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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