 جزادي جزادي جزادي جزادي والإتخرام سيدي الأخواني هو المنافن جنني أطب عظيم محمد صلوات الله وسلامه عليه وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين سفن النجاة العلام وانتخلف عنها هاليكة وغرق ثم أما بعد رحمة الله وبركاته السلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته نحن نعود لأوليقية على المهمة في حياتنا وإن شاء الله سنبقى من now on until the end of our program until we meet again hopefully sometime in the future نحن نقول أن محمد في عمل من حلقة الإسلامية في بيكتكلا ليست شيء that comes to to hinder or restrict or makes the life of a human being difficult rather it comes to facilitate the human being and it comes to serve the human being and we said from the outset that let us all agree on one thing that religion is here to serve man and not for man to serve religion because Allah has created man in such a way that he wanted him to lead this life so in order to facilitate his life God has given him this religion to make his life a better life not to make his life a hindrance for him or those that he associates with we know for certain therefore that one of the most significant differences between man and other living being is the moral and the socio moral aspect of man's existence man is not merely a physical being on the contrary man has a strong moral and spiritual aspect to his existence what differentiates you from other creatures and from other lives on this earth is the fact that you have the moral aspect to your life which is sustained and backed by your spirituality because on the basis of your physical existence without resort back to your spiritual dimension there is no question of morality then there is no question of existence in fact if there is no spiritual existence to your dimension and to your facets and that's why we say the spirit is of paramount importance in understanding man's existence on this earth without that spirit which nurtures the spiritual existence of a man man is worthless you don't worth in the standard of a human life a man without a spirit or a soul is absolutely worthless you don't value in the in the market of humans if I can use this terminology anything of worth without your spirit therefore we say that this moral and socio-moral aspect of man existence is the very foundation on which societies have evolved over time without this socio socio-moral aspects of man's existence we don't have laws in the world laws could not have existed no developed in the world that we live in today be it in the legal aspect of his existence and his coming into this world or be it in the social structure of his interaction with others in the world that we see at hand today all the laws that you see developing in the world today are as a result of this socio-moral aspect of man existence it is in fact that the acceptance and appreciation and realization of mutual rights and responsibilities which has resulted in the strong bonds of families friendship tribes and society what gave rise to that socio-moral acceptance of man existence otherwise if there were no corresponding and reciprocal rights and obligation among the humans themselves towards one another this world will be in anarchy and we see that with the absence of the socio-moral existence of such laws we go into anarchy and you can look around you I don't have to quote examples of certain countries and certain cities where this anarchy actually exist in order to understand and appreciate this very fact that I am referring to even at times not only that the absence of the socio-moral standards among human that gives rise to anarchy no the misunderstanding of the application of religious laws that are based on the socio-moral aspect of human existence also gives rise not only to anarchy but to killing and murder as well when I justify in the name of religion that you are no longer part and parcel of the faith that you and I belong to and then the law of what we call the law in inverted commas and I invite our Muslim scholars at large from both school of thought to reconsider opinion of the law of apostasy in Islam and what they conceive the law of apostasy to be in the modern world that we are living in not because we want to override the law of apostasy no but because we want to understand the law of apostasy from directly the Quran itself and not from our own desires and implication of what constitute an apostate and what does not constitute an apostate why I say that because the Quran is clear on that matter when it says وما كنا معذبين حتى نبعث رسولة we shall not cause any community or society to torment unless we send onto them a messenger and the messenger in that regard is not necessarily the prophet why because over the course of time and over the fabrication in the original message due to the course of time and the misrepresentation of certain aspects of our societies the beautiful religion of Allah that he had intended to mankind has been misrepresented and misconstrued therefore when someone becomes disenchanted with Islam on the basis of what the media portrays today and he pulls out from the faith we cannot then ascribe the law of apostasy to him because the religion itself has been misrepresented to him even at times if he lived in a muslim country even at times if he lived in a muslim country why because he does not even know what is right and what is wrong anymore he doesn't even know whether this religion that is being practiced is actually the pure version of the laws of Allah subhanahu و تعالى as advocated and practiced by Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم and his household and the rightful companions or is it the figment of imagination of his own interpretation of what constitute religion in today's world and that's what creates a havoc and a major disaster is that when I want to get rid of someone that I don't like I can actually fire him with the accusation of being an upstate and that's the end of a human life in our societies that we live in and that is completely contrary to the nature and the spirit of Islamic law when we talk about the law of upstate although I'll take a bit of your time in that regard we find that the ayat that speaks about this and when I speak about the Quran I speak the Quran from the perspective that the Quran should be the mirror image of the prophetic tradition and not the prophetic tradition the mirror image of the Quran in the sense that the prophetic tradition over rules the ayat of the Quran this is absolutely unacceptable and rejected when we have traditions of the prophet over ruling or over writing the ayat of the Quran for example re-examination of our jurisprudential edicts at times الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran you know what I don't dare speak about women issues anymore when I look