of a
people by certain cultural influences
that exist at a time the Muslims have
never done that to their scholars we
have always taken and benefited from
people if you look at the great the the
great rhetorician of Islam is a machete
he is accepted by the ulama as being
really the pinnacle of understanding in
Bulava despite that fact his tafseer has
some dangerous ideas in it that have
been rejected for centuries by the
Muslims because he was up the Martez
elight school he was a marked sed and
for that reason I've never met an alum
of any worth that didn't have his book
in their library and yet they will say
you have to watch out what he says sort
of the tech wheel for instance in the
chapter of Turk we're you don't pay any
attention to his design but that doesn't
mean you don't benefit from the man's
knowledge and this is the difference now
I'll tell you interestingly in this
modern period and this is part of the
fascism or the Terrorism intellectual
terrorism of certain elements there are
certain
elements that have bought up publishing
houses in the Muslim world and they have
actually altered text and taken out
sections and this is called Keanu to
none
it's treachery in the narration and the
Muslims have never done that they've
left everything in the books that the
island put in there and I've seen this
with my own eyes because I had a copy of
a book which is the tafseer of a mimosa
we added JAL Elaine and there was a
section that was whited out and somebody
I saw an edition when I was in West
Africa that was published in the 1940s
in Egypt where the section wasn't
whitened out and it happened to talk
about a certain group of Muslims that
the Imam wasn't pleased with and this
certain group of Muslims published the
later edition of that book and took out
they whited out the section now in the
most recent edition which I have seen
they didn't even bother that you know
these Widing it out you know whom I
wonder what was there before
now they because of computers you can
just delete they moved it up so there's
no whiteout anymore so this is a danger
if you think about it you know what
happens to the books of Islam especially
computerization it's actually quite a
frightening thing because with
computerization things can be added to
books and computers are a double-edged
sword you know like everything else in
life it has dual edged and one of the
problems with this sword is there's
really not a handle in other words
though it's just the blade so it's very
dangerous you know I mean this internet
thing
for instant people somebody put out a
whole thing about me that just made up
completely like a biography and I was in
England and Jim in fact chef Jemil was
there he had left he had to go somewhere
else but they introduced me and this man
started reading this biography of some
day I've never even heard of except the
out the same name as me and I said
I said what's that he said your
biography I got it off the internet I
said I won't even let you know right
that's I don't even know that person
throw that away and now it's in the data
sphere right you can't even pull it back
if you wanted to so I mean this is a
danger of this whole thing where people
don't write their names which is another
part of our intellectual tradition
scholars always put their names on books
and now there's books published where
they don't even put their name on it
so you don't even know it'll say
something like much more to Mennella
Dudamel like a group of the Ummah who
are they I want to know who they are
I saw one thing a fatwa that was put out
from South Africa by modulus Alou Lama
and it doesn't say who they are and it
was a company knit it was amazing
because it was a fact that were based on
the hanafi madhhab that even got the Med
have wrong I mean they were quoting
about Juma had to be in Arabic and Abu
Hanifah Abdullah know is is one of the
Imams that says it doesn't have to be
and you can look even in the short hala
Marathi and fella it'll say with a
second hook but to what I will parasya I
mean this is Hanafi Mehta the hoopla is
valid even if it's in Persian which was
the dominant language of the atom at
that time where our Hani Ferelden Locker
was so that's the dominant position his
head Medhat but they put it out like no
it's Haram to give a Papa in Arabic
which in the monarchy fit yeah you can't
give a hot but in Arabic even if there's
no Arabs you pray the whore according to
your mom attic also according to Ahmed
but Imam Shafi and Imam Abu Hanifa
permit the hot bath in Arabic and so
here's an example of a group that didn't
even get there men have right which
makes it even more problematic and then
put out this fatwa and then people say
oh how long to give hot pan Arabic they
read this thing it says much lesser
ulema
it's from the Council of the ulama
heman Mishnah saloon Emma you know I
lose this matchless who I mean first of
all man Anna Anna Adam Papa jahida
whoever says I'm an Adam is ignorant
that's a party de in in fact one time I
said to this shift of one of my teachers
from Mauritania we were talking about
something and he said well it's like us
and he was referring to himself he said
anima Achilles a man the the the
scholars of the end of time and that was
a kind of self-deprecating statement
well I mentioned that to another Adam
and he said subhanAllah a diner in the
after as a man he's even claiming to be
an atom from the end of time so this was
something that was known like in the
Quran in surah Baqarah when allah
subhana wa tada says that way dot
eliyahu a tuxedo for our part in Amman
an emotion that in the human Massa don't
they're the Musa dune a Lima man oughta
be says why the anima dad is LA because
they claimed a slaw they said in an
anonymously home and anyone who says
there are mostly is not Muslim and if
you look at the saw at the eyes in the
Quran they always say the moon is
orbiting at the under moon is always
make us from amongst them in other words
it's not saying I am a Mormon
I'm a no it's saying make us amongst
them that's a statement of humility put
us in their company even though we're
unworthy of it and this is the
difference you see it's a very different
so just to look at you know in broad
strokes because that's all we can do in
any type of format like this is attempt
to look together at broad strokes the
the Islamic phenomenon is a phenomenon
of knowledge this is what it is the fact
that the first revelation that we all
know is Amara reads EPROM
this is the first revelation and it
comes amazingly enough to a man who
responds by saying ma Ana be a party I
don't know how to read now the beauty of
the Arabic language is that it has a lot
of equivocal terms terms that can mean
more than one thing re in the Arabic
language me
is to orally transmitted to recite or it
means to read it has both meanings so it
can mean literally to recite if you say
to somebody a para to whom inca saddam i
mentioned your piece to him in other
words I said assalamu alaykum to him or
acara mineus are on a para woman near
salam recite to him my salaam that's
saying to do it orally
now if you look at any human
civilization it is founded upon an oral
tradition before it is founded on a
literate tradition this any human
civilization and I think oma really
means civilization if you look at Olin
because on them the owner are these
civilizations they because of what OMA
does it's from the word Ummah
which means mother and the mother is the
humanizing element in society she is the
one that gives us our civility she's the
one that teaches us our Adel she's the
one that really nurtures us and makes us
human beings and this is why children
that are brought up in households that
do not have the mothering element in it
will tend to be sociopathic or or
deviant in their nature that people that
had that nourishment from the mother
what in the Western tradition is called
the milk of human kindness you see the
milk of human kindness this is what the
mother gives to the child is the milk of
human kindness what's called Halima
which is the the literally in Arabic
means the the nipple of the human being
the this is the source of him which is
for parents it's the ability to be human
and the Halim is the one who's gentle
and had the helm is literally from the
milk of the mother and this is why what
is the name of the wet nurse of the
Prophet Halima
Satya Halima she's the one that gave the
Prophet his helm this is where this is
the source of his help and she is the
one who she had pity and
passion on your team Oh Benny Hashem
she's the one that said to her husband
let's take this poor she was Halima she
was the one that said let's take this
poor orphan what a moment you know
historically what a moment - what was in
her heart in that moment looking at the
best of creation you know it's it's
something awesome something
extraordinary
this is Halima Satya you know who gave
the prophets Eliza I'm the milk of human
kindness the wet nurse of the Prophet
the more Dionne and the Prophet said
yakuman more day after hawa the inital
healthy beware of these stupid wet nurse
because she's giving more than milk you
see so look for the the milk that's
going to give more than just bodily
sustenance there's something else being
transmitted there which is one of the
secrets of the Cobra in Ravana
I mean why is it that just from taking
the milk of a woman you become the son
of that child or the daughter of that
mother giving the milk in Sharia I mean
this is something phenomenal just by
simply taking the milk you become a son
or a daughter of that woman and you had
and she has the rights of a mother over
