 Let's explain something. It's not an issue of Wahhabi, non-Wahhabi, what people have been here for years on end. It's an issue of intolerance. It's an issue of extremism on all parties. I believe every ustaz makes mistakes without exception. Take the good from all of them and leave the bad. When someone preaches hatred against another, discounted and if you have the opportunity go to them and tell them, please don't talk about other people. I want to ask you a question and I'm going to stand for this. You know who I am, right? I'm a brother of yours in faith. Have you ever heard me talk bad about another person? MashaAllah. MashaAllah. The innocent have born witness. Do you agree? Why? I have so much of goodness to share with the world that I don't have time to worry about others. Come on, come on. Those who talk about others don't have something to present themselves. I am busy doing my work. So many people send me messages, oh, someone called you a Wahhabi, someone called you a Sufi, someone said you're a Salafi, someone said you're a Deobandi, someone said you're a Barelvi. Some of these names I don't even know what they mean to be honest with you. I was waiting for the day they said someone called you a chocolate man because that's more, that's true, you know. But all these names for me, I say, look, I know what I am. I'm a Muslim and I'm trying to spread a good message amongst all groups. Let me carry on doing my work. The minute I turn to fight them, I become a fighter, I cause a bigger problem and now who's going to do this good work? Because my energy, like I said earlier, all the energies are now being utilized, waste of resources to do something where it's going to be less beneficial, in fact, destructive. So please do yourself a favor. When you hear labeling, you need to be more intelligent than the label. You need to rise above it and tell yourself, whatever good is coming from this person, I will take it. Whatever bad is coming, I will discount it. The reason is, even if you belong to one group, it does not mean the ustazas of your group, everything they say is right. They will also say wrong things, you will have to pick it up. And it doesn't mean that there is a Christian across the road, so they cannot teach you something good. I have had people who taught me mathematics and geography and biology and sociology and English language, who were Jews and Christians and Hindus and people who belong to other faiths. I took from them whatever I had to and I left whatever I didn't. You follow what I'm saying? So when you go to the university, you will have a lecturer who might be gay, for example, you know, I'm not talking about this nation in particular, but maybe in Europe, okay? You take from them whatever you feel you need to take from them and leave the rest. I'm there to study petroleum engineering, for example, whatever else. I took whatever I had to and that's it and I respect them for having given me what they did. That's humanity. The problem with us is, the problem is all over. We all are guilty of labeling others. This one is this. Let's understand. It's qualities that make us or break us. You have a bad quality. Look, I'm sitting with people. I don't need to know what inclination he is or I am. I know I get along on common factors that are 9999 compared to the one item that I might find that I'm different with him in. Do you know? So this is why I say, let's not allow our nation to crumble based on this labeling that's going on. Take the good from everyone and leave that which is not good no matter where it's from. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us ease and goodness. May Allah bless your nation. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant you strength and growth and may whatever issues you may be having be resolved in the best possible way that results in the true growth of your beautiful nation. Questioner and shaker playing. Shaker. What are you doing? Questioner said, I'm a Muslim. What type of Muslim are you? Are you a Khareji? Are you a Mutazali? Are you a Shi'i? Are you a Refadi? Are you a Qadiri? What type of Muslim are you? So the questioner says, I am a Muslim. Follow the Qur'an and Sunnah. What Sunnah? Everyone says Qur'an and Sunnah. The Khareji says Qur'an and Sunnah. The Shia says Qur'an Sunnah. The Qadiri says Qur'an Sunnah. What type of Qur'an Sunnah are you? So he says, I follow Qur'an and Sunnah like the way the Salafi saw him understood. The shaker says, yes, very good. You have to follow Qur'an and Sunnah the way the Salafi saw him understood. So for this big sentence in short form, the word is Salafi. And the debate was one. According to the Salafi, the debate was one. And on the internet you go, I respect Shaykh Nasr al-Bani. Many of my talks, when I want to check up a hadith, I see him. So I respect him Mashallah. I love him. I revere him, but no taqleed. No taqleed. Taqleed only belongs to Allah and His Rasool. Fine. See this is logic. This is Qiyas. See logic, I say proof to be from Qur'an and Sunnah, not logic. Alhamdulillah, summa alhamdulillah. Allah has blessed me with logic. Summa alhamdulillah. I am not a scholar. I consider myself a student of Taalib-e-ilm, a student of knowledge. But Allah has blessed me that I've met many scholars, whether it be of the great Indian scholars, whether from Nadeva, whether from Deoban, whether it be the Saudi