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;
see here cut he never took avenged
vengeance or any revenge for himself
ever woman can get fat I see yeah
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
elbow CDs boorda when when he talks
about Ezra he says vitarka era and
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Needham to the Requiem Torah me you know
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
should eat salami right first Akula
fahara no vitamist erican which is the
column accommodate almost any mashallah
Israel it's a it's a very beautiful
section of the border mmm
the Prophet SAW I sent him said even
address relates he said I lemony or not
be later
yeoman said he that my lord taught me
many knowledge 'as on the night of the
Asura
and but then he says Bashar al and I
measured Islam in Elena Manila NIT
Rahman a Roman heading me let me down
Allah their anal authority be Akram
arose laconic remember me when when he
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
him only him in a nightie
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that was so amazing auditor adam arsenic
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