you it's it's fascinating to look at
these aspects of Sharia so the the
civilization the civilizing aspect is
the oral aspect and this is why the
woman has traditionally been the oral
element in culture the prophets Eliezer
is called a Nabil only now only means
oral because it's from the mother only
if you look at it as a Yan is about
what's called Yin is BA in the Arabic
language only also means from the mother
and the reason for that is it's as if
it's like the day their mother gave them
birth are still in that pure state and
this is the oral aspect that is
transmitted through
knowledge of the mother because the
mother tends to have the the oral she is
the vehicle for the oral transmission of
culture she's transmitting culture
orally to the child and this is you know
what was traditionally happening now
there can be no literacy without orality
a human being cannot become literate
without having the basis of morality and
this is why telling stories is so
important to children this is one of the
phenomenon of all cultures and
civilizations is that the mother tells
stories to the child she tells us and
she tells the rewire and now if you look
at the word the rewire in Arabic it
comes from word to be nourished to be
satiated because by nature we are
lacking us us as human beings we need a
narrative by which to live our lives
every civilization has a narrative there
is no civilization without a narrative
every single human civilization has a
narrative by which they live their life
now what the Quran is is a tional a
sauce it is the best of narrations in
other words if you take the narrative of
the Quran then you will create a scene
and among the best kuntum rival ulna OD
judgmental-ness if you take the pathos
of the quran and embody that and in
bible and be satiated by it turtle we
become people of Rivia of transmission
and this is why this oma has continued
to transmitted orally the quran it is a
rewire before it son nothing before its
qatar but it is poor and before its kita
and so there's a transmission that takes
place and in that transmission is the
quench thirsting process the process by
which the human beings thirst is
quenched for a need of narrative and
this is why one of the things that the
we are warned about is those who you
should do that that the bar of people
from the way of Allah how be level
hadith by vein
these stories now if you look at if you
look in sorta to look man at this Manuel
Hadid those who used to yeah Sheila
Hadid they are pseudo and severely led
to in order to take people away from the
subpoena of Allah this was related by a
man who used them to take some say Mohan
yet but others say I saw seen people who
used to tell story so the people who
were going to Darul Aram on the way to
here Arsenal causes the best of stories
they would this man wanted to prevent
them from going to Donald Aram
so he used to put these I saw seen these
storytellers on the path and they would
tell the stories of the Romans and the
Persians the mythology and some of the
people used to be deviated by it in
other words they would stop and listen
oh this is interesting
Zeus and Minerva and Arachne and Venus
and Adonis and and myth bruh and Aruna
and all these interesting mythologies
because they're fascinating look at
Joseph Campbell
look at this man who who mesmerised
America you know and I don't know about
Canada
I mean America's mesmerised anyway but
he mesmerized Canada America by telling
stories that's all he did if you watch
joseph campbell on the PBS series on
mythology he just sat and told stories
that's all he did but they're not axonal
Casals they're not the best of stories
their stories nonetheless and people
just get some nourishment from it but
our nourishment is what is the one Llyod
ma ba da ba da he will never be thirsty
after he gets these stories this is the
quran the one who gets the four on
doesn't his thirst is quenched the one
who doesn't have the Quran he needs to
keep hearing the stories and new ones
and new diversions and new why because
there's no quenching nature there's no
thirst quenching aspect to these stories
they're empty in the end they are empty
that's all they are they're empty
stories so there has to be an or
allottee which is the foundation of
literacy and this is why this
is unique unique amongst omen is that we
have maintained orality in our tradition
and Nabeel only nanometer lumia we're
and oral people lennick to varanasi boo
we don't were not people of writing nor
are we people this inside Muslim nor are
we people have but from this oral
tradition literally emerges the most
literate human society that has ever
existed on the face of the earth without
any comparison with the possible
comparison of the some of the Chinese
dynasties that were extraordinary
literate the Chinese have traditionally
been literate but in what Elfa Singh
it's a hadith there's another in it but
even a blood barber relates it and he's
one of the great hadith in half of the
mother but and the concept is true
anyway seek knowledge even enter China
so seen had some wisdom and one of the
famous things of the Arab proverbs is
undulated hikmah to anetha death not
wisdom has descended upon three at
military unity gain the brains of the
Greeks say I'm a Greek from
the brains of the greens and the idea
had all seen the hands of the people of
China see they had a great literate
tradition writing extraordinary books
Ellison Ethel Adam and the orality of
the Arabs the tons of the Arabs see
wisdom is is this oral tradition that's
transmitted and part of the transmission
is that it transcends the subject-matter
itself in other words by entering into
the oral tradition by sitting at the
feet of the teacher of the shape you are
in a transformative environment which is
different from simply reading a book and
this is why there's power simply in
transmission of knowledge even in this
format you see the experience of
transmission of orality is different
from books and this is why we come to
lectures this is why we can listen to
lectures because there's something that
is transcends simply the words there's
something that transcends the
information it is the actual nature of
the human being that allah subhanaw
taala has made the the susan the ear
itself the customer of the tongue you
see the booth in comes to buy from the
tongue and if you look at earthen is a
extraordinary word in arabic it one of
the meanings of permission in the quran
as in elcome Allah has permitted for you
comes from cousin because the other is
what the movement uses to wait for the
ulema of Allah for the commands of allah
subhana wa ta'ala we wait to hear what
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has to tell us
and so in this this or anitya merge this
literacy now if you look at it initially
the prophets Allah lightest of them
taught in a circle what is called
Hanukkah right which is a very important
word because it also has the idea of
cutting you know able to cut to sever if
you look at all the words in Arabic that
deal with words they have this
connection with cutting with several
Kalima Kalama if you look at the root
words of these alum itself you believe
mu to cut Kadima is to cut like a sword
half which is letter is the edge of a
sword that you cut with you see this is
all related why because this is the
nature of words they're piercing they
cut the gathered news of the intellect
and entered into for an for on and this
is why the quran in its ultimate sense
is a gathering the word in arabic for
the meaning of quran is a gathering that
which gathers the quran is jana before
it's moved further and so the quran
enters you into the discourse if you
listen to it either korolenko mark or an
when the Quran is already recited to you
not when you read the Quran either or
you Lincoln when you hear the Quran
first emiru level listen attentively to
it open the ear up vamsi to and be
silent stop the chatter stop the
internal chattering and listen to the
planet or a moon that perhaps you might
be people that become recipients for
divine Rama for Rama itself which is why
this wizard why we're here this is the
whole reason this is the reason why to
become recipients of divine Rama Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala says in the Quran well
I is an animal that even worried Erica
Hama home in a Moroccan Arabic aah they
continue to be in differentiation in 50
laughs and for that reason he created
them Eleonora him our Ibuka in other
words he created them according to a
badass retort a moon that from amongst
the creation are those who leave the
state of if to death and enter into a
state of 80 laughs of Harmony and they
become the recipients of divine Rama
what is Erica hidaka whom i litter Hemu
order to become recipients of rama and
this is why we were created but the
source of our team is entering into the
gather Ness of Quran which then takes
you into the four and now the Arabic
word for a means the you for eco to
separate to split to divine because this
is the nature of the intellect in the
intellect is a piercing element you see
it's it's something that allows for
differentiation to occur but then we
move back to the Quran and this is why
from silence we enter into the words and
then the words emerge back into silence
and this is part of the secret of these
stops and starts of the Quran allow look
fat would empty that in the Quran there
are places where you have to stop and be
silent because now the words have to
re-enter into the realm of gathered Ness
what on see to and be silent so that
this thing can pierce your hearts
because it will the Quran will pierce
