The Science of Shari'ah - Hamza Yusuf

spinner and rahim allah and i said ëno ammidon a shot of them yet one more sitting while he was a habit he woman to be RDX and he removed in London and I am found finally my lymph nodes in and obviously sure I saw developed administer a funcle' sharla this is a quick overview of what's known as a whole idea which is beneficial in terms of studying filk or the law in order to understand what the intentions behind the law are so the first thing that should be understood is although unlike the Motta's ada who were the rationalist we do not believe that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala that he has to benefit his creation Mataji that said that Allah subhanAllah Donna that what he did had to be for the benefit of his creation it was a wager for Allah it was we don't say that Allah does it out of his bounty not out of any obligation so the first thing to know is that the Sharia and the Osorio nor the people of these roots say that all of the sacred dispensations from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to the human are based on the preservation of five matters all so every Shetty I that was given to the human being was in order to protect five things the first of which is Dean itself because the human being is a homo religiosa sees he is a religious creature by nature the human being is religious creature by nature human beings will act out ritual in every culture is something anthropologists recognized anybody who studies human societies recognize that every society has reached yet are those rituals from the human being himself or are they derived from revelation this is the difference between the Muslim and the rest of societies and I'm not and I'm saying Muslim here in the ideal sense because many Muslims around the world have fallen into ritual that is not from Allah and Allah gave them no authority to do that many many examples we could use from the Muslim world for those things now some of them would go under what's known as our order or customary practice but others are clearly against the teaching of Islam for instance the female giving a dowry in a wedding you will find that in some Muslim countries where the female is forced to give a dowry because of previous religious traditions that were strong in those cultures and yet that is against Islam so that's an example of tradition becoming part of a yeah idea or an ignorance within the culture so Islam is not against the customs of the people Islam honors people where it goes Islam acts as a sieve it doesn't say everybody has to become Arab right like for instance and I am to be wearing a Moroccan dress not a Moroccan I don't have to wear this dress there's nothing in my Dean tells me I have to wear this dress right nothing nothing my Dean it says I have to wear a turban now this is not even soon a dress really this robe the type they were in North Africa is not from the Sun the turban is son of a dad and some say some that of fabien that it's a virtuous thing because it's virtuous to bury a person with a turban so many of the scholars have said it is a sunnah of fo biood because they're weak had these that indicate that it's a good thing to wear a turban but there's nothing in sharia that in order to be a Muslim you have to wear a turban and if you don't wear a turban not a good Muslim nothing says that it's encouraged to cover the head it's mandu cover the head it's a good thing for men to cover their head so there are a debt or characteristics and qualities within cultures when Islam comes to a culture it shakes things up like a sieve then HUD and it will separate what is good from the culture and what is bad and this is why if you travel across the Muslim world Muslims aren't all eating Arab food right the Arabs have peculiar foods and even within Arab cultures there are differences so if you go to the Arabian Peninsula they don't eat like the Syrians they don't eat like the Yemenis they don't eat like the North Africans if you go to Indonesia they eat different food if you go to China Chinese Muslims eat Chinese food so these are just qualities and characteristics of culture that Islam leaves within the realm of MOBA within the realm of norm within the realm of custom but when the culture has a custom that goes against the teachings of Islam then it is incumbent upon the people within that culture when they embrace Islam to relinquish those things and to abandon them that's what the Muslim is is commanded to do to leave jahiliya to leave the ignorance of the previous life so when we do that what we're doing is we're submitting to a teaching and what we are saying and this is the power of religion over the mind of the human creature because when a human being embraces a religion what they are doing is they're recognizing there is truth outside of my experience I recognize that truth and I'm submitting to that truth and so a person who fully surrenders to allah subhanallah donna is willing at that point to abandon his previous or her previous worldview for the truth and that's a amazing thing and people have done it historically people have done that the human being can do that if you look at when Islam moved to to Africa see Islam civilized Africa in the same way that Christianity civilized Europe to a certain degree every culture is based on a book it is the book that civilize is people it is the book that brings consciousness to people it is the book that humanizes people and every culture has a book and the book of Islam is the Quran the book of the Muslim peoples is the Quran so when the Muslims went to Africa they went into cultures that had many many Yehia practices and they abandoned those practices for the truth of Islam but then the practices reimagined this is an interesting phenomenon because we have to ask where is this reimagines from where is it coming from to give you an example I don't know how many people know about Burning Man you better hear know about Burning Man Burning Man is a phenomenon in California that started I think about 10 or 15 years ago where a man who had lovelorn troubles he'd lost his girlfriend or something and somebody told him we should do something to get your mind off this so they decided to build a 40-foot man of wood and burn him like whatever gets you through the night right so they did this and they took this huge wood man to a beach in San Francisco and they reassembled it and there was this huge man and then they put gas and lit it on fire and suddenly everybody on the beach came and it happened to be the time of the Solstice all these people came onto the beach and surround and they recognized something amazing is happening here in fact one woman actually touched put her hand into the fire and got severely burnt touching this burning and this became a ritual that was repeated now every year the last one that was I think is somewhere near Barstow or something there are over 20,000 people there and it's like a Dionysian it's become like this cult Dionysian cult sobre that all these time is the dynein cult they go and they dance naked and they it's a very very strange thing but the Burning Man is wicker man you see the ancient that the pagans in Europe used to do the same thing build this huge man from from wicker and fill it with offerings to their pagan gods and burn them was a ritual they did around the Solstice so where does that emerge from for the Muslims we would say this is Shaitaan bringing back his gifts to the culture really it's there something within the human condition where these things reimagine and again and the thing about chiffon which is interesting is he is not original chiffon doesn't come every he's always coming with the same thing they slightly change and there'll be variations of them and things but they're basically similar things he brings a type of jahiliya to people's and for some reason although there are similarities around the world there are going to be different ones for different cultures and different peoples because pupils are not the same and they're different so this same thing phenomena occurs within the Muslim cultures a jihadi re-emerges that had been absent it's almost like it went to sleep and then somebody wakes it up and the Prophet curse the one who wakes up a sleeping fitna in other words fitna can go to sleep but it doesn't mean it's not there and it can be aroused so the Shetty eye is the protection for us this is what protects us Allah says if you disagree about a thing for odoo who it alive on a suti take it back to a line is Messier there vatika haidle right that's better for you right lassen to that WETA and that's the most perfect of interpretations of understanding so take things back to has been what does Allah and His Messenger say here now when we submit to Allah and his messenger what we are submitting to is we are submitting to the fact that our line is messenger know what is good for us Allah knows what is good for us and he taught his messenger what is good for us and his messenger communicated to us what is good for us the province of Lies and him said I did not find any evil except that I warned you about it nor did I know of any good except that I showed you the path to it that's a blessing from our prophet everything that he prohibited us to do he did it because he knew that was harming it for us everything that he told us to do he did it because he knew there was good in it for us and Allah is the one who taught him that through Jibril antecedent so to understand Sharia is to understand that this is for the benefit of the human being and the first and primary benefit is the preservation of the true Deen with Allah which is to heat the Deen is to heat the shed iana will differ but the Deen is to heat and this must be preserved within the human community what till he does is it frees people from the chains from the yoke of creation and and the free man in Islam is not like people in this culture thing people in this culture associate Liberty right is a Latin word Lib air free Liberty with freedom they associate this idea that I'm free to do what I want now the problem with that argument is is that if the person is doing what they're not wants they are not free there are slave