 Assalamu alaikum and welcome to tonight's live show on Imam Hussein TV. In tonight's live show we'll be looking at the character about around one personality indeed. The Holy Qur'an mentions in at least two places around the character of the Holy Prophet peace be upon him, possessing sublime morality as Surah Falaam verse 4 talks about. Surah Azab also in verse 21 talks about him having exemplary moral conduct inshallah we'll be looking at these areas of what is morality, akhlaq as it's termed in Arabic and how we can actually focus on this. In tonight's show we'll be looking at a number of different areas, first of all around the biography around the Holy Prophet, the scarcity as it were of the availability of sources, we shall also look at the narrations available, what is reliable, what is not reliable, we shall also look at what sort of moral compass he is, the pivot of Islam, being known as Habibullah, the closest to Allah, al-Mustafa, the chosen one, Bashar al-Khair, the good human as it were and Insan al-Kamil inshallah tonight we shall be looking also at the areas around the wars that took place, what sort of social factors should we interact and incorporate from the Holy Prophet, how should we re-interact with each other, what is akhlaq, how can we engage with other humans, non-Muslims as well, also with the Holy Prophet's enemies, what took place at that time, should people marry young, we should be looking also at that, so with me tonight inshallah I'm fortunate to be joined with Dr Sayyid Ahmad Naqshman, as-salamu alaykum. Thank you for joining us inshallah and we'll be looking at this great topic around the great Prophet as it were, just before we go into the programme content, what I want to do is also focus on this week in particular or the upcoming days now because this is going to be now the period leading up to the wafa, the shahadah of the Holy Prophet, so we can also look at perhaps which particular school of thought also commemorates his shahadah as it were, why that's important, what should we take as it were from the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, so just to start with inshallah we look at other verses of the Holy Qur'an inshallah in due course, but just to start with why does the Holy Qur'an talk so nobly around the character of the Holy Prophet, and also what sort of available sources do we have around the biography? First and foremost our condolences go out to the Muslim ummah on this the week of the death of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his family, without a doubt a figure that all the Muslims are united on in terms of their guidance, in terms of their love and in terms of being the most important man in the religion of Islam and the greatest creation of God, so my condolences goes out to everybody and that without a doubt the Jafari school is the school that seeks to honor the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and his family both in remembering the day of his birth and the day of his death, I don't think you'll find any other school in the religion of Islam that remembers the Holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family in terms of Rabi'a l-Awwal and when he was born and in terms of the month of Safar and when he died and it's quite ironic because one of the ways in which certain people tried to attack the Shia was by saying that we don't value the Holy Prophet peace be upon his family or by throwing accusations against the whole of the 12 community that we favor others above the Prophet peace be upon him and his family many times I have people who when I've lectured even within our own communities will come to me and say that we hear a lot about the other members of the Ahlul Bayt such as Imam Ali alaihi salam or such as Fatima al-Zahra alaihi salam but how about the life of the Holy Prophet peace be upon him and his family and I think many of them don't realize that on the first level there is no school in this religion that tomorrow night and Wednesday night will gather in their millions around the world all wearing black all going to the mosque to honor this man and remember the words peace be upon him the day he was born and the day he died and of course the day he is raised alive again when we all hope to be alongside him but alongside that of course there is a need for us to try and be a reflection of the principles by which he lived his life and you're absolutely right when you ask me the question about the scarcity of sources and reconstructing this man's character because no doubt if a person is going to try and look for the earliest works in relation to the biographies of the Prophet peace be upon him and his family then you're finding yourself hard-pressed to find biography written about his life let's say a few years after he's passed away as in normally professors at universities will go straight away to the likes of Ibn Hisham or the likes of Tabari in the hope of somehow salvaging something from the likes of Ibn Ishaq as an example in terms of the school of Ahlul Bayt alaihi salam there is something fundamental for us and that is a a great amount of the legacy a great amount of the literature and understanding of the life of the Holy Prophet peace be upon his family can be found within the holy Quran you know I know that there are many who may say well where are the books of hadith on the biography of the Prophet peace be upon his family but the Quran itself gives us a brilliant understanding of the life of this man especially his years as a prophet number two the imams of Ahlul Bayt alaihi salam to us are an extension of that prophetic light when we say they're an extension of the prophetic light when Imam Ali alaihi salam says something that's as if the Prophet was