 Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salam ala Rasulillah amma ba'ad assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh brothers and sisters welcome to the ta'weez project Alhamdulillah today we have ustad abd rahman Hassan with us um we've been getting a lot of questions online on the facebook page and through our email from a lot of you guys out there um wanting to know more about the issues of ta'weez um and basically we want to try and clarify some of the doubt with regards to the issues that you guys have been raising and sort of help understand the questions um so ustad abd rahman is going to try and help us with that today inshallah before we get started inshallah can you first and foremost sort of define what a ta'weez is um for the people for the people that don't know inshallah festival gives you gives you guys I mean in the project that you're doing inshallah which is a good cause purifying the people from this shit concept definitely and et cetera the first question that you asked me was sort of if we can sort of set the groundwork set the foundations of what a ta'weez is what entails what is what isn't a ta'weez you know has it got any other names or that people might know it by um and et cetera the ta'weez is that which somebody wears it either it can either be a some people they wear rocks somewhere they bones some might even just be a string differs from person to person they made different things but if a person wears it uh or is worn to to get rid of an evil eye okay like a protection a protection if the person believes that this thing which they are wearing right now is actually protecting them then this becomes shirk akbar it's a major shirk if they actually believe that this ta'weez or this tamima and the plural is tamaaim in which they are wearing if they believe that this can actually remove the evil eye or get rid of the evil eye or protect them then this is shirk akbar okay but if the person believes that this is a means it's a wasila i don't believe this can remove or protect me but i believe it's a means of protection then this is minor shirk like a medicine medicine okay medicine the means is actually proven okay by tajruba experiment um but the tamima by the religion we've realized that it doesn't do anything it doesn't help you it's not proven to be a means okay so if sorry if somebody says you know i wear this thing for uh helping me in my business for good fortune to increase me in my wealth or for example a husband or wife you know who've been suffering problems and they've been arguing a lot so they go to see somebody and they you know they get given this ta'weez or i mean has it go any other names in arabic it's called ta'weez the Somalis they call it hersi okay um the arabies they call it tamaaim and in the uh yeah uh asian they call it ta'weez okay the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said in the ruqa and tamaaim and tiwala shirkun the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said these three are shirk the tamima that the person was the ruqa which is the ruqya which is that consists of shirk in it and the tiwala which is that the spell that the woman asks for her to be placed on her husband so we can have love for her or that which she herself is placed on so her husband can love her or the vice versa this is called tiwala all of them are shirk so it can either be major shirk which is if that person is actually wearing it for their business they are wearing the tamima so they can get their business flowing and they believe that this can do it then this becomes shirk akba they leave the religion because of it and if they believe that no allah is the one who makes my business flow but i'm only wearing this as a means then in this situation it becomes a minor shirk and allah knows best so just to clarify that point before we move on inshallah potentially somebody wearing this would it mean that that person would have to retake the shahada or re-establish the islam is it something that bad that it can make a person a kafir or not a muslim anymore now the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he himself is saying that it is shirk and anything that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam refer to it as a shirk then you can see the danger and the seriousness of it so one has to abstain and be as far as possible as they can and that's what we would also need to remember the hadith which he narrated in his shua'a bil iman that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he said okay so anything which allah has made haram there is no cure in it for us our cure we can find it in the halal things so trying to find a cure whether it's for your business whether it's for your career whether it's for your children whether it's even for yourself and your health trying to look for it in that which allah is prohibited is actually only going to increase your illness and that is the hadith in which the noble companion and imran ibn hussain radiallahu ta'ala anhu that he came to the messengers sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he had it in his in his arm he was wearing a a string on his arm okay so he came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the prophet then said to him woe be to you what is this that you're wearing why are you wearing this what's the course to it and then he said ya rasoolallah i'm wearing it from the wahina which is a form of illness okay it's to protect me from this illness the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he said inna ha la taziduka illa wahana this thing that you're wearing it does not increase you accepting weakness you're going to only become weak from wearing it and then the prophet recited on saying to him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam lo mita if you died imran if you were if you died wahiya alaika and this thing you're wearing was on you maa aflahta abadan you will never have found success and prosperity ahman narrated that it so the person who's wearing it needs to realize that whatever you're looking for you're not going to gain it whilst you have this thing on you get rid of it and that's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he ordered him to destroy it and to get rid of it sallallahu alaihi wa sallam so from anywhere from the sunnah you're saying that there's nowhere from the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam where he advised us to wear these kind of things or um spoke about them except in telling people to destroy them and get rid of them and speaking about them as being shirk and that's not only what he said sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because our understanding in the religion is also taken or the way we practice our religion is we base our what the prophet says or what he does on how the companions understood it very important it's very vital that we look at that so the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam understood the danger and the seriousness of it as well because when they saw that Haum in different situations him prohibiting it speaking against it rebuking it scolding those who were wearing it they realized how dangerous it was and here you see Abdullah ibn al-Mas'ud al-Radi Allahu ta'ala anhu he came into the house and now he came into the house and he saw his own wife his own wife and when he saw her on her neck she was wearing it and then he he took it off her neck and he ripped it off and then he said to her did the family of Abdullah ibn al-Mas'ud after Allah gave them something and they made her made them rich and Allah gave them risk are they going to wear this are they going to associate partners with Allah rather he said are they going to associate partners with Allah and you should be Allah ma lam yunazil bihi sultana so the sahab is also understood that this act of wearing the tabima and the tamain is shirk or the ta'weez is shirku billahi al-Ali al-Azim like you understand some people they say obviously we've had many messages about these issues and some of the the viewers will be able to relate to this that some people say that if the the the thing that they're wearing you know it only contains the Qur'an or the kalam of Allah or maybe you know the names and attributes of Allah inside of it and you know they say that their the imam or their mufti or their maulana has has given this and advised them to wear this for for the things that we've mentioned for wealth and good fortune and etc that there's permissibility in this from the sharia and they also claim that you know there are evidences from some of the companions where they would they would wear this I mean is there anything good now in this issue of the tamima in which to stay where the taba'i will be on the Qur'an the tamima the ta'weez yes wearing it and it has the Qur'an on it or has the words of Allah in it or etc what's the ruling pertaining to this now the sahab of the companions of the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam amongst themselves and the people of knowledge generally speaking on it is it permissible or is it not permissible there's a difference of opinion some said it's impermissible and others they said it is it is permissible now we have to now realize if there's a khilaf there's a difference of opinion what did the Qur'an instruct us to do Allah says in the Qur'an if you differ upon a matter and you have difference of opinion so every difference of opinion every argumentations that we find we always have to bring this issue back to the Kitab and the Sunnah and the answers would be then inshaAllah ta'ala the Qur'an or the Sunnah when we look at it we find that the argument or the the side that says that it's impermissible to use the tamima that has Qur'an in it is stronger okay and this is not this is the view held by abdullahi min al-muz'udra radiallahu ta'ala anhu it is also this hold a view held by abdullahi min al-Abbas hudayfa timbunia man held that hold that held that view rukba timbuna aamin held that view as well imran ibn al-Hussain also held that view and other companions they all held the view that is haram okay and they are stronger without a doubt so why are they stronger and how are they stronger three reasons i'll summarize it why they're stronger number one is the prophet alaihi salatu wa salam he did not distinguish between the tamima that has Qur'an in it and the one that doesn't have Qur'an the prophet didn't it's general whenever he prohibited it was always general okay he said in the ruqa and tamaaim and tawala tamaaim is general i'm restricted when the prophet prohibited it from imran ibn hussain he didn't say imran you're wearing it something in your arm what is it you're wearing let me see is it quran on it he didn't ask and the scholars they say the prophet to clarify a matter at a time when it's needed is obligatory on him so if it was the if the if this issue right now yeah it needed distinguishing the prophet would it be the one that who does what he could have clarified alaihi salatu salam he said look it's not all haram there was this and that he would have clarified it the fact that he did not clarify like that and he left unrestricted we have to leave it unrestricted that's number one so no companion could come and specify what the prophet unrestricted number two is saddu tharaya we have to close the door that's going to lead to shirk and we and what you tend to find is that these tamaaim that people wear a lot of them are being fooled and tricked to think that what they're wearing it has quran