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always to participate in these things in
may loss behind without a reward all the
people that worked very hard to put this
together the the the modern world is
very fast and people feel the time and
the pressure of just their daily lives
it's hard to justify balance in those
lives and it's a blessing to be able to
to remove oneself somewhat from that
hustle and bustle out there and to be in
a place where there's a lot of nature
and things that historically people were
very connected to I mean there this
there's still are people connected to
these things but they're increasingly
diminishing in terms of just numbers on
the earth the major cities that are
emerging all over the world are there
they're terrifying in that so many
people that traditionally were living
off the land and connected to the
natural cycles have moved in and we have
massive slums all over the world for
people that have travelled and seen some
of these places we've got about even
one-fourth of theirs
datian now living in really slum
conditions which was very very different
modern modern poverty is not like
pre-modern poverty because pre-modern
poverty was was rarely qualified with
impoverishment of the soul if you went
if you if any of you have been to
Pakistan a lot of you are unfortunately
some of the really young people don't
realize how much has changed just in the
last twenty thirty years
Swat Valley was one of the most
beautiful places in the world and I know
people that became Muslim because they
visited Swat Valley so and the stories
about just the incredible hospitality
and the beauty of the people of the Swat
Valley so when you read now about what's
happening in places like that it's very
disturbing when I first went to West
Africa what was that it's actually my
second time my first time it's in 1978
but the second time that I went the
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Mauritania was an isolated place that
had a lot of people there didn't even
know about America just that there was a
country called America I actually met
people in the Sahara Desert that did not
know America as a as a place so it was
it was very amazing to see people that
weren't just pre-modern people but they
were pre-modern people that had almost
no interaction with the modern world so
you got a very different perspective on
just how people view things and the now
in Mauritania recently there was a
tourist that was killed and even though
it was very shocking for the people
generally that the fact that there were
some you know Muslim extremists that did
something like that in Mauritania was
like very shocking for Mauritania
because that type of Islam or that
manifestation of Muslim behavior not
that type of Islam that manifestation of
Muslim behavior was really unknown in
that place so it was a big shock so
things have changed but it's very nice
for us and to be able to come out here
and so I think we should do our best to
take advantage of I went Imams it and I
took a walk and there's a place called
the Baptist Vacation Bible School and
right down the road but that was a nice
I like the name Vacation Bible School
because vacation is from a Latin word to
empty out you know vacuum comes from the
same root
so vacating is emptying out and the the
set of called it Talia
there's a hadith that the Prophet shall
I send him said that the Prophet emptied
us out of jahiliyya and then he filled
us of Islam so the spiritual practice is
about emptying before it's about so you
have to be emptied before you can be
filled if you're already filled in fact
where most of us are full of ourselves
so that's the problem is how do we empty
our souls of ourselves emptying the soul
of the self and that's a very difficult
thing but what's what's interesting is
the prophets Allah TM was when when
gibreel first met him on Jevon or
mountain of light he squeezed him and
some of the ummah talked from that the
ishara he squeezed him three times and
it was actually to make sure that he was
completely empty of himself before
giving him the revelation and that's why
he thought that he was going to kill him
because he literally crushed his just
sides but that that was a physical
manifestation of a spiritual reality
because the Provencal I said him in the
books they always say Kenny at the hand
Ethel you know yet the hen death and
in the commentaries always say attendeth
hua tabbed would the tendeth is a type
of devotional practice so the practice
that the prophesizing was doing the
meditation that he was doing in the hall
Hara there on Yemen or was called
tendeth now we just read in surah Tauba
kara what what verse had that word in it
anybody who's al hinted all theme right
so the hint is in surah taha dad
what does it mean in there and hint
anybody luckily you're doing in surah to
walk out with Shariah so you'll know
what and hence is shirk so de hann north
is to han north is in the morphology of
arabic to handle one of the meanings of
the TEFL wasn't it's called to file the
paradigm of tough out one of the
meanings is to avoid so you have like
who Jude is sleep to head Jude is to
avoid sleep so yet the head jet means
you're struggling to avoid sleep Tejanos
means to avoid ship to remove oneself
from share now the the greatest shirk is
worship of the self the idolatry has
nothing on self Allah tree right really
because the the worship of the self and
a las mentions about people that take
their hawa as their God right it tejada
allahu how ah who like he took as his
God his his desires his self whatever
the self wants the dictates of the cell
so the emptying out of the self is
necessary in order to prepare for
your journey to a lots of behind of
Italian even though it's part of the
journey because the journey you have to
pack before you you go on a journey
right you get your provisions ready so
the journey actually starts before you
set out on the physical journey of
actually moving towards your destination
there's things you have to do you have
to get your visa you need a visa you
have to get your tickets you have to do
all these things so the emptying out is
really the preparation to to to to
really move spiritually on the path and
that's why the asana is such an
interesting event in the profits a
license life because now tonight which
is 27th of rajab is there's nothing
confirmed about lailatul is all nothing
and that's why we don't there's no ebody
that is specific to these nights in the
sun no that's true and if people say
there is it becomes a bit that is a bit
add to introduce things that aren't from
the religion into the religion so but
having said that the ulama do take a
blessing from the 27th of Rajab
generally I mean a lot of them say it's
a good night because the majority of
Roma do think that it is the night of
this or all but Imam no we did not
so even to say by Kesh or something that
it's this night
I don't think Imam no it was one of the
great olia of our tradition but he did
not agree with that opinion there's
nothing confirmed but generally it is
the night
if you look on Muslim calendars it's the
night that they put for the night of the
Asura and so it's it's a good night to
remember the astrologist generally the
the the Prophet allies to them if you
look at what happened right before the
Israel right before the Asura was
probably the most difficult
got time of the prophets life so
lightest and they say that the you know
the darkest hour is the one right before
dawn the the prophets item had gone to
Thoth and he had been rejected by the
people of Pi but worse than that they
they really humiliated him I mean they
can't you can't humiliate in reality
dignified people you know it's not but
but they they attempted to humiliate him
because humiliation is really an
internal experience more than I mean
somebody can can to condena great you
but but humiliation is something you
experience I was so humiliated
you know people that's what they say you
know so when you say he humiliated me
it's really you're saying he allowed I
allowed myself to be humiliated by him
because people can't really humiliate
you they can be disrespectful but it
says more about them than it does about
you in reality so you can allow yourself
to be humiliated now the prophets have
also said and want me to allow you the
Lughnasa a believer shouldn't ever
humiliate himself and what CDI mizerock
said that it meant it meant opposing
government you know like like rebels and
things like that and that's how he
interpreted because he said when you do
that and then they capture you and they
put you in shackles and they do all the
you you've become humiliated but he what
Amazon rope the Prophet said and what
Menelaus Lilu Neffs a who the believer
doesn't humiliate himself which really
means that that it's you that's
humiliating yourself and tonight it's
not somebody else it's you that's doing
it but you can cause yourself to be
humiliated by doing stupid things so
what the Prophet I said was doing was
the most honourable of things
there was nothing dishonorable about it
and there was nothing that should have
warranted what happened to him
whereas when you go against a government
for instance and oppose them you've
basically done something that justifies
their response because that's how
they're going to
they're going to spawn by humiliating
you so in essence you've humiliated
yourself by putting yourself into a
position like that so when when the
Prophet slice and went to thought if he
was basically looking for people to give
him protection
so that he could to his Dawa and and
they didn't they didn't respond but the
worse than that they sent the the
servants out to throw rocks at him some
of the children threw rocks at him and
he actually had his feet were bloodied
from that and he was very distressed
about it because it it was like his last
Gila it was his last strategy that's
what that was he was doing the us bad
even though his trust was completely
with Allah he was doing the s babb and
that's why his dua is so interesting
because well there's two things that are
interesting one is who comes to him at
that time we need when he goes to did
he's sitting under the tree who comes to
him huh the Christian man at does and an
noe where and where was he from because
he asked him were you from what do you
say he said he was from Nineveh and and
the Prophet SAW he said I'm said that's
the city of the the blessed man you know
Savino Mehta now what's interesting
about that because this is you know
these are the things that that God plans
I mean what's interesting about that
story I mean what would be interesting
about a man from Nineveh coming to the
prophets Allison I'm at that point
because what's the story of Nineveh
what's the story of Nineveh
we see they did good yeah it's
interesting because they disbelieved in
him but he gets fed up see yunus jonah
basically writes them off and says you
know these people there's no real hope
for them and he goes and then he gets on
the ship and then his/her storm and they
throw lots and they throw him over and
then the whale comes and but the point
of that story is that he was in the same
situation the Prophet was in the
situation of Units he'd been a meta now
what happens with Yunus in the belly
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he's like his realization is this is all
from God I mean like I had my plan but
God had his plan because he was trying
to get on the boat and get but it didn't
work out the way he thought in his mind
it was going to work out and he ends up
in the belly of this of the whale and
praising God right in the kunta mental
body meaning now who does he blame does
he blame the people of Nineveh he's in
the belly of the whale
oh Allah look what they've done to me
destroy these people right I mean does
he do that that's like he does he blame
the people what's he say he blames
himself it's so interesting
it's like Muslims tenda I don't know
what happened but at a certain point
they stopped reading these stories
correctly or something but he blames
himself and he says you know if you
don't help me I'm finished so that the
fact that a man from the city of Nineveh
comes to the Prophet at that time is
very symbolic and the Prophet item says
that his famous da where where he says
to Allah you are the lord of the
oppressed and he said I don't have any
strategy you know
hey lady I don't really have a strategy
to do it yeah I've tried everything that
I can but then he says you know I don't
know who you're going to send me to is
it an enemy that will treat me horribly
or some stranger that doesn't know who I
am there's no warmth there's no help
coming from them a demented loony and
but then he says you know but if you're
pleased with me you know if you're
pleased with me then I don't care what
you do to me as long as you're pleased
with me in other words I don't whatever
the circumstances you put me in I'm not
going to complain about them as long as
you're and then he said well I have here
- oh so you know the well being is
easier for me it's easier to be in a
situation where you're not in that
constriction and and difficulties but
what's interesting about that is he said
you know that I aku I take a Hawaiian II
on an ass you know I complain to you my
insignificance in the eyes of the people
he didn't complain about how they
treated him he complained about his the
fact that he didn't Hawaii had an S you
know that I'm in this situation where
they're not respecting me and and he all
if you look at that he didn't complain
about the people it's a very interesting
it's very similar to what Jonah did and
one of the things the Prophet said let
old a loony eyelid envía
do not prefer me over other prophets and
in every why he's a Leto forbid only a
day unicity Mehta don't prefer me over
Jonah I don't prefer me over Jonah which
is from his humility and what it means
is do not prefer the Prophet sighs him
in any way that diminishes from the
other prophets that that's what it means
it's also from
humility because he said aniseed will do
Adam whatever ha I am the best of the
children of Adam and I'm not boasting in
other words this is not something that I
really want to tell you about me but
it's something that I was commanded to
tell you so now and then on the way back
what happens from from five what happens
on the way back the angel comes and
offers him thank you offers him to
destroy the people just he'll wipe them
out for him now again here's a test of
who the prophesy him is because there's
people that would do that after being
humiliated like that they're so angry
and the Prophet I sent him said no and
what was the reason that he gave for
saying no that he'd the children the
children because as long as there's
children there's hope doesn't you know
children have the purity and the fifth
law and the Bharata that makes it
possible for them to be open to a
message of truth because children by
their nature are not disbelievers
children by their nature are believes
they don't cover up the truth children
and even really little children when
they do they they're not really covering
up the truth they're just because
they're in the imaginal world they can
make things out the way they want them
so children don't lie like your little
kids
five four year old you know who broke
the glass you see then the brain is like
working
I don't know now adults assume it's a
lie but it's not because in in that
world of all possibility there are other
alternatives really that's the way the
child's mind is working and that's why
the seven years is called salute amuse
the age of discrimination because they
can start to describe but that's only
the beginning it's not complete until
they're 14 14 15 it's not complete so
they don't they're in that world of
possibility so the Prophet SAW said
wanted good for them he maybe they won't
believe what their children will believe
that's what he hoped and and that's what
unis that was what Jonah learns because
he goes back to Nineveh and and that's
why it's not you don't decide these
things Lisa like a minute Emma D shade
this isn't about you that Allah said
that to the Prophet it's a lot is in him
when he wanted to to take revenge on the
for H Allah said this isn't about you in
other words it's not about the self it's
not about this this is something much
bigger and and after that the Prophet
slicin would mention on the the minbar
because he's sworn oath when he saw
Hamza mutilated and that's his humanity
the Prophet was human being he got angry
he said if you ever hear me curse
anybody I'm he said I'm a man and I get
angry but the angels will turn my curse
into a prayer for that person so even if
the proper got angry his that his
reality was Rama and so whatever his
human nature
was was manifesting his his reality was
all mercy a broad base and motifs he
said all of the prophets were created
from the mercy of God but the Prophet is
I know Rama
he's the essence of mercy Omar sanika
illa rahmatan lil I mean we only sent
you as a mercy to all the world and so
when he goes to
back to the second thing that happens is
he meets the jinn right and some of them
they heard the pollen in Seminole Quran
and algebra via DLL rushed I'm and Nabi
they heard the Quran and they heard it
calling to guidance and they believed in
it so the unseen world I mean you said I
don't know people heard use of Islam
wrote a really nice song recently you
know every pearl drop in the sky knows