the heart and so then from from this
movement into these the separateness
into for an is where all of intellectual
thought comes from moving out of the
state of or allottee into the state of
literacy because orality is like
gathered Ness the ear is an organ of
gathered nough sits not an organ of
separation like the eye you see it's an
organ of gathering us and this is why
once we move into the literate state we
move into before on and this is what the
intellect means in fact in the Latin in
Arabic the apple has to do with minute
which there's a whole semantic discourse
there but in Latin intellectus means to
discriminate between intellectus means
to discriminate between so the intellect
itself is a discriminatory faculty it's
what allows people to differentiate to
discriminate between Huk one Barton
that's why it was that's why we were
given it to a debate a rastaman I'll
write that the guidance is in contract
is clear counter distinction from
falsehood and how is that known through
the intellect itself now one of the
beautiful qualities of ft death is that
differences of opinion not
of the Muslims but of the other nations
is that different by its nature creates
a dynamic tension in human beings
you see if if you grew up in a Muslim
culture and we're never exposed to a
mullah head somebody that doesn't but
even God when suddenly you're exposed to
a mullah head what he will do or not
even a monofin if you leave for instance
if you grow up in Mauritania in the
desert you wouldn't even know that there
was such thing as a kaffir except by the
Quran because everybody there is Muslim
they don't even know like in Lebanon you
can grow up with Christian Jewish people
all different types of people in that
type of culture so you're used to that
you're accustomed to that there are
certain areas in the Muslim world still
where there are Muslims that have never
even seen a cafe I mean it's amazing
thing to think about now how do you
think he's going to feel when suddenly
after growing up for 20 years or 30
years he goes to Paris
and he meets a whole culture that
doesn't believe in what he basically
thought was the world suddenly he's
forced to really think what does this
mean and this creates a tension in the
human heart and this is why all of
intellectual activity is a result of
some type of tension there cannot be
intellectual activity without tension
and this is why in the history of Islam
some of our most brilliant thought comes
as a result of the Muslims being
impacted by intellectual forces that
were alien to their teaching and the
beginning of this is when the Muslims
met the Hellenistic Christians when the
Muslims I mean the Muslims had this
because Quran is not philosophy the
Quran is not even theology there is no
theology in the Quran theology is trying
to prove the existence of God the Quran
doesn't even it doesn't even bother with
that as we lay check is there doubt
about Allah I mean really if you think
about that the Muslims didn't need
somebody to come and convince them that
God existed and this is a lot of the
theological exercises of the Christians
was to prove rationally the existence of
God and unfortunately in many ways the
Muslims fell into that trap and a lot of
becomes attempting to prove the
existence of God which is an absurd
premise to start from no we have to
prove our own existence
there's I have this book called the
problem of God by I think his name
Angeles Dave and Angeles and I I think
it should be retitled the problem of
David Angeles you see but there is no I
mean God doesn't have a problem no you
have a problem don't God doesn't need
his existence to be proven prove your
own existence
you see really it's like they say you
know Nietzsche 1887 God is dead
Nietzsche 1887 Nietzsche is dead 1900
God right back that was the reply is he
because Nietzsche declared in the gay
science that God was dead now there's a
whole what he was saying is is actually
not trivial in fact because he wasn't
talking about God Allah he was talking
about the concept that the
reconstruction of reality in the minds
of people who literally basically just
described themselves one of the Greeks
said if horses had gods they would
certainly look like horses right and
this is one of the problems of the human
being we would like to project upon God
our own nature and God's nature time a
lot of male seafoam glory exalted is God
above their own descriptions muddy one
of the Jewish men in front of the
Provencal I said have described how
Allah has will roll up the heavens and
the earth in his fingers and and he
described in somewhat anthropomorphic
terms and the frozen ice in him when he
heard it Baca he laughed and he said my
little laptop uppity they haven't
estimated a lot in his true estimation
in other words if you only knew if you
only knew you see so this this
environment that was created through
this tension produced extraordinary
thought now one of the things that
happen the what we have to remember is
the Quran is a book and books by their
nature are words and words are
problematic because words have
any meanings I'm there's people here
that have heard things that I've said
now that maybe I didn't even intend but
this is the human nature we filter words
through our frames of reference there's
some cognitive psychology called
assimilation and accommodation theory
which is that what we tend to do is when
we think we tend to first assimilate it
and then we find in our frame of
reference how we can accommodate it and
the Western people are brilliant at this
they're brilliant at giving words for
everything like they'll say for instance
hearing my talk today they'll say huh
this is a devotional talk as opposed to
an objective talk you see I'm not being
objective because I'm being devotional
right and it's nice words they're
brilliant I mean if you want to just
memorize words go to university because
that's what they give you words for
everything
Maggi last Mountain some may Tomo ha
they're just names that you name that's
all they do they name you see because
the gods of today are no longer Latin
Rosenman adds and wood and all they know
their concept evolution they say liberty
justice the American Way these type
thing the Marines sample Semper Fidelis
always faithful Semper Fidelis and it is
interesting that's the marine slogan
Semper Fidelis and fidelity is a man
that's faith what are you always
faithful to blind obedience that's what
they teach them if a Marine if they say
to run up that hill even though he's
gonna get killed
he's been brainwashed to where he'll do
it and then they think that our suicide
bombers right these people that go and
do this I'm and I say our because
whether we agree with them or not
they're Muslims right I mean they're
Muslims really they're they're Muslims
we can't say no no they're not
slum stuff for Allah no if somebody says
Leonid allah mohammed rasoolallah he's a
muslim whether he's right or wrong is
another matter and that's to be
discussed in another way all right so I
just want to make that clear so see they
say oh that is crazy human being who
would strap himself full of bombs and go
blow up you know a Marine base well the
man's themselves do the same thing only
they don't do it for you know trying to
liberate their land they usually do it
trying to conquer and other people I
mean that poor Lebanese man that blew up
that Marine base he was just basically
believing that he was defending his
homeland
that's different from a bunch of myrrh
and what are you doing in Lebanon where
are you from Kentucky what are you doing
in Lebanon
oh I'm defending uh why I basically got
sent here I mean that's really what
you're dealing with I mean so whose
rational and whose irrational this is
the question don't be fool we need
anthropology too
we need to study these beasties just
like they study us you see let's get
into their psychology let's see how they
think why is it they don't have number
13 in their elevators
I'm you ever think of that those
irrational Muslims
you I've been in Saudi Arabia there's
number 13 we don't have a problem with
13 what's your problem oh well uh well
let me think about that
you know Devils number Devil's number
well Jesus was one and he had 12
disciples one plus 12
that equals 13 was he a devil I mean
seriously
see we fall into these traps of
believing all this falls dialectic no
why because we don't have intellectual
tradition anymore we've become people
that really tend not to think like
everybody else which is unfortunate it
has its own interpretations but I wanted
to I got off on a now where was i before
that when I brought up do you remember
your suppose that that's what the
chairman's for years you're supposed to
be following then you give a summary and
no oral thing now is the beginning I
found it
he's thinking he's only got 15 minutes
left
where was who where was i cuz I went
into something and I didn't want to all
right yeah
Kalam theology projection I think that's
where we were projection projecting upon
that a words this is where I wanted to
go words and the meanings of words the
Quran itself because the Quran is words
it has to be understood now
understanding of the Quran means
understanding Arabic language in that
ananza Yahoo Quran and our via Lila
Kentucky loom we have placed this into
the Arabic language the uncreated word
of Allah is placed into the Arabic
language why in order that you know by
necessity because it will assist its
necessitate your thinking now one of the
things about the Arabic language is that
it's elliptical by nature it's what in
English they call ellipses the three
