Morality in Islam - Sh. Yassir Fazaga

these women do not ride horses being that they're not knight or heroes whenever sexual immorality spreads amongst people and they publicize it there are going to be diseases and ailments every single day 7,000 Africans die as a result of hiv/aids 10,000 movies a year that glorify pornography better than waiting for the illness to take place is that we try to avoid them nobody Asifa Sokka will be delivering a speech on morality in Islam which is an important issue among the Muslims and non-muslims especially among the Muslims it has been we all think otherwise but it should throw a lot of light into the subject I request for the acid for soccer to come and deliver a speech min ash-shaitani rajim bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim al hamdulillah oracular alameen wa sallahu wa sallam Mahalo Ashraf alam be a yacht where is marceline Shaffir and move nabina habib ur-rahman Alamein muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi also have a helper he being a partner in all praise is due to allah and may his peace and blessings be upon our beloved prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam I bear witness that no one is worthy of worship but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam was his final and last messenger my brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa rocket--oh the whole issue of morality is of extreme importance as the brother said now what makes morality important is the following morality is the set of rules and values and principles through which or by which we choose to govern ourselves determining what is right what is wrong what should be done what is not to be done what we can do and what are we supposed to abstain from and because of the consequences of morality and the consequences of immorality this subject becomes of extreme importance very quickly it is moral to think that human life is very valuable now the opposite of that is it is immoral to devalue humans so a modern person would have respect for human life an immoral person would not have respect for human life so now Allah you see the consequence of immorality and the blessings of morality an equally important question is where do we get morality from for example what you consider to be moral in India may not be considered moral somewhere else and in the West what is considered to be moral or immoral may be considered the very opposite for example in the East so now we are faced with this question where do we get our morality from who gets to decide whether an issue is moral or an issue is immoral Islam recognizes four sources for the whole concept of morality or maybe we can say three number one it is revelation by revelation we mean what God said either through the Quran or through the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam and generally speaking when you look into either the Quran or the Sunnah very rarely you see specifics rather what the Quran does is that Allah gives general commands such as inna llaha ya'muru bil hardly will f son that Allah commands of righteousness and justice but it really does not go into details as far as what that righteousness is or what justice is and then the following verse or the following statement of the verse says yn handle fashion equal mockery won't worry and Allah forbids all kind of immoral actions whether they be private or they be public and Allah also forbids injustice or aggression against other people so now we see in Islam it is not only a moral obligation it is also there is an additional meaning that is added to it and that is it makes it a religious obligation for example keeping a promise something that we have a problem with as Muslims keeping a promise people would say that it is good for your business rightly so it makes you an ethical person rightly so it makes you a moral person rightly so through it you show respect to other people rightly so how ever in Islam although these are all good and these are beautiful incentives there is an extra element added and that is it is not only right but it is also a religious obligation so now we see this it is revelation the second source that Islam recognizes as a form a source of morality is human reasoning remember Allah created intellect for us for a reason so we are supposed to put our intellect in the proper channels we cannot put our intellect in vacation and you know just hope that you know somebody else do the thinking for us we have got to you our intellect and part of the intellect is that it provides through common sense what is moral and what is immoral but now again we are faced with another problem or with another issue common sense you know it's very relative what is considered to be common sense and the East may not be common sense in the West and vice-versa Edmund Tamiya gave a beautiful example to resolve this problem and he said the following he said the relationship between revelation and reason revelation being wahi foreign and sunnah and reason intellect he said that is like the relationship between eyesight and light and then he gave the example if you put a person who is perfect I vision in a very dark room his perfect vision will not be of use to him or to her so what that person needs for him to benefit of his perfect vision is that there is an element of light that is required so he said similarly your intellect without that guidance of Revelation is like your eyesight in that very dark room it would not be of any benefit to you if it is not accompanied by godly guidance if we may use this term so when we speak of the Quran respecting reason that for our respecting intellect we are speaking of the integral that parallel to the teachings of muhammad sallallahu alehiwassallaam and the teachings of the poor and the book of allah subhanaw taala and it gets to be very interesting when you see how people may misuse or use their intellect we have a problem for example in the US with people driving drunk we call it DUI driving under the influence and this happen usually they happen to be young men somewhere in there are early 20s the legal age for drinking alcohol in the u.s. is 21 so what they did is this they said look we have a big problem with young men driving under the influence we need to teach them responsibility how to be responsible so that later on we can avoid having these problems