The Way of the Prophets - An analysis of prophetic guidance for those who share & defend Islam (2021-12-05) #

0:00:06 and sisters and friends
0:00:08 and welcome to today's
0:00:11 sapiens institute
0:00:13 online
0:00:14 seminar and today we're going to be
0:00:16 discussing something very important
0:00:19 we're going to be discussing the way of
0:00:21 the prophets
0:00:24 and this is an extremely important
0:00:26 discussion because those who
0:00:28 sincerely seek to
0:00:30 intellectually and academically
0:00:32 share islam defend islam
0:00:35 and educate other people
0:00:38 about islam
0:00:40 they need to understand we need to
0:00:43 understand collectively and individually
0:00:46 and not only understand but internalize
0:00:48 that the best guidance
0:00:51 concerning sharing islam
0:00:54 educating others about islam
0:00:56 concerning defending islam
0:00:59 is actually referring
0:01:01 to
0:01:02 the greatest people who walked on earth
0:01:05 referring to
0:01:07 the greatest human beings
0:01:09 to have stepped foot on this planet
0:01:12 and these are the prophets of allah
0:01:14 subhanahu wa ta'ala because they were
0:01:16 called
0:01:18 by allah
0:01:19 to call people
0:01:24 to call people to the fact that there is
0:01:27 no deity worthy of worship except allah
0:01:31 subhanahu wa ta'ala
0:01:33 and brothers and sisters
0:01:35 this is such a significant topic
0:01:36 especially in the 21st century
0:01:39 especially in
0:01:41 the environment of social media
0:01:44 and having access to thousands and
0:01:47 thousands if not millions of people all
0:01:49 across the world
0:01:51 so
0:01:52 yes we have great opportunities for
0:01:55 reward
0:01:56 but we also have
0:01:58 great opportunities if you want to term
0:02:00 it as such
0:02:02 for
0:02:03 destruction destroying our own selves
0:02:06 destroying the tower
0:02:07 and destroying the image of islam
0:02:11 so we have to understand that with great
0:02:13 opportunity comes great responsibility
0:02:15 as well
0:02:17 so i think it's time that we have this
0:02:18 authentic discussion amongst the
0:02:21 community
0:02:22 concerning
0:02:23 how must we be
0:02:26 how must we relate to ourselves
0:02:29 relate to others and fundamentally
0:02:31 relate to allah in context of the dawah
0:02:35 so before i introduce sheikh
0:02:37 to explain this for us i want every
0:02:39 single one of you to understand
0:02:41 something
0:02:42 when we engage in this work
0:02:45 we have to
0:02:46 ask a fundamental question
0:02:50 and the question is not is it halal is
0:02:52 it haram
0:02:53 but rather
0:02:54 the fundamental question in our context
0:02:57 specifically specifically concerning
0:03:00 sharing islam is as follows
0:03:03 what does
0:03:06 allah
0:03:07 want from me
0:03:09 in my particular context
0:03:12 if you study and analyze this question
0:03:15 clearly
0:03:16 it's going to be it's going to
0:03:18 open doors for you with regards to
0:03:22 opening doors to guidance for you in
0:03:24 order for you to refer to the quran and
0:03:27 to the way of the prophet sallallahu
0:03:28 alaihi wasallam in the way of the
0:03:30 prophets with regards to sharing islam
0:03:34 with your brothers and sisters in
0:03:36 humanity we have to ask that question
0:03:40 what does allah want from me what does
0:03:42 allah want from us
0:03:44 in our particular context it could be
0:03:46 you
0:03:47 being on a debating panel it could be
0:03:50 you on social media it could be you
0:03:53 concerning
0:03:54 the the great work that you do behind
0:03:56 the scenes in the tower whatever
0:03:59 whatever capacity
0:04:01 you are involved in concerning sharing
0:04:04 and defending islam ask this question
0:04:06 ask it every day and this is the power
0:04:08 of questioning what does allah want from
0:04:10 me in this particular moment in this
0:04:12 particular context
0:04:15 and asking this question we remove
0:04:18 will push you away from a reactionary
0:04:21 type of dower where we just react to
0:04:24 things without clearly thinking
0:04:26 and it will remove and put a barrier to
0:04:29 the kind of adoption of a reductionist
0:04:32 theology because sometimes when we're
0:04:34 involved in the moment when we're
0:04:35 involved on social media in social media
0:04:38 we're involved in the daoa sometimes
0:04:40 what we do we just react to things and
0:04:42 not only do we react to things but we
0:04:43 try to justify it um by basically
0:04:46 referring to the quran or the sunnah or
0:04:48 hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:04:50 wasallam and we justify in a way that is
0:04:54 reductionist what's the reductions mean
0:04:56 that we take that particular ayah we
0:04:59 take that particular hadith and we
0:05:01 remove all context and we remove all
0:05:04 other
0:05:05 moral variables
0:05:06 and we just
0:05:08 use it in order to justify
0:05:10 our ego centric or egotistical reactions
0:05:13 and this is why it's so important
0:05:15 brothers and sisters that we start with
0:05:17 first principles we start with the quran
0:05:20 we start with
0:05:21 and this is why today's seminar is
0:05:23 called the way of the prophets and
0:05:25 inshallah we'll i'll be asking questions
0:05:28 to the sheikh and i want you all to ask
0:05:30 questions to the sheikh in order to get
0:05:32 the best out of the sheikh as well but
0:05:34 also to get the best out of this topic
0:05:35 today as well so just as a brief
0:05:38 introduction to the shaykh
0:05:40 sheikh yasal
0:05:42 he has a b
0:05:44 and an m a in philosophy and he is going
0:05:47 to be pursuing his phd inshallah very
0:05:49 soon he is the imam at elderberry masjid
0:05:53 he is a dharaolum graduate
0:05:55 and he has studied with prominent
0:05:57 scholars
0:05:58 all around the world
0:06:00 and he has delivered presentations and
0:06:03 seminars and courses for prestigious
0:06:06 outlets
0:06:07 such as
0:06:09 academy and i'm very happy that
0:06:15 is here with us today
0:06:34 so let's go straight into it so the
0:06:37 first thing i want to ask you
0:06:39 is
0:06:40 if someone's new to darwin if someone's
0:06:42 new to
0:06:43 gay involved in darwin they've just
0:06:45 started sharing and and discussing uh
0:06:49 concepts and philosophy or whatever the
0:06:51 case may be they involved in sharing
0:06:52 islam academically and intellectually
0:06:55 what would be the starting point what
0:06:56 would be the kind of quranic first
0:06:58 principle that you would
0:07:00 share with them and teach them
0:07:04 alhamdulillah
0:07:07 foreign
0:07:17 first and foremost i would like to thank
0:07:19 you for giving me this opportunity
0:07:21 to deliver this message
0:07:23 and the second thing i want to mention
0:07:24 from the answer is
0:07:26 that the primary
0:07:29 the primary
0:07:31 person that i'm addressing today is
0:07:32 myself first as my ears are the closest
0:07:35 to me
0:07:36 so this is not uh i don't have an
0:07:38 interlocutor here i'm not addressing
0:07:40 this to anybody is actually first myself
0:07:42 and inshallah we make dua they also
0:07:44 manifest others
0:07:46 moving on to your question
0:07:48 uh
0:07:49 look
0:07:50 the the dawah
0:07:51 inviting people towards allah
0:07:56 this is as you mentioned is was the job
0:08:01 of all of the ambiance
0:08:03 as mentioned
0:08:10 in
0:08:13 every single prophet was given
0:08:15 revelation to deliver the message
0:08:19 to their people this is why one of my
0:08:21 teachers said
0:08:22 whoever gives
0:08:24 allah with the intention
0:08:26 that they're following the footsteps of
0:08:28 the prophets indeed he or she has
0:08:30 revived the sunnah of all of the ambiya
0:08:33 every single prophet just by delivering
0:08:36 the message
0:08:38 this is also a distinguished quality of
0:08:40 of our beloved prophet
0:08:51 is
0:09:02 and
0:09:03 not only is this a distinguished quality
0:09:06 of the prophets but is also a
0:09:07 distinguished quality of this ummah
0:09:10 the thing that differentiates this ummah
0:09:12 from the previous nations is the effort
0:09:15 of dawah
0:09:17 you are the best nation
0:09:20 you have been taken out for the benefits
0:09:24 meaning benefit for the people
0:09:26 why are you the best people
0:09:30 you call towards good
0:09:32 and you forbid from evil
0:09:35 so
0:09:36 the previous nations they all they all
0:09:38 worshiped
0:09:39 however this nation has two
0:09:41 responsibilities number one worshiping
0:09:43 themselves
0:09:44 and number two calling people towards
0:09:46 allah
0:09:48 therefore
0:09:50 uh
0:09:51 i would answer by saying this
0:09:54 that if we in if we intend
0:09:57 uh to embark on the path of giving our
0:10:00 we need to realize that da'wah initially
0:10:11 therefore
0:10:12 the closer our methodology is
0:10:17 the more chance there is of hidayah and
0:10:18 guidance
0:10:20 the further and distant our methodology
0:10:23 is from the methodology of the ambiya
0:10:26 the more chance there is of god
0:10:29 of misguidance and this is one of the
0:10:31 reasons maybe allah
0:10:33 is increasing but on the other hand we
0:10:36 have apostasy
0:10:38 is also increasing why is this i'm not
0:10:40 necessarily postulating this is the
0:10:42 reason i mean this is something that we
0:10:43 need to think the first thing i would
0:10:45 say is that we need to understand that
0:10:47 this noble work of dawah is the noble
0:10:50 work of the prophets yes
0:10:52 and the methodology of the ambiya is
0:10:54 clear it's completely vivid in the quran
0:10:57 how they address their people how at the
0:11:00 time of difficulties
0:11:02 and adversities they you know tolerated
0:11:04 forbid you know difficulties etc
0:11:08 so
0:11:08 i think if we discuss the first
0:11:10 principles from the quran how the
0:11:18 was instructed by allah to give dawah
0:11:20 and this verse inshallah that i'm going
0:11:22 to mention now this verse
0:11:25 exegesis have explained this verse as
0:11:28 the first principle the usual and the
0:11:30 adam the principles and the etiquettes
0:11:33 of giving
0:11:34 this is our jesus position so
0:11:37 yeah yeah sorry to interject this verse
0:11:38 is chapter 16 verse one two five
0:11:42 yes
0:11:44 verse 125 yes this is the verse that we
0:11:48 we will concentrate and not just one two
0:11:50 five if anybody has got quran even look
0:11:52 at the verses after even the verse after
0:11:53 we will need later
0:12:07 foreign
0:12:28 that the people asked him regarding
0:12:30 overseer a will and wasa is usually
0:12:33 written or given
0:12:35 at the time of death in the last throws
0:12:36 of death so if the imam ibrahim said
0:12:40 wasayyah is written regarding wealth i
0:12:42 don't have any wealth however i have
0:12:44 these verses to offer
0:12:46 and this is the verse he gave
0:12:49 us
0:12:53 so in this verse allah subhanahu wa