dots dot dot dot in other words they
don't tell you the whole sentence that's
called an ellipsis well in the Quran
there's a lot of ellipses why is that
because ellipsis demands that you think
it forces you to think when everything's
spelled out for you that does not force
you to think so by the nature Allah does
not want us to be passive reciters of
the qur'an he wants us to be active
studiers of the Quran he wants us he
wants to force us to think
lalume taki luna and so what this
necessity was a need for the grammar and
this is why grammar is really one of the
penultimate sciences of Islam and I say
penultimate because it's not the final
purpose grammar is not a purpose it is a
means the ultimate science is tafseer
you see which is to understand the Book
of Allah this is the highest science by
consensus of the dilemma to understand
the Book of Allah but despite that fact
many many our ulema were not more
faceting of some of the greatest dilemma
mmm Noah is one of the greatest of our
scholars
I mean of all the Luna math of book of
Acts Arman Iowa III ended him in a good
way
more than any other Adam why because
Iman oh we was given a tow vehicle that
I don't see in any other Adam of the
later period because his books are
accepted by everybody you know after the
Book of Allah readö Sahin or banana
hawea the the extraordinary much mana
which in the machete met have after Imam
and nobody showed up
the Shaffer is just shut up and started
quoting Imam no and he died before he
was 40 years of age just phenomenal
human being and this is part of our
intellectual legacy now the thing that
the fact is he never wrote tafseer he
commented on hadith and his main
emphasis was thick and hadith and
naturally also because it's necessary
why is that because there was a need and
this is what our ummah have always done
they have risen to the occasion whatever
the need was they fulfill it and this is
why the prophet elijah time said al
Allen is a meta animal future had full
return when the Adam dies an opening
emerges an intellectual opening in other
words our border now has a space layer
should do her build our animal aha
it will not be filled or protected
except by another animal so when the
donor - saw for instance that the Mojave
theme were dying off then that became
their emphasis if you look at one of our
greatest intellectuals above acaba
Kalani I mean phenomenal Iraqi and
scholar he initially was a fuckiní in
the Maliki school when he saw that the
dominant fitten of his age were in
Kalama in theology he became and what to
kill him despite the fact that theology
is of all the sciences the least
important in terms of I won't say the
least important what I will say the
least desired I won't say the least
important because it has its deep
importance but it's the least desire why
because the anima did not like Callum if
you read the earlier limit they did not
like collab in fact I think the reason
they called it Callum is in an almost
derogatory
it's like empty talk but when the
shabiha is there there has to be an alum
who makes his own and other super hot
which is to to to reply to counter argue
the doubtful matters emerging into the
understanding of the Muslims that is an
obligation on the ulama and this is an
age of sugar bohat and we have so many
choco hat and we don't have animal
replying to it because we don't have
this level anymore this is one of our
deep crises in this age and so of a
baccarat Bellini or him oh Allah when he
saw that the the crises at that point
was was Kalam he became the greatest
with the killing of his age and refuted
all of the sex of his time and he was
sent by the Muslim caliph to Rome to as
an ambassador to Constantinople
when he entered into Constantinople the
the Emperor at that time they were very
arrogant it was their tradition that
they had to bow just literally go into
full rakuen
to the Emperor and he wanted a bucket of
belani to bow to him and his sake for
the bishops told him no the Muslims
don't bow except to Allah and so he said
well work out some way that will force
him to bow so what they did is when to
get in order to get into his chamber
they put a small narrow arch and that
would force him to come in to it bow you
see now up a bucket Arbuckle and this is
intellect when he came to that chamber
and he saw the king's throne behind it
he turned his back
and came in backwards you see and this
upset the ruler but what can you do
I mean you're gonna force a man to so
when he got there the bishops greeted
him and he said he greeted them back and
he said how is your children and your
wives and the bishops looked at each
other and they said what are you asking
about don't you know that we're not
Anna's Oh
and then I had well out lad that we're
exalted above having children and having
wives and he said ie tetanus ahuna and
an ad without lab potency wound it a lie
and I had well whether you consider
yourself above wives and children and
yet you attribute to Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala a cohort and a child you see babu
hatela decaf ah this is the head job of
ibraheem bui
and lady cava he was amazed boogita
his intellect suddenly went into you
know what shut down in computer language
what happens crash you see it crashes
you know file item aha
you know your mouth means I mean it
means to to overwhelm them with Hodja
but the root word is is like smashing
the brain you see so you literally bleed
he can't well he doesn't know what to
say and then the king said you see they
knew Islam they were living with the
Muslims they knew he said tell us about
hadith or if we want to hear about
hadith or if which is when Aisha was
accused of adultery everybody knows that
so Abu Bakr Abu Bakr and Maha Lonnie
said nam to righteous women Mary and
Aisha they were both accused of adultery
as for Mary she became pregnant as for
Aisha she didn't but Allah has absorbed
both of them of any blemish you see
this is power because words are power we
don't say the word is mightier than the
pen you know that I'm in the sword the
pen is mightier than the sword
no the pen is a sword the pen is a sword
it's safer hop and it has its time in
its place and it chops off next Barbary
Paul that's what it does it takes off
the because it separates the intellect
because it's so powerful overwhelming
now just to look quickly and how how
much time the the the grammar if you
look at the sciences that were developed
by the Muslims grammar is the really the
Arabic grammar is the first deep
intellectual analysis of language prior
to that grammar was very superficial the
Arab grammarians went into such depth
and profundity into the language that
they priests aged all of modern
linguistic thought and theory really I
mean you take old grammar books from
Masada and Kufa which were the two great
centers of grammar in the classical
Islamic world and and you look at the
ideas that these people were talking
about you literally become overwhelmed
and amazed at the subtlety and the depth
of this intellectual tradition they
scientifically broke down the Arabic
language they recognized patterns that
had not been recognized in language
before what they now call semantic trees
diagramming they were doing all of these
things they taught the Jewish people
grammar of Hebrew prior to that the
Hebraic grandma was extremely
rudimentary if you look the Hebrews did
not even know that their language was
based on try literal roots they didn't
know that it was the Muslim primary that
taught them that the Muslim grammarians
taught them adjectives the Hebrew
language is extremely poor in adjectives
all of midian
Hebraic poetry is based on Arabic meters
of poetry that was developed by Holi
development the Jews did not have
sophisticated poetry prior to that no
their great poetry that if he went to
Tel Aviv University is all based on n to
the C and Jewish poets who were
imitating the metres of the Muslim
poetry you see so they have a massive
intellectual debt and I really think in
a lot of ways the intellectual debt that
Europe what they call quote unquote the
judeo-christian culture which is a
fabricated word invented in the 1930s or
something like that prior to that they
used to call it the greco-roman culture
and then suddenly this word starts
popping up and and now it's become the
judeo-christian I mean obviously during
the pogroms in Europe that existed that
no European would want Judea attached to
Christian culture I mean that would be
anathema
why were they kicking them all out so
tradition it was the greco-roman culture
but these people have such a massive
debt to the Muslim Ummah that really it
goes beyond explanation I mean that you
just have to superficially look at their
own Sciences and all of their methods I
mean one of the theories this is the
traditional European Orientalist theory
about Islam that all of the classical
Hellenistic tradition was deposited in
the bank of the Muslim Khilafah right in
other words we got all these books we
put them in the bank and we never looked
at them and there was no accruing of
like interest intellectual interest they
just stayed there and then these great
Europeans rediscovered these books right
and then that was it that's a complete
fabrication of what happened
the Muslims took Hellenistic thought and
expanded on it criticized it throughout
large sections of it use sections of it
and it was reintroduced in Europe solely
with comment
in other words the European is there is
no st. Thomas Aquinas without even
Russia and he is their greatest medieval
scholar and he literally is the
foundation of the Catholic Church st.
