 Many of us because we have developed the habit of believing everything that we hear, implementing everything we hear. That is why we have developed a dead community. Today, the inventions, development of the world, where do they go? They go from Islamic countries to the West. Every person who indulges with the Qur'an is in need of specific tools. Without those tools, we cannot understand the Qur'an. We cannot explore the Qur'an. What are those tools? Number one is the intellect. We cannot explore. We cannot understand. We cannot study the Qur'an without the Qur'an. Many have tried and they have failed miserably in order to understand the Qur'an. But without the intellect strictly relying on the second aspect, which is the narration. How so? They say that Abu Hanifa, Imam Abu Hanifa, he was teaching a class. And in his class, he says, I have a new theory. And my theory is Allah cannot punish the shaitan. Because Allah created shaitan from what? From fire. And in the day of judgment, those who He wants to punish, where does He put them? Into fire. So fire cannot be punished with fire. This is my new theory. Buhlul was sitting there. So he says to him, are you sure you're not going to change your mind about this usually? Yeah, I'm sure. This is my new theory. So Imam Abu Hanifa, he came out of the class and Buhlul was there standing with a brick. As soon as he came out, he hit him with the brick and he broke his head and there was blood and they took him to the judge. So the judge said, Buhlul, did you hit him? He says, yeah. Why did you hit him? He says because Abu Hanifa, according to him, everyone is forced to do that which they do. He does not believe in free will. He believes that everything that we do is predetermined for us. Allah dictates what we do. So I didn't really hit him. Second, Abu Hanifa believes that Allah and the day of judgment cannot punish Shaytan with fire because he's created from fire. Abu Hanifa, what are you created with? He says, clay. He says, I only hit you with clay. I didn't think it was going to hurt you. Similarly, if you go to Tafseer, for example, Surat al-Jinn, one of the grand mufassereen, when he comes to the relationship of human beings and the jinn, he says, and yes, indeed, there are relationships between human beings and jinn to an extent of marriage for there are women who have married jinn. Not only that, but they also have become pregnant from the jinn. And we have children that are born from the jinn. I don't understand where these guys are. Aql is intellect. Went when he was writing those things. Another scholar comes and says that yes, indeed, pregnancy can take up to nine months. But pregnancy and Islam can take up to 10 years. 10 years. Now, don't ask me why they say such things. They all have a reason. For example, there was a woman whom her husband died 10 years later, she gave birth. So this alim, immediately he writes this. Another one, we don't know who got her pregnant. He says the jinn got her pregnant. Is the main element and main navigation system and drive when it comes to understanding the Quran. Without the alim, the Quran not also becomes meaningless, but it can also become dangerous. So number one is alim. When we come into the majalis, when we sit down, when we listen, who told you that everything you listen, you should program it in your brain? Who told you that? Any person who you meet, who speaks, is fallible or infallible? Fallible. I myself can make mistakes. Anyone else sitting here can make mistakes. Unless you sit in the majalis, Allah SWT. Allah SWT has blessed us with the aql. Go and read. Research. Ask. From the west of the Islamic countries. Huh? From the west Islamic countries. Why? Because in Islamic countries, most Islamic countries, everything that you are taught, everything that you hear, don't question. You have no right to question anything. Who told you to question? Who are you to speak? But here, you can speak whatever you like. Ask whatever you like. Say whatever you like. And that is why the mind has no limits. Has no restrictions. And therefore, they reach what they reach today. Inventions. New technologies. So what happens? The Islamic world has to import them. From the TV, to the microwave, to the cars, to the... And now, if we want to study, what do we say? What do we do? We export our children to those universities. Go there. There they let you. Ask. There they don't limit you. Ahl al-bayt, Salawatullah, and peace be upon him, brothers and sisters. Don't look at Islam today. I urge you to read. I urge you to go and look at Kitab al-Kafi. Kitab al-Ahtijaj. Ayun Akhmar al-Rida. There would be atheists that come and debate our Imams. Atheists. Christians. Jews. Magans. Pagans. Idol worshippers. All the way until the time of Imam al-Sadiq, Imam al-Rida and Imam Hassan al-Asqari. Imam Hassan al-Asqari developed a Tafseer. Why? Because there were some people writing books. Within the Islamic Ummah, writing books on the false ayat of the Qur'an. False ayat within the Qur'an. He's a so-called Islamic scholar. Writing a book on the false ayat of the Qur'an. Today, if anybody in any Muslim country writes a book about false ayat from the Qur'an, what happens to him? Instead of other scholars writing, replying, responding, this is what our Imam taught us. Our Imams, they have set the highest standards, brothers and sisters. The highest standards of tolerance. The highest standards in akhlaq. The highest standards of human morality. But yet, unfortunately we have created a gap between ourselves and their teachings. So number one is akhla. The akhla needs to be there. Number two is naql al-manqul. The second tool is the Qur'an itself. To understand the Qur'an, you need the Qur'an. To understand the Qur'an, you need the Qur'an itself. You cannot come to one ayat, read that ayat and say, this is the Qur'anic perspective in regards to this issue. No. Sometimes you have to read 20 ayat, 10 ayat, 5 ayat in order to understand. The Islamic perspective in regards to one issue. O you believers, do not take each other's wealth and goods unless both parties are pleased. Both parties are content. So today somebody comes to me and he says, give me a loan. I say, here is 100,000. Pay me back 120,000. He says, okay. I say, are you sure you're okay with it? He says, yeah, I'm sure. Okay, so I'm giving the loan 100,000. Receiving another loan 120,000. The guy is okay with it. And Allah in the Qur'an says, what? Does that mean the Qur'an says it's okay? No. We go to another ayat. So in order to understand the Qur'an, we need the Qur'an itself. Number two, we need the hadith. Without hadith, no one can explore the Qur'an. One ignorant man in history, he said this. The Qur'an is enough for you. But we ask him, tell me from the Qur'an, how many rak'a salat al-zuhr? How many rak'a salat al-subh? Tell me, Allah says, pay zakat. How do I pay zakat on sheep in the Qur'an? How do I pay zakat on my cattle? Tell me, I have to do tawaf. How many rounds of tawaf do I have? Tell me from the Qur'an, if the Qur'an is enough. Therefore we need hadith. And that's only hadith, but we need to examine the hadith. Who's in the chain of narrators? Is this hadith saheeh? Is this hadith hassan? Is this hadith a hadith that I can accept and incorporate within the science of Rijal? So those are the tools that we need.