0:12:55 ta'ala is addressing our prophet sallam
0:13:00 by saying
0:13:03 means to
0:13:04 invite uh
0:13:07 is imperative scale udo meaning invite
0:13:09 instruction
0:13:10 invite
0:13:14 invite towards the path of your lord
0:13:19 okay let's let's pause here for a while
0:13:22 the first thing is
0:13:24 allah is mentioned
0:13:29 so
0:13:30 part of allah
0:13:32 so the purpose of invitation the maksid
0:13:35 the ultima
0:13:37 nipples ultra objective
0:13:39 of dawah is allah
0:13:42 not me
0:13:43 allah subhana wa we are inviting towards
0:13:45 allah
0:13:46 this is number one this is where we
0:13:49 should uh the point that you mentioned
0:13:52 is
0:13:52 uh renew our intentions
0:13:55 why are we
0:13:56 inviting uh why are we seeking knowledge
0:14:00 and uh what what are we what what do we
0:14:04 plan to do with this knowledge this is
0:14:06 why uh inshallah later on we'll discuss
0:14:08 imam
0:14:10 in the
0:14:11 chapter of knowledge he talks about the
0:14:13 concept of manava debate
0:14:15 so the prophet said allah said and i
0:14:17 want to mention this hadith at this
0:14:18 point so i can rectify my intention too
0:14:20 because i don't think i started with my
0:14:21 sincerity but inshallah we'll do this
0:14:23 now prophet
0:14:24 said hadith
0:14:28 whoever seeks knowledge
0:14:30 why
0:14:31 liujaria
0:14:33 contend with the scholars
0:14:36 to challenge the scholars
0:14:40 number two to argue with the foolish
0:14:42 ones
0:14:47 or to attract the attention of people
0:14:49 towards him so people can call me sheikh
0:14:51 people can call me you know this and
0:14:53 people can follow me and people can like
0:14:55 my comments and like my videos this is
0:14:58 not in the hadith but i'm just
0:14:59 contemporizing the prophet sallallahu
0:15:01 alaihi
0:15:03 allah will permit him the fire of
0:15:05 jahannam
0:15:09 we are inviting towards you
0:15:11 towards allah
0:15:13 the whole objective of dawat is towards
0:15:15 allah nobody else this is number one
0:15:18 no following yes this is the nature of
0:15:20 social media following likes where
0:15:22 intention should be only allah if
0:15:23 there's any other intention but
0:15:53 to look after imam bayaba gives the
0:15:54 definition
0:15:59 to make something reach its destination
0:16:02 slowly slowly stage by stage with
0:16:05 perfection and completion
0:16:07 so this is indication that for dawah you
0:16:09 need to be
0:16:11 imam kurt has mentioned this this is
0:16:12 indication for dawah you need terbia
0:16:16 the prophet said allah islam was
0:16:18 directly
0:16:19 he directly received nurturing and allah
0:16:22 subhanahu wa
0:16:23 we also need tarabia we need the
0:16:26 prophetic way as a terrible we need the
0:16:27 third of our mashai we need the therapy
0:16:29 of our scholars we need the therapy of
0:16:31 our elders we need the terbia so on
0:16:33 so this is this is
0:16:43 and we should stay within the three
0:16:45 methods
0:16:46 this is the default position or you
0:16:48 could say this is the the first
0:16:50 principle of myth of methodology
0:16:52 number one
0:16:54 wisdom
0:16:57 number two
0:17:00 good counselling good advice
0:17:02 and number
0:17:10 and debate with them in the best of
0:17:13 manners
0:17:14 so these are three methods so let's
0:17:16 slightly uh shall we unpack this
0:17:18 slightly yes yeah absolutely
0:17:20 okay so let's start with obviously the
0:17:22 first one hikmah
0:17:24 hikmah wisdom now in in in hikmah there
0:17:27 are several
0:17:29 seed but just to give two main ones one
0:17:32 is the quran and sunnah so we use the
0:17:35 message of the quran we use message of
0:17:37 the hadith etc this is one
0:17:39 interpretation
0:17:40 a second interpretation which is
0:17:42 beautiful also
0:17:44 from allama alusi in
0:17:46 mani
0:17:48 uh
0:17:49 he has mentioned that hikmah here
0:17:52 is referring to saying the right thing
0:17:54 at the right time
0:17:57 wisdom saying the right thing at the
0:17:58 right time
0:18:00 you know a person is going through
0:18:02 emotional experience he doesn't believe
0:18:03 in allah he's going through emotion and
0:18:05 you know that this person is going
0:18:07 through emotional experience the hikmah
0:18:09 wisdom at the time would be and allah
0:18:11 knows best is to ask them regarding
0:18:13 their uh personal circumstance why
0:18:15 they're upset do they need any help this
0:18:17 will be hikmah
0:18:19 so this is the one
0:18:20 number two
0:18:23 good counselling
0:18:24 good good words now more
0:18:37 that we don't just give them the quran
0:18:39 and sunnah we don't force the quran onto
0:18:41 them
0:18:42 the method has to be good more either
0:18:45 the method has to be good
0:18:47 you know gentle
0:18:49 uh
0:18:51 with the intention that we want we want
0:18:53 credit for them we want goodness for
0:18:55 them and this is the big thing was that
0:18:56 that's missing first in myself so i
0:18:58 confess to this crime
0:19:00 is that when we invite
0:19:02 people towards allah
0:19:04 is almost naughty bella we want them to
0:19:07 be
0:19:08 misguided we so and i'm talking about
0:19:10 reputation especially we want them to
0:19:12 work we want them almost sometimes not
0:19:14 everybody some people we want them to
0:19:16 utter the words of kuffar we want them
0:19:17 to utter the words of
0:19:19 the
0:19:20 and and this is wrong we we
0:19:23 advise them good counseling with the
0:19:25 intention that we want guidance for them
0:19:27 with the figure and worry that we want
0:19:29 guidance and this is
0:19:31 a distinguished quality again again of
0:19:33 the prophet said allah when the prophet
0:19:35 said allah exceeded
0:19:41 indeed you have been created upon
0:19:42 exalted character when it came to
0:19:44 knowledge allah says
0:19:46 increase my knowledge
0:19:47 so when it came to these other acts
0:19:49 allah the prophet islam increased and
0:19:51 increased but when he came to worry he
0:19:54 had winning and consent the prophet
0:19:57 salallahu islam he had so much worry for
0:19:59 the ummah
0:20:00 and for the guidance that
0:20:03 the quran was revealed
0:20:08 perhaps there's a chance that you might
0:20:11 die because of grief
0:20:12 why because these people are not
0:20:14 bringing
0:20:14 iman
0:20:16 so having that worry and concern that
0:20:18 how can my interlocutor accept iman how
0:20:21 can they be guided and then waking up at
0:20:24 the hajj and making dua for them the o
0:20:26 allah i have given da'wah to this person
0:20:29 guidance is in your control please guide
0:20:30 this person
0:20:32 so maureen hassan this is this all comes
0:20:34 in more even this is why
0:20:37 under this verse of surah 125 he gives
0:20:40 the verse of surah
0:20:43 where
0:20:44 allah subhanahu wa instructed musa
0:20:59 nobody in history has made the i am your
0:21:02 god not normal standard god i am your
0:21:04 greatest god rob
0:21:07 anybody who is making this claim
0:21:10 and the prophet
0:21:12 is instructing
0:21:14 musa to speak to firaoun in a soft
0:21:17 manner in a gentle manner with kind
0:21:20 words why
0:21:24 because he might take heed or he might
0:21:28 fear now uh
0:21:30 the ulama mentioned a beautiful point in
0:21:32 here they said allah subhanahu wa knew
0:21:35 in his pre-eternal knowledge
0:21:38 that
0:21:39 will not accept iman
0:21:41 despite this allah instructed
0:21:46 why
0:21:47 to teach the lesson that humans they
0:21:49 only listen or they usually say when you
0:21:51 speak softly to them you speak nicely to
0:21:53 them
0:21:54 yes this is why you saw
0:22:10 sometimes a person may accept your
0:22:12 argument but you will not become
0:22:14 inclined towards what you're saying
0:22:16 he might become a child but he will not
0:22:18 become mine
0:22:20 accept what you're saying deep mind just
0:22:22 accept but he will not become inclined
0:22:23 towards you
0:22:27 second method first method hikmah wisdom
0:22:29 second good counselling not just
0:22:30 counselling good counseling
0:22:33 and in dimension imam nikathir he quotes
0:22:35 the verse of musa
0:22:38 the third method
0:22:41 just just to add sorry i think
0:22:45 he basically says about this particular
0:22:47 verse
0:22:47 that you're talking about
0:22:49 he and i'm obviously paraphrasing that
0:22:52 in in his tafsir he basically argues
0:22:55 that if
0:22:56 musa alaihi salam had to speak speak
0:22:58 softly to feron
0:23:01 who was like one of the worst creatures
0:23:03 who booked this planet
0:23:04 then imagine how we must
0:23:06 at least initially and that's my
0:23:08 addition how we must speak to other
0:23:10 people
0:23:11 so
0:23:12 he makes this argument that musa alaihi
0:23:15 salam had to speak to firaoun
0:23:18 with soft speech imagine anyone else and
0:23:20 what's very interesting i think one
0:23:23 scholar said
0:23:24 you know when he was i think he was
0:23:26 speaking to duat or some people that of
0:23:28 similar kind of capacity
0:23:30 he basically said
0:23:32 you are not a moosa and the person that
0:23:34 you're speaking to is not a fair one
0:23:38 and this is very interesting because
0:23:39 sometimes some of our brothers they
0:23:41 quote
0:23:42 the kind of reaction of the prophets
0:23:46 in a way as if they have the same
0:23:49 you know
0:23:50 life experiences
0:23:53 uh
0:23:54 you know long-standing efforts in the
0:23:56 tower just like some of the prophets and
0:23:59 they equate
0:24:00 the prophetic context
0:24:02 with their context and usually it's not
0:24:04 always the same right
0:24:06 um and and and and and
0:24:09 similarly they also uh sometimes you
0:24:12 know have a reductionist approach to
0:24:13 these ayats and even some hadith and
0:24:15 they say look see they did it i can do
0:24:17 it but i think there is a there's a
0:24:19 massive misunderstanding of the moral
0:24:22 variables the social variables the
0:24:24 context uh of uh of the time and there's
0:24:28 a basically inability to apply that in
0:24:30 our contemporary context but that's for
0:24:32 uh we could discuss that in a few
0:24:33 moments but yeah continue check so the
0:24:35 third one is
0:24:39 debate with them in the best of manner
0:24:41 so now look
0:24:43 imam
0:24:44 allah he mentioned something
0:24:46 grammatically amazing here
0:24:48 so allah has mentioned three methods
0:24:50 wisdom
0:24:52 good counseling and debate but debate is
0:24:54 restricted
0:24:55 with
0:24:57 accent that has to be the best of method
0:24:59 so what do you mean by master method
0:25:01 again your tone is correct your
0:25:02 intention is correct
0:25:04 and and you present such evidences that
0:25:07 your interlocutor can easily understand
0:25:09 them
0:25:11 so you don't go into deduct in like a in
0:25:13 a type of syllogism that even you don't
0:25:15 understand yourself
0:25:16 rather you you present the argument in
0:25:19 simple terms so you interlocutor