Thomas Aquinas there is no Aquinas does
not exist without even Russian he
doesn't exist and you can look at his
section on Just War and recognize that
it's just a translation of Islamic faith
from even Roche it's a book he talks
about muscle Hamas said that he talked I
mean its massive mathematics there is no
Newton without ever no Colorado there is
no Newton without how it is me there is
no leaving it
there's no calculus without algebra
which is the contribution of the Muslims
there is no higher mathematics without
people like Omar Khayyam is impossible
and this is truth this is fact why then
you see out of this arrogance why then
are they so abusive I think personally
that and this is a Shara and I take full
responsibility for it but I think one of
the meanings will love Tala atom of one
of the signs of the end of time the
prophet Elijah had said and Teddy that
amateur abet AHA that the servant woman
would give birth to her master or her
mistress I really think it has many
meanings and obviously the most
important is that it's a social disagree
Librium everything's turned upside down
but I think one of the meanings is that
the umma because Emma right is from the
same root as OMA that the OMA of Islam
which was intellectually a humble OMA it
was a Noma based on Obadiah on slave
hood to allah subhanho wa taala it gave
birth to europe's civilization but then
Europe turns around and treats it like
some pathetic Emma that they can order
around that they can destroy with
impunity that they can go in and do
whatever they want and then not
give any attribution of what they have
stolen intellectually and I say stolen
simply because knowledge is free for the
world but you steal it when you don't
attribute it to your source to where it
was derived from and that's there's an
intellectual responsibility that goes
with taking the ideas of others and this
is why even in this culture they
footnote everything where did you get
that well why don't you footnote that
our whole civilization put a little one
footnote number one the Islamic
civilization there's your number one
footnote why don't you put that I mean
there was a book written called the
history of knowledge by Charles Van Dorn
and in the introduction he does he says
he one of the people he dedicates it to
his even Hal dune but the truth is he
should dedicate the whole book to the
Islamic civilization who were not only
the caretakers of human knowledge for
over 800 years but also the those who
added to it great thought great ideas
great contributions and then gave it to
us
right I mean really the Muslim they used
to teach the Christians in Andalusia
they would come and sit at the feet of
Muslims and the Muslims would allow them
into their circle and some of the
Ottoman criticized that in fact all the
ayaat says we shouldn't let the
europeans come and sit in our circle
because they take all of our knowledge
and then they go and take it to their
people and don't tell them where they
got it from and that's already 5th 6th
century so the I mean the intellectual
legacy is awesome and it's overwhelming
and I just at this point want to say a
few things about the disarray of our
tradition now I think probably one of
the greatest reasons for I mean there's
this Muhammad Abduh and Jamal Adina
Avani were of the opinion that tuck lead
is what destroyed the Muslims that they
fell into this blind imitation
that suddenly alas heart was just a
place where you memorize textbooks and
that was it there was no apt car there
was no now there is an element of truth
to that but it's also there's an element
of I think deep misunderstanding also
because first of all Muslim Muslims have
always believed that the highest
knowledge is knowledge of Sharia this is
the highest knowledge in about logic pan
over to Adam now this does not obviate
the necessity of secular knowledge --is
in fact really that is not a distinction
that we accept
I don't accept the distinction Illuma
Deen voluma dunya this really is a
dangerous concept to differentiate no we
differentiate and fought the line what
are the key Thea they're both very bad
to learn how to build a bridge to
facilitate the movement of the Muslims
across a river is a regatta to learn how
to heal the body of a human being Benny
Adam then if he could be covered in
height I don't in every living person
there's a reward if you help it
including the Jew the Christian imagine
that I mean the Muslims never would
refuse to treat a non-muslim and no
totally unacceptable in Sharia in fact
the man shocked Israel who wrote a book
called Jewish history Jewish religion
3,000 years and it's published by Pluto
press with an introduction by gore Vidal
from England highly recommended reading
it's basically a commentary on the
section in Surat al-baqarah about the
cow one of the things he says he
mentioned why he wrote that book is
because he was in teller one of them
he's a professor in Hebrew University he
was in a Orthodox area and this man a
tourist dropped down and started having
a heart attack and he ran to a house and
he said
I need to use phone we need to call an
ambulance there's a man dying out here
he said this Orthodox Jew
looked out and he said I can't do that
he said why not he said it's Sabbath the
man said no no you don't understand he's
dying he said I can't it doesn't matter
he's not a Jew now this is a Jewish man
saying this I'm not saying this I mean
I'm this is not some kind of
anti-semitic story or something I know
so do I'm telling you something about
the religion of bani israel or what it's
become he said no he's he's not a Jew
now
shikaka saw al who's a humanist you see
woman ahead ki tamanna men who are a
combatant you at the lake there's people
from the Jews and the Christians that
are good people just like everybody else
there's good and bad in everything so
there's people that are honest upright
he's saying the Quran yesh had be daddy
there's no ambiguity there he's a
humanistic Jew who's actually very
disgusted by the Israeli policy towards
the Arabs and that's what he writes
about about racism and and things like
that that exists in the mentality of the
religion itself and the people that it
deals with and although you know Judaism
is the sacred cow of comparative
religions you can criticize all the Jews
should all the religious traditions
really but Judaism is the sacred cow and
I use sacred cow for because Hinduism
right the cow is like our island Madhuri
one Hindu became Muslim and a wild
animal do do rahim allah said have you
eaten cow yet he said no he said your
emails not complete there you go have a
have a steak
we'd have to my if you live in England
don't take that fatwa so he now this
mansion how kisara ill he was so shocked
by this he said I have to find out if
this is you know this is obvious
stupidity the man now she doesn't
understand his religion and he wanted to
write an article about it to show
fanaticism and stupidity ignorant and so
he went to several rabbis to get the
proper position all of them told him
that he acted as a pious Jew and he was
met amazed said what kind of religion is
that a man's dying and you can't save
his life he was really shocked he was
deeply shocked and that's really from
from which the book came it's very
interesting so so the the essence of our
intellectual tradition is is really
depth and discovery and it's all I want
to talk that tonight there's a talk
because I'm going to wind down here but
tonight I wanted to talk about more
actually the tract practical what our
tradition is based on and my point about
sciences and religious things is that
there is a help in all these photo Keith
I like medicine you see a Muslim would
not turn away at you he would go to the
phone and use it to call because it's a
human being out there we don't see it
you know there's an element at which you
see a human being you no longer you know
I was once in a hospital treating a Sikh
person and we know what the Sikhs are
doing to the Muslims but I really did
not he was he had just had a heart
attack and he was really in a in a
crisis state you know he was because it
suddenly was confronted with his own
mortality and he why would I happen to
be taking care of him that was my
assignment that night and ice at night
you know I listen to him I responded to
his because you know there's an element
that has to transcend you know at the
base here we're dealing with human
beings that have their wear robes and
those worlds are not the human beings
themselves they're disguised in them but
they're deep in the essence of that
human being is a rule it's a rule that
was given to him by Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala and that is what we respect that
is why we give people their human
dignity because they are containers and
vesicles of this rule that allah
subhanaw taala has given them and this
is why inside vihari when the prophet
stood up for the Jewish funeral
the man said yahoo do not swallow lies a
towel a said nasa he says a huge man he
said isn't it a soul because now he's no
longer in his Judaic robe but he's dead
now Judaism is here on earth he said
he's going to be accountable for it but
now he's enough just like when you die
were all Muslims at the point of death
in fact one of the words in Arabic to
die is Aslam our whoo-ho-ho
his Lord now has really entered into
Islam that's what means to die in Arabic
is to become a Muslim so they all become
once again right now the problem is
right if you didn't do it consciously in
this life then you have trouble that's
the whole point
you're either come or an al-quran you
come in obedience or in disobedience but
we're all entering into Islam which is
death itself you see death is the final
submission so the you know the the are
are present modern condition I think one
of the great one of the great tragedies
is that the Muslims have have become
alienated from the tradition and our
ulema or many of them so-called
anima I really put quotations there and
not to denigrate knowledge or anything
like
that but unfortunately many of our ulema
have simply become like tape recorders
that just simply they memorize a lot of
things and they can quote them you know
like you put it all into a computer and
push a button and you get that is not
the atom and this is why knowledge is a
living dynamic thing that by its nature
must be constantly dealing with the
creative tensions that arise out of
confrontation intellectual confrontation
and we are being confronted radically in
our age intellectually we are being
