beak and the Prophet SAW I said I'm had
a beautiful
forehead and he had very strong he had
broad shoulders is very strong and he
had beautiful he had a very small light
hair that went down and but he wasn't
hairy at all he was his body was very
his skin was did he did not have a lot
of body hair but he had very slight
hair on his on his chest that went down
to his navel very strong legs he had
strong hands he walked in a very
distinct way those are all qualities
that if you studied them you it actually
makes you want to see him you want I
want to see that I want to experience
that and then they described how he
spoke and the mellifluous nature of his
speech it was when people listened to
him they were enraptured and when he
spoke it was like birds perched on their
heads Coliseum FAO it was as if there
were birds perched on their heads they
were just so intent to hear what he had
to say but the reason that they
described that is because that's one of
the reasons that you love a person for
physical beauty and then you love them
also for their character and that's
another reason but the main reason that
people love is because of sin when
people do good to you and that's why I
lost behind with Diana
he's the moissan I mean he's constantly
doing good to us and that should
engender love in you and so love has
reasons there are reasons why we love
it's a rational thing as well and so
anyway this Turkish logician taught this
this man logic which is basically three
things it's it's it's understanding is
the first operation of the mind basic
understanding what they call a what they
call a a solar savage it's a simple
apprehension just understanding
something what it is glass of water and
then the second act of the mind is is
judgment custody or the proposition
making a statement either negating or
asserting something about something so
it needs a subject that a predicate the
mold or and the Mamun and then the last
operation of the mind is PS or reasoning
going from what's known to what's
unknown men and monomi in an image fool
and so he taught him these things and
then he said
I want you to go into the marketplace
spend the day in the marketplace and
come back so he went spent the day in
the mark he finished his cuz he's gonna
give me Jazza and month up right so he
went to the marketplace spent the day in
the marketplace he came back he said how
was your day
said I did what you told me I was in the
marketplace all day he said did you
notice anything said no he said you're
not ready so we need to do this again so
they studied logic second course did it
all understanding judgment reasoning
finished his course so he said to him I
want you to go and spend the day in the
marketplace okay here he goes spends the
day in the marketplace comes back he
said how was your day in the marketplace
all day just like you told me nothing he
said we have to do this again did the
course in logic again went through the
three operations of the mind when he
finished it he said listen I want you to
go the marketplace spend the day in the
marketplace come back he goes spends the
day in the marketplace comes back he
said how was your day he said oh my god
I couldn't believe it they're all
practicing logic cuz that's what that's
what it is the whole world is people
reasoning making understanding basic
things asserting things or negating
things and then making arguments that's
what's going on everywhere you look
that's what's going on come in there's a
discount today all right there's a
discount today so what's going on in the
mind Oh
if I buy today I'm gonna save money
therefore I should buy today right it's
logic the whole thing is predicated on
reasoning and that's what the student
finally got that it
happening all around you and that's one
of the really interesting things about
studying logic is that you begin to
refine that process and are better able
to understand what's being said to you
and better able to communicate what you
want to say to others so I just want to
show you this is the book by CDI module
called co-editor solve and I'm gonna
read to collide and talk about them
quickly and then we're done
the first guy that he says at Kurama
fish a feral tesora mejia t he was Aida
Tuhoe mafia that he be sure and any and
mocked a seaman or battalion
lyosha aleyhi via ferrata Mahakali
rotten wat abullah siren watashi de
Falla symmetry mode Erica and unholy
fihi lemon be he with a hobby then
alayhi wa ma and he met that he value of
him so he says that clam before we can
talk about it
thing in other words before we can do
make judgments about things we have to
understand what the nature of that thing
is
you
so I'll hook moron - am fahren Antasari
this is a Qaeda before you can make a
judgement about a thing you have to
grasp what that
thing is so this is what he's saying
he's saying that akadama fish a 402 so
woody Mejia te it is a branch of
comprehending it's s
since well fati dead t he and and
comprehending what its benefit is be
sure Auden the nyan so this occurs in
the mind
you
tessa been OBD Heon it either occurs
discursively through reflection through
being taught or it's intuitive you just
grasp it immediately so you have
immediate knowledge and then you have
mediated knowledge so immediate
knowledge is - is greater
than one nobody needs to teach you that
a child will understand that but that
one that 2.5 percent in Socata is 140th
that's market Esav that you have to
understand because you need to
understand what fractions are you need
to understand what decimals are and you
need to understand the relationship
between the two so that's a different
type so those are the two types so he's
saying that before we can speak about
something we have to grasp what its
essence is and what his benefit is
