 سيجد الأخواني هو المناقشة لأبو العربي سأمتعكم و سأمتعكم لا matter who you are or no matter what affiliation you come from or what background you come from I will still be in a position to accept you and hold you so if this is Allah's attitude towards His creation that He wants to embrace them and subhan Allah when Allah speaks about the concept of embracing what does He tell us we all know Muslims of all walks of life brothers and sisters they insist on the belief system in regard to the oneness of Allah or what we call in a more professional way the unicity of Allah meaning the uniqueness and the oneness of Allah is that Allah is non-dimensional He has no borders Allah is not sitting on the throne Allah is not bound by the senses He is not bound by the directions that we are bound Allah is beyond time and space some people cannot even comprehend the question of God being beyond time and space so one of His creation is beyond time one of God's creation is beyond time which is the sun the sun does not know the night brothers and sisters to the sun night does not exist and that is one of the creation of Allah that is not bound by time can you imagine the creator himself الله سبحانه وتعالى so what does Allah سبحانه وتعالى say He says أعط my believing servant were able to encompass me الله أكبر but here there is another bold red line under the word that the heart of a believing person is able to encompass and contain Allah which heart is able to contain and encompass Allah the heart that is free from hatred the heart that is free from envy the heart that is free from malice the heart that is free from بسط the heart that is generous the heart that is giving the heart that is accepting the heart that is capable to show its humanity in the face of adversary like Imam Ali صلى الله عليه وسلم and the rest of the members of Ahlul Bayt when they interacted with their adversaries they interacted with them not on the basis of revenge not on the basis of you kill me I will kill you you humiliate me I humiliate you you swear at me I reciprocate you that is above the standard of behavior of Ahlul Bayt صلى الله عليه وسلم and I mentioned in many of my lectures this most amazing story that happened with Imam Zainal عابدين صلى الله عليه وسلم in which a man came knocking at his door and saying to the Imam the following words your mother is one, two, three and four and the Imam says anymore is there anything else he says yes and I remember and she is this and that and then what he says best بغض خلاص enough I've said what I want to say he said then listen to me look at the response of the Imam said listen to me if what you said about my mother is true then may Allah forgive her and if what you said about my mother is not true I'm gonna bury you alive no the Imam doesn't say that I may say that some only people may say that don't mess with my mom but the Imam said but if what you said about my mom is not true then may Allah the merciful forgive you this is humanity at its best where you can grow to a level of forgiveness and acceptance even when you are the subject of injustice سبحان الله even when you are the subject of injustice if religion is understood from that point of view and religion is a bless and religion is something that a person should feel deprived in having and in entertaining and in accepting therefore the importance of religion and spirituality lies primarily brothers and sisters in the moral and social moral aspect of man's existence and the Islamic concept therefore that religion maintains that religion is not only a spiritual and intellectual necessity but also a social and a universal need and we will see why we need that particular need to interact within the corpus of religion and here I'm speaking about religion in general I'm not specifically talking about a set of religion though I'm a Muslim and you are Muslims but I'm talking about religion and the importance of religion in the wider sense of what religion entails as Allah intended it for this world and surely the religion with Allah is what is Islam but what is the meaning of Islam because when we say to people that religion with Allah is Islam they say you are discriminant because Islam is something that we associate with Muhammad it is not something that we associate with Jesus, Moses, Buddha or any of these great personalities that history has told us about or Ibrahim or Adam or Noah or Idris or Jonah or whatever the prophets or these great personalities maybe but when we say Islam interprets to be in a sense that you should be a submitter to where truth lies then that complexity is broken that complexity in the mindset of those who do not affiliate with Islam is taken away completely why because now you are saying the common denominator between you and me is what is to submit to the will of God is to submit to the will of God and since I and you will submit to the will of God then there is no question of discrimination there is no question of discrimination the question of me being holier than you does not exist anymore the question that I am higher than you and you are lower than me does not exist anymore why because before Allah we are one and the same just like the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يضعها among the most eloquent of ways الناس are like the teeth of a comb we don't see the teeth of a comb one higher than the other because you start stretching your head and there is nothing worse than scratching the truth because truth is one you scratch it and you get rid of it and that's why the prophet uses the comb that the teeth are equal لأن إذا كان one above the other then we'll be scratching at each other's skin and that's what destroys the human race that superiority position of being or feeling the audacity to think that I can be higher than someone else لذا أردت أن موسى سلام الله عليه و أنه سمعت بأن الله سبحانه وتعالى اذه لأجدني أحد يسيحك منك لذا موسى قلت أنه سيسيحك لأنني مجددا ماذا يفعل؟ لأنني سأذه و سأجدني أحد أحد أخر than me لذا اذهت و قررت أحد يسيحك و قررت أنه سيكون أفضل منه و كان يتبعه معه و يأخذه لأحد و قررت أنه يتبعه أحد يوم كيف سأقول أنه سيكون أفضل منه؟ أركه و قررت أنه رأي شخص يفعل حرام و قررت أنه سيكون أفضل منه و قررت و أخذته و رأي شخص يفعله و قررت أنه سيكون أفضل منه و سيوظه ، و سيكون أخذه و الله سيوظه ، فهي يمكنك أن يقرير بين الإحوالات يستطيع أن يكون يأخذ كل time كان يكون لديك أكثر يفهم في مكان كيف و حتى يأخذ بالكامل عندما كان يبقى للدعاء لذلك قال انه جوكBecause Allah is male so He grabbed the dog and said I am definitely better than that dog And then He said no God created it for a purpose Lift it and went God said what do you bring with you oh Moses And He said myself o Allah By my majesty and glory had you brought anyone with you I would have erased your name from the book of prophets سوف أبقى رسمك من بكتباتك. لا أعتقد أنك يمكنك أن تكون أكثر من أي شخص. موسى again ، سلام الله عليه وسلم. لأن موسى is a phenomenon ، سلام الله عليه وسلم. هو يذهب ومتعب مع أبليس ، هذا هو صحيح. هو يتعب مع أبليس ، هو يتعب مع أبليس ، أبليس يقول موسى look I'm tired. أريد أن أتعب مع أبليس ، but I feel too embarrassed to come before God and ask him for pardon. أنت كليم الله ، you are the one that spoke to Allah. ربما يمكنك أن تكون موسى ، you say in your language موسى ، you become someone that you can liaise between me and Allah. He said are you really for sure? Have you lost your mind? He says no no no, I'm switched on. I'm 100% switched on. He said what a day, this is really Eid. Because you know how many mu'min will come because of you. Okay, he goes. He says ya Allah you are a servant of Iblis which is true. Is he a servant whether we like it or not. Your servant Iblis wants to reconcile with you. And he wants to admit his faults and mistakes. الله says I will accept him, but there is one condition, very tiny condition. What is the condition? Say tell him to go to Adam's tomb and kiss the tomb. Just in admission of my command. Look to what extent Allah is accepting. So Moses come down and says he's euphoric. He's full of jubilation. He got a deed of release for Iblis. And he says to him fine, God accepted you. He said Moses don't mess with me man. What's the story? What's the underlying condition? Is there anything that you're not telling me? He said one simple, simple condition. He says what? He said go to Adam's tomb and kiss it. He says I knew it. This guy I didn't do it while he was alive. I'm gonna do it for him when he's dead. Arrogance. And that's what Allah says you should not entertain. That's why sometimes we say is it possible and feasible that Allah will commit people to torment? Yes, but it is not Allah that wants it. It's the human being. وما ظلمناهم. ولكن كانوا أنفسهم يضليمون. Allah says surely we have not caused any injustice against any of them. But they were the perpetrators of injustice against their own self. What have I got to do with it? Someone comes and says where is God? There's so much worse. Is God sending battalions of Malaika with the AK-47 and telling people to fight one another? What's God got to do with it? God says there is famine in Somalia. Why isn't God intervening? Why doesn't God bring man a salwa? You know that he gave to the children of Israel during the time of Moses too? Overcome the famine of Somalia and Africa. I say you know what the problem is in that? The problem is not lack of wealth. The problem is lack of distribution of wealth. George Bernard Shaw had a sick white bead like that. And he was bald. Someone came to him and said man you're out of shape. How come you have a bead that big and bald? He said look there is no problem with production but there is problem in distribution of production. There is no problem. The bead, the hair is there man. It's there but it's the distribution that is bothering me. And the same applies in the human race. God doesn't insist this. I'd really like to hear a bit of loud Salawat on Muhammad and Ali Muhammad. So the question at hand brothers and sisters is in how we will and are able to entertain and accept what religion is all about. And let me say from the outset so that this is all I tell you to my lecture. I haven't started my lecture yet brothers and sisters. Insha'Allah over the next nine days. Let me say from the outset that if religion in any sense of the word is to restrict and curb the movement and the development and progress of the human race then immediately you should cast it aside because it's not religion. Because religion and the question is to all of you is religion to serve man or man to serve religion? This is a question that we need to answer and we need to answer without prejudice and the honest and most sincere answer in regard to this question is that religion comes to serve man, not man to serve religion. الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran God does not make religion hard on you. But some people who are quasi-Maragia of Taqlid and pseudo-Maragia of Taqlid they appoint themselves in a position and in a place where they become more stringent than the merger himself. I experienced this myself in front of a merger. I don't want to mention the merger but he was being asked what is your opinion in regard to 1, 2, 3, 4 he said this is my opinion someone who follows that merger later on after the meeting ended he said no, no, no you didn't understand what the merger was saying لا حولا ولا قوة إلا بالله علي الله we didn't understand what the merger was saying and you did when you go 180 degrees opposite your merger of Taqlid just because you want to become a quasi-Maragia and a quasi-authority and that's what brings us back and sets us away from progression and when I say progression I'm not saying liberalism no, I'm saying developing to the highest dream of what constitutes a humanity and what makes humanity something that you can relate to and accept and be proud of just like Allah was proud of a humanity it is Allah who said it and not me brothers and sisters he is the one who said إني جا علون في الارضي خليفة I want to create a vice-gerent on earth what is the nature of that vice-gerent when the Malaiqa themselves took what took objection to that but their objection was that of questioning or inquiring rather than that of throwing away the proposal so they said أتجعلوا فيها will you create in it in this world من يفسدوا فيها ويسفقوا الدماء you will put on this earth those who will create mischief and spill blood ونحن نسبحوا بحمدك ونقد ديسولك while we are the ones who are praising and celebrating your name what did Allah reply again look at the softness of the approach of Allah He didn't say what do you think you are why are you messing with me I am the lord of the lords when I say something it is there is no question about it no he said إني أعلم ومالا تعلمه he said simply I know things that you don't know but later you will come to appreciate the meaning of having a vice-gerent on this earth because he is going to be a perfect role model for creations to follow because I have granted him a free will something that Allah never gave to anyone else not even to the Malaika according to some tefsir and according to some exeges because Allah created the Malaika for a purpose and created them to worship him so much so that the Prophet when he draws a comparison between