challenged at every level and if we do
not have individuals that are willing to
rise up to the level of this Dean and
literally begin to think deeply about
the profound issues of our age which
include theology I mean the physicists
now are theologians this is not a joke
the physicists are becoming theologians
they're starting to write about God and
the meaning of the universe and where it
came from and why are we in the debate
why aren't we in the discourse where are
our people
where are our Abubakar vile Anees where
our Imam and Noah weeks where are are
and don't you know typical Omaha let
those onnum are gone they're passed away
l'homme Kassovitz when I come back
acceptable you have what you earn so we
can't be content with the stories of
greatness of the past we should be
nourished by it and recognize we come
from a proud and great tradition and I
say proud in the essence of pride not in
Cuba but in Islam that we are people of
his own the Muslim layer the universe'
he doesn't humiliate himself he
recognizes who he is he's Abdullah a
sorrowful as man that's the most noble
of names we're people of LaGuardia and
nobody is based on knowledge there is no
to Budhia without now
the anima used to say Elaine Villa and
Balarama was here the tombola higher
knowledge without action is a means
without an end well hi eternal law this
is why knowledge if it doesn't take you
to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to modify the
knowledge of Allah is of no benefit and
therein mobile Hamid was he returned
Bella hiya
what a maroon villa in G nya action
without knowledge is a crime it's a
crime committed and this Y Albahari and
I mentioned this a lot because it's
important Baha'i names a chapter of his
book and used to pray 2 rakaats before
he wrote any book and make Allah as do
odd that Allah give him toe fear and in
one tradition that he was given the
names of the above in dreams that he had
of the prophets Allah is Allah he called
this Bab Bab and in Dublin Oliwa Naaman
the chapter of knowledge before speaking
or acting and this is why we were people
of knowledge the Muslim is an animal be
myelin he is an animal what he knows
everybody has a portion of knowledge
well thought I could lead the Edmund a
team that is the Shyam that is the the
that read I don't want to hate that word
slogan but that is the title the epitaph
of the Muslim in their understanding
over every possessor of knowledge is one
who knows more and that is by its nature
a humbling experience no matter how much
you know there is somebody who knows
more than you and you submit to that
fact and recognized for ie solo album
lateral hop up I know some things but
like one of them said goon limited an
inoffensive attend not have it the
Shaitan Muhammad encash Iago tell people
who claim that knowledge is just like
philosophy just philosophizing you've
memorized something but a lot of things
are outside of your sight you see many
things are not in your
is the nature of knowledge it's a
humbling matter and one of the things
I'll just to add to what chef Jemil said
and I really appreciated that idea of
becoming broad and tolerant that this
OMA even Cena is maligned by many
Muslims they say he's like a frog a
froth on my juice this is fun fun
Manorama juice I heard this once in a
talk even Cena was a devout Hanafy
scholar really he was he wasn't is
manually he was a Hanafi now he had he
wrote a book called a Shiva and even
tenia once said about the Shifa him oh
Allah he said Cazale Canada who motto
omar abu hanifa imam al-ghazali had a
sickness and his sickness was the Shifa
which means cure and he meant by that in
Nagas like a riddle the Shifa even Sina
he'd read that book and it influenced
his mind now one thing I'll say about it
will tenia even time he is a great
hungry skull in fact he shifted his arm
of Hannibal he's not sure of Islam of
Islam right I mean no there's nobody
that has that title well like there's
nobody the prophets of lies and that's
his domain he's the one that encompasses
all of Islam when we say shaken Islam
it's of something Chekov is Lanford
hadith shekel does not fit also Imam
even tamiya´s call Jefferson arm of the
Hannah Beulah because he's one of their
greatest if not their greatest scholar
now something to know about even Tamia
and about all of a dilemma in general
knowledge is based on time and
experience you cannot in the beginning
of your attempt to seek knowledge know
everything there is it's impossible in
fact one of the conditions according to
a joining of knowledge he said that
Karen you have to be intelligent
Haroon you have to be covetousness you
have to have like a desire for the
knowledge itself you have to have tell
Tina was stabbed in you have to have a
teacher who teaches you right and then
you have to have family you have
tablet a true understanding and he said
what do lose a man and you have to have
a long life now add a B if you read some
of em I'm even tiniest early fat was
about certain Muslims he made tech fear
of them
he said caviar you know this and that's
something that a lot of anima do in
their early period they get overzealous
hesseman they call it right trying to
really cut off the pretext or something
like that setup that yeah and they might
say something that in their later life
they regret even Tamia is quoted by Imam
at the Hobby Assange Leno Kathy Rowe I
hadn't man I am autonomously me and he
said this is what even time eeeh I saw
him in the end period of his life he
said I don't make takfeer of any of the
Imams of the Muslims there are people
now that read some of the sections of
even Tanya and where he makes some tax
fairness Oh Gavin right he's powerful
first of all let me just give you a
myself a piece of advice don't ever call
a Muslim Katherine we have no authority
we don't have any authority to do that
that what's called takfeer is solely for
the ollie the ollie is the one that
makes takfeer that is the true story the
Bobbie is the one that makes tech field
now obviously if somebody says I don't
believe the prophets Eliza was a prophet
that's castle why because it's my lumina
Dean but the whole things that are known
by necessity about this religion you
know everybody knows if somebody says
Hummer is halal then Hamas there's no
debate I'm talking about subtle
theological points about things that we
are beyond our understanding so we have
to be very careful now some people make
takfeer of some of the Muslims they
should know that some of the things in
some of the books of the Muslims have
Cofer in them even from some of the big
emails the traditional position of the
anima is to say had a coup from Cydia
Mar dune
this is clear cover and it's rejected
whether I talk of the whole catabolic a
fuel and if this is called Joomla
Shibuya is a conditional sentence and if
the Imam who said it believed it when he
died then he died in a state of COFA but
that's the condition why put yourself
into trouble so we
as your knowledge broadens you begin to
see that Islam is a vast Universal
teaching that encompasses a great deal
of people's a great deal of diverse
opinions a great deal understandings and
misunderstandings and the purpose of I
said one time a man said he said what do
you think and the man said insha'Allah
what a out asshole Allah if Allah wants
and you want the other sort a lot the
promised a license didn't say much
careful
he said yeah he lettered and lived in my
law don't make me a partner with Allah
he taught him he didn't say you katha
one head he taught him and this is what
the Muslims are supposed to do but it's
not what I'm your breath Probot like
they used to say we were sent as
invaders not as judges and the Prophet
said about the Kaaba he said the from
did I see keen to judge people is a
knife is being killing yourself without
a knife and this is why the aquabats
hadith by the anythin our walk our
defend gender
so when you hear that hadith the the
judges are three two of them are in hell
and one of them is in paradise take it I
don't know statistics and probabilities
bad odds
all right bad odds really so you know
just we have to be very careful and and
the last thing just to say this about
Imam and Mazzilli who was one of the
greatest of the Imams he was they said
in his book in the Taba art they said
maccann are you probably ladies ugly
come by you know boo elephant fat well
they used to seek him out for medicine
like they sought him out for fatwa and
he the reason he studied medicine
because he went to one of the people of
the book and he was sick and he said to
him I'm sick and I need to be treated
and he and the man said to him he was in
Tunis he said you know you Muslim amazed
me he said that one of the greatest
things in my religion would be to kill
somebody like you because you're the
hood of Islam you're a proof of Islam
and you make us look bad so I could just
poison you and yet you come to me
trusting me he said I don't understand
that and unless it he said he thought
deeply about that and he realized that
we have to be independent in our
knowledge and so he went and mastered
medicine for that reason and that's you
suit the thorah that's seeing the
opening that needs to be filled and
going and seeking it out and one of the
great filter of our age is a need for
scholars not just of Islam but also who
know the a they are living in because a
lot clear clarifies kufur rightly test a
bina civilian we didn't mean the the way
of the would you mean has to be clear
part of the Quran is to clarify Kufa not
just to teach Islam and Eman and axon
but to explain to us what Cofer is do so
we have to deconstruct them we need
anthropologists that are occidentalis
like they have orientalists we need
occidentalis to write our knows and lost
murray is one of the first
anthropologists in history and
ultimately went around the bedouin
tribes and he just used to write
everything he heard and one of the
Bedouin when he saw him doing that he
said Subhan Allah you're just like those
kotoba as
butter on your like the Angels
everything I say you write it down
and one little story about alas my
because I like alas my he was once in a
Bedouin camp and the woman brought in
the tea and this is was permissible
according to imam mattock in the Mata
for a woman as long as there was a tub
and things to serve but she was a
fatahna very beautiful woman and Alice
Mary who you know he was with her or not
rashid and he was you know he was a good
Muslim and everything but he was also he
was a worldly type of person rahim allah
he said she was a incredibly beautiful
