Night 18: Law of Exemption - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:02]I begin in the name of the Almighty God, the compassionate, the

[0:09]merciful, the one who has created everything in utmost perfection.

[0:13]And may the peace and blessings of the almighty God be upon

[0:17]his pure and beloved messenger, the peak of his creation, the symbol

[0:25]of humanity, the holy prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi [sighs] and his immaculate

[0:37]progeny of the peace be upon them especially the leader of our

[0:42]time the awaited savior almi may Allah hasten his reappearance and make

[0:52]us all amongst his sincere and dedicated servants respected brothers and sisters

[1:04]Allah subhana wa ta'ala states in the holy Quran in verse 15.

[1:20]And we would not punish a group unless we would send them

[1:28]a messenger.

[1:27]a messenger who would complete the proofs for them.

[1:32]Once the proof is completed on them and the people stubbornly reject,

[1:40]that's when Allah subhana wa ta'ala would punish.

[1:46]Illuminate your hearts and minds with a loud salawat.

[1:56]Scholars of Islamic law expend tremendous efforts to understand how Islamic laws

[2:06]are applied.

[2:07]They delve deep into the intricacies and the complexities of Islamic laws.

[2:16]And I can attest to you that you cannot really fully appreciate

[2:21]the religion of Islam without understanding the depth of the laws that

[2:27]Allah subhana wa ta'ala has given us.

[2:31]Sometimes we're trying to look for miracles that prove to us the

[2:37]religion of Islam is a divine religion from Allah.

[2:39]And there are many miracles to explore.

[2:43]But truly one of the greatest miracles of the religion of Islam

[2:50]is the laws that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us.

[2:52]These laws are so rich.

[2:57]They're so deep.

[2:57]They can apply in any era in any given circumstance.

[3:02]They're very versatile and they adapt to all types of situations.

[3:07]If you want to see the depth of Islam, look at the

[3:12]laws that Allah subhana wa ta'ala gave us 14 centuries ago.

[3:16]14 centuries later, scholars examine these laws and every single day they

[3:23]extract new gems from these laws.

[3:28]It's truly mesmerizing how in 7th century Arabia in a city that

[3:34]was isolated from civilization suddenly you have such quality laws with such

[3:41]depth and which such complexity that's one of the and the miracles

[3:47]of the religion of Islam.

[3:48]Now one of the very interesting laws that our scholars examine is

[3:55]what is called or the law of exemption.

[3:59]This is a very wonderful law that we study in the seminaries

[4:05]and it has so many different and diverse applications.

[4:08]So in our discussion tonight I will share with you four dimensions

[4:14]of this law.

[4:15]The first one is the intellectual dimension of the law of exemption.

[4:21]The second one is the religious textual dimension with real life applications.

[4:31]The third dimension is the social dimension, our relationship with those around

[4:36]us.

[4:37]And the fourth dimension is the theological dimension specifically our relationship with

[4:45]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[4:46]So let's examine this beautiful law the law of exemption to see

[4:53]how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us fascinating laws that organize our

[4:59]lives that guide us through the way to al-im and how much

[5:02]richness and depth we have in our beautiful religion.

[5:05]The first dimension is the intellectual dimension.

[5:09]When scholars are presented with a doubtful situation, a case that we

[5:18]have no clear verse in the Holy Quran or hadith that addresses

[5:21]or applies to.

[5:24]For instance, let's say scholars are discussing whether smoking is halal or

[5:30]haram.

[5:29]Now if it's excessive smoking that's harmful then we have the law

[5:36]of no harm.

[5:36]Therefore you will see many scholars saying if you smoke excessively and

[5:40]that's destroying your health that's haram.

[5:42]But let's say someone smokes occasionally once a month once a week.

[5:47]Scholars examine the sources to determine is that halal or is that

[5:53]haram.

[5:54]This is a doubtful situation because we don't have a clear ruling

[5:58]from Quran and Hadith.

[6:01]At that time, people did not smoke.

[6:03]So there's nothing specific about smoking.

[6:06]Another example of a doubtful subject is cloning.

[6:10]Is cloning halal or haram?

[6:12]Another example of a doubtful subject is cosmetic surgeries.

