 I just want to say a few things Insha'Allah to Allah. Just some words of advice at Dino Nasihah, this is Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So, one thing I want to say is, and I think the general topic is around sort of understanding the times we live in, and there's a very vast corpus of Hadith literature that deals with signs of the Sa'a in the Hadith of Jibril Alaihi Wasallam, which is a foundational Hadith in our tradition, absolutely foundational, Hadith of Jibril Alaihi Wasallam. It's found in Bukhari Muslim Imam An-Nawwi quotes it as number two Hadith in his Arba'i. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is approached by Jibril Alaihi Wasallam who comes in the form of a man, and this is how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would receive wahi. Imam Isha'i said that the forms of wahi are 46 types, so this is just one type, which the angel would take the form of a human being and come to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. In this case, it says that Jibril Alaihi Wasallam, he came to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he had exceedingly black hair, he had very, very white clothes, he did not have signs of travel on him, he wasn't disheveled, no dirt on his clothes, nothing like that, no map sack. Wala Ya'lifu Minna Ahadun, and none of us knew who he was. So he sits in front of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and then he begins to, in a sense, interrogate the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he says, Ahbirni Ali Islam, tell me about Islam. Do you know the Hadith? You should know this Hadith. And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he gives him the five pillars of Islam, Buryat Islamu ala khams, right? Islam is built on five, the Shahada, that there's no ilah, there's no deity, except Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, in that we pray. And for a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of modern Muslims, that's plenty for them. I believe in God, I do my prayers, or I just believe in God, this type of thing. So the prayer is absolutely fundamental. I can't stress this enough. The first thing we're going to be asked about in the Yom Al Piyama, according to the Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is our prayer. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, in his final appearance in the Masjid, he said, As-Salaam, As-Salaam, the prayer, the prayer, right? And there's a Hadith where he says, As-Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that the difference between a mu'min and a kafir is As-Salaam, the prayer. And most of the Ulama, they take this as sort of a qualitative difference between a mu'min and a kafir. In other words, if a mu'min, if a Muslim is not praying, that he's taking on sort of the characteristics of a kafir. But Imam Ahmad Ibn-Hambal, he said, No, he's a kafir. In essence, it's an essential difference, right? And Imam Ahmad Ibn-Hambal is one of the great A'imah of Ahlul Sunnah wal-Jama'ah. So we should take these opinions very, very seriously. So our prayer should be the focus of our life, right? Really be the focus of our life. Plan your day around the prayer. Do you want to go see, you know, the last Jedi? You know, the days are short, and then you're going to miss As-Salaam and Mahmouda, but you know, I'll make it up later. You know, every day we should be improving. One of my teachers said, If you're not a better person than you were yesterday, then you fail. Every day you should make progress. And it's an inward struggle. It's a constant struggle. We should be conscious of our thoughts, right? We should be in a state of Toba. You know, one of my teachers said, Be in one of two states. A state of Toba, which is repentance, and a state of Shukla, which is gratitude. This is something that, again, is lost on a lot of modern people. Just to be in a state of gratitude, right? Allah SWT says, This is sort of a purpose clause in Arabic. If you have regard for me, have regard for me so that I might have regard for you. Sometimes it's translated, remember me so that I might remember you. Probably not a good translation because it sort of implies that the opposite might be true of Allah SWT, that he'll forget, but he doesn't forget. So Zikr could mean to have regard for something. Have regard for Allah SWT so that he might have regard for us. In other words, put us in the center of his Prophets, of his Tawfir. In the Qur'an, oftentimes, this is one of the rhetorical sort of secrets of the Qur'an, Allah SWT uses something in classical English grammar. It's called parataxis, which is a juxtaposition of opposite ideas. You find this in the Qur'an. It's like jinn and inns, for example, Samawati, what are opposites put in juxtaposition? So they're going to say, this is what's happening in this part of the ayah. Have shukr, be grateful to me and do not disbelieve in me. So then kufr and shukr are opposites. You see, kufr and shukr are opposites. In other words, to be ungrateful is a form of kufr to Allah SWT, is a form of disbelief. So one of the ways in which we manifest shukr or gratitude to Allah SWT, who is Ashakir, is one of his name, Ashakur. Allah SWT is the one who appreciates service. So this is one of the names of Allah. When we manifest the attribute of Ashakir, it means we are thankful to Allah. But the shakur is the one who thanks Allah, even when he's deprived. This is a higher level of shukr, right? Because ultimately Allah SWT knows what's good for us, and according to our limited wisdom, we might think, well, that thing was good for me. Why didn't Allah give it to me? But this is imputing upon Allah SWT our own sense of reason. Allah SWT is infinite and absolute. In reality, we