through this mentation through this
mental ratiocination would be a big word
for it in the West and then he says in
order
lyosha via ferrata Mahakali these are
all logical concepts so this is called
extension in logic so the a fraud that
this is all those things that it extends
to because you have what's called
comprehension and extension
all right the comprehension is is the
the tussle water or the understanding of
it what it is and then the lima sadoc
and then the the Limassol dock is what
it applies to
right what would it would it apply so
all the things that it applies to an and
B with the Hobley then an e so in order
for you to for it to be understood
through it and also the encouragement to
know its fatty dad to know its benefit
will encourage you to study it what a
manly mad daddy he
and to to be able to articulate its
subject matter and so you should
understand this so here's the beginning
of a book on to solve which is all based
on month up like you cannot understand
this if you haven't studied month up
so here's a this is our tradition if you
read tafseer if you read
peda if you read any of the major
sciences of Islam especially also
landfill you will find that they're all
relying on the the readers understanding
of these most thought a hat and not just
these but several other sciences
especially when you get into the later
scholastic tradition by the time you get
to somebody like an imam
about jewelry he's he's got Binaca going
he's got mom Tucker going he's got
grammar going he's got what that going
it's it's
monster hunter hadith tafseer Osuna
happy de felt suffer hikmah all of these
subjects
as well-versed in and this is how he's
teaching so then he says mariya to share
happy cut to who
the essence of something is its reality
the essence of a thing is its reality to
understand the essence is to understand
the reality right well how can you cut
two who madhulata Leahy Joomla Tahoe and
its reality is what it it's some
summarily means what it means by
summation what it can be summed up into
with charity for that it could be had
and the definition of that is through a
head which is a term in Latin terminus
means the end of something so a term is
is the end of something in Arabic had is
the end of something had douche a part
of a whole our hero
so the the had is the end of something
and so this is Watchmen that's that is
the most comprehensive is a definition
but then you have what's called a rossum
which in Western logic is called a
descriptions so something and and when
we get into I'm just giving you this is
just a you know it's like at the
restaurant when they give you a sample
so don't we're gonna go into this in
detail over the course of the next
couple of weeks inshallah so don't worry
about not getting any of this right now
when when you get a hand or Rustom you
need to know what are called the five
predicate predicate bulls which are the
L father Kamsa right so you have gins
the genus you have the north the species
you have the hosta the diferencia and
then you have the the the the outer
which is like the its you have the
propria is the and then you have the
fossil sorry the fossil which is the
differentiate the hasta which is the
probiem or the property and they have
the arab and some call the those two
types of accidents the adult eliza moon
and then I don't own out of them so
those five things are going to enable
you to give the head the definition or
the description the HUD is is
is the genus and the difference so the
genus is what you can say about a lot of
things the hafsa is what's specific to
that one thing so with a human being
what's our definition traditionally in
in in logic what do they call the human
being what's that
Hyeon not the Conan which in Arabic
means the speaking animal but they
really mean the rational animal in the
West we call it a rational animal so our
genus is rational this is different from
biology because you know they talk about
genus and species so yeah those are
biological terms this is logical terms
there are two different Sciences so
don't get them confused
the GE I mean they're they're related
but they're used very specifically in
these Sciences for different for things
that they mean in that science so that
the the genus is the general and then
the the fossil is the difference so with
the human being we're an animal but many
types of animals so what makes us unique
what's the Fussel what differentiates us
from other animals rationality this is
the definition so this is a logical
definition everything can be defined in
this way and this is the foundation of
defining things because when we speak in
language we want to know what a solid
fit is right what is also load v very
often it's in the thing itself all
Siouxland fit if you understand those
two words then you'll understand what
the definition of all Sunan fit is and
these are called tatty feds right so
this is this is how this works and so he
says well what old ah the the rasam the
description is clear oh tafseer or it
can explain something or tembu leave a
knee or sorta a famiiy and it helps you
understand it quickly
well put the sole see now all of this
was to introduce the definition of
tussle wolf
all of this so he's giving you now he's
told you before we can talk about
something we have to define it
what's its definition it's it's reality
what is the reality of Tessa Wolfe
well the tasawwuf Oh
LaRue Seema well for Serie B will do him
Tessa wolf has been defined it's been
described and it's been explained in
many many different ways tab local now
ll feign it will reach up to about 2000
different definitions merger aku Neha is
sitteth ilaha illa-llah Tana all of
those definitions go back to one
fundamental meaning sincerity in your