saying it when Imam al-Sadaq says something that's as if the Prophet peace be upon him and his family is saying it there is no way that the Prophet peace be upon his family would come and guide us in this 23 year period and then just leave us in a state of confusion or a state of despair as to how we then develop and evolve with this message that he's so wonderfully looked after that's why you find many of the narrations will point to the fact that in the same way the Prophet peace be upon his family looked after revelation the likes of Ali son of Abu Talib were the ones who looked after interpretation so when you've got for example people asking me that where's your quotes from the Prophet peace be upon him and his family or even some of the Shi'a some of the Shi'a will say that in many of our Majalists we hear qaal al-Baqir qaal al-Sadaq qaal al-Baqir qaal al-Sadaq when we say qaal al-Baqir qaal al-Sadaq that is the very words of the Prophet peace be upon him and his family because the first of them is Muhammad the middle one is Muhammad and the last of them is Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallam so the Quran not only has a sura called Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi but the Quran also allows us to understand different aspects of his moral conduct we if we neglect the Quran miss out on a lot of his most wonderful moments of compassion wonderful moments of mercy wonderful moments of patience wonderful moments of grief these these moments are moments which not only do we see a development in the growth of his moral character but also our areas we can relate to you know and I think also when it comes to the sources when we are looking at Al-Kafi oman la yadarahu al-faqih o tahdib o al-stabsaar these four canonical works we have narrations in there about the holy Prophet for example which we can take but then there are other works which are dedicated to the life and the sermons of the holy Prophet in shia history which I think are neglected whether it's of scholars from the fourth century or scholars of the 21st century so for example Tuhaf and Akul for example is a wonderful work which many have neglected and while yes I'm not gonna use it for my jurisprudential rulings I'm still going to be able to benefit so much from Ibn Haran's work on the holy Prophet peace be upon him and his family and likewise Sunan Nabi of alama taba tabai for example you know as an example of a work where we can learn about the holy Prophet peace be upon him and his family and how he lived his life about his conduct with others because ultimately as human beings what are we except our morality the moment the morals die the society dies so within shia history we have works outside of the canonical works which were dedicated to the lifestyle the etiquettes the moral the content of the morality the conduct of the Prophet peace be upon him and his family yes I mean absolutely I mean there's we see numerous narrations at least in English anyway that I've encountered that where the holy Prophet peace be upon him and the holy alhamdulillah how they have treated non-muslims Jews Christians and even atheists at times and how what do you think in terms of the narrations now you met you've touched upon examples in terms of what the greatest personality the closest one to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has left as it were but in terms of narrations how should one test them if we can it's a great question because I think if we're not careful we may be able or we may be reconstructing the wrong Prophet Muhammad and the wrong Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family can leave a sour taste in the lives of Muslims and non-muslims alike depends who's telling you about the man and that's fundamental reliability and there are certain characters with all due respect to them they may be revered in other schools in Islam but for me they're not a source which I have to revere or a source of knowledge that I have to rely on when Salman Rushdie wrote the satanic verses he could not have written a work like that unless there were extant certain works on the Prophet or certain narrations about his life about his sexual behaviors about his behaviors with his wives about the dreams that he was having about his hygiene that may leave a sour taste when a non-muslim reads them I've read certain works which talk about the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family in all honesty I wouldn't follow him as a prophet if that's the way he lived his life I'll be very frank why should I sit here and claim that I have to revere a man when there are books that talk about how he was with his wives in their periods or how he was with his wives under the bedsheet when Gabriel would walk in or the odd companion would walk in who the angels were shy of and because of those narrations I believe that there are two Prophet Muhammad's who emerge I believe there's a Prophet Muhammad who emerges which is not the one I believe in or not the one that I follow there's a real lack of etiquette or even ethics in the way that he's dealing with those close to him let alone those far away from him he's looking at girls playing on swings at the age of six I don't know what that behavior is all about but it's there in certain famous Islamic works which many Muslims rely on in terms of guidance you know like you're looking at works you know the Sahih sit for example are seen as as as fundamental works Bukhari and Muslim in Tirmidhi Nasa'i Abu Dawud and bin Maja to me that you know they're not a source that I have to follow to other Muslims they are a source that they rely upon in terms of trying to gain an understanding of our history our ethics our theology in some cases for me personally