don't know what is ultimately good for us. Something that ostensibly is seen as evil from our perspective or unjust might actually be something that's good for us in the sort of long run. Because Allah SWT is outside of time, right? He created time. He's not in time. He transcends space-time and matter. So the shakur is the one who thanks Allah even when he's deprived and even in times of adversity. The Prophet SAW, when he was praying a third of the night, and his feet were swollen and our mother, Aisha, she said, why do you do this? Allah SWT has forgiven your past and future transgressions of a prophet is completely different than a transgression of one of us. You don't have time to go into that. It's a theological issue. But his response was shall I not be a grateful servant and use a shakur. What is constantly in the process of thanking Allah SWT in any state, right? This is important. And that we carry, if we complain, we complain to Allah SWT, right? A lot of times down on youngsters they want to complain about things and how things are bad in the world and how bad we've got it. We just take inventory, do a self-audit. Is it really that bad? Is your life really that bad? You really want to march out to the streets and shout at people and wave signs at people, right? One of my teachers said, you know, you better make sure that the evil is really out there before you do that. Whenever you want to mention the faults of others, remember your own fault first. Whoever humbles himself, Allah SWT will evolve and raise up. Whoever raises himself, Allah SWT will debase and humiliate. Right? So the Prophet SAW and our sort of state is analogous to the Prophet in Mecca. Muslim minority and non-Muslim majority. Right? So we need to study the Meccan period. Study the Tafsir. How did the Prophet SAW handle himself in the Meccan period? He was a victim in Mecca. Right? He was a victim of verbal and physical abuse. He was oppressed. He was never tyrannical towards him. He went to Ta'if. He was stoned out of the city. And he carried his complaint to Allah. He didn't complain to the people. A beautiful du'a in which he made while his feet were bleeding sitting under a tree. It's how he started his du'a. This is incredible. The entire du'a is really incredible. Just the first part, he says, Oh Allah, I complain to you about my weakness of strength. So he doesn't say, I complain to you because what you did to me, I'm complaining to you because you put me with this group of people who stoned me out of the city. So he attributes the weakness, his shortcomings to himself. This is called Tawadur. This is called humility. Right? So the prayer reinforces that. The prayer has many functions. Anyway, back to the after-mismal tangent. So the prayer and then charity. Right? Hajj and fasting. These are the five words. And then Jibril A.S. says to him, tell me about iman. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he tells him the six articles of faith. And then tell me about yaksan, spiritual excellence, if you will, or goodness. And he said to worship Allah as if you can see him. As if you can't see him. And if you can't see him, you should be cognizant of fully aware that indeed he sees you. Allah SWT sees you. Right? This is ihsan. And then the Hadith continues. Tell me about the hour. Tell me about the hour. Tell me about the hour. Who is responsible? He says, Who is responsible? The one big question knows no more than the question. So whoever gives you a date, that person is a liar. Some years back there was a Christian preacher who said, May 21st, 2012, and then people, they sold their entire life because they thought they were going to be raptured into heaven. And then he said, oh, you know what? I'm miscalculated. It's actually in October. So we can have the summer. In October comes around, you know, it's not happening. I'm going to start predicting. So no one knows the Sa'a, right? The Prophet SAW said, I don't know. The one big question knows more than the question. So he said, tell me about his portents and Amaratiha. So the Prophet SAW said, he mentioned a few things. The first thing he mentioned is when Hadith of Jury he said, a girl will give birth to her master or mistress. A girl will give birth to her master which is very interesting. This idea of empowering children. This idea that there's the just or the ideal society is one in which there is absolutely perfect egalitarianism that hierarchical structures are seen as oppressive and this is a kind of philosophy that's sort of being pumped out of American universities in the academy. Our children that go to these colleges are being taught in epistemology known as postmodernism that every type of traditional society or belief system is inherently oppressive. This is what they're talking about. We take a philosophy class we take a psychology class we take an English class it's almost unavoidable. Every type of traditional belief system every type is inherently tyrannical and oppressive and it must be taken off the face of the earth and we need to rebuild society again. Even traditional religious values are seen as oppressive. They study people like Nietzsche a German philosopher whom Hitler made the official philosopher of the Third Reich. Nietzsche said that compassion is a vice. Compassion is bad for you. Which is interesting because this is the core virtue in our tradition is compassion. It's Rahman. Rahman Rahman Rahman Rahman Rahman Rahman Rahman Rahman This is the象 that are proven at it work. being taught that these are all sort of, you know, they sort of frame it as this is a Christian value, but those are values that we also, we also believe in. Compassion is a, and what's interesting is Friedrich Nietzsche, his final sane act on earth was he was