God directedness it's sincerity in your
inner direction towards your Lord that's
the definition what in the mahir will do
and fie he will honor so what does that
mean what it means is the genus of Toso
wolf is if loss that's the genus it's
sincerity but the difference because you
can be sincere as a doctor you're
sincere like you say he's a very sincere
doctor just means he doesn't cheat you
he's doing what should be done right so
that's the genus sincerity applies to
many many different things he's a
sincere student he's a sincere son we
can apply that to me but what is the
difference
what's the Fussell it's sincerity in
your directedness towards God in those
things that apply
to your Lord so you are sincere in your
ebody you're sincere in your more I'm
glad for the sake of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala that's that's all and that's why
you can be a Sufi and and and be like
have nothing to do with that word
there's people in in places that they
might even not even like to solve then
what I mean they do with it but they
have sits back toward you to a loss of a
note down and in that way they have to
solve so the name is just a name what's
the reality of the name if you're stuck
on the name you're a nominalist the name
is just a name whether you call it a
soul Fortis kia ora floss or Mahara
Pajaro to nufs right whatever you call
it it doesn't matter those are names the
Muslims for centuries called it - so
wolf there's no reason to abandon that
name really there's no reason there's
people that have tried to get rid of it
but there's no reason to abandon it once
you clarify what it is and the early the
earliest Sufis Imam al Junaid said no
one can speak about this matter that
hasn't mastered the book and the Sunna
that's what Imam Junaid said a moment to
study said I hear things about this
matter but I always go to to just
witnesses to hear their testimony the
book and the Sunna and this is why
Caesar Rock says the Sufi has to submit
to the FUP II and the doesn't
have to submit to the Sufi if you're
tasawwuf is not in accord and not some
narrow-minded provincial Fuffy who only
has one way of doing thing no to the
broad based interpretive tradition of
the folk aha which includes the
methodology of the great Imams of this
Ummah so there's Imams that say that you
can do the Mawlid and that's the
majority of the laters
there's really moms that say no don't do
that that's fine it's a real F issue if
you don't want to do it that's fine but
if you do do it it has to be free of
things that are moon cut out but to say
it in and of itself is a moon car no
because higher to my yoga Rehema crew
arrived to my yoga the worse that can be
said about it is that it's macro
according to the Aruna map but to say
that it's prohibited or something like
that and that's an extreme position that
very few scholars ever took so anyway
that that's my introduction so in
childhood tomorrow I'm going to start
with the Tenma body which our foundation
on our tradition what are called the my
body and I shot in the could in the my
body could defendant Azshara and had the
one more daughter in math Amara father
who nice for tomorrow are there or
dismissed and dad or hookman sharing
massage in mobile doable Bartok tefa
moment Daryl Jimmy has a share of a Imam
of Seban one of the great 18th century
scholars versified the Tenma body in
that it's in your book and then I
versified it for you in English if you
want to memorize it in English so those
are the 10 my body I'm gonna do those
tomorrow and shawl and that's usually
that was the introduction to any Islamic
science always began with this it begins
from an early period they started doing
this and the reason for it was to give
the student a comprehensive view of the
subject before you went into it it's
like seeing the force before the trees
which helps just to see the whole thing
before you go in and say okay that's a
oak and that's the elm tree and that's
an acacia tree and just to understand
what a forest is and so the subject is
is part of that and the name and it's
sources where it comes from it's also
its ranking one of the things that we
fail to do now in in Western education
we don't rank knowledge anymore so
nobody knows what's more important I
mean if you go if you look at the if you
go to any college most of you have been
to college some of you are in college
some of you are gonna be going to
college next year or something if you go
to college they have these catalogs they
begin with astronomy and they end with
zoology
this is A to Z there's no ranking they
don't tell you what you should take
what's important this is more important
than the other Muslims always rank their
sciences it's called the father who or
October two who shot off a whole what's
the virtue of the science and the shot
off is metallic but mold war it's what
it what a subject matter so if the
subject matter is God it's a very high
science if the subject matters dunya
it's the lower science if the subject
matter is language it's a very high
science because it's a it's a tool to
understand God so these are the rankings
hierarchical nature of science because
we believe in Marathi Marathi better
unum there are degrees of knowledge
Marathi Buju there are degrees of
existence we have four levels of
existence
you know there's degrees in our
tradition of existence then you have
metaphysical you have other realms as
well the morgue the medical the java
route so anyway questions answers
dumbfounded
any questions I've been teaching for
about 10 years and obviously before that
I was a student and I'm worried that
modern education has deconstructed our
reasoning skills and will if if it has
in your opinion do you think I'll need
13 years to reconstruct them all so yeah