scholars. Alhamdulillah, whether it be the scholars from other parts of the world. Allah has blessed me. I had the portion to interact with the great scholars of the present time. So based on that, what type of Muslim are you? Are you a Khareji? Are you a Mutazali? Are you a Shia? Are you a Qadiri? Are you a Sufi based on that even in the debate? We said, see, then Sheikh replies. No. But the questioner says, but didn't Allah say, call yourself Muslim? So the Sheikh replied that that time there was only one Islam. Now there are different groups. So therefore it is compulsory further, obligatory. You should identify yourself as a Salafi. Logic. Now comes my reply. And that debate was indeed there. Sheikh Nasrud al-Bani went the debate. See for me, don't debate with me. Prove to me from Quran and Sunnah. Immediately doctors are going to accept. Debating Alhamdulillah, Suma Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed me. In debating Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed me. My response to Sheikh Nasrud al-Bani, I respect him. I am nothing compared to him. I am not even a drop in the ocean compared to Sheikh Nasrud al-Bani. So please don't get me wrong. Many of my talks are based on his research. Mashallah. So please don't get me wrong. I love him. I respect him, but no takleed. I tell him, fine. If you see the lifestyle in the history of the Prophet, he didn't go to me. He didn't go to me. Any of us of the Quran that call us as Salafi. So I don't call. Not logic. At the time of the Prophet, they were hypocrites, monaphics. Fine. They were monaphics. The Sahabas did not change the name. They were Kharejees, Khawarij, Kharejites. They called themselves Kharejees. People gave them the label. The Sahabas yet called themselves Muslims. Did the Sahabas give them a new name? No. They continued calling themselves Muslim. They were mutas and lights. People yet continued calling themselves Muslims. So at that time also there were differences. Not that they were not. Now coming to the question, that therefore Sheikh Nasrud al-Bani says he should call yourself Salafi. My question is, which Salafi? Which Salafi? My counter question. And now I do not know how many times Salafi. Are you a Qutubi? Asruri? Ahmad Khali? I can name another Salafi. See, I am not speaking against anyone. Please don't get me wrong. I don't mean ill to any of them. But even in Salafi, there are various groups. And if you go to UK, Masha Allah, Subhan Allah, Allah Akbar, there are so many groups in UK, each group fighting against the other calling the other Salafi are kafir. Now it is by Allah. We will come to that later on if time permits. So which Salafi do you belong to? Again, see whatever label you give, there is bound to be tafarakah. When the Shi'as came, people said, we are Sunni. Again there was group, ahale sunnah wal jamaat. Then again there was division, hanafi, shafi, hamli, malaki, then we came with Salafi, alayahis. There is group even in this, the movement, the name, the name given by human beings, there is bound to be tafarakah. Even in Allah's name, Muslims, they are bound to be division. Allah told that. But don't think the name you give will not have divisions. Don't you think Allah did not know, Allah knew they are going to be division in the Muslim ummah. He told in the Quran, the Prophet predicted, yet the Prophet did, they call yourself ahale hadith, call yourself Salafi, ahale hadith. Which ahale hadith in Bombay where I come from, there are two ahale hadith, jamiyat ahale hadith and gurba ahale hadith. So which ahale hadith do I belong to now? One ahale hadith, blaming the other ahale hadith. See, I don't want to mean any harm to the ahale hadith. Therefore I said the topic is sensitive. Valla, I am only trying to talk about Quran and Allah's Rasul. Please don't feel bad. I respect Nasruddin Allah, Sheikh Nasruddin Al-Mani. I respect the Salafis. I look amongst all these groups that are there, we have to agree, the ahale hadith and the Salafis are the closest to the Quran and Sunnah. I am taught to say that. But, but which Salafi? So maybe during the earliest times of Sheikh Nasruddin Al-Mani, they won groups in the Salafi. Now they are groups. Sururi, Mathkhali, Putubi. Oh, he is not right. He is not right. He is calling him Salafi. But, so now we have new books. True Salafi. True Salafi. I read a book called Salafi Dawa. True Salafi. True Salafi. What is true Salafi? I say, you know we had a Dawa training program in Bombay where we invited people from different parts of the world. There were fourteen people, there were nineteen people from fourteen different countries. And many of them were from Madinah University MashaAllah, from Bahrain University, all more than fifty percent of Salafi MashaAllah. So, we had a discussion there. So then I asked the question. Salafi shortcut, short name. Instead of saying, I believe in Quran and hadith are going to be of Salafi solid, shortcut Salafi. So I asked him, the Salafi solid is better or Muhammad Salam is superior? Who is better? So they told Muhammad Salam. So why not call yourself Muhammadi? Right or wrong? In India, who calls themselves Muhammadi? You know? Do you know? Do we agree with them? No. Who calls themselves Muhammad in India? Who is superior? Muhammad Salam Allah. So one who submits civil to Allah is called Muslim. We know there are divisions in Muslim, but