walking in the streets of Turin, this is very ironic, and he saw a man beading his horse, and then he ran, and he hugged the horse, and his tears in his eyes, and then he went into a total state of insanity for two or three years. Very ironic that his final act on earth was an act of compassion. Right? But this is what we need to do. We need to get rid of these religious, these archaic, these old-fashioned values, and come up with our own values. Right? So we need to destroy what they call the patriarchy. This is how they refer to it, especially third-wave feminists. Right? The patriarchy's gotta go. What's the patriarchy? Who's the patriarch? Ibrahim Ali Salam. So they're taught a narrative. Here's the narrative. Before these archaic and tyrannical and oppressive Abrahamic religions, the world was living in a state of utopia. Right? And it's, you know, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, that game, and disrupted the utopia. Some of them actually believe you take classes in gender studies and things like that, that before Abraham, women just ruled the world is what they're taught. It's a mythos, it's not true. It's only true in Hollywood. It's called Wonder Woman. And the place is not real. It's called the Amazon. But in our tradition, we're taught that women need men, and men need women. It's a compliment. It's not a competition. Right? So, you know, this idea of post-modernism. So things that are traditional beliefs are seen to be things that are sort of outdated. Right? For example, they say gender itself is just a, it's a social construct. Right? They've heard this before. There's nothing biological about gender. You can arbitrarily change your gender. This is what they're being taught. That there's a difference between sex and gender. You're born into a sex male or female. But gender is something that is socialized. It's all nurtured. Of course, there's no scientific evidence of this. But a way of sort of creating this de-alitarian type of society where there's no differences whatsoever. It's interesting to see this sort of outcome of this type of philosophy. Because now it's permeating into things like college sports or professional sports. If you can just arbitrarily change your gender, I can wake up tomorrow and I can say, you know what? I'm a woman today. And I'm going to play on the women's basketball team. Of course, I'd still be terrible. I'm not a very good basketball player. But imagine someone like LeBron James decides, I actually like a woman. And then he joins WNBA. They'll say, yeah, he's a woman. There's no, there's, there's no such thing as gender. That's what they say. A lot of children, they have what's known as gender dysphoria. Right? So children, because St. Addy said that childhood is a type of Juno and it's a type of insanity. That's why they're children. They need to be manipulated for lack of a better term. So children, they, many of them start acting like the other gender. And you have these parents who say, yeah, these are now our teachers. Johnny wants to be a girl. I'm old-fashioned. Johnny knows what he's doing. These are now our teachers. This is your teacher, the same kid who put on Mickey Mouse ears. Now he wants to be a girl. So what if, what if your child wants to be a mouse? You're going to give them a mouse or bones and no, the intellect is not developed, but you have parents that are now giving their children, you know, hormone therapy that's sterilizing them. And then 80% of children actually come out of this gender dysphoria. 80% of them. It's a phase. But we're being taught that gender doesn't really exist. Right? And that men and women are absolutely the same. And if you look at our Sharia, there's no absolute equality. There's, there's equitable rules for men and women. Because men and women are different. Physically, they're different. You know, why do women pray behind men? This is a big upfront to post-modernist. They come inside of a musty. What is this? Women should pray next to men in front of men. Men and women are different. We have different heart, wiring. Physically, we're different. That's true. Right? But even our, our rods and codes and our eyes interact with light differently. And men are more, they're more visually oriented. Right? So I got this question the other day in another musty. In a large non-Muslim audience, why do women pray behind the men? It's because men are easily distracted from the prayer. And men don't know what I'm talking about. This is just a fact, right? As long as dealing with reality, you know, so we don't have absolute egalitarianism. What we're looking for is things that are equitable, things that are fair. So for example, look at me. You know, people bring that issue up. Why can't I have four husbands? Okay. But a man must support his wife. Right? It doesn't matter if she has a PhD or she's an MD. If she decides, you know what? I'm not going to work. You go work. She has that right. Right? Because Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala created us. And he knows that there's differences amongst us. And what's interesting is, if you look at European studies, so Europeans in general are not very religious people. Right? There's a study that came out of Prague University in the Czech Republic. And some of these countries, like 80% atheists, right? And a very homogenous, basically got a bunch of tall white people. Right? So you can't sort of get, well, you know, there's, there's religious baggage, there's cultural baggage, and people are basically the same. This is an interesting study in Prague, you know, that's our Charles University in Prague, where they found that amongst married couples, when one spouse is dominant in the relationship, and dominant, not dominant in the sense of