at the audience excuse me yes there is a white corolla written by a lady the number plate is AGL 789 it's part in the wrong place if you could please get it white corolla AGL 789 thank you okay corona 100 corona 100 number is more important give the key give the key to someone sister so sorry I'll send you the bell later I'll send you the bell later so on the yes I said I don't dare speak about women issue because I'm looking at the audience I don't know I've been told I am the women's sheikh these days on people are complaining I'm giving too much right to the women something that I am giving as a treat this is what Allah wants and what the Quran wants and I think if we look at the what the Quran and what the traditions of the Prophet wants I think our life would be much much better than what it is now having said that going back to this very issue is that the Quran says when it speaks about relationship between husband and wife it says وعاشروهن بالمعروف with your wives immacably this is the ayah of the Quran now what does juris prudence tells us juris prudence comes to tell us that if a husband and I'm quoting her I'm quoting what our juris prudence books tells us that if a husband marries a wife and tells her from day one don't leave the house she has to obey right and he keeps her until she dies he has not done something against the spirit of juris prudence why? because they quote the Prophet to have said that a woman should not leave the house without the permission of the husband now I want to ask this will the Prophet say something contrary to the Quran when the Quran says live with them immacably is living with our wives immacably entails to keep them at home without leaving that is torture that is torture then what is the Prophet talking about when he speaks about permission or seeking permission to leave the house he is surely talking about the organizational of family rather than the restriction of movement of members of the same family and that's what we need to understand when we talk of how we can harmonize what the Prophet says with the essence of the Quran but it is unfortunate that the Quran has always been interpreted from a male perspective not a female perspective the female perspective has never been taken into perspective when it comes to the interpretation of the law of the Quran another verse for example which is very famous to all of us and very deep to our hearts which is the ayah of Mubahala where the Prophet ﷺ was visited by the Christians of Najran in order to debate with him on the nature and the divinity or non-divinity of Jesus Christ peace be upon him so we are told proudly that the Prophet ﷺ was able to accommodate the monks of Najran in the mosque right which is the essence and the spirit of the Quran because the Quran says in Surah الحجرات وكذلك جعلناكم شعوبة وقبائلة لتعارفوا we surely have made you into nations and tribes that you may come to know one another the most right the most favorable among you in the eyes of Allah is the most righteous right so if the Prophet accommodates the Christians of Najran in the mosque and then jurisprudence comes and tells me that I cannot invite Christians and Jews into the mosque then there is a problem right there is a problem in our understanding of the practice of the Prophet ﷺ and what jurisprudence tells us sometimes so we need to reconcile and re-examine some of our jurisprudential aspects and what constitute religion and what constitute understanding of the spirit and the essence of the Quran itself because the Quran is an invitation to mankind for example another story الله سبحانه وتعالى says call to the way of your God and let people read the Quran وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَ الْقُرَانَ لِذَيكَرْ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرْ we have made Quran easy for people to read it to examine it to explore it to identify themselves with it is there anyone who is able to contemplate it and then when a Christian comes and says I want a cup of Quran you are najis we have a problem we have a problem with the essence of the Quran and what the Quran tells us and what what we practice from a jurisprudential point of view what I am trying to say is that when we look at religion religion must be looked at from the perspective of Allah not my perspective from the perspective of the Quran not from my own individual inclination towards what may constitute a particular item of faith or otherwise because by nature a human being is biased he is biased and we often use religion as I said 2 days ago or 2 days ago in my statement in explaining the Hadith of Imam Hussein in regard to those who remain faithful to their faith when they are being tested and tried I said that sometimes we use Quran only or Islam when it suits us but when it doesn't suit us we don't want to know it we don't want to use it and make it part and parcel in our lifestyle so much so that Islamic law nowadays is restricted to what to 2 things 3 things laws of inheritance laws of marriage laws of death other than that you don't find Islam in anyway of our life so much so that the Quran when it speaks in Surah Yasin is Surah Yasin good to read for our dead ones or not read Yasin for your dead ones but you know it's amazing when you read Surah Yasin it doesn't talk about the living it says so that you can give warnings to the living not to the dead for this guy who is going underground or Yasin is for me so I can learn what Allah is telling me so the Quran is only good so much so that when we walk the streets of our Muslim countries and we hear the Quran being recited the first question that comes to mind who passed away is the Quran for passing away only someone died today it's not about that Allah says read the Quran for Allah will reward you for each letter you read 10 حسنات 10 بلسين surely the prophet is saying this surely I don't say one letter but is a letter and is a letter and is a letter which is the beginning of Surah Al-Baqar so he said but don't read it with حسن mindedness يا أيها الذين لا تقربوا صلاة وانتم سكارا do not approach while you are in a state of intoxication this state of intoxication is not talking about the journey walkers and the Bombay blue not only that state no the form or the dimension of intoxication that Allah speaks about the form of intoxication يعني when you come to approach Allah forget the Nasdaq forget the Nakai forget the Futsi just for 5 minutes of your time don't be intoxicated by your work don't be intoxicated by your Layla leave Layla for a minute for God's sake and be with Allah سبحانه و تعالى at that moment in your life can experience and enrich your relationship with Allah سبحانه و تعالى which is the proportioner and the creator and the giver of every good and love