now it is a good thought it is a problem and when we say this we're not necessarily acknowledging the drinking of alcohol but it is a problem and a problem that needs to be addressed so one of the suggestions that were given is this and listen to it carefully you'll find it fascinating they said we need to teach them responsibility at an earlier age and what they meant is that instead of the drinking age being 21 let us bring the drinking age to 18 now this is very interesting the idea is to teach responsibility by an irresponsible behavior so now we are saying that in their twenties they are not responsible therefore let us make it legal for them to drink alcohol around the age of eighteen it may sound good it makes sense but then it is not the kind of reasoning that is respected also very similar to that is that the Arabs earlier before the time of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi salam would not allow women to inherit and when the verses were revealed lanessa in oc1 he said that women have a share of what is left by their relatives some of the companions came to the prophet sallallaahu Oliver and they gave what we would call a logical argument and they said prophet of Allah these women do not ride horses meaning that they're not Knights or heroes they do not fight in the battlefield what entitles them to inherit you see the argument they don't fight they don't help in the protection of the tribe or the protection of the property or of the wealth so now they are wandering and they're saying what gives them the right to inherit and that was supposedly a logical argument so we said that Islam does respect intellect however it has to be intellect or reasoning that goes parallel to the teachings of Allah and the teachings of the prophet salaallah alayhi assalam along with this source also there is the common universal laws that are generally accepted by people they could be a source of defining whether certain issues are moral or immoral we're not looking for consensus of the masses here but generally speaking the Prophet sallallahu wasallam would say Mara al muslimin Hassanein for who hasn't he said that when the community of believers decide that a certain thing is good then it must be good but now the question is it is a community of believers when there is something that they have deemed to be good then the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is saying that it is good generally speaking because of where these people get their ideas and they fart wrong and many times the community does not have to be a community of believers there is that universal common sense or universal loss for example stealing is wrong whether you are Muslim and Hindu Christian a Jew an atheist people know this stealing is wrong murdering is wrong or what we would refer to as the Ten Commandments in the Quran we have 12 of them but the Ten Commandments are what we would call the universal laws that are also acknowledged by all people regardless of their Creed and regardless of the religion also one of the ways that the Prophet sallallahu wasallam spoke of morality or immorality is by talking about the consequences of a morality for example in the hadith it was narrated that the prophet sallallaahu Oliver Salem said one time young a shovel and saw he was addressing group of people he called them Allah saw and these are the people that gave him help in Medina so he said one time he said ya ma sha allah saw so everyone started paying attention and then he said hamsa whistling into the corner who are all they belong unto the Kahuna he said five trades five qualities or five events if they happen during your time and I seek refuge in Allah that they do not take place during your time that are going to be filed consequences of such kind of a behavior and listen to what the prophet sallallaahu atoms will have said he said if people are guilty of five things then there are going to be five consequences that are very appropriate to these five events that are taking place or this while calling and he said to follow he said Mammon are common zakat I am one him alone Iran Khodro - Emma Wallen el Baja in Lebanon pop he said that whenever people stop giving there's a car there obligatory charity that is the right of the poor Allah is going to stop sending them rain from the sky and had it not been for the animals Allah would have never sent a drop of water on these people but here what we see is that morality goes beyond defining what is right and what is wrong morality exceeds and goes beyond the individual to say what are the rights of other people and if you are fulfilling the rights of other people then you are a moral person and if you are neglecting the rights of other people then you are becoming immoral so he said whenever the rich in the community do not fulfill their rights with regard to the poor of the community then there is going be a consequence for such an immoral behavior the other statement that the prophet salallahu alaihe salam said Lamantia a confession to be a common pop were other obeah in lao abdullah will embody will as a metonym to convey as la fée and then he said whenever sexual immorality spreads amongst people and they publicize it there are going to be diseases and ailments that are going to exist in that community that has not existed in previous nations and we can see nowadays with all the spread of STDs sexually transmitted diseases how catastrophic that is the condition that the process of solemn said is this he said that sexual immorality has always existed even during the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam before him after him during the time it has always existed but here is the condition that he put he said whenever it is spreading and then it is made publicized it is public meaning that people behave morally as we see it as Muslims and no one says anything about it he said that the consequence of it at this immoral behavior is that they're going to be ailments and diseases did not exist before these people but they're going to go in them now and like I said nowadays I think the average is that every four seconds every four seconds someone is infected with either AIDS or HIV every four seconds in the world someone is infected with HIV this is crazy 7,000 Africans die every single day every single day 7,000 Africans die as a result of hiv/aids