about you it's it's a song he wrote
about the prophet's life it was very
beautiful song but he taught you know
the fish in the sea every fish in the
sea knows about you and that's a thing
about the problem is that even the rocks
were greeting him and so he was in this
I mean we couldn't even imagine what
that state would be like to wear things
you know even though humans are negating
you the the clouds are covering you I
mean people saw that but Berra the monk
the Christian monks saw the cloud moving
with the caravan and it may said I saw
that may said I went to hadith and he
said the whole time he said there was a
cloud covering him in and I've ridden in
the desert like I got sunstroke on a
camel because I rode for about eight
hours once and and I literally got
sunstroke so it would have been nice to
have a cloud over over but you know mom
in the Elohim upon my loom
so this sarita Muharram in leyland era
Haram Commissar Al Bhed roofied a demon
Abdullah me imam abu city says that you
moved across from one haram one
sanctuary to another sanctuary
just like the full moon moves in the
darkness of the night across the sky
and that is reference to the his night
journey which is called the Asura and
then there's the Mirage the Mirage is
the Ascension so there's a difference
between the is raw and the Ascension the
Asura is by consensus it's much matting
you have to believe in it it's in the
Quran Subhan Allah the Asura be AB de
Leyland
glory be to the one who took his servant
by night in in the night it's realized
and the early might differ about why
because Sarah is to travel at night in
the Arabic language and an Astra is
somebody take you by night so behind
lady Astaroth the add the heel a land
it'll Masjid it'll Masjid al-haram Eden
Masjid al-aqsa that took you from the
the sanctuary in Mecca to the sanctuary
there's a there's a Hebrew out there
that says bay to hamikdash to go out
there and ha in Hebrews like al in
Arabic that so they called Beit
HaMikdash
as well in Hebrews be paid to a hammock
dish there's a thing right out there on
on the wall so this was a sanctuary for
the Jews obviously before the the
prophets Ummah took that place you hear
avada Dini Kalihi you know well carry
hello Kathy room so the he that you have
to believe in now whether it was in the
body or whether it was a vision or that
there's a head of the dominant opinion
of the anima is that it was the bodily
the first part the second part the
mirage cannot be a physical journey it's
it's you stay here and that's that's all
of our ulema with the exception of the
Mooji SEMA the the anthropomorphise
which is a very small group but all of
the uma agree that window madonna
feted ella can oppose you know a dinner
you know that when he got close to Allah
and was brought near and was to Bo's
length which is a metaphor because in
the Arabian tradition if you came into
the presence of a king you could not
come closer than two bows length that
was the closest that you are allowed to
get to the king and so that was an
honorific expression of how close the
prophet got to God as close as you can
get to a king without breaching the dub
so but that denno is denno
maqam lemak and you know it's it's a
demo of station not of place it's really
important so people should not think
that there's any physicality there you
don't go into the physical presence of
God because God does not have
physicality so but the essaouira is much
my life if you reject it is that you're
rejecting no Soren and generally it was
considered you know you just out of
Islam if you reject it but obviously if
somebody doesn't believe in the bodily
journey they're not that's not disbelief
but I y'all mm say you fossil will you
bet down they're considered Moop today
and fess up
but it's not out of Islam so it's an
innovative belief so
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so he says that the benefit one of the
benefits of mentioning that in in verse
in the Quran Subhan Allah driv Abdi he
by saying leyland is that it was a
journey that took the Arabs about thirty
nights to make that journey from Mecca
so it was reinforcing that it was in one
night and even Mossad has a parada that
said Baba layin some of the night so it
was a portion of the night because the
Prophet SAW lies in him and the hadith
that Aisha relates even though she was
not married to the Prophet at the time
but she might have heard that from
somebody who was there was that his his
bed was still warm by the time that he
got back so the journey was obviously
it's a metaphysical journey in that it
was not in the normal time-space
continuum that we're in it was it was in
and now I mean they have you know they
in modern physics they have IED things
like wormholes do you know where you can
be in one part of the universe and and
go through a wormhole and you're
instantaneously in another part of the
universe so these ideas at that time the
Barak which is from a root word bark
which is lightning and was like the
speed of light the Baraat was moving at
because it went from one horizon to the
other in one step so it's instantaneous
travelling but the Prophet Elias said
I'm what's what's intriguing now is that
these things are just common to go from
Mecca to Syria you know or from Jeddah
to Syria it takes you 40 minutes or
something by airplane so it's just
not you know at that time it sounded
completely just and some people lost
their faith there were people that
literally it was too much but Abu Bakr
said I think the best thing about it
because when they came to him and the
Polish were really happy about this
because they thought people aren't
they're not going to buy this so they
went out Bukka and I said did you hear
what your companions saying that he did
and he said no what what what did he do
and he said he says he went to Jerusalem
last night and came back a journey that
takes us a month and abu-bakr said in
the bottom of a pod so doc if he did
indeed say that in other words I don't
necessarily trust you but if he did
indeed say that I believe him and they
said you believe him that he could do
that he said I believe him in something
more extraordinary than that that he's
getting revelation from God that's
that's what's really I mean once you
once you ex
then everything becomes possible within
that because that that's the really
challenging thing the idea of you know
God communicating to a human being but
once you accept that everything else
becomes very very but that's what's so
interesting about prophets is is why do
people believe then people don't believe
mad people I mean you get cults you know
like you can have a small cult of people
that believe in in something but when
you get these manifestations that huge
numbers of people believe in and that's
why it's one of the proofs of of the
prophets is their acceptance the
acceptance of these great numbers of
people for what they're what they're
telling so the the other thing that
happens which is interesting is he he
sees mu Silas and I'm in at bihari he
sees him praying at cos panorama at the
place in Sinai in his grave which is a
proof of the Allison that the prophets
are alive in their grave
so people that say the prophet's dead he
died a physical death but the prophets
are not dead none of the prophets are
dead the prophets are alive the Shahadah
are alive and and then he met the other
prophet so if they were dead how did he
meet them because that's also Hadees
like he met first of all he met them at
the Beit al-maqdis at the mission locks
law here and they asked him to lead the
prayer in fact Ibrahim Ali said them
when the prophet Elijah he said uh you
know ethanal ambien Allah work unto
machine Ian you know I they were
praising God and I was praising God and
one of the things that he said was
alhamdulillah subhanaka
paducah you know I'm praising you and
then he said you made me a mercy to all
the world and Ibrahim said be hada for
Delta Elena by this you have this
preference as it you're Rama goes
extends to all the worlds and and that's
when they asked him to lead the prayer
so he led the prayer and the his heart
according to one rewire was washed also
again at that point there's three
prewired that the heart was washed now
the the physical washing of his heart
that took place when he was a just a few
years old he was little boy in in the
they were playing he was playing with
his uh his of nurse his brother in
nursing a home for Allah and the little
boy saw that two angels came and
besought Rahul and he ran to tell
Halima's idea what had happened but
what's interesting about that story is
again it was something the idea of
taking a heart out and washing the heart
and was something
just beyond imagination at that time
it's something that happens everyday in
our civilization I mean this is one of
the things that Sania Maya Tina that I
thought people feel museum hottie at the
very end at home and would help you know
we will continue to show them our signs
until it becomes clear but if you look
at what happened his heart was put into
a basin of ice which is what you do when
when you take a heart out you know they
put it on they put it in some cool
temperature to slow down the metabolic
rate so that the cells don't die and
then they pour over a cryonic fluid
which is high in potassium and calcium
and electrolytes so they have
electrolytic fluid that they pour which
is what the Angels did according to
Dudley why they're pouring over the zem
zem which is very salty water over the
heart and then they put it back in his
chest but the Sahaba said that they saw
the scar like if you ever seen anybody
that's had open-heart surgery they have
that very scar they saw fine scar down
the front of his chest from from the
splitting of the chest so that occurred
and according to the hadith he was
washed the thoughts that they used every
prophet had their heart washed all the
prophets had their heart washed and that
pass the original toss was was the same
one it's always used the same one so
their hearts are all washed in the same
now the other thing that is a plethora a
man died at the I'll be here to Cobra he
saw these great signs of his Lord and
the Provencal I said I'm as he was
moving when the Mirage began which is
the Ascension Mirage means latter in
Arabic or do jiz to ascend when he was
ascending and there's a Jacob's Ladder
in the Bible which is like a mirage
where he has a ladder up to the heavens
so the when he was when he was ascending
he saw he was seeing all these
extraordinary things like the unseen was
open
up completely but the Quran says
Mazzella pasa Omata
his I didn't deviate you know his I
didn't swerve he wasn't he didn't look
at all he was focused completely on a
lawsuit Panama Donna and the I mean
ultimately that you know it's it's he's
done the journey that all everybody
makes the journey to their Lord
everybody's on a journey to their Lord
you either do it wittingly or willingly
or you do it unwillingly but everybody
is headed to God and and so the prophesy
center is rah is really it is the story
of Islam in that it is the purpose of of
this teaching and that's why the is what
is the essential thing that happens on a
surrounding now watch what's what's the
prayer I mean that's what he was given
he was given the prayer and and and and
also the affirmation from the other
prophets because he meets Adam in the
first heaven he meets mimosa Dianna see
use of in the second heaven he needs to
ISA in the third heaven he meets Harun
threes in the fourth heaven he meets
Harun in the fifth he meets moose and
the six and then he meets Ibrahim at him
and he told us I have what each one of
them look like in relation to people
they knew so he said he looks like so
and then he said about Ibraheem he said
hashiba hope you saw he become he looks
most like your companion meaning himself
but and then each one of the prophets
affirmed him and prayed and for his help
and this is called some of the elements
say that this is the raffia kalila you
know some say it refers to Allah and
Mela lillah
you know the this the highest because
the Prophet when he died that's what he
was saying the the highest companionship
which is a lot but it's also the company
the profits and so they affirmed all of
them affirmed what he was teaching
because the Prophet didn't never saw
himself outside of their of their
teaching he was not bringing anything
new he was not a bidden minute
Rossellini wasn't an innovator from the
messengers everything and that's why you
know people say oh you know he he got
these stories from the Bible right I
mean there's the Orientalist have said
that but if you look it's it's very
interesting how consistently it the
Quran avoids all of these things in the
Bible that are in the Bible like in the
stories you know they complain to the
Prophet that the poor on was not linear
you know they said that it's not like a
story and that that's when sort of Yusef
came down like we can do that we've
already done that before you know
because the Bible's like that
but the Quran is not like that but Allah
when they said to him that it wasn't
like anything they'd heard before it
didn't it didn't have a narrative it
didn't have like a traditional beginning
a middle and an end that's when the use
of came down it's like there you go
that's possible because they complain
some of the people said they wanted
stories Passos and that's when that that
that's possible but the Quran is it's
very different from any previous
dispensation but it's not teaching
different things it's teaching the same
things and that's why it's a very
interesting it has it has Old Testament
elements but it's got New Testament
elements it's not it's not fixed in one
or the other perspective although if
anything it inclines more towards a
ESA's approach to things and if you if
you look at the I as the deal with
justice and they're always followed up
by eyes of forgiving and overlooking and
it's a higher thing and that's why the
Prophet was commanded to do those things
even though his own was not commanded
they can redress wrongs if they want to
but he was obligated to forgive and
that's why he millennion tuck him D&F;
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vengeance or any revenge for himself
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the see aware I can yahoo we all feel
like in the Hilliard says he never
returned a wrong with another wrong but
he used to forgive and overlook
so the and then the other thing that's
very interesting about you know in Imam
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you continue to go up in rank until you
got to pop up how saying this rank of
two bows links that had never been
achieved before even gibreel had to stop
and let him go and and then but what's
very interesting you know walk at the
matka demeanor and vab ha water suit
academia dome and an academy and and all
the prophets they put you forward and he
says wanted to tear a possibly Bobby him
female given Kentucky you so I banana me
and you broke through the seven heavens
with them in a procession you were the
the standard barrier there in that
procession of all these prophets but
then what he says which is very
interesting he says Boucheron and I'm I
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address relates he said I lemony or not
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says after that he talks about the Asura
he murmured ball Sadie says what good
news we have o people of submission
because we have a providential care a
pillar of support that can never be
destroyed this pillar of the prophets
Elias nm and then he says when God
called his prophet and said o best of
messengers by that we became the best of
omen what's really interesting I just
want to read you this because I thought
this was so extraordinary the Macan of
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a lot a little an amine so he says that
when when Iman was lady says that God
called the one who called us to his
obedience by the best of messengers we
then
must be the best of nations because
that's his Delisle that the fact that
he's a Croma Russell makes kuntum hi
Roma 1003 gentleness but then he says
that the believers of this Ummah are the
best believers and the kaffir oon are
the best Catherine which is very
interesting to me because if you look
never in history like have there been so
many people that are espousing the
truths that the Prophet is M was was
espousing at a time when nobody had
articulated those things like the
Prophet is the first there's no human
being that I've ever seen in history and
all the readings I've done and I've
asked people to show me I've never seen
anybody make the remark about human
equality that the Prophet slicin made I
don't find anywhere in human history
anybody that said there is no preference
of a white man over a black man or a
black man over a white man or an Arab
over non Arab or non Arab over an Arab
except in piety
I don't found anything that even comes
close to that in really attacking racism
at its at its root and that now has
become people that don't even believe in
God have come to accept that as a truth
whereas that was not widely acknowledged
at all in fact it wasn't really
acknowledged the superiority was a
common belief in the pre-modern world of
tribal racial religious superiority
whatever and also women's rights just
the elevation of women the abolition of
slavery I mean all of these things that
have happened in in this which which is
