are always finding faults and always
doing things to disrupt human relations
and things and Allah says about them
those who gather wealth and then spend
their time counting it very interesting
phenomenon bloody dimmer a madam what
I'd done he gathers wealth and then he
spends his time counting the well and so
what happens in this culture is you and
every culture you have people who have
massive wealth and they hire accountants
full time who are constantly counting
for them their wealth and their giving
them reports about how where's my wealth
now how much do I have now did it by
this cell that right and they're
constantly assessing this now the Quran
tells us something or almost behind Oh
Donna tells us something about what that
is an attempt at doing why is that
person doing that I ask you wanna matter
a letter does he think that this will
give him permanence in other words that
all of this activity is really the
fundamental reason behind it is an
attempt to a suede that deep existential
fear of his own mortality this is what
that person is doing they are attempting
to us ways the fact that they will die
and it has distorted reality so they
begin to worship money they begin to see
money as being more important than their
own families than their own children and
you can see this there are many people
who sacrifice their children at the
altar of dunya many many of you we have
this situation amongst many people who
come to countries as migrants hoping to
gain dunya and buy it they lose their
children the happens you see they made a
choice they wanted dunya but the the
price for the dunya was so their love of
the dunya created this misperception and
this is why in the beginning of the
Soraa ilaloa that your your companion
the provençal isida has not gone astray
banana and and I related that to one of
the meanings is to be in love that
B'Elanna results from a type of
blindness and it takes place and it's
essential source is love of dunya herba
dunya that this is the greatest but
Allah is her bird dunya because it
blinds you to the reality of ashura it
blinds you to the important the
fundamental importance of Family and
Children and community now the next
thing we're being told there is one
mouth Allah neither was neither to the
Prophet Banda neither did he go straight
nor did he hawa and and what we did was
we looked at the root of that word which
is related to the inability to digest
milk hawea to get indigestion from
mother's milk and the idea there is that
because it all means to go straight with
knowledge the idea there is that
knowledge comes to a person but that
knowledge is not assimilated by the body
in other words when one drinks milk what
should happen is most people have an
enzyme called lactase and the lactase
will break down lactose and and and and
the the digestive enzymes will begin to
break down and digest the proteins and
the sugars and the facts that are in the
milk and then it will be absorbed by the
body and the body is nourished and the
body benefits and grows from them what
happens when you don't have lactase for
instance is the person does not break
down the milk they get ill from it and
so there is in certain human beings an
inability to take knowledge now there
are many reasons for that but probably
one of the most powerful in the Quran is
that Allah subhanAllah data says that he
will yell city folk which means to turn
away his signs I a key his signs from
the people of Chiba lavenia TECA bruna
those who have kibbe so one of the
mechanisms which
hibits a person from gaining knowledge
is arrogance the inability to take that
milk and for the body to absorb it is
similar to the inability of the arrogant
one to take knowledge and for that
knowledge to permeate the soul and there
are other reasons also how I was an
example also one's own caprices and it's
interesting to the word how was related
to wind you see how I own if you have
how on whether you have mock suriname
dude but if you have how out when it's
ready to win and caprices are like winds
they shift their constantly changing
they come and they go and people who
submit to their caprices you see like
the sexual appetite is like a wind we're
not always walking around with strong
sexual appetite there are periods you
see when people have their appetizers
are stronger but if one submits to that
wind when it comes when somebody feels a
strong sexual urge then someone is
submitting to their hawaa right and
allah only permits that in ways that are
pleasing to him subhanim allah tala and
in no other ways and so in a sense
submitting to Allah subhanAllah Diana
does not mean mean completely relinquish
ins appetites and desires but it means
ones willing to control those appetizing
desires and to only explore them in ways
that Allah subhanAllah diana has
permitted so this is this is one of one
of the ideas that work was covered
yesterday another is the idea of
language and the power of language and
the transformative impact of language
and the ability for language and
particularly the language of the
prophets which is to cut through
delusion because the words in Arabic for
language relate ultimately to cutting
Kadima is related to cutting majora unen
the word for Penn had the heart is
related to the edge of a sword which is
used to cut so words themselves cut if
they're used properly they will cut
through
illusion and this is why the Quran
mobile must be Hannah with a dollop or
on is called kodama law and Kadam as you
look at the root meaning of it is to cut
and then a logic behind with data tells
us that this is washi in Hawaii love
what him you have that the foundation of
our knowledge is revelatory it is not
based on conjecture and this is
important when we come down later so