the angels and the perfect representation of the human being the Prophet raises the level of a human being to a state higher than the angels he said وإن منين and among the believers are those who are higher than the status of angels why يا رسول الله why because a human being has free will he has the ability to sin and to obey to be good and to be bad when the good and the potential not to sin outweighs his potentials to sin and be bad on the basis of his own choice and free will then surely he raises himself to a level higher than the angels because the angels only have one thing and that is to obey they don't have temptations they don't have anything that tempts them like in Australia for example we had a television program it's called Temptation Island Australia itself a temptation island we don't need another program for God's sake the land itself is full of temptation now you bring another program and you say temptation island for God's sake I have some mercy on us when you are challenging our weaknesses but even when we talk about challenge brothers and sisters as a human being that challenge comes to strengthen you not to take away your potentials because if you are not challenged you become stagnant and according to the rules of water when you look in the you know the first the first chapter is about the chapter of Tahara you know they say there is running water there is water that is what stagnant it doesn't move they say this water that doesn't move is not pure it's not pure why why look at the concept why is this water not pure they say because it is not challenged why because sea water is challenged it goes and you know it turns rain water it what it turns and a human being needs to turn by challenges to grow otherwise his mind will become stagnant he cannot go beyond the scope of his time and Ali Ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him when he speaks about when he speaks about interacting with our youth and our children what does he say he says be mindful oh people that they're being created to a time different to yours what worked for you may not work for them the dad used to come into the house one look everyone is under the bed right today the dad comes into the house one look he will get three looks it won't work it's not gonna work why because they have been created to a time different to our time here it does not mean that religiousness and the code of religion has to be scraped no but it has to move with the time and it has to be in conformity with the time that we find ourselves in without compromising on the original text this is what الله سبحانه وتعالى wants us to relate to Islam and religion to or let us say religion for the for argument's sake of the exercise that we are having at hand for today therefore we say from the outset as I was mentioning before that if religion comes to hinder you or restrict you then it is not the religion that Allah has intended for you as I said because Allah said in the Quran ما جعل الله عليكم في الديني من حرج surely الله سبحانه وتعالى has not made religion to curb your development then why do we have rules and regulation why do we have rules I say that the rules in the Quran or in the prophetic tradition or that religion comes with if there are sound rules as they were intended by Allah and the prophet they don't come to restrict they come to regulate and there is a huge difference between restriction and regulation because if I restrict your movement I will give you a one way road Faisal Road to Afghanistan that's restriction if I don't put what side roads or if I don't give you the opportunity to check a U-turn then that is restriction I don't want to go to Afghanistan if I am going to Zainab market I want to come back to Clifton you want me to go all the way that's restriction so when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says for example promiscuity is haram fornication is haram and stops continue but haram so there is no marriage yeah there is then that's regulation that's regulation that's not restriction because brothers and sisters God cannot put an instinct in you and then crush it God cannot give you an instinct and not then address it right it has to be addressed but when Allah addresses a certain instinct or a faculty within you He addresses it in the most purified of ways right so He does not hinder your growth no He says I know you from inside out I know what you need I know your desires I know your temptations I know everything that you and it is funny enough you know with some of us Muslims I don't want to go into the privacy of our own homes but I say sometimes that even in marriage replace restrictions so if I am in marriage I can't enjoy myself and outside marriage I can't enjoy myself then this is not a religion right this is not a religion then I need to exercise every fantasy I have within my home right because God said your women are yours and you are theirs right as long as it is done within the framework of what of a family of a family الله says go do what you want fulfill your fantasies so you don't have to look outside so you don't have to become like those who are on the streets with a تسبيح and a blonde comes and they say you know they're making تسبيح سبحان الله سبحان الله سبحان الله and then the blonde comes سبحان الله سبحان الله سبحان الله سبحان الله no we don't need to be in that position right سبحان الله Remains سبحان الله and a star for Allah Remains a star for Allah some people say you know the question of hijab they say you know hijab is compulsory yeah we know I'm not arguing against that but what I'm saying what I'm saying is if a woman does not want to observe it what stops you from observing your own intellectual hijab as a man and if you look at the development of the question of hijab in the Quran you would find that when God addressed the question of hijab he addressed the question of hijab firstly and primarily on the intellectual level when he said وكل المؤمنين أن يغدوا من أبصارهم ويحفظوا فروجهم وكل المؤمنات أن يغدونا من أبصارهم ويحفظنا فروجهم and interestingly enough brothers and sisters that when the ayah was revealed it started with the men not with the women where Allah says say to the believing men first to lower their gaze and protect their privacy and then tell the believing women to lower their gaze because it's reciprocal المؤمنون والمؤمنات بعضهم أولياء وبعض يأمرون بالمعروف وينهون على المنكر believing men and believing women are the protectors of one another الله أكبر they sit on the same pedestal they sit on the same platform المؤمنون والمؤمنات they both are the protectors of one another