if I want to understand the life of my Prophet peace be upon his family the Quran and the explanation of the verses of the Quran from the Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam first and foremost because he's the one who said I leave behind for you two weighty things hold on to them and you will never go astray the Quran and my Ahlul Bayt nobody is as learned as the Ahlul Bayt I defy anyone to tell me that they have someone who's more learned than Imam Ali alayhi salam amongst the companions or has the ability to tell me that Hassan and Hussain have less knowledge than anyone who lived in their time so when I'm gonna look at an eye of the holy Quran for example let's say what if I start a Nabi or a body as wajah haditha and saw her 66 verse 3 the Prophet told his wife a secret and she divulged her secret to her friend I want to know what the Ahlul Bayt say happened there if I see an eye in the Quran you have a Dina Amin and Ja'a kum Fasikum bin Aba infatab Yanu all you who believe when a wicked person comes to you with news verify that news I want to see what Ahlul Bayt say happened on that ultimately if in jurisprudence there was a school such as the Maliki school where Malik bin Anas relied on the practice of the people of Medina considering the people of Medina are the closest to have seen and have met or have known of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family are you telling me those people of Medina are closer than the very people who used to sit around him and who the incident of the Kisa was revealed about them therefore when someone says to me who's the real Prophet Muhammad when I see the likes out there of for example Hitchens before or Sam Harris now and others and even when I see someone like Jordan Peterson asking questions such as I'm wondering about Muhammad was he a war monger why did wars begin or about his other behaviors which others question his lustful ways I can't blame them because within our literature it's there the moment you started to rely on people who a few years earlier were pagans in some cases some of the most ferocious enemies of the man were the ones who were the most involved in narrating narrations about him imagine you hated the man a few years earlier now you're in charge of what's narrated about him and so for me the moment I saw the ummayyads come into power and Abu Sufyan's kids now have the pens in their hands and you have Marwan Ibn al-Hakam one side and you have for example Ziyad bin Abi the other Mughirah bin Shu'bah the other others and others which we won't mention because every time you mention such names there's an inferiority complex of people who are like oh don't get sectarian okay so I won't mention those names for me personally there's nothing like going to Ahlul Bayt when you go to al-Muhammad they'll tell you about their grandfather better than people who we don't know about their family heritage telling us about our prophet yes thank you for that we'll talk about certain verses alluding to the how the holy prophet peace be upon him and al-A'lul bayt al-A'lam slahm reflected and showed Akhalaq to people and we also come back to what Akhalaq was shown to them what respect was given to them further into the program however just for the moment what what I mean just for the masses here and also myself what sort of definition should we take in terms of character why is it so important I mean you touched upon the point that without morality we're nothing and so and so forth why is it so important because and I'm sure you've heard that there's a number of non- Muslims so a number of people out there who are good people and they've got good manners they've got good etiquette they're polite they respect people why is this so highly focused as it were what is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala trying to tell us as the ummah 1400 years back and even now in terms of development I think there's a couple of key points that need to be understood when it comes to the concept of morality around the Prophet peace be upon his family in particular within Shi'ism she hasn't first and foremost believes that there is an ability innately within the human being to differentiate between that which has goodness and that which has evil irrespective of what religion you believe in that sometimes in our legal and theological works you come across that which is Hassan and that which is Qabiha Hassan and Qobha these are fundamental concepts in Shi'i theology that there are objective intrinsic moral values which we're able to ascertain as human beings irrespective of our religion you go to someone out there now who's not a Muslim and you ask them is it good to tell the truth they'll say yes don't even know about the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and his family they may never have even heard of the Quran is it bad to lie they'll say yes intrinsic within us is that ability to rationally conceive the difference between that which is good and that which is bad other schools in Islam notably the ash-aray school theologically said what Allah ordains as good is good lying is bad because Allah said it's bad not because we realize it's bad telling the truth is good because Allah says it's good not because we realize that it's good on the contrary we say no we Allah has given us the ability and in Osul al-Fiq when you study the Quran you study Sunnah you study Ijmaa and then when you study Aqal within the Shi'i principles you come to musta qillat Aqliya and within that discussion is this ability to comprehend rationally the difference between good and evil therefore someone asked the question when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala enjoins upon us to do good and justice why would he