in it and so the sharia has a concept which is saddu tharaya the doors that lead to something are closed that's true actually because that's a lot of the time that's what we find that people will contact us and they'll say we we've been given this thing but it's just got quran you know um like when they actually open it and they look for themselves um and mashallah alhamdulillah uh you know more and more people now they're taking the challenge they're they're they're they're making the the effort and they're they are getting the courage they're gaining the courage they're seeing more and more people do it and they're more inclined to open it themselves and alhamdulillah there's videos out there um some of the links will be below um on how to you know destroy a taawid um like and this is what we're finding someone's that I've been told they's quran but when they open it they find it's not exactly you know so and the thing that we also have to realize is that the sharia has a concept which is the ruling is it revolves around the majority it doesn't revolve around nadir things that are rare that happen the majority of the people are wearing shirk and we fewly find a few people who are wearing quran maybe but the majority the overwhelming majority are wearing shirk on it and numbers and boxes and codes and stuff that we don't understand yeah so the second reason as I mentioned was said the third point sorry is the people who are wearing it they go into places which are filthy like toilets um the thing that is in a lot of times is left dirty if there is even quran written and it's it's left dirty it's not cleaned it's not well looked after and then it leads to the verses of Allah to become people in the filthy dirty places belittling belittling in it and the quran of Allah is one that we were told and we were ordered to honor the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so those three main reasons alone show the opinion of the scholars who held that is impermissible to even have quran written on it on it are stronger and Allah knows best marakallu fi qustad so one of the other questions we get is um a lot of people they find because you mentioned it earlier boxes um the quran being translated into I think it's abjud numbers or some some kind of number system where people don't actually write the quran they write numbers instead um and essentially we're asking is this permissible does this have a basis within the religion um does this have a basis within the sharia and and you know if you could elaborate on that inshallah again no this has no basis that the fact that the quran is then converted into digits and numbers this is the kutab of the quran the fortune teller is the magicians this is what they write the kanamum that's their speech and it's codes that they use for the shayateen a muslim now who believes that that this is the quran where does it say in the quran basmala is the quran seven eight six seven eight six where where where basis has has that got in the sunnah that the sahabets ever understand it like that we find it in the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that to be added on the scholars who said that even the scholars who said that it's permissible that it's permissible to use the quran as a tamima they said it has to be clear that it's the quran okay it has to be clearly written okay it's not even just that the quran they book conditions down that it's an ayah from the quran it's clearly written it can be seen everyone can read it so it's not even if it's written but it's written in a scribbled manner hata it's not permissible according to the ones we say so what if it's written but it's written and then a lot of the time we find they wrap it and they they make they fold and fold and fold and fold into a very small little sort of a thing and then they wrap it with plastic and tie it and and then put it into the leather pouches okay this is the one you open it all up and you look at it do you find the quran written clearly can your eyes see probably 95% of the time from um you know i would say hundreds of cases that have been sent to us 99% there's no quran you know very few a few percent will find the actual quran is there but even when it's written it's like you say it's scribbled it's not clearly written like you find in the most half like neat and no the scholars they say it has to be clear because it has to be seen it has to be you know that it's a verse from the quran okay with those conditions stipulated put there then and only then those who say it's permissible then they argue it's permissible on those bases but then none of them has ever said on those who said it that it's permissible for you to use the quran none of the scholars from the sahabas said you can put it in codes or numbers so finally we'll start i think to wrap it up obviously you've given us some good evidences in terms of the tawis and what it is and you know um what the sharia perspective on it is like him let's say for example um for the the people at home watching this video i'm thinking of taking a tawis off you know i've been wearing it somebody gave it to me and i used to suffer from headaches for example or i'm a husband or you know there's a wife who's found it's bought peace within the household and i've seen all the evidence and i want to take it off but where does that leave me you know i've had this thing and it's done great for me so what can i do you know in terms of guidance from uh allah and the prophet saslam what do i do next you know what should how can i protect myself now this concept of getting rid of it and destroying it is the first step that the person needs to take once now that you found out the ruling and you know what allah tabarak wa ta'ala has commanded you and that which he