[6:18]Many people ask today what's the status of cosmetic surgeries in Islam?

[6:25]Plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, is that halal or haram?

[6:28]Now a scholar is let's say examining all these unknown situations, doubtful

[6:35]situations because we don't know whether it's halal or haram.

[6:40]The first application of the law of exemption comes from the intellect.

[6:47]Let's say we have no verse that tells us whether cosmetic surgery

[6:52]is halal or haram.

[6:53]Let's say we have no hadith that clarifies that.

[6:57]If we go back to pure intellectual principles, what is the ruling

[7:09]here?

[7:06]Our scholars are divided into two camps.

[7:10]The first camp are those who are advocates of what is called

[7:17]the right of obedience and they are the minority of scholars.

[7:22]Now what do they say?

[7:25]They say that you the human being, you've been created by Allah

[7:28]subhanana wa ta'ala.

[7:31]Your lord, your creator has a right over you and you are

[7:35]to observe his laws.

[7:38]You cannot violate the laws of Allah.

[7:40]So if you have a doubtful situation, you don't know if it's

[7:44]halal or haram.

[7:46]You cannot take a risk and do it hoping that inshallah it's

[7:52]halal.

[7:51]As long as you're not sure 100% that it's halal, you have

[7:56]to assume that it's not permissible and your intellect tells you exercise

[8:00]caution because Allah has a right over you and it could be

[8:05]that it's haram.

[8:06]You don't have any clear verse or hadith that tells you that

[8:11]it's halal.

[8:12]So you have to exercise caution.

[8:13]This is and they say this is purely based on the intellect.

[8:18]Your intellect tells you be on the safe side.

[8:23]Only do something if you know it's permissible.

[8:27]This is the first group of scholars.

[8:31]The second group of scholars who are the majority they say no

[8:35]when we examine our intellect and rational principles in fact we derive

[8:41]the law of exemption.

[8:44]The intellect tells you that which you know is haram, it's haram.

[8:48]That which you do not know it's haram, as long as there's

[8:55]no evidence to point to it being haram, then it would be

[9:00]inappropriate, unjust for Allah to punish you for doing it.

[9:02]In Arabic, we call this principle.

[9:07]I'll give you an example.

[9:10]Let's say the city here in Dearborn Heights issues a law, but

[9:14]the law doesn't reach you.

[9:17]The guy who was supposed to send out the law.

[9:21]He was having a difficult day.

[9:25]He did not send that email.

[9:26]People in the city did not know that this is the law.

[9:30]The new law is you can't park on Saturdays on the street,

[9:33]let's say, because of a new measure to have street sweeping on

[9:36]Saturday.

[9:38]Now, it's the law.

[9:41]The city actually legislated this law, but it was not properly delivered

[9:45]to the citizens.

[9:46]Tomorrow, if you park on the street, can you be fined?

[9:50]No.

[9:51]The second group of scholars, they say, "You cannot be fined because

[9:56]that's unjust.

[9:56]That's inappropriate." Because you didn't know that it's illegal to park on

[10:01]Saturday.

[10:02]The law had not reached you.

[10:04]So the second group of scholars they say as long as the

[10:08]prohibition the has not reached us we don't know if cloning is

[10:13]haram we don't know if cosmetic surgery is haram we don't know

[10:16]if smoking is haram then we can assume that it's permissible if

[10:21]it turns out to be haram on the day of judgment we're

[10:23]off the hook will not punish us because the law didn't reach

[10:30]us the second group of scholars so when you examine The law

[10:35]of exemption at a purely intellectual rational level, you have two camps.

[10:41]The first camp says cautious.

[10:43]You have to exercise caution.

[10:46]Consider it to be haram unless you know it's halal because God

[10:49]has a right over you.

[10:49]So you always have to avoid taking risks.

[10:52]The second group of scholars, they say no.

[10:57]According to rational principles, we believe the law of exemption applies.

[11:01]Now this is at a purely intellectual level.

[11:05]But the question now is okay what does Islam say?

[11:08]Do we have any verses in the Holy Quran any hadiths that

[11:13]tell us if we're presented with a doubtful situation, unknown situation, there's

[11:19]a course of action for us?