what do they do they enjoy what is right and they put a stop to what is wrong that's what makes them complete so they come from two different mindsets from two different experiences but when they are joined together they enrich each other's experience no one is higher than the other and no one is inferior than the other and the most interesting of these examples is what happens with the prophet because he is our role model صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلي وعلى آله الطاهرين وصحبه المنتجبي what is the example I'm about to quote and I think I'm out of my time for tonight the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says what he goes brothers and sisters and you are aware of Islamic history he decides to go and perform Hajj right meccans are not ready 3 years ago they exiled him and they plotted to kill him right so the prophet decides to go meccan says look we are not ready go back let's sign a treaty which is the treaty of Hodeibia it's no right so the prophet says okay what are the terms terms 10 years of peace wow phenomenal you know how much Islam can grow in 10 years you know no battles no wars no dramas no spilling of blood no attacks that is phenomenal the prophet agrees straight away some Muslims object it again we don't condemn them for objecting because they didn't know they didn't know what the prophet is planning ahead sign the treaty the prophet after signing the treaty all the Muslims are wearing a haram cloth why because they came to perform Hajj they are under the mindset that they will perform Hajj so the prophet goes out of his tent wearing his haram cloth all Muslims as of this year Hajj is not prescribed you can't perform Hajj take your haram cloth goes back into his tent 10 minutes later he goes out the Muslims are still in a haram cloth why because the prophet was still in a haram cloth in the back of their mind what are they saying maybe there is 5% chance that the prophet will negotiate somewhere here and there right goes back into his tent he says take your haram cloth 3rd time he comes out the Muslims are still in their haram cloth he says change it and I'm coming out he goes in and he says حالك المسلمون يا أم سلمة you know what the prophet says أم سلمة his wife the gracious أم سلمة رول والله تعالى was the woman who was travelling or أم المؤمنين that was travelling with the prophet at the time because the prophet used to take a wife at the time whenever he travelled because of his abundant equality and justice she says why are you saying the Muslims may perish because they are not responding to the call of Allah I'm telling them to take their haram cloth and they are refusing أم سلمة says may I suggest something يا رسول الله the prophet didn't say و من I'm the prophet and they're not listening to me و من as we say to our ladies sometimes unfortunately what do you know about life no the prophet say be my guest or أم سلمة go ahead tell me what do you think the problem is she said يا رسول الله may I suggest that you take your حرام clothes first and appear before them in civilian clothing he said نعم المشورة تلك يا أم سلمة أم سلمة مالذي جميل هو هذا أو أم سلمة لا يعني that the prophet didn't know what to do لا the prophet is teaching us that when you marry a wife later have a bit of respect for her intelligence have a bit of respect to her intelligence don't dismiss her intelligence don't say و من what what do you know about life you're good for the kitchens and the little bitones and the gold and what have you and the christian dios شاء الله when they will get the muslim dios as well as a fashion statement you know صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وعالي محمد so the prophet changes his حرام clothes into civilian clothes the rewire says the statement says the prophet comes out he does not utter a word the muslims speaks themselves up goes into their tents and they change their clothes because they saw the role model he's in civilian clothes forget it there is no hajj I told you there is no hajj I told you there is no hajj leading by example leading and how much we lack leaders by example I'm not a politician I don't like to talk politics but I'm saying things in regard to what to our own setups at least look at Ali ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him when I said I was going to finish right will you have to get used to this statement by the way when I say I'm about to finish it means another 15 minutes or 20 minutes so please bear with me no I won't take much more of your time I promise except for the time that has been allocated for me inshallah so but just to I mean honestly sometimes when you come into a community and you feel the affinity and you feel these beautiful faces you just don't want to stop you want to penetrate deep into your hearts and minds and that's what I feel from the outset honestly and I'm not exaggerating we are in Ramadan and I will quote my learned you know scholar I don't know yesterday said the devils are in chains I'm not lying because even if I want to I can't because they are in chains they are not there to you know come and unscrew some screws in my you know head as far as their language is concerned in any case Imam Ali صلاة الله عليه he says what in order for people to appreciate your humanity and trust me brothers والله if anyone in the world asked me what is a synonym term for Islam give me a synonym term يعني Islam equals what give me you know when you go to the source to find synonyms and antonyms what would you find the word for Islam to equal you will find one word human to be a true human that what makes you a Muslim to be a real human like the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was because you know what he said when he was asked to perform marital he says we will not believe in you unless you bring down a river from heaven or unless you bring us some ayah that sticks out in the horizons or you bring God himself you know what the prophet says he says سبحان الله هلكم to إلا بشارا رسولا he said سبحان الله was I not anything other than a human prophet he didn't say a prophet a human he said I was only a human prophet سبحان الله he introduced the concept of humanity first and foremost people he's telling them the prophet relate to me as a human I'm a human yes but I'm revealed to fine but let us relate to one another on the basis that we are humans and that's what the Imam سلام الله عليه he says if you really want to be a human then have this character in you what is the character he sums it up in a beautiful statement he says lead such a life that when you die people mourn you with