0:25:20 understand
0:25:22 and uh
0:25:23 your your intention is also that the
0:25:26 your interlocutor is guided by your
0:25:28 debate these are all things imam
0:25:30 ghazali's mentioned eight conditions in
0:25:32 this
0:25:33 in eight conditions
0:25:35 when debating with your with your
0:25:37 interlocutor now the point i want to
0:25:39 mention here in terms of grammar
0:25:42 is subhanallah if you look at this verse
0:25:44 surah 1 2 5 1 2 5
0:25:46 allah says call towards the path of your
0:25:49 lord
0:25:50 wisdom
0:25:53 and good counseling now both of these
0:25:56 words are asma the nouns
0:26:00 is a noun is islam in arabic language
0:26:04 are also nouns
0:26:06 and as you avail in nouns they have a
0:26:09 steady state
0:26:11 uh it continues like so for example if i
0:26:13 say zaydun jamilun
0:26:16 zaid is handsome or beautiful so the
0:26:19 predicate jamal
0:26:21 the
0:26:22 beauty it remains yes
0:26:25 so
0:26:25 likewise
0:26:28 and more
0:26:29 wisdom and good advice
0:26:31 are the continuous stage of dawah
0:26:34 meaning
0:26:35 the default position are these two
0:26:38 always wisdom and good counselling
0:26:41 now whenever there is a need
0:26:43 whenever there is a
0:26:45 need
0:26:48 why because allah used a verb
0:26:58 which is a verb and verb is a process is
0:27:00 is something that's occurring you know
0:27:02 action
0:27:04 drinking is a current uh punching is a
0:27:08 fail
0:27:08 sitting these are limited
0:27:11 momentarily occur and that's it so this
0:27:14 also indicates that monadwara
0:27:18 is only sometimes sparingly with
0:27:22 conditions
0:27:23 but the default and the predominant
0:27:25 positions are the first two wisdom and
0:27:28 good counseling wisdom and good
0:27:30 counseling
0:27:31 um
0:27:32 this is why imam
0:27:35 he gives a beautiful analogy of the of
0:27:37 this verse he says
0:27:38 the first two are like water
0:27:42 everybody needs them
0:27:44 good words wisdom we are all in need
0:27:46 like water everybody's in need of water
0:27:49 in order to live
0:27:51 monada is like medicine
0:27:55 only the ill
0:27:57 medicine
0:27:58 if you start prescribing medicine to
0:28:00 everyone in your dawah everybody those
0:28:02 who are not ill they'll become ill
0:28:06 medicine only that person can prescribe
0:28:08 a medicine who knows medicine mean a
0:28:09 doctor
0:28:11 likewise a person who engages in monarch
0:28:14 debate they need to know
0:28:17 otherwise there will be more harm
0:28:19 than uh benefit
0:28:22 so these are the three methods of of of
0:28:24 of of tawa and if we analyze the quran
0:28:28 we will
0:29:11 you do the opposite way fatigue
0:29:14 you bring it from the maghrib
0:29:17 he became silenced
0:29:19 so giving strong arguments
0:29:21 this is not against a mujad allah a
0:29:24 person can give a strong argument he can
0:29:26 give a rigorous vigorous argument a
0:29:28 cogent
0:29:29 evidence
0:29:30 with the method
0:29:32 and if you look at
0:29:35 this
0:29:37 is beautiful allah
0:30:19 they put
0:30:20 their fingers in the ears
0:30:23 they covered their faces just imagine
0:30:24 you're trying to talk to someone
0:30:26 day and night you give them dawah and
0:30:27 what they do
0:30:30 he didn't give up he's making dua to
0:30:32 allah allah i'm doing this
0:30:34 say
0:30:40 and they mentioned to allah this is this
0:30:43 these are the hardships i face in my
0:30:44 daughter today like know what islam did
0:30:47 from
0:30:48 jihadi
0:30:52 loudly quietly so they could hear but
0:30:54 they ignored what happened near the end
0:30:57 what did the quran say to know ali salat
0:30:59 wasallam
0:31:01 allahu akbar where is this first that
0:31:02 court the vessel we know uh uh you know
0:31:04 if we studied surah al-araf verses from
0:31:07 59 to 67 we define the stories of two
0:31:09 prophets
0:31:15 yes so don't interject but let's let's
0:31:18 uh we're going to go into this in a few
0:31:20 moments just for my own learning as well
0:31:22 so
0:31:23 from the from the from the first
0:31:25 principle approach of giving dawah
0:31:27 yeah chapter 16 verse 1 to 5 is very
0:31:30 critical allah subhanahu wa this is
0:31:32 called to the way of
0:31:34 allah is central to this you also made
0:31:36 an indication that allah says called to
0:31:39 the way of your rabb which
0:31:41 which relates to the word
0:31:42 therefore there's an indication that we
0:31:44 need tarabi as well when we're giving
0:31:46 dawah then you said and this is all in
0:31:49 summary of course then you said the
0:31:51 three main approaches to the dawah with
0:31:53 hikmah
0:31:54 with good counsel and with munavara or
0:31:58 debating and discussing
0:32:00 and with hikma means quran and the
0:32:03 sunnah and
0:32:05 hikmah basically means saying the right
0:32:07 thing
0:32:08 in the right way or in the at the right
0:32:09 time
0:32:11 and then you spoke about good counsel
0:32:13 which again can also mean quran and
0:32:15 sunnah but specifically you know as you
0:32:18 know uh
0:32:19 arukurubi talks about this and obviously
0:32:21 other muslim uh concerning musa
0:32:24 alaihissalam
0:32:26 speaking to firaoun lagina soft speech
0:32:29 kindly you know with a sense of kindness
0:32:31 and softness and compassion
0:32:33 and then you said that the other method
0:32:36 is you know munadara debate discussion
0:32:38 but that has to be in the context of you
0:32:41 know um the best possible manner as
0:32:43 jamar shari i believe the famous
0:32:44 grammarian he talks about this verse and
0:32:46 he basically says that you you it's
0:32:49 without any gruffness or any harshness
0:32:51 yeah debate with them in the ways that
0:32:52 our best are the best possible ways
0:32:56 and you said there is a distinction that
0:32:58 the main two methods of giving dawa is
0:33:01 actually hikma
0:33:02 and
0:33:03 it's actually good council but
0:33:06 from a linguistic point of view there is
0:33:07 a strong indication to show that uh
0:33:11 debating and monado and these type of
0:33:13 discussions they should be used in a
0:33:15 particular context and you talked about
0:33:18 talked about certain conditions so it's
0:33:20 not the default position for the dawah
0:33:22 and it has to be done as long as there's
0:33:24 obviously sincerity and it has to be
0:33:26 done in the right way and it has to be
0:33:28 done oversea with certain conditions
0:33:30 it's not basically the first thing that
0:33:32 you do all the time when you're giving
0:33:34 down so
0:33:36 that's the summary so bismillah let's
0:33:37 now go to uh the the chunk of verses
0:33:40 that you're about to analyze inshallah
0:33:42 bismillah yeah
0:33:44 so surah al-araf
0:33:46 verses from 59 to 67 allah subhanahu wa
0:33:49 speaks the guardian two prophets
0:34:12 you know the lead is amongst his people
0:34:14 they said to him
0:34:15 indeed
0:34:17 we see you that you are obviously in
0:34:19 error in misguidance
0:34:22 just imagine let's just contemporarize
0:34:24 this i give dawah forget 950 years for
0:34:26 nine hours
0:34:29 and then my interlocutor i'm talking
0:34:30 about myself here okay nobody myself
0:34:33 he turns around and he says to me
0:34:35 you ability you innovate
0:34:40 i probably say you're the innovator
0:34:42 you're that's the innovator and your
0:34:43 granddad's the innovator
0:34:46 and this is sometimes
0:35:01 i am not misguided
0:35:05 however i'm a prophet from
0:35:07 the all of the universes
0:35:12 look how he answered
0:35:13 he just said what you're accusing me of
0:35:15 i'm not this i am this
0:35:18 i'm not this i am this allahu akbar
0:35:21 and the mention
0:35:23 that in dawa
0:35:25 in dawa you need to have
0:35:28 a common link
0:35:31 you need to have a link in order to
0:35:33 invite them because you are inviting
0:35:34 them towards allah you are calling them
0:35:37 towards allah you are connecting them
0:35:39 with allah therefore you need a rabbit
0:35:42 you need a link and if you look at the
0:35:44 link that mbi used they use this link of
0:35:47 brotherhood of my people
0:35:50 you know yaakov is mentioned throughout
0:35:52 the quran every prophet here come
0:35:55 actually
0:36:00 my people my brothers
0:36:02 my human fellow members yeah so this
0:36:04 compassionate is there even though the
0:36:07 people there insulted them
0:36:25 uh with eminent ones uh
0:36:27 from his people they said uh the
0:36:29 disbelievers they said inaudible indeed
0:36:32 we see you in clear foolishness
0:36:37 and indeed we see you amongst the
0:36:39 can they be you are lying what did you
0:36:41 say again
0:36:48 oh my people i don't have any safah i do
0:36:50 not have any foolishness
0:36:52 so what they accused him of he said i'm
0:36:55 not this rather i am this and he
0:36:57 continues
0:36:59 and if you look
0:37:00 um
0:37:02 at the message of the umbrella
0:37:05 throughout
0:37:06 the quran you will see that this is the
0:37:09 retaliation they would always retaliate
0:37:11 like this now there might be um
0:37:14 an objection on this
0:37:16 and i've heard this and i think you
0:37:18 mentioned this to me regarding
0:37:19 islam when he was making the akh
0:37:23 he was making the ark
0:37:26 so
0:37:27 uh
0:37:48 my head
0:37:51 sorry i'm i'm one of those ramzan hafiz
0:37:53 i only know my quran
0:37:55 outside of magana
0:37:57 i forget you know he's learning
0:37:59 and that's it
0:38:01 so it's here
0:38:03 i just want to mention this verse here
0:38:05 but it's important so this is
0:38:10 verse
0:38:12 verse 38 and 39
0:38:14 surah
0:38:15 which is 11
0:38:17 verse 38 39 so whereas
0:38:20 he was making the ark
0:38:22 he was instructed by allah to make this
0:38:27 every time the eminent ones or the
0:38:29 the leaders of his people they passed by
0:38:32 sahih mean they mocked him
0:38:34 so he said
0:38:37 if you mock us
0:38:40 then indeed we will mock you
0:38:43 the way you are
0:38:44 mocking so sometimes people use this
0:38:47 look this is salaam he mocked his people
0:38:49 now with the valley this is
0:38:52 out of context number one
0:38:55 here it doesn't mention what words nu
0:38:58 alayhi salatu used in mocking
0:39:02 yes because the verse of surah al-araf
0:39:04 clearly mentions that he didn't he
0:39:05 didn't use the same words as they used
0:39:07 they called him misky he didn't use the
0:39:08 same word
0:39:10 the other thing a lot of the mufasa
0:39:11 including the earlier
0:39:27 there's no
0:39:28 retribution there is no uh
0:39:31 punishment because there are no laws
0:39:35 and the
0:39:36 for this interpretation is the next
0:39:37 verse
0:39:45 in the future upon whom uh the
0:39:48 punishment will come which will
0:39:49 humiliate humiliate them meaning after
0:39:51 they destroy the entire you will know so
0:39:55 down here number one it doesn't so it
0:39:56 didn't it doesn't tell you that
0:39:59 wasn't used you know a bad language no