that true freedom is doing what Allah super Hannah with Dianna wants that is freedom by definition in Islam the abdullah is the only real hell that's the only free human being is the one who is a servant to allah and no longer a slave to himself and the one who is a slave to himself is not free and will never be free until he's freed of himself and this one arabic language the word for freed slave is also the word for master mola mola is from the al-balad it's from the words that have meaning mola is a master like we call a lot mallanna mola is master and mola is freed slave so the freed slave is the one who is a master of himself that is the freed slave and the one who is a slave to himself is a slave and has no freedom so no matter how much freedom they give people in this culture or any other culture if they're out fornicating if they're out chasing their personal passions if their passions take them to destruction if their addictions take them to destruction they're not free their slaves they're just slaves to the wrong thing there are Abdul Mohawk and they're not at the challah they're a slave of creation and they're not a slave of the Creator and this is why I'm revenue degree his great statement he's a Bedouin man comes into the court of Kyocera the great Persian cosmos and he asked them he asked him what's what's this thing you you're calling us to and he said we are calling you to becoming those who worship the creator of things and not those who are slaves of created things we are coming to free you from the slavery of things to the slavery of the creator of things and that's real freedom and that's what Islam came to offer to the human condition if you accept that and understand that then Deen is the first thing and the toe heed is the most important thing because once you understand that Allah is the only one who can harm you allows the only one that can benefit you then you're freed of superstitions look at the superstitions in cultures they're everywhere right cultures are rife with superstition this country is filled with superstition why don't they have a 13th floor in their buildings seriously why don't they have a 13th floor you go to a hospital they don't have a 13th floor I'm not making that up why a rat a society built on rationalism why does it go from 12 to 14 seriously is an interesting question why are people afraid to go out on Friday the 13th why are people afraid when a black cat crosses him why are they afraid of broken mirrors why are they afraid of opening umbrellas in a house this is really there's people all over this country that knock wood right if you seen people do that right now why are they doing it you can say well it's just you know it's all there's a wise wives tale they called them right now why are that why are you still doing it right so people are filled with superstition Islam came to free us from all that and there are those who say well the Muslims are superstitious don't you do all these prayers to protect yourself don't you do all the really they'll say that they'll say you have superstition ours is different I knock would you say I would be diminished upon the regime who shut down a Nevada home ah what a difference between the two really you know one is from reality and the other is one it's just in your version so the first is the preservation of Deen and this and that is primary because will even give our life to preserve the Deen really the life has to be even given to maintain the preservation of Deen the next is a preservation of life Shetty I came to preserve life and this is why if you kill a person you are killed like Esau see hyah you have in retribution life so if somebody kills a life unjustly they forfeit their life and in that is life for the society it is a deterrent right debtor in Latin means to wash out dirt filth you see to deterrent you have to get get rid of it before it spread like Gang Gang Green you have to cut off part of the body in order to say the whole body so life is one of the things Shetty I came to preserve and it gave us rules to preserve life and then it came to preserve nasib which is lineage people it is a right of a human being to know who their people are you should know who you're from like what happened in this country with the African black people in this country and then in the 1950s really it goes back to earlier than that but the idea of attaching an X to the name that was a statement you know this what the nationalist movement was making what they were saying is X is the mathematical symbol for the unknown and what we're doing is rejecting our slave name like Washington see a black man whose name is Washington he didn't come over on the Mayflower right he didn't come over on the Mayflower he why does he have a nice anglo-saxon name because that was a name that was just given to him right some of these the blacks when they were free they literally just gave him the name Washington Jefferson Carver Smith like that his name and some of them took the names of their masters like that so what they were doing is they're saying no we don't accept that anymore we don't know who we are but we know we're not Washington right that's well at least we know that now they didn't know that for a long time so it's a type of consciousness but what they were saying is we don't know and this is a right that was taken away from us and was taken away from us they were literally stripped from their families and that was he erased from their consciousness because children were taken from their parents and sold into slavery and this is what happened this is this happened in this country so a human being has the right to know his lineage who he is who your father is and this is why in fornication the rules are so strong because with fornication that breaks down and this is why a woman who bears a child out of childbirth even if the father is quote-unquote known that child does not out of wedlock even if the child is born out of wedlock and knows the father right and knows the father the child does not take that father's name doesn't take the name a bastard cannot say that's my father by Sharia cannot say that even if you did a genetic test anything no a new Xena has no lineage by Sharia none why because every religion every Dean has recognized marriage every Dean marriage is the way of lineage is preserved the Muslims are polygynous and not they are not polyandrous because a woman will not know if she takes more than one husband who is the father of the child and you can't say oh well we could do a DNA test there 80% of the world doesn't have telephones you know a DNA tests aren't cheap that cost a lot of money right 80% of the world doesn't have telephones so don't you know don't use this you know the the people at bay and they say a shadow father whether your class ID the anomaly is something you keep in mind but you don't use it as a standard to measure things so an Islam permits polygyny because the lineage can be preserved if there's one progenitor a woman will know if she guards her private part she will know who is the father of her husband who is the father of her child and the child has a right now if a man has an EMA which is a bonds woman and the bonds woman it only becomes impregnated she becomes ohm wallet just by becoming in pregnant by missing a period season wallet if the child is born the child is the legal son or the legal daughter of that man by Sharia there are no bastard children in Islam Islam came to eliminate that you see and and one of the things the prophet saw lies a time said if a culture if if fornication becomes prevalent in a culture then prepare yourselves for the wrath of Allah you see and the wrath is in those children because they're filled with rage and look at what we've now reaching 50% in this country children born out of wedlock we're reaching 50% or past and look at all the crimes look at all the violence there's rage if you go into the prisons in this country and ask these men they don't have fathers they didn't have fought they don't even know who their fathers were that's that is that is a that is oppression that's unjust you can't do that to a human being they have the right to know who their father is and so Islam came to preserve that right through the prohibition of fornication and through the guidelines of Sharia in proper merit and this why Islam recognize any marriage outside of Islam if two people become Muslim they do not have to renew a marital contract Islam recognizes marriages of other Dean's you see it doesn't it's as long as it is a marriage that is recognized by the custom of a people but two people living together with no responsibilities Islam rejects that completely and people forget that in 1968 it was major news in this country that a woman in on the East Coast was kicked out of her university because she was living in sin 1968 kicked out of a university because she was living in sin people forget how quickly morals have changed in this culture there was an article in News and World Report about fornication at premarital sex and what they were saying was even conservatives won't condemn adult consensual premarital sex they'll condemn teenage sex but they will not condemn adult consenting adults because everybody's doing it the article said well why should the children why should the teenagers not do it if that's their example you see why and everything in this culture is saying have fun enjoy yourself the media is showing it promoting fornication most of the television sitcoms and the films they don't have relationship marriages are usually dull and boring on television uninteresting it's it's soap operas what's exciting is illicit relations really this is what they're seeing and this is what they're being conditioned to believe then keep their father's name they cut they can call the stepfather um you know what they want nickname or whatever but they they have to understand that the stepfather is the stepfather he is not a legal father he's actually only a guardian he's not a stepfather we don't even have that term we and we do not have adoption and the reason for adoption is see what happens if I adopt a child and in my last name is Hanson and that child takes my last name three four