today just today I was in a you know I
had a meeting with some people that came
there are nice people you know and and I
was I just really because I was really
busy with something else and I had some
problems I just I I didn't I felt like
you know I really wasn't
I was rude basically to somebody and I
immediately like after the meeting I
went up to her and I just said I want
you to please I apologize you know I I
don't think I listened to you
attentively and then and that was my
mistake and I think being able just to
admit that you're wrong about things
it's really important not being
defensive
the ego always defends itself in fact
one of the most extraordinary scholars
Ibrahim Al Thani it's amazing man if you
study his life you just marvel he
actually wrote the Johan in one night
and when he finished it he went to his
share and he gave it to him and he
shaped knew what it meant like he had
had a opening because it's a stunning
poem 144 lines of just crisp creed and
he he took a oath with him he said from
this day forward I never want you to
defend yourself and that's that that's a
powerful practice of just not defending
yourself we have an amazing story of Abu
Bakr Siddiq about the law and who when a
man was really abusing him in front of
the prophets in him and the probe was
there this thing and and and and smiling
and then well what could I just couldn't
take it anymore so now his nufs came in
and even Abu Bakr had enough I mean it's
the purest of all nufs after our
prophets lies them in in his OMA but he
he he couldn't take any more he started
to finish up the
profit left when he saw him later he
asked him why he left he said that man
was it wasn't true what he was saying he
said I saw the Angels defending you and
right when you began to defend yourself
chiffon came into the room and I don't
sit with chiffon I mean that that is
just such a stunning testimony to the
power of fighting the ego so what I
would I what I would suggest first and
foremost is that that you you you begin
to do a type of Mahasabha and we
actually Imams ate and I worked on
something together called the agenda for
changing our condition and it's actually
a program to work on the self where you
you do a Machado
you know and then maracas band and
Mahasabha and then what alphabat so you
do you you you actually commit like I'm
not going to back fight and you commit
to doing it for 40 days 40 days straight
because it takes 40 days to really yet
the Allah subhana WA Ta'ala gave up I
mean Aleida like he gave 40 to prepare
for the meeting he gave Moses forty
nights to prepare and so forty this is
why in Jamaat tably if they go out for
forty days there's a big secret in the
number forty and so you do forty days of
no I'm not going to back by for forty
days and if you do you have to do my
house about the end of the day and then
you start over if you didn't do it and
then you do a more aqua but you have to
punish yourself
even though what have been said I made
many oaths to give up backbiting and I
ended up fasting a lot because he would
break the oath he'd do another and then
he'd have to fast and he said so I
decided that I would give a dinar in
charity every time I I spoke ill of
someone and he said because of my love
for money I was able to finally give up
because he made that his oath instead of
fasting breaking his oath so
I think that's something that you can
practice it's just working on things one
of the things most of us in Indiana you
know an NFC boss the human being knows
his own so well Oh Alabama
Adira even if he gives his excuses he
knows his own soul and so I think most
of us know what's wrong it's very good
to ask people I mean I I always get
shocked sometimes I'll ask do I do this
or do that yes you do you know that
that's an ouch but it's something that
you have to to take reflection from
other people so that that's important
and then the the best thing and this
this is absolutely well established is
prayer on the prophesy so if you make it
a consistent practice your soul will
will align and and this is something
witnessed by many many people so people
that do consistent practice of Prayer on
the Provos allies to them that it has an
effect on the heart and they really
begin to behave in a much better way but
each of us have our trials and
tribulations it's also useful to know
what's what's called the temporal the
humoral theory so if you and this is
something in madaba Soddy said that you
really shouldn't be a teacher unless
you've studied this so you should know
it's similar to the Briggs Mayer type
personality test so it's very it's
actually very similar and Jung also came
up with with a similar model but the
humoral theory is what the Muslims used
it was a developed by it originally
comes from Hippocrates and then Galen
but the one who developed it extensively
was even Cena the physician so you
knowing what humor you have is really
important are you Flagg Matic are you
choleric are you sanguine are you
melancholic so this is demo we better
than me so doing so far away knowing
those and then there are also mixtures
of two like my my my baseline is demo
but my my layered on is so far away a
lot of people that are asked that like
reading and studying and scholarly by
nature tend to be so far away and so far
away is is a tough disposition people
that are melancholic so far we have a
really hard time so it just depends on
what God's given you people that are
sanguine tend to be very cheery but each
one of them comes with their
shortcomings and their blessings so
knowing that can help because, there's an interesting book called 'Tthe Temperament God gave you'. It's a Catholic book, it has a test you can take. The test will really help you to see what things you're naturally going to need to work on and and I swear by the temperament tradition.