I mean you know the modern world is it's
in a mess I think all of us are pretty
aware of that and that's not to say that
the pre-modern will wasn't either in
some ways there's a lot of good and and
in some ways this is one of the better
times that people have been living so
I'm not completely dismissive of the
modern world but there are there are
things about the educational system in
the past that were very problematic and
but there are things with the modern
system of Education that are also very
problematic there are still places where
you can get a reasonably good education
I would say but in terms of those basic
fundamental skills that are very
important to grasp and should really be
learned at a relatively early age in the
West they were grammar and logic and
rhetoric and then also the skills of
numbers so these are the two types of
literacy what we call literacy with
language and then numeracy or literacy
with numbers and these are the two ways
that human beings think we think
qualitatively which is linked
linguistically through language and then
we think think quantitatively through
number so and when we get into the
categories which are part of the
tradition of logic there are ten
categories and after substance you know
the two categories that immediately
follow that are quantity and quality
come and cave in Arabic and so we
there's a book by a French philosopher
the turn of the century that was written
the reign of quantity and a lot of
people noticed this about the modern
world that it was a world of quantity
and quality was being taken out of the
world not completely and not entirely
but quality is much less important to
the people today than it ever has been
the idea of mastery is is we have
mastery in a few things I think in music
there's still a commitment to mastery in
certain sports there's a commitment to
high levels of mastery but the idea of
mastering the mind the idea mastering
the soul the idea of mastering Arts and
Crafts becoming great craftsmen becoming
really masters of these things it's very
very unusual in the modern world to meet
people that are really committed to
mastery of anything and obviously the
highest thing is to master yourself and
that is very difficult I'm in Zurich
said it's easier to move a mountain with
your fingernails than it is to actually
transform your nature so it's but it is
possible an imam al-ghazali argued that
anybody who claims that you cannot
change nature is a liar and he said you
can you can take a dog and train a dog
and he's saying what you can't you can't
take a human being that has rational
nature and not transform it you can take
a dog that has you know all over the
place and teach it to do very relatively
sophisticated tricks and teach it to sit
and what you can't discipline the self
you can a dog you can discipline but
your own self you can't teach it to stop
don't do that it's not good for you you
know this is incontinence which is a
beautiful word in in in in the 19th
century in America and there was a moral
term it wasn't a medical term
and and countenance is is the idea of
restraint self-restraint incontinence is
a crazier or the lack of self-restraint
now it's been reduced to incontinent to
stool and urine this is this what's been
reduced to people that can't control
their most basic bodily functions are
called incontinent but in reality you
should be able to control your your
nature and and this takes time it takes
practice and it takes skill but the
modern world wants to strip that away so
certainly learning these skills are very
important in in the in the modern world
logic has been reduced to what's called
material logic and we'll get into that
in the third lecture we'll get into
material logic you have formal logic a
material logic material logic one aspect
of material logic is called the
fallacies which are called the sub sabha
or the Mahalo pot the Mohana thoughts
are fallacies of reasoning so the
content of your logic and and we were
very susceptible to them but politicians
are used them all the time and we're
very susceptible because the mind is
susceptible to hasty generalizations I'm
gonna give you an example if you look on
if you watched CNN before coming to
Turkey you probably would have canceled
your trip because they made it appear
that this whole country was in
revolution and when you got here in
Istanbul you're there and it's it's very
peaceful and it's so ludicrous for
people in New York don't go to Turkey
you know it's a dangerous place you know
they're all they've gone crazy you know
meanwhile there's people getting mugged
all over the place in Central Park right
I mean this is so much safe earth and
New York and but you know people are
afraid to come to Turkey because they
watch the news and the news is
constantly using fallacies and sometimes
it's just pure deceit but you know I
mean it they said for instance how many
people heard that they were gonna tear
down all the trees to build a mall how
many people heard that okay now look at
that that was a complete lie they
weren't going to tear down that they
were actually gonna remove some trees
around the edge of the park to restore
the fort that had been torn down
it was an ottoman military base and they
were gonna make a museum they were
building a mall right so it was this
kind of oh this massive you know this
insane liberal capitalism gone mad
turkeys on steroids they're gonna turn
everything into malls
no they were gonna preserve the trees
make a museum and the so-called mall was
actually cafes around the area for
people to enjoy the place but it's a
very very secular part of Istanbul and
some of the people there the majority of
pubs in Istanbul are in that area and
because they put a 10:00 p.m.