0:40:02 uh the other thing is this is why imam
0:40:05 he mentions this imam rajasthan
0:40:07 mocking
0:40:08 mocking is is a sin
0:40:11 and this is established from the quran
0:40:16 allah says people should not mock one
0:40:18 another and mocking is a sin and our
0:40:21 akita is
0:40:23 are infallible they cannot commit sins
0:40:25 so what does this verse mean so one
0:40:27 interpretation is that this is allah
0:40:30 yani
0:40:32 when a word is used
0:40:34 as as a retor not not that it means the
0:40:37 same thing so for example this happens a
0:40:38 lot in the arabic language
0:40:44 we will forget them like that forgotten
0:40:46 this day
0:40:48 allah does not forget
0:40:50 allah
0:41:04 allah
0:41:29 [Music]
0:41:33 to life he is free from forgetting so
0:41:36 this verse
0:41:38 is allah
0:41:39 as the same word has been used just as
0:41:42 you know when you talk back as an answer
0:41:45 but it's meant something else meaning
0:41:47 we will we will mock you meaning uh that
0:41:50 we will witness the the the the
0:41:53 punishment of your mocking in the
0:41:55 akhirah
0:41:56 so these are interpretations i have
0:41:58 given uh
0:42:01 the other thing that's very important to
0:42:02 acknowledge this was look at the context
0:42:04 even if they would take the
0:42:06 interpretation that
0:42:08 is mocking back say they would take that
0:42:10 interpretation you can't apply in your
0:42:13 kind of
0:42:14 meager dawah estate with all due respect
0:42:16 you haven't been giving down for 950
0:42:18 years yeah yeah that's that's something
0:42:20 very important to understand and your
0:42:23 kind of ethical moral social context is
0:42:27 almost incomparable to the ethical moral
0:42:30 context of
0:42:32 so you know for you to like compare two
0:42:34 situations like with like and for you to
0:42:36 derive a kind of ethical ruling that now
0:42:38 you could do the same with all due
0:42:40 respect is uh is
0:42:43 is unfounded just based on context even
0:42:46 if say for example uh that analysis
0:42:49 of uh some people that nuh islam he
0:42:53 mocked therefore we can mock um that
0:42:55 would be a very crude analysis just
0:42:57 based on the fact that there are
0:42:59 definitely two different contexts you
0:43:00 haven't applied the context effectively
0:43:03 yeah yeah
0:43:04 so
0:43:05 just um
0:43:06 just just
0:43:07 just to add on this point so so
0:43:09 regarding that verse in surah hood the
0:43:11 mocking ambiya they're free from mocking
0:43:14 right that this is a sin so down here
0:43:16 there's several interpretations like
0:43:17 i've i've just given given by the
0:43:19 mufasirun
0:43:20 if we take this
0:43:22 if we take this interpretation that the
0:43:40 yes
0:43:41 that the
0:43:42 retribution
0:43:44 of an evil is evil into its equivalent
0:43:48 so there is this permission now i need
0:43:50 to elaborate slightly on this
0:43:51 there is this permission that if
0:43:53 somebody uses harshness
0:43:56 you can in return use harshness
0:44:00 if somebody uses certain words
0:44:02 derogatory words
0:44:04 in retribution and in revenge you can
0:44:06 use uh similar words but the condition
0:44:09 is myth loha it has to be equivalent in
0:44:12 measure now this is the difficult thing
0:44:14 this is why
0:44:15 the ulama say that taking retribution
0:44:18 and taking revenge is more difficult and
0:44:21 forgiving them is more easier
0:44:23 so why
0:44:24 because if somebody gives you a slap you
0:44:26 are allowed to give a slap back but if
0:44:28 you got a heavy hand and your slab hurts
0:44:30 them more than they hurt you you're
0:44:32 because you become a volume now you
0:44:33 become the transgressor
0:44:35 this is why in the verse surah nahal one
0:44:38 to five we go back to that verse of
0:44:39 surah nahal one two five the brothers
0:44:41 and sisters watching if they open the
0:44:43 quran
0:44:44 and they look at that verse where allah
0:44:47 talks about the three methods of dawah
0:44:50 what's the next verse that he says and
0:44:52 remember this is verse when it was
0:44:53 revealed subhanallah when
0:44:55 the uncle of the prophet sallallahu
0:44:57 alaihi
0:44:58 saying
0:45:01 regarding the prophet salallahu
0:45:06 he was brutally murdered the story is
0:45:08 famous so the prophet salallahu was you
0:45:10 know he was disquieted and upset by this
0:45:13 and he made intention to take revenge
0:45:15 the quran says
0:45:18 this is the next verse one two six of
0:45:19 surah immediately after the three
0:45:21 methods
0:45:26 that if you're going to take revenge
0:45:28 then you have to take revenge in equal
0:45:30 measure exactly the same no more
0:45:32 however
0:45:36 if you exercise patient then this is
0:45:37 better
0:45:38 this is better
0:45:40 so even when retribution is allowed with
0:45:42 equal measure even their forgiving a
0:45:45 tolerance is encouraged
0:45:47 this is why in surah
0:45:51 verse 40
0:45:53 says
0:45:56 that the retribution of evil is evil to
0:45:59 his equivalent measure what does allah
0:46:00 say immediately after
0:46:02 famine
0:46:03 however whoever forgives
0:46:06 and does islam rectifies the situation
0:46:10 indeed his reward is upon allah
0:46:13 so even when we are allowed to take
0:46:15 revenge what the the encouragement that
0:46:17 the river of the quran is that no you
0:46:18 should forgive even in that incident
0:46:21 even in that incident you should forgive
0:46:22 and the prophet
0:46:23 was not forgive
0:46:24 and then allah says
0:46:27 indeed allah does not live the
0:46:29 transgressors why is he saying allah
0:46:30 does not look the transgressive why are
0:46:31 you saying this at the end of the verse
0:46:33 while he's saying you could take revenge
0:46:34 because normally in revenge you
0:46:37 what happens or somebody swears at you
0:46:38 once you give him ten swears in return
0:46:42 subhanallah you know we talk about
0:46:43 prophet salallahu islam how we forgive
0:46:45 and how he is and what do we do somebody
0:46:47 says one thing we say 10 things back and
0:46:50 all our life we keep on repeating that
0:46:52 thing to them
0:46:54 so yes there is this you know uh context
0:46:56 where you can do retribution maybe even
0:46:58 in the context let's take the argument
0:46:59 okay let's take that that the
0:47:02 islam
0:47:03 literally that he didn't mock
0:47:05 but the monkey would have been equal
0:47:06 measure because he's the prophet of
0:47:07 allah he could not commit anything
0:47:09 in equal measure
0:47:11 and another thing is there is no
0:47:13 evidence there to suggest
0:47:16 what words he used the quran decided in
0:47:18 this regard rather than
0:47:20 mention that down he is referring to
0:47:22 in
0:47:24 we will mock you or he said this as as
0:47:27 as a
0:47:29 and these are
0:47:30 several interpretations regarding this
0:47:31 verse and i think what's interesting to
0:47:34 you to know as well is that
0:47:37 was patient for 950 years
0:47:40 and
0:47:41 and we know and we know that kind of
0:47:43 characteristic of the prophet sallallahu
0:47:45 alaihi wasallam
0:47:47 as
0:47:48 expounded in surah 34
0:47:52 because that is i think the professor's
0:47:55 life is the manifestation of surah
0:47:57 verse 34 especially in a kind of dire
0:47:59 context where the prophet saws
0:48:01 and allah says and
0:48:03 you're going to discuss this shortly
0:48:05 that good and evil are not the same
0:48:07 repel by that which is better
0:48:09 and between two people there is hatred
0:48:11 it would turn to intimate friendship but
0:48:12 then allah continues continues and says
0:48:14 this is very difficult except for the
0:48:18 for the patient
0:48:19 so
0:48:20 you know patience is very important in
0:48:21 the dawah and it's extremely important
0:48:24 for us to have a form of helm
0:48:26 now
0:48:28 movie is there more you want to say
0:48:29 about these verses or shall we continue
0:48:31 to the next part
0:48:42 that we have made them their leaders the
0:48:44 imma of guidance
0:49:00 it could be argued that it is a a sin a
0:49:02 quanon it is actually a prerequisite for
0:49:05 a diary to be a soviet meaning
0:49:08 to to to uh
0:49:10 uh to access sabha because through his
0:49:12 sabbath allah will
0:49:14 guide people
0:49:28 some of the salaf and the sahaba that
0:49:30 when they would depart they would
0:49:32 mention this surah as a reminder allah
0:49:34 takes oath by time indeed entire
0:49:35 mighties and greaters except for those
0:49:37 people who do
0:49:38 four things
0:49:41 they bring iman they do good deeds
0:49:42 number three what the world saw
0:49:46 inviting one another in joining good
0:49:50 and what's after was mentioned after
0:49:51 that what the world saw
0:49:52 someone is mentioned after that
0:49:54 and
0:49:55 mentioned the reason somebody is
0:49:56 mentioned after that because you need
0:49:58 sabha
0:49:59 [Music]
0:50:01 and what's beauty see i think through
0:50:02 this conversation already chef it shows
0:50:04 the beauty
0:50:05 of
0:50:06 looking at the whole quran together
0:50:09 you know
0:50:11 chapter 16 verse one two five connects
0:50:13 with the person
0:50:15 then also the verses that you just
0:50:17 mentioned now connect with the verses
0:50:18 concerning um
0:50:21 in
0:50:22 the chapter by time and so on and so
0:50:24 forth you see everything comes together
0:50:26 when you look at the whole of the quran
0:50:28 and you trying to sincerely seek a
0:50:31 guidance from the book of allah
0:50:32 subhanallah
0:50:34 everything comes out right and then it
0:50:36 starts to basically guide your your your
0:50:38 world view guide the way you you
0:50:40 approach certain all topics and
0:50:43 specifically in the context of the
0:50:45 da'wah it really makes us focus on you
0:50:48 know you know we have to really use the
0:50:50 quran use the quran and the way of the
0:50:52 prophets as a reference point as a guide
0:50:55 for the way we interact with with other
0:50:57 people and to do in a sincere way in sha
0:50:59 allah
0:51:00 so
0:51:01 let's
0:51:01 talk about now surah 4
0:51:04 verses 33 and 34 inshallah these are my
0:51:07 favorite verses
0:51:09 concerning the tower i really believe
0:51:11 you know verse 33 is a holistic
0:51:13 holistic guidance concerning what the
0:51:15 tower is who is better in speech and the
0:51:17 one who calls to allah so you have the
0:51:19 direct call to talkeed to the fact that
0:51:21 allah is worthy of worship does
0:51:23 righteous deeds he's a righteous person
0:51:25 you're not only talking the talk but you
0:51:26 walk the walk and then says i am one of
0:51:29 those who submit to allah so you connect
0:51:31 your actions in a way to the fact that
0:51:33 you are someone who submits to the lord
0:51:35 of everything that exists and then
0:51:37 straight after this ayah is good and
0:51:39 evil or not the same repel by that which