I really believe it's very accurate
HOST: "Thank you for that. We'll take a question from our livestream channel."
Could you ask your comes if someone doesn't understand the quran recitation' doing it's not a we're
but rather spend that time studying the
quran is there a similar reward that's a
really good question first of all i
wanted to say something about tara we
traditionally in most Muslim countries
today we I was actually done relatively
short doing a hut them in taraweeh was
not the tradition in in most places
there were certain mosques that did cut
them for people that wanted to
unfortunately now like if you go to
Turkey most of the mosque do very short
20 short rockets and I really think that
we need to revive this Sunnah because a
lot more people would come for tarot iya
a lot of people leave after eight
sometimes taraweeh ends now at like
twelve o'clock eleven thirty people have
to work the prophesy seven he said yes
you know what that's why sudo make
things easy for people make don't make
them difficult i love the the indian and
pakistani community is amazing like you
see these people that just masha'Allah
and
really quite stunning how they I mean
I've been to in the Muslim world in some
of the Muslim countries I've lived in
I've been to Moscow it's like Miss
mulatto none that I had even I mean a
lot like about women and Rahim mean a
lot I go out and I've literally seen
that and then I've seen middle and then
I've seen the the hutton so I think it's
important in the Maliki tradition which
is the school that I studied it's
actually preferred to do it in your home
if you're able to do it in your home so
if you're if you're gonna be lazy then
it's it's better to go the Masjid but
it's it's better especially people have
we don't have Moss on every corner like
many Muslim countries now in terms of
the question p.m. is is is one of the
sunan of Ramadan and I would never leave
us and I'll give an example there's
nothing there's no better vicar than the
Quran of the ludic Rida it's it's Keith
Avila it's my other I mean who was I die
that's the best vicar that you can do
I mean of the Roma Pope to the best
thing that anybody ever said I said or
any prophet said is la la la la la la la
la is also Quran so but in in the
furture time and in the mother of time
the best vicar at that time is the
avocado Sabharwal Meza about the Saudi
heart and things that the prophet saw
him did at that time it's better to do
those because it's the Sunnah to do
those at that time and following the
Prophet SAW I see them is very important
to do what he did and so you should do
some p.m. even if you just do you know
some short Rockets in your own home you
should do some p.m. if you find it
difficult it's not meant to be difficult
man is I'm not naked Quran latecha we
didn't reveal this Quran that you're
miserable so the understanding is and
then Quran ly Tessa to be joyful and
happy Sarah we has undeniably
uh-uh for most people I'm not gonna say
for everybody because I don't know but
for most people it's going to be a
richer experience if you can actually
understand the Quran it's even better if
you memorize so the parts that some if
if you memorize certain parts and you
hear them recited it's much more because
you can really follow them so I think
that definitely has an aspect but I
would say study the Quran in Ramadan but
also do p.m. even even if you can't do
the 20 records if it's difficult for you
just do some short rakaats in your own
home but do some p.m. particle Elfie
we have a somewhat related question from
Facebook for an ill person who couldn't
fast during this Ramadan what is the
right practice to adopt paid the Vidya
and fast 30 days when they feel better
before the next Ramadan or just pay the
Vidya and it is not mandatory to fast
thirty days prior to the next Ramadan I
feel very confused so thanks for
enlightening us if you can Ramadan
Kareem if if you if you if you can fast
later in the year you have to fast the
fidya is for people that can't fast so
you might be pregnant or nursing or
something likes it going to harm you but
when you're able to you make up the fast
phidias for like old people or people to
have diabetes or people that their their
physicians told them they can't fast I
know of somebody who was went into
pretty serious tachycardia because of
fasting that type person and it's
happened in more than one Ramadan that
person should not fast and the doctor
will tell them that and if the doctor
tells you not to fast if it if it's if
it's a valid doctor with an MD and
they're telling you it is medically
dangerous for you to fast
you should not fast the other thing and
and this is my firm conviction little
children should not fast I know there's
a feed off about this Imam Matta called