need to enjoin if it's rationally or intrinsically there he's only asking us to observe that which we perceive because the human being if you don't ask them to observe it they become negligent with it sure when there is a God-given moral guidance and command it helps our growth towards perfection therefore you find on the first level within the Shi'i school morality is so great that we believe that we as human beings were given that gift of differentiating between good but who is the role model in that area Adam Noah Abraham Moses Jesus and then the final prophet of God himself says something interesting Listen to this very important line which in English I think in many cases translated wrongly in English in many lectures we may have said something like that the Prophet Muhammad's mission if someone asks now the viewers out there why do you what is the mission of the Holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family you find many people out there will say things like well his mission well you know to bring peace and just know he actually summarizes it he says my mission was to and many of us will normally say it as my mission was to come and bring morals to mankind no that's not the translation in Nama my soul mission in Nama is not a word that you simply use at the beginning of the sentence no there is some equality and attribute in Nama al-hasr you're trying to understand at this moment that there's a particular mission that's being spoken of my soul mission for which I have been sent is to complete the mission of those prophets before me I'm no different to Christ than Moses and Noah and sadly many Muslims when they talk about the Prophet Muhammad they do not show that there is a clear line of God's divine light permeated through these Abrahamic figures my soul mission is to complete the mission of those prophets who came before me to ensure that the most sublime morals are that which are given to mankind notice Makarum al-Akhlaq we have a dua in the holy month of Ramadan which many of our viewers have recited known as dua Makarum al-Akhlaq Makarum al-Akhlaq Mahasin al-Akhlaq what's the difference you have Mahasin al-Akhlaq you have Makarum Mahasin good manners Makarum sublime but what's the difference in Mahasin al-Akhlaq you Muhammad for example done me a favor where one day my car was broken down you came and helped me so I'm gonna say one day if I see your car broken down I'm gonna come and help you tit for tat show good luck back because you help me so I'll help you Makarum is whether you help me or you don't when I see you in trouble I'll help you in Mahasin al-Akhlaq when someone's done good to me I do good back to them in Makarum al-Akhlaq irrespective whether you've done good to me or no I'll always do good back towards you it's a sublime morality the world that we live in today is a world of tit for tat you invited me to the wedding I'll invite you to my wedding you came to my funeral my dad's funeral my mom's funeral I'll come to yours if you didn't invite me to your wedding I won't invite you to my wedding if you didn't give me a gift when you came home my one take your gift when you went home if you didn't call me when your baby was and that's where the Muslims are far from the Islam of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi because with our Prophet how many times and this story we tell our children from a young age I'm sure from a young age you were also told the story I was told the story before I even started narrating the story myself one day the Jewish lady who used to throw trash at him all of us have heard the story but why was that story so important because that story highlighted Makarim versus Mahasin it's highlighted that as a Muslim the biggest test you face the one who hasn't shown good to you will you show them good when they need it this permeates in the character of the Ahlul Bayt in a sublime manner we'll come to them one by one first one when she that Jewish lady very it's a time of tension of course because there are certain Jewish tribes who have a problem with him and you hear you've got this lady and this lady is throwing trash at him and when she's throwing this trash at him every morning imagine you go past someone's house they throw trash at you you know what we would do you know we'd be over there and but he would continue walking continue continue continue until one day there was no trash at him when he walked past the house now we in many cases today find that many of our listeners on the television are victims of Islamophobia I've been a victim of Islamophobia I'm sure you've had a victim of some sort of Islamophobia in your time nobody saw Islamophobia like the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon this family you know sometimes when some of our sisters who are watching these shows have to go to university and they wear their hijab on their way to the university I you know I can never ever believe that my iman can be higher than the sisters who sit on those trains on those buses public transport and they're being stared at in some countries how can I get a higher position than them because that's true iman now the only way they can maintain that iman is by holding on to the main man and you said that the Quran mentioned that he's the man of the best example for you and when eventually there is no trash being thrown at him he goes to visit that lady what's wrong why there's no trash being thrown at me that level of Akhlaq is phenomenal that's divine because for many of us our ego is hurt many of us will start a war many of us do you know who I am but he wanted to highlight that you know what when I'm telling you that I've come to perfect the mission of the prophets that have come before me there's not gonna