in this world so the whole culpice therefore of religion brothers and sisters is in fact based upon the realization recognition and acceptance on our part of the relationship between ourselves and the creator and the provider of this universe which is Allah سبحانه و تعالى and none other than Allah سبحانه و تعالى and that is something that we need to exercise and that is something we need to accept and develop across the days and the years and whatever time we have in this world in as far as our existence is concerned and in as far as our relationship with Allah سبحانه و تعالى in order to understand what religion and spirituality is and what is the role in the life of people we should first and foremost all know the definition of what religion is and if someone you come and say define religion to me what do you say to say this is not religion this is faith something else so what is the definition of religion it is religion is an all round movement in the light of faith in a supreme sovereign creator and a sense of responsibility for the formation of thought and belief where this belief leads to the promotion of high principles of a human morality for the very purpose of the establishment of good relations among members of the society and the elimination of every sort of undue discrimination this is the overall definition of what religion is all about now tell me something if you tell any tom dick and harry in the world this is the definition of religion who would reject such a definition but when we define religion with the first thing that comes into our definition of religion is I am thou holy than you I am more closer to Allah than you I have the keys to jannah and you don't even gonna come near it mate and you're not gonna even taste it or even smell the essence of religion because I've already made myself the guardian and the protector of the jannah of Allah سبحانه و تعالى so much so that one day a mu'min in the times of one of the previous prophet was walking alongside one of his friends and he said what he said by Allah by God Allah shall not forgive your sins immediately a state of emergency was declared in heaven jibrail was summoned to go down to the prophet and said to the prophet of the time tell that person who claims to be a mu'min that I have already forgiven his friend and I have wasted his actions why? because you have no right to assume Allah's positions on earth who are you? to say I am holier than you and you are less holier than me I am at a prominent space higher than you how do you know that? you don't know and on the basis of the story of what I told you about Musa when Allah asked him to bring someone less of value than him you can see that there is no way in the wildness of your imagination you can claim to be better than someone no one can claim to be better than anyone in this life because Allah says in كل شيء خلقناه بقدر everything we have created in this world we have created with proportion meaning what everything has its own due role in this world that it exist in and that role in that dimension and in that perspective could be better than your role because you will not fit to play that role but only that individual or that thing or that creature is the one that is in doubt with that particular role that Allah has proportion for it to do and perform in this life so you cannot claim superiority over anyone else and that's why the concept of humbleness in Islam is so highly highly recommended with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the concept of pride false pride someone who prides himself over others on the basis of something that does not deserve praise a rich person who feels himself is better than a poor person firstly your richness is not from you that richness is granted from Allah to you as a mean of trial in this world so that does not make you at a pedestal higher and that reminds me of the story of a man who was rich who came into the Prophet's session once and the Prophet was giving a speech and he sat in front of the Prophet and he was wearing very nice you know clothes and what have you very fancy colors and bling God knows what you know Mac and bling style so he came or Medinian bling style and he sat in front of the Prophet and he was very very posh and then a poor person came and sat next to him so what did he do he collected his Aba and close closer to him so that that person does not touch him so when the Prophet finished his his discourse and his address to the people at the time he directed his speech to that person he said what made you collect your clothes away from that person is it the fact that you were afraid some of your richness will transfer to him سبحان الله the man said no were you afraid that some of your richness and wealth will transfer to him or some of his poverty will transfer to you the man said neither of them يا رسول الله was anticipated the Prophet said no some of it was anticipated don't tell me I know what is inside your heart he said يا رسول الله how can I compensate for my bad pride because yes I thought who is he who is this guy to come and sit next to his highness so the Prophet said it's up to you and to your generosity to compensate for what you did when he turned to his brother the less fortunate one he said I want to share half of my wealth with you to compensate for my arrogance the man said thank you so much brother may Allah bless you and bless your wealth I don't need it he insisted the man refused then he said why don't you want my wealth he said so I will not think the way you thought when I sat in the mosque of the Prophet I don't want to get that arrogance let me be a humble servant to Allah take your wealth the real wealth is the wealth of contentment that's the real wealth when you know a person was at the time of Jesus and there is another story when a man went to the mosque once at a great time and please take plastic bags with you when you go to the mosque so if you are wearing a Versace or a Christian do your shoes or God help you that you don't lose the 400 dollars on the spot I bleed with blood not tears having to say that these are facts in our Muslim countries that you can't even ensure that your shoes is safe so this man goes to the mosque and this is a true story as he exits he has already bought the Christian Dior the Muslim Dior I don't know what Dior comes out he doesn't find the shoes I come to pray you tell us come to your mosque you look after us he goes the shoes and you don't want us to come I don't know tell us man what's the story do you want us to come and while he is saying these things he is walking and talking to himself all of a sudden he finds someone saying what prays be to Allah that freed me from the ailments and the sickness of others the guy looks