now we're not being judgemental against the people that have contracted it maybe it was through blood transfusion or what have you but the idea is it is known to be an STD a sexually transmitted disease and we can see how it is publicized nowadays for example where I come from in California there is a city San Gabriel Valley they call it it is the valley of pornography we're x-rated movies are made and the average is 10,000 movies a year are made 10,000 movies a year that glorify pornography remember like we said earlier there is nothing with sex per se in Islam however what Islam dislikes and what Islam of course is the way sex is commercialized the way sex is limited to be an animalistic act only and that is why the prophet salallahu alaihe salam said you earn a sadhaka by satisfying your own personal sexual passion so it's not sex that islam is against it is the immorality the wickedness that is associated with sex and many times it gets to be very sad it is not only when you have got the consent of the two adults or whoever it is that is engaged in it but when sex becomes a meal of plans action you all know about the UNICEF and what they have done in West Africa the workers that work for UNICEF the United Nation mission that is supposed to be helping the children of West Africa the workers would hold on to their food and they would say if you want food then what do you have to do you have got to give us some sexual favors and you also see how sex is used in wars where to demolish the spirit of the other party constantly women are raped it is literally used as a weapon to destroy the spirit and degrade and dehumanize and humiliate the other party you look more intuitive Hanh Allah and you see even more wicked consequences for example in agonda or maybe I said this briefly the other day but what happens is you have a young boy or a young girl that was living with their parents one of their parents becomes infected with hiv/aids then they can longer work so now these little children will have to leave the school and support their family another uncle or aunt dies and then they have the children of the other uncle or aunt coming in and moving with them they are so poor and now they are becoming even poorer or look at it the other way you have a teacher that contracts hiv/aids he can no longer come to school so a class of 50 students does not have a teacher anymore so now the teachers are not coming to school the students are not finding anyone to help them in their schooling so now schools are closing down because of such an action but please remember it is not the sex part that Islam abhors or Islam is against it is the way it has been practiced and you can see again we weigh it as being publicized speed in the form of pornography be see bid in the form of pictures speed whatever it is it has gotten so long and it has gotten so wicked it is unbelievable I was listening the other day and they caught or they arrested this big huge ring not of any kind of pornography but they were involved in children pornography and now people are asking is it that an institutional right of people whether they want to practice something like this or they do not simply because of this see in the West what happens is that there is so much that is given as the right to the individual at the expense of the society we as an individual II have got so much right but your rights are affecting the overall more caliber of this society now in Islam it does both it respects your right as an individual but not at the expense of the moral aspect of the overall society so drinking in your house is one thing but being drunk in public is something else what happens is and this is a very interesting point Islam wants enormities cover air enormities major big huge acts of wickedness to remain as such in the eyes of the public and that is why the Prophet peace be upon him said if you are guilty of something do not come and publicize it it is a form of hypocrisy by the way it is a form of hypocrisy no argument there however this form of hypocrisy is the lesser evil than the society losing its respect or the way it feels about enormities for example you have got nowadays it's been happening all over the US you know what happened with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now the argument is used at school you know when scientists sociologists they go around in high schools they're asking questions you know they wanna see the average age of a boy and a girl being sexually active and they ask what do you do and they all refer to Bill Clinton as you know doing what he has done and the argument that is used is if the president can do it then I can do it now what happens is let's say if the imam or the cher or the scholar is guilty of something people will say oh the scholar is guilty of this the Imam has done this the Sheikh has done this I must not be bad at all because if these people are doing it then I must not be the terrible person that I thought to be so what happens is for enormities to stay as enormities they must not be publicized and that is how society keeps itself on a check of morality because again if you say well this person has done so this person has done so what happens is that we become very decently sized we become very numb we become very cold towards it for example nowadays and it's funny because the way people do it is usually they use very fancy words to do that if it is known that people cheat on their wives it just happens so many times or he's cheating he's cheating he's cheating then gradually what happens that it becomes expected it's no longer a surprise to most people why is this because people became very a decent-sized buy it and that is why the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam tells us about our measurement a measurement or standard a reference point that we can use to see whether we are faithful or not he said whoever sees monka monka is immorality it could be in the form of injustice in the form of wickedness in the form of whatever is he said whoever sees immorality they should do something about it they should either eradicate it with their hands they should either speak against it and if they're not able to either eradicate nor are they able to speak against it because of their circumstances what do they do nothing no he said they should at least denounce it with their