[11:20]What do we do if we come across a new scenario in

[11:24]our lives that the hadith has not addressed before, the Quran has

[11:28]not directly addressed before?

[11:29]Can we assume it's halal or can we assume it's haram?

[11:36]So this brings us to the second dimension of the law of

[11:39]exemption and that is the religious dimension or the textual dimension.

[11:43]What does the Quran say?

[11:47]What does the hadith say?

[11:48]The majority of scholars they believe that the law of exemption applies.

[11:53]Anytime we don't know if something is halal or haram, we can

[11:57]assume it's halal.

[11:59]Why?

[12:00]Because we have a Quranic verse that proves that.

[12:03]And secondly, we have a hadith that proves that.

[12:05]So which verse can we hold on to to demonstrate the law

[12:12]of exemption?

[12:12]One verse is verse 15.

[12:18]Allah subhana wa ta'ala states Allah says, "I wouldn't punish you.

[12:33]We wouldn't punish you unless we send you a messenger." What's the

[12:37]spirit of the verse?

[12:38]What does a messenger do?

[12:42]A messenger delivers the laws of God to you.

[12:44]That's the role of a messenger.

[12:46]Takes the message from Allah, takes the law from God, and delivers

[12:52]it to you.

[12:51]So if you take the spirit of this verse, we understand from

[12:57]this holy verse that anytime we're presented with a doubtful situation, cosmetic

[13:02]surgery, is it halal or haram?

[13:04]Do we have any evidence that it's haram?

[13:07]No.

[13:08]There's no verse, there's no hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi or

[13:12]that would prohibit that.

[13:14]So in that case, we can defer to this verse and say

[13:19]Allah would not punish us if he's not sent us the law

[13:24]through a messenger.

[13:23]Therefore, we can safely assume it's halal.

[13:27]We're off the hook.

[13:27]God will not punish us.

[13:30]That is the basis for the law of exemption from the Holy

[13:38]Quran.

[13:35]Do we have anything clearer from hadith that can be the basis

[13:41]for the law of exemption?

[13:43]Yes, we have the famous hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi called

[13:52]hadith.

[13:52]The hadith of lifting.

[13:55]It's a very interesting hadith.

[13:56]In this hadith, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam states nine situations have

[14:06]been lifted from my um you're not responsible for them, you're not

[14:13]liable.

[14:12]For instance, if you make a mistake and if you forget you're

[14:19]fasting in the month of Ramadan, you come back from work and

[14:25]you forget that you're fasting.

[14:26]So you open the fridge and you see that delicious burger from

[14:30]the previous night sah and you eat it forgetting that you're fasting.

[14:37]Did you commit a sin?

[14:41]No.

[14:42]Is Allah subhana wa ta'ala going to hold you accountable for that?

[14:46]No.

[14:47]Enjoy that burger.

[14:49]Why?

[14:50]Because of this hadith.

[14:53]This hadith states If you forget and you do not deliberately make

[15:00]a violation, it's lifted from you.

[15:04]The burden is lifted from you.

[15:05]The sin is lifted from you.

[15:08]Another category of these nine is al this one's interesting.

[15:15]We know jealousy is a sin, right?

[15:18]It's fact it can be a major sin.

[15:19]As one hadith states, Jealousy devours your faith and destroys your faith

[15:31]just like fire devours wood.

[15:34]Jealousy is a major sin.

[15:38]But what aspect of jealousy is a sin?

[15:40]The feelings of envy in your heart is that sinful or acting

[15:47]on your jealousy.

[15:47]Acting on your jealousy is haram.

[15:51]If I am jealous of someone, I have feelings of envy and

[15:55]I go and I try to ruin this person's reputation.

[15:59]I try to make this person miserable.

[16:02]I make false accusations against this person.

[16:05]I try to block this person from achieving success.

[16:10]That's haram.

[16:12]That's the major sin.

[16:13]But the presence of jealousy in the heart in itself is not

[16:19]a sin.

[16:18]Why?

[16:19]Because of this hadith.

[16:22]The prophet says, "Allah has lifted jealousy from my ummah." Meaning, if

[16:25]you have jealousy in your heart, as long as you don't act

[16:28]upon it, Allah will tell you, "Okay, it's not good for you

[16:33]to have feelings of jealousy as a true believer.