sadness and when you are alive and absent they yearn in earnest for your company الله أكبر when you go away they cry for you in sadness because you were something you were something you were something that was so inspiring people look at you and you feel comfortable people look at us brothers and sisters these days and they were a bolt in the west if I walk in the street like this لا حاولة ولا what's this guy doing please man go back go back I remember once I was walking like this in the street in شابن يان مولانا's do go shopping by the way brothers and sisters so I was going down and an Australian a young Australian was one he looked at me and says go back to Iraq I said are you talking to me he says yeah go back to Iraq this is not your country and I didn't see him first I looked back and I saw him with a mohawk you know what's a mohawk multicolored mohawk I said what's so wrong about me they said the way you dress I said have you looked at yourself in the mirror this morning mate did you look at yourself in the mirror this morning if you compare my dress to your dress I think there's something wrong brother two of his friends you know what they said they said the man has a point honest to God he's more dressed he's neatly dressed than you look at your hair man then we shook hands I said no problem brother we are brothers at the end of the day let's understand one another let's just sit and talk instead of valifying one another let us sit and see what and how I can enrich your experience in life and how I can enrich my experience in life even if you don't affiliate with me on the same belief system because that's what the prophet told us brothers and sisters seek knowledge even if you have to travel too why China for God's sake nothing links us to China different belief system different culture different tradition different system why China two reasons or three reasons that means if you have to travel to the furthest point of the world for knowledge then it's worth it secondly knowledge is the lost property of every believer he must seek it from anywhere he finds it it doesn't have to come from the same people like me if it is knowledge then seek it the prophet says wisdom is the lost property of every believer he is more worthy of it than anyone else wherever he may finds it wherever he may finds it ربحا ملفق إلى من هو أفقه من the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم there is someone who carries a piece of information to someone who is more learned than him but he doesn't have this particular piece of information so I can use it and benefit from it thirdly because the Chinese were known for their rich spiritual and mystic culture which is the refinement of what of the soul or the whole purpose of the corpus of religion is what the refinement of the human soul سبحان الله so go and seek it go and fetch for it wherever you go and the Imam صلى الله عليه وسلم emphasizes that point when he speaks to مالك الأشتر مالك الأشتر was the governor and Imam Ali in Egypt he sends him to Egypt مالك asks the Imam he says oh Imam I'm going to Egypt Egypt have Christians I don't know how to deal with them I don't know I've never interacted with these people they're not Muslims they're not like me and they have different religious affiliation the Imam looks at مالك and he says oh Malaik people are of two kinds they face or you're equal in humanity what's wrong man what's wrong they are you're equal in humanity why should you differentiate in the treatment with them treat them as human treat them as human when they come to you reach out to them even if they don't come out to you you reach out to them because Allah did not expect people to reach out to Him He reached out to them and sent them messengers سبحان الله but us humans have everything upside down these days we want everyone to reach out why don't the West appreciate us because you know what let's face it because we don't appreciate them let us first appreciate something so that we can get something which is reciprocal and I'm not saying let's reconcile all our differences there are differences that may be irreconcilable but sitting and dialoguing with someone is far better than creating that mistrust with that person at least now you know him you know his thought you know his ambitions you know his movements you know his plans you know what he is aspiring for if you sit and you dialog with him take all these barriers of communication and the biggest problem we have as a human race brothers and sisters is the question of communication barriers and in particular within our all families husband and wife wife and husband parents and children children and parents this is a huge problem in that department and if time allows me I will also venture into these issues Insha'Allah when that time allows I am past my that time Insha'Allah we'll see these beautiful faces tomorrow May Allah grant you happiness accept your fast and may Allah make us among those when they listen to anything they will follow only what is best وآخر دعوانا الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم و بارك على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين وصحبه المنتجبين the first question I'll read so that I will be truthful to the question I may be out of context here and not offense to anyone but many of our ithnaashari brothers who are married feel that they have a legal right to do the temporary marriage or muta as it's written here even at the cost of losing their own family our divorced sisters feel that they can have fun with married and single men in the name of muta it destroys lives and just reflects bad on our part that other people of different school of thought think we are crazy please do share some light on this point in Islam we are taught not to hurt someone's feeling let alone destroying someone's life but first and foremost I think we need to look at any legislation in Islam from its wholesome perspective not from its narrow perspective diminishing something in lieu of the misuse of a particular legislation is not going to fix the situation يعني for example if a jurist is asked if someone fasts but sleeps from dawn to dusk is he fast accepted or not the jurist will say yes unfortunately his fast is accepted though the practice is wrong يعني you shouldn't يعني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says in خطبة of the last day of Shaaban that your sleep in Ramadan is an act of worship but it doesn't mean that when Ramadan comes I will say oh Allah I intend to sleep so accept my fasting from me for the rest of the 30 days no you say oh Allah I intend for you to