at him and he finds him without legs الحمد لله الذي عافاني من مبتلا به غيري بيتو الله who gave me contentment and not made me the man went to him he said from what did he cue you from what when you don't have legs I'm complaining over a pair of shoes and you don't have legs and you're saying prays be to Allah and he said yes prays be to Allah that he gave me a heart that is content not like yours that you cry over a pair of shoes he said wallah you have a point I'm believable I'm complaining about a pair of shoes and you don't have legs and look at us when we're in iftar comes time God help the wife if she doesn't have 17 items of food on the table God help the wife if the soup or the chandu what is it or the bokoras or I don't know what does not have the appropriate masala and salt if you have a husband with a bad temper الله أكبر so that you don't have world will through breaking at the dinner table so that you can get the right masha Allah so his highness comes the salt is good masala is good everything is good and the prophet of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم comes to his house one day and he's married to nine wives he goes to the door of hafsah do you have food or hafsah no no no none of the wives have cooked that day to the prophet when did the prophet say where were you in tarik road there is no tarik road in Medina where were you zainab market there is no zainab market in Medina what were you doing woman you know what he said رسول الله he said oh Allah bear witness that I'll continue my day in fasting end of the problem he refused the whole situation why because when you do voluntary fast you don't need niya from the day before as long as you haven't eaten during the day you can keep fast until the rest of the day he said oh Allah you have until iftar time to sort yourselves out oh if you don't sort yourself out doesn't matter I'll break my fast on water or date one of the wives of the prophet عائشة namely herself she says what most of the time the prophet used to eat at home dates and milk most of his food stable food for the prophet was date and milk and sometimes sometimes you know what he says look at the hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says the best gravy you can enjoy as a fantasy of food is what do you know what vinegar vinegar to you was the best gravy that you soak your bread in and say that vinegar is one of the best you know what that's a delicacy to the prophet at that time صلى الله عليه وسلم you go to the west and you saw our children if sea is not good enough mackers is not good enough not any and god help the mother if she puts the same plate of food twice in a row huh no because there is no contentment there is no contentment in our life to continue the question on religion and to understand it from a better perspective for a better understanding we may roughly compare religion to a workplace so what's the analogy between the two what's the analogy between a workplace and religion in a workplace and you all agree with me in that regard an employer promises to provide an employee with certain benefits and privileges in return for the employee's service this is without any dispute in the matter you'll provide a particular service to me as the employer I recognize that service by a certain pain in the course of this exchange of contracts between the employer and the employee Islam intervenes jumps in I haven't finished my analogy between the religion and the workplace but I want to shed some light on the question of the rights of an employee the prophet says what he says قبل أن يجف عرقه meaning what pay your employee in recognition of his service before his sweat dries up احنا we sweat them we whip them we hit them we abuse them and we don't pay them سبحان الله سبحان الله when it comes to your work you must must recognize his work before his sweat dries up because he's a human being like you he has feelings and by the way if I tell you the rights of keeping someone at home to work from a pure Islamic perspective no one will keep anyone at home I gave this lecture once in Dubai I've never been called back to the Jama'at because it's too much one of the rights of keeping a worker at home according to Rasool Allah he says you must feed him from what you eat and dress him from what you dress if I shop in forum he does not shop in Zaidab market this is not a joke I don't give him the leftovers that's why the prophet when he came he was not liked by the way brothers and sisters because he challenged the star score he challenged the star score obey Abu Jahl when he was whipping Bilal what was his argument in whipping Bilal his argument was محمد tells me that this slave and me are of equal value no way I whip and I order and I own and I dismiss the way I want while I am a master of Quraysh the prophet says no no no people are like the teeth of the comb so they call the prophet you're a liar you are challenging our star score and safety zone we will not accommodate you or accept you among us we will expel you but you are telling us we will create a revolution within our midst and that's exactly what happened that's how the prophet changed the course of history so much so that a person like Michael Hart please go and google Michael Hart who is Michael Hart a third dinkum white blonde to the core of his born American born writer and he calls the book the greatest 100 personalities in the world after careful research of all the personalities in the world he gives number one personality in the world you know where he puts Jesus number three when he was asked how on what basis because I have never seen a personality who was able to change the course of history and to challenge the very influencing factors of his environment and change it forever in less than 25 years of his existence then they said you know what these Arabs are going to get a big head review your book please do something he says I reviewed my book again and I went through the painstaking research of looking of looking into the personalities of people of their time and I found no other way but to declare in edition number two that Muhammad is the greatest personality of the world سبحان الله you know why people now call the prophet a fundamentalist because of this recognition how are they going to change the people's mind said about the beautiful nature of the prophet that is and look what happens we play in the hands of our what opponents they say the prophet was a fanatic on the basis of what on the basis of the way so they come to challenge us intellectually what do they do they come up with a caricature against the prophet where they put the prophet wearing a turban with a time bomb on it and on that turban it's written you know the caricatures that came out of