generations down the road they forget that there was an adoption and suddenly they that they think that's their lineage so lineage is maintained in Islam to some abrogated adoption did not allow for adopt the prophets of I am adopted they called him Zeta bin Mohammed and fostering is the Prophet said I and the one who takes care of a an orphan or like this in Jannah you put these two fingers to guess one of the highest things you can do right kaffir oh yeah team is one of the highest things you could do to take care of people that don't have parental care one of the highest things in Islam you can do but you cannot say this is my son this is my daughter that's a lie that's a lie they are not your son and daughter and they're not your stepson not your stepdaughter you say that these this is my guard idea this my you know ward right exactly he adopted eight absolutely and he announced it at the Kaaba it's no that was advocated the prophets Elijah was prohibited to do that after yes he did that but before yes absolutely he did that before Islam any guidelines for nothing orphans and I mean books or things amicably version especially for this culture kafele is a it's a in fifth calf ala is a what's called Cafe de which is taking care it's taking care of the needs of children that don't have those to take care of them highly encouraged they may explain might have you and the child on there anything like what if you 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Jones and it shall needs to know that the pastor mother was right they need to be told that and this is you know this is a big trauma in this country for many people who find out that they've been adopted big trauma only it's your legal child like adopted yeah you cannot give it your last name it has its last name even the woman can't take is not supposed to take your name she's not mrs. so-and-so she has her own lineage and that should be preserved she's not she hasn't become you right that's a co-option it's not proudly Muslim tradition there's a modern Zubaydah you know as a mod as bi Muhammad to do that to to give a woman a name that's not her lineage no she has her own she's the so-and-so the daughter of so-and-so and we're proud patrilineal the lineage goes through the father sometimes rarely men were attributed to a woman because of her righteousness I mean that does happen like even Tamia Tamia is from his grandmother Tamia was a woman so that does happen you know sometimes but we are not Patrick that we are not matrilineal we're a patrilineal Dean the Dean is patrilineal Darrin in the adventure but absolutely no they can do what this culture calls adoption you could do that legally but you cannot say this is my child at that time can you know austere announcement childhood you have to teach chunks I always want to try to solve it like an adult you mean to take yeah see in Sharia if they're if they've reached puberty they're not children anymore you know in the state's foster parent situation I feel troubles you I know you are there's nothing that says you can't help them if you want to you can do that nothing in Sharia says you can't help sister who has adopted Muslim children and and the community knows that they are darkest and yes mom has children by the other children teach them 2008 in that smash your mother and she adapted very early age young latina they tease them yeah other that's you know Lord of the Flies syndrome children can be very cruel to other children that's why you want to have your children around children that are well raised and learned not to do things like that you know not all children tease you know really I mean children should be socialized into respect and should learn that they shouldn't do and they can not something they can't do you know and they will fall into things like that but they should learn to respect you know the feelings of others even at an early age and that can be done yeah mm-hmm right then she goes she's no longer a bonds woman she becomes she she becomes what's called my lid right she's known she cannot be she cannot be sold and the child is a legal child of that man and his inherits and everything it's a it's the son of that man and takes the man's name if she wanted to take her husband's last name you know I don't know let me check on that all right I'd prefer to cuz I I don't I don't want ID I mean I have an idea I don't want to give a definitive because I'm not sure so let me ask cher Abdallah what he says or tomorrow she Abdullah who's a Mufti the man coming tomorrow the mufti no it doesn't have to be the you know the Sahaba had last names they weren't Muslim they I mean their fathers were machete keen pagans you know I might have been a hot Bob and hot bob was not a Muslim and it doesn't name as a name the name of your father is your father whether he's Muslim or not it doesn't matter that's your name you know like my name my father's name was handsome that was his father's name and his father's name and his father's name goes back to whoever the first hands you know it means John right sign of John even yeah that's what it means you know it's it's just that's the way the European said even yeah yeah hand son son of hands hands is Johanna oh that's a first name which is a choice you don't have to take em with some name if you become Muslim you don't have to take I shouldn't say a Muslim agency you don't have to take an Arabic name right I mean there were many cultures where they didn't all adopt Muslim names you still go to share odds we have a Shiraz here we have a ship ship is a Persian name you know we have Manas many names in there are many many named Persian names are very common even some Arabs name their their women Persian names you'll find Persian names in the Arab communities right you'll find Turkish names in the in the Arab world that's just something you know in many cultures come when you convert even even within the Christian tradition you often took a name like even within the Catholic tradition when you go into an order that and you you read your vows they often took a name of one of the righteous the pious ancestors so that they would become their their name might have been Christopher or whatever and then they take their vow they become Paul or they become Peter or they become I mean even Paul's name was Saul when he converted he became Paul so it is just a tradition within many cultures the Prophet did not change people's names and last they were bad names because one of the rights of a child is to be given a good name by the father so if he found somebody's name was inappropriate he would change it like shucky means wretched he said no your name's Sayid which means happy felicitous that's all so if you want to take a name you can take a name if you don't want to you don't have to and there's an interesting book called Dawa in America written by a Christian Messiah knowledge astaidhu conversion and he's actually not a crazy to researcher and he was doing this as an academic exercise and one of the things he said in there is that he that he studied the the reasons people convert and I think identified about 10 reasons and he said that Islam was uniquely the only religion amongst the religions that Americans convert to that had all ten of the reasons and he said so he had to deduce from that that the Muslims were just doing a really bad job at presenting their religion because they had so few conversions but one of the things he said is he he felt that that Americans would not convert if if they felt that they had to take Arabic names right and he actually felt that that that Muslims should if an American does become a Muslim they should just keep their American name that was his idea anyway I mean he's not a Muslim but it's an interesting concept you know so you don't have to name your child an Arabic name nothing in Chettiar says that you have to name your child and they're they're good names to name because of who the people were and the Prophet definitely said Hyrule as mama will be they'll go me that the best names are those that have AB din them or have praise like Mahmoud Hamid I met Mohamed Salah latias and I'm those type names Hameed right those are the best names and Abdul Rahman there's another rewire that's a Brahmin but you could if you were Greek you could name your child Demetrius there's no there's nothing in Shetty I says you can't do that right I actually thought about doing that one of my sons I didn't but I thought my grandfather's name was Demetrius you know I thought about doing that yeah be me be me sounds too much like demon so you know that's nessip is important first name as long as you give them a good name you know there were jeweled age is a name that comes in the hadith and your age is George and the Prophet praised a monk whose name was George and you will find some Muslims that had that name historically George George right rage is a Greek name yer go right so it's in the hadith sin Asahi Hadees your age prophet he was one of the people that you know the infant spoke to to because you know the story of George the monk and they were these people were very envious of him and so they wanted to to destroy his reputation and so they paid a prostitute to go to the his his monastery because he's very righteous Christian and she came at the night and she said I don't have a place to stay will you let me in and so he he was you know his humanity was there but at the same time he was worried because monks are flee the world and women you know that was symbolic of the world for monks in a lot of ways so but he is humanity you know the spirit of the law / Road the law and he so he let her into the monastery and then she tried to seduce him and he would put his hand into the fight into the candle to remind himself of the fire so he did not sleep with her but she went and then on the way back she failed but she met a shepherd on the road back and she seduced him and she became pregnant and she claimed that Jude age seduced her so the people went and toured down his his monastery and then when the child was born they went to the the time the child said she lied in the child in and in the cradle said she lied I'm the son of the shepherd and so they knew that George