0:51:41 is better and between two people there
0:51:43 is hatred we turn to intimate friendship
0:51:45 and this is very difficult except for
0:51:46 those who are patient and what's very
0:51:48 interesting the arabic word repel is not
0:51:51 followed by a direct object here it's as
0:51:53 if you repel anything by that which is
0:51:55 better and the lemma basically summarize
0:51:58 for us and say that repelling by that
0:52:00 which is better is repenting with what
0:52:01 is more virtuous and what is more
0:52:02 beautiful
0:52:04 and obviously you know the the life of
0:52:06 the person is is very much like this for
0:52:08 example the famous story where the
0:52:10 jewish man came to the prophet
0:52:12 sallallahu alaihi who pulled him by the
0:52:13 neck and you know there was almost going
0:52:16 to be a confrontation but the way the
0:52:17 person responded was that of
0:52:20 helm that of forbearance allah is
0:52:23 and we should be you know a human
0:52:26 manifestation of what helen is you know
0:52:28 from a human context and the process
0:52:31 responded in such an amazing way that
0:52:33 this jewish man became a muslim because
0:52:35 he was looking for the final sign of
0:52:37 prophethood because he said there were
0:52:39 three signs of prophethood he was
0:52:40 looking for he saw two of them but one
0:52:43 of them that he wanted to find out and
0:52:44 he tested the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:52:46 wasallam was that of forbearance
0:52:49 and that of
0:52:50 repelling with with what is better and
0:52:52 what is more virtuous but when you do
0:52:55 discuss this ayat i want you to also try
0:52:57 and answer this question
0:52:59 when is it okay
0:53:01 or at what in what context can we repel
0:53:06 in a way that doesn't look very
0:53:08 beautiful but could be seen as
0:53:10 assertive
0:53:12 and being assertive in that context is
0:53:15 actually the most virtuous thing to do
0:53:17 it is actually the better thing to do so
0:53:19 when allah says repel by that which is
0:53:21 better
0:53:22 when is it that there is a context where
0:53:24 you can repel by that which is better
0:53:27 but that which is better is actually
0:53:29 quite harsh and assertive so you know
0:53:32 after discussing these two verses maybe
0:53:34 us aren't trying to answer that question
0:53:36 inshallah
0:53:38 inshallah i don't think there's much to
0:53:39 discuss because alhamdulillah you've
0:53:42 summarized two verses martial very
0:53:44 succinctly
0:53:45 the only point i would like to add on
0:53:47 this
0:53:50 to what you've already
0:53:52 mentioned
0:53:53 is that
0:53:54 the evil
0:53:57 the good and evil are not the same
0:54:00 so this the concept of good and evil is
0:54:02 mentioned immediately after the verse of
0:54:05 tower woman
0:54:08 who is better than that person in speech
0:54:10 who invite towards allah who i mean
0:54:12 and then they do good deeds work and
0:54:14 they say
0:54:15 muslims this is humility that i'm no i'm
0:54:18 not i'm not nobody's special i'm also a
0:54:20 believer from the rest of the believers
0:54:23 that there are many like me
0:54:25 so that's why uh dawah
0:54:27 inviting towards allah subhanahu wa that
0:54:29 requires he requires humility and we
0:54:30 understand that from this
0:54:33 muslim indeed i am amongst believers i'm
0:54:36 not you know i'm not special i'm also
0:54:38 like the rest of the believers in this
0:54:40 in this job
0:54:41 so that's one
0:54:43 immediately after this verse allah says
0:54:45 hasanah good and evil they're not the
0:54:47 same now
0:54:49 what does it mean by good and evil here
0:54:51 so imam razi mentions that in the
0:54:53 beginning of the surah allah mentions
0:55:12 in regards to what you are inviting
0:55:14 towards meaning we can't we're not going
0:55:16 to listen to what you're saying and in
0:55:17 our ears there are props in our ears we
0:55:19 can't hear you and bringing in our being
0:55:21 hijab and between us there's a veil you
0:55:23 know we don't want to listen to you and
0:55:25 then in in
0:55:27 in the next uh
0:55:29 next uh
0:55:31 or two later in verse
0:55:33 26 of the same surah
0:55:35 allah allah then mentions the statement
0:55:38 of the quran when they said let us
0:55:40 quran do not listen to this quran
0:55:43 make noise rather when he recited make
0:55:44 noise so you don't listen to the quran
0:55:46 so prophet saw allah was telling he was
0:55:48 facing this hardship when giving dawah
0:55:51 he was facing facing hardship and giving
0:55:53 dawah they were not listening they were
0:55:54 making noise you know they were being
0:55:56 disrespectful etc
0:55:58 so is in this context allah said that
0:56:01 good and evil are not the same meaning
0:56:03 your dawah which is good
0:56:06 is which is good
0:56:08 and the evil meaning them insulting
0:56:10 disrespect them making noise at the time
0:56:13 of recitation of the quran is not the
0:56:14 same
0:56:17 so
0:56:18 what you what we understand from this
0:56:20 that that a person even
0:56:22 at the time of giving doubt if our
0:56:24 interlocutor is being rude
0:56:26 uh the the position that is being
0:56:29 encouraged in the quran is and this is
0:56:30 very difficult that's why allah says
0:56:34 that only those who are patient they are
0:56:36 able to do this because it's very
0:56:37 difficult that your interlocutor is
0:56:39 insulting you
0:56:40 and they are
0:56:42 patronizing you and in the face of this
0:56:43 you carry on giving
0:56:45 uh giving dawah but this is the method
0:56:47 of the ambiya and just another verse
0:56:49 come to my mind quickly
0:57:19 nurtured and were brought up in my house
0:57:21 you're the same person
0:57:23 and
0:57:25 you stayed amongst us for many years and
0:57:27 then you did that action the action that
0:57:29 you did
0:57:30 um when when he accidentally killed that
0:57:33 person uh
0:57:36 so what what did
0:57:43 i did this yes i made that mistake by
0:57:45 that time i was unaware because he did
0:57:47 accidentally he didn't deliberately want
0:57:49 to kill
0:57:51 that person but okay musa islam carried
0:57:54 on with this darwin he's carried on so
0:57:57 far said
0:58:01 he give it towards allah who is this
0:58:04 you are talking about he said
0:58:13 if you're going to have conviction in
0:58:15 your team
0:58:16 so now look now he's escalated feron is
0:58:18 escalating now first step we just said
0:58:20 oh you're that person now it's okay
0:58:22 now look look at his reply call him
0:58:25 he said to the people around him are you
0:58:26 listening look what he's saying
0:58:30 is allah because he called himself
0:59:13 the position that we understand from the
0:59:14 quran is that
0:59:16 even at the time with our interlocutor
0:59:18 the people who are not interpreted i
0:59:19 don't say interlocutive but the people
0:59:20 who are we are invited towards allah
0:59:22 subhanahu wa if they become rude they
0:59:24 become harsh they say things the mbi is
0:59:26 very clear from the prophet sallam and
0:59:28 musa alayhi sallam story that they
0:59:30 carried on positively giving dawah and
0:59:32 ignored
0:59:33 those those remarks now going back to
0:59:35 your question
0:59:36 that
0:59:37 uh when uh when is it uh okay
0:59:42 or when or or when is it
0:59:44 the best accent to actually be uh
0:59:47 assertive yes be assertive and that is
0:59:50 the best method at the time now look i
0:59:52 just want to make it very clear from the
0:59:53 onset being assertive
0:59:56 is fine
0:59:57 musa islam he said look and and this
1:00:00 didn't like this because
1:00:02 himself
1:00:04 islam said
1:00:06 he's not only europe he's of your
1:00:08 forefathers you know
1:00:10 with assertion he said this so being
1:00:12 assertive in your dawah and giving the
1:00:14 message of allah in allah without any
1:00:16 hesitation this is fine all the time
1:00:18 now the problem i think is
1:00:20 is using certain language
1:00:23 is using certain language which
1:00:25 patronizes or which belittles or
1:00:27 humiliates the person you're giving down
1:00:29 i think this is something that we need
1:00:30 to avoid
1:00:31 being assertive
1:00:33 uh in your tower
1:00:36 and being assertive are not mutually
1:00:37 exclusive you can easily be a die with a
1:00:40 surgeon with conviction without being
1:00:43 rude without being
1:00:44 patronizing
1:00:49 [Music]
1:00:50 say this is my path which path according
1:00:52 to what allah allah abbas
1:00:54 with conviction with assertion yes this
1:00:57 is my path allah exists etc
1:01:00 the thing that we need to be careful is
1:01:02 if if i'm going to mock
1:01:05 my interlocutor and this is the thing
1:01:06 where we need to discuss with the
1:01:08 when
1:01:14 they don't have social media
1:01:17 today we have social media
1:01:19 today we have social media if my
1:01:21 interlocutor
1:01:23 i'm not going to mention name because
1:01:24 today
1:01:25 i'm trying to change my life but if my
1:01:27 interlocutor is rude
1:01:29 and you know he probably deserves
1:01:31 harsh uh approach
1:01:34 that might be fine being harsh and
1:01:35 assertive with him to an extent might be
1:01:37 fine but what we have to be careful and
1:01:39 this is where the hikmah comes in
1:01:41 and this is where the ability action
1:01:43 comes in
1:01:44 if i have assumption a predominant
1:01:46 assumption or if i anticipate that if i
1:01:48 use these words if i patronize or
1:01:50 belittle this interlocutor he has a
1:01:52 million following
1:01:54 and there is a chance that many of his
1:01:56 followers they might be
1:01:58 neutral about islam
1:02:00 or the mind of islamophobes for example
1:02:03 but if i use this
1:02:08 this insult there is a great chance that
1:02:10 the followers
1:02:13 is not only our interlocutor we've got
1:02:15 millions of people watching
1:02:16 our his followers might show sympathy
1:02:19 towards him
1:02:21 they might show sympathy towards him and
1:02:23 they might even
1:02:24 become even more
1:02:26 grounded in their beliefs
1:02:29 so what you what you're saying when we
1:02:31 because we have a social media context
1:02:32 now we have many audiences all in one so
1:02:35 when we like even this live stream for
1:02:37 example it can have many audiences
1:02:39 muslims non-muslims those on the fence
1:02:41 those in the fence whatever the case may
1:02:43 be right
1:02:44 we have to appreciate that now we have
1:02:47 to adopt what you call the kind of
1:02:50 maslaha and masada right
1:02:52 what are the
1:02:54 positive outcomes and the harms what
1:02:56 harms am i reducing
1:02:58 what
1:02:59 kind of
1:03:01 benefits am i increasing and so on and
1:03:03 so forth and it's obviously far more
1:03:05 important to reduce any harms
1:03:07 so even if we think we are justified
1:03:10 from a kind of textual perspective to
