Islamic Theology 5/10

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tell you yet the holy I mean and both of his hands are right hands I mean that if that doesn't just get it
out of your mind you know in other words God doesn't have a left hand but he's
not saying you know that there's two right hands over here he's trying to get that out of your mind you know that that
these are words that are conveying metaphysical truths and and the dominant
opinion is we don't know what they mean that is the opinion of our ulema we
don't know what they mean but we believe them whatever they mean we're not going to deny them they're in the Quran and we
believe them and we believe them according to what God intended by them and that is the method of the set of
that is the set of via method
and then he says woman Lamia tehuacán fu watashi ha Zella whoever does not guard against
denying God's attributes and against anthropomorphism thinking that God is
like his creation has erred and failed to acquire understanding of divine
transcendence well mu Louboutins eeeh so you I mean he's made it really clear I hope it's
really clear to everybody because you know this is our IP then I really want
you to leave this program with a you know firmly rooted in what this means
because this is a big fitna of our time unfortunately it shouldn't be but it is
this this question was resolved over a thousand years ago but people have revived it and and and want people to
fall into their errors and and and I'm gonna do my best to defend this
tradition because this is not my opinion this is what I inherited by telepathy from my teachers it's what they taught
me it's what they were taught from their teachers and you can see the Senate in this book those all those people in I
mean the the people that that this was transmitted to through these ages I mean
all you have to do is look at these names of these people that are in here alright these are the people because
this is
this is related share Zachary and I'm sorry or Javed even hydras Palani Abu is happy
Ibrahim Mohamed Atta Nuri el Bali Muhammad Abdul Rahman bin abdullah bin
ibrahim ali al Danny's married Vendela Rafi Abu Musa Medini right I mean these
these are the great ornament of our tradition among the hello am real
Magette daddy Mohammed Abad is Cindy all these people and this is the this goes
back to imam what the Howey so these are
the meanings that have been transmitted through through this I mean these these are this is how we know that it's these
are what he intended phenomena general Adam also visited any Manero to be in a
hotel for Danny yeah laser beam on ahoo ahoo dominant vidya for undoubtedly our
lord the sublime and exalted is described with the attributes of unity and uniqueness no one in creation is any
way like him what's an Allah now I mean this is where he really this
he drives it home now and this is where it ends this section alright so we're done but he's gonna drive at home he's
gonna he's gonna shove this right down your throats because if you don't get
this you don't understand anything what Allah and illudude well Hyatt God is
transcendent beyond limits ends when our can what Allah supports components or
instruments what let will jihad to sit to kisara noted that the six directions
do not contain him as they do created things what are the six directions right
front of you behind you to the right of you to the left of you over you and under you God is not in any of those
directions tonight allah i'm my elsie phone it's true you Haruna you know they
have all of their Lord and Allah says who are on volca a body you
folk in the piranha he is above his his servants and that's true he is over us
but we don't point and if they say well that the prophet saw him asked the Giardia where's your Lord a shot at it a
somach he pointed to the heaven and he said Who am I and in a rewire she
actually says a shot and then she says you're a sue but in the sound is her rewire she was she could not speak
she was Buckman and and so a shot at it
a Semih you know that's where Allah in other words tan Zia and then when he asked Who
am I a shot at it a Samantha my it out or sweetie that in other words you're the messenger of all he said Amina
release her because she's a believer so that and then also Imam Razi said one of
the reasons God uses anthropomorphic language is to make common people if you
if you if you explained it in pure transcendence they would think God didn't exist like you said he's in no
place he has no form he that you know people say so the the this is a way of
just helping people to approximations of meaning but khulna mahaprabhu vadik for
the Hokkaido food addict everything that occurs to your mind got his other than that I'm gonna keep driving that point
home I'm sorry but this you know this is our religion this is our understanding
of allah subhanhu at the anna-san a lot on my ELC phone so I'm Dina that's it he
has no limits now in in one commentary in English that I saw it said he has no
limits known to us that way that's what
it said in the commentary he has no limits known to us that's not what he
says in the text that who do thou and it's Nephilim jinns let who do that he
didn't say that who do dune in the had on my new moon aho he could have said
he's allahu dhu de there's no limits so to say there's no limits now and that
was because these poor people think if you say he has no limits it means he's everywhere
it means he's permeating the world what in your understanding because your
little pea-brain can't grasp that god is you know we are we're all pea brains I'm
not making fun of them I'm a pea brain - we're all pea brains in relation to God
you know we that's it but don't limit God to your own limitations because you
can't understand God don't try to make him understandable to your limitations
because he's it's it's incomprehensible a loss of behin Owatonna and that's why
Allah comes from what aha to be bewildered because God is that which
bewilders and imam al Junaid said this affair ends in utter bewilderment this
affair ends in utter bewilderment hara
subhanAllah and that's why we say subhanAllah cuz it's subhanAllah subhanAllah that's
all the angel they're all saying it we should all just start saying it's over hon Allah subhanAllah tonight Allah I'm
miles you won't exalted transcendent is is God above anything that we can
comprehend hum do that so that section is done you won't hear me on that again but I I needed to do that I'll quickly