woman and the husband was very ugly and
he said to her he said subhanAllah
how does somebody as beautiful as you
end up with somebody as ugly as him and
and she said to him a tuck in laughs
yeah laughs my have taqwa of Allah
Langly aside to it out of be for Hawaii
jay-z when Watson ate out of these the
energies that oh maybe I did something
wrong and he's my reward and maybe he
did something right and I'm his reward
so anyway about an Meza D email
adversity about the Laura know he they
said Minsiter men satiate me from the
depth of his knowledge from the degree
of his understanding
they said he rarely saw a monkey he
rarely saw a mink on because of his vast
knowledge he used to be able to find
some excuse for his brothers when in
other words when he saw something that
most people would say is a Mongkok he
had some opinion of one of the rudiment
that it was acceptable
it's a beautiful statement to have us as
an epitaph for for you know in a book
about you that you looked to the best of
people and you sought for what are
called Maharaj and Manu yelled to me so
literally II when I was a brain Amara
the moment he looks
or for excuses for his brother even
seventy times right I have a friend who
who told me I because I he's always had
me come over I keep saying yes yes and
and then you know I said yeah I feel 10
my surgery and he said Anna chuckle even
anetha mania was fifteen he said I'm at
about sixty eight right now so you've
got a couple more smile on him
you know there's no years in a shara
really
in fact yomel I hear is the last day
because that's it after that there's no
more days there's a hob in the Quran
which that verse is actually
mushki in terms of the Memphis City but
just to say about happy hour hadith
probably is one of the greatest
intellectual contributions to human
society because it is really the first
deep critical analysis of of knowledge
the Mahad Bethune were extraordinary
people and Inc jihad which he the out of
mentioned about month Akkad Mont up it
is actually a ma arm in hadith you know
so it is a mom in fact a criticism comes
once you get to a level of knowledge but
the reason you criticize is not to find
fault it's actually to purify and to
correct so there's a difference between
somebody who's called more ideal and one
tuck it because nut is means wealth and
you know from a wealth of knowledge you
can make criticism if you don't have
knowledge then you should just you know
really withhold your criticisms because
you'll get yourself into danger so about
the Hadees I would say first of all
there we have many degrees I'm happy but
they're basically three dominant
criterion the first one is called
motivator which is a hadith and there's
debate on on what exactly is a motivator
but the basic idea
some say five some say at least ten is
not in each generation but most say
enough is not that it would be
impossible for there have been
conspiracy
narrators to have fabricated the hiding
and that hadith is obligatory to believe
in it is Elijah now there are some ideas
amongst you they wrote a book called
about the motivator and there's a few
there's about four or five books there's
only about 200 hadith that are mutata
there are not that many and one of them
interestingly enough is the hadith men
cthugha Alea men calibre na hitomi de
fella a table obama i'll go home in a
nod the one who tells a lie about my
hadith let him take his place in the
fire and that is mutata which is amazing
that means all the Sahaba heard that
hadith so the Prophet said it a lot of
times in many different places and it
was transmitted each generation by so
many narrators that it's impossible if
somebody comes along and says I don't
believe that hadith most of the Ummah in
fact I don't know any and the people
also know Adama because there is a
difference with the share of people
about how did they have different books
of hadith that they look to but in the
people of soon and the amara there is a
consensus that somebody who reject the
motivator hadith is not a Muslim that
they're outside of the pale of Islam
because it's impossible for them into a
lie so that hadith actually has it's
called a Delisle okapi it's a property
proof in its rude
in other words in soon you have
different types of proofs you have
what's called Ronnie Ronnie a guru or an
update in the world one year guru is
when it's called a head heady and it's
either sahi or beef and life is not used
for the ICAM and so anyway if it's
motivator then we have to absolutely
believe it now the second level of that
is what's called the sahih hadith and I
will say one of the great tribulations
of our age is all these muddy theme
running around they're all over the
place really unhappy throne are
everywhere
the earth he taught us all muscle ideas
on them and then they bang you over the
head with the Hadid first of all that's
called in the hadith literature not
gonna be dead if you say a hadith
that you read in a book that's called
knuckle and we Giada and not going to
each other by the seller so somebody who
wants to be set up for you should listen
to this knock a little bit either by the
self is unacceptable you can't even
relate a hadith that you read in a book
it's it is actually considered
impermissible by the earlier Lama to
relate a hadith that you read in the
book and especially if you don't know
the fat in minimal if you don't know the
subject from the object of the sentence
with most even modern Arabs demean you a
sentence like Armas even wah ba-bah
amaura and you say Arab and Joomla a ski
man that I had never long time ago I
can't you know really I mean we have to
have humility the anima didn't make
comments on Quran or hadith until they
mastered the Arabic language that's a
prerequisite of Islamic knowledge now
that doesn't mean we shouldn't read the
Hadees because unfortunately we don't
have very many more hadith in left and
the books are there and some of them
have been translated and I guarantee you
as somebody my knowledge of Arabic is
limited and I'm not saying that out of
some false humility I'm saying that
quite realistically I mean if you
actually get into the Arabic language I
don't know how they learned it I don't I
don't
how did see that we write his book I
don't know how he did that because it's
just this analyst there's always new
things to learn I learned things about
Arabic language and I've been teaching
it for five years and I'm just like
where did that come from
I didn't know what you know it's it's an
unbelievable night which fellow ha is so
complicated sophisticated you know and
and so we have to recognize that so the
sahih hadith is a sound hadith now a
hadith oh sorry yeah that is not moot Oh
Adam Salaam oh yeah tomorrow papa it is
sound and true but there's a probability
although it's very narrow if it's a year
that there might be a mistake in it
because it's not motivator so the even
though the
and the Metin are sound the meaning the
chain of narration and the text itself
doesn't contradict the Quran there's
still a slight possibility of a problem
in it if it's a Bihari Muslim a - after
the Bihari if it's Muslim if it's one of
the sits aha
then the the possibility is really quite
marginal and for that reason the element
accepted as a sound legislative source
in other words we can take a help um a
judgement from that Hadi so we should be
very careful about hearing a hadith like
on the wing of a fly as a disease and on
the other wing is a cure
so the fly comes into your drink then
you should put the whole fly into the
drink and and if you studied medicine
and say yeah actually you have the yeah
it's clear that that can't be a sound
happy that's inside Bihari
and you know that dr. O'Malley said I
could be and don't follow things you
don't know knowledge about because lanta
parnell hawa the problem i am born in
our the prophets Eliason does not speak
from his passion and that's a sound
hadith
so I'm Villa I lived in Mauritania which
is fly capital of the world and I used
to dump flies into my tea and yogurt all
the time hamdulillah I never got any
problems with it so and now just the
last and then another thing about
sahadev you'll hear somebody say yeah
that's a belief hadith da Alpha who and
Albani
that's a weak hadith Imam and Benny or
now so the deen al albani said it's a
weak happy first of all let me tell you
something there are many Hadees in al
hackin that are sahi on a shuttle hakkim
and their vibe and a sheltered bihari
imam al haqq and considers it so here
but albahari considers a week and then
there's more active of weakness there's
not just we had there - hustle on the
lady there's different levels weakness
some are weak in there is not or
something but they're strengthened by
enough hadith that might be hurried or
something like that so we're dealing my
whole point of this is we're dealing
with a complicated science it's not
something you can learn by buying a copy
of albahari
translated by dr. Martin L Hahn and
suddenly you become a mahadev now
because there's mistakes in all of those
translations I have yet to see a
translation that doesn't have some
mistakes in it what come on read up it
doesn't mean that the translator is more
good or didn't know I can model ela
perfection is on loss so a hadith like
that I will just say commenting on that
hadith is that there is a saw a hadith
that the Prophet said Moncada it a lot
the hello Jenna
most of the owner must say the condition
because remember Arabic is elliptical
not everything's mentioned that hadith
will have been about sane man Allah la
ilaha illaallah shitcan min al de da
halal jana the one who says that in hand
Allah in truth from his heart enters
Jenna
so there's your commentary banal Tao
saying right like a hadith it says that
you mean what had to come happen your
head buddy a female your booty no see
that's a sorry hadith in Imam Noah's
Arbaeen no one believes that's what it
says let you me know no one believes
until he loves for his brother when he
loves herself as a high mom in Islam
that's not the mom of everybody that's a
hi mom so what does the hadith me let
you know he commanded a man a Hadouken
none of you believes with a perfected
Eman so it doesn't mean that he's not a
moment it means that his Eman is still
growing and he hasn't achieved that
level of Eman which is a high level so
hadees have to be taken into
consideration of their translation
interpretation and understanding and
commentary by the rightly guided Imams
of the hadith now the other thing about
the second happy this hadith
first of all sahaba the Prophet said