be an easy task but you'll never find me ever ever failing it because if you can put a black door on my CV I shouldn't be a prophet of God he asked you they say to him she's ill he's like let's visit her she's mystified Muhammad why are you visiting me why are you visiting you don't feel you know I've been thrown trash at you it's not because this is what the religion teaches as the Quran says Jadil Hum Billah to hear us speak to them in that way which is better it's hard for us it is very hard especially for the for one to comprehend and and for the holy prophet to come down undoubtedly very hard to the level of the intellect of the human and the level of the intellect of the Arabs Arabs in some cases are crazy they're still crazy not some cases the Arabs until today are in many cases are crazy it doesn't matter who you are you could be more learned than them they'll tell you they're more learned than you you could have studied the Quran more than them they'd know the Quran better than you you could have given a thousand Majalis he'll teach you how to give Majalis imagine what he has to deal with but he showed the most sublime morals Imam Ali peace be upon him at Safin he doesn't have control of the water Muawiyah does we want some water Muawiyah says I'm not giving when Imam Ali has control of the water shows the most sublime morals he said let them drink Imam al-Hussein alaihi salam witnesses that in a sense of a crisis for had an inclination towards imami Shi'ism as can be seen by his akhlaq with Imam al-Hussein by telling him you lead the prayers there's clearly an Imam Shi'ism which I think certain historians have not grasped in the clearest way that they could have but Imam al-Hussein shows an unbelievable forgiving nature to her yes so you know just for a moment so to interrupt you there we're gonna be going for a break inshallah please do join us in the next couple of moments Salam alaikum and welcome back to tonight's live show on Imam al-Hussein TV where we're looking at the Holy Prophet peace be upon him Muhammad the moral exemplar as it were say that salam alaikum so just I'm really enjoying this show tonight inshallah and we just if we just go back now to the life of the holy prophets yeah as it were in terms of character morality akhlaq as it were even adab as it were what can we take in today's time for people so for example we've got a lot to get through and that's why I'm sort of trying to get through a lot of material in terms of for example should people marry young as it were what's what happened around the wars at that time what should what should what lessons do we need to take from from you know the holy prophets I think there's something many Muslims are scared to say and that is there are certain aspects of the life of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family that's in no way relate to our life today well I think marrying someone much younger than you while you're in your 50s and marrying someone who still you know is in the middle of adolescence I think in reality that is something for that culture and that time and I think there are certain people who when they say the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family is the best example I think yes there are many areas in which he's the best example for mankind but there are certain areas that do not apply today to us I think there are people who are scared to say that because there are those who will try and prove that no a 54 year old marrying someone who's 10 11 12 13 is something which is acceptable and I don't think a person should be scared to say well if it's acceptable that that's certain juncture in the evolution of mankind mind you there are there are certain states in America that were allowing people to marry 12 and 13 year olds only until a few years ago and then the states moved it to 15 16 18 and so on but I think examples like that we shouldn't be scared to say that you know what it doesn't necessarily apply in terms of for example wars I remember when Jordan Peterson was asked about the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family and and he replied interestingly by saying I'm I'm not sure how to conclude on this because there's a number of wars that are there firstly he's not the only messenger of God who has gone through wars and secondly if you're gonna bring a certain new message you're bound to have opposition and thirdly I think that there are some wonderful lessons to be learned from those battles ethically speaking in terms of the way that he treated others but I think we can also appreciate that the aim of the religion of Islam isn't just to always be involved in wars because some of his greatest moral achievements in my opinion which I think the world needs more of are treaties like the Hodebiya peace treaty you know when I see Muslims talking about jihad and war and things like that many of them are very silent when it comes to the peace treaties the constitutions where you can have a plurality of theological opinions in one country where if I'm a Muslim or I'm a Christian or I'm Jewish I can still live in peace with one another and I think that aspect of the life of the Prophet and I think these two are the most you know when you talk about lust and war that's where medieval Europe had a scathing attack on the Prophet when they started to discuss him because this man is really seen as as a as the nemesis in their opinion for Christ and anti Christ a person who's not showing that Christ is the greatest then and so they try to focus on certain aspects of his life where they wanted to attack him indeed from from another angle one may argue there's more things more examples from Muhammad's life you can take then you can take from Christ Christ doesn't