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