limit on sale of alcohol which is the
case in many states in America right
they have these laws and you have many
many cities in the United States where
you can't sell alcohol after so and then
you have dry days it wasn't that long
ago before we had dry States right so
this whole idea that you know oh that no
you can't do that if if they see fit to
if they if they're having problems with
with disorderly contact because of the
sale of alcohol then that's part of what
public order is you have to succumb to
the public order but if you looked at it
you know these these were these are
tactics people can't think clearly
anymore they showed a picture of a
million and a half people and CNN said
oh this was a protest again
the president no is actually a protest
for the president a demonstration for
the president and then CNN retracted
that a little later instead of whoops we
made a mistake that was actually a pro
presidential you know so the people
opposed to were a few hundred people
that they gave nine hours of
unprecedented live coverage on CNN
International I mean where were they
when Iceland was in a rebellion against
the the the Parliament because the banks
they weren't going to pay the banks
where were they how many people got to
see all the Greek rebellions and the
abuse that the Greek protesters took
from I mean you know you need the tools
of thinking in the modern world because
you're up against a massive propaganda
machine and it's it's a propaganda
machine that is is not so much a
conspiracy but it's just they all think
the same way they look at things the
same way and so Turkey because turkey is
a country that has a very very troubling
history for the West Turkey was once the
center of one of the most powerful
dynasties in human history and had an
empire that was unprecedented and lasted
for a very long time
and there are people that there there's
a little bit of schizophrenia in the
country they were deeply traumatized
I mean imagine imagine in United States
or in Canada
imagine Obama announces we have decided
that starting tomorrow all of English
will be written in the pinyin Chinese
script because we realize that China is
a rising power and we want to prepare
our young people early so that they'll
be able to read Chinese
so tomorrow all the textbooks are going
to be published in Chinese script it's
still English don't worry you're not
gonna be saying new-home ah you'll still
say how are you but it's gonna be
written
the Chinese write their script I mean
imagine the trauma that that would cause
in a nation and that's what was done
here
they went from there Arabic ottoman
script to Latin based script overnight
and then imagine the trauma to the Kurds
of prohibiting them from speaking their
language this is what happened to the
Native Americans they were prohibited to
speak their native languages in the
United States yes prohibited to speak
their native languages on the
reservations right imagine that and here
for the first time now they've they're
they're allowing them to teach their
language to teach this is what they've
done so this so-called fascist Turkish
government that's being presented to
Western people is is removing a lot of
the the darkness that had descended upon
the people from before but people are
very worried you know there's people
that are secular and they think oh these
are the Muslims taking over well they're
Muslim people but they're committed to a
secular state right and and and the idea
that Islam and secularity are mutually
exclusive is false because the vast
majority of Islamic history had
relatively secular states they they
weren't really Islamic states that the
whole concept of an Islamic state is a
fantasy in in the in the minds of a lot
of the modern Islamists but if you
actually study Muslim history that you
will find yes Islam was the state
religion but the states functioned just
like a secular state functions because
religion actually has very little to do
with the running of a state building
roads has nothing to do with what men
have you follow you know that's a Hanafy
road no that's a meth head right the
meth habit means road in Arabic but meth
head is a school is a metaphor taken
from the real meth head which is a road
you know a road is you can build it from
stone you can build it from asphalt you
can build it
concrete and that's just what you want
is honesty you want vetting you want
transparency those are secular ideals as
well right
a post office is not an Islamic concept
right the you don't need we need Islamic
stamps yeah you can have put okay put
the head of like Muslims behead lay like
a lot on their coins okay in America
they have kind of laid I had a lot to
work in out of law that's that's okay
I'm America's a secular state it still
has TOEIC in out of law right so that's
okay you can have in god we trust' it
smells you can be secular and still
trust in God it's okay municipalities
are not you know the the water doesn't I