fast not to sleep but let's say someone abuses the system as the situation in regard to this right what do we do what we need to do is then institutionalize that particular practice يعني it has to become registered number one number two education about the pros and cons and how to administer such a marriage number three number three understand the literature of our imams and the practices and please I beg every one of you not to tell me I cannot compare to the imam yes I understand but the imams are our role models they are there for a purpose they didn't come as they are super human being that we cannot relate to them no if we were able to relate to the prophet and the prophet said relate to me on the basis of my humanity then surely we can also relate to the imams on the basis of their humanity someone comes to the imam صادق سلام الله عليك and he asked him what do you think about temporary marriage he said it's in the Quran the imam says will you do it it's a challenge right will you do it the imam says some legislation that Allah puts forward not necessarily for us to administer it but it is there for people who are weaker to administer sometimes and I don't need I have a woman I have a wife right whatever I want I go to my wife I don't need to go to every Elizabeth Margaret and I don't know what and you know whatever the case is right so secondly and this is the most important of what I am about to say if Islam does not address every single issue in the setup of the human race then Islam is defective as a religion and as a legislation we have certain circumstances within the Islamic setup that finds a woman in a position that she may not exercise any other avenue or possibility to curb and address and we are all adults here sexual needs and urges except through certain faculties and avenues that Allah has made available I'll give you a scenario a woman comes to my office divorced 35 years old alright 3 kids does not want to marry permanently what does she do Islam must find a solution what does she do okay she doesn't run after a married man okay I'm not saying that I'm saying to the sisters find a solution for this woman okay I'm not saying I should be a license that we put in our wallets what's the سيغة wait wait I'll give you بسم الله or iPhone زوج تو قبل تو no you know that's not what we want like some people empower our give them the سيغة put it in their pocket as useful as the driver's license لا عبيبي we're talking about a setup of families here a setup of you know humans a setup of societies in place that we need to run smoothly in the vessel of life or in the ocean of life as we call it in a nutshell I say that the institute of temporary marriage has its merit it was legislated for a purpose but that purpose has been abused greatly abused by some people in that regard and I think we should not blame the system for allowing that but we should blame those who misuse the system to their advantage number one number two is that when this is an advice for our sisters if every woman this is a bombshell this is a bombshell men are gonna kill me and women are gonna kill me but men more are gonna kill me today if every woman refuse to be woman number two there will be no polygamy and no muta right? don't blame them in because when I find that in my position when I have no other solution a woman all of a sudden accepts to be wife number two right? because now that setup suits her but if she was woman number one no question about accepting woman number two right? no question let me conclude my statement by one study that was conducted in Germany Germany during World War I the government of Germany was petitioned petitioned by women in Germany and this is a study that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and if you want you can go and google Sydney Morning Herald and you will find that particular study in the archives of the Sydney Morning Herald which is one of the most prominent newspapers in Australia the study says the woman in Germany petitioned the German government to allow polygamy during the war the German government refused woman turned to you know what unfortunately after World War I finished World War II finished the same woman who petitioned the German government to allow polygamy and failed in the quest to get a court order and they turned to prostitution sued the German government and won the court case that tells you what that tells you when Allah legislates he knows why he legislates it is not just a haphazard legislation it's not an ad hoc legislation that has no merits behind it but it is practiced at times of dire necessity and not switching between here and there today I feel a blonde tomorrow a brunette let your wife dye her hair then if you want this if that is the case you want short hair let her cut her hair you want long hair tell her to put extensions wherever the case may be you can do anything under the sun let us re-address our marital relationships in the world we are living in and let us address this relationship on the scope of Quran and the traditions of the prophet so our children can learn to grow learning what is the means and the ways to relate to one another from a Quranic perspective not a cultural or a custom perspective this is question number one God help you until Fajr time because the questions are Islam has given us to the permission not to fast during travel my argument is in those days it used to take a very long time to reach from point A to point B but nowadays travel has become so luxurious and easy that is not difficult to fast but when we skip and later have the headache of making them up when we can easily do it in Ramadan well the legislation of fasting and exemption for traveling is always looked within a narrow perspective يعني now I am thinking about travel being so modern but I am not thinking about someone in the middle of the Amazon traveling or in the middle of Africa who does not have the means of a first class seat or a business class upgrade with skywads to say or to use that argument that I don't have to break my fast because it is luxurious to travel in today's world let me ask you this question if I give you an option to choose between a straight line and a curved line what would you choose? straight line but if I tell you that this straight line is going to be your eyebrow it is going to be curved right definitely because you don't want a straight line on your head do you? what I am trying to say is when we look at religion and its instructions let us look in the wider perspective not in our own or my derogative or my own narrow interpretation of