moving down these eyes and then I think
I tried to express perhaps not well
enough but I turned to express the idea
and I'm going to get to that so I
actually wait about one and conjecture
and the epistemological foundations of
Western knowledge and and other
traditions but towards when we got down
here towards the end we were looking
yesterday at this these gods that they
were looking at matter that affected o
hara i duck from a deck of water hood on
that do you have for you males and for
him the females dedicated enough
estimate on visa this is an unfair
division and unfair in that you don't
like females this was the Jolly Eric did
not like females and yet they attributed
to Allah females they wanted sons for
themselves and they attributed to Allah
females that they did not like and so
this the Quran is saying how do you
attribute to your Lord Most High what
you yourselves don't like this is an
unfair division using your criterion
right so putting it back into the
patient's own schema or their frame of
reference
PArt 2
why I'm Chuck and one Chuck is when it
could be either or I don't know
diagnostic position one is probabilistic
and this is where they go they go with
probabilities the highest probability
here is this this and this what causes
what causes a heart disease well we
think that it has to do with a buildup
of plaque right our theory of sclerosis
well what causes that why is it some
people eat tons of butter tons of it and
they never get heart disease and then
somebody else eats a little bit well
genetics plays a role here as well right
and then they bring in another factor
and then you say bring in something else
well why is it that the Italians eat
this fat and actually they have low well
because this is a you know this type of
lipid actually lowers the cholesterol so
it's doing it's actually kind of
paradoxical and so it just keeps going
and going and going and it ends up all
being a bun it's conjecture is
probabilistic and sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesn't but ultimately it
is conjecture and what the the mediocre
scholars from their tradition want to
make people believe is that we have
absolute certainty and knowledge here
and again reiterating what I said
yesterday was is that the more brilliant
from amongst them are those who are
willing to admit in fact that we know
very little mati two-minute and Mia diva
you've only been given a little bit of
knowledge and they're willing to admit
that and there are some from amongst
them so Allah says about that that they
only follow one and one does not enrich
them I'm mental well I'm victorina what
I'm headed inland higher to dunya so
shun those who turn away from our
message in other words do not take
knowledge from them because they will
lead you astray turn away from these
people because they will lead you astray
and many many Muslims have gone astray
because they have gone into the
thing without a foundation in their own
tradition and they get led astray they
get diluted they enter into a delusional
State right and this is what have many
many people right going into
universities without having any routing
in their own tradition and suddenly
they're filled with ideas that are
actually quite alien and quite dangerous
in terms of the Islamic tradition and
they become confused right really so
happen to many many people so Allah
tells us to shun these people now
traditionally even on Hajj give a fatwa
in his mud hut he said is not
permissible for Muslims to study with a
non-muslim and less that knowledge is
does not exist amongst the Muslims in
other words it becomes permissible when
that knowledge does not exist amongst
the Muslim now what has happened because
of the post-colonial conditions and the
mentality that has set in you will find
Muslims now who are more highly honored
by getting a degree in Islamic studies
from Cambridge University than they
would be from al-azhar university or
zaytuna in Tunisia in the Muslim world
they'll have more credibility and what
dr. cinnamon yang said to me is what do
you think of a Christian group if the if
the minister comes to to the
congregation and they say where do you
study Christianity brother and he says I
studied in Mecca I got a degree in
Christian theology at oman qatar
university how long do you think you
would last as a teacher of Christian
dogma if he learned it from the Muslims
totally unacceptable so this is what's
happened massive just all of our
criterions have been turned completely
upside down our universities were
dismantled so the sources for our
knowledge were literally dismantled and
you have the madrasa system the
university system which was fought and
opposed by the colonialist ultimately
restructured this is what they did and
this is part of the thing if
you want to what like Paul is you can't
beat the Christians get in and just
distort it just change it and this is
what happens in if you look at the
restructuring of allows hada in 1900
when free Masonic infiltration of that
University takes place Lord Cromer and
you can see all of this is completely
documented and really it's all documents
not made up it's not made up our
universities were infiltrated and
restructured this happens in in Morocco
dupatta wien in 1927 the last university
to have a traditional and true Islamic
framework that I know of is the
koutoubia or the you Sofia in Marrakech
which is restructured by the French in
1937 and there are still some graduates
that are alive to this day in Morocco
from that University but they're very
old now the few places where Islam has
maintained a traditional framework our
places where the colonias didn't get to
so if you go for instance to a place
like the deep Sahara