oppressive, dominant in the sense that they sort of have the final say on things. Right? They found that in those relationships, they have more children and they're much happier than when you have two dominant spouses competing for power. The study also found you can't blame religions or not religious people. You can't, oh, this is, you know, some Middle Eastern cultural baggage. No, these are people that do the Czech Republic. They found that 78% of those relationships were male dominated, male dominated. So it's interesting, you have studies done by non-Muslims, by people who are not religious, that demonstrate that data proves that when a man is dominant in the relationship, those couples tend to be happier. This is sort of the normal state of human beings. We shouldn't apologize for it. There's studies out there that back this. It doesn't mean that women are inferior to men or something like that, but they're complements. So it's important for us to articulate our tradition to people, because eventually, because Muslims, they tend to align themselves with the left, because they don't want anything to do with Trump. They need a Republican. But if you look at it, if you look at our religious beliefs, we look at our values, we probably have more in common when it really comes down to it with Sarah Palin than we do with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is believes in social construction. Gender is a social construct. For example, she says, I wish we could have a woman president. Yet she believes that if Donald Trump wakes up tomorrow and says, I feel like a woman, we have a woman president. But that won't be good enough for her. She says, we have to keep abortion safe, legal, and rare. Why rare? She says, oh, the baby's not, the fetus is not a baby. You can only use the word baby. It's just a bundle of cells. Then why should it be rare? If it's like removing a polyp from your colon, who cares? Just get rid of it, because they know it's wrong. That's why. If you look down at it, you really analyze what's happening as far as what people actually believe. It's very revelatory. And I think right now, the greatest challenge to us is not the Christian right. It's not fundamentalist Jews. It's not religious people, really. It's this idea, this attack on tradition that's coming out of philosophies, like postmodernism, like nominalism, nominalism teaches there's no essence to anything. It's all accidents. There's no essences. This type of thing. And so when children or teenagers, they go to high school, they go to college, and they're exposed to these types of things, it's very hard for them to find guidance through the Muslim ummah, unfortunately. But I think it's time for us to defend our tradition, and it can't be defended well, because the Prophet ﷺ, you know, he said, at the end of time, Nothing will remain of this religion except its name. What does that mean? There are some people who believe that you can define this religion as Islam by your feelings. Right? Whatever I feel like, that's what it is. Well then, how do you interpret this hadith? Nothing will remain of the religion except its name. This hadith indicates there's a normative definition of Islam, and there's something else postmodernists don't believe in, something normative, something orthodox. There's nothing normative, they say, there's nothing normal, they say. This hadith indicates there's a normative definition, it's not defined by our feelings, it's defined by Allah and His Messenger. You'll come a time when people will say, I'm Muslim, but there's nothing Islamic about that, because they redefine their religion. Right? Sometimes we have to use secular arguments, because you will appeal to scripture, it's fallacy, it's an appeal to unqualified authority. Somebody says to you, for example, why don't you agree with homosexuality? And so what if the Quran says that it's a sin? Well, I don't believe in some text that was written, you know, thousands of years ago. And the Quran forced to use secular type arguments according to the CDC, the Center of Disease Control, and I apologize in advance. One-third of gay men are incontinent, you can look that word up later. 50,000 people every year get HIV, 78% of them are 2% of the population. That is completely unacceptable. And that is an epidemic and that's absolutely insane when you think about facts from the CDC. Facts hurt your feelings, I don't care. Those are facts. We can have a good discussion about them. But this is what it is. And we shouldn't apologize for our faith, because we believe that our faith and, you know, people, people sometimes they want us to use sort of their terminology for things. Right? We have to respect their tradition. But why isn't our tradition respected? Like this whole movement about gender pronouns, people now picking their own pronouns. Apparently there's more than two genders, there's more than two types of pronouns. You go to some of these classes and they say, what pronoun do you prefer? Excuse me? What pronoun? What are the choices? He, she, she, he, they, what? Oh, I didn't know that. And they enforce it upon you not to use my pronoun. So I have my own religious beliefs. I have my own anthropological beliefs about what a human being is. And I believe that there's two genders, gender binary if you will. Well, you're, you're a trans folk then. You're, you're a racist, you're, you're full of hate, you're a bigot. Why? Because I want to, because I believe in something, because I want to uphold my religious beliefs. It's like this one time, I was tutoring a student and she put her hand out and she shake my hand. And I just put my hand over my heart and said, oh, I don't, I don't shake hands with women. And she said, I'm so offended. And, and she said, and I said, you're offended by what? I'm so offended you won't shake my hand. And I said, oh, my religious beliefs offend you. I'm offended. Make sure you're offended. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, it's like one time I was in a PhD seminar class and we're talking about some cultural practice in a different country that I found to be absolutely disgusting. And I voiced that in class. And as I think that's just totally disgusting. A liberal student jumped all over me and said, how dare you? How dare you make a judgment about another culture? Who the heck do you think you are? You think you're so much better? How dare you make a judgment about another culture and judge that person and demean their opinion? And I said, what are you doing to me right now? So, yeah, it's really interesting. They don't, they don't, they don't, they don't flip it on themselves and see what that basically is all the hypocrisy. The kumdina kumaliya din, this should be our stance. We should be principled. The Prophet SAW and Mecca was principled. His methodology was called assertive non-violence. Assertive non-violence means to be totally non-violent. No violence, but assertive meaning discipline, principle, right? The Prophet SAW did not compromise in theology and morality. He didn't compromise. And it would have made the situation a lot better if he had done that. He said, no, I'm not compromising. Because he wants to honor Allah SWT. Lekumdina kumaliya din, I read a book one time by an anti-Muslim polemicist. This guy who hated Islam. And he quoted this ayah. Lekumdina kumaliya din, he said, this is the most tolerant verse in the Quran. Interestingly enough, in Surat Al-Kafirullah, you have your way, I have my way. Don't impose your beliefs on me. This is the Meccan period. You want to use your pronouns? You want to call yourself this and that? You can be an elephant for all you care. I don't care. But don't expect me to go along with it. You have your religion, I have my religion. You have your religious beliefs, or lack thereof. You don't believe in anything good for you. Faman sha'far yuhmin wa man sha'far yatfur. The Quran says to it, Meccan ayah, whoever wants to believe, let him believe. Whoever wants to disbelieve, let him disbelieve. Do whatever you want. You have your religion, I have my religion. And so, this is not going to be good enough. Eventually, when we align ourselves with people on the left, the extreme left, there's my way or the highway really with them. But interestingly enough, with Christians and Jews, they understand that there's believers and there's not believers. There's going to be people who don't agree with you. And this is how to deal with them, with compassion, with tolerance. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is our model, the Meccan period, assertive non-violence. When they threw garbage on him sallallahu alayhi sallam, he went home wrapped himself in his mantle. He lay down. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said to him, jubil alayhi sallam descended, ya ayuhal wuddesir, oh you wrapped up in the mantle, qum, get on your feet. So I did and go and warned them. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, Allah is teaching him, don't victimize yourself. Don't make yourself into a victim. Oftentimes we do this. And I said this before that I used to go to massage it. I used to go to churches and synagogues and I used to have interfaith dialogue and people genuinely wanted to know about our faith. And I would talk about you know Isa alayhi sallam and the Quran and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and the Bible and whatnot. Now it's just Muslims going into churches and just complaining about everything. Complaining. You know I was in the Trader Joe's or the Safeway and I was at McDonald's and somebody said, you're a camel jockey. And then everyone goes oh yeah poor me. I mean how many times does that really happen? You really need to announce that. You have an opportunity to talk to non-Muslims. You can you can say the name Muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam in front of non-Muslims. You can put a hadith for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam. One time I was in a church and there was like 10 speakers and the lady said you have one minute to say something. I put in one hadith for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam. This girl in the audience she came crying like this. She was running to hug me like oh that is so beautiful. We were like just running to hug me and I saw a Muslim sister came down and said get it for me get it for me. So she was hugging the Muslim sister but she was looking at me like oh would you know. I mean think about what's happening in the society. Is it really a big problem? Are you really a victim? I'll tell you right now I've been to many Muslim majority countries. I've experienced more racism in some of these countries. I've been far from going into places literally in Muslim majority countries or you know eventually sort of let in after hours and hours of this never happened to me here. So you have to put things in perspective right. Don't victimize yourself. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam wrapped himself up. Get on your feet. Go back out there and warn people. Now what does it mean to be a nalir, a warner? It means to to to make people aware of a harm right. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was just victimized. Allah is telling them, Allah is telling him go back out there and warn them about this harm. In essence continue to be compassionate to them. Continue to be compassionate even though they've abused you. And magnify your Lord. While you're doing that say Allah who akbab, Allah who akbab. And clean your clothes off. They put dirt on you. You are going to take it off. Don't lie down and say well I'm going to wait till somebody pulls me back up and cleans me back off because I've been victimized. Isn't that what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam did? Stood back up, went out there. Clean them so far. And shun their immorality and idolatry. Be principle. Take a principle stance. Stance good. The man came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and said ya Rasulullah Islamic. Tell me something about Islam that only you can tell me. Give me something that only you can tell me. Something special. The Prophet said say I believe in Allah and have uprightness. Be upright. Be strong upon that. That's it. That's the entire answer. Life is too short to be a sellout. Don't sell out. For what? Make a few people happy in your class. So be wary of different types of philosophies and teachings that our children might be exposed to in now even in high school. Where difference of opinion is absolutely not tolerated anymore. There's one philosophy, this is what it is. If you don't believe in this, you're a bigot, you're a racist, you're an archaic sort of traditionalist, and your entire belief system has to go. So we should be able to reason with that. I don't think I'll stop with my rant. But I'll take some questions at y'all. It was a Hadith. That's it. None of you believe. None of you enter paradise until you believe. None of you believe until you love one another. And then I said, and then I said, and the Prophet said to his companions, shall I tell you of something? That would increase love. And they said, yes. And he said, as shus salama veinakum, spread peace amongst yourselves. And I sat down. That was the only thing I said. You have an opportunity to speak to people, you know, people out there are living traumatic lives. They need something that you have, really, you know, and you'll be surprised the reaction you get. Yes. And then he said, so he said a woman will give birth to her master, and then you will see the naked destitute barefoot shepherds competing in the construction of tall buildings, which is an indication, according to the Urnama, of sort of the competition in dunya, basically. And that's the end of the Hadith. And then the Prophet, and then Jibril al-Aliyasan goes away, and he says, the questioner was Allah, his Messenger, was coming to you to teach you religion. So he gave two signs. One of them, according to the Urnama, will happen quickly, like, will put a lot of gain or feel the over-calcitrance, disrespect of parents by children. And then the other one, it's going to come later down the line. So earlier on you were saying, don't really listen to other people's cultures and just kind of stick to your own culture. But why not listen to their culture and find out the flaw of your culture is secure here. So I said that don't listen to other people's. You're saying like when people come up to you and say, oh, there's been more than two genders, and you can't say, let me have my beliefs and you have yours. Why not listen to their beliefs and then point out the flaws of their beliefs? Yeah, you can if you want to. That's what I've been saying is, interact with people on the basis of reason, and use secular arguments. Don't use religious arguments because they're not going to work with people that don't believe in the sacredness of text. That was my whole point when I pointed out the problem with homosexuality. The social impact of that is detrimental to society. So giving an answer of, oh, I just don't believe it because the quote on says, so that's fine for you. But that's not going to work for the other people, for the other person. And if you don't want to talk to the person, that's fine also. You don't have to say anything. But I think we need to have, like they bring conservative speakers, for example, UC Berkeley, and then people show up and they write and they break windows. Let them speak and you can just bring your speaker and they can refute their points. Stopping someone's speech is not the right answer. It's fundamentally opposed to what this country stands for. They say, well, in my opinion, your opinion is irrelevant. Let people have their beliefs, let them do whatever they want as long as it doesn't break the laws of the country. And then you can lawfully debate their positions. But you'll learn a lot from people that you think you disagree with. This is very difficult for the youth to have to discipline, to listen to someone who has a difference of opinion. It's very hard. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is actually a hadith that says part of a person's mura'a or maturity is listening to a different opinion and not interrupting that person. It's a function of a person's maturity. Because all we do now, for the most part, is ad hominem. You don't agree with someone? Oh, you're an idiot or you're a bigot. That's called ad hominem attack. It's just an insult. It's not a real argument where people are so easily triggered now. They have these trigger warnings in college. You go into a college, you go into a classroom, they'll get a trigger warning, trigger warning, and they make some statement that the kids freak out and they have to go to a safe space where there's play-go, you can play video games. Because they can't hear another opinion. It's very strange. They actually have these rooms called safe spaces in college universities where children go and they sort of meditate because that was triggered. There was a microaggression against me because this person said something that I disagree with. It's a very strange culture now. We should be able to hear different opinions and process them. And that's sort of the point