[16:34]Purify your heart from jealousy, but I won't punish you.

[16:38]You can sit in your room, okay, and hate your successful cousin

[16:43]all you want.

[16:44]As long as you don't harm your cousin, Allah is not going

[16:47]to consider you sinful." Even though it's a vice, if you want

[16:53]to ascend the ladder of morality, purify your heart from jealousy, but

[16:57]at least it's not a sin if it's just contained in your

[17:01]heart.

[17:01]You don't show it on your tongue and you don't show it

[17:04]on your actions.

[17:04]So, this is one category that the hadith lifts.

[17:07]There's nine of them.

[17:10]One of the most important of them is the following statement by

[17:15]the prophet sallallahu alaihi.

[17:15]He states, that which my um does not know has been lifted

[17:24]from them.

[17:26]So anytime we are presented with a doubtful situation and we don't

[17:31]know whether it's halal or haram, we can refer to this hadith

[17:35]hadith of the lifting to say that Allah has lifted the burden

[17:41]from us.

[17:42]Cloning is it halal or haram?

[17:43]We don't know.

[17:45]The prophet says it's lifted.

[17:46]That means it's permissible.

[17:47]Allah will not consider you sinful if you engage in it, if

[17:50]you perform it, if you do it.

[17:53]So our scholars look at a hadith like that to derive the

[17:59]law of exemption or the law of permissibility.

[18:02]That's why many times you'll find a showing something isal and you

[18:07]ask him how do you know this isal?

[18:09]I don't see anything in hadith in Quran about that.

[18:11]He'll tell you the law of exemption.

[18:13]I don't see any proof, any evidence that it's haram.

[18:17]So I can cite this hadith and prove that it is halal.

[18:22]It is permissible.

[18:21]We're off the hook.

[18:24]Even if on the day of judgment it turns out that it

[18:25]was haram, Allah subhana wa ta'ala is not going to hold us

[18:30]accountable because it's lifted from us.

[18:32]So this is the textual scriptural evidence for the law of exemption.

[18:39]Now let's come to the application and this is where it really

[18:43]gets interesting.

[18:43]When it comes to the application of the law of exemption, there

[18:48]is one application that only a scholar can do and there is

[18:56]an application that the lay person can do.

[18:57]Let's examine the difference between these two areas.

[19:01]We have a hum, a ruling, and we have a subject.

[19:06]Let's make a distinction between these two.

[19:09]A ruling is if something is halal, waj mustab.

[19:15]We call these rulings.

[19:17]When it comes to a ruling, I want to know if this

[19:22]is halal or not.

[19:26]You have to be an expert scholar to apply the law of

[19:28]exemption and say there is no evidence that this is haram.

[19:33]So I will say that it is halal.

[19:35]Now why do you have to be a scholar?

[19:38]Because you have to go and see the hadiths and the Quran

[19:40]for you to say there is no evidence.

[19:45]If I'm a lay person and I have not studied the Quran

[19:46]and the tens of thousands of hadith that we have, how can

[19:50]I say cloning is halal?

[19:51]How do you know?

[19:53]Did you go and check 16,000 hadith in the book of kafi?

[19:55]Maybe there's a hadith that indicates it's haram.

[19:57]How do you know?

[19:58]So as a lay person when it comes to the ruling itself

[20:03]you cannot use the law of exemption and say ya the sayy

[20:09]taught us tonight anytime I doubt something is halal or haram just

[20:12]go and assume that it is halal bitcoin is it halal oral

[20:16]oral oral oral oral oral oral oral oral oral or haram yah

[20:17]I have the law of exemption that's something only a scholar can

[20:23]do because a scholar can investigate all the evidence out there once

[20:27]he sees that there is no evidence for cryptocurrency to be haram.

[20:32]The scholar will tell you it's halal by the law of exemption.

[20:37]So when it comes to rulings, only a scholar can apply this

[20:44]law.

[20:42]Yes.

[20:43]When you get to subjects, external subjects, all of you can apply

[20:50]this law.

[20:49]What's an external subject?

[20:52]I'll give you very simple examples.