1:03:12 react in a certain way and to say
1:03:14 certain things
1:03:16 it is more befitting as i mentioned the
1:03:19 question in the beginning of today's
1:03:21 live stream to ask the question what is
1:03:22 does allah want from me in my context
1:03:25 if it's more pleasing to allah
1:03:28 to remove the masada to to remove the
1:03:31 the harms and to increase the muslim
1:03:34 benefits
1:03:35 and by doing so in my particular context
1:03:38 i just hold my mouth a little bit more
1:03:41 and maybe be a little bit more softer if
1:03:43 that increases the muscle
1:03:45 and reduces the mafsada then that is
1:03:47 more pleasing to allah
1:03:50 but it could be that in a certain
1:03:52 situation if i'm too soft then it could
1:03:55 increase the mafsa increase the harms
1:03:58 and decrease the benefits the muslim
1:04:01 however
1:04:02 we're not here to analyze everyone's
1:04:04 situation we want people to be
1:04:05 principled and not reactionary and if
1:04:08 you're principled you would ask yourself
1:04:09 that question do not do a post-hoc
1:04:12 analysis of your actions
1:04:14 as as
1:04:15 when we engage in our intellectually
1:04:17 academically and whatever the case may
1:04:19 be we shouldn't justify our positions
1:04:21 after we've done something we should
1:04:23 have a lot of thought and a lot of a lot
1:04:26 of excellence and and
1:04:28 sincerity before we do an action to
1:04:32 actually think about number one is it
1:04:34 blameworthy is it more in line with
1:04:36 allah's pleasure am i increasing the
1:04:38 muslim
1:04:40 am i increasing the benefits removing
1:04:42 the harms and then when we come to
1:04:44 certain answer
1:04:46 then we do it for the sake of allah and
1:04:48 that's why we want people to be more
1:04:50 principled so it's very important you
1:04:51 brought this up because in today's
1:04:53 social media context
1:04:55 even if something could be technically
1:04:57 okay to do
1:04:58 is it is it more pleasing to allah
1:05:01 and this is exactly we have to be more
1:05:03 nuanced this is this is dower i mean
1:05:05 when it comes to business and getting a
1:05:07 job and and you know
1:05:09 going up in rank concerning your
1:05:11 profession we have a lot of excellence
1:05:13 when it comes to these things but this
1:05:15 is the greatest job you could ever do in
1:05:16 your life which is the douwa we
1:05:18 shouldn't just do it willy nilly
1:05:20 we should basically ask the question
1:05:22 what does allah want from me in this
1:05:24 particular context and it could be that
1:05:25 something could be okay to do but it's
1:05:27 not necessarily in line with allah's
1:05:29 pleasure in that context so that's why
1:05:31 we have to stop right what is going to
1:05:34 increase the muslims increase their
1:05:36 benefits and decrease the mass
1:05:38 and increa decrease rather the the harms
1:05:41 and it could be
1:05:43 that you don't adopt that that strategy
1:05:46 you adopt a different strategy
1:05:48 and i'll be so happy if all of the
1:05:50 online and offline always had this in
1:05:52 their mind alhamdulillah lots of
1:05:54 brothers doing great job you know i
1:05:57 believe all of these brothers are better
1:05:58 than me uh i'm more sinful than these
1:06:01 brothers
1:06:02 but it would be such a beautiful thing
1:06:04 to see that if everyone collectively in
1:06:06 the dao ecosystem if you want to call it
1:06:08 that as suburu calls it
1:06:10 that everyone basically adopts that
1:06:12 mindset what does allah want from me in
1:06:14 my particular context
1:06:16 what is going to be more closer to
1:06:17 allah's pleasure in my particular
1:06:19 context and that's why
1:06:21 in that context it may not just be i'm
1:06:24 allowed to do this it might be something
1:06:26 even higher what is increasing the
1:06:28 benefits the muslim
1:06:29 what what is decreasing namaste
1:06:32 that is the thing that i should be
1:06:34 following and it could be something
1:06:35 totally different from the current
1:06:36 strategy that we've adopted which could
1:06:38 be a reactionary stance or something
1:06:40 that's based on enough's and may allah
1:06:42 protect us from this
1:06:43 so um
1:06:46 it's very important brothers uh and
1:06:48 sisters for us to adopt this mindset so
1:06:50 may allah make you i mean every one of
1:06:53 us so continue please continue
1:06:56 so i just want to mention at this point
1:06:57 subhanallah and this is you know when i
1:06:59 read this first time i thought his imam
1:07:01 was only talking about our time
1:07:03 so i have this
1:07:07 this was written approximately in 488
1:07:09 hijri
1:07:10 it was written just before he had that
1:07:12 crisis know the two crises he talks
1:07:14 about inside his mutual men of
1:07:15 deliverance from error he has a
1:07:17 spiritual christ and then he has
1:07:18 intellectual christ uh the spirit of
1:07:21 christ he talks about the fame and name
1:07:22 and the entourage you know i mean 300
1:07:25 students per session and
1:07:27 and the intellectual crisis is uh
1:07:29 you know with the bill some people say
1:07:31 that he had crisis in iman he didn't
1:07:32 have crisis in iman
1:07:34 he had crisis in how to answer
1:07:36 skepticism and and and okay i want to go
1:07:38 into that so
1:07:40 he wrote this book um just before that
1:07:44 and according to he says this is the
1:07:47 uh
1:07:48 for a student who wants to pursue kalam
1:07:50 this is the final book they should study
1:07:52 uh here and i've got this book here
1:07:54 darum in hajj print on page 110
1:07:58 this section he starts off by
1:08:00 categorizing the general public into
1:08:01 four groups
1:08:05 so this is true with polemics
1:08:07 you know philosophical discourse et
1:08:09 cetera
1:08:10 so the fourth group i'm not going to go
1:08:13 to all three just the fourth one
1:08:15 the fourth which is the majority of the
1:08:17 uh
1:08:18 the misguided people as you call them
1:08:22 so like let's contemporarize this
1:08:24 you know the followers
1:08:26 followers of a lot of these islamophobes
1:08:29 for example of followers a lot of these
1:08:31 deviated people yeah thousands of them
1:08:34 there are many amongst them that the
1:08:36 intellectual they're honest and they
1:08:38 want to know the truth
1:08:40 look what imam gazali says regarding
1:08:41 these people
1:08:47 that these people
1:08:48 i think a lot of the people on social
1:08:50 media come on this category he says it
1:08:52 is necessary to be gentle with them
1:08:55 in inclining them towards the truth
1:09:00 and guiding them towards the true akida
1:09:04 not in the method of
1:09:07 you know argumentation and fanaticism
1:09:11 gently why because if you're going to be
1:09:13 very harsh in your approach
1:09:17 this will
1:09:18 increase the means of misguidance and
1:09:21 they said
1:09:24 and this will instigate the causes of
1:09:26 extremism and
1:09:28 stubbornness
1:09:30 and look at this now
1:09:32 this is why i say you know imam the
1:09:34 things that he wrote 900 years ago
1:09:36 applicable today then he says
1:10:12 the most of the ignorances
1:10:14 most of the deviated beliefs
1:10:17 they consolidate and they solidify in
1:10:19 the hearts of the general people you
1:10:21 know the general followers are we
1:10:22 talking about why
1:10:24 because of the extreme approach
1:10:27 from the ignorant amongst the people of
1:10:29 the haqq and in one place he calls them
1:10:31 jahil sadiq islam an ignorant friend of
1:10:34 islam
1:10:35 he's a muslim but he's ignorant
1:10:39 what is this
1:10:41 he exposes the truth in the method of
1:10:44 challenging an arrogance
1:10:46 and he looks down
1:10:48 weaknesses of his interlocutor
1:10:51 with the eye of patronization
1:10:54 and condescending
1:10:56 he looks like he's interlocutor like
1:10:58 he's nothing
1:10:59 nothing he's nothing he's not in my
1:11:01 level
1:11:02 because of this
1:11:04 the viewers or the followers of the
1:11:06 award of this this interlocutor in this
1:11:09 hypothetical scenario they become even
1:11:11 more stubborn in their beliefs and they
1:11:12 show input sympathy towards him
1:11:14 and then he says
1:11:19 then what happens
1:11:20 the the causes of
1:11:23 obstinacy and opposition becomes even
1:11:26 more rooted
1:11:30 and the false
1:11:32 they become even more stronger now
1:11:33 because they're showing empathy
1:11:34 this guy how interlocutor you know he's
1:11:36 being so calm and nice he must be right
1:11:38 and unfortunately people think like this
1:11:40 they think emotionally understand i
1:11:42 think i heard uh you mentioned i i've
1:11:44 learned so much from you that's why i
1:11:45 call you mustache
1:11:46 but you mentioned one place
1:11:48 that we're not we're not just
1:11:50 intellectual beings we're not just
1:11:52 people of akin you know we're not just
1:11:54 uh
1:11:55 reduced to occur we have emotions we
1:11:57 have about it and then imam razali says
1:11:59 because of this scenario
1:12:01 what happens because of this
1:12:04 what happens
1:12:11 to eradicate this
1:12:13 i don't know what to do
1:12:15 this is so
1:12:16 this is very deep
1:12:18 this is very
1:12:19 the insights of allah was just
1:12:22 phenomenal but here's the question
1:12:24 though
1:12:26 because many of our dua to many people
1:12:28 who engage in the town know these things
1:12:30 right
1:12:31 but here's a deeper question
1:12:33 in today's contemporary context where
1:12:35 you have two audiences now you have the
1:12:38 muslim audiences and within the muslim
1:12:39 audience is a range of muslims muslims
1:12:42 that need a sense of confidence
1:12:44 and then you have the non-muslim
1:12:46 audience and there's a range of
1:12:47 non-muslims those who hate against islam
1:12:49 those who don't know those who are
1:12:50 ignorant and so on and so forth
1:12:53 that what you do when you have those two
1:12:55 ordinances in mind because it could be
1:12:57 the case that you're debating someone
1:12:58 who's a well-known islamophobe he's a
1:13:00 hater
1:13:02 he's been like you know hating islam for
1:13:04 over a decade he's being
1:13:07 cursing the prophet
1:13:11 cursing allah now if you show a softness
1:13:15 with such a person
1:13:17 it could you know it could actually send
1:13:19 the wrong message to the muslims the
1:13:21 wrong message to the community thinking
1:13:23 that you know we're you know we're
1:13:25 always going to be walked all over
1:13:28 and
1:13:29 so if you have that audience in mind but
1:13:32 you have also the non-muslims in mind
1:13:34 then what do you actually do how do you
1:13:35 balance between positive assertion
1:13:38 confidence and
1:13:39 and and what i would call ethical
1:13:41 harshness when necessary and
1:13:44 speaking in a way that is conducive to
1:13:46 bringing people to the dean of allah
1:13:50 how do you balance that