get married Muhammad does Christ has no children Muhammad does Christ has never led on the battlefield Muhammad does we don't really have many examples of Christ in his teens for us to learn from or in his 20s and 30s before what happens to him happens to him whereas there's so much of Muhammad the statesman Muhammad the politician Muhammad the general Muhammad the father Muhammad the son Muhammad the orphan Muhammad the wealthy Muhammad with other religions you know so you know it can be looked at from from different ways but I think that there are certain aspects of his life which I don't know how really applicable they aren't and as I said if we're reconstructing his biography from the Quran then I think there are even certain verses in the Quran that don't apply at all to the world that we live in today meaning that it may have applied to a 7th century Arabian environment but may not necessarily have applied today sure sure viewers do call in to ask questions to Dr. Seyid Aman Iqshani and also you can also what's that and text your questions also towards the end of the program so now we'll focus on certain we say verses that have been contentious in terms of interpretation such as for example he frown we'll come back to that later on in terms of the blind man and so and so forth but let's just move now steadily into the sort of main crux as it were of this show tonight in terms of morality I just want to read out a few verses as it were the translation as it were first four and as as for those who call out to you from behind the private chambers surely most of them do not understand we'll come to that in terms of what does it exactly mean and then another verse we have in the same chapter verse 6 oh you who believe if an evil doer comes to you with a report look carefully into it lest you harm a people in ignorance then be sorry for what you have done that's verse 6 and then we have also verses 9 and 10 if two parties of the believers quoll make peace between them but if one of them acts wrongfully towards the other fight that which acts wrongfully until it returns to Allah's command then if it returns make peace between them with justice and act equitably surely Allah loves those who act equitably final verse verse 10 the believers are but brethren therefore make peace between your brethren and be careful of your duty to Allah that mercy be had on you why are these verses so pertinent as it were to today's show in terms of you know morality I think if sort of the Hajarat was called sort of the akhlaq I think the name would be apt the title would be apt of course Allah is the wise and Allah subhanahu ala through the Prophet gives us these titles Hajarat is referring to your bedchamber some of these while the Prophet was in his bedroom from outside the house would be calling out Muhammad Muhammad come down now there's a few issues there and the lack of akhlaq which we can learn firstly that not all of these companions had the best akhlaq many of them were just you know Arabs raw Arabs some of them had buried their daughters alive these guys you need a lot more training in some cases how they became leaders only Allah knows but you find that firstly there's the lack of akhlaq secondly when someone is in a particular honorable position you don't call him on first name terms for example in Islam the right of your father's you don't call him by his name so none of us will ever say my dad's called Ali Ali come here or my dad's called Jaffa Jaffa no Baba some might say Sayyidna some might say Shaykhna some might say Hajj but never will anyone call by their name likewise even more those with knowledge you know if someone is a person of knowledge people will say Sayyidna people will say Shaykhna if you call someone by their first name either you are extremely close to them or you're taking them in and we have candidates for both and so here when they're calling out Muhammad Quran says in a way stay strong many of them don't know those who call you with that type of tone or that type of rhetoric it's not good akhlaq but you maintain your composure then the next I said a fundamental verse of akhlaq for communities when an evil person comes to you with news about someone verify it otherwise you may end up accusing someone of being ignorant and then regret what you've done how many of us have made a judgment on someone in the community we've later regretted how many of us I've done you may have done it others have done it you make a judgment about someone someone tells you this person's like this and you believe it for the longest time as an I think some of us who are more public figures will will know more about this than others where you really end up it's not that people backbite there are some who slander so they'll be those who backbite you and someone might ask what's the difference between backbiting and slander Reba and Nameema Reba you're telling the truth about someone behind their back backbiting you're telling the truth about them behind their back saying things which they wouldn't like you to say truthfully but behind their back Nameema you're telling a lie about them behind their back and it's amazing how many Muslims see themselves as religious when many of them fall under the category of the people of Reba Nameema Hamaz Lamaz Wa ilu li kulli humazat al-lumazah backbiter slanderers slandering one another and then later being oh I think I got it wrong and what do they say later on you know sorry I I got it wrong I didn't mean to judge you in this way and that poor family is lives destroyed that poor couples lives destroyed that poor Maulana's lives destroyed others who have gone through difficult moments their lives are destroyed because they don't apply this ayah Imam al-Hassan was asked