was that he was he was such a righteous man that was a miracle that Allah gave to prove his innocence and they so they built him a monastery with gold and right people are pretty horrific whoops sorry a lot of people do that yeah they change their names that's pretty sad let's put it that way I don't think it's I don't know if you could actually say that would be a Haram to to do that unless he changed his last name which is prohibited in fact the Prophet said that anybody that called themselves by other than the name of their father that he was free from them he had no relation with them so that's one of the things you cannot do so somebody you know who was whose last name was you know like zayn al-abideen and he changed it to smith or something like that can't do that but if his name was Muhammad and he came here he changed it to mo you know that they do that things like that right what if he was well when I converted I my father's name was and my grandma's name were Joseph and and I asked my ship if I could be been Yusuf I asked him that and he and he said that that I could do that so I don't know a lot on him but I went back to Hanson so for a long time that's that's what I went by I arabised my name and then I just thought you know I'm not an Arab so it's no reason why I should have an Arab name as I kind of matured and got older and you you're young you're kind of zealous would you recommend for someone to change the lesson to come no I wouldn't in fact I really have reservations I don't think it changes her name at all I don't legally because I have more problems in the Muslim world when they go to visit with a Muslim name than they would with a non-muslim name unfortunately so I because I've had that I've suffered because I've been denied entry into countries with an American passport simply because I had an Arab name in my passport and I watched Americans go in and next to me right so I just you know why bring yourself that trouble no there's no reason why you should do that you know this is nothing in Shetty I says you have to change your name if you want taken with some name that's perfectly fine you know I don't think it's a bad thing I think it's probably a good thing just the first yeah the first thing I wouldn't change the last name personally again these are just you know but if you're denying your father that's wrong to do that whatever early because any yeah that's a good point that you're raising I think that's a very valid point and I would have to think about that maybe ask some people about that but I think that's a really good point I think that's what a lot of people do like Maddock you know Maddock Shabazz he took that name Shabazz and and his wife Betty took that name as well so lineage right is preservation of lineage and then preservation of wealth property that is a right the human right and you know it's interesting all property is theft I mean what you know what a bit piece of sophistry that is all property is theft because you can't have the concept of theft without property right there's no concept of theft without property all property is theft yeah that's that that was one of marks you know Marxist ideas all property is theft right you know the idea that everything should be communally communal property come across relating to that Muslim there actually was a man married to a Muslim he was not she was innocent she was taking money without him knowing it from his neck his wallet things right he was very upset about it but the person came up with because for her the money then the family was not proper property was it written chief elder was the familiar community oh I'm clearly property here is that true good family no not at all and had cut for spouses goes into a lot thing but now right now down what then that's very hard to you know within families there's completely different you know yeah but but the you know Hindi came and said that she used to take property from Abu Sufian without him knowing and the problem because she said Abu Sufian was a miser and the Prophet SAW license said take it with you know with him knowing take what you need that you have a permission you have a right to the amount that you need but he should know about it so that was the fetch WA bloody lon Jin Yan so the idea that a preservation of property is that theft the rules applying to theft the cutting of the hand which is that just radical right the cutting of the hand is a very radical concept now there is it has to be from a hitter's you know it has to be like if we left something outside like I left my bicycle outside unlocked right and somebody took it there's has to be in a place that's recognized as that you cannot go into it if you leave something out for people that that is not a help so you know that's not protected area or protected space and it's interesting I'll tell you something very really interesting about Sharia if I go and like like hakim and he's got a bunch of money in his hand and I start fighting him beat him up and take his money there's no cutting of the hand there that's called the hustle of Awesome the cutting of the hand is if it's one is done furtively it's very interesting and the idea is that that if you're a awesome there's there's more you know it's less dishonorable in other words at least you're giving a person the opportunity to fight for his property but if you steal it from them without even giving them that opportunity it's like it's you've reached the depths of depravity you know it's just it's no if you hurt them then there's D ads there's D at that you know there's blood there's blood money and there's there's retribution that's different but some of you like somebody what they call a mugger who comes and takes as long as they don't have a weapon if they have a weapon then that's actually the worst form that's that is armed robbery which the punishment is death you see armed robbery is is even if they don't kill anybody if a man goes into a store with a gun and points that gun at a person then that the punishment is death in fact very severe it's one of the worst things you can do because the society the one thing that people should feel within a society is security in their being that is the most important thing is feeling a sense of security which is protection of self human beings should feel safe in their homes and safe in their streets they should have that sense of safety you shouldn't have to worry about who's this guy behind me you know people should not have to feel that that fear so the society that Islamic laws are very severe when it comes to these fundamental breaches of human rights or not Hugh might not like that word of shadowy rights because we don't have human rights we have legal rights that are given to us by Allah not by our solely our humanity they're given to us from Allah god-given rights that's the old-fashioned way of saying it human rise a modern concept yeah that was older like muscle ha I mean technically as the government the government could do that if it was seen as a muscle to have traffic laws generally go under the rules of masada had more set up which is where there's public benefits so technically because the reason there's traffic laws is to protect people's lives so by the shetty I you should follow traffic laws you should follow traffic laws by Sharia in fact some of the Muftis had said that if you if you purposely go through a red light you should say I stopped for the law yeah because it's endangering other lives and and those laws were established for public safety and and that relates to Sharia the Sharia honors that in fact it incorporates it I know and we're in the Bay Area and it's really bad because making people pay for parking spaces right when we were when I was young we used to I mean it's the old days right used to go down downtown and you know you weren't supposed to I can't remember what they called it what they call that loitering or right we used to put money into the meters and just sit you know in the in the Parthians face and say hey we rented this place rebels without cause so the next is preservation of a nod of the intellect you have to preserve the intellect because that's where we were honored with the intellect so Shetty I came to preserve the intellect so it prohibited things that harm the intellect so anything that harms the intellect Shadia says avoid it to preserve your intellect like intoxicants they harm the intellect and now the amazing thing about it is you know 1,400 years later oh by the way every time you have a glass of wine you destroy all these brain cells right literally you kill brain cells in and then there's people say well we've got so many that's okay right I mean we can afford to lose a few right right the problem is how do you know you're not losing the right one right maybe that's the reserved ones that that you don't lose it's the ones you're using right because we're only using what point I think it's now it's point zero one or so used to be ten percent of brain and now then it went to five percent now they say it's less than one percent of brain is actually being used right latest neuro I mean these are theories obviously but they the reason they got that information is because they had people that were hydrocephalic who had literally less than 5% of normal brain mass born with that and they had normal IQs and went to universities and got degrees right with literally less than 5% of of what the brain mass that we have and I really think in some ways although item this is purely speculation I have absolutely no evidence for this but I think in some ways of what they call a foot from a lawn opening like I think people like Oh Mohamed Atta's Adi usually probably like given like just massive amount of intellect you know it was opened up for them people like that because you wonder I mean how these people could write what they wrote you know man writes 400 books and you know just the things that they knew and just sitting with some of the people I've sat with like marlpit hige who's mastered I mean he's master around you know 15 Sciences that just one of them if you master that in your lifetime that is a major accomplishment I'm not making that up I mean just the Arabic language