Denmark now the challenge comes to us as Muslims how are we going to react to this intellectual challenge although it is below people's feet but I'm going to call it an intellectual challenge how did we respond to that challenge exactly as they portrayed the prophet in their sick mentality to be we went down to the streets we burned effigies we attacked embassies and we screamed and yelled and cursed our opponents while the prophet if he was placed in the same dimension what would his reaction be وإذا خاطبهم الجاهلون قالوا سلامة when the ignorant one speak to them they respond by saying peace peace imagine if this Danish caricature or cartoonist if I was a leader of a Muslim country with all humbleness you know what I would do wallah I will send my own private jet to him and I will invite him and I'll put him in Burj Al Arab for one month one month let's talk about the prophet claimed to be an intelligent human being we are intelligent human being let's talk let's dialogue let's debate let's explore let us not chuck rocks at one another we are civil modern human being we don't need to go to that level of you know throwing axes but instead every time we are challenged intellectually where do we go to the streets how do we behave in the same way our opponent wants to prove a point against us that we are barbaric that we are fundamentalist that we are fanatic that we only understand the language of what of muscles we don't understand the language of logic and intelligence subhanallah and this is what we need to do we need to change that dimension of thinking within our ranks and that's why my heart goes out to the youth of our community because they are the future the youth of our community brothers and sisters and my appeal is to the parents they represent half of our present and all of our future and if we lose them then we would have lost half of our present all of our future and that is something we can't afford to lose to lose our youth means losing our identity and future and it is happening fast faster than the fast and the furious right part 2 or 3 oh god knows what part is coming out maybe part 5 now we have already exceeded part 10 in the way at the rate we are losing our brothers and sisters in that regard obviously brothers and sisters and I will quote my last statement for the day and so we can continue and effective and a useful employee would only be the one who fully appreciates the purpose of his employment the work that his employer expects of him and then tries his best to fulfill the purpose of his job the expectation of his employer in order that due recognition is extended to that individual employee we will continue tomorrow to see how does religion relate to that in as far as our relationship with one another and in as far as our relationship with Allah I don't know the clock says 45 minutes it feels like 25 minutes but what can I do بحمد الله رب العالمين وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين now we will proceed to the question and answer session there are two ways of asking questions you can either write them down we have volunteers on both sides with pieces of paper and writing instruments or you can request for the mic the mic is also going to be available on both sides please keep your questions short and precise so that we have more time for more questions and more answers today are you ready masha Allah I think education is the best means to tackle this problem because none of us have taken to the street and that is a healthy phenomenon and a healthy practice that we don't do these things but that is not enough because the majority we are unfortunately sometimes the intellectual part of our community are always the silent majority it is always the vocal minority that are taking to the street and misrepresenting the vocal the silent majority and what we need to do is to step the scale where the the silent majority must now take over from the vocal minority because otherwise we will always be misrepresented in that regard we must take the initiative of expressing our thoughts on the matter the social networks that are available to us now in the world today we can play a very constructive role and part in expressing our views in that matter in a civil educated intelligent matter when it comes to questions such as the Danish cartoon and so on and so forth and not allow the scope or the ground the minor or the vocal minority to take and hijack the intellectual religion of Islam in that regard but are we doing that okay we are educated but within the midst of our ability to debate an issue and dialogue on an issue and discourse on an issue did we yes you said very gracefully we did not take to the street did we then take to the computers did we take to facebook did we take to twitter did we take to ms messenger or were we busy chatting about a nice recipe for iftar or the latest fashion hairdo that comes from cosmopolitan and use weekly and god knows what this is what we need to do as the i mean a silent majority in changing and challenging what challenges that we are facing on a daily basis in order to create a sense of change and a sense of paradigm change in how the west look upon us in the east or in the muslim world in general in that regard yes a spoken question i can hear you brother yes i think there is no doubt in anyone saying mind that is the very essence and purpose of the creation of a human being because please brother you can when Allah created the intelligence it was one of his first creation in fact the hadith tells us that when Allah created the mind as his first creation what did he say by my majesty and sovereignty i have not created anything for me than you so that intelligence of the human being or the mind of a human being is the most precious and most beloved creation with Allah SWT and then the hadith tells us how Allah spoke to the akal by asking it to move forward and then to move backward and then Allah spoke to it and said by majesty and my sovereignty it is on your basis that i either reward or i reprimand from that perspective who can then say or claim that there is no scope for the akal in our religion in fact we said i don't know if you were with us a few days ago brother i said is believing in god a matter of pure faith or is it based on akal and intelligence and we find that the Quran is the one that responds to such a question when it is being posed by Allah SWT to the prophet SAW when Allah says to the prophet O Muhammad you must learn that there is no god but Allah فعلم أنه لا إله إلا الله he did not say فأمن أنه لا إله إلا الله so the question of dismissing intelligence from our setup of Islam is something that goes against the essence of the Quran itself because if you look at the Quran you will find that