what's the distance between truth and falsehood he said four fingers between the ears and the eyes what you hear in your ears verify with your eyes someone told you person so-and-so is like this person so-and-so is like this verify with your eyes and not even just verify with your eyes listen if you hear something about someone there's no harm contacting the person listen I heard that this was your opinion you said this you meant this you did that you meant that you know it's very normal that we have this in our lives but sadly the Quran was trying to point to us Muslims that you are not an upright Muslim because of your prayers and the length of your prayers and the du'as and the tazmiyahs but rather it's when you hear a piece of news from somebody who's known to be a Gospa that you turn around and either say listen you shot the arrow I'm not gonna make sure that it reaches or that you yourself tell him well verified where's the witnesses to this then in the next verses of Surat al-Hujirat the believers are brethren of one another so reconciled between the brethren one of the greatest pieces of Akhlaq displayed by the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family was to reconcile the tribes of the Arabs who used to despise each other be it in Medina or be it some Mecca and Medina be it the for us liho be it the soul of Hudaibia or be it the soul between the house and the Khazraj for example you know sometimes when when two believers have a problem with each other you've got two types of people Mufsidun wal musnahun Mufsidun are the ones who try and exasperate the problem between the two don't listen to them don't talk to them don't reconcile if you reconcile you're losing your strength you're losing your valour you're losing your you know bravery then you've got the one who says you know what Imam Ali alaihi salam before he died he said reconciliation between two brethren is greater than mustahab fast and prayer those of you are praying mustahab prayer salat al-layl every night you see people praying salat al-layl but they will not reconcilable reconciliation of two brethren is greater than fasting and prayer so Surat al-Hujirat the aim of it was a number of verses and I believe that these verses of people just sit back and reflect on them they act as a mirror for us and our behaviors you have the next verse ya ayyuha alladina aminu if you want to read verse 11 read the translation of verse 11 and just see how many points are akhlaqi points in verse 11 oh you who believe let not one people laugh at another people per chance they may be better than they nor let women laugh at other women her chance they may be better than they and do not find fault with your own people nor call one another by nicknames evil is a bad name after faith and whoever does not turn these it is that are they are many issues you see there first one la yaskar qawmon min qawmin asa yakoonu khayran minhum don't let one nation make fun of another nation and maybe that that nation is better than them sometimes you have Arabs making fun of Indians and Pakistanis there are Arabs out there or vice versa but you may find some Arabs in the Middle East make fun of Indians and Pakistanis there's India and Pakistani these are our servants in the Middle East listen you can make fun as much as you want most billionaires in the world are in India not with you sometimes even in our households and marriages you come from one city or wife comes from another the family makes fun of her city under the poor girl cries then it says and I didn't say it so just in case someone writes in or the feminist establishment you know begin a campaign but then the verse says and don't let woman make fun of other woman there are in some cases you know petty disputes and squabbles that do occur even upright shia woman Sunni woman Muslim woman go to the mosque this one's in that group this one's in that group this group doesn't talk to this group this group doesn't talk to her she doesn't talk to them this one makes fun of her this one makes a Quran says wala nisa'un min nisa'in asa yakoonu khayran minhum then another small ayah in there which I listen there are some of these which we've been guilty of even in our youth you know we may have been guilty of them for example wala tanabasub al qaab don't make nicknames and how many of us have made nicknames believe you me there are some of us made nicknames we ruin people's lives you know you some make a nickname on someone imagine they name him after for example a film character and he doesn't like to be named after that film character or after a politician doesn't like to be named after politician or after somebody and imagine the kids here someone putting that nickname on their dad yes when we were teens but when the kids grow up if you read the next ayah the next ayah is the most fundamental which affects all of us oh you who believe avoid most of suspicion for surely suspicion in some cases is a sin and do not spy nor let some of you back by others does one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother but you are bore it and be careful of your duty to Allah surely Allah is off returning to mercy merciful unbelievable oh you who believe keep away from suspicion unbelievable how much how how many people in the Muslim community suspect each other of having done things where's the Akhlaq you know what happened to that prophetic message beginning with Adam ending with the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon family suspecting things about people's lives no way to verify no proof making these statements unbelievable suspicion you know there is a tradition that says that God is willing to forgive for example adultery but will not forgive suspicion for suspicion can only