if you mastered that in a lifetime nowadays that is a major accomplishment because these so-called doctors PhDs in Arabic language they have nowhere near the mastery of these people in the desert really they don't so you know you just wonder what what is all that massive cerebral power to do that some kind of opening from Allah it's an opening quite literal load on so press so how where did we go we said the light the Deen nafs right nesib wealth and intellect those are the five now there's a six one which is called the able and honor which is added often and most and put that under nessip also that it's your lineage is part of your honor but here these are the rules that prohibit slander calumny accusing people this is why even if you see a person you know you go into a room and there you see two people you know they're not married and something that shouldn't be happening is happening it is how time for you to go and tell anybody how long you have to veil them and that relates to their right to honor and part of the reason that you veil people is because if people become known for doing wrong things toba is is harder these going to mean because people will always see them as you know oh that's the guy that used to own the liquor store seriously he might have made Toba but people will still bring up that years later and I've seen this in Muslim communities somebody will literally make Tova and and the Edit will be brought up you know oh by the way did you know he used on the liquor store kind of and three witnesses for witnesses for easy mailer so we're going to talk about that don't want to press charges if there's weapons no you don't want to press charges you want to bail people before simultaneous witnesses is not almost impossible but if you still want to fail yeah it's a puppet yeah how would you be railing that that has to happen without with four people and you have to four people that's actually see penetration and the way is described in the books is like the you know the code the yeah the coal the road the stick that goes into the cold bottle it has to be like the couple to stick into the cold bottle or like the bucket into the well that has to be seen by all four people can't just be a man on top of a woman and it's yeah I don't know I think you know somebody came into the room first thing they do is whoop you know shut the door and get out of there you're not going to go start going and investigate alright let me make sure I'm seeing what I'm seeing is really happening you know I just don't imagine that you have to have a very strange person that's gonna yeah I mean the Shetty has there to vail people it's not there to expose people's faults and the Prophet didn't want to hear a woman came and confessed to him you know one man went to Abu Bakr and he said you know I commit fornication of what did you tell anybody he said no he said then don't tell anybody make Toba it was still bothering him he went to oma look what all my said did you tell anybody this from the same school did you tell anybody he said Abu Bakr what did he say he said don't tell anybody why are you telling me say I stuff little lon don't tell anybody and it was still bothering the man he went to the Prophet Elisha and the Prophet had the head punishment established you know and in the one dy of the woman who was who was stoned who confessed she was stoned after giving birth after nursing her child for two years she still came back and she was stoned and and and somebody's mentioned something about her cursing her and the Prophet said don't curse that one with her blood was spilt across the city all of the people in the city would be forgiven you know in other words that says that is a real Tova right so and that's the thing as those people wanted the punishment in this world not that they because if you have the HUD punishment that's it in this world it's been it where's if you don't you're in the Messiah disease I mean they were worried about is this tell by going to be accepted so and historically there have been very few people that have been and another thing about Sharia in confession if a person leaves the pit you have to stop if they get out of the pit by their own volition then you have to stop you can't continue to stone them there's a pit in which they're stoned in and if they leave the pit that people have to stop they can't stone them they only stone them as long as they stay in the pit if they leave the pit they have to stop because confession is um you know alone on them that's how ya steals if you see something steal you do you've a a little more you know if you know that they've stolen you see somebody know you should stop somebody if you're able to you stop him from writing these guys you scream stop thief yeah sad it up no no yeah very few people historically have been killed but that way in the Muslim world really very few people it was not accomplished probably more nowadays like Arabia just does it to stuff like oh yeah there's no Hut punishment now there cannot be had without khalifa' khalifa' establishes had there's no HUD punishment and the other thing is you can't establish HUD punishment in places we have eighty percent unemployment and you can't you know the provost had lockup a FEMA Jana there's no cutting of hands when there's famine you know Sharia is it you're not trying to to to harvest its when you have healthy society that's when the hadoo are being implemented now in societies you're totally dysfunctional I mean I've heard people say no that wouldn't be impossible to do in America not that's true you have to radically alter the American society before it's ready for Shetty F right really has to be completely radically altered understandings have to change you know I mean people need to be honored people shouldn't go hungry she can go hungry that's a crime in itself to have people in your society that are going hungry that is a crime prophets and I seen him said he does not believe the one who eats and his and his neighbor is hungry that is not a believer this makes me and so this makes the implementation of Sharia somewhat of an abstract concept absolutely but it still has to be studied and understood for when the time comes and there always have to be people at know Sharia whether it's being implemented or not and the Prophet SAW lyceum told us that the first thing to go would be the hadoo the rules of govern that would be the first thing ago he said it would go step by step till nothing remained but the prayer and that's the time we're in now we're just holding clinging to the prayer and to fasting and and we pay zakat out of conscientious behavior not because we're forced to you know in the olden days they had zakat collectors came and you paid that can impose upon yourself absolutely I mean absolutely yeah to the best of our ability but I can't in America I can't establish ahead if I have a community we had I was in a community where a woman and a man did commit adultery and there was a mufti there who was asked chef Scheib Annie very excellent move to a lot of taqwa he was asked what to do he said just if she made tawba accept the Toba and just veil her and don't talk about it that's what he said just veil her and accept the Toba you know don't ostracize them don't it's a bad time part of this condition that we're in well technically if like king hassan is that you know he's the ruler of his country and he's called a mirror and what we mean in his country that's what he calls himself Amir al-mumineen what's that well technically the ruler of a country because even though the people of Sun and you might say that there should be one ruler the Prophet indicated towards the end of time there would be many rulers so technically if a ruler did establish area like in Sudan that that is valid that they do have that authority because they are a sope because Islam prohibits anarchy there always has to be some government even if it's a non-muslim government there has to be some governing governing body you cannot have anarchy yeah you can't like it see there's some community in this country that want to establish had they can't do that then it becomes vigilantism and and and who are they to do that they don't have the authority by Shetty Allah did not give us that authority I mean I can't just declare myself Khalifa of California you know and take bear with me and then if somebody does something wrong I tell some of the brothers go out and you know whip them I can't do that right I can't do that okay right in California right so those are the six mouthful that all right Cooley Ethel humps and that's what Shetty I came to protect and all of the rules of Sharia can be found to something related to those things all of them if you look all of them like fasting is part of the preservation of Deen because you learn taqwa and it's also preservation of the body because you become healthy sumo tasajo the rules related to prayer preservation of Dean also preservation and intellect because one of the things about prayer is that it balances the intellect people that don't pray have more psychic troubles than people that pray even by within cultures you know like in this country people that pray they've done the Christians have done a lot of research on it but there's physicians dossie it's his name Larry Dossey very interesting research has been done people that that are religious in this country whether they're Christian Buddhist other have lower blood pressure lower heart disease lower right so there is there are benefits in these things even in other traditions there are benefit bona fide the five most important principle the principle of jurisprudence matters all days on the intentions behind them what does that mean that a more female Pasadena that in Sharia you have to look at what the intention behind that the affair is that the AMA and that is what things are based on and nothing else so if a person says antibody insha'Allah you're divorced if Allah wills that you have to ask the person what did you mean did you mean did you say inshallah because you want it just to make tabarak with the name take a blessing by mentioning a last name or did you say if Allah wills your divorce because if you said Allah wills