Ilan who said that it was tab that it
was actually torture for
children I know there's little children
that want to fast because they see
everybody fasting if they're going to do
that you should only do like half day
but they should their their brains are
developing they need glucose they need
energy they need caloric energy it's not
how it's healthy for us to actually fast
it's not healthy for them too fast when
they're young and I know there's Hadees
in the psyche collection things but that
was not the practice of the people of
madinah and Malik had 600 teachers from
the tabut mean and that was his opinion
it's a strong opinion and I think as
somebody who studied who has some
medical background and I think if you
ask most doctors they would tell you the
science is in and it's not good for
children to fast long periods of time so
the fidya is permitted if you allow a
year to go by you have to feed a poor
person for each day you allowed to for a
year to elapse before you made up that
fast so in Ramadan it's better to try to
make it up early if you did let the year
go by and you know when you finish
Ramadan you can actually according to
some opinions you could do the six days
of Show web and make the NIA of making
up fasting and shelter you get the rule
for both I mean these are enough issues
but I don't allow us yeah all those
mercies fast so that I think that that
answers that question in sha allah
particle elfia
okay we'll just take a couple more
questions and wrap it up if you don't
mind okay good question here may Allah
reward you for this talk and your
Ramadan ruminations any general advice
about the role the Quran should play in
our lives this we not remember him I
think the the Prophet Allah I said I'm
said towards these latter days to to
just go back to the book of Allah I
think the Quran is it's it's an amazing
experience to have a serious
relationship with the Quran
I think study is important but
recitation of Quran obviously if the
more you understand the the more
interesting it is just in terms of the
meanings because to do a Hatem you know
everybody should try to do a hutton once
once a month the Quran was divided into
30 just for a reason those Jews are
meant to be read
he's your honor Quran is considered his
Iran if you read it less than twice a
year that you've pretty much abandon it
so if you're only reading it once in
Ramadan you should at least try to do
one throughout the year the other thing
to do if for those of you who are trying
to memorize it focusing on whatever
you're memorizing is equal one of one of
the thing all of the Quran is is the
same in its equal weight that it's from
Kodama law I mean obviously there's some
verses and some things that like the
prose I said the greatest verse in the
in in the Quran is is ayatul kursi
because of the attributes of God that
are embedded in that first but all of
the Quran is Kaname law so any any Jews
you read from its Kaname law if you only
read one Jews a day but everybody should
try it it takes once you get used to it
it takes about 25 minutes on average
twenty to thirty minutes to do we waste
a lot of time there's a lot of people
that watch a couple hours of television
every day if you look on your cell
phones it's quite troubling to see the
type the amount of time that we spend on
the phone or on the on the cell phone or
looking at things people send us those
things I mean these are all things so we
should give give some time to a lost
book it's it's just a stunning
experience really to have continuous
connection with this book and one of the
things that I promise you if you do it
as a practice over time
it will it would just get stronger and
stronger in other words you you won't
want to stop so I think and that's
something all the people that have a
strong relationship with the put on the
experience so I just I recommend to the
students here don't do a lot of other
that goes to do the poor on don't don't
I think we need to get back to the Book
of Allah so behind with Donna and to a
foundational Sunnah Imam madacorp all
the Alana wrote a book the Moapa it's
the first major book in hadith he has
less than 800 hadith of the prophet
slice and even though he knew over a
hundred thousand he really put what he
felt was absolutely necessary
hadith tradition is for scholars it's
for our Ummah it's not for common people
it was never meant to be read by common
people the Hadees can really create an
immense amount of confusion and even a
weapon one of the greatest scholars of
Islam he's one of the Rashaad of imam
abu Hadi you even know what have been
said I learned so many hadith I became
confused and because of the the problems
in the hadith tradition and he said what
overlay thematically I'd like to had it
not been for lathe and imam malik imam