whatever name you give, they are going to be divisions. In the Hanafi masjid, there were four students. In Shafi masjid, there is Qadim and Jadeed. In the Ahle Hadith, I went to Kashmir, the many groups of Ahle Hadith. I went to Kerala, Mujahideen, KNM, Kailan Arbat and Mujahideen. There people don't call themselves Ahle Hadith, Mujahideen. If you go to Saudi Arabia and say I am Ahle Hadith, what is this new Ahle Hadith? Very few people of the Saudis know who is an Ahle Hadith. For them, they know Salafi. But Salafi and Ahle Hadith belong to the same group. The names are different. In some country, Ansari. So when he is saying call ourselves Salafi, that means the Ahle Hadiths of India, they are not Salafis. So here we realize that if you want to give a label, instead of Salafi, Muhammadi is better. Instead of Muhammadi is Muslim. Therefore, I say, I prefer calling myself Muslim. That's it. First a Muslim, last a Muslim. I am not hurting any of my Muslim brothers, whether it is Hanafi or Ashaafi or Ambuli or Maliki or Ahle Hadith or Salafi. Believe me, I love all. I love all my Muslim brothers. I am not here to hurt anyone's feeling. Therefore, I said, Come to come in terms as we ask any of you. I am coming to come in terms. I respect Abu Hanifa, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Ahmad, Hambal, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi. I respect the great scholars of this. I respect the Salafi Saleen. I follow them. Allah SWT warns us. Warns us of something that we do need a warning about today in the world. Today, what happens to the Muslims? Every small thing we are divided. Small thing, we cannot work together. We are divided. If a person, for example, is tall, he doesn't get along with those who are short. I mean, that's a bit ridiculous, but it can happen. Allah SWT really has warned us about dispute amongst you as an ummah. If you are to dispute and argue what will happen, you lose your power and your might as an ummah. Today, we have two billion Muslims on the globe. We cannot agree to swat a fly. I'm honest with you. We have two billion Muslims on the globe. We cannot agree to swat a fly. Why? Because everyone is a big sheikh on his own, and everyone wants to have a big say. And the sheikhs are fighting each other, calling the other a kafir. It's a reality. So what is happening? Our leaders are debating and arguing and fighting and calling each other names. The public are even more confused because any message of goodness, they are kept away. Don't go here. Don't go there. What is the story? What happens? Allah says. Verse number 46 of Suratul Anfal. Follow Allah and follow his Rasul and do not dispute with one another because it will result in your total failure and the going away or snatching away of your might as an ummah. Gone. Totally gone. Why? Because small disputes. Today, brothers and sisters don't speak to each other. What a shame. Uncles and aunts don't speak to each other. Trustees from one masjid do not get along with trustees from another masjid. Why? It's an issue of prestige. What are you talking about? We are an ummah. We share the shahada. That's enough. Put aside your differences and come together. We need the might as an ummah. We have the numbers. We have everything. But the problem is we are disputing and so Allah swt warns us in another verse in the Qur'an. Do you know what he says? The kuffar, they are supporters and protectors of one another. Come what may. They put aside their differences when it comes to sticking up for one another. This is in the Qur'an. We read the verse tonight. Allah swt warns us. This in fact is verse number 73 of the same surah. Do you know what Allah says after he tells us? That the kuffar stick up for one another and they protect one another. He says If you are not going to do the same, then there will be great fitnah and fasad on ash. That means if you are not going to stick up for one another and protect one another, then there will be chaos and corruption on the whole globe. Hence we find the chaos and corruption on the globe. Today it is a decree of Allah. We are totally disunited. We cannot see face to face. Yet we are born through one mother and father. May Allah swt bless the ummah. May Allah protect us. It is worth crying for my brothers and sisters. We are calling for unity. It is not going to come without tolerating one another. We need to understand not everybody is going to think the same. Not everybody is going to have the same inclinations. But don't we share the shahada? Isn't that stronger than the bond of blood my brothers and sisters? Gone are the days when the kuffar are excited because they can trample over us by the mere disunity that we are engaged in my brothers and sisters. We need it. We need it desperately. Our brothers are suffering across the globe. All over the reason is we are swearing one another. We are calling one another names. We do not want to look at one another. Whereas we all utter the shahada. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. My brothers and sisters, it is a passionate call. We want peace. We are searching for peace. We are the people of peace. Why then are we looked at as warmongers who are killing one another across the globe? Just because we have a little difference. May Allah swt protect this ummah and may He grant us unity. May He open our doors until we meet again.