your divorce then the divorce isn't binding so you have to look at what intentions are behind actions and what what intentions are behind matter and then certainty is not lost because of doubt by its certainty it is not off do sit down an example that would be if I'm in prayer and I entered into prayer with certainty that I had Moodle and then I start doubting it I do not leave my prayer to finish my prayer because I went in with yuppie and nothing will take me out of your pain now if after I finish the prayer I still have doubt and and I start thinking not I'm not sure that I should do the prayer over but the down itself does not take me out of the prayer and so yakeen is the foundation certainty as a foundation that is not proved by doubt and you can certainly do it you didn't do now then you have to leave but interestingly enough if I'm any more I go into the prayer Allah my crown I pray 2 rakaats and then I realized that I didn't even have hoola when I went in to prepare if I need nifer immediately once I realize that then the prayer that you pray behind me is sound because there was certainty while I was praying yeah that's a good point that what you do is you build uncertainty so that's a good example certainties not move by down so if I pray is saturating I'm printing my prayer and then I suddenly I'm up and I say is this my for for my third right half right well then what would you do you would base on three because with three you have certainty so you based on three you would pray extra one and then deuce so do the forgetful prostration exactly the last certainty that you have then you would get up and finish what if you said Salaam and you're still sitting in the same place and you have doubt if it was three or four you get out of do a fourth one so if they mom leaves with wet and somebody else is to go be coming on is that for me they don't have to the Imam can either there's three possibility mom can do what's called mystic lab which he pulls somebody from the group or the group can push somebody forward if he does it or they can all pray on their own can the mom come back you know you know about the man he was either doing the prayer then you realize that you didn't so he took those very righteous to command the frontline and he pulled him ahead and when he did hold on when he came back master stone dad Dunning so whenever Tony said what are you doing he said I'm saving your place that even evidence you'll see relates that as I did with it is that in his book I'm not fools and simpletons it's true also that he was actually bear and this happened one of them was there in one yep they say they saw righteous man of the people Frank they said you go ahead and lead the prayer forth is it all right on everyone unless I have Mugu so the next one is called difficulty necessitates with salutation difficulty necessitates facilitation in other words and Michelle after Testament Asia if there's difficulty the sheliak says things need to be made easy for people because Allah you didn't kill yourself you did one people use or Allah doesn't want difficulty for he wants ease he gave us a shitty out to make things easy not to make them hard and so that to gently go out on coat before you said to the why they don't make things hard for yourself because I won't let you do that then you'll destroy yourself so don't make things harder things are going to be easy which does not mean things are end to be easy it means that the responsibility should not be undue duress it should be to the point where you know that you really having a hard time you live in a place where it's daytime 20 hours and then in four hours it's 19 you know fast 20 hours you've work it out to the closest place if you honor some people say Mecca the point is is that you don't because that's a shock it's harmful for the body if a woman is pregnant and the doctor says don't fast or she feels it is harmful for her her fetus she hasn't fast right unless Israel don't do that don't destroy yourself it was hard to do something Allah gives us ease to camp very standing up and praise sitting down and that's a principle in emotional but we have to understand the Dean is not don't know a lot doesn't need as to torture ourselves so it's not there's no benefit in death what if you're pregnant and the pregnancy is causing like like harm to the person should you have the child anybody take the radio if if a physician said that the pregnancy has become a danger to the life of the woman then the phrase he can be terminated by Sharia but if you doesn't that you made a judgment call but the woman's life is over the life of the child by Sharia as long as it's unborn it's over the life the woman's life is over the life of the child so there's no time period to where she's allowed to like where it's too late to pardon them if they feel that if a doctor was knowledgeable in his field feels that there is a serious danger to this woman and continue the pregnancy that she probably will die there has to be a probability out of it the one he will say this continues this woman is going to lose her life so then if she goes ahead takes has it not but that's it she could do that Technic I mean what if she dies is that wrong if she went to the doctor though a Lana I mean she went to the doctor generally you have to you don't have to go to a doctor bruschetta but if you go to a doctor then it becomes binding on you to follow the guidelines and doctrine you don't have to go to the doctor if you're sick there's nothing Shetty s says you have to go to a doctor but if you do then then it's incumbent upon you to follow the guidelines of the physician what's up well I mean if he says you know you should eat a little less or something like that yeah but if he says look you have diabetes and if you take sugar you're going to kill yourself sugar becomes how long for you and it's a daddy Model T it's a tightening that's related to circumstance it is not held on by its nature but because of a special condition it becomes prohibitive for you but if you never went to the doctor then you don't have to follow that guide now if you die mashallah you die but but by Shetty I you do not have to go to a doctor you can go to get a second opinion nothing in Islam says I get a second Pig go to the home and pack nothing in shelia says you have to follow one school of medicine just like you don't have to follow one map there's different methods in medicine Chinese med hub right Imam Imam Imam Yellow Emperor oh we haven't met have Iman Hahnemann their cities and you can follow a different method of medicine you don't know we stopped like who has to be based on its real salutely children we have our children up image and they say is too difficult to wear he get to school and then my thumb since you did and that yeah that that is not I wouldn't know you see because first of all they don't have to go to school by Shelia there's no law and Shelley and it says you have to go to go all you have to do is learn your front line by Sharia that's it you know law says you have to have a BA and right bringing it known on Shelley I said all you have to know you don't even have to be literate by Sharia you have to simply know the basic rules know how to say Fatiha and these things right so if somebody's in school I mean I really think very detrimental to send our children to non-muslim school I think that I will send them to Muslim schools I think schools altogether a veteran and now some people say I have a very radical ideas about education but that's that's where I am sorry about that and I'm not my opinion is just my opinion it's not based on and I'm not just saying this to be like you know radical or something really I'm not I mean it's based on thinking and studying the matter and I am willing to stick with anybody who's done as much deliberation and reading and studying as I have about the situation but some people just comes and they're completely brainwashed by the very system that I'm saying is really bad for the Muslims and they start telling me that I'm wrong and they haven't looked even at any of the literature out there I notice that's there's no basis for argument there's no basis for discussion right I mean so many and I had a friend of mine he's come hardcore technologist I told him look let me give you some books if you read those books we can talk about this but if you're going to come to me with your ideology I know what your ideology is I've studied it and I'm not convinced but I've studied people from like MIT in your language winner he's a professor the philosophy of Technology you know Jacques you little others who have very City serious critiques about technology which is not saying all technology is bad but there's questions there there's philosophical implications to technology if you're willing to do the study and research then we have some grounds for discourse but if you're just gonna you know tell me you're wrong and I'm right no it's not fair right yeah you know opinions have to be based on something you just can't be you know what you're no you have to base it on it has to be found and I'm perfectly willing to admit I know and I'm with absolute certainty that you know I make a lot of mistakes my judgment is not you know it's not soundproof no I make mistakes I could be wrong but I could be right you have to listen to the argument decide for yourself right but don't just say because you disagree with it and you haven't really given it thought that's that's not there's no nothing there aren't any alternatives and you said for school I think very small groups of you know like a home schooling effort type within small groups I think you know there's ample evidence there's an argue about socialization that schools provide this thing called socialization I think there's an ample evidence to really just prove that in fact children actually usually turn out much more humane when when they're not exposed to the quote-unquote socialization that goes upon in a lot of schools yeah no that's a good point I think that's a very good point bye to one group of women I said you know we're going to have a jihad and their jihad is man I need a woman in her house is like a Mujahid that she have to put up with not only the