heart when was the last time you passed by a wine shop and you denounced it after almost all of us we have seen a wine shop now when was the last time you saw a wine shop and you just became so irritated by that because of what you know alcohol is doing to people but the idea is why do you think that is happening you pass by it every day you see it's a wine shop you see people standing in line by it then what happens you get used to it that is the nature of man if you what happens is that when you are constantly bombarded with it every day every day every day you tend to accept it or it no longer has the effects on you than it did before and you've seen that people usually know this see they don't give you an enormity all at once rather it is done very gradually you know you can see it was TV it does not start right away but rather they wean you into it like they wean a baby little by little gradually here and there so that you become at least if you are not fully accepting it at that point you become a complacent with it you know it no longer bothers you and that is why Islam says that it is not enough that you only be a modern person but you should also be an advocate of morality and you should stand in front of immorality be proactive and not be passive you cannot say it's wrong and then do not do anything about it so the prophet salallahu alaihe salam will speak about communities and how they are going to lose how communities are destroyed as a result of this kind of immorality like for example the prophet salallahu alaihe salam said that the destruction of the children of israel started was what said that I started with immorality you know the relationship between men and women and in Islam we believe that there should be a gap between men and women there should be a distance an emotional distance as well as a physical distance not that we are afraid of one another it is just the nature of men and women where women are attracted to men and men are attracted to women and Islam is a very pragmatic it is a very practical religion it does not wait for things to happen and then advocate you know does not work for the illness to take place and then prescribe the medicine better than waiting for the illness to take place is that we try to avoid it before it takes place and that is why it's our advocates what it does advocate but immorality is not only in the form of lust and the desire the prophet salallahu alaihe salam goes on speaking of the consequences of immorality and then he said in the same hadith in the same prophetic saying he said and then whenever people are not honest in their measurements when they're doing their plans action Allah is going to give the domination along is going to make their enemies prosperous fair food Obama Murphy ID him and their enemies are going to get a whole of what these people possess let me say this one more time say that whenever people are not honest in their transaction in any form it comes be in the form of money when you are selling when you are why because it is immoral you should be as honest as possible when you are selling or buying or there is any transaction that is taking place he said whenever people become guilty of this what happens is that and people know about it they all become complacent to this immorality is going on they don't do anything about it it is their enemies that are going to be prosperous at their expense he said yeah Hodel Barbara Murphy ideally they will take some of what these people possess they could have been enjoying it it could come in the form of oil it could come in the form of cheap labor it could come in the form of intellect where instead of you spending it on your own place your own country it is going somewhere else but here the prophet sallallaahu holly was allah is speaking of a different kind of morality that people usually don't pay attention to in when when we usually speak of immorality it has to do with our behavior towards the other sex but that's not where it ends it's Lomb takes it way beyond this point my brothers and sisters and then also the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam speaks of injustice and he said whenever people ruled by other than what Allah has revealed then he said that the people who are going to lead I will be amongst the most oppressive they're going to be amongst the tyrant and they're going to torture the people that they rule against simply the question now or the point is this you see immorality you have an obligation towards with my brothers and sister and Islam and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam stands for morality you know it is so beautiful the way the parcel of spoke and advocate for Islam and he said in the Roberto Leo tell me mama Caravan voila I was sent by allah subhanaw taala to complete the perfection of good character or the perfection or good manner or the perfection of morality he is summing his mission he said my mission is about spreading morality in all aspects and again we said the Prophet SAS Allah whenever he speaks he speaks in these general terms so that any act of goodness would be considered to be a religious and no matter how secular it may be no matter how personal it may be the idea is about morality so it's not enough that you only be moral that make sure that we are advocates of morality let me tell you about some of the immoralities that are out there in the unity what people are not aware and remember we're not talking about the obvious because they say that which can easily be seen by the eye as easily usually is easily missed it is not seen it is so close yet it is so far you know we mentioned some of it be it with the issue of divorcees be it with the issue of honour killing and again it really does not matter who is guilty it really does not matter whether these people are Muslims or non-muslims it does not matter when you see wrong in your community unless you do something about it it is going to creep into your own community you cannot say these are the problems of the non-muslims these are the problems of this party or this part of the nation that is not Islamic Lee acceptable because it does not concern you it does not mean that it should not be corrected rather whenever you see wrong you've got a moral and an ethical obligation with regard to that we said about the divorcees and how they are dehumanized