in every statement or second statement or third statement in the Quran it is only akal and intelligence that is emphasized أفلا يعقلون أفلا يتدبرون أفلا يفكهون should they not contemplate should they not ponder should they not think should they not reflect should they not reflect to the melaika he is talking to the human beings to the human race let them use their intelligence and let them not allow others to think for them but let them think with them and not think for them our problem brothers and sisters in our Islamic setup is for so long we made others think for us when we are as capable as these people that we should think with them to think for us all the way through and mind you Islam is the only religion that says you can ask anything you want any other religion says you can't it's a matter of faith it's a matter of faith and you can go and ask many of these brothers and sisters who have reverted to Islam what was the key purpose or the triggering point in them reverting their own set of laws of faith to Islam they will say the fact that Islam allows us to ask a question and allows us to get answers because the Islam encourages Allah when he read the Quran to the prophet what did he say to him pray he said to him believe he said to him read read and we are a nation that doesn't read unfortunately how many universities do we have how many universities do we have in the west how many books we produce a month or a year in reference to what is being produced elsewhere and we are the ummah of what of read not the ummah of sleep we are the ummah of read in that regard and when someone poses the question that we cannot ask question then simply respond to him by saying ما لا يلي قوله فإن لا قله speak to someone who supposedly saying about a proposal which is insane if that sane person believes what you are telling him is sane then surely he is insane do you get it yes sorry these ones will now go with the written okay you can just say well yeah i understand that homosexuality is haram how do i convince someone who says they are born this way and to i don't know something to convince them to or condemn them to convince them otherwise is it to condemn say people to hell is unjust in the religion of Islam yes i think the question of homosexuality should be looked upon as any way we look in Islam about sin because these people are sinners or not they are sinners is homosexuality is any less of a crime than alcohol for example we have never seen someone saying someone who drink alcohol for example is kill him maybe some people do but i am saying it's a sin and we should look at it as a sin in saying so that when i look at something as a sin i should also not deprive a sinner from my guidance and my ability to convince them out to them to bring them back to the right path even if they are exercising such a horrible sin or horrible and the question of i am born like that is is a sinner absolute insanity because it has not yet proven even from medical perspective that someone could carry a gene called homosexual gene there is no such thing and i can prove it even scientifically that there is no such existence of such a gene within our myths or within our creation and then to carry the argument further when he creates he creates on the basis of justice he cannot create someone he creates him with a gene called homosexuality and then burns him to death it does not make sense in the scope of Allah or the plan of Allah or the scheme of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala condemning to hellfire is the agency of Allah not my agency it's not my shop it's not my window front to have keys for people to go to hellfire i need any further notes on the subject to prove that homosexuality is not something that someone is born with i have a lot of material to disprove that homosexuality is a natural thing that someone is born with but the reason why they say so is that because this group of people have an agenda to pursue so that they will be accepted as part and parcel of the world we are living in as something very normal and very natural please shed some light on the differences between zakat and choms let there be no mistake or no misunderstanding whatsoever that the shia school of thought does not say that zakat is compulsory zakat is as compulsory as choms but when does zakat becomes payable that is the difference of opinion between the school of thought in fact according to the sunni brothers in the sunni school of thought they believe that choms also exist and not only choms exist on the spoils of war no according to abohanifa and malik and ahmad and shafiq choms becomes payable on the resources that are dug from underground there is choms on petrol oil choms on gold or zakat on gold choms on uranium choms on anything that comes out of the ground as a treasure that is underground you must pay choms on it so if you look at the concept of choms and zakat in islam in comparative school of thought you will find that there is a lot of similarities between the two but we say that choms is specific sorry zakat is specific for silver plantation and carol if you are a farmer that cultivates crops or cultivates carol if you are a merchant of gold or silver then you have to pay zakat on these items and if you accrue other income from any other place then you pay choms on that so there will be no mistake that zakat is exclusively for the sunni brothers and choms is exclusively for the shias or that zakat does not exist in the shias school of thought and only exist in the or that our sunni brothers do not actually pay choms no this is heresy they do pay choms when the choms is actually a jewel in certain perspective is music allowed in islam according to your marja of taklit some of them allow it some of them say characterically music is not allowed and some of them they say no not all music is haram some music is halal depending on the way and the reason and the lyrics and the motive behind the use of music so if you happen to be a muqallid of a certain marja and he says that you can listen to music I humbly say to my brothers and sisters if you happen to be a muqallid of another marja that says music is haram and condemn the muqallidin of this marja that says music is halal because your marja says it's haram there should be some sort of appreciation and acceptance and respect in matters of differences between muqallidin of different marja of taklit and if you are of the opinion according to your own marja of taklit that your marja of taklit and at the same level of knowledge as another marja of taklit then you can do rujoo to him in any matter of law that you see fit in that within these parameters we had a certain sum of money saved up we decided to put it in the bank our father suggested