children but the big child a lot of times right and she's a Mujahid uh and so one of these one that this question hasn't asked me well why should we do our jihad if the men are doing their jihad nicely because you don't want to lower yourselves down to their level I mean why should you abandon your jihad because the men have abandoned their jihad no get your award with Allah really get your old with a lot fly so I raised a good that's a good point I'm glad you mentioned knows it boy you know that what I was saying about the fact that men are have these double standards right the day they're in disguise in this culture Muslims are literally in disguise in this culture and yet the women are not they are out there you go to the grocery market with a hijab and that is a statement I mean my wife went to this Bank now and she was getting her own account because her money is her money it's not my money she was getting her own account and and the teller the woman said to her that's so nice that you're able to do this I really is looking at this hi Javon you can get your own account what's he going to do next let you drive a car alright see because that's what I a lot of people think they just think that automatically it's I mean the best runs on these you know Muslim women that are like PhDs and doctors with the hijab because that's just like you know wait a second huh must have got it in Karachi know was Harvard actually okay good point means is not a necessity in Xiaoyu and in the old days most Muslims used to eat meat if they were wealthy a middle class once a week on Friday and if they were poor on their heat why do you think we sacrifice on their heat it's to give people that all year have not had meat so traditionally the Muslims were literally semi-vegetarian the Prophet was I mean technically the profits on Tyson was would go under that category he was not a meat-eater the most of his meals did not have meat in them and the proof of that is clearly in the month on Wednesday now Homer says beware of meat because it has an addiction like the addiction of wine and the other had these in the water there's a chapter called Babylon the chapter down after me both are from same Noma and Omar during his Creed alpha prohibited people from eating meat two days in a row he only allowed them to eat every other day and the Haditha has that right to do that he did not let me people eat meat every day and he saw one man eating meat every day in the malapa and he said to him every time you get hungry you but gone by meat right in other words every time you're nuts wants meat you go out and buy it and and the man said yeah yeah yeah man I mean Adam which in Arabic gotta means I love meat you know he's a carnivore he loves me and Zia almost said that it would be better for you to roll up your tummy a little bit so that other people can eat now oh ma if there was a prophet after the Prophet it would have been Alma and that is really verging on prophecy that statement because if you study modern meat industry you will find out that a lot of the famine in the is a direct result of the over consumption of meat in countries like the United States and Canada and Europe because the amount of grain that is needed to produce one pound of meat right is much greater than the amount that you need to produce grain itself so and beef in particular I mean I really recommend Rifkin's book Beyond beef because I use in an extraordinary book you know it's interesting baccarat is also you know chapter of upon kill kill the cat because the beef eating societies or you know just have massive impact on the environment on Natural Resources on all these things and traditionally the Muslims were not cow eaters they were they were sheep and lamb when they didn't wish that we need is not cow meat is not you know it's not how I was not buckaroo so I'm not saying that what was the author Jeremy Rifkin's got called beyond Eve argument that basically without in high school situations is in times on the job that the Muslims are interacting in our town to enforce and actually people of the other gender and then we how many circles it have the reaction mm ablg ethics for Muslims in London circles otherwise start dating not as good because that's what they want they get to know what the this is a big problem in this country that was major problem the one that the dang of marriage is a problem by Sharia because it's better for young people to marry early say neither was 17 15 was 15 when they married and that's really when you have serious problem that is the real period of trouble is is that what they call here at kind of an adolescent period in more traditional cultures people begin to act like adults about 11 12 really humans quite interesting to me a twelve-year-old mauritania Moy as opposed to a 12 year old American boy there's a incredible difference in the internet and maturity so that does it does a problem in terms of what's called $50.00 there's really nothing in yet about everything off it's not a traditional board is not a workman and that's the word modern era to use for mixture of male and female um the the first community I you know I really I find really hard to believe that they were as obsessive about these matters as some modern type of Muslims personally just from my own reading and things like that I think there is a basic adept it's expected and you'll get into some differences opinion like in the mataji school the face of a woman is not considered a part of her out of her nakedness so it's not prohibited for a man it only doesn't look upon her with lust to see her face or her hands I show you now there's other opinions that the face of a woman particularly young one it's and the iana part for minimum age male woman outside tell the believing men to lower their case there's some you know difference of opinion about that hematochezia stud to me in one way some fontina rossi mentions the min there's four today yep it's it's for lowering the gays not completely like looking down like this but not contemplating her mahasin her Xena not looking upon her lustfully things like that so you're going to get different opinions that are related to cultures and I don't I'm not talk about when times get corrupt there is preferable to be more strict to interpret things on a more strict because you have a lot of just bad people and unfortunately in a lot of the Muslim countries the behavior of the Menace is quite frightening I mean of the high you know you were just recently in a country lovely fun in the country you know where the madmen behavior is shameful on the street you know the gobbling of what shameless thank you is a shameless behavior on the streets the gobbling of women I mean even in some of the quote-unquote strictest Muslim countries you would eat you're shocked at a type of accosting that goes on to some of the women I have personal friend Americans that have lived who became Muslim and went these women went with her husband's they're shocked because these things don't happen to have in this country you know really and he's country Muslim man now I you know I really think this is facade and this is corruption this is the facade it's the society has become corrupt and that point women you know we need to protect our women from that type of abuse because that is a by Sharia that is abuse fact the ayah in the Quran about the hijab is in order that you are not abused not a constant it's a protective measure against those type of people now in the wall wo Matic and if you don't think me Manek is from the set up right then who's from the set up because he's from the Karuna mahadevaraya from those periods of time that the prophet testified to their uprightness and he was from the most virtuous of those people by the consensus of the OMA in the month that he was asked about what do you think about a man can his wife sit with his company and eat with them any my Mac said I don't see any harm in it if they're correct if there's a dub it'll become frivolous they don't there's not you know improper intimacy there's not right and a woman can come in to the gathering and do these things according to mo medical deal on as long as there's some basic edit done so you know I think you beware of extremes you know I mean Imam at verse 8 he says beware of the two extremes of satiety and hunger and then he says and maybe hunger in many cases is worse than satiety in other words to go to the extreme of deprivation is often worse than going to the extreme of overindulgence so if we become too Puritan right this what happened in this country they both became Puritans and and boom now look at the country gone to the complete opposite Muslims are balanced were the middle people if you have too much if you have this type of Puritanism in a culture what happens is it goes to the opposite and people become so in our food and clothes most Puritan of countries pornography is a major problem the costing of women is a major problem rape is a major problem and this is a reality you see so Muslims traditional very balanced cultures and balanced society and you know I've been in cultures where they're very Muslim and there is interaction between the men and the women and they don't have these social problems but it's done with it's done it's not there's not like a complete you know oh how you doing you know this no it's done with a dub and things like that and so polymers Oh what do you think you know people take out the usery loans to go to college right is that permissible it's not according to what I was taught and I don't know maybe there's one eight hundred feet wide you get all kinds of answers but again college is not a necessity nor is making a lot of money you know in in shadia necessity is literally when you're one of these five things is endangered that is necessity if you want to understand the sesame when prohibit things are permissible Michele Cammisa the Dacia is is not to that extreme there's another body that would says I thought a lot to get in my want this is not the same principle here a car or a home as far as I know that a car is not a necessity that renting is you can rent I mean a house is not a necessity in America a car a lot data I mean I think that there might