about the widows again and how they are unwanted of AIDS patients and how they are outcasts by the community about rebates that do not necessarily sometimes receive the same amount of respect as other people do about prisoners that are being put who is wrongly unjustly for political gain and the community is not doing anything about it what about them who's speaking on their behalf today it is him or it is her but then what happens tomorrow when it is your third or her turn who's going to speak on your behalf and that is again why we say morality is not just you being moral or you being good you must be an advocate of that goodness you must embark that mission my brothers and sister you know maybe you have repeated this so many times but we said that as a Muslim with pride it means that you are holder of right part of the obligation that you have as a holder of right is that you see entered that you contribute positively to humanity and there is nothing better absolutely nothing better than help the area around you wherever you may be in making sure that you are a strong advocate of justice and you are a strong advocate of morality and the process elements a cappella my point or at least a year hasn't at a time through ha a Harlequin NASA the Halloween Hasson he said that a tackle AHA - upon the conscious of Allah wherever you may be does not matter your traveling you are at home what have you for morality is not what we do in public morality and ethics is what we do when no one else is looking AHA - McCune well at least say ya Ethel hasn't at a time problem and if you are ever guilty of doing something bad they make sure that you rectify for it by doing something that is good and this the professional upset will wipe it away so as a Muslim you are always engaged constantly in the concept of Islam rectifying be it a mistake that you yourself is guilty of or be it the mistakes of other people that are guilty of and that is the concept of US law and then finally he said were high up in NASA the whole open person and then he said that whenever you deal with people make sure that you have got the best of manners when you are engaged was this this was the advice of the prophet sallallaahu Hollywood Salaam this is the advice that I give to myself and this is the advice that I give to my brothers and sister which is acknowledge hey Allah Allah Allah Gisella higher brother no any Chris yes brother Salaam alaikum I'm Imran I put forward a question to you run very often mentions about moon car along with fish for example talks about salat they said Pasha when one car what's the difference between fish and one car this it's a beautiful questions you know Arabic is an extremely extremely rich language it is so rich Arabic so rich that we do not have synonyms in Arabic but can you believe this the language is so rich that there are no synonyms not two words mean the same thing that is a very very rich language let me say this one more time no - words in Arabic mean the same thing they may be talking about the same thing but they never mean the same thing every single word has an additional meaning that the other word does not have so generally speaking fashio and mukha they talk about the same thing it is about immorality it is about wrong it is about injustice but fashio means the following so when you say that something is fast meaning that it is either publicly meaning that it is taking place publicly it is public immorality versus munkar being an isolated immorality one is publicized and the other one is private so Allah says the prayers the five daily prayers that you do they are supposed to purify you from being guilty whether it be in public or being guilty whether you be in private and that is the difference between fashio and monk or when they are used in that sense and amazingly also whenever Islam speaks of these rituals that we perform it does not praise it because the Salah itself Salah is not praised because of it being Salah but rather it is raised because of the expected and potential consequences of Salah so he said be engaged in Salah for Salah will help you in cleaning yourself from both public and private wickedness or immorality and that is why Abu Lahab in Madrid used to say man lambton have ocelot or and in fact I will moon car Lamia stood min allahi in labarda if your salah does not help you to abstain from munkar and fashio from public and private mistakes wrongdoings he said it is only taking you away from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala now this is not to say that we expect perfection but the idea is there has got to be consequences for your good deeds if your do this you do them in action but they become only very mechanical they become only ritualistic but you're only bothered about the goodness of the appearance of your ritual then at that point Abdullah heaven or earth is making the statement that is only taking you away from allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala so now the idea is any act of ritual in Islam must have a what it must have a moral consequence to it making you constantly a better person Zeca soft in your heart so ya makes you restrain your loss and your desires again was the issue of salah like we said it helps you abstaining from you know these acts of wickedness and Allah knows best yes well Salaam alaikum I'm Ottoman Abdullah I think so many times even in this congregation very but there is a moment of page 40 people do clap I would like to know whether it is permissible in Islam or if it is not then how do we celebrate these moments give a big hand please jakkamma hey now people have different ways of expressing appreciation to what they hear or to what they see and depending on the culture that they belong to so long that what they do does not go against the teachings of Islam it is accepted for example some people used to praise Allah they say takbir if you go into Egypt for example and you bring to Egypt every time someone does something you know everyone is scream subtle Allah Allah Mohammed you know and it is a beautiful way of rejoicing but he's sort of a chef manners I mean may Allah bless his soul he passed away he said that there was nothing wrong with clapping if that is what people are used to in showing their appreciation does that come of him yes brother Salaam alaikum my name is Jurgen and this soul expresses