need a henna fee you know they called
henna fiha in Arabic I need a Hennessy
anivia this is a monarchy henna via no
you don't need you just need a henna
fear you just need a water right tap
that works and that's municipalities and
all you want is some honest guy in there
if he's a secularist who's honest fine
if he's a Muslim who's honest fine as
long as the water gets there it's been
purified it's not gonna make you sick
right seriously think about it the vast
majority of government just does not
relate to religion it just relates to
common decency and that's why you can
live in I mean if Muslims were were
literally taken from like eighth century
Syria or Palestine and dropped into
Norway they would think that you know it
was like the caliphate of omar bin abdul
aziz like there's so much social justice
they would be amazed at how much social
justice are in these scandinavian
countries their secular countries so
this whole idea which in manoa you have
to have had punishment you know this is
what so islam is reduced to there's four
agreed upon had punishments 13 there's
debates
about you no sir even apostasy laws all
these things they're all debated
there's nothing fixed in stone and then
the the prophets lies centum he said it
throne who did mr. Patton avoid
implementing penal punishments as much
as you're able to maybe no we want let's
get these hands cut off you know I mean
if you had if you want some added had
punishment for theft you you couldn't
shake hands anymore you wouldn't be able
to shake hands everybody'd be like you
know nice to meet you
from from the from the president all the
way down to the street sweeper so you
know anyway that's a very long question
so would you recommend a book for
beginners to read on logic well that's
what we're doing it's a beginning book
on logic a Mary and Joseph book is very
good for and and it helps if English is
your first language it definitely helps
to study logic in in English before you
do it in Arabic my own personal
experience I read it in Arabic it was
very difficult for me initially and
after I studied in English I studied it
several years ago using Aristotle's tax
with my father and and after that it
when I went back to the Arabic it was
just very much easier to do so and
there's there's good but it's important
to note that this is traditional logic
it's not symbolic logic which is very
different symbolic logic is a type of
mathematical logic that it's useful for
certain things but for reasoning in
terms of language it's not very it's not
useful at all because of certain
problems that it has
so alhamdulillah subhana Columbia new
calendar in Atlanta southward to Hui
Lake I just want to also for the people
that are online just welcome you for
being part of this and everybody we I
really hope in shallow you have a
wonderful experience your time in Turkey
there they've been incredibly hospitable
it's a beautiful people they're good
people and there are all types of people
there's and the whole spectrum is here
in Turkey but there's still very decent
people whether they're secular is or
committed to Islam I think you'll oh by
and large find they're very very lot of
just human decency that's been my
experience I've been in Turkey now
several times and spent you know periods
close to a month a couple of those times
and that's been my experience with the
people from the top all the way down to
you know the simple people and they and
it's a great tradition they have a great
tradition here and and they're also I
think one of the things that I really
liked about Turkey is they still have an
aesthetic sense that a lot of Muslim
countries of law so they they tend to
really beauty is still very much part of
their culture and they have beautiful
parks they have beautiful a lot of
beautiful architecture still Istanbul is
arguably I think the most beautiful city
aesthetically outside of Medina because
I'm not going to say anything is more
beautiful than Medina I mean now Medina
is the mosque alone and it's a very
beautiful mosque it's the most beautiful
mosque in the world and so but after
Medina I would definitely say I mean I
was in Istanbul and I said to this
Turkish man he told me he'd studied in
San Francisco I said oh that's all
that's re-stamped that's already stem
bull and he was like
I said you know the bay it's got water
and hills and hey just no no yet no and
also make dua for the organizers they've
worked really hard dr. Asha and her team
really sincere group of people worked
very hard to make all this happen so
inshallah may Allah make it a blessed
time for you a kind of learning and
opening and my advice to you is you know
don't turn on the TV try to avoid you
know just unplug for a little while you
know you're all plugged in it's good to
unplug for a while and and just try to
focus on your studies as much as
possible
we didn't plan having a mall next to so
my advice don't go into the mall dr.