be a case for people in terms of livelihood being able to support their family things like that Aloha I don't know so I'm just and say I don't know about that I really don't I don't know listen its must I have to learn how to read the Quran after fatiha and one sort of memorized it by heart it's it's mustahab it's not advise you to learn how to be there whoa lr means recite as a primary meaning back on the vast majority of Sahaba were illiterate from setting mental only young were illiterate people that actually what a taxable I mean reading is encouraged very strongly and and it is a faulty fire that there are people in the community that learn grammar learn this thing no doubt and it's highly encouraged but you can't say it's a magic in other words an illiterate person is not in a wrong action they don't have to make Toba from being illiterate if they learn their fault line through oral teaching which is traditionally how much of the teaching in Islam was done many women very righteous women historically did not know how to read or write but they knew their father iron and things like that historically seek knowledge in the nap whenever you seen our alif laam seek knowledge and in it is talking about Sharia knowledge now that includes hearty fire in other words there has to be enough people learning the key fire Sciences so there the seeking medicine there has to be a group within the community that that is fulfilling these obligations but not everybody responds abilities well I mean I don't know I don't know too many people that are going to university now is about to fulfill a funky fire and the proof is they don't know their father I mean you cannot seek a funky fire until you learn your phone by right so they're just fooling deluding themselves right and to give an example in that area there's one doctor to about every hundred people in Mauritania there's one doctor to every 10,000 people so some Muslim going to California practice medicine he's not fulfilling a flunkey fire believe you me because the kind of differently different individual or the determined body you know there's rules I mean this is the mushaf but is clear when there's undue directs and certain situations we know like if you're traveling and you're finding it difficult to fast then you can break your fast and it would beyond at the individual that absolutely that's a good point it would be based on in India some people can endure things that other people can't I mean to give an example happening when he was here he had an eye operation the physician wanted to give him anesthesia he refused it he's a Bedouin from these they're tough and he's an older man he said I don't want anything that affects my intellect and he asked adhabi is it going to affect my intellect he said yes but it's going to hurt he said I can stand the pain I don't want something I'd rather bear the pain than have my intellect affected so they actually did a cataract surgery without him having and the doctor was amazed that you know he was amazed that he did but I mean ice I lived those people you know I saw man this really heavy camera loaded stepped right on his foot and just watch and he just like that just kept walking like yeah what's that no the doctor gave him a choice he said you don't have to do this but I'm highly recommending it yeah have you told him I will not do the surgery unless you do this then he and even she had hope that he said I don't mind going blind because blindness is a kuffara for wrong actions so he said I don't mind if I go blind that's a lot it is purifying me of wrong actions he said in fact he was worried about getting his eyesight back from the cataract surgery and the lens replacement because he said you know you realized the cataract it's like Kafar on so he's going to you know that's the level of top lining Muslim presented hours you know use medicines now the next one the fourth is called harm is removed Aldabra use that harms is remove now this is a really important to give you an example it is prohibited for us to expose our nakedness but if there is a reason because out of fear of harm or actual harm that's present then we can expose our nakedness to a physician for instance so if we find like a lump you know what woman finds a lump in her breast or has pain she can go to a physician and expose that now if it was a Muslim woman then that's still alright because the breast is not naked for her right but if it was a non-muslim physician there was no Muslim physician in that area then this is an example of a thought or an exam right that you have to get rid of harm so it's permissible to do things that in order to remove harm from people is a different human woman and non-muslim woman as far as nakedness the nakedness of a Muslim woman to a non-muslim woman is the same as her nakedness to a non-muslim to a man yeah her nakedness to an assister is the nakedness of a man two other men between the sobre and the roof i think is the same injected o Muslim woman should wear her hijab in the presence of non Muslim women yeah she should she should not not accept it is it family and family the right and one family it has the same problem how can doesn't change 15 items yeah it's same hope when there is a difference Islam makes a very strong separation between Koba and amen it's a barrier that's put up hijab means barrier that's what it means it's a barrier let's wait till Sharapova comes to morning okay to do that because I don't like giving Shetty opinions too much responsibility I'm not coming out I just read that of the qualified to do and then norms are binding is the fifth one in other words valya recognizes norms within a society what's called open Ida and for instance if it's a Animorph in a culture to say for instance the way they divorced would be like a you know word that maybe the Shetty a doesn't mention in the books but that's the norm in that culture like to say you're free right at the Hara and that's the way they say you're divorced then that's binding you can't say I didn't say Anthea Pollock right he used a local customary practice and that is binding if you say it in English even if it's in English you know like here's were through right in turmeric water through that's it we're through right that could be binding if that if that's the intention you know this marriage is dissolved it's over so and that's why Ollie has to know the language of a people he has to know when a body comes in he has to understand the people's psychology yes they understand their mentality in my machete said when he was in and out they had a very very high level of discourse and then he went to Egypt the Egyptians were less sophisticated than the Iraqis and he said I had to take my you know Nizam to fun incentive but you know that I went down and down to explain things more clearly to them because in a girl he was talking at a level their lobbies were very sophisticated culture people when he went to Egypt they were you know more simple he's not saying the dangling always I didn't wait to see a fellow who does not understand this culture comes here no no no he knows it very well he's lived here in fact for years is is that no I'm minute I haven't tell him all about it yeah but like shaddoll I live in a place for years right isn't it for years yes but I don't some a DVD night media like Shia dalla used to be a exciting right means he's from a NASA now he's a book Lundy because he lived in Portland ferns we and each time there you see our order if there is a contract I need one of them have different quality there is something related to what's called the rod had you at the bassinet and there that is how things are categorized there are things called necessities and those are things in which the five could be on target are jeopardized and in that position that's always above pad yet so for instance food is a necessity and that's why it's permitted to eat pork if you're if you're dying of hunger because pork is from the you know it's from the is pork ahead is from Hagia gentlemen is pork prohibited from taxi net is dicey net isn't it because it's other on or pork maybe it's taxi enough yeah torque is from the third category from taxi net like 'no Jassa is from taxi net which are those any did you look at the way I was taught if good with the people I study will school with they said that they have the bond rocks are like the shelter it's a necessity to have shelter and the otter like the doors and windows and then the taxi not are like the furniture in the house these are numbers you no no this is related to categorizing things of level of importance in medical language called triaging in other words like in an intensive care unit if somebody comes in his heads chopped off and then there's a person next to him that's saying I've got a really bad headache you deal with the guy with his hand chopped up you don't worry about the headache until right oh no headed and chopped yeah his hand chopped already doing so what time is it photobomb 850 the Hawaiian ten yeah the fine fellow yeah it's a fine the Dean naps yeah by expenditure the dollar are related to if they will jeopardize any of those five things that moves into the auto lot and I had yacht are those things that are making living make you live yeah it would be under duress and then the taxi nuts it's great life unn you know is yeah it's just not enriched anything else okay Oh Hamza in child wants to make sure had because he's never done this officially so how did that mean this is a I'll shovel out the high up the high Sun and so we just between them say that she had in trouble just repeat after me I know he knows everything so he's doing this you know based on knowledge him so I don't have to go over five pillars or anything like that so just say in presence of hospital tiles or my dissonant music really ash hadu an la illaha I'm in the wall and what a shadow I'm not and muhammaden-rasul allah a shadow ha ha ha am I in the wah-wah-wah-wah shadow mana and Muhammadan Rasul Allah Masha Allah and there you got Kilowog and that's your big thing she had a great thing

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Length: 107min 8sec (6428 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 25 2011