us to put it in saving account upon doing so we were told that we are entitled to receive 8.5% per annum as interest are we allowed to use this money no you can use it according to all marja of taklit on the basis that you are actually saving this money from going into the hands of the unknown or not knowing what is going to happen to this money so on the basis of its as they say it or saving this money from going into means that are not known to individuals that have no real ownership over this money it is better that you take it you can either use it or donate it in that regard and there is no khurma or haram in that regard can you please emphasize on the importance of taklit as so many young so many young and old are not following a marja I said in more than one discourse of my lectures that taklit is something that is important because in Islam you can be either of three scenarios you can either be a muqallid a follower or you are a mushdahid in your own right where you don't have to do taklit to anyone you do taklit of yourself due to certain advancement of studies that you pursue within the faculty of jurisprudence or you become a marja and people follow you so the choice is yours you don't want to become a muqallid become a mushdahid and don't follow anyone be your own mushdahid in that regard why do we say taklit is of importance because not every one of us is an expert in the four principles of extrapolating laws of Islam يعني I am not fully versed and an expert on the laws of Quran or the Quran the sciences of the sunnah of the prophet the sciences of consensus and the sciences of akal if I don't have enough knowledge to sustain me in order to understand these four principles so that based on these four principles I am able to extrapolate laws when I confront them then I have to be a follower simple as that يعني if I am not a doctor I can't self proclaim myself to be a surgeon because if I start performing surgeries on people I am doomed and the one under my hand are dead already right so that is why Islam says when you surrender your life into the hand of an expert without having to block your intelligence يعني for example tell me something if you go to a specialist and the specialist says smoking is not good for you right do you trust his judgment or do you go to a butcher to take a second opinion I am being very open do you go to forget smoking maybe sometimes smoking is too much close to our hearts even if the father of experts told us that smoking is bad we will still smoke but let's say someone tells you that you have diabetes sugar is bad for you would you still take sugar would you still take something that will raise your sugar level and he is an expert or a marja or a point of reference in his field of expertise or not surely you surrender your physical dimension into the hands of that particular specialist without having to put a stop to your intelligence because he is an expert in the field similarly is the case when it comes to the question of a marja however my opinion personal opinion and I am not imposing my personal opinion and I share my personal opinion with many مشتهد and maraja of takleed in that regard and not one of them but more than one of them is that we are in an age and era where maraja of takleed are now at the same level of knowledge there is hardly hardly you can say that there is a marja who is higher in knowledge in all the faculties of what constitute a marja than another person when it comes to comparing maraja of takleed in today's world if you think that your marja is A'lam that's a different story and I cannot dismiss that belief if you have that belief I'm not saying that at all but I'm saying in the general standard of how مشتهed view maraja of takleed in today's world they see that they are at the same level of A'lami based on that can we then do from one to another under the perspective and the dimension and the belief of what we call the collective marja a system than the individual marja a system as it has been for so long going in the world of Muslims in our existence from the time of until the current prevailing time that we are in as a safe to save God your religion it is very logical to follow a marja in that regard in order to know that what you are doing at least falls within the parameters of what Allah سبحانه وتعالى accept from you this is all the questions final question yes I have more questions yes you get mention about the God and hope I mean it always talks to my mind that be as here hardly pay the cost and it's not applicable the truth has sent it well only to a respected see whereas hope is applicable of our writing now hope is distributable to Zadat and Zainima what happens to the non-Zadat I mean how do they get and compulsory I mean people say that you can guarantee but it is not compulsory so the non-Zadat are deprived of this benefit why is that so but they can get from Sahmi Imam no from Sahmi Imam only the Zadat can get it so from Sahmi Sadat they can get it so if they get it from Sahmi Sadat they not getting it from Sahmi Imam we cannot pay to the poor from the Sahmi Imam it depends what you see the practical problem for Sahmi Imam it goes to the Marja I will advise you to do this I will advise you to this write to your Marja of Takleed and tell him on what basis is hope paid to a Marja and find out what the answer will be and then I will debate the issue with you further on what basis is hope paid to a Marja in the first place and why is it paid to a Marja in the first place I will be here and will continue the debate I am not trying to escape the question I am trying to create a venue for food for thought yes one more question it is on when I was a college I told my friends if there is a need for Sahmi Sadat if there is a need for Sahmi Sadat so we can do 10 out of 3 we can do 10 out of 3 so if we give 7 people for Sahmi Sadat they will create a project for Sahmi Sadat so there is a need for Sahmi Sadat so I told I don't know because this is the right of Sahmi Sadat you have to hand over it and it is good for Sahmi Sadat when I came here I asked they are not good they are not good they are bad they are useless they are useless so it is better if you create a housing scheme or a medical scheme it is better so I am a country so I am going to ask which is the best because you both are great and you are great so please I will do it this question so the distribution of Sahmi Sadat is the gentleman asked as to whether he can use the money of Sahmi Sadat to establish a project for the benefit of Sahmi Sadat one Alan told him that no you cannot this money belongs to Sahmi Sadat you have to give it to them and they may do as they please another Alan said to him you are a prudent businessman you know better how to