what constitute traveling because there are others who are not as privileged as we are not to have this exemption granted to them it's an exemption because over the course of time things change they may even return to a time where the luxury of travel is no longer available because no one knows in the economic situation in America now people used to frequently fly between states they can't afford it anymore they are traveling by cars now this is America we are talking about brothers and sisters America people are hit financially so badly that they can't travel by planes anymore some of them are hitchhiking even so to say that this luxury of travel is prevalent yes to an extent but it is not across the board secondly what you need to take into perspective that when Allah legislate He legislate at the lowest of people's abilities not at the highest I may be able to sustain travel for 15 hours without any trouble but another person may not have the ability to travel for 15 hours even if he is in a first class ticket or first class seat and sustain fasting for 14 hours or 12 hours be able during travel to sustain it due to certain fatigue psychological fatigue emotional fatigue physical fatigue that a person who is weaker than someone else may not be able to sustain so Allah legislate at that lowest point not at the highest point at the lowest point not at the highest point being Muslims brothers and sisters is it so that we are celebrating Eid on different days with different moon sighting back to the question of whether it's moon sighting or moon fighting right every year is it moon sighting or is it moon fighting okay the question in regard to this and insha Allah we can reach a conclusion it is not religion that is making that separation it is the understanding of certain parameters from an astronomical point of view and a religious point of view when put together we face a dilemma in regard to the question of moon sighting some jurists are of the opinion that the reason why we celebrate Eid on a different day is because there are certain prophetic tradition that specifically state you need to sight the moon with the naked eye which says meaning observe fasting to observe fasting for the sighting of the moon and open fasting for the sighting of the moon but if you couldn't see the moon then fulfill the period of 30 days of the month and then next day obviously is going to become either the first of Ramadan or the first of Shawwal in that regard those who adopt that legal point of view they are adopting this legal point of view on the basis of also strong scientific astronomical argument why because they say is the horizon for every country the same as for another country they say no why because when it is day for me it is night for someone else okay when it is spring for me it is autumn for someone else so it's not the same horizon it's a different horizon from one another those who argue that the horizon is one regardless they argue on the basis that we have one moon we don't have a trillion moons it's one moon for the planet earth and when we recite in Salat al-A'id the dua the Qumut in Salat al-A'id what do we say اللهم إني أسألك بحق هذا اليوم اليوم الذي جعلته للمسلمين عيدة oh Allah I ask you by the right of this day day of Eid that you made for what for the Muslims so this is one day not two days not three days not four days so the Muslims should all celebrate one day one horizon how can we resolve this dilemma how can we overcome this problem the only reason and the only way we can reconcile this problem is if we are able to reconcile the religious text with the aid of science and that's what we need to basically appeal to and with all respect I say that with all veneration to our Maraja of Taklit that we should appeal to them as their مقلد to consider the strong proposal of taking the religious text and the scientific astronomical perspective into consideration how has astronomy for the past 50 or 60 years failed in pinpointing the birth of the moon has it? in 50's what does شريعة say in regard to that let us go to the original original founders of the question of jurisprudence the life of a sheikh المفيد which is not a sheikh you know the sheikh of the entire madhab is not شيخ المفيد says اذا كان هناك انا if there is certitude and an aspect of tranquility and belief in the mind of a Muslim that the moon is already born and he has not seen the moon عيد becomes valid for this mu'min because the question of of certitude is one of the factors of determining the presence of the moon you know why he says that because he is highly intellectual because he says when you know for certain the moon is there you know why because it can't escape it has to be there it's not gonna run away right the moon is not gonna decide to take a holiday that day when it is supposed to born and say you know today I don't like like coming out in the horizon I have decided to take leave no it doesn't happen it's ludicrous to even suggest such a proposal اشيخ المفيد says so he says even if the question of sighting is not present but you have certitude that it is there why you have certitude because you've already followed the month you've seen it towards the end of رجب towards the end of شوال so you know when is the next moon is going to come and now with the aid of science and this astronomical advancing you know methodologies that attend by the second they tell you when the moon is gonna be born then when does شريعة step شريعة steps into it and says what how long does it take for the moon to come out of the محاق what is the محاق brothers and sisters the محاق is when the moon is between the sun and the earth that's when it is born right for us to see the moon it has to shift its position above the horizon so that the sun will not block its view okay how long does it take for this to happen how long 14 hours to 15 hours yes may Allah have mercy on your parents it takes between 14 to 15 hours so if science tells us the moon is going to be born on Saturday at 4.40 definitely by 7.20 I'm not gonna be able to see the moon right because it's only 3 hours old but by tomorrow morning which is Sunday it has already been what 15 hours I have said to you the moon is there but I can't see it then Ramadan has to be declared starting I don't have to wait until مغرب time then to see it that's how you reconcile between science and the jurisprudential perspective of determining the beginning of Ramadan and the beginning of for example the scientific opinion says that the sighting of the moon by the naked eye is not a necessity in determining the beginning of Ramadan it's