[20:55]Let's say if we doubt whether this carpet here is negous or

[21:01]not, it's pure or not.

[21:01]Is this a ruling or is this a subject?

[21:05]You already know the ruling.

[21:08]If something is negous, you cannot pray on it for instance.

[21:10]Or if you touch it, your hand becomes negous if there's moisture.

[21:13]The ruling we know, but we DON'T KNOW WHETHER THIS external subject

[21:18]here is neg or not.

[21:20]This is not the role of a scholar to tell you if

[21:24]this is a neg or not.

[21:25]This is your this is your role.

[21:27]It's your responsibility.

[21:28]Another example, citing the moon.

[21:31]If you ask your merger, am I going to see the moon

[21:36]in Michigan?

[21:37]The mer will tell you this is not my business.

[21:39]You go and figure out whether you can see the moon or

[21:44]not.

[21:45]Try to see it or you can resort to astronomical calculations.

[21:47]If they tell you you can definitely see the moon, it gives

[21:53]you confidence.

[21:52]That's your responsibility.

[21:53]It's not my responsibility.

[21:56]I'll give you the hookum, the ruling, but whether there's a moon

[22:00]tonight or not, that's not the role of a that role is

[22:04]your role.

[22:05]It's the role of the community of your regional area.

[22:07]So when it comes to doubtful cases, you can apply the law

[22:15]of exemption.

[22:16]I'll share with you now five real life examples so we can

[22:20]appreciate the depth of this law.

[22:22]One very common example that many of you ask about.

[22:26]Let's say you've missed a few months of salah, but you don't

[22:32]know exactly how many months of salah you've missed.

[22:35]Is it two months?

[22:37]Is it two and a half months?

[22:38]Is it three months?

[22:41]Now you want to make up those missed prayers.

[22:46]How much do you have to make up?

[22:48]Two months, two and a half, or three?

[22:51]You know it's between this between this range.

[22:53]The law of exemption tells you the following.

[22:56]You do know that you definitely missed two months, right?

[23:01]So you're liable for that because you know you missed two months

[23:06]for sure.

[23:05]But do you know that you missed more than two months?

[23:09]You don't know.

[23:11]It's a doubt.

[23:11]You're not sure if you missed more than two months.

[23:16]What does the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the

[23:20]hadith of the lifting say?

[23:21]The hadith of lifting says that which you do not know has

[23:27]been lifted from you.

[23:27]So the two additional weeks, the additional month that you doubt because

[23:31]you doubt it, you're not sure that you're liable for it, it's

[23:37]lifted from you.

[23:36]So you can apply the law of exemption and only make up

[23:40]two months of salah.

[23:41]You don't have to make up three months.

[23:43]and your evidence the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that's

[23:48]one very simple example same applies to fasting let's say there are

[23:52]some mothers who were pregnant they couldn't fast and then years later

[23:58]they don't know do I have 100 days of missed fast 120

[24:00]130 I don't know I didn't keep proper track of it in

[24:06]that case you can go with the lowest number the lowest estimate

[24:09]because you have certainty about the lowest estimate so you fulfill it.

[24:14]Anything more than that you don't know it's lifted from you.

[24:18]That's one example.

[24:19]Another example is if in if you're indebted to someone, you took

[24:25]a loan from someone and you paid back this person $500 and

[24:30]then you doubt, did I pay the full amount or no?

[24:34]Was it $500?

[24:37]Was it $600?

[24:36]Was it $800?

[24:38]You don't know.

[24:41]It's been many years.

[24:41]Maybe even the person passed away.

[24:43]So now you have to go and give the family of this

[24:47]person the money.

[24:48]But you really don't know whether you borrowed 500 or 700.

[24:52]What does the law of exemption state here?

[24:55]You have to pay back 500.

[24:57]You're not liable for more than that.

[25:00]And the proof is what?

[25:04]The law of exemption.

[25:04]So this is another application that is applicable to many people.

[25:11]Let me share with you two more interesting applications.

[25:14]One of them is about card games.

[25:18]Many of you play with cards right now.

[25:21]Some types of cards are haram and some are halal.

[25:25]Generally, scholars have said which card games are haram.

[25:30]Card games that you either gamble with or you bet with definitely

[25:36]it's haram to play any game that involves betting and gambling.

