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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