not a necessity the opinion of the same the opinion of say his life is different to his teacher he says no you need to sight it by the naked eye that's where this discrepancy starts and happens between the مقلدين of let's say I'm a مقلد of say it's a study now and there is a living today that is of the opinion for example that says that you don't have to sight the moon with the naked eye but if there is certitude that the moon is born and you can't see it because it's still in that محاق stage but the following day it has already passed its phase where it is rising from the horizon but you can't see it due to daylight then Ramadan becomes viable and it begins and you can fast can I do what رجوع the question of going back to that مرجع I will quote the particular opinion of say it's system he says if my مقلد thinks that this مرجع who believes in that point of view is at the same level of my knowledge and you have certitude about it go do رجوع I have no problem you know what some people said that's what I was referring to at the beginning of my speech now you did not understand what the say it was saying these are the quasi I told us with all your no no no you must see it with the naked eye this is what say it says he said this is my personal opinion yes but if you believe that someone else among the مرجع believes that you can accept astronomical astronomical calculation and you use religion as well in order to determine the birth and you are satisfied go ahead that's how we can reconcile our differences but if we are going to be standing at each other's throat my مرجع is better than your مرجع and your مرجع doesn't understand the opinion of my مرجع and we will never agree on anything brothers and sisters and I think with all your respect and veneration to our مرجع there are not the problems well sometimes we are unfortunately the perpetrators of these differences because we are not understanding the wide perspective and horizon from which they are addressing a particular point of view and we need to administer that ability to understand in a wider horizon so that we can join together and celebrate aid in one day yes I don't know any more questions tomorrow how do you define the soul now you want yes الله سبحانه وتعالى when he speaks about the soul و يسألونك عن الروح you don't want about the soul right people came and asked the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم و يسألونك and they ask you oh Muhammad about the soul say the soul is the command of Allah قول الروحه من أمر ربي وما أوتيتم من العلم إلا قليل the soul is a command of Allah you are yet to comprehend what the vast knowledge that is available to you you can't encompass everything scientifically however it's proven that is there a soul in the human body or not we need to understand we don't want the religious perspective of the soul Quran is telling us yeah I appreciate Quran it's telling me full stop don't put a question mark yes when Allah says this don't put a question mark put a full stop because it's a full statement but I need to understand and appreciate what Allah is telling me by the same token like for example the question of belief in Allah is it by virtue of faith or by virtue of knowledge this is the question brothers what is it what is it who says faith is it based on blind faith or is it on knowledge base knowledge why because Allah said what an amazing statement by Allah you must know and learn that there is no god but Allah he didn't say believe that there is no god but Allah you must know you must know or Muhammad and subsequently the Muslim nation I want to know the soul doctors made a study of a body that was given they were observing they don't know but they know that this person is dead immediately before his death they weighed him they weighed the body immediately after the death they found out that there is 100 to 200 grams missing in the body immediately now someone says it's part of the human body that when it dies it loses weight not instantly according to doctors not instantly this is instantly and the doctors were bewildered where did these 200 grams disappear or 150 grams disappear some of them said this is the soul some of said we don't believe in the soul but at least it's an argument it's what an argument the question of whether the soul or what is the soul what is the nature of the soul the Quran does not speak at length about the nature of the soul but in our own understanding and observation of the Quran and what happens to us as human beings and how we function we can arrive at a little bit of a conclusion or inference of what the soul is what is the worth of a human being after he dies I'll ask any wife to keep her husband for 5 minutes in her bed after he dies although he was her don Juan he was her I don't know what you know Saint Valentine right before man sorry before death after death every woman becomes Marja of Taklit why because she says باري him it's the best thing the prophet said باري a dead person the best thing to do to a moment is to do what باري him take him why because his worth was on the basis of that soul if it wasn't there he's a frame he's what a skeleton like I tell our youth sometimes I have keys in my pocket for a Ferrari take the keys and go and drive the Ferrari be my guest I don't have a Ferrari by the way just saying the kid goes that youth he's full of adrenaline opens the car sits in the driver's seat and he wants to basically floor the car floor the car put his foot on the accelerator the car does not move an inch he's shocked goes to the I used to make the mistake of saying that go to the front bonnet and open there's no front engine in the Ferrari it's in the back so I said go to the back and open the boot open it or the middle of the there's no engine what is the worth of that Ferrari zero zero and the worth of a human being in his soul everything about a human being worth is on the basis of that soul even the connection between a human is on the basis of that soul take that soul away you are a non entity not you please forgive me I'm saying in general the human being becomes a non entity if we understand then that the basis of creation is that soul that Allah interjects in their human being we will come to an understanding that nurturing the soul supersedes nurturing the body because the body will be annihilated and the soul will remain perpetually one of the creations of Allah that never dies by the way brothers and sisters is the soul but it's not a creator why because it had a beginning but it doesn't have an end I'm sorry with this I conclude peace be upon you Any more questions I think