[25:39]But let's say you're not betting and gambling, but the card game

[25:43]that you are playing is a type of game that normally your

[25:50]society gamles with.

[25:51]Like for instance, what do you call these, you know, card card

[25:59]games that you find in casinos with the ace and the king

[26:02]and the queen?

[26:03]What do you call them?

[26:03]The solitire cards, you know.

[26:05]Okay.

[26:06]Poker cards.

[26:08]Can you play poker at home without betting?

[26:12]Without gambling?

[26:11]According to most scholars, you cannot.

[26:13]Why?

[26:16]I'm not gambling with it.

[26:18]I'm not betting.

[26:18]Still haram for you to play it.

[26:20]According to the vast majority of scholars, what is their reasoning?

[26:26]The reasoning is because it's a gambling game.

[26:28]These types of guards, cards like poker, they are used in society

[26:34]for gambling.

[26:33]So, it's haram for you to play them.

[26:37]Now, let's say we come to a card.

[26:42]We don't know if it's halal or haram.

[26:44]Do people gamble with this or not?

[26:46]Maybe some people do, maybe they don't.

[26:49]You don't know.

[26:49]What does the law of exemption here state?

[26:52]The law of exemption says any card game that you know for

[26:58]sure your society gamles with, it's a it's a game that people

[27:01]commonly bet on, that's haram.

[27:03]Anything that you don't know whether your society gambles with or not,

[27:11]bets on or not, assume that it is halal.

[27:13]So you can actually apply the law of exemption.

[27:15]This is one example.

[27:17]Another interesting example is music.

[27:20]The vast majority of scholars have said music that is suitable to

[27:27]entertainment gatherings like concerts for instance, any type of melody, tune, musical

[27:34]instrument that's normally used in those gatherings is haram.

[27:38]And if it's not a type of music that you normally find

[27:43]there, it's halal.

[27:44]One of the common messages I get like literally every other day,

[27:50]somebody sends me a YouTube link.

[27:51]Say it.

[27:52]Can you check if this is halal or not?

[27:54]Can you check the music and the singing and the nasheed?

[27:56]Is this halal or not?

[28:00]Please don't send such messages.

[28:00]Right?

[28:01]I don't want to keep exposing myself to potential music on YouTube.

[28:06]I'm giving you the ruling here.

[28:08]If you know that that type of music is a type of

[28:13]music that you do find in entertainment sessions, like when you ask

[28:17]some of your friends who unfortunately listen to music, okay, they'll tell

[28:23]you, "Yeah, this melody, this tune is the type that we find

[28:28]in concerts, in entertainment gatherings." If that's the case, it's haram.

[28:33]Don't listen to it.

[28:32]And then there are some types of classical call music.

[28:36]You know, they're not found in those gatherings.

[28:37]Okay, according to many scholars, they're halal.

[28:40]Let's say you're presented with a case that's doubtful.

[28:43]You don't know.

[28:45]You listen to it.

[28:48]You're like, I'm not sure if this is a type of music

[28:50]that's suitable for entertainment gatherings or not.

[28:53]What do you do in that case?

[28:56]What does the law of exemption state?

[29:04]That which you don't know has been lifted from you.

[29:11]You see how this applies?

[29:11]And this has many applications.

[29:14]Many, many applications.

[29:17]You buy shoes that's potentially leather.

[29:20]You buy a car, the car seats are potentially leather.

[29:24]And you don't know is this animal leather, genuine leather, or is

[29:27]this synthetic leather.

[29:29]What does the law of permissibility or exemption state?

[29:31]You don't know that this is animal leather.

[29:35]That's haram.

[29:36]Okay.

[29:35]Consider it to be pure.

[29:37]Consider this to be nonan animal leather.

[29:41]So this has so many beautiful applications in our lives.

[29:46]Now yes there are some areas in which you cannot apply the

[29:52]law of per permissibility, the law of exemption.

[29:54]Which area?

[29:55]When you know there's an obligation on you but you don't know

[30:01]how to fulfill it.

[30:02]A common question that I get say I did another a vow

[30:07]if Allah subhana wa ta'ala grants me victory and I pass the