very clear that it's like his OMA is not
just the people that believe in him but
it's all the people of the world that
are in existence after he comes into the
world so we believe there the OMA
because the OMA is divided in two
omma to Dawa wanted st Jabba the OMA of
download Ummah of invitation people that
are invited to the prophets Lyceum to
accept him to believe him and then the
people that answer that invitation
because people have a choice and even
that like I'll have a Dean right I mean
before the Prophet SAW I said religion
was about coercion right people people
were forced to believe in things that
they didn't necessarily want to believe
once people got into power so if you
look at religious traditions once they
got into power rarely do you find in
human history religions that were
tolerant of other religions and the
Muslims have their blemishes I mean
there's there's no doubt about that but
in terms of the pre-modern world they
have by far the best record of any
civilization but the moderns have become
more tolerant I mean there's nothing in
human history that parallels Western
tolerance post-enlightenment tolerance
of religions nothing which is quite
extraordinary because that I mean to me
it's it's proof of what because this is
this Imam I mean he was writing over a
hundred years ago but I just thought
that was very interesting that he said
that that even the people that don't
believe in him are the best of of those
times that an interesting point I just
absolutely interesting to me I'm doing
so what time does the Isha come in what
time is it now 954 alright so does
anybody have any question yeah I think
you're observing they're struggling a
lot with Islam because the thing about
Europe unlike America Europe has largely
abandoned religion I mean they really
see religion is very backward thing it's
it's something that it's almost an
embarrassment to modern many modern
Europeans I mean there's still
Christians and believers in Europe but
generally they're very
I mean the vodka issue is a classic
issue in France of you know pourquoi no
vodka you know what I mean why not let
it fall one wants to cover a phase why
not let I mean they they let you go to a
plastic surgeon and rearrange your face
I mean there's no laws against that it's
amazing and there's some faces out there
that I think could be as social service
to cover them so I don't know you know
that's a real problem it's a problem
it's very interesting I mean why you
know why there is that that split but
generally the problem with human rights
is there's no ground for them you know
secularity is not a grounds for human
rights secularity is about power it's
not you know the Germans argued that
that Jews were not worthy of you know
they're just subhuman and from a secular
point of view if you don't have any any
grounds for then that argument is as
valid as any other argument in terms of
power and that's why goring at the at
the Nuremberg trials goring said you
know he refused to even partake and he
just said this is about power he said we
were in power now you're in power so
you're dictating to us just like we
dictate it before and that without
religion things are about power
so even human rights you know we we
frame things in human rights but what
Human Rights did the Iraqis have when
they were bombed do you know I mean
that's just power so you you can say
wonderful things about human rights
which you know Europe and America do
they say wonderful things
and I and a lot of people generally
believe these things but in the end the
people in power behave according to
power they don't behave according to
human right they're just it's about
power and so the only time that these
things are really truly meaningful is
when you bring in the sacred and and and
rites become grounded in in divine
rights not human right divine rights
that these are divine rights that a lots
of behind without I've created people
and gave them dignity what irrespective
of their religion humans have dignity
that laqad karramna bani adam' we have
in noble and dignified the children of
adam every human being has dignity and
as that's an islamic belief and the
prophets eyes have taught that when he
stood up for the jew in the in the
funeral when they were bringing the Jew
by and this was a time when the muslims
and jews were were at it they weren't
you know it wasn't a peaceful time but
when that when the the funeral came by
the prophets stood up and one of the
Sahaba said it's a Jew as inside Behati
you know and it's sad how some of the
commentators try to like erase that
meaning you know by giving you know
really I think you know just really
crazy interpretations but but the
Prophet said Ola said Neffs al isn't it
a soul and and that's why the Ummah that
I think got it right said he stood up to
acknowledge a soul returning to its Lord
irrespective of what the persona you
know because religion is personality
right you know Islam were Muslims
hamdulillah but who's really a Muslim
you know it the happy ha of Islam the
reality of Islam is very different from
the sociological box that you check when
it asks you what religion you adhere to
you know you put your little box there
but are you head unto Muslim oon you
know Allah says that to the Muslims are
you Muslims
that question is about your happy paw
it's not about outward forms you know
there's lots of people everybody can
perform the outward things of Islam
you can pray you can fast you can pay
your zakat you can do all those things
but is your inner reality a Muslim
reality which is a human being in total
submission to the Divine Will
that's another thing and and that's why
religion is more about personality than
reality so when I say I'm a Muslim er
you said you're a Muslim you're talking
about you know a certain set of social
circumstances and a certain set of
outward practices that you might or
might not adhere to if it's social
circumstances you're a Muslim because
you were born in Karachi and there's a
lot of people that's the extent of their
Islam they were born in Cairo and they
were told they're Muslims and that was
it but they haven't really ever entered
into a state of real Islam with their
Lord and then there's most of us who are
struggling with that like that wonderful
title to that book struggling to
surrender you know because it is a
struggle to surrender to the will of
Allah subhanAllah Dada so the Prophet
was honoring the soul stripped of the
personality because the Jew is the
personality the Muslim is the
personality the Christians the
personality and these personalities I
mean we had experience down here was so
I was with my wife a minute down here
guys were I thought downright
belligerent you know but the point is
whatever whatever upset them whether it
was my wife's P jab or you know or
whatever or they thought we were Muslims
and and and I'm supposed to have angry
feelings towards Muslims or I'm supposed
to have angry feelings towards Jews
because right now Palestine and Israel
is a mess
do you know what I mean so I'm supposed
to have these feelings towards these
people because but in the end of the day
if you just strip away that personality
they're just flesh and blood we're flesh
and blood they have souls we have souls
right and that trying to get to that is
such a hard place to get to and that's
where the Prophet was at so a lot is
that I mean he did not
see people as evil he saw people as
divine potential when he looked at
people he saw their potential and that's
why in the if you look in the in the in
the verse in surah 10 add that it ends
with this the B which is so beautiful
that the Quran has you know they they
the machete kun said what is this book
you know it has ankle boot and nav and
Nana
you know like ants and spiders and you
know they just thought that was so
strange but and bees but now we know all
these what these things are you know
spiders they're controlling all the we
do have a room filled with flies without
spiders so you know they're doing this
and then bees are pollinating all the
you know they're pollinating all the all
the food most of the food we eat is
pollinated by bees but at the end if you
say Oda truly that CBD Arabica bitter
hikmah you know call to the wave your
lord with wisdom what a more a that
husana and exhort them in in a beautiful
way you know don't be don't be harsh
lookin to follow one bloody they'll be
them fall demand how Lika you know if
you were hard and harsh hearted people
would flee from around you so it says
call with wisdom and with a goodly
exhaustion and then it says which I did
on the latias and and and debate with
them in the best way in the most
beautiful way and then it says that in
arabic animal beam imbalance a beauty he
who were animal Vilma 13 your lord knows
who's guided and he knows who's astray
right in other words just call to your
lord don't don't assume that you know
who you're talking to
you know don't assume that this person's
a Kaffir which is why the tang and Kufa
is haram in sharia you know tiny Nalco
for
is Haram the owner must say that this is
in the books of a PITA you cannot say
that an individual is a caveat because
Cathy you're saying that there Mahalo
did not write that you know there
hellbound and you can't say that about
anybody so you can talk about you know
these people go far but specific people
you don't know what people's reality is
and that's what Dow is about but then
you know when I captain five people be
Miss America to me you know if you have
to redress wrongs redress them in the
best you know in the most just way don't
don't transgress when you redress don't
don't translate so if somebody kills you
don't go kill their cousin you know I
mean say if somebody kills your you know
one of your tribe members right so if if
you know if if one Hindu kills a Muslim
you don't go out and find any Hindu to
kill them right that's there's people
that do that you know one one part of
the group does something to another part
so they go find anybody from that group
that's transgression this is not justice
as vengeance the difference between
justice and vengeance and then it says
when in sabar to the whole Hyrule is
sobbing but if you're patient it's
better to show patients you know it's
better then if you then redressing the
wrong then you know going on but then it
says while spitting you know you be
patient
so like the OMA it said you know if you
want to redress your wrongs do it but be
just in it but it's better to be patient
but then it says but you prophets all
I'd assume you have to be patient you
don't have an option here because he's
the exemplars and the exemplar has to
embody the highest example and that's
why the prophets um when he looked at
people he did not look at them with
contempt nobody
he had no contempt for people he had no
kibbe there was no pride in his heart
when the man said to him he asked him
about the sandals and and he said you
know I love to wear nice sandals and I
like a nice shirt is that Eric
the Prophet said in a lodge Emilia
Benjamin God is beautiful and he loves
Beauty in other words the thing that you
love the fact that you like beautiful
sandals what you really love is the
thing that Allah loves you love that
attribute of that thing that is is a
reflection of a divine attribute which
is beauty that Allah is beautiful so
when you love beauty you're loving the
the reflection the divine reflection of
God's beauty in the world that's what
you're really attracted to and he was
acknowledging that that that's not a bad
thing it's a good thing because Allah
knows that thing that's why he made that
thing that's why he brought Beauty into
the world because Allah is beautiful and
your acknowledgment of that beauty is
your recognition of that attribute in
the world that's what you're attracted
to it's it's the beauty of Allah that's
manifesting in that thing that's what
you're attracted to but then he
explained what Kippur was what arrogance
was he said well a candle kibbe butter
will help will humbleness arrogance is
to reject the truth when it's presented
to you and it's to have contempt for
people people Nass people is to have
contempt for people I'm Dana
it was called cuthbun and amar it's
inside Bihari it's in Sinai and it was
only described as the red dune like
there was a dune over it like a red sand
did I answer that or not somebody sent
something up I think
where is Nineveh in the modern world
Nineveh is Mosul in Iraq it's a it's
having a lot of trouble right now yeah
you know I heard it from a well-known
share that Allah has made it forbidden
for the earth to take the bodies of the
prophets and that their flesh is still
fresh in their graves
how is this supposed to be understood
well I mean first of all the it's a
hadith the Prophet said avocado had said
that NBA the earth doesn't eat the
prophets but that's also that's not
that's a Catholic belief as well I mean
the Catholics actually one of the signs
of sanctification is that the bodies
aren't there called incorrigibles and
the Vatican is filled with those bodies
from from Saints that there was an
interesting article and discovery about
they let scientists go and examined the
bodies in in in the Vatican and it's
worth reading the article because a
couple of the scientists just were
flabbergasted so a lot of the bodies
were actually mummified because the
Pope's would they'd be a little worried
that they would get their flesh would
get corrupted so they'd have make sure
that they were mummified afterwards but
some of them weren't and there was one
fifth century Saint is like a patron
saint of prostitutes she was a
that had Toba and she became a saint and
but the one of the scientists just said
that like he was just amazed at the
preservation of the body he just like it
really floored him now I saw when I was
12 years old and I was went to a Greek
Orthodox summer camp in Greece I
actually visited the island of Zakynthos
and and there was a st. George Wright
who I'm I wonder if it's a Jew Age in
the story of the prophets eyes him where
they built the church for him but we saw
his body which is open to air it's
completely intact I mean I saw it with
my own eyes so you know incorrigibles
are they exist in the world
there's there's bodies that have not and
they're not mummified there's bodies
that were mummified but there's also
bodies that just have not been eaten by
the earth so that's that's not that's
not a you know that's a that's a reality
that's even accepted by the secular
world I mean they have their
explanations for it you know they think
it was the in that anyway that article
talks about why they think they were
preserved but still their preserves are
there for people to see even Medgar
Evers
when they exhumed his body in 1992 I
think he was killed in 62 61 when they
exhumed his body in 1992 it was
completely intact
so Medgar Evers a civil rights activist
hmm yeah he was shot in the back mm-hmm
Oh
guy was just reading from this book is a
commentary of the boertie by an Egyptian
share named Hassan and AD will hams away
it's a shot hello portable Syria yeah
it's very interesting I just suddenly
gave it to me a couple months ago or
last month could you please clarify what
you said about the maraj being a vision
for the Prophet does this mean that his
seeing the other prophet in being in the
divine presence and receiving the prayer
was not in his physical body no he was
definitely in his physical body when he
met the prophets also his the the ascent
through he did go through the malakut is
different from the mullick and i don't
know you know
the monk is what we're in here this is
the mulk the Mallicoat is is it's the
realm of the angels and then you have
the jaw borrowed so you there are
different rounds and the realms are not
the same like we're in a fixed physical
world where time-space affects us you
know if we if you know I'll bump into
the wall I'll hurt myself but there's
other worlds that are very different
from this world and the prophets eyes
have entered in to those worlds now we
don't know what I mean I don't know what
to tell you about it other than it's not
like here but that went that entering
into the divine presence was not
physical by consensus I mean that's just
anybody that tells you that that was a
physical thing was not now what was it I
mean I don't I don't I don't know I mean
I can't tell you what it was but the
reason that ultimate reject the
physicality of entering into the divine
presence is because it necessitates
certain beliefs that are impossible is
the hallo alle law one of them is that
it allows in a physical place God cannot
be in a physical locality because if he
was in a physical locality that
means he's muta he is in other words
something's around him there's something
outside of him which is impossible
because the hadoo de la who imam up to
how he says he has no limits God is in
finite Sheena - it means like a limit
and end infinite without end so a lot is
without limits so he cannot be contained
and and therefore - you know to enter
into the Divine Presence we don't know
what that means
I can't tell you what that means we're
all going to experience it so we just
have to wait for that but it's going to
happen and it's your we believe we're
going to see God but not with the
physical eye
not with Anil fannia with a nutbar piya
with the eight eternal eye the eye that
is able to witness the divine reality
and the anima say it's B let your heart
that you know there's no you don't see