of college anyway, to hear different opinions and be able to deal with them rationally. Yes? An appropriate response and reaction to hate speech. Reaction to hate speech? Yeah. If you went on the audience and there was a hate speech, what would be the appropriate reaction? Get up and leave. Yeah, remove yourself from that situation. Just take leave of them. If you want to make a sort of a silent scene, you know, just kind of go and walk out. Just remove yourself from that situation. Because the problem is, there are a lot of provocative tours out there. In other words, there are people actually go up on stage and they actually want to produce some sort of reaction from Muslims specifically. So go up there and say some slanderous thing about the prophets of Allah, and then a Muslim, of course, will be like, oh, and then they'll kind of lose their mind, and they'll let anger, and then, oh, look, see, this is what I'm talking about. These people hate our democracy. They hate our first amendment, right? So don't attend it. If you want to attend, have to sit there and listen to something, and then write a reputation. The pen is my year to the sword. So we should be in positions where, I mean, use social media. Use journalistic avenues to do something, but do it in a way that is tempered, a way that is civil. But a lot of these people are just trying to get a reaction. One of the best things we can do is just completely ignore it. Just downplay it. It'll just fizzle and go away. I mean, the prophets of Islam, that's his sunnah in Mecca when the Murshid-e-Keen were slandering him. They were calling him the opposite of the name Muhammad. It sounds like the prophet's name, but it means the opposite of his name. And the Sahaba were so upset about this. They came to the prophet. Can we attack people that call you this? They said, what are they saying? They're calling me Wudumam. They said, who is that? I'm Muhammad, and everyone kind of chuckled. That's it. He didn't allow himself to be triggered. I said, what? That's the solution? Where's my mom? Go deal with this guy. I'm sitting like this one time, and he's eating something, and non-Muslim women passed by. She said, this is your prophet? He eats like an abd, like a slave. Your prophet eats like a slave, and the Sahaba stopped. And he said, I left to be abd. Am I not a slave? Am I not a slave? Continue with this. That's it. She walked away and everyone laughed at her. Don't take these things so seriously. These are nothing. Absolutely nothing. Go about your business. Life is too short. Take care of your family. When people are angry with their wives, like four or five days. Now life is too short for that. People that love you are angry with them. Why? People haven't talked to their fathers in weeks. For what? It's Ajib. Ajib and Hadid. A person will shun his father and cling to his friend. Other signs of the Sahab. A person will ignore his mother and obey his wife. Nothing wrong with being congenial with your wife. The point is shutting your mother. These are fitan Mecca towards the end of time. But we have to have sort of develop a thick skin. The Prophet ﷺ and Mecca developed a thick skin. Because ultimately who was in charge? We have belief in Qadr. Something that happened in the past. You can't do anything about it. That's the will of Allah SWT. Don't dwell on it. Move on. Is there a question over here? There's one there. Okay. Yes sir? Yes sir. I have a similar question. Now what's the reason for the discussion? So I think about it. Let's say a sister wearing hijab at the mall. Assaulted in the mall. What is the better way to react? If a sister gets assaulted at the mall. And they're just saying we don't have people in the mall. Oh, insult. We don't have people in the mall. Yeah. To have one. It means to pretend to be, to have a hafala. Just don't even acknowledge it. This is the sunnah practice. Be your insult. It's not even worth your time. You know. Just walk right by. To get in your face and things like that. You know, try to remove yourself from that situation as much as possible. But again, a lot of people, they want to get a reaction. People have their phones out. You never know. Some guys over there trying to get you to get angry. And his buddy's over there recording. He's going to post it on some YouTube channel. He has a million subscribers or something. Muslim goes crazy in the mall. And he doesn't show the first part where he like punches you in the stomach or something. Or calls you some name. He just gets your reaction. I kill you. Just remove yourself from that situation. It's just an observation, actually. You know, the current administration. You know, I feel like as Muslims, you know, are named constantly tarnished. And I'm kind of just really voicing my opinion in terms of how can we improve our age as Muslims. To show what freedom is that makes. You know, especially as the people who are ignorant of it. And they always see in TV, you know, which is things we should not portray as that in the right way. I feel like there's need more from our Islamic society in this country to do more, maybe on TVs. I don't really know the answer. It's just an observation. I feel like our image, especially with the current administration, being tarnished and moving on. You know, it's something we need to kind of really see a way just to show what our true image is. I think the best thing is just to be Muslim. Just be a practicing Muslim. If you're trying to infiltrate the media, good luck with that. Because the media is a function of the government and the government has to justify, you know, Israeli occupation and invasion of foreign countries. And it's all the same spin on every channel. It's very, very difficult to make headway. I mean, you cannot like a