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