thanks to Allah so this old wants to ask the one question that is the concept of the marriage at the point of view of Allah and at the point of religious point of view and the philosophy of point of view in Islam what it is very quickly Islam sees marriage as a contract meaning that there is a proposal in the contract there is an acceptance of the proposal in the contract in the presence of witnesses with Maher that is given once that takes place then the man and the woman are seen as a husband and a wife however slum makes the following point and that is the whole concept of marriage is made so simple in Islam if two people want to be together than Islam says be together and what the marriage license does or when they come to the Imam what that does is that it adds an ethical value to the relationship and that is how marriage is different you know when people have relationships there is an ethical value because the marriage license is nothing but a documentation of the event that so on so person on so and so date in the presence of so on so question given the dowry of this I've agreed to get married it is really documenting the event and that is it however it is not in the legal value that that marriage license is important rather it is in the ethical value that marriage is important for example when a husband is meeting a woman what do they say they say that I am marrying you according to the Book of Allah and according to the sunnah of muhammad sallallahu alehiwassallaam now I have attended some non-muslim weddings in the state I really don't know what people say here in India but we will in the state what they do is that they exchange vows what they say you know is I promise to love to honor to knowledge to respect this person and till death do us apart undoubtedly these are beautiful words you know when you give the person that you know your assurances I promise to love you to honor you to respect you to notice you and what have you these are beautiful words however they believe in Islam is this when you are saying that I am making a lot of my witness that I will take care of this woman it is not what we do in public that matters most but what happens when we are by ourselves alone so you tell the woman don't worry I need I love my witness that I will take care of you and the woman is saying that don't worry I am making a lot of my witness that I will take care of you so this way there is that added ethical element into the whole concept of marriage also in Islam it is not enough that the technicality of marriage are followed and that's the end of it when we have this and we have that it just makes it legal does not necessarily make it moral it does not necessarily make it happy and that is why I said earlier as marriage and Islam is not about two people getting married to be happy it is about two people getting married to make each other happy and that's a very important point to make so some speaks of married and he said that the point of marriage are two things said that Lita's kunu alaihe is said that allah has prescribed it is mentioned in surah two room but what happens is Allah speaks and says woman AIT an equipment robbed of his science is that he has created you of dust and then the following verse said women ard and jalapeno cumin and Fujiko as Waja and off his signs is that he has created maids for you and then the third verse says the following verse says woman IIT campus Emma what you are and of his signs in the creation of the heavens and the earth now remember this the sign of marriage is mentioned before the sign of the creation of the heavens and the earth that a loss of hands Allah is telling us this is indeed a very important matter Allah says in the Quran yah alladhina amanu of Hoobler a food o ye who believe fulfill your vows fulfil your pledges if you made a promise make sure that you carry it on and the best vow that we made the best pledge that we made is our pledge with Allah and Allah that we worship none but Allah and the second most important one is the contract of marriage yes brother I am very gender non Muslim I want to ask a question that what is his love to begin with thank you for coming and we loved having you here with us we do appreciate you being here with us today today and we know that it took a lot of courage so thank you for spending some of your day with us here today Aslam is derived from the root verb Salima or as lemma which means three things to be in the state of Salaam means that will be in the state of peace and we said that there are three aspects to this peace peace with your Creator pleased with yourself and peace with the creation of God also Islam means to surrender or to submit and at that point we're talking about surrendering and submitting to the will of God so you are acquiring peace and contentment by surrendering your will to the will of God subhana wa ta'ala also the word Islam could be because a debate is a Semitic language and it revolves around rude verbs one of it is Salima which means that which is in the state of illness or that which is in the state of completeness so when I create a Muslim brother Muslim sister I say assalamu alaikom may you be in the state of wholeness the state of completeness where there is no deficiency in your life in your health psychologically or emotionally and a person that adheres to the religion or to the teachings of this religion is called a Muslim hope I answered your question yes brother assalamualaikum I am doctor Saladin first of all I would like to acknowledge appreciate the wonderful motivation speech made by brother yasser fahza I wanted to just find out from brother Yasha if the loan has been taken for construction of a mosque from a bank is it permissible yes I did mention that as part of my speech you did hear me correctly unfortunately that is what has happened it was a building that was purchased and later on the people wanted to convert it to a Masjid but initially it was just so when I got there the loan was already taken and the building was already purchased and probably the reason why the brother is asking is that taking a loan from a bank means interest and that is we wanted to clear the building of any interest as soon as possible and hamdulillah once we came in within exactly 45 days the loan was paid back to the Masjid

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