things to the Sahaba that related very
specifically to the Sahaba that really
this is not made of what it means is for
the Sahaba it was an obligation right
but for the people who come after it is
the ideal that they should attempt to
achieve now to give an example for the
Sahaba they all had to pray in them in
the Masjid of the prophets Elijah the
five prayers they had to if they didn't
they considered it a sign of neetha of
hypocrisy and one of the Sahaba said
well I'm at the ha'la'tha I'm sorry and
he mysteriously lay in Lamoni doubling
me papa
we never saw anybody that used to not go
to the message of the Prophet and pray
except he was a clear monofin now
somebody here in Edmonton reads that
hadith yeah look at all these mana
Fiocchi I'm the only one in the Masjid
right what's he saying basically now
that shape on trying games with that
brother you see Kevin he's clever he
doesn't you know once he gets you in it
once he sees you're going to the message
it then he'll try other strategies like
what a good Muslim you are a love like a
bomb
takbeer now the in in Ahmed Ibrahim
bells med have it is wajib to pray in
the masjid it's a far dying if you hear
the Adhan it's a for buying and he
considers that the prayer was invalid if
you prayed it in your house without an
excuse ultimately charter be like a
sickness or something like that in the
other myth have it is Kara he Ishida
it's an extreme Kara here but you have
to hear the amount now if you look at
old pictures of Medina I guarantee you
you'll be amazed
there wasn't a house that wasn't three
minutes from the Masjid there wasn't
look at pictures I've seen these
pictures there wasn't a house that
wasn't three minutes from the message
but PA I met a man who lived in Medina
for the last 70 years he told me Bhatia
used to be a long distance from Medina
now it's literally right outside the
message of the prophets are lies and you
go out a door and there's Bhatia Masjid
is bigger now than the original city the
main state now is bigger regional city
there's two kind of people have to kind
of and you have to appreciate what I
would say Muslims living in a
neighborhood attempt if you're not going
to the Masjid attempt to put together in
the house if it's too difficult to go
the mess obviously the to go the message
it so we have to be careful about
reading hadith and applying those have
these two people nowaday very dangerous
because we'll literally will all end up
pain I mean my contention if a Sahabi
came in to any mustard in the Muslim
world
today he would probably say what
religion is this you know and that's
just the nature of you know of how far
we've come but the Prophet said you're
in a time if you hold to 110 if you
leave 110 you're finished to his Sabha
110 he said there's time on my Ummah if
they hold to 110 they'll have knit now
that one tenth doesn't mean far it means
the sooner it means the most how bad
things like that the far below you don't
pray one for every you know two days or
something like that right one
so I just think it's really careful and
then the last comment about those two
Hadees
there are Hadees that have Muhammad
health or Muhammad up and there's Hadees
that had Muhammad Raja or Muhammad boss
see if the prophets Elijah was given
Hadees in order to keep us balanced if
he gave all Hadees that were Rama
because he is what - Iran when a deer on
Bashir on when a deer on but what did he
prefer Bashir what I - nephew
he preferred Bashara and that's why it
precedes an idea - Iran one nadir on
he's first and primarily a Bashir but he
also has to give in law he has to warn
people because he can't simply just give
Bush shut up because we'll all just yep
take you do like the Prophet said when
he said that hadith in one area should I
tell the people you are so Allah in
other words that he's that if you say
light and I law you go to Jannah he said
no don't tell don't tell people say in
tequila because they'll get lazy they'll
just think that's enough and it's it's a
dangerous idea to live your life on
really it's a dangerous habit to live
your life on because we know fitna to
hover we know fitness Sahara tan cerca
rotten old middleman humbug is a famous
story when he was on his deathbed they
were saying saying I and I he loved that
and he would say that that and some of
them thought he was making Kufa and when
he explained to them he came out of the
Sakura Sakura is like a delirium he said
that shaitaan came to him and told him
that no no really
Islam is not to try to be short on this
and the problem is questions are always
to me they're detailed I know that
people like very short concise answers
but to me the knowledge not simple short
concise it's you know take an agnostic
and an atheist they're halfway to Islam
because Islam you first have to say that
you da ha before you get to it la la
we with every precedes negation precedes
affirmation so they're halfway there I'm
doula it's better than not being
anywhere I mean an atheist at least
they're taking a position right they're
taking a position I I prefer somebody
takes a position that somebody that just
a guru no no and I'll tell you something
that a theist the Imam used to debate
the atheist openly Alba Hani Ferelden
Lana used to debate them in the Masjid
in front of the Muslim they weren't all
like you know saying look at each other
and throw no they sat in debate and
discourse I need a pair two more in the
comb let's hear what you have to say
omaha Niva you know generally the Muslim
there are several arguments for the
existence of God right that are used one
of them is all the cosmological argument
or one ontological you know I mean
they're just words in the end of the day
but the the problem Muslims have
generally relied on the one called
argument by design which is all this
stuff is here where'd it come from and
it all the it spawned this perfection of
a laws existence so I think that usually
is a point of no really asking people to
reflect and think about where did you
where did this come from I mean one of
the things I benefited from Optoma
jiva's and Danny is that and that's a
good book in his book on ahead because
he he argued and many people who were
atheists and agnostics have become
Muslim from his talks one of the things
he said he had a doctor who said he
didn't believe in God and so he just
said to him what is the purpose of the
eye and he said to see he said what's
the purpose of the liver well it does a
lot of things but it functions purifies
the blood detoxify his bottle was a
person to heart send blood to the brain
to oxygenate the cells what is the pre
he went through all these parts of the
body because this doctor understood the
body he said you mean there's nothing in
the body that doesn't have a purpose and
the doctor said we'll really
not I mean everything has some purpose
the appendix they used to think that it
was vestigial organ that it didn't have
any point now they say no it actually
does have a function in the immune
system I think the only vestigial organ
of evolution is the human brain because
that's the only organ that people don't
seem to use which is a case against
evolution because the golden rule of
evolution is if you don't use it you
lose it
well we haven't used our brains for
centuries though I mean why is it still
around you know that's a you know
something to think about so he after he
went through all of that he just said to
him so you admit that everything there's
a Telos or a purpose to everything in
the body he said yes he said but the
synergistic effect of all of these
things the totality has no purpose and
you recognize the particular purposes
and yet there's no universal purpose you
see that's an important thing to think
about I mean we recognize the particular
purposes that there is design you know I
mean physiology one of the things that
you learn studying physiology as they
say form follows function in other words
that the organ is designed to fit a
certain function not the other way
around the function doesn't work from
the form and there's many many examples
of that but I think there's enough
people that believe in Allah out there
to talk to before going to people that
don't believe in Allah because really to
me it's it's a horrific thing I mean
what right do you have to say that Allah
doesn't exist really what right do you
have I mean you would you couldn't even
breathe if it wasn't for Allah's gift of
breath you know if you had one organ of
your body this disability I'm just your
kidneys go and look at somebody who's on
dialysis and what type of life that they
live the quality of life go and look at
somebody who has info
Seema's destroyed their lungs through
smoking you know and the gift of just
breathing of being a lot being conscious
what what right do you have to do not
recognize the the joy and blessings that
Allah has given you in children I mean
my children are just they're just a
source of constant you know just a lot
like about you know really they just
always you they're just so pure and so
alive and so they just fill you with it
I mean you what right this is the gift
of Islam as it is it gives us the
articulations of praise and gratitude to
our loss of the Hannah Wattana
we know to say alhamdulillah wa
shukrulillah and even the beauty of it
we say alhamdulillah could be had
they've been out the solid Iman and said
no that any tribulation that you have
you could be in a worse tribulation and
that's an Emma
so thank Allah anything that's afflicted
you like one man came to me once at the
Masjid and I can get pretty rough I was
not very nice to him but he came to me
said yeah I have this big problem and I
said by your father and he said my car
broke down and it's $800 and well and I
was we had just heard something and I
did I grabbed him I mean this is my bad
side up but I grabbed this kind of shook
my said look the Bosnians have a problem
all right you don't have a problem your
car breaking down
there's does not go under the category
of problem in my book all right your
house being bombed by an Israeli jet
that's a problem and really in the end
it's not because HUD motivates Shaheed
the one whose house falls on them is a
martyr so I'm to be God
I mean really it's it's a horrific thing
that that's happening but the attempt of
Shahada he takes from us martyrs Shahada
so we just be people of praise and
gratitude and Shukr you know that the
kaffir is an ingrate that's my favorite
translation of Kufar. it's just ingreat to be in gratitude to showing gratitude to Allah subhana WA Tallah