God in any hotter sense you don't it's
it's it's a it's beyond company mala I
know lots
I mean if Jenna is what the eye has
never seen will a genuine semi had and
no ear has ever heard when a hotter a la
poly be better and it never occurred to
the human being that's Jenna so what is
God I mean if that's just Jenna that's
God's creation what is God because jenna
is what no eye has seen what no ear has
heard and what never occurred to the
human heart so when you know God is you
know an Angelina Iraqi adraka will hold
if Acuna Scirocco the same that Walker
said our inability to understand God is
our understanding of God and to speak
about the essence of God is to fall into
shark
well because language is is limited I
mean when we speak in language even
language most of language is metaphor
even though we don't think about it most
of language when we speak we're using
metaphors constantly but we don't think
about them as metaphors because language
is symbolic language is expressing
things that are not really language
right I mean when I talk to you about I
saw a beautiful tree today
alright you know what a tree is but you
know that there's a whole branch of
philosophy that argues there's no such
thing as a tree because trees aren't no
tree is like any other trees so is there
a category of trees in reality and we're
just lumping them all together because
they look alike and that's what we do
with humans right but is there really
something called humanity there's a
whole bunch of individuals out there but
can we lump us all together and call us
humanity because that's a category but
its language it's limited so all of
language has its really gross
limitations in expression of how we're
going to talk about things and that's
why so much of this is metaphor
it's just the nature of language and
reality and when you talk about God I
mean you know Rumi says that that really
says theologians are like chaperones
they're just there to make sure nothing
haram happens with the lover and the
beloved you know but but you know in the
end of the day the Prophet SAW lies in
him you know he was in a state of divine
witnessing which I had no I mean say no
and he said I never saw anything except
I
saw Allah before it in it and after it
mean he didn't mean that physically that
he saw God but he saw whatever tidge nd
was there he saw it because the Taj
India tour had you know what they called
theophanies in in English you know a
Thea a theophany is like that in in
Arabic it's called Atta gently
which is how God expresses himself in
the world it's a manifestation of the
divine in the world the world is not the
divine but the world cannot exist
without the divine it's the mirror yeah
and we're the pupil we you know God is
contemplating himself through us but
that you know there's no there's no
we're not God I mean that's a Hyundai
love we're not that's we're not
pantheous or Penn anthias or you know
but we do we do believe that language is
limited you know that's why you know the
Quran has so many meanings it's just
endless meanings because of the nature
of language and the Quran is the richest
language and anybody who really studies
Arabic language will increasingly
realize that about the Quran you know
there's just endless possibility so but
the point is is that that rejection of
physicality even though the language you
him will Kunlun ulsan Ohama Tesh mija a
will who one is warm turns out onesa
Warrenton seha a will a widow for would
warrant and zahana
hmm you know every every text that in
any way indicates anthropomorphism
either interpreted metaphorically which
is the opinion of later muta kalamoon
the earlier opinion which i think is the
sound sound us and that's the one I
prefer is oh for well you know just
leave it to God don't don't say you know
what it mean just it doesn't mean what
it appears to mean
which is called taut wheel is Madi as
opposed to that wheel tough ceiling
mm-hmm anakata
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well yeah racism is a major human
problem you know still and Muslims are
certainly not exempt from racism there's
different types of racism in the Muslim
world than say in in in the West
I mean Muslims have never had really a
color racism it's much more about tribe
and clan and family and you know and
also now like for instance the Arabs
some of the Arabs might look down on say
Pakistanis or South Asians but there was
a time when it was quite the opposite
you know I mean the South Asians were up
on the top and then again that's about
power and that's the nature of the world
that's why the world is a kind of
uninteresting place from that
perspective because so much of the world
is about power and that's why like
Bernie Madoff is such a wonderful gift
to humanity
you know because Bernie Madoff to me
once you understand Bernie Madoff you
can never take the world seriously you
know because Bernie Madoff was on he was
the head of several charitable
foundations you know he was lecturing on
ethics you know he was the head of
yeshiva Business School and he stole
their whole endowment and he had plaques
of honors I mean that's the world the
you know the world will honor the most
dishonorable and contemptible people
because the world is about appearances
and not about
reality and it's very easy to fool
people in the world because people are
generally naive and they're generally
simple and that's why the venal people
and the worst types of people in the
world get along very well in the world
you know for however long they get along
I mean Bernie did quite well for quite
some time and his wife even got off with
I think two and a half million dollars
or something and but she didn't know
anything about it of course I mean that
he'd stole billions ollars I mean my
wife knows everything about everything I
make and everything so and he had one
accountant he had one CPA and it's a lot
and that CPA I didn't know anything
about it either he was shocked as
everybody else
Bernie sons were shocked even though he
set him up in business everybody shocked
all of Bernie's best friends is one of
his closest friends that I can't believe
it he was one of the nicest guys ever
knew you know I mean that's just dunya
so you know at a certain point I mean
that the thing about it is and this is
it I'm going to tell you the truth
you're a young man like I've been around
long enough to know something we're
aliens really this is not our planet
we're just here for a short time it's
it's like a it's like a prison that
you've been put in and behave well and
you'll get off with good behavior really
just behave well but ignore the other
inmates really because it's it's crazy
and there's a lot of nutcase people out
there and prison makes people mad in
some ways do you know so you just have
to you know your mom addict said and
this is one of my favorite statements
that I've ever heard and this is worth
the whole sitting through this whole
lecture for this really it is mo Matic
said I knew a people a dr. Coleman you
know I
I experienced a people who had no faults
and they preoccupied theirselves with
faults of others and God gave them
faults and he said and I knew another
people who had faults and they pre
occupied themselves with purifying their
faults and ignored the fault of others
and God removed their faults so I think
the best thing for you is not to be that
and to to just be the witness you know
we're shuhada at a nest that that's what
the quran told us to be witnesses unto
mankind and if you're really a true
witness then you don't reflect that if
other people reflect that there's
nothing you can do about that other than
be a true witness to somebody who is not
a racist or who's not a and and just
watch yourself because we all have it
I mean there's people you know there's
been sociological studies of white
people in this culture where they had
had them interview different people with
the same degrees and everything and but
there have a black and Hispanic and a
white and they would their syntax would
change when they when they were talking
with the black people their syntax would
change because there's just sociological
assumptions that are really hard to
break in people so racism is very subtle
and it manifests in a lot of different
ways and and everybody's carrying around
baggage and everybody's had their time
at being on top you know
the blacks have been on top in human
history you know the Arabs were on top and him in history the whites were on the bottom for a long time and the Irish still are so you know their time will come George Bernard Shaw said I want to be in Ireland when the end of time comes because everything happens fifty years later in Ireland.
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the the subject of tawheed is probably
the single it is the single most
important subject for Muslims to to have
some level of knowledge of I've been
accused of saying that you can learn to
heed in 10 minutes and I think I'll
explain what I meant by that basic
tawheed is is very simple a person can
say la ilaha illallah muhammad rasool
allah and there there Muslim because
Laila hey Lala can be explained very
quickly what exactly it means Lam Abood
be happen Sawalha there's nothing in
reality worthy of worship except Allah
lamb Abood and be happen there's nothing
worshiped in truth except Allah
Leila Heil Allah there is no God except
Allah there's no God except the one true
God that basic understanding is that's
how you get into Islam so from that
point of view it's very quick that's why
there's a Sahabi that said Shahada
that's all he did he did never prayed or
fast it and he went into a battle and he
was killed and he's saying
was for being the Sahabi that died and
went to paradise with her without ever
having prayed or fasted but he said
lately a lot now the Arabs the
pre-islamic Arabs knew Arabic so they
knew what Len if he legends meant like
they didn't have that term for it that's
a grammatical term that came later but
they knew when you have la followed by
an era that's mom soul but they didn't
have those terms either those are
grammatical terms but but they knew what
it was they knew when you have a Fatah
even though they didn't called maan soup
they knew LAN la illaha not la la una
because that changes the meaning that
Eli own la ilaha Neffe little Jin's
negates anything of what follows Allah
is most Athena it's an exception so in
the in the fundamental creed of Islam
you have a negation and an affirmation
the first thing children learn to do is
negate that's why they say let the first
word most kids learn that no because
negation is part of asserting something
one way to assert something is to negate
but the affirmation which follows
negation is done through an exception so
there is no God except Allah and Allah
subhanAllah Dianna the word Allah is a
Semitic word the the Hebrew said l-like
jibra eel eel Elohim is from the same
root yellow which is the Aramaic yellow
was the only Aramaic that's left in the
gospel is Eloi Eloi Lema Lema
sabachthani and that's the only thing in
the gospel from that language which was
probably the language that a scientist
and him spoke so Allah is a proper name
for
a loss of hand with data so when we wait
when we embark on to ahed there are
certain prerequisites the first thing
people here in Charlotte are what are
called to lobulated seekers of knowledge
and seeking knowledge is one of the
highest things that you can do the
prophets Eliza time said at Bath manhood
you had to seek knowledge is actually
jihad and he also said that with a
character who just doing what Accra is
to SPEA it's like saying subhanAllah so
when you're actually reviewing your
classes your notes and things that is
dhikr of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala and the
Prophet said in the memory to my lima I
was only sent to teach people and he's a
teacher
he also said Salah why he said I'm that
more a luminous I'll hire the people
that teach people good get the reward of
the people they teach what am class
women many lethality and it doesn't
diminish from the ward of the one doing
it and that's why that that goes on
until the end of time so if everything
that every Muslim has ever done of good
goes back to the prophets Elias and
because they do it with that Nia and the
Prophet taught them Nia the Prophet
taught us will do he taught us prayer he
taught us to heed he taught us all these
things so everybody that's ever learned
that until the end of time has that
reward goes back to the Prophet SAW time
it goes back to the teachers and one of
the blessings of this tradition is the
chain of narration the chain of
transmission that people learn things
based on these chains so we're all links
in the chain and whoever's teaching
something that's learned it from a
teacher who learned it from a teacher
who learned it from a teacher goes back
to like in the case of this book Imam
Ali's book it goes back to Imam at the
Howey but Imam to how we learned
from his mother woman mezzanine Omaha
via Omaha we Iman Meza nice sister she's
also called hooked and Elmo's any and he
learned from his uncle amendment was any
one of the great Japanese scholars and
imam moussa he learned from Imam Shafi
imam shafi'i learned from imam malik
imam addict learned from Nana I learned
from even Omar even omar learned from
The Messenger of Allah so the chain
even among how he the chain is unbroken
it all goes back to the prophets Elijah
them so that that's the blessing of the
is net the prophets Allah serum also
said that in al Maleh Akata latardo as
neha Taha Leah palpable in real on beam
is now that even the Angels put their
wings down for the seeker of knowledge
out of joy for what they're seeking
seeking knowledge the Prophet Elias Adam
also said that man palpable Elma man
terrible Elma Paulo para but memorable
and Melinda he tell Jenna to fear Allah
be he woman palpable marcia tov an ROV
therapy he you know that if you if
you're seeking knowledge paradise is
seeking you if you're seeking knowledge
for allah's sake and if you're seeking
disobedience the fire is seeking you and
the prophets allah i am also the quran
tells us Pharaoh ala decree in
contemplate our Moon as the people knows
if you don't know and knowledge is there
are different types of knowledge one of
one one of the basic aspects of
knowledge which is it's not dialogical
it's
didactical you the didactic that you
there's information somebody studies
grammar then they teach grammar it's
something you learn so in the Zaidan
baba i'm
you know that that's if we're going to
parse that sentence you have to learn
what in that is what it does to a noun
like Zaidan so it's Munsell because of
in and then you learn baba is a feral
and it's moving on the Fatah because
it's a feral Molly and then you learn
that Imran is Munsell because this
mother gonna be that's that's something
that you learn and that needs to be
taught there's not a lot of discussion
you can ask questions like why did
they'd hit alma and you can ask that
question i actually told the mufti of
egypt that the problem in the arab world
is not going to stop until they change
their grammatical sentences that they
teach little kids because it's always
eight hit dhamma and you know I said in
the West we've gotten you know Dixie's
Jane which is another problem you know
but anyway so the that's a knowledge you
know and either you know it or you don't
know it this as simple as that
and so it's information now in in
al-qaeda there's certain information now
you can read it in a book like that book
there that is the Creed of Imam Appa
Howie that book you can read the book
and you might have questions and if
you're clever you know you can
understand quite a bit of it maybe all
of it and you might understand it better
than the person that translated it
that's possible so but there is a
blessing in studying with this chain
there's a blessing we believe that and
and that's part of what this tradition
is about so you can learn from books but
there's always a blessing to go through
that now at a certain point especially
with students it's good to have more
that Kaaba which is where you actually
discuss things that you're learning and
because mother Kara is a way that real
questions begin to emerge because at
biological approach to knowledge is
actually a lot better than the didactic
approach when you discuss things you get
quite a bit out of discussion so it's
very important to recognize that that
this isn't just a dump you know that you
you come and you're empty vessels and
you get filled up these things their
meanings that you need to interact with
to make them real for you so that it's
not just information and and it's
important to to think about these things
and not just to take things all of you
here almost all of you I think are
adults and you know the religion is not
real if it's not based on on a real
belief and our religion has never shied
away from questions you know it's one of
the beauties of the religion is that no
scholar ever said you can't ask that as
far as I know that there are certain
things that you know come from arrogance
and from other things that's another
thing but genuinely if somebody is
generally trying to understand something
then there's usually answers now some
things and particularly with when you
get into tawheed when you're talking
about the essence of God there's real
limitations because of the nature of
language so that's that's also
understood that this is about language I