invest you can set up a project either medical or housing does he know this Alan he knows both the others no the other one that told him you can do your prudent is he within our community can I meet him to kiss his hand he is in our community I tell him would like to kiss your hand and he I think you got my answer Hajj I am telling you from the member of course with this permission I will give you the name and with your permission pass on the message to him that sheikh would like to kiss your hand for that answer بسرع بسرع بسرع بسرع and that should assign to the kids yes now my question is that if we trade usually in our big night's community we trade with the others and most of us the others use the Lala now we give Lala to the people who care the little movement why do we practice that if we are taught by others you will be forgiven I will answer this in one way I don't want to dismiss it I don't want to endorse it I don't want to go into the debate of this particular question and I'm not trying to escape the question in any way shape or form what I think is right within the parameters of Sharia I will practice it and my belief system if I don't practice Lala am I less of a Shia than anyone else just a question is that your answer I can you talked about divorce now what if the woman ask for divorce and the man does not pay the Hakmah what will happen then to that man would he be freed or any question in the hereafter I don't understand the question correctly but if what the person asking the question is hinting at is that the man will use every maneuver available to him to escape paying the Hak and then let me tell you from a jurisprudential and an Islamic point of view the Hak of a maher of a woman in the eyes of Sharia in the eyes of Allah if not equal if not higher it's equal in severity to userving the money of an orphan imagine taking the money of an orphan away from him taking the money and the Hak of the wife from her without her consent or her waiver amounts to userving and taking away the money of an orphan يعني it's not gonna يعني means that is okay in Arabic that is if you come on the day of judgment thinking that you were such a clever entrepreneur for getting yourself out from taking or getting yourself out from paying the Hak الله on the day of judgment and this is Hak of a bad among themselves يعني the Hak of people among themselves which something that Allah says I will not interfere on the day of judgment in settling the dispute among you so much so that we have and tomorrow is right 23rd tomorrow is I'm telling myself and appealing to all my brothers and sisters now if you have you serve the Hak of any human being make sure you reserve resolve it before tomorrow because Allah told us through the prophet and the imams that your عمل will not be raised to heaven if you don't pay people's the due right it will be hung it will not reach the heaven it will not even reach your head so if you pray 100 ركعات 1000 ركعات and you praise the Muhammad it will not go above our heads if we have usurp the right of people I remember my time is over I get scared when someone stand next to me they know brother Muhammad I remember in 2004 2005 I'm not sure 2003 I was invited to speak in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and I spoke in the last 3 nights of Ramadan about the rights of people of one another Subhan Allah on the eve of the third night I received an anonymous letter it's kept delivered to my home where I'm staying and the letter says what after listening to your lectures yesterday there was a dispute between myself and my own brother after the demise and the death of my father and this dispute has lasted so far for 10 years where I have not spoken to my brother our children don't know one another those children who were 10 now at 20 they don't know one another but yesterday for the first time we had iftar together I said this is one of the excellent letters I've ever heard and he continues and he said the reason why is because after I heard your lecture and listen brothers and sisters the dispute is over what $10 $20 $100,000 American he said I went to the bank I transferred $100,000 into my brother's account so that I will not stand on the day of judgment in front of Allah and Allah says to me why did you take this $100,000 from your brother let me tell you also sheikh it was the most rewarding moment of my time when I sat with my brother on the same table and the family members exchanged greetings for the first time after 10 years this is حقوق العباد the rights of people don't pay charity if you have usurped the right of someone it will get you nowhere fix your problem with your brothers and sisters before you go and do other acts of charity because that is one of the ways that guarantees you in sha Allah every safe passage to jannah one more question this is a I think Zahra 9 years old is asking the question if Zahra is here Zahra I take my hat off in respect to such a question and if you want me to physically do it I'll do it but you come closer to me so I'll do it for you and see my messy hair why did Allah create shaitan when he knew that he will be bad very logical question this is an intelligent question this is not a funny question this is in fact a very intelligent question Allah SWT in the course and the scheme of life He said from the outset that when I will put you on this earth I will challenge you I will examine you حسب الناس أن يتركوا أن يقولوا أمن وهم لا يفتنون will people think that they will be placed on this earth without trial and for them to claim that there are believers everyone can claim I'm a believer everyone say I am the closest person that can be there to Allah SWT but the only way to verify such a statement is if you are put to a test if you are put to a challenge the only way brothers and sisters you can shape gold and we all love gold especially this section gold it has an amazing glitter to it and we love it can you shape gold without challenging it to fire you can't you can't get gold and shape it the way you want in the fashion you want in the glitter you want to give you the best end product unless you put it to the fire I'm not saying Allah wants to put us to the fire to glitter but Allah puts us to a challenge to glitter so was satan part of the plan yes he was part of the plan it's not like Allah didn't know he knew because for us to prove to ourselves with the potential that Allah has created within us that we can overcome that challenge because we are God's vice-gerent on earth we are God's representative and God's representative have the means to overcome it only if they are challenged and that's why Allah SWT in the scheme of his infinite wisdom in a nutshell created the medium of satan done? satan match? not yet