has told you or the prophet sasam has said to you a believer has no other choice except to submit and i can't believe it when i'm a believer if allah is messing with your command a matter you have no other choice except to submit you have to follow and adhere in this situation you have to follow that which allah tabarak wa ta'ala has said and the prophet in this issue and that what is it that allah is messing with you have commanded here is that you get rid of it the prophet told imran ibn husayn throw it and destroy it yeah so our brothers you've put a process where the people who are wanting to take it off a process and inshallah ta'ala which you will explain to them later in which they need to take in order to get rid of it the person has to straight away get rid of it yes the prophet didn't say to imran think about it pray his tukhara on it you know what discuss it he didn't say that he said throw it get rid of it the same ibn alaym ala mis'ud didn't ask his wife what why he didn't talk to her he just ripped it off yeah so to get rid of it yeah if your family members are wearing it and you have power over them like you have power over your children and what rip it off okay rip it off and get it if you're a doctor and patients are coming to you and they're wearing this and you have power inshallah and there's nothing there's not a harm coming to you from it then cut it off you see but what do we give the people now the alternative that the sharia has placed a lot of these people that you see doing this they don't even read ayat ul kursi which is the greatest verse in the Quran yeah when the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam it's told it told the sahabi al jaleel ka'abun maalik when he told ibn ka'ab you know do you know the greatest verses in the Quran they don't even read ayat ul kursi when they go to sleep they don't even read the mu'awwi the tain when the prophet got sick from the magic that was placed on him what did he do did Allah tell him to take tawheez and tamain or did Allah tell him to come on the prophet to recite the mu'awwi the tain it was commanded to recite they don't read those the du'aad the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was told that the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said you finish his sleep and he's over with his sleep he should say The person makes these atkab. You have the small book, Fortress of Muslim, written by Sa'idah. Looking at that book alone, you get all the du'as that you need to do daily. That book was named after the fortress of a Muslim. That book is hadith in which the Prophet SAW told us that the one who makes these du'a is like a person who ran from an enemy and he got into a fortress. And the fortress is to protect you. The atkar is like that. The one who makes these atkar, he's the one who's going to be what? He went into this fortress and he's away from his enemy. It's like a god, and the Prophet would do that for his grandsons, Hassan and Hussain, when they would come, he would say, He would make this for them. Never did he say, where tamai man, where this and where that. So our guidance is, The Prophet is in him, is a great example and a great role model. Reading these atkar and reading these things is what he commanded his companions. Blowing it onto your hands and then wiping it over your own body. Reading the Quran on yourself, these are insha'Allah the ways to cure yourself and to gain the good that you're looking for. Insha'Allah. And placing your trust in him. With that, a shadow of a doubt. Your heart is connected to who? To Allah, Tabar-u-Ta'ala. And that you also believe with unwavering conviction, the hadith of Abdullah ibn Mus'abbath, in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, يحفظ الله, يحفظك. يحفظ الله تجيته تجاهك. إذا سألت فسأل الله وإذا استعمت فاستعمل بالله. وعلم أن الأمة, لو اجتمعوا على أن يفعوك بشيء, لم يفعوك إلا بشيء قد كتابه الله لك. وإن اجتمعوا على أن يضروك بشيء, لم يضروك إلا بشيء قد كتابه الله لك. رفعت الأقلام وجفت الصحف. That you need to first of all, before this problem occur to you, before this sickness occur to you, before this bankruptcy occur to you, or before it happens, remember and save God, Allah's boundaries and His religion. Follow the orders that you were given. Stay away from that which you were told to stay away from. So the time when the illness befalls you, you lift your hands up. Allah is here to listen to you and obey your calling. Eat halal and make sure your rizq and that which you're eating is halal. Don't eat haram and then lift your hands up with haram flesh or haram hands. So all these are things that we need to take into consideration. All of these things are things that we need to follow and we also need to believe that no one can benefit us except if Allah has written it for us. And no one can harm us except if Allah has written it for us. And our trust and our belief and itimad, reliance is Allah alone. Anything which I have said that is incorrect is from me. And Shaytan and Allah's Messenger are free from it. SubhanakAllah wa bi hamdik ya Shadu Allah. Astaghfiru qatubu liyyah. JazakAllah khayr ustad. Barak al-awfeeq. InshaAllah we're going to place some of the links below to some of our other videos and also some of the dua'a and adhgar. We will link you to a good website where you can find these. Download them, print them off, put them around your house. Maybe you can say them and try to memorise them. And like ustad abdrahman recommended, the fortress of the Muslim is available from most good book shops and it's a very, very cheap book, maybe two pounds or three pounds. Keep it with you, it's small, you can put it in your top pocket and carry it around with you. Barak al-awfeeq for listening. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.