mean the book of imam at the Howey is a
book of words it's words and the words
are about God and God is the ineffable
God is what we really can't articulate
and language fall short of speaking
about God so before we get into that I
want to preface this by what are called
the Madadi in Nevada a co-defendant
ishara al had the one mobile summit
amara that the the foundation of all
knowledge is the the foundational
principles of every knowledge are 10
there's 10 foundational principles of
every knowledge
and before you start into that knowledge
it's good to know those foundational
principles the first one is called a
head which in our in the English
language we call that a definition it's
important to know the definition of what
you're studying now a definition and in
logic is something that gets to the
essence of a thing when you define
something you have to define it
essentially and a definition should be
inclusive and exclusive it should be
include everything that that thing is
and should exclude everything that it
isn't that's that's a real proper
definition so you know to give me an
example of this the logician say that a
human being is a rational animal human
beings are animals but they're rational
animals and that is a definition because
it gets to the essence of what a human
being is to be human is to be an animal
but also to be rational to be sapien
shal to be an animal that has intellect
the ability to reason other animals
don't have that so it excludes the
irrational it excludes the the animals
that are in an instinct that are working
on instinct and and then you have the
the mold WA which is the subject matter
what that thing is about and then you
have the thumb rot which is the fruit
what's the benefit of that thing well
fun little hole and then you have the
the virtue of that thing why that thing
should be learned because not all
knowledge should be learned there's some
knowledge --is that are superfluous
there's some knowledge --is that are a
complete waste of time
um there's you know astrology is a
knowledge it's a you can study astrology
and it's a knowledge but it's a waste of
time
alchemy is a type of knowledge also it's
a waste of time
so there our knowledge is out there and
that's why the Prophet said Allah
homogeneous arukadhimon nephew and you
know I ask you for beneficial knowledge
knowledge that benefits me benefits me
because information there's a lot of
information out there but a lot of
information is a complete waste of time
and I think most of us are filled with
trivia that I personally would like
those parts of my brain that have been
occupied by that trivia back but it's
it's something that unfortunately you
know we're stuck with that like
commercial jingles that you can never
get out of your head I mean I watched a
woman literally dying of lung cancer
saying a Chesterfield jingle which was
an old kind of cigarette back in the 40s
or something and she was cursing she
said those liars and she was literally
dying you know in the hospital but she
had that jingle that she heard when she
probably first starts smoking cigarettes
so there's a lot of things that we know
that are just unfortunate but this is
not I mean this is an incredibly
fruitful thing and so knowing it's
virtue is knowing why it's worthy of our
time and our consideration when is
spittoon and then knowing what what what
it's what it's relates to you know what
in other words what it's associated with
what a while there and who is the first
one that made that science what is
smallest him dad or hook Machado and
then to know its name because every
knowledge has an name or it has several
names to know its esteem dad is to know
what that knowledge is deriving its
principles and its facts or its opinions
because there's knowledge is opinion
also it's not just fact sound opinion
and what it's deriving them from what
are the sources of that knowledge
distant that walk machete and to know
the legal ruling of that knowledge to
know the legal ruling what is the ruling
of that knowledge is it for dying
is it for casaya and then we'll Masato
Bardo who bid bobby Activa and then to
know the mesial so the subject is what
it's talking about the mesial are the
details of of those things what it's
investigating so and then in other words
the topics because it is between subject
and topic so the mesial are the topics
and then he says Minh has a man Daryl
Jim yang has a sharafa if you know all
these things then you've attained an
honorable rank so anyway that's those
are called the my body and eye shadow so
in terms of tawheed the the definition
of it is it is the science that
investigates the nature of God and the
nature of prophecy and the nature of
eschatology in other words the last
things so it it it looks at the nature
of God the magia of God the nature of
prophets and and what are called the
summit yet those things that have been
revealed and the end and relate to the
unseen matters that we don't really know
about and then the subject matter of the
is the subject matter is the the the
essence of God the attributes of God and
the the essence of prophets and the
attributes of prophets and then the the
articles of faith and the Kitab you know
which is part of that and then the the
fit or the virtue the benefit the FATA
of it is that it protects you from
having mistakes in your understanding
about allah subhanaw taala
for instance there are people that think
that the universe is eternal and inta
heed the the quran is very clear that a
las pedir ASIMO at the up he originated
the heavens in the earth without any
prior pattern that's what vidya means an
originator that is working that is
bringing something into the world
without any prior pattern on a lady myth
had in mu Spock and then he's also
called father Usama at Ewood autumn the
one who brought forth the heavens in the
earth he's horrible somehow at you but
all he's he's al baddie he's in more so
well so the hot up is the one that
brings it into existence out of nothing
the baddie is the one that fashions it
and then the misawa is the one that
forms it into the forms that it takes
so the Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has
formed creation for instance the there's
people that that deny design which is
pure it's that is co far like to deny
design is co far this is as simple as
that if you say there's this is all
randomness and there's no real design
here that that is the essence of it's
such a denial of what is so clearly
obvious no matter what mechanisms are
being used to bring about the forms that
exist in the world the idea of denying
design that there is design here and
design necessitates a designer so the
benefit of tawheed is to know
the the correct things about God and
about the prophets so to know for
instance that the prophets are
impeccable they don't they don't there's
a difference of opinion about whether
they can do minor sins what are called
venial sins in Christianity there's a
difference of opinion but the dominant
thing is is that they don't even do that
that there's and and this is why there's
a extensive literature in our tradition
explaining all of the things that appear
to be peccadilloes or appear to be minor
infractions of the of the prophets
you'll find that in the literature
explaining like that Ibrahim a DCM did
not lie when he said you know the big
one did it because he used his thumb
pointing with his thumb things like that
I mean sometimes you know they they go
to quite interesting links to prove that
point but DM the idea of the prophets
doing anything major is absolutely
completely unacceptable so learning that
into heat learning also what a prophet
is like the nature of a prophet learning
that the prophets can get sick but they
can't have illnesses that would make
them abhorrent to the people that they
were sent to so for instance Ayub in the
Islamic tradition job his illnesses are
not illnesses that the people were
disgusted by they were actually internal
sicknesses the people couldn't see them
not those are how that's one aspect of
and and but the greatest benefit of all
is that toe heed is when you understand
you have theory and practice when you
understand real toe he'd theoretically
for instance that allows annually may
you deed he does whatever he wants
that Allah subhanAllah
cannot oppress his servants because of
the nature of servanthood and the fact
that we are part of the Dominion of God
that the human being is created by God
and and and and Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
has complete and utter and absolute
property rights over the human being
it's his MOOC and you are man Luke you
know you're a possession of God and so
whatever God wants to do to you if he
wants to give you the worst disease
imaginable Allah you know God forbid
that it's not wrong God can do whatever
he wants he can give you a joyous life
he can give you a miserable life Allah
can do whatever he wants and that is the
transcendent God you know that that's
the God that is frightening it's the
dhul Jalal you know it's the god of
Jalal it's the God of tsunamis it's the
God of Holocaust it's the god of fire
it's the God of of cancer it's the God
that you know takes little children from
their loving parents that that is the
the that is that is an aspect of God and
we're in submission to that aspect of
God to the best of our ability because
that's part of God's nature but he's
also little generally will a Crom he's
the god of immense blessing he's the god
of overflowing bounty and and he's the
god who hides his bounty in his terror
he's a God who hides his blessings in
his tribulations and so learning those
things helps us deal with the
vicissitudes of time with the calamities
of our lives with the difficulties and
then finding out for instance that the
prophets have the greatest tests because
nobody whoever loses a child can can
feel anything but consolation when they
learn that the Prophet Ison buried all
of his children except for one so the
best of creation had all of his children
taken from him and yet he never
complained even though he wept he wept
when he lost his children we know that
is in the Hadees but he never complained
and he said God does not take you to
account for your eyes in other words for
your grief but he takes you to account
for what you say like why did God do
this to me so that's one of the benefits
is learning the the theory and then
beginning to exercise the theory in the
laboratory of life because this science
is really about being out there in the
world and it's the the father the virtue
of the science has the highest it's the
highest of Sciences some of the elements
a ship is over but because focus how you
worship Allah
but till he'd generally is considered to
be the highest I mean the mythically
moon in the fokaha debate on this but
because the thai look of this science in
other words the relationship is with the
nature of god and that is the highest
thing that humans can conceive of it has
the highest virtue so this is the fact
the Nisswa is to the enormous area it's
it's it's related to the sciences of
Islam of Islamic law and it's part of of
that science the water the one who who
formulated this science is first and
foremost we believe it's allah subhanaw
taala through the Quran because the
Quran is a revelation that tells us
about the nature of God it tells us that
Fadiman who la ilaha illaallah you know
know that there's no god but allah you
know Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells us
who Allah who I had know that God is one
he tells us that he is the creator of
the heavens of the earth
he tells us that
that that he is carnival by daddy that
he is in complete control and overwhelms
his servants with his idea he tells us
he's a lion that he's the sustainer of
the heavens and the earth so much of the
Piranha Clara t'v is about God if you
ever have a red-letter Quran that has
the names of Allah in red you can see
how much of the Quran is about a lot of
behin over to Anna and in essence it's
all about a lots of behind Matata
because even when it's about the
prophets and there's tribulations it's
still about the call to Allah Subhan
Allah Tala
so knowing that it is it's it's a it is
formulated by God himself in the Quran
but then it's also the prophets lyceum
is the one that gave us this so by Maj
as this is by not in reality because in
reality God is the one that gave us the
knowledge of his nature but he the means
is the prophets lies in him and then by
extension if the the the great
formulators of this science are are
really three three men but hasn't had a
shoddy is one of them and he is a fourth
century scholar who was one of the great
moretz light scholars and then he made
Toba from that and he became the great
advocate of the what's called a
hallucinogen which i'm going to get into
in a moment but albert hasanat ashati is
a very maligned scholar of late
historically he was recognized by
everybody as being one of the great
imams i mean even even Tamiya is very
clear in his praise of abu hassan at
ashati so when people attack the HIDs
today it's very odd for people that know
the islamic tradition
to hear that it doesn't mean that there
there weren't groups that were opposed
historically but they were never in
numbers large enough to really warrant
any you know serious consideration and
then the other one is a woman sort of
Matthew DD who was in what's now
Afghanistan he was from there and they
were living at approximately the same
time and then the third one is is
probably Imam at the Howey
now generally and what I was taught by a
lot of my teachers was that the the
people of how are the UH shaadi in the
Matuidi and and and everybody else's is
off but I think it's undeniable that
there is a third group of people that
are the thirty people and and I think
it's it's important to acknowledge that
because it's not really fair to isolate
that group and say that somehow they're
not part of the tradition because they
are and one of the great examples of
that is given a blood bottle and the
onnum of the Marathi alone very few of
them were uh shot ease it was called the
oboe bucket had been an auto be who
brought the ashati meth-head to Morocco
and to and Lucia but prior to that they
were more a thirty in their approach and
they tended to really not like as what
what is termed sometimes in English
speculative theology or column so
dialectical theology but it's important
to distinguish between the Etheria who
are the people of a thought and stick to
the the text without really bringing in
what are called the octet or the
rational sciences to buttress the the
the theology those people were not moja
sima they were not literalists they were
not people that thought
that certain verses in the Quran were to
be taken literally they understood those
verses did not mean what what they
outwardly were saying but they were not
going to say what they meant they really
left it to Newt Minow Bajada Murad Allah
we believe in him according to what God
says about them and that is also a
position within the ashati and the
maturity the schools also so that's not
just the earth ADIZ but that is the
early scholars and some of the later
scholars from those schools so when we
study Creed we have to understand that
Creed develops out of problems when the
Prophet slicing them came he was not a
theologian in that he didn't come with
this systematic theology he came with a
truth about God that God is one and the
proton has a theology in it but the
Prophet SAW I sent him did not bring a
type of creed that's formulated the way
they are now this came later and the
Sahaba were people that were in such a
powerful experience 'el Islam they were
living these truths they were Imam Adi
all of the Ilan who said that I never
saw anything but except that I saw God
before it after it and in it in other
words that he was witnessing the a file
of God you know the acts of God in
creation the idea that no leaf falls
without the knowledge of God so being
aware of God in that way in a very real
presence that was very much how these
people were and so they weren't going to
debate things and and they just weren't
interested in that
so when when the Muslims came up against
the Christians who had a very profound
theological tradition because
Christianity has much more emphasis on
theology than it does on law whereas the
Jewish and the Muslim traditions have
been more focused on law on fill so when
they came up against the Christians in
Syria and Iraq and Egypt suddenly they
were asking them questions they'd never
been asked before like the Quran says
that Jesus is is the Kalima the you know
the Word of God which in greek is logos
and in the Gospel of John it says in the
beginning was the word the logos and the
Word was with God in the word what and
the Word was God so does that mean that
Jesus is the logos in other words is he
the Eternal Word of God and so nobody
ever thought about that and then they
said and when you say the puranas Kodama
law does that mean that the Quran is the
logos in other words is the Quran
created or is it uncreated nobody had
ever asked him these questions and so
suddenly they were forced to think about
things that they hadn't thought about
before
hence theology because that is the means
by which they were able to really come
to some conclusions about these Shu
bohat because these are obfuscation z'
that come in to the teaching that create
problems in the hearts of people and the
