mean very different ways on you know
face has many meanings it's used for
many different meanings
it can mean aspect it can mean you know
equality lots of things and then they
have a lot of idioms that take a long
time to learn like mad watch you know
the water of the face which is you know
it doesn't make any sense on the face of
it no pun intended
but you know mad you know of Habana I
would watch hehehe you know the Arabs
say he he dissipated the water of his
face which is something that happens to
people when they live bad lives they
lose a type of clarity in their faces
the the reflection that water enables to
happen something bad happens to their
faces and so that's an idiom of Arabic
that they use you know that America
shadow and up here you know and you'll
see these come up in in books so that
takes a long time but I would say you
know the Arabs the Arabs the more
Italians they say aha moment for a homo
ha Eden tomorrow one too so often were
added to be a shorter one the most
important in in knowledge is that peda
that's the most important and I Peter
has a lot of metaphysical foundations
like if you study in the Quran you will
find a lot of metaphysics
and when you get into sophisticated
theology there's a great deal of
metaphysics and all of our great
theologians were masters of metaphysics
all of them tough touzani though see I
mean truly great metaphysicians and when
you get into their books we have many
people at the level of Aquinas in in the
West we have several with the kidney
moon that are at the level of Aquinas
and my father who knows Aquinas very
well when when when I did a film on
Ghazali and he watched the film he got
intrigued and he wanted to read some
books he said is he translate I said yes
he said could you get me some of his
book so I got him several of Gasol's
books and he read through them and then
he said to me the West never produced a
Ghazali and and I know his knowledge of
the Western canon is very very strong so
that statement to me holds a lot of
weight but that's what he said he said
that the West never produced a ghazali
and and it's sad that now people
disparage imam al-ghazali's name it's
just tragic
it's the ignorance of the time and the
prophets said the end of time won't come
until the later part of this community
curses the first part of it so that's
one of the signs at the end of time is
that people will curse the earlier
people so so you have to learn a Kyi's
and then you have to learn for 1/5
before o Sole also it is not it's a 45
but for what is for dying and then you
have to learn tasawwuf means Allah I
mean there's two types of two souls
there's a metaphysical to solve which is
very complicated and and it's it's like
it's like quantum mechanics you're
entering into a realm that just it to be
able to read those books and understand
them takes a long long time but the the
tussle that we need is that the soul of
a holic and our ethics is generally in
the books of the self
I mean that's where the ethical
tradition ended up in us
so you learn to have even apps how to
rectify the fault of the self I think
she thought her mother always been
talking about these things from the icon
and and and these think this is really
that a lot of of Islam is in the books
of tussle wolf and and and nobody
disagreed about that even Tamiya even a
bit of a hob all the people that they
use to bash to solve all of them except
that that aspect of to solve what they
were against was metaphysical Sufism so
Inman Tamiya was against metaphysical
Sufism even Umberto Wahab was against
met if that's true but they were not
against ethical to solve that that's
absolute fact so that's the soul of
Allah and the soul of an earth walk
those are the two types of tussle
you know the experiential tasawwuf which
is about States and stations of the
heart and the other one is about
refining your character so nobody
disagrees about that and even a layman
josiya wrote a famous book on to sew
wolf which is his commentary of Abdullah
on Saudi khawaja abdullah onslaught his
famous book amenaza de set 18 right
madad is just a tea keen so the this is
well known even akadama did a motifs are
of imam al-ghazali's yeah yeah is mostly
he says you have no Kashyap and Mohammed
ah those are the two types of azov mocha
Java Inman mocha Java and aluminum arm
but he said I'm not this book is not
about element of mocha Java
it's about Edmond Muhammad ah so what he
was saying is the idea is not about
spiritual states it's about a clock and
refining the soul the he's got the the
key tab and I bet that right sheet a bit
more I'm a dad and then he's got the
monocot and the moons yet it's four
sections forty books right and at the
heart of it is what book twenty the lap
of the prophets a lot isn't that's the
heart of the area so the architecture is
very impressive
he begins it with the book of knowledge
not the book about Peter the book of
knowledge defining what knowledge is and
defining who the knowledgeable who the
true anima are differentiating them from
recall the motorists amoun the formalist
and then showing you what false ottoman
do one of the things that false Illuma
do is they they attack other Annamma and
belittle them in order to gain followers
that's a sign of false aroma because
true allama work at the level of ideas
and they don't attack people like that
they look at ideas and and they write
and and do that but they don't get up
and slander Muslims and things like that
so so that and then he says add a toombi
hot shoe or a tool that you need to
start with and that's the Arabic
language so that's this tool that you
need to start and that doesn't mean that
you cannot you can learn Islam and
become a very educated Muslim in English
you can learn Islam then come a very
educated Muslim in order do you can
learn Islam become a very educated
Muslim in Turkish or any of these
languages that's absolutely true and
there are many many very learned Muslims
that don't know Arabic but to to to
enter into really the the realm of
defending Islam and moving into that
realm it's to have access to those
primary texts important but the Hanafy
position is you don't need Arabic to
understand Islam and and as an ad you
mean you know Alba Hani who was a Janee
I think to me that's that's the truth
that but the vehicle of Arabic is
extremely important that's the position
of the other three Imams because the
meanings that are embedded in Arabic the
semantic fields that are created by
Arabic the deep dimensions of the
language are extremely important and
there's a reason why Allah chose Arabic
to be the language that he spoke to his
creation through and so that's very
important so but a solid fifth is really
important in order to understand this
religion and I think it's good to have
what we did was just a very basic
introduction to all soon and flip which
is useful to have some idea
of how sophisticated our scholarship is
in that I think there was one other and
with that you know I also want to say to
everybody somebody asked me what course
do I teach I teach ethics that's a tuna
I've taught logic
I've taught astronomy I've taught the
Freshman Seminar and I've taught
prophetic biography but right now I'm
teaching ethics so we have to break but
I want to say I was I'm really very
happy with a dev of this group and it's
really been impressive and I you know we
have to get to a point where we can just
benefit from our people and not you know
and so I was I was just really pleased
with how everybody because I know people
there's people that could you know with
dr. Nelson could have brought up things
that you know just for me would there
there's no point in bringing them up and
and I was really happy that nobody did
that you know because he's somebody that
I feel has just been such an
intellectual powerhouse for our
community and he comes from a different
tradition than I do but he's he's not
and he's not on Rothfeld Lee by any
stretch of the word you know he's not
somebody that speaks ill of Sahaba or
anything like that so it's you know it's
important that that we respect and I not
and in our early period imam niye tabu
Hadi has people from the Shia community
in his Senate there are Shia in soluble
Hadi and this was the early period it
was much more fluid than a lot of what's
happened now with the divisive miss the
Muslim world right now between the
Sunnis and the Shia's and undeniably
there have been atrocities on both sides
so in Iraq there have been Shia death
squads that have gone we've gone out and
and and killed but we're not those this
is not what we're about we're about
intelligence and honoring people and
honoring differences and respecting
different positions so he's somebody
that respects the own amount
irrespective of where they came from or
who they are and that's something that
we really need to inculcate in our youth
just a respect for intelligence and for
intellect and and for achievement in any
field or endeavor and for goodness
people that have a floppin character so
I just want to thank everybody for being
so respectful and and just really
wonderful group of people young people
that it's you know you give me
personally give me hope to see so many
good faces and in our youth and I'll a
bless all of you it's nothing enough