go through them we'll pray if al buck was better than Omer why did the prophets say if there was a prophet to come after me it would be Alma in praise
of Omar's genius that that Alma had an
ability to to get to the truth so quickly so that was really praising all
Marky's Farook and and that's his mt as abu bakr as-siddiq abu bakr relates more
to Eman say tomorrow lates more - to Islam in
that way DC because Faruk is the one that distinguishes I mean what Almonte
has great Eman I'm not but Abu Bakr his it's all about Iman so he's talking more
about the genius of all Mars understanding for people coming into
Islam are those strengthening their Iman how do they reconciled I enter into the being completely orifice enemy kapha
with enter into the Deen gently you know I mean that just that means kapha that's
about Eman because really that the sin there that it's talking about to enter
into is to enter into the faith completely with faith you know to come into this religion utterly with your
faith but when it says a little bit if Ben is talking about practices taking on
practices if you try to take on too much so that there's no contradiction between
the verse and and the and the hadith
Allah is nothing like we know once Imam humble had seen him did Imam humble have
a framework for the beatific vision you know he didn't go into detail but but he
I mean they all have tansy with this about the division how do we know when
the line between acquiring knowledge and understanding of Islam and pushing questions too far on those hazy issues
you know the thing about the mutashabiha hat is that it's important to know that
we're living in a time when there is certain people focusing on those things and that historically that was seen as
very negative thing and then it's this is part of the oppe then that's why he
mentions them in there and that's why I talked about them but that's all you need to know what we just covered you
don't need to do it ever again if anybody wants to bring them up and debate them or something like that just say you know Saddam Oh Nadia come
learn at total Jelena I mean you don't have to say that literally but you know you should just know right away that
something's wrong with it if he's I mean I went you know I was I mean I won't say
where but I you know I was years ago tested for something for a program and
the guy asked me you know well what is a brahmana Island artist OA you know which
is the throne verse what does that mean and I gave the answer of Imam Malik you know and he said to me when he ma Malik
said madam he met Madame luetin that we know what it means literally and I said
that's not my understanding of that thing he said no that's what it means so I was just like okay why are you
testing me on this I'm just gonna get me closer to God why are you testing me on
this why do you want to know what I think about that I mean it's like you know grand inquisitors or something like
that seriously it's like Muhammad of teach like the inquisitorial courts auto
they say you know let's let's test you and then next thing I'll be in one of
those orange suits with things over my ears or something like that you know I
mean what is that you know why why are why are people so worried about what
other people believe do you know really
it's an American
Thomas Jefferson said whether my neighbor believes in one God or twenty gods does not rob my pocket nor break my
leg these people alone I mean if they're
watching train guides you can tell them there's only one God and you know I'm doing you a favor but if he wants to
keep forcing the twenty God's let him keep worshiping I'm seriously you know
Muslims lived with Hindus they lived with all these different people they live with Buddhists you know solitary oriani in his book of
magic he felt he's a modern scholar a friend of mine you know he says secularists atheists they're all they
can all you know live under Islam there's no you know that could I have a
Dean don't don't coerce people into religion the Quran says do you want to force people into being believers you
can't do it all the coercion does is create hypocrites that's all it does creates hypocrites does we ruin your money then
now there are two nits out of behin Avira do them faster and leave the Tufts your blank no I mean they talk that this
is the vision they're looking at their Lord but it's villa cave well then he saw right I mean that that's Vedic -
well then hey sorry when our urban atutor a cubed up sorry that I keep in
well and hey sorry no Joe hirato he says our Lord will be seen with vision but
not in any modality and not by a hapa it's it's not there's no containment
because he can't be contained and then the you know the more tizzy light debate
I mean the market is alight reject the ROI yeah and they say it's irrational and that God can't be seen and they use
the verse that vision cannot contain him but he contains vision and and they say
that he says that but to say that the
word Navia doesn't mean looking it means Mondavi are not waiting because in arabic it could be interpreted to mean
waiting he said waiting is i Deb when you're waiting for your beloved that he said it's it's Motorama it's the Red
Death the Arab sale in tavar molten Hamada waiting for something is the Red
Death you know it's the worst type of death so waiting for God as a reward
because the verse is a reward so their reward is that they're glowing and
waiting for God it's saying that's not a reward it's a punishment but that's a
more tizzy like trying to get out of and that just shows you how when you try to prove something that's the silly you end
up saying silly things can can you indirectly generalize the people of fitting are people that lack
intellect I mean sometimes they have you know Aristotle said that intellect is is
a mean between craftiness and stupidity so sometimes you have people that are
very crafty and they can be brilliant in that way but they don't have real
intellect in in that intellectus to really distinguish between truth and
falsehood because that's what intellectus alkyl is yeah palooka it prevents you from doing going into error
so they don't have intellect in that way but they definitely have a craftiness and some of them are quite brilliant and
some of them oh you know I mean Christopher Hitchens is very clever you
know I'm like I actually enjoy listening to him sometimes because you know I like the way he strings words together and
you know and there's something about British you know Cambridge trained