yang is coming tonight so we
traditionally we always had exercise
component in the retina and then Joseph
Alea Hama who who used to do the do
member Joseph yeah he in New Mexico and
things used to do the Tai Chi and the
Kung Fu and he died so after that we
just didn't do it but but we'd always
had that component because I you know I
think it's very important for people
Muslims tend to neglect their bodies a
lot and traditional societies there was
a lot of exercise just being in a
traditional society walking and
horseback riding and archery and
wrestling all the prophets like Sam was
a very active all the way through his
whole life he was physically very active
he did had no fat on him so low lightest
and him he he was described as having a
very flat stomach even when he was 63
years of age he was very muscular his
senior and very strong and all might
have been at hot Bob once saw a man who
was overweight in
mekka and he said that would be better
if it was on somebody else right so in
other words your extra caloric intake
you know might be better if you give
that to somebody else now don't judge
anybody because some people have you
never know about people so if you see
people that are overweight you know just
don't be judgmental about them or
arrogant or anything because some people
they really they don't eat a lot and in
fact imam banannie says that some of the
Odia are tried with fat like allah makes
them fat even though they don't eat
anything and and I've seen that with
some people you know that so you know
don't don't make any judgments about
people about that and I don't want
people to feel bad or anything like that
but it's good just to do exercise you
can be women should you know
traditionally they were you know I had
good weight and and so there's no
blemish in a woman who's got weight on
her it's actually healthier for a woman
to have fat you know really so this
these skinny women end up losing their
their periods they can't have children
and you know this happens like they do
too much exercise and they actually end
up losing their femininity and becoming
it different there's a new hybrid
species out there this
androgynous so but it's good insha'Allah
I hope people enjoy it he's a chi gong
master and Qi Gong is not a religious
exercise it there is relation to the
Taoist tradition and to Shaolin temples
and things like that so so there are
there is Association but it's um it's a
it's the exercise that went with martial
arts in China and it's very very
invigorating for people that do it on a
regular basis and practice it but he's
gonna be working with you so you can
pretty much learn how to do it during
the time and it's good to learn it from
somebody there's a lot on line and
things like that
but according to the New York Times the
longest living human being ever was a
chi gong teacher in China they
ascertained he claimed to be 235 years
of age but they did ascertain that he
was at least a hundred and seventy and
and he taught she going to the imperial
troops and the new york times sent a
team over to find out about him in 1932
I think so that was actually a goji
berries and drank green tea and Jen sang
so I mean I don't know if anybody really
wants to stick around here for 175 years
but the time we're here we should try to
be as healthy as possible you know
because it's it'll help you yeah my mom
was at the grocery store and you know
how they have those all those funny
national enquirer and all those and she
was my mom's 94 this year and she was
there was another old lady in the line
and she looked at my mother and then she
looked at the magazine and she said
aren't you glad we're on our way out
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about one reality when you have
something that has one reality and then
you have all this extra difference about
it when that difference multiplies when
you have a lot of it it indicates the
depth of understanding or comprehending
the totality of that thing in other
words that thing is a deep or profound
thing so it's it's hard to grasp it in
any one articulation and then he says if
you go back to one source that contains
a summation of what's been said about it
then that articulation of that that
thing is based upon what was understood
from the original thing that you're
talking about all right
so he says the summation of all the
words that have been said and all the
details that have been said are based on
those saying it in accorded in
accordance with their knowledge their
action their States their tastes their
experience of it and other
considerations so the difference in
Sufism in Tessa Woolf is from that
perspective and for that reason at how
fallible night he was one of the greats
I mean he was actually considered he has
he's considered Shetty Sonam of his time
he was a half-filled which meant he
memorized over a hundred thousand hadith
and he he died in 430 and he wrote a
famous book called Helia - Dahlia and
what he wanted to prove that all the
early community were Sufis so he wanted
to show that that was really the
foundation of their spiritual tradition
is that they were all people of this
science of tossa Wolfe so he he when he
talks about
each one of them the heylia is their
adornment when he talks about each one
of them he he says that that and it said
that Sufism Orta Soloff is this and then
it's different from what the other said
but his point was all of those
expressions were expressions of that
person's state and so what he wanted to
show in this was that whatever portion
of their sincerity in their inner
directedness towards the divine whatever
that portion was that was their
proportion of hisself that's what they
had of Tessa Wolfe whatever however much
sincerity they had in their inner
directedness towards the divine that was
what they had and that that the tasawwuf
of every individual was his sincere
inner directedness towards the divine
that's that's what it was so that's the
third light now on to the subject the
the text that we're going to be using as