1:13:53 the balance is very easy to start first
1:13:54 we stick to our default position
1:13:57 wisdom within that methodology the first
1:13:59 verse we which we mentioned verse 125
1:14:02 we we stick to the framework
1:14:05 and we'll be assertive you know being
1:14:07 assertive and being strong in your
1:14:09 arguments and intellectual rigorous this
1:14:11 is totally fine
1:14:13 what we need to avoid
1:14:15 is a direct mockery of our interlocutor
1:14:18 where we put him down so much
1:14:20 that i know i guess you're correct um
1:14:24 the thing is for example a person he's
1:14:26 mocked the prophet sallallahu alaihi
1:14:27 sallam you know it makes my it makes my
1:14:29 blood boil you know
1:14:31 the reality it makes my blood boil but
1:14:33 the thing is that the question that we
1:14:34 need to ask us
1:14:36 is
1:14:37 if we mock that person
1:14:39 in the same
1:14:40 manner the prophet said allah is
1:14:44 and his respect is not going to go down
1:14:47 allah has given him the status that
1:14:48 nobody else can imagine right that's not
1:14:50 going to happen
1:14:51 but what is the fear the fear
1:14:55 not is
1:14:55 him but even his followers might
1:14:57 increase in their obstinacy like
1:15:00 they might increase look i don't want to
1:15:02 mention certain incidents but there was
1:15:03 recently you know this ripping of the
1:15:05 quran
1:15:07 you know the
1:15:09 start reaping the quran it became like a
1:15:11 trend
1:15:12 you know on social media
1:15:14 now
1:15:16 i'm not i i allah i can't remember how
1:15:18 he started but we need to ask our these
1:15:20 questions that if we're going through a
1:15:22 certain thing and that becomes a mean of
1:15:24 these guys increasing
1:15:26 in this behavior in this humiliating
1:15:28 behavior in this derogative behavior
1:15:31 isn't it best for me to
1:15:33 stay silent or give a positive response
1:15:35 and this is in the quran
1:15:44 speaking to them now it's just going to
1:15:45 cause more harm
1:15:47 so i think i think you know pleasing the
1:15:49 muslims i think i just answer your
1:15:50 question how to reconcile this is that
1:15:52 you've got muslim and you're not muslims
1:15:53 our main down here is the non-muslims
1:15:56 why
1:16:00 uh his uh his elder brother mufti rafi
1:16:03 is the principle of
1:16:05 karachi pakistan he actually mentioned
1:16:06 something in mr bradford when i was
1:16:08 there
1:16:09 and he said
1:16:11 he said that
1:16:14 that the the the one thing if there is
1:16:16 one thing hypothetically if there is one
1:16:18 thing that is stopping non-muslims from
1:16:19 entering islam
1:16:21 is the character of muslims
1:16:24 look so alhamdulillah you know i don't
1:16:26 who you know stuff for the century but
1:16:28 must be all muslim brothers and sisters
1:16:29 in islam but my character myself look in
1:16:31 just in england or we're like two or
1:16:32 three percent and look how many of us we
1:16:33 are in jail
1:16:36 13 or 14 or so so the thing is
1:16:39 yes muslims we need to be assertive
1:16:41 we're not we're not saying that you know
1:16:42 we're soft and we are you know being
1:16:43 really polypally with this person no we
1:16:45 we we're grounded in our principle we're
1:16:47 going to give him a robust answer and as
1:16:49 i said intellectual beating we can give
1:16:50 him an intellectual beating we're going
1:16:52 to humiliate him intellectually like
1:16:54 people clearly see that look his
1:16:56 argument you know he said he has no i
1:16:58 and people see this a lot of the people
1:16:59 see this you know people are not dumb
1:17:01 they're not idiots people actually see
1:17:02 that this person has no argument this
1:17:04 person has a strong argument so yes
1:17:06 intellectual intellectually assertive
1:17:07 rigorous but without
1:17:09 going to his level
1:17:11 because once we go to their level once
1:17:13 we stoop that to their level
1:17:15 the thing is even even though there is
1:17:17 permission i mean with the verse we
1:17:19 quoted surah surah but it's very
1:17:20 difficult because then the retribution
1:17:22 has to be number one equally
1:17:24 it has to be also as
1:17:26 yeah as we should be seeing anything
1:17:27 that is close we should be doing
1:17:29 anything that is closer to the pleasure
1:17:30 of allah
1:17:32 um and also what you've just mentioned
1:17:34 here is again it's the reinforcement of
1:17:36 the idea of the muslim
1:17:39 what if you say this
1:17:41 are more people going to rip the quran
1:17:43 are more people going to curse the
1:17:45 prophet sallallahu alaihi
1:17:47 you need to start thinking about these
1:17:49 things look at the are you increasing
1:17:51 the muslim
1:17:52 are you
1:17:54 decreasing
1:17:55 the mafsa are you increasing the
1:17:57 benefits decreasing the harms again this
1:17:59 is something very important to assess so
1:18:02 you know
1:18:04 this the whole point of this session is
1:18:05 not to analyze every situation
1:18:08 and give an answer but to give us a set
1:18:10 of principles which hopefully we've
1:18:12 unpacked in order for you to be more
1:18:14 effective in your downward fundamentally
1:18:15 for us to please allah because that's
1:18:18 where the barakah is going to be it's
1:18:21 going to be
1:18:22 in the pleasure of allah so
1:18:24 chef we've been going on for about one
1:18:26 hour and 20 minutes um what is the next
1:18:29 may probably
1:18:31 pre-final or final thing you want to say
1:18:32 about this whole topic inshallah
1:18:38 i think the final thing i would say this
1:18:40 is
1:18:41 you know actually can i ask you a
1:18:42 question let me ask you a question
1:18:44 so
1:18:45 you know we've been talking about the
1:18:46 way of the prophets we've been talking
1:18:48 about hikmah we've been talking about
1:18:51 things like rahma
1:18:52 good speech we've been talking about
1:18:55 good counsel when we talk about monado
1:18:57 discussion increasing the muslim
1:18:59 decreasing the mafsa
1:19:01 we've been talking about all of the
1:19:02 prophetic way helm forbearance repenting
1:19:05 by that which is better and so on and so
1:19:07 forth
1:19:09 you know
1:19:10 reflecting on your dollar journey
1:19:13 and you know
1:19:15 i hear you're quite a famous
1:19:18 uh
1:19:19 online all those years ago
1:19:22 obviously everyone is on their journey
1:19:25 i'm on my journey everyone's on a
1:19:27 journey i i totally
1:19:29 think it's
1:19:30 despicable to reduce people to the
1:19:33 errors this is not the way of the salaf
1:19:35 this is not the way of the prophet
1:19:36 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
1:19:38 we see people on balance
1:19:40 um and
1:19:42 so on and so forth and
1:19:44 my principle is that i would join with
1:19:46 anyone
1:19:48 whoever they are wherever they're from
1:19:49 if they want to talk about something
1:19:51 good
1:19:52 if they want to spread spread the i
1:19:54 believe it's a scholarly and quranic
1:19:56 principle to join with such people
1:19:59 and obviously i have a lot of love for
1:20:01 you as well and i've learned a lot and
1:20:02 today was a great session bringing you
1:20:05 know different parts of the quran
1:20:06 together putting principles together
1:20:09 you know encouraging people to have a
1:20:10 class to have xan to think about the
1:20:13 muslim the masada not to be reactionary
1:20:16 not to reduce not to post hoc
1:20:19 you know uh justify our position after
1:20:22 we've done something because it's
1:20:23 reactionary maybe based on enough based
1:20:25 on emotions but rather to be very you
1:20:28 know uh
1:20:30 excellent and
1:20:31 and sincerity when we're thinking about
1:20:32 uh what we utter with our tongue and
1:20:35 tongues and what we do with our actions
1:20:36 in the context of the tower to think
1:20:38 about what is more closer to the
1:20:40 pleasure of allah what does allah want
1:20:41 from me in this particular context how
1:20:44 do i increase the muslim how do i
1:20:46 decrease the masthada you know if we
1:20:48 have this approach
1:20:49 now in your own life
1:20:51 what would you maybe you would want to
1:20:53 you what would you say what would you
1:20:55 what lessons have have you learned or
1:20:57 what some of the things because i hear
1:20:59 they have been contentious
1:21:02 you know there's been a lot of monado
1:21:05 going on
1:21:05 [Laughter]
1:21:08 the reality is
1:21:10 the reality is
1:21:12 i have many mistakes that i'm still
1:21:14 working on
1:21:15 and uh i think as you get older and
1:21:19 as you get wiser inshallah and as you
1:21:22 know you you keep a connection with your
1:21:24 teachers and people
1:21:26 who are senior you realize that what you
1:21:28 what you did 10 years ago or 5 or 10
1:21:30 years ago it wasn't the correct way it
1:21:32 was the wrong way
1:21:33 and uh
1:21:34 and this is something i would like to
1:21:36 share you know
1:21:37 sometimes i was almost deluded subhan
1:21:40 allah for more i was almost deluded in
1:21:44 thinking
1:21:46 in thinking that this speech that i'm
1:21:48 giving or this deliverance that i'm
1:21:50 giving i'm actually helping the deen
1:21:54 but i wasn't helping the deen i was
1:21:55 actually venting my ego
1:21:57 i was venting my own ego and i was
1:22:00 acting upon my own uh spiritual
1:22:02 illnesses
1:22:04 and
1:22:05 subhanallah and i think this is a big
1:22:07 challenge uh when especially comes to
1:22:09 polemical discourse one of the biggest
1:22:10 challenges
1:22:12 is to to address the issue as the issue
1:22:15 without uh getting uh uh you know
1:22:19 staying away from arrogance and staying
1:22:21 away from jealousy and anger and love
1:22:25 for fame and imam
1:22:28 he actually mentions
1:22:29 uh inside is uh you know this is
1:22:33 first volume one
1:22:35 in the chapter of elvis actually got a
1:22:36 section
1:22:46 so this entire
1:22:48 section is about the deception
1:22:50 in giving resemblance to our debates
1:22:53 uh with the consultation of the sahaba
1:22:56 and the debates of the self
1:22:59 you know some and this is honestly i see
1:23:00 this i used to think i'm doing this why
1:23:02 because
1:23:03 i'm defending the deen and the sahaba
1:23:06 defended the deen and the ulama defended
1:23:08 the deen
1:23:10 he mentioned that this is a deception
1:23:12 because then he mentions eight
1:23:13 conditions that if a person wants to
1:23:15 actually engage in munavala he has to
1:23:19 consider these eight conditions and if
1:23:20 you look at those eight conditions
1:23:21 that's how the debates were of the salaf
1:23:23 they were according to these eight
1:23:24 conditions
1:23:26 and um
1:23:28 this is the story of uh just came to
1:23:30 mind now imam hanif allah
1:23:32 imam
1:23:33 before he uh engaged in fake injuries
1:23:36 prudence he was he was a theologian and
1:23:38 he debated he said he says himself i