be forgiven by those who you suspected I now suspect something about someone's life I have no evidence about this no proof about this either my jealousy of them has led me to suspecting things about them I'm jealous of something related to them so I want to suspect something so I can spread a rumor in the community about them and the confidence with suspicion not just suspect publicly go and damage people's lives with that suspicion Quran said it's a new book a theorem in a bun in Nabata then the Quran says well I just said so and don't spy on one another and believe you me social media I'm I'm pro social media in many ways sometimes those were anti social media on social media more than those were pro but social media is like a knife it can kill a human being or it can cut an orange and social media it's unbelievable how you could easily be addicted to spying on people now someone will say but they're making their accounts public yeah but you're literally spying checking everywhere they've gone what they're doing whether until you become obsessed so now we have a question from via WhatsApp Salam my brother is brother Ali from America may Allah Subhanahu bless you all my question is how or what ways can we implement the Akhlaq of Navi Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in a society that condemns you if you do I don't know which society condemns you if you are following those objective moral values that intrinsically as human beings we're all aware of perhaps he means the open propagation as it were like I said you don't need to call it Muhammad in morals call it Abrahamic morals call it the morals of Christ what difference is there from the morals of Christ to the morals of Muhammad peace be upon his family these are all one line yeah because we just have a few minutes so do call in or text what's up your questions we've just got a few minutes now say it now the they are I mean what we'll come to two three questions so I'm not sure how much time we have and it really just depends on if someone calls in or not but let's just take two points what advice say now would you give to the viewers out there particularly young you know in the West in terms of I wouldn't say adapting but really incorporating that the lessons from out of a limousine and holy prophet and the whole compass what is the pivot and what should we use and how can we actually spread the message in terms of our etiquette man is morality and sometimes we can spread it without even saying a word invite people or be silent invite us to the way of God silent call us to the way of God sometimes you may be sitting on a bus during your tespia old lady walks in you stand up you say to her please you don't need to say at that moment the Quran says if an old lady walks in I must stand up or the hadith says if an old lady walks out no she'll notice the young man has a rosary beard wonderful secondly they had made themselves tell us let the people know about our words believe you me if you you study some of the ethical lines of the a little baits people if you didn't put your mom Ali under the quote and you put someone like Buddha people will be like yeah that's amazing you put my money don't know don't make promises when you're happy don't make decisions when you are angry wonderful ethical quote how many of us have made a promise when we're so happy and then we can't fulfill it or we made a decision when we're angry brothers are of two type people have two type their brothers in faith or your equals in humanity lovely moral quotes Ali son of Abu Talib the Quran for example says do not say the words to your parents don't be rude to them lower the wings of mercy let the people know the words of the Quran and the adab when you implement them people will be attracted when a non-muslim walks into our mosque sees or a revert who almost sees people are welcoming that's more influential than having a brilliant lecture at the mosque sometimes you can have a brilliant lecture at the mosque but if someone's walked in and no one's going to say hello how are you where are you from are you new here do you need help that's Islam Islam comes in our interactions with each other I personally believe Islam is a religion if you look at the triangle at the top is morality theology law triangle morality at the top theology one side law the other I think now it's inverted I think theology and law are most spoken about now people have forgotten morality even in our Islamic seminaries the focus is more on theology and law which are both fundamental sciences but there's less focus on ethics yes Akhlaqiyat is taught yes there are certain works of to see and for example Naraqi and for example others who are taught in in the hausa when it comes to Akhlaq but mainly when someone goes to hausa you normally hear how much they've done or secondly maybe how much theology but when it comes to Quran and Akhlaq these seem to be at the bottom of the studies at the moment whereas when Islam begun Akhlaq was at a time okay producers can you just remind us once again with how much time we have left all night I think that's all we have time for just maybe just before we go very quickly perhaps hardly 60 seconds there's a particular verse in the holy Quran which talks about he frowned and the blind man if you can possibly just very quick I personally I'm not a prophet and I've never frowned at a blind man and I can I'm in disbelief that they would say my prophet would frown at a blind man and I don't care if he's a Shia or a scholar from other schools in Islam for them to justify by saying well he's blind he can't see when you frown give me a break this man and that's all we have time for tonight inshallah inshallah hopefully should be able to join us next week again