a foundation is called Issa goji and it
was written by a great scholar of what
what are called the automatic Lia and
Athiya Rodina Abadi is is the the one
who wrote the book and he called it Issa
goji which their understanding of it was
that it meant introduction because
there's a famous text that was written
by an earlier pre Islamic scholar that
was a commentary on Aristotle's
categories and he also called that the
Issa goji so that can't became a term in
the Islamic tradition for an
introduction to logic the Issa goji so
it's ISA goji is what they called it and
he wrote this this book as a primer in
logic and this was a book that was
studied after the student had studied
grammar historically you had a hierarchy
of knowledge and knowledge is built on
other knowledge is so you move from
what's known to what's unknown you need
building blocks so you need a ladder to
move up in those degrees and grammar is
basically learning how language
functions at the most basic level so we
learn how to read sentences how to
understand when we communicate we use a
lot of things IV obviously humans speak
naturally and we don't need to be
literate to communicate language many
Aboriginal peoples they speak without
any literacy and they have their
languages we now know their languages
are as sophisticated and and sometimes
more sophisticated
and modern languages so Aboriginal
languages are actually as complex as the
languages that we're speaking and
sometimes they actually have more words
to express things but Aboriginal
languages tend to be even though they
have abstraction x' because the nature
of language is abstraction you can't
have language without abstraction
they're not they tend not to be
philosophical languages they're not
languages that have the type of thinking
that develops in literate civilizations
so as a civilization becomes more
literate it it develops ways of
understanding because what what happens
is introspection and so as a people
develop intellectually they begin to
reflect on things in a way that
primitive people's or Aboriginal peoples
don't which is not to say that they
don't reflect they do they have deep
reflection they have religions they have
ways of looking at the world that are
profound and there's immense wisdom in
Aboriginal traditions and people who
have had the experience of being with
Aboriginal peoples will know that that
they're they're not it's a different way
of being then the way of settled peoples
and and peoples that that live in
complex societies because Aboriginal
peoples live in very simple societies so
logic is one of those sciences that
develops in a complex society grammar is
the analyses of language and then it's
the articulation of what's been analysed
so for instance all human beings speak
with nouns it doesn't matter what you
call a noun you can call it a noun you
can call it a SM like in Arabic you have
ism you have Lamia which is a type of
noun what we call a pronoun in English
all languages have these methods and
this is the analysis
of linguist when they go into to try to
understand language they look and there
there is a theory of Chomsky who's a
great linguist in in the United States
about this underlying grammar that
exists this universal grammar
that's actually a the early Muslim
grammarians were very much aware of that
and and they they discussed these issues
about the nature of language
you'll also find these discussions in
the Scholastic tradition but much of the
scholastic tradition was taken out of
the Muslim tradition because of the
influence of a Farabi of even Sina of
even druid of a Ghazali and others on
their discourse but they looked and they
attempted to understand the the very
nature of language what is the nature of
language and language is a right man and
abundance an right al Rahman a diamond
or an audience an alum oho
the ban that the merciful he he taught
the Quran he created the human being and
then gave the human being ban and ban is
the ability to you may you know my fee
enough see he to articulate what's in
his soul it's the ability to actually
speak what what is in your heart and
what is that does language precede
meaning or does meaning precede language
in other words do we need language to
express meaning or is language the
result of a pre-existent meaning and our
scholars argued on the side of meaning
that meaning precedes language and many
public Mabini
meanings precede the vehicles of meaning
and when you get into our peda there's
huge discussions about what is the
nature of Kalama law is it
meanings or is it the uncreated meanings
or is it the actual vehicle for those
meanings or is it both but from
different perspectives these these are
long debates in that tradition so the
the analysis of language is an analysis
that can can be done to any language in
the world
every language has grammar darisha has
grammar if you if you look at daddy
shell or Ebonics in the United States we
have a type of of a common language
amongst a minority community in the
United States that they speak and they
understand and it's it it moves it
evolves it changes but it has a grammar
and it can be analyzed Creole has a
grammar of pidgin languages have
grammars every language has a grammar
there are certain languages that are
profound civilizational languages and
and these languages because of the
nature of their traditions a certain
continuity takes place so Sanskrit is
one of those languages Chinese is one of
those languages the the the the Hebrew
language the Arabic language these are
ancient languages and in those languages
are embedded profound worldviews if you
if you study the Chinese language in the
ideograms there are literally
cosmologies that are articulated in
their ideograms so you can analyze them
if you look at Hebrew the same is true
there are there are cosmologies embedded
I'll give you one example if you look at
the word for human being in in Arabic
the the word that means human that
shared by male and females called in San
and many of the philolog