YouTube channel or something like that. You can create an alternative sort of news network, but it's going to be a slow process. And these things actually work. There are a lot of people that have actually made a name for themselves creating these channels that are challenging, you know, the sort of mainstream media. But MSN, mainstream media, it's all the same sort of prepackaged garbage. I would say just be about Islam. And people eventually, they're watching these things on TV, eventually they're going to meet someone like you. You might have a Muslim neighbor, a Muslim friend. And there's going to be a cognitive dissonance. This is what this guy on TV is telling me. This suit on TV. And this is a Muslim guy that I know. And he's nothing like this. This is when people begin with great awakening. They're already starting to wake up. So that's the best. I mean, just be Muslim. Be a principled Muslim. And it doesn't mean that you have to, you know, give speeches and whatnot in the subway or something. Just be a practicing Muslim. You know, a smiler or something like that. A very friendly gesture. Go open the door for somebody. But now, it was interesting, I was on a bar train. This lady came in and I got up to give her my seat. And she said, I don't beat your seat. Do I look weak to you or something like that? And I said, well, they're taking gender studies. So you've got to be careful. They're trying to be chivalrous and they shut you down. It's very odd to you. But again, gender is a social construct, right? You know, there's an MA. There's an MA, what's it called? Mixed martial arts, MMA fighter, who's a man biologically, fighting women and sending them to the hospital. And no one can say anything because they don't want to be labeled as a big thing. Because they believe there's really no difference between those. She took hormone. Yeah, but the whole skeletal frame is bigger. There's denser muscle or fister like this big. Huge cranium. But that's a man. Like beating up these women. And it's going into the Olympics now. Now you have, you know, in fact, a few people that are born men, racing women, completely destroying them. And you see the women in the back who have lost their race and their faces are just like, I can't say anything. They're going to label me a bigger because they refuse to acknowledge that there's differences between men and women. It doesn't mean one is better than the other, but there are differences. Our brains work differently. We remember things differently. You know, we excel in different areas. This is just a fact. Again, look at European studies, Scandinavian studies that prove that women have a sort of predisposition towards certain careers and so do men. Women tend to go into medicine and teaching. Men go into the STEM fields. These are studies coming out of irreligious societies in Scandinavia. You can't blame religious baggage. But this is our hard wiring. People refuse to acknowledge it because they want absolute egalitarianism. My son is at the same level of me. Everyone's the same. Everyone at work should be the same. Everything the same. They want to create this egalitarian utopia on earth that's not going to exist. You can never have perfect justice in the dunya. It's impossible. Perfect justice is for Yom Kiyama. And you don't want justice on Yom Kiyama. We want Rahman on Yom Kiyama. It's why we believe in Yom Kiyama. But people who only believe in this dunya, they try to create their utopia. Here it doesn't work. Bow tried it, stall it, try it. Palm pot tried it. Doesn't work. You're going to end up killing millions and millions of people. So obviously there's a place for protest, but we really have to be self-checking first. We really have anything to complain about. Yeah, maybe there's a few things. But, you know, we should check ourselves, and that's the answer to the question, is that if you just implement the sunnah in our lives, inshallah, we'll see vast improvement. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can change opinions like this. You know, like the sister said, when Muhammad Ali passed away, and his funeral was in Louisville, Kentucky, it was a Muslim sister in Hijab. She said she landed at the airport, and soon as she walked out into the airport, people were giving her a standing ovation just because she was a Muslim. And then like two days later, there was one of these shootings or whatever, and they blamed the Muslims. And all of that went away. And one of my teachers said, you see what Allah can do? Like peace, He can change hearts, and then bring it back again. It's just an evidence of the Qudrana Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He can change it easy, He can change all perceptions. But sitting around and just sort of, it's all tamanna. Tamanna means like vain hope with no action. Unbelievable insanity man, tamanna. She's like give man whatever he desires. Right? You know we know, rajah. Rajah is hope with action. Hope for something, but you're taking action. What is the difference between rajah and tamanna? The person who has tamanna is sitting in his mother's basement. He's a 40 year old man. He's playing video games, and he's making dua. I wish I had a job. I wish I had a wife. I wish I lost 200 pounds. But he doesn't take any action towards it. He's making dua. But the one who has rajah is fa'il. He's active. Right? Muslim. Ism fa'il. An active participle. He's doing the best he can. Right? And if he falls short, he makes dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To complete his action. They give him towfiq. At least he tried his best. And thank you very much. There's nothing left here. I'm sorry if I offended people. Actually, I'm not sorry. It's okay. You can take it. You're welcome. I'm all right.