lathe and imam attic these are too much
that he doing at that time he said they
were his student teachers he said i
would have perished malik used to say
take this and leave that take this and
leave that so hadith is really not for
untrained people hadith is meant for
scholars it's meant to be read with
commentary in the same way that part on
should be read with with commentary is
very dangerous to - just because you
know Arabic if you studied modern Arabic
the Quran is very subtle
there are many subtleties in the Quran
there are many subtleties in
prepositions in hurdles the foul for
instance in the Quran Allah subhanAllah
data says yes whom want to come sooner
that we are the balloon of knuckle
mister unity circle you know that around
the kuru Naruto logic within jakkuman is
around remember the blessing of allah
when he saved you from around
and then it says you know he assumed
monokuma died that he gave you a
horrible punishment what that while
there WA you either be wound up now he
killed your your sons and he took
captive your women that Wow indicates
that that's not the AB the killing of
the sons and the taking of the women or
it or or or it's more than just that so
those types of lt's it takes a long time
to learn that I mean I've been studying
Arabic for over forty years now and I
really feel I'm just it's it's it's an
immense ocean of a language I mean I
feel blessed that I'm able to read I can
read in tough Sears and the books of
fifth and I had some really great
scholars but it's it's really a lifelong
study and just when you've got it all at
least you know I think it's time to go
so on that note last question last
question nautical of week earlier you
touched on speaking truth to power any
words on the suffering of the people of
Yemen at the hands of other governments
which leaves me feeling powerless how
can we help and could you please close
what they do off for this Ummah yeah
Yemen is a great tragedy of our time
among amongst many others these are
incredibly complicated situations
involving civil wars between Yemen's a
still a clan culture so you have tribes
you have cultures you have different
they're they're actually quite distinct
cultures in Yemen like ha Bellamy
culture is different from Michaela or
had them or or or or you know the
northern portion of Yemen it was once
actually two countries and they they
unified and now they're back to the
Civil War and then obviously the the
neighboring countries got involved
you had Isis or Isis like people al
Qaeda villages arrest Arab took over
quite a large portion
so it's just it's it's the fog of war
it's a horrible situation it's not easy
to discern it's very easy to point
fingers at this that or the other but in
the end these are fittin between Muslims
and we should just pray to Allah subhana
wa tada to remove these fitten from
these people the Yemeni people the
prophets allies him loved them there
were people that became Muslim without
having to without just by inviting them
to Islam they came he said like many
many he said then Imani Imani that but
there there's also unfortunately in the
whole Muslim world and here everywhere
you know Muslims have really departed
from the Sunnah of the Prophet Elias a
time from his Manoj and a lot of these
things if you read the Quran it's very
clear that the the Prophet says salat is
Adam said in Hadiya ma in had in in no
meeting unmet or mahoma my Ummah has
it's an Ummah of God's mercy and then he
said gorillas that will have he dunya ha
the punishment of my Ummah is in this
dunya so we also have to recognize that
when people divert and go far astray
from the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW I see
em and from the guidance that was given
to us and then the the sinfulness
becomes widespread and open that
tribulations will afflict us and in some
ways the places where these tribulations
are the worst are the places where those
people are closer to Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala in other words that the either a
below opponent of Tudela when a lot
loves of people he gives them
tribulation to elevate them or to remove
their sins and so we should pray for our
brothers and sisters do what we can
there's good organizations that try to
help but right now this is it's the fog
of war we're in the midst of just a very
tragic period for our Ummah we should do
our best to pray which council the
people that have the power to
to do what they can I think the kind of
belligerent attitude and what's
happening even for people that you know
and I have I have my own criticisms of
things in that region but I would
honestly say you know we should be
praying for these people we should not
this type of hatred that people have for
these governments and things like that
we should be praying for them you know
