Can we drink with our left hands...FUNNY answer by Dr. Bilal Philips...

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Can we drink with our left hands...FUNNY answer by Dr. Bilal Philips...

This is an excerpt from the Q & A session of the lecture "Religious Extremism"- by Dr. Bilal Philips

For the full lecture go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lLAJLVUM8

For the Q & A go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAbjjJd1uXI

DR. ABU AMEENAH BILAL PHILIPS was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and grew up in Canada, where he accepted Islam in 1972.

He completed a B.A. from the College of Islamic Disciplines (Usool ad-Deep) at the Islamic University of Madeenah in 1979 and a M.A. in Islamic Theology in 1985 at the University of Riyadh, College of Education. In 1994 he completed a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology in the department of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales.

From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Bilal founded and directed the Islamic Information Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the Foreign Literature Department of Dar al Fatah Islamic Press in Sharjah, UAE.

In the year 2001, Dr. Bilal established the Islamic Online University, the first accredited Islamic university on the Internet. http://www.islamiconlineuniversity.com

He was a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University in Dubai and Ajman University, head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Preston University-Ajman, UAE, a lecturer and director of Da'wah and Education at Qatar Guest Center, Doha, Qatar, and is currently the Dean of the Islaamic Studies Academy in Doha (see: http://www.islaamicstudiesacademy.com ) More information about him and his activities may be found at http://www.bilalphilips.com

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[popcan4u]

I don't get this...if it's Sunnah to drink with your right hand...and it's not obligatory to follow a Sunnah...how does it all of a sudden become haram to drink with your left hand? This stuff doesn't make sense at all to me. Im sure there is some sort of context to this that the speaker didn't address

[zimmerinhere]

@popcan4u

Assalamu alaikum

The word "Sunnah" can be used, 1. to mean it is a recommended act 2. or to mean it was what the prophet said, did approved or disapproved...

In the context of the video, the scholar means the latter, that it was the saying (sunnah) of the prophet to drink with the right hand, and every sunnah as in point 2, can be either, 1. Compulsory, 2. Encouraged 3. Permissible 4. Discouraged 5. Forbidden and this particular sunnah falls in the compulsory category.

[zimmerinhere]

@popcan4u

Assalamu alaikum

The word "Sunnah" can be used, 1. to mean it is a recommended act 2. or to mean it was what the prophet said, did approved or disapproved...

In the context of the video, the scholar means the latter, that it was the saying (sunnah) of the prophet to drink with the right hand, and every sunnah as in point 2, can be either, 1. Compulsory, 2. Encouraged 3. Permissible 4. Discouraged 5. Forbidden and this particular sunnah falls in the compulsory category.

[zimmerinhere]

@MercifulJustice

Wa'alaikum assalam...Dr. Bilal has a PHD in Islamic theology...if he is not qualified to give Fatawa, i don't know who is...

What if a persons heart says a little bit of alcohol is OK, consult your heart when  a thing is halaal...intentions does not matter when the action itself is haraam...it's a sin anyway, in the general circumstance...

What the Sheikh proves in this video is that pushing the glass with the right hand in not sunnah...and is same as drinking with the left...

[CreativeMinds111111]

@popcan4u Sunnah does not mean optional. It means the way of the prophet. lots of muslims make this assumption. Some sunnah is optional some is mandatory. I dont know which ruling of the right hand but example its sunnah to pray 5 times a day this is mandatory.

[kekoganec]

Islam can be not only evil, but also surrealistic...

[abuzubair000]

@yazzzmin799 If you are not able to use your right hand because of disability then you can use your left hand.. In every dharurah case what is haraam becomes permitted. Islam is not a rigid religion, it provides various alternatives. Wallahu a'lam (Allah knows best).

[yazzzmin799]

what if you are left handed but not by choice...but becoz you cant use your right hand due to a disability and have 2 use your left hand for almost everything?

[JiyanTV]

@popcan4u I can't agree more. I have a great respect to Br. Philips, sometimes he goes too extreme.

[Sogekingu95]

@popcan4u I didn't meant to attack you or something like that i just wanted to make it clear to you that if the commandment of the prophet of allah comes we have to obey. You made an example that eating onions is not haram although he didn't eat it ok but if he said to us don't eat unions then its our duty to obey. If I said something wrong my apologies for that.

[popcan4u]

@Sogekingu95 Relax buddy. I was simply asking for a bit of clarification. And that was provided. Moreover, the Prophet didn't eat onions for example. That doesn't make eating onions Haram. So your little tirade doesn't even make sense. There are so many flaws in your statement it's not even funny. So think what you want and leave me be. It's people like you that make learning about Islam a chore and a headache.

[Sogekingu95]

@popcan4u Who said to you that soenah is not obligatory for a example in the quran it does not say how to pray but it is explained in the hadith so if you are saying that soennah is not obligatory then we don't have to pray like how the prophet prayed. everything what the prophet said we must obey. the reason we have to obey what ever he says because he does not speak from his own IT IS ALL FROM ALLAH. if you disobey Muhammad PBUH then you are disobeying ALLAH.