resolution of the problems comes through
working through these problems and
coming to conclusions about them and
this is what the motorcade lee moon did
this is what the theologians did and and
they created creeds an imam at the
howie's creed is one of the earliest
creeds abu hanifa there's a Creed that's
attributed to him that proceeds this and
there's a debate a big debate about
whether he acts
you wrote it or not but Imam at the how
he's definitely in the line of that
Creed among how his Creed is almost
identical to about Hassan and Ishod his
Creed they differ on four points or
crazy Marzuki and that's it
our Hassan Abu Mansour and Matuidi whose
Creed is articulated in the Nessa fiha
is also very similar he differs on
certain things and there's some
interesting differences and their
differences that are insoluble in that
you're not going to come to some kind of
not going to resolve these problems so
they're just there and they are what
they are
so having said that the you know the the
the founders of these Creed's are are
called the founders of of this science
as well now oblah Hassan Elijah Adi was
very fortunate in having an absolute
genius student of a bucket or bottle Ani
who is probably one of the greatest
intellects in human history I mean
anybody that really looks at his his
work and his genius would have to come
to that conclusion and and he really I
mean he he in essence is is really one
of the saviors of Islam because at the
time when the massive onslaught of
Hellenistic rationalism was coming when
there were just so many a sex and and he
was refuting all these people with just
really extraordinary brilliance and
intellect and and and one of the things
that is important to understand about
these Creed's is that people that attack
them and I can really safely say this
almost have never studied them
and I found this consistently what they
do is they read their teachers who quote
these people and then they attack them
from within their own frames of
reference and they rarely actually study
because when you say that oh this is a
bit what is a bid at exactly you show me
where the bid at is in and and they'll
say well it's a bit out to say this or
that for instance it's a bit odd to say
that the most half is not the Kurama law
which is a shoddy position that when you
say Kurama law about the quran itself
the most half that's why the muslims
differentiate between most half and
quran right the we call the most half is
the copy of the Quran it's called a
must-have and we use it when we say
Quran we're really saying it like
magazine so but when we say the Quran
what is the Quran the Quran is caramel
aroma loop the uncreated word of Allah
in the macaron pidemo mafia here we're
at a khadeem oh what an animal what
Allah Arabic Allah no but I don't know
it terrible you know when the the the
Quran is the the word of Allah it
doesn't have syntactical precedents and
anticipate it doesn't have land you know
articulation it doesn't have Arab
inflection it doesn't have part or
universals or particular is Kulu allah
dhu tinta sabah because all of these
things are created by their nature
Hakone elma he mocked essa work account
Kony and me ran amok decibel like saying
God has acquired his knowledge so when
you say the Quran the most half is Quran
Allah we say that out of Edom
because you don't want to say it's not
the quran allah that's not the kind of
allah you can't say that it is a
parabola but it's not the konami law
that is a role model because it is in
the world it has paper it has ink on
paper
it's language that came into the world
whereas the the Kalama law that is
Kadeem is the meanings that allah
subhana wa ta'ala articulated in his
essence it's the meaning that Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala has in his essence so
that's an example of solving a problem
where these people were saying are you
saying that's uncreated and if you say
well yeah that's uncreated then you you
have a religion of people that think
things that are created are uncreated
but if you say that it's the Perron
is uncreated essentially then what
you're saying is an attribute of god is
on is is created the sefa of a lot
because kadam is all sefa of the motor
kingdom the the speech is an attribute
of the speaker the one speaking and so
if you say that his attribute is created
then you're saying that Allah has
created that there's an attribute that's
created and that creates a problem and
so this is this is in essence what these
men were dealing with and they did an
extraordinary job when you get to the
the free will and the determination you
know our human beings determined or are
they free these are paradoxical problems
that have befuddled all the religious
traditions that deal with these subjects
but if you look at them the way they
resolve them they're quite stunning
they're still limited by language but
they're still quite stunning and and
that so when we talk about the founder
we're talking first and foremost that
it's God that gave us this knowledge it
was transmitted by the Prophet slicin
but it was formulated by these great
intellects that the community was
provided with and we believe it's
providential care because the Prophet
SAW I said I'm said that this knowledge
would be protected by people in each
generation they protected and so that's
what what they've done any mama Howie is
one of the great people of that
science and that's why his Creed is so
important and then the that the name of
this is mewho is called it's called
Azula Dean it's called the Elemento he'd
it's called the LML Kalam these are
different names for this science but
generally is called Azula Dean the roots
of this religion because it's what this
religion is built upon is to heed and
this is the science of tawheed element
Kalam in the early period is a very
negative term and you will see many
statements of the early community
attacking column and these are used in
polemics modern polemics in books saying
that Kalam is evil and liquid Imam Shafi
said about Kalam look what so-and-so
said about Kalam they were talking about
the dialectical theology of the Martez
elight when they were talking about
these things they were not talking about
the refutation of the MARTA see light
which come from the Edison one genre
right and it's important to understand
that distinction so and then finally the
hook Machado is for dying it's
considered for dying on every person the
topics of it the mesial are covered in
you can see what the topics are in the
book but the the topics that are dealt
with are things like the base and right
the hold of the prophet the pool of the
Prophet what that entails the the UM
Okayama what happens on the ELMO qiyamah
what's hash are what's Nichelle
what's kadar what's the mean so these
these are the the the Messiah that it
deals with and then also like the that
the Quran is Kodama law and then so that
essentially is those are the the my body
and oshawa of this science now what I'm
going to do right now is is just
basically go through a de su knowledge
about what that means
sums are divided essentially into two
major groups the Sunni and the Shia the
Shia are historically they are the
people that supported Imam Ali in his
push for they were called Shia - Ali and
it's a historical reality he went up
against morale we are Delano and he
definitely had his support the idea that
Iman I was practicing topia for me is
hard to believe but that is a shear view
that Imam Mahdi really felt that he
should have been located immediately
after the Prophet slicin have died and
that there was great wrongs done to the
family of the prophets in him now the
Shia historically fall into different
categories the rawa field and the whole
lot of the Shia were tended to be looked
very very negative negatively by the
people of Sunnah but there were Shia
whose Teixeira was a thief and Imam Abu
Hadi relates Shia in sahih al-bukhari
and a lot of people don't know that but
there are Shia transmitters in sahibu
Hadi
so this idea that the Shia were all evil
and something like that is not an early
view of things but the ROE a field and
the people upon who feels happy Rasul
Allah those people that spoke ill or
spoke ill of aisha radi lana generally
were looked upon very negatively by the
Ummah that came to be known as the
Addison one Gemini and all I would say
is that the Shia tradition is an
alternative narrative and from within
the Shia tradition itself it's it's a
very strong argument which is why they
have very brilliant scholars and some of
them are extraordinarily well versed in
in all the sciences of islam arabic and
so from within their perspective it all
makes sense and that's why the Muslims
have never been able to really resolve
this problem there there have always
been brilliant she has scholars and
there been debates in the community and
it's just insoluble so it's best left
like that it's it's just not the the
best thing that we can have is is just a
peaceful coexistence which has happened
throughout history in many many places
the Muslims and the Sunnis and the
Shia's have lived together without
without problems in many places Allah
says a good example half the city is
Shia and the other half is Sunni and the
Shia keeps themselves the Sunnis keep to
themselves they don't hate each other
they just live their kind of separate
lives and they don't have those kind of
problems in America in particular we
should really avoid conflicts between
the Sunni and Shia I'm is really
important here that we really avoid some
of the baggage from back home that's my
view about things I'm very committed to
Sunni tradition is what I was taught
it's also makes the most sense to me
personally I mean I looked at the Shia
tradition I was interested in for during
that early period when during the the
Iranian Revolution I got interested in
it just as a phenomenon and for me
personally I've never had any allegiance
to anything other than the truth I mean
I'm just not interested in a kind of
tribal approach to religion like I'm
Benny son on there Venetia on our tribes
better than their tribe if if something
appears to me to be true right and but I
would say one thing but that this the I
had assumed that downplayed considerably
what happened and if you if you study
the history there's two versions one is
a very whitewashed history which tends
to be taught and the other is what real
happened and what really happened is
actually kind of hard to believe the
what happened to the family of the
Prophet the insurrection z' that
occurred the brutality that was directed
against them it's it's it's all history
it's not something that can people can
say did not happen it did happen
Malea Driss is a good example that who
fled from the Hejaz to morocco and
founded the idad isa delta there in
morocco which some the Moroccans tend to
claim that it was Malachy and some say
that he was actually part of the Shia
tradition so Allah Anam but from that
tradition is Adia
who are the people of northern Yemen
geographically northern Yemen's one
country now but geographically in the
northern part of Yemen you have this
idea and this idea who are called the
fibers as well these are the fibers and
sevinor's and is nicety of the twelvers
the the saadia are the closest from the
Shia community to the Addison they don't
speak ill of Abu Bakr or all model they
don't have a problem with their halifa
but they prefer imam ali over those two
and felt that he should have been the
first k dove so that's their view and
imam Ashok Ani who arguably is not as ad
he was raised as a D and he was raised
in that tradition so but he's an example
of just an incredibly brilliant scholar
so the Addison or Jamaat which is a
formula that came later how we have been
described is the people the prophetic
way and congregation so they're the
people of Sunnah and the idea is not
that the that the you know that I mean
the Sunnah the Shia have hadith and and
they in the end they follow hadith and
they have practices that they do but the
that I had a soon are the people of the
hadith methodology that that was
articulated by the great scholars of
hadith and in attempting to follow the
prophetic
just to the best and the Gemara is the
majority which the the Sun tradition is
the majority tradition so they are the
Gemara they are the majority so they're
the the congregation the prophet
sallallaahu said i'm said yet the law
him aljahmeir
the the hand of god is with the the
congregation and he said man shed the
shed the Phenom people that deviate
deviate off into it's a hellish
deviation so it was used initially to to
distinguish himself from the raffia and
the heritage the raffia are the Hulett
of the Shia the extremists from amongst
the Shia and the holidays are the people
who made tech fear of Muslims they
called other Muslims kaffir and they
they they became insurrectionist they
broke off from the civil governance the
jurist and heresy ologist shah qajar bin
Fahad bin Mohammed Ibaka daddy is Farah
Heaney is Farah he's one of the great
scholars he died in 429 but he said that
the additional Jamaat comprise 8
categories and this is very useful for
you to understand because he's one of
the early scholars for 29 is considered
from he's not from the set up some say
the set up goes up to the 5th century so
he would be included in the set of but
he's from that very early period and but
he says the first category is the group
who mastered the various aspects of
tawheed so they're the theologians of
the Addison illegitimate they know about
the new buit prophecy the eschatological
aspects of theology there and that
relate also to rewards and punishments
in the hereafter as well as of the as
the conditions of each D had so they
know how HT had is done in all of this
they have gone the route of the people
of attributes from our theologians the
people of C fat
because there the more pita nullified
the attributes of God and the Addison
affirm the attributes of God that that
that God went when he speaks about
attributes that that he does have those
attributes and that they are to be
affirmed and not nullified and and then
they're free of anthropomorphism touch
seem so they don't believe literal
things like that that God is literally
in a place or he's literally on a
physical throne things like that they
don't believe those things they say we
believe
Rockman eyelashes Toa we believe in it
you either share atamora deal at
whatever God meant by it I believe in it
but but what occurs to the mind it's
other than that because that's
impossible for God that's called that
wheel is malli the later owner Matt gave
it a tech wheel tough silly a detailed
interpretation said what it meant so
that's the position of the people who
are not anthropomorphise and then also
that jamia who for instance said that
the essence of God is everywhere it's
like a pan an theism and other groups
like the Nigeria the second category is
the Imams of jurisprudence from the two
groups of juristic reasoning and
transmission the people of hadith and
the people of right hello right are like
the hanafis an ADIZ
like the ham bodies and the and Chevys
and then the Imam addict joins between
the two so they believe in those groups
and they're free from Etta's on the type
of absolute dependence on rationalism
and also the Java which is a belief in
in determinism so they're neither
determinist nor are they people that
believe in absolute free will
they're between the two and they believe
in the raising of the graves as well as
the questioning in the grave because
there's
people that deny the questioning of the
grave they believe in the bodily
resurrection they also believe in the
reality of the intercession and the
forgiveness of all wrongs from a lot
with the exception of shit
and obviously that and we'll get into
that but that that that is people who
willingly commit shirk they affirm the
continuity of paradise for its people in
the torment of fire for the rejecters of
truth so the idea that the Paradise is
it's what they call in in scholastic
terminology AV ternal it goes on forever
although it had a beginning and they
also believed in the obligation of
congregational prayer jumar behind all
Imams so at a cinema Gemini pray behind
Imams as long as they're free of heresy
and deviation in other words bid at and
zendaya but if they're a bad person you
still pray behind them if they're a
reprobate and they confirm the
permissibility of wiping over the hoff
socks and what's important about that it
seems like a silly issue to bring up
it's even in the Creed of Imam the Howey
but the real issue was about it was
about motivated Hadees and whether the
hadith reaches the status of the Quran
because the Quran doesn't mention hope
it tells you you have to wipe the feet
but the hoof is mentioned in the hadith
and it's a motivator Hadees so the real
the reason they say and they believe in
the hope what they're really saying is
they believe that a motivator hadith has
the same value as a verse of Quran I
mean that's really the what - what
they're saying they just use that ruling
because that that's a route the Huaraz
rejected that so that was a major issue
in the early period how are they said
you can't wipe off over the socks and
then they also believe that the pre
mount pronouncement of divorce is three
times binding all right because this
this is an interesting issue that's been
raised now in modern times now they
believe that the temporary marriage is
prohibited mota is prayer