it's it's what comes without government
is actually much worse than what what
whatever tribulations governments bring
when you remove these government's when
you have anarchy this is the result of
anarchy we should be praying for these
governments our prophesy centum was
somebody that he didn't he didn't
disrupt social systems when he came into
Mecca in an Muruga Dada Hadoop area 10
of Sidhu ha which authorized it that
idea Villa the the Kings you know
tyrants and king when they come into
places they create these horrible
situations but the mostly on the people
of allah subhana wa ta'ala the prophets
they don't do that the prophesy him when
he came into Mecca he said man dakhala
beta ABI Sufyan
canna Amina whoever enters the house of
Abu Sufian will be safe he took the same
of the core age who had fought him for
twenty years and and he and he
maintained his dignity in honor because
he wanted to win his enemies over he
wanted to win them over when he wrote to
the Romans
Halima Rome to the great one of Rome
aslim taslam submit and and find peace
when he spoke when his if you want to
see the best lesson in dealing with
government I just look at how Jaffa
spoke with Anna joshie says stunning
testimony to the hikmah the wisdom of
these people despite the fact that the
new Joshi they were modify sites they
were actually a type of Christianity
that
believed in the divinity of Christ but
when I would have been an ass tried to
get them into a difficult situation the
the ayahs he quoted he just left it in a
way where he didn't compromise his
beliefs but at the same time he didn't
offend the beliefs of the of the of the
ruler that he was that they were guests
of and so just getting back to this
wisdom and trying to you know just
everybody is going to be judged by God
we're all gonna be judged by God these
rulers are gonna be judged by God and I
don't envy any of them most of them
don't sleep well the type of burdens
that they have people think that adavi
changed palaces every night never never
had a good night's sleep many of them
have to take drugs just to go to sleep
so it's not something that you should
envy or and and and we should just
really pray for them our tradition you
Mamta how he says then I am we don't
imprecate against rulers we should pray
for them there's a lot of people that
don't believe that anymore because we
have a kind of revolutionary Islam that
wants to tear everything down as opposed
to just recognizing we have to work with
what we have and try to make it better
so but you know everybody's doing there
is jihad and Yom OPM is gonna be a good
day we're all gonna see who's who on
that day
we'll see who's who it's better I think
to wait Tara bustle phonemic woman and
what'll be seen wait and I'll wait too
with you and we will see I'm on in the
body so you know community better but I
mean we're all gonna have to stand
before God and be taken to account for
our actions and for our lives so Allah
bless all of you bless your Ramadan
increase you elevate you may you forgive
us our transgressions forgive our
shortcomings may he may allah subhanho
wa taala inshaallah accept whatever
prayers we've been able to put forward
extra in this Ramadhan except our
recitation
quran allah subhana wa tada and shall
Allah give us visions of our prophet in
our dreams and may he may make our
prophet pleased with us when he sees us
at the hold inshallah may he give us
ease in our lives and ease if there's
anybody sick or depress me loss behind
without and remove your sickness or your
depression
lots of behind without increase you
elevate you in the allah subhana wa tada
forgive any of your transgressions may
allah subhana wa tada
make this book of allah the spring of
our hearts may may Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala spoke something that we love and
recite constantly and act accordingly -
may allah subhanho wa taala inshaallah
give right guidance to the people in
power wherever they are
may he may he just we asked you yeah a
lot - not meant to sit down with the
episode am minka said I'm going to carry
just said I'm hanging out I've been
episode on the market with a detailer at
a tea would a crown your peace and you
love peace and and and so bring peace to
two places where there's war bring love
to the places where there's hatred bring
unity to the places where there's
division make us people of unity always
and we ask you to bless this Ramadan
inshallah and and and give us the
blessing of laser cutter and and
inshallah may you make seen many
Ramadan's before we leave this world
going back to you in a pleasing state
yeah or how about I mean was all aloha
and I seen the Muhammad well and you
know Sam you send him to see me kathira
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