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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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
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called his prophet and said o best of
messengers by that we became the best of
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want to read you this because I thought
this was so extraordinary the Macan of
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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
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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.
It's time for Isha I think
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what I never had an Italian and I handle
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