and that it
they also deem obedience to authority of
the state as an obligation as long as is
not anything that constitute agreed-upon
disobedience to Allah so they believe in
civil governance and that you actually
have to obey the state that you cannot
enter into insurrection against the
state is a really important point about
the Sunnah is that they're they're
against a holodeck view that you that
insurrection is acceptable mmm and then
and this includes the Companions of
Malek chef Rios a thorough Beneatha ibn
ABI Leila lathe thorough both or and the
Companions of a commitment humble as
well as the alibi of the literalist in
fill it includes them and all of the
other scholars who believed in the
matters of intellectual understanding
the way of the people of attributes and
did not dilute their beliefs with any
innovations of the people of heresy and
deviation the third category is those
people have mastered the science of
hadith and their various chains in
pathways that lead back to the Prophet
those who were able to distinguish being
sound and weak transmissions and they
mastered the science of critical
analysis and assessment of men and women
in the chains of transmission and the
various reasons they are acceptable or
rejected
moreover they do not dilute any of their
knowledge with innovations of the people
of heresy and deviation so the mahadji
thune are from the Addison wajima the
fourth category is the people who have
mastered the humanities including
grammar and morphology and followed the
guidelines of the Imams of language so
that's a very important aspect of the
Addison wajima
people the poets the people that master
the JD poetry the people that spend
their lives preserving language even
though it's not related to the religion
itself as a religious science it's an
ancillary science to religion right it's
not a religious science it's it's a
science that religion is dependent upon
because those people preserve that
science there they're considered part
behind a Sunnah Gemma so it's it's when
you meet people that love grammar and
want to study language they shouldn't be
discouraged like oh you're wasting your
time you should be studying Quran you
know there's people that tell them that
you're wasting your time
no you need those people because you
can't understand the Quran without those
people and that's why the the Sunni the
Muslims generally always honored
grammarians and philologists and and the
people of poetry and a dab of literature
always Imam at Hadiya tea you know these
these were great scholars of language so
that's important and then the fifth
category and amongst them are Halil Abba
Dabba nada
Seba we alfarache Alice Mary L Mazen II
about obeyed and other Imams from the
kufan the grammarians that did not do
their knowledge with innovations of
raffia or the idea or the Huaraz or the
might easily like Imams a machete was a
martini and the other Sunnah have a soft
spot for him because he was such a
genius and his tafseer' is so essential
to the tafseer tradition I mean many
many scholars admitted that their
favorite Tufts year was the tough year
of the Imams of our Shetty so even
though he was mighty light the the Sunni
scholars had a soft spot form for that
reason and he was very self-deprecating
was an interesting man the fifth
category is those who have mastered the
variants of Quran the different
commentaries so the Memphis Iran and the
Harada people of the Quran the sixth
category is the virtuous aesthetics and
Sufis who penetrated the reality of this
world and left it for others who tested
things and took them from the lessons of
discernment who were pleased with the
divine decree and content with what was
easily obtained who realized that the
hearing sight and heart are all things
that man is asked about both the good
and the bad who took themselves to
account even if it concerned the weight
of an
and thus they prepared for Judgment Day
the best provision their words followed
the two ways of the outward meaning in
the inward indication in accordance with
the methodology of the people of hadith
without using it simply to entertain
with clever art forms of speech they do
not do good deeds to show off nor do
they leave them out of modesty their way
is that of the unique and why head and
they negate any anthropomorphism their
schools out of turning the matter over
to Allah so these are the people of
tasawwuf that are rightly guided and
they're very clearly demarcate
admissible census you know everybody
accepts him on Junaid and he was called
Imam of life attained he was a fucking
in the thirty met hab but he was also a
man of tassel so tasawwuf has two there
are two branches of the soul the first
is a fault line which is like what's in
purification of the heart that aspect of
to solve which is purifying your heart
Imam and Fatih Hany one of the great
Maliki scholar said before you study set
out to study knowledge you should purify
your heart because you will never
benefit from knowledge if your heart is
impure and he said preparing your heart
for knowledge is like preparing the
earth for for planting you know before
you actually put seed into the earth you
have to cultivate the earth with a plow
and and he said that's what you had to
do with your heart so removing the
negative qualities and adorning the
heart with the positive qualities the oh
what a Towada
Atta Kilduff you know the beginning of
humility is forcing yourself to be
humble so that that was very important
and the people that I saw were the
people that focused on that aspect and
that's why to solve is one of the
sciences of Islam to deny to solve is
deny to deny Allah you know who feels
Latium Hajj your own the people who have
who schewe in their prayer I guarantee
there's no fog that talks about you know
how you get who
it'll tell you that you have to have who
schewe in your prayer for these
lava-like in the mattock you might have
if you have to have some who schewe in
your prayer even if it's a moment but it
doesn't tell you how you develop pusher
because it's not the the object of fit
it's not one of the topics of fifth that
is in Tesla wolf and that's the word
that was used by the Muslims
historically it's Tazawa so those people
that deny the soul are the same type
people that deny med hebbs and that deny
you know Touhey the element Quran is the
same type of people and it's very
unfortunate you know that that that this
has happened but it's it's one of the
unfortunate aspects of the modern
phenomenon of of Islam that the Prophet
said the end of time will not come until
the later people condemn the earlier
people that Tacoma sahajiya Suba Al
Jarreau Hadid Omaha when aha
so the Prophet mentioned that that
people are going to the later people are
going to condemn the earlier people so
but that's also it's important to point
out that there's a lot of innovations in
what goes under the category of Tazawa
so it doesn't mean to solve every we
just accept anybody who says they're a
Sufi and we accept anything that calls
itself to solve no to solve is based on
the book and the Sunnah and if you don't
find a firm foundation in the book and
the Sunnah it's rejected and that's what
the Imams of Tazawa have said Imam
Junaid said had an animal why you don't
because every language similar to our
sweetie done this is a science that is
absolutely rooted in the Book of Allah
and the Sunnah of the Prophet and so if
you don't find it in the Book of Allah
email meta story ahead it to study said
I that Ora daddy me one of them said
that he said mathematically met in
Mineral home in the auto - ha-ah -
chahee Dana didn't kita Volos was a
Notaro Selena that I never heard
anything from the Sufis except that I
put it before a to just witness
to testify for or against it and that's
the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the
Prophet SAW ladies so that is the the
way of the soul and that's what he's
saying those are the people that are
rightly guided not the false ones not
the I mean you have the skewer people
and the snake handlers just like in
Christianity you have the people that
take literally the handling of snakes or
speaking in tongues and things like that
you have those manifestations of
religion in every tradition but that's
not what he's talking about he's talking
about a Scholastic tradition that also
relates to practice and experience the
the second aspect of tassel is the
science of Allah and Muhammad the
science of states and stations because
if you're on a strong spiritual path
you're doing a lot of dhikr and
meditation getting up at night things
start happening and some of it there's
there's ways to distinguish between
inward sensory terrestrial inward
sensory celestial inward meaning
terrestrial in word meaning celestial
outward terrestrial outward celestial
outward meaning
terrestrial outward meaning celestial
outward meaning terrestrial inward
outward terrestrial sensory I mean those
are all categories in that science and
they look at things so people will have
what they think is a spiritual
experience and it's not it's just your
ego but you think and you had this
amazing spiritual experience it was
purely ego or it could have been demonic
because there are how authorship Ani and
people think they're having I had this
amazing experience and it was a demonic
experience
I mean seriously there's people that
feel the Holy Ghost infusing them they
have amazing experiences there's people
that have sensory experiences and
they're convinced that they're deep
spiritual spirits there's people that
take LSD and think that they've had
enlightenment really is it's not you
know
real these things are real there's
people that go into psychotic states and
they're convinced I mean I've had people
come to me seriously I mean I've seen
people go mad from the Kuril law mad
from doing things that they should have
been doing you know I people have come
to told me they're the Madi and like
completely believing it and saying I had
these experiences you have to listen to
me those you have to be able to
distinguish between those to know what's
happening to you and if you don't know
that science you go to somebody who
knows that science because you need help
like a doctor you need to go to a doctor
just like if you start having
hallucinations you go to a doctor well
if you start having spiritual
experiences you need somebody to put
those into a perspective the same with
true dreams dream there's people that
have dreams and and they think they've
had a dream and it means exactly the
opposite of what they think it means
there's people that have dreams you know
that they're eating pork and they think
that it's something Haram and read what
even sitting and says about seeing
yourself eating pork it's not
necessarily a negative thing but it
depends dreams are all mysterious and
that realm of the dream world is very
mysterious but it has meaning and there
are people that know those meanings it's
not the things that you can learn in a
book like you've been sitting wrote a
book on dreams it's an interesting book
but it's very dangerous to use that book
to interpret dreams Imam one lady came
to eyes and she told her dreams she gave
a negative interpretation the prophet
got very upset with her so you know that
those that's a science the science of
dream interpretation and there's people
that know that science and then there's
people that don't and there's people
that think they do and they're the big
problem so the the seventh category are
the murabbi alone and those are the
people
that guard the borders of Islam and and
defend the Muslims from encroachment of
people attacking them they defend women
in the homes of the Muslims and they
displayed adherence to the cement
Jumeirah and they said and they've
followed the verse it said those who
struggle for our sake we will guide them
to our ways the eighth category and this
is very important is the general
population of the lands of the Muslims
where Sunni Islam is dominated
notwithstanding areas in which deviation
has been predominant what we mean by
this is general Muslim people who
believe that the scholars of the similar
jamaat are correct in the matters that
concern the just sacred law and the
theological issues as well as the
eschatological matters of the hereafter
they refer back to their scholars in
order to understand their religion and
they imitate them in the branches of
jurisprudence that relate to the
permissible and the impermissible
moreover they do not believe in any of
the innovations and deviations of the
people of heresies they are those who've
been characterized by the Sufis as the
stuff of paradise hash well jenna is
they fill up paradise majority of people
so these are the groups of the people of
Samoa and Gemma and together they
constant constant the true and upright
Deen and straight path may Allah make us
firm with the firmest words in this life
in the next
indeed he answers appropriately and he
is capable of all things so that's
that's a momentous fairness categories I
think they're very useful for people the
the newsmen the you know the the the
idea of attacking people for their
religion is something that you know in
traditional Islam the the the Muslims
were very very flexible it's very
difficult to to get out of Islam you
have to do something really egregious to
get out of this religion I met Muhammad
said he said the only thing that can get
you out of this religion is to deny the
very thing that got you in the religion
that's what he said he said let you
hurry to come in had a Dean in LA in
Cairo metalic a fee which is la ilaha
illallah muhammad rasool allah and so
it's it's it's very hard to to do that
the man you Amanda Dean but the roar I
mean we'll go into that but generally
the anima did not make takfeer of people
and that's one of the hallmarks of the
people of soon is they don't make
takfeer of other muslims even like the
shia and whoever they don't make takfeer
of people that say laila Allah Muhammad
Rasul Allah unless they're specific I
mean there are ways in which people can
anathematized themselves but even for
those people there is a process it's not
just done you don't just call somebody a
Cathy oh this is all the and and and
people people actually historically
there were ways in which that was done
it wasn't done lightly at all it's very
hard to and they would look for tat
wheel they would like try to find some
excuse for the person maybe you believe
this or maybe you think that you
mentioned the permissibility of praying
behind an imam that that only means the
ruler when you when it says that we pray
behind all images in imam the howie's al
qaeda so praying behind any imam means
the ruler the the Imam and Akbar and and
that has like if you're in Morocco and
mullah Mohammed I mean they don't they
don't do this anymore but if he led the
prayer and you say now he's a facet or
he's that's that's those that's
considered like a hot edgy view because
I mean as far as I know you know he's
he's an you know he's an upright person
I don't know anything otherwise so I'm
not going to make any assumptions about
him but if there were known things about
the ruler that they weren't the best of
Muslims you still pray behind them as
for Imams that you pray behind in your
Masjid they should not be reprobates
they should be known to have upright
character if they're known to have
disreputable character then you're you
don't pray behind them but you don't
pray behind fashio Pondicherry ha or faz
upon brachiopod in fact somebody who's a
Reb
or bait either in his belief or in his
practice and then you mentioned that the
majority scholars believe that the
Prophet speech did not commit even minor
sins what about Adam taking the Apple
well it I don't I mean trust me they've
worked out all that stuff you know with
Adam at ACM it was about his intention
like he did not know he thought that I
believes was giving him sincere advice
because they were like children and so
they didn't know that anybody would lie
to them and so that he actually believed
what he was doing was a beneficial thing
that it wasn't going to be a harmful
thing and so it was about Nia and that's
why it says you know he forgot so he
didn't intentionally disobey a lot
because you have to have intention in
Marcia you have to know it's a Marcia
when you disobey Him now there are
certain things where ignorance is not an
excuse even in Sharia but generally if
you don't do something willfully there's
not an intention behind it
it's not considered disobedience in that
way so and there are many other examples
of that I mean all the prophets have
been excused and and the excuses have
been written in great detail I work with
schizophrenic who have auditory and
visual hallucinations where they
actually say they see people could that
be demonic presence or jinn well there's
an interesting book called in the
presence of other worlds by Van Doren
and he was a psychiatrist at Sonoma
State mental institution and he
initially was completely did not believe
he was a materialist but after working
20 years in that institution he came to
the conclusion that there really were
things happening so you know I we
definitely believe in gin and gin do
cause problems I'm
jincan preoccupy people and the best
protection against them is is to be and
will do you know to do the mile with
attained the profit did the mile with
attained every day those those type
things
there's definitely madness I mean
madness is real the Arabic word for