Sophos that's you know it's it's something interesting for me like
language and he's a good writer - I've actually read four of his books you know
so he's a good writer although once I
was reading him and I was like kind of admiring the language and this is true story I put him down I picked up Gibbons
you know given I star reading Edward Gibbon and as night and day
this writing was paled in comparison so modern writers I you know Ivan I'm not a
big fan of modern writing including my own but
in terms of a PDF one is not a shoddy or Matuidi are they on an incorrect path I mentioned earlier you know that I am
personally and this is a lot of my shoe would not agree with this but channel dollop in baya does and and and and it's
not because of share of dollop in beta but this is my own conclusion from reading and things like that I do believe that there is an a 30 al Qaeda
that is is sound that is not a shoddy or Matuidi and and and I do believe it's a
valid Arpita and it you can find it within the humbly tradition not the
Magesty mime in them not the anthropomorphise and imam APPA how I
close to the Etherea mean this is this is an ethereal peda more than a shoddy
and more than Matuidi although the mathura these definitely base a lot of their because this is based on chocolate
ball abu hanifa text or at least it's attributed to him but there i think it's
valid to say that the i30 is a you know it's that dialectical theology which is
what the later asha ideas are from a bucket or buckle on eon it's a
dialectical theology and the Matuidi is are also of that ilk personally I think
it's a great contribution to the Islamic tradition I don't see it as a negative I see it as a positive I know that there's
a lot of modern Muslims just think that they went off but I don't think they did and and I you know so all three of those
are perfectly valid they're all valid and the Shetty's i mean i'm i don't i'm
muffled I don't do tat we love the ayat in the Quran of you know the ad means
Quadra the I dine means in a baccarat
wanna who is to Allah but to who I mean all those I don't do those that's I
prefer the tough tough wheel that they mean what they mean and Allah knows what
they mean and I believe in whatever Allah intended by but I'd rather not say what they mean because it's just I think it's it is a
safer method but I'm certainly not going to call those great Imams Mata di
or you know they've been there do you
think the reason why the Muslims that can find the religion - one way of practice is due to the hadith which states that this religion will divide
into 73 sects and only one will enter paradise and I left two things for you to follow the Quran Sunnah so stick to
these and you will not go astray first
of all I don't think I mean the question seems to be asking do I think the reason
why Muslims that can find the religion - one way or practice is due to the hadith which states that this religion will
divide into 72 sects I think it's a misunderstanding of the hadith but yeah I would agree that that's definitely one
of the Hadees that they use to say there's only one way which is Miley was
hobby and that is true but what they have done is like the Bedouins who
urinated in the Masjid and and and when the Prophet you had you know the Sahaba
wanted to you know attack him and the Prophet had unveiled and then when he finished he explained him very gently
you know that this is a clean place and and don't you know and the man raised
his arm I said alone about how many were on Muhammad them with a time this time see wanna have mercy on me and Mohammed
and nobody else and the Prophet SAW I said him said you know you you have constrained the vast you know to me
that's it's kind of that mentality it's very similar mentality and and also the
idea that they're all in hell there's 73 sects I'm Rahul Isfahan II relates it through Kula - Jenna LOI that all of
them go to paradise eventually except for one and Imam al-ghazali says when I'll when the Prophet said that they
were in hell it doesn't mean they're going to hell it just means that they deserve to before he intercedes for them
because the prophets Aizen said she fought to the ll kebaya demon almighty
the as for the people of big sins in my community my intercession is for the
people of big sins so I mean these people think that you know paradise is like a little hotel that's that that's
been you know completely you know that
they've got the reservations and nobody else is going really I mean they that's
what they think about it but the Quran says that heaven is audible has somehow at you but it's bigger than the heavens
and the earth now we know that there's billions of galaxies out there so if paradise is where all the people gonna
go what it's for all 50 of you it's a
big place and you know I Muhammad has some what good do who I really like and
you know he's he's got his views about
things he's a genius and he's a great scholar and I you know I don't I can't even put myself you know there's no
comparison at all but but he appreciates me in my and my views about things and he gave a talk once and you know
somebody asked him where are the Jews and the Christians and then I said and he said well the padang clear about that
and he's clear you know Jew and Christian they go to hell and so when we laugh we were in the car
and I said some you know chef Muhammad the house and I wish you wouldn't have said that and he said what I said about
the Jews and the Christians and he said why and I said I have you read five sort of tougher to pile by imam al khazzani
he said no I said you should read that and I just said you know those hadees
and those ayahs about that I mean they really need to be interpreted you know with Co followed that people know the
truth and then they reject it and then and I said that's what Imam al-ghazali points out and he said he said that
sounds that's that sounds like a good easy and generalize yeah I know Myron T was good I like it so don't Jimmy I said
you know paradise is vast I'm out from if Allah wants to bring them in he can bring whoever he wants in its gonna be a
big place plenty of room there's not going to be any you know hustling and bustling at the
door once you're in everything's comfortable really nobody's going to get
in your face nobody's gonna ask you what your IP that is they'll assume it was good enough to
get in and they'd does that coming off in super Hanukkah longer home to get it
on day you don't know it's all futile war to blue egg