1:23:40 entered basra
1:23:42 to debate the qadria approximately 17
1:23:44 times
1:23:45 he traveled to barcelona just busted
1:23:47 alone to debate the kadariya just
1:23:49 17 times kadriya who denied the
1:23:52 pre-ordained matters
1:23:55 so and this is we're talking about the
1:23:56 quran here
1:23:58 we're talking about the
1:23:59 we're talking about the first
1:24:00 generations so then he left debating and
1:24:03 then he started he he engaged in
1:24:05 jewish prudence
1:24:06 so once he saw his son hamad
1:24:10 and he was debating
1:24:12 so he went up to him and he said you
1:24:14 know who told you today who give you
1:24:15 permission to debate that father
1:24:18 all my life i've been seeing you
1:24:19 debating
1:24:20 he said stand up
1:24:22 he said when one of us would debate
1:24:25 you know
1:24:27 in time when one of us would debate we
1:24:29 would be so cautious
1:24:32 as though there was a bird standing on
1:24:34 his head
1:24:35 this is like a demonstration of being
1:24:37 scrupulous and careful even a bird
1:24:39 stands on your head
1:24:41 you don't want to move so much so the
1:24:43 bird doesn't fly you want the bird to
1:24:44 remain on your head so this is a way of
1:24:46 demonstrating how careful they were and
1:24:48 they said the reason we would be like
1:24:50 this
1:24:50 because we didn't want our interlocutor
1:24:53 we did not want our interlocutor to slip
1:24:56 because of what we say
1:24:58 in case i might say something it might
1:25:00 be an argument which might lead and
1:25:02 force my interlocutor to say something
1:25:04 which will be displeasing to allah
1:25:06 however imam ali says today i am seeing
1:25:09 people they are saying things as though
1:25:11 they want the interlocutor to slip
1:25:16 so imagine i'm still learning stars i'm
1:25:18 i wouldn't say i i was definitely
1:25:20 perfect a few years ago i'm definitely
1:25:21 not perfect now
1:25:23 and uh i think
1:25:24 it's because of age it's because of the
1:25:27 naturally social media when you come on
1:25:28 social media new as they say
1:25:32 these every new thing is tasty you know
1:25:35 you become all outgoing blazing you know
1:25:38 and then you realize wait a minute this
1:25:40 is all against the quran
1:25:42 it's all against the quran and inshallah
1:25:44 you know as long as we do tawba and we
1:25:46 rectify ourselves before we die
1:25:48 inshallah there's a chance
1:25:50 yeah
1:25:51 i'm a strong believer that eventually
1:25:53 over time someone's work would always
1:25:55 speak for themselves
1:25:57 um so you know just like for example
1:25:59 today you know is very very beneficial
1:26:01 in terms of talking about the principles
1:26:03 and by the way i want to mention to
1:26:05 everybody there's so much more to talk
1:26:07 about on this issue
1:26:08 but it will cover a few hours but
1:26:10 hopefully this was a very good
1:26:11 introduction in the analysis of the way
1:26:13 of the prophets concerning you know
1:26:16 islam and we've given you a bunch of
1:26:18 principles that you could apply in a way
1:26:19 that will make your dao far more
1:26:21 effective
1:26:22 so
1:26:23 yeah i mean let's end it there sheikh um
1:26:26 i'll leave you with the last words insha
1:26:28 allah then we'll end the broadcast and
1:26:30 then what we'll do
1:26:31 i think
1:26:33 you know maybe in the future we could
1:26:35 have uh a cup a series that really
1:26:38 breaks down the verses connects them to
1:26:41 all the other verses in the quran
1:26:43 connects it to various ahadith connects
1:26:45 it to contemporary scenarios i think
1:26:47 that'll be very beneficial for everybody
1:26:49 chef and if you're willing to provide
1:26:51 that service for us in the future that
1:26:52 would be absolutely wonderful like a
1:26:55 online series for everybody because i
1:26:56 really enjoyed it um and i and i felt it
1:26:59 and
1:27:00 it it affirmed a few things and it also
1:27:03 basically clarified a few things at the
1:27:04 same time
1:27:06 and it shows what kind of leadership we
1:27:07 really need in the dao i mean there's
1:27:10 great work going on but i think we need
1:27:12 all of we all need this type of reminder
1:27:14 because i truly believe
1:27:17 that you know you know baraka will
1:27:18 always come with holding on to the
1:27:20 principles you know i have this saying
1:27:22 that you know if you have
1:27:24 if you
1:27:25 if you
1:27:27 um give up your principles for power and
1:27:30 authority
1:27:31 then your power and authority will
1:27:32 become your weakness but if you give up
1:27:35 your power and authority for principles
1:27:37 then your principles will become your
1:27:38 power
1:27:40 and i believe that's the case
1:27:42 with
1:27:43 um you know even in an islamic context
1:27:47 that if you stick to your principles for
1:27:48 the sake of allah in the long term it's
1:27:51 always going to have benefits and barack
1:27:53 obama um so allah bless you i'll leave
1:27:55 the last few words with you then we'll
1:27:57 end the broadcast inshaallah
1:28:01 i think what you've said alhamdulillah i
1:28:02 think that's sufficient
1:28:04 uh
1:28:05 what i would end with is you know the
1:28:07 thing that i started off with is our
1:28:09 intention
1:28:10 uh why are we seeking knowledge why are
1:28:12 we giving dawah
1:28:14 and this is why imam bukhari
1:28:16 he started his book
1:28:19 indeed in uh actions will be will be
1:28:21 judged according to intentions
1:28:25 he mentions
1:28:26 that i have studied five hundred
1:28:27 thousand a hadith
1:28:29 and four of them
1:28:31 four of them i have found to be
1:28:33 sufficient for a person's guidance four
1:28:35 of them
1:28:36 and one of them is innamal alma the
1:28:37 first one in
1:28:39 uh
1:28:41 because ostentation riya
1:28:43 creeps in very easily
1:28:45 very easily
1:28:47 uh and this is what the prophet islam
1:28:49 feared
1:28:50 uh in regards to his ummah a shirk the
1:28:53 subtle is this ostentation
1:28:56 and some of the i mentioned the
1:28:58 ostentation of two types
1:29:00 subhanallah start listening to this when
1:29:02 i read this i was terrified
1:29:04 there's one ostentation
1:29:06 uh
1:29:07 which is quite obvious i'm praying salah
1:29:11 and my father walks
1:29:16 this is clear ostentation where
1:29:18 sometimes we demonstrate ourselves in
1:29:19 the public openly that we are showing up
1:29:21 but there's also a certain form of
1:29:23 ostentation
1:29:25 and that is this
1:29:27 a person he seeks knowledge
1:29:29 in solitary
1:29:32 in isolation he or she does worship the
1:29:35 wicker
1:29:36 in isolation they prepare whatever why
1:29:39 so in public people can respect them
1:29:43 for example i am sitting on my own
1:29:45 i'm doing my
1:29:47 ibadah why so when i go to the masjids
1:29:49 people can respect me they can call me
1:29:51 shaykh and respect me
1:29:53 this is another form of ostentation
1:29:56 uh which is certain
1:29:58 so the point is that any amal that we do
1:30:01 whether we do we do them privately or
1:30:03 publicly
1:30:04 privately or publicly especially dhawa
1:30:06 is only for the sake of allah and i want
1:30:08 to conclude on this there is this notion
1:30:10 now that is being promoted on social
1:30:11 media that the larger
1:30:14 the larger the following
1:30:16 larger the following
1:30:18 the more acceptance in your dawah
1:30:20 this is categorically wrong
1:30:23 this is clearly wrong from the quran
1:30:24 sunnah isn't hadith a muslim
1:30:26 in the hadith a muslim that many ambiya
1:30:30 prophets will be resurrected on the day
1:30:31 of judgment and they will not have a
1:30:32 single follower
1:30:35 single follower
1:30:37 allah can anybody say that
1:30:39 there was deficiency in the dharma of
1:30:40 these prophets never hasha allah we can
1:30:43 never imagine this yet they will have no
1:30:45 followers
1:30:47 950 years you only had a handful of
1:30:50 followers
1:30:51 so because this is not social media this
1:30:53 is something we need to talk about it's
1:30:54 about following and likes and
1:30:55 subhanallah
1:30:56 i met certain people who are better than
1:30:58 me
1:30:59 but i sense that they will not talk to
1:31:01 anybody unless they're following is a
1:31:03 similar amount it comes from power so if
1:31:05 i have
1:31:07 50 000 subscribers i'm going to talk to
1:31:09 someone who is my level if he has only 5
1:31:12 10 subscribers i'm not going to talk to
1:31:14 him
1:31:14 so we need to change his attitude that
1:31:17 we're doing this only for allah
1:31:18 subhanahu wa we are giving dhawa for
1:31:20 only for allah whether we are giving
1:31:21 dawah in solitary in private for only
1:31:23 one or two people or whether we are
1:31:25 giving dawah from the ten or ten million
1:31:27 people we are only giving dawah for the
1:31:29 sake of allah
1:31:31 and we cannot claim i could not claim
1:31:33 that i am sincere subhanallah i don't
1:31:34 think there's a single day that i've
1:31:35 been sincere but what we can do from now
1:31:37 inshallah from now onwards
1:31:39 every day we make dua to allah
1:31:40 especially this is my humble request to
1:31:42 the brothers that we pray to the god
1:31:43 especially we pray two rakat every day
1:31:46 and we make dua we make dua for the
1:31:49 preservation of our iman for hidayah for
1:31:51 the ummah and we make dwarf the world
1:31:53 the more we make dua for islam
1:31:56 the more allah wa
1:31:58 will make our dawah effective inshallah
1:32:00 okay so may allah first give me the
1:32:02 tawfiq and give us all the ability to
1:32:04 act upon what's being said ustad once
1:32:06 again described for this invitation
1:32:08 i actually benefited more than you that
1:32:10 you benefited from me
1:32:14 i i i don't think so tall but does that
1:32:15 play well i bless you would definitely
1:32:17 be in touch and
1:32:18 may allah grant your future academic
1:32:21 success with you with the future phd and
1:32:23 everything else that you do and
1:32:24 inshallah hopefully you'll be at service
1:32:26 to us again with regards to analyzing
1:32:28 the quran and the prophetic way because
1:32:30 it was very insightful may i bless you
1:32:32 and reward you and your family and grant
1:32:34 you and your family the best in this
1:32:36 life and the best in the life to come
1:32:38 brothers and sisters um hopefully you've
1:32:40 benefited from this
1:32:42 and uh we'll be in touch very soon
1:32:43 there's going to be another live seminar
1:32:46 hopefully next week uh we should be
1:32:48 resuming our seminars on the argument
1:32:51 from reason why you know basically why
1:32:53 atheism is irrational
1:32:55 i think the next one should be on
1:32:57 um the laws of logic which can be very
1:32:59 interesting argument to articulate
1:33:02 and uh yeah may bless every single one
1:33:04 of you
1:33:06 alike
1:33:08 foreign