being mad is Majnoon which literally
means like possessed so and obviously
there's benign jinn and then there's
malevolent jinn and then there's
mischievous jinn that aren't so that
they're malevolent in their you know in
that they're mischievous but there are a
lot of benign jinn and I mean some
cultures get obsessed with jinn I I you
know I I think a lot of these
hallucinations go away with you know
certain drugs now that they have things
so they can suppress these type things
so I mean obviously we know like people
that have taken LSD I mean I never took
LSD but I know people that have and
people have taken LSD had very
extraordinary experiences on that drug
and so obviously that you know the the
possibilities of the mind are endless in
the mind is you know imam ali said
Tassimo kanasu nuts tax even f ck german
severe on a second towel animal akbar oh
you think yourself to be an
insignificant creature but in you all of
the world's are are are wrapped up that
we're a microcosm of all of existence
and there's a lot of weird stuff in the
world i mean there's a lot of very
strange stuff i mean if you've ever seen
like mad people that really talk to you
know i'm they're having a conversation
you know like would you shut up
leave me alone and I mean it's real so
whatever is happening although Onam
whether that's gin or just a type of
madness that the mind plays on itself
although Hannam but but we do believe in
miss you know mess is real like people
can get a type of possession and the
quran mentions that the mess so it's
real and you know i I definitely I know
some people that have had very weird
experiences I mean I think everybody
most people you know George Leonard
talks about the weird scale you know
there's certain things that you know
you'll tell everybody there's certain
things you'll tell your close friends
there's certain things you'll only tell
your wife or your husband and then
there's certain things you just keep to
yourself
so you know I mean everybody's had
experiences that are very strange I
think most people at least I certainly
have I mean I've got some things I
wouldn't tell anybody but you know where
does imam ahmed have fall entertainment
Izumo Quran being come a lot and not
creation apart from three Imams you
mentioned Imam Ahmed is the the one that
stood up in defense of the the uncreated
nough Subhan he was in prison for during
them the manner of the people of
verities at so Mohammed is I mean he he
stood up for that I shall deny Allah
said ma baina deaf at a and must have
Kadam Allah what's between the two
covers of the most half is the Kaname
law so we do say that and it's not not
the Kaname law but the Kodama law that
is uncreated that that's where the Sunni
scholars differentiated that's all that
if you read the Quran and and they say
that it's only permissible to say this
in a teaching environment like you don't
say this you don't go out and say oh
that's not the poor honor that's not you
know it's only permissible to say this
in a teaching environment that that when
you if I say this mean
and Rahim that was sound waves that
emanated from my breath and and through
my vocal cords and and and they reached
your ears because they're in the world
so that coming into the world of the
speech of Allah that's what they're
differentiating that that speech is not
what we mean by the uncreated word of
Allah that's the is that clear to
everybody yeah that's that's what they
mean mm-hmm yeah mm-hmm
yeah mm-hmm well I wrote a paper called
who are the disbelievers that was its
online and I went into great detail
about that generally I mean I inclined
towards the position of Imam of Azadi
who says that the majority of human
beings will have salvation in the end
yeah no he uses I mean he he bases it on
he doesn't base it just he didn't just
say that he based it on well I mean
there's scholars that yeah they're
scholars that limit greatly the mercy of
God and you know but there's a reason
why it's not permissible to do tagging
and that's all of our limit say that you
cannot say any individuals going to hell
because only god can judge people and
and I think the best position to be
concerned about where you're going and
not where other people are going you
know I mean Muslims tend to obsess about
where other people are going and and the
real problem is not where they're going
it's where I'm going or what you know
but generally generally the you know
Kufa is to reject truth once it's clear
to you and Imam Ghazali said that people
who have been given distorted versions
of Islam and reject the distortions do
not fall under the
category of caffeine because they're not
rejecting Islam they're rejecting a
distorted version of an Islam that says
you have to blow yourself up to get
close to God or something like that you
know I mean if I was a I thank God that
I became Muslim
you know 32 years ago because I don't
know how I would feel about Islam if I
was living in this type of environment
and being bombarded on a daily basis
with all this negativity and then seeing
insane Muslims because you have to
wonder like what's going on with those
people but really I mean just people
average people here just why are they so
angry do you know well you drop bombs on
people they tend to get angry that's
true but on the other hand if it's
really a spiritual teaching then why are
the bombs being dropped on you I mean
that's also a question because from week
I can say to people here you shouldn't
drop bombs on people but the people that
are getting dropped bombs dropped on
them have to ask themselves why is this
happening do you know what what is it
saying about our state
what have we you know what have we done
collectively because the problem you
know one of the things the Quran is very
clear about is that calamities when when
corruption spreads the response to
corruption is calamity it's very clear
so to roam Allah says that he causes you
to taste tribulation to Humble you and
to call you back to the truth but what
the Quran says is you know a tackle fits
a Nutella to see been melody Nevada
moment Omaha be fearful of calamities
that don't just afflict the guilty they
hit everybody so you can't say that
they're all bad or evil no when
corruption spreads it brings on
calamities that afflict everybody I mean
for instance there are
venereal diseases that are a direct
result of people practicing certain
sexual practices that have brought on
those diseases but then your blood gets
contaminated and the innocent child gets
the transfusion you say oh what did they
do to deserve that that's the whole
point that if only the guilty got
afflicted the innocent would never care
about changing anything because you know
they'll get what they deserve but once
you realize no it affects us all
then the impetus to actually call to
virtue and to you know to decry vice
becomes much stronger and that's part of
what people of God are supposed to be in
their witnesses so they're here to do
testing you know to witness the truth
and part of witnessing the truth is
condemning what's wrong yeah no I mean I
yeah well you know Jews and Christians
are Abrahamic people and they they both
believe in one God I mean even
Christians with the Trinity if you get
into real Christian theology it's very
confusing and most average Christians
don't really understand it but if you
get into like if you read Aquinas on the
Trinity it's very clear that they he
doesn't believe gods like three separate
beings or three separate parts I mean he
believes in infinite God
insubstantiality as part of the Catholic
and Orthodox belief about God that that
the God's not like anything right so you
know they're they're they're more i
deunan and the verses in the padang are
very clear the hadees' are clear that
that you know people of tawheed you know
there will be a point in which everybody
who says believe in one god is removed
from the fire the Prophet did however
inside Muslim is it's a hadith
the Prophet did say no Christian or
Muslim no Christian or Jew will hear
about me and died not believing in me
except that they'll enter the fire and
that hadith is understood obviously that
they know he's a prophet you know so if
you reject a prophet you're you're in a
dangerous situation because he's in the
line of prophets but and even the Hindus
and the Buddhists and all these other
people I mean most of them the Quran
says let it out early lay and dad and
one to Tana moon don't set up idols with
God once you know and that's called
joomla heylia in arabic the howl of the
people is that they know that they
shouldn't be doing that and that's why
even the people of shirk are not
condemned to hell fire if they weren't
given a message or made to be understand
that what they were doing was wrong
that's why the ad Asuna believed that
the Alpha Torah are saved
that's a domino peen there's a enough
opinion but I just feel like why do
people want it if there's a debate and
the autumn are saying that these people
are saved I mean one of my favorite
Hadees is about the the prophet Elijah
have said that two men a lot condemns
them to the fire and so they start
heading towards the fire but one of them
looks back its idea says yellow TV - so
Allah stops and says why do you look
back he said I thought you were going to
forgive me and and and and so Allah says
it'll Jannetty enter into my paradise
just because of his good opinion of God
like the other one just said I I knew
I'd never get forgiven you know so have
a good opinion of God you know I mean
I've met wonderful Christians that I
mean I'm sorry I have a hard time
believing God's just gonna zap
you know it's just if you read the
descriptions of the evil people in the
Quran they're puffed up they're arrogant
they don't feed the poor people read the
descriptions of the kuffar in the Quran
and they're not people of humility these
are people that reject the truth even
though they know it's the truth they're
people that won't listen they plug their
ears so you know I mean I'm not uh you
know I'm I believe in the peda and what
I was taught and I'm not in any way
giving some kind of California version
of Islam so I want to make that clear
you know but these things I mean this is
in the tradition and I that's what I
it's like even the Russia you know he
talked about whether or not the Quran if
you read the Quran for dead people does
it benefit the dead people or not
there's a he laughs there's a difference
of opinion even LaRoche it says this is
a difference of opinion about the mercy
of God
shouldn't we err on the side of mercy
like that it benefits them given that
there's a difference of you know it
doesn't benefit them you know I mean I'm
sorry I would prefer that opinion that
it benefits them you know and the proofs
are strong the proofs are strong so the
other people have their opinion but it's
very interesting about people that you
know it's like the man who urinated in
the Masjid and on that I never
understood this until I lived with
Bedouins I was once talking to a Bedouin
and he literally unbuttoned his saying
and turned around and urinated right in
front of me like veteran are like that
you know so I never understood that
hadith until that happened to me you
know I mean Bedouin does urinate
whenever they get the urge you know and
and it's desert and they just covered up
with sand or whatever but anyway that
you know the Bedouin urinated in the
Masjid of the Prophet Elisha them now
the somme wanted to kill this guy the
Prophet told Amanda just cover him you
know like put things so he was hidden
and when he finished you know the
problem went at me said look you know
this is a place of purity
you know don't urinate in the
and but the Sahaba were so angry and I
don't want to say you know that they
were anyway but they were angry and and
so this man you know when he saw how
they react and then he saw how the
Prophet slicin reacted he said alone
that how many what I have Mohammad
Ramallah tomcee wanna Allah forgive me
and forgive Muhammad and don't forgive
anybody else yeah and and the Prophet
SAW I said him said had dealt Eliza you
know you've you've narrowed the vast and
that's what these people do they just
narrow the vastness of God makalapa
Padre God can forgive anybody and the
Matuidi believe if lawful worried is not
does not diminish God in other words if
you fail to fulfill your promise that
diminishes you but if you fail to fulfil
your threat it actually enhances you and
that's the Matua the opinion that if God
threatens you to do something and if he
chooses not to fulfill his threat like
these threatens to send you to hell
and then he he doesn't do that that it
actually it enhances God's esteem it
doesn't diminish it unlike if he
promised you paradise for doing
something then you do it and then he
doesn't give you paradise that
diminishes just like I say we'll live
you come I'm gonna I'm gonna really
you'll see I'm going to take my
vengeance on you and then you come and I
say you know I thought about I forgive
you people say much a lot that you know
that's a high thing it's not a low thing
so a lot I mean there's a man who burned
him had his self burnt after he died
it's in the sahih hadith right does
everybody know that how do people know
that hadith he had himself burnt
cremated and he told his sons to spread
his ashes out right when he was the
Prophet said he was brought before God
and God said why did you do that and he
said because I didn't want you to
resurrect me because I was so afraid of
being judged by you that belief that he
could somehow scatter his ashes and God
couldn't bring him back together that's
couponer and that belief is covered
because you is a stage as Pavarotti let
it's it's it's considering that God's
not omnipotent that he's not
all-powerful you actually think that God
can't do something that's Kofa and yet
God forgave that man this is clearer in
the hadith God can forgive whomever he
pleases
I mean even if you look at the verse
that innallaha lion if you don't a new
Scirocco be you know I mean you just
look at the way the verse was was
revealed it doesn't say he won't forgive
the mushnick it says a new Chaka be he
doesn't forgive the act of shirk
somebody can pardon a murderer but he
doesn't forgive the murder
I really saw an interview with one of
the Imams of the harem saying that those
who condemned Aisha or Omar are
considered Kafar this is correct if they
say that Aisha you know that she was not
free of what God freed her from the
claim that she committed adultery
that's Kofun because that's not sort of
Quran
you know if they consider to her to a
betrayed the Prophet SAW lied to them by
opposing Ali or whatever that's fist
according to the Sunni scholars that
it's it's but it's not Kofa so it
depends on what they say and it's again
tat wheel most of these things are done
with tat wheel like they don't you know
the people that attack the Sahaba don't
attack them because their Sahaba it's
important to understand that they're not
saying we don't like them because their
Sahaba they're saying we don't like them
because they betrayed the Prophet do you
see that's their tat wheel we don't
accept the tet wheel but that's why it's
not Kufa do you understand the
distinction there because it's an
important distinction I feel
uncomfortable when people say we should
not pray behind us yeah because I feel
that we were saying their prayers not
accept another person you know I mean
we're not saying that their prayer is
not accepted at all but you know that's
that's what I learned in my teachers and
I can't you know I'm not I'm not going
to go against that you know the if I've
prayed behind here before and you know
the prayer the Shia prayer is the same
prayer that we pray I mean they have the
same number of records they recite the
fatiha they do everything that we do so
the prayer is not like some alien prayer
to Islam
a person on the path of Susu how can
they distinguish between demonic
experience and a good spiritual
experience well I mean like I said it's
a science the hell out there is a
science Neffs an arab animal akane
shaytani and there's different types of
thoughts there's different types of like
pub than bustle or experiences generally
true the spiritual experiences are often
you know there can be initial
contraction and then followed by an
expansion you know there's there's
different the prophet saw him when he
first had the revelation his initial
experience was contraction and then he
had this incredible expansion which is
you know even in Catholicism they called
the law of discernment they have that
understanding so and then there are
other experiences that but generally if
the experience leads to humility to
being humbled by it then it's a it's a
true experience if it leads to feeling
like that you're special or something
you know then it's it's a it's from nafs
or Shep on enough sani experiences are
very tricky they're the demonic
experiences are usually a lot clearer
but enough sani are very tricky demonic
is usually always followed by a sense of
pride wanting to tell other people about
it true spiritual experiences are best
kept to yourself unless you go to a
master but it's best kept to yourself
not to talk to it about other people
because of the problem of korea and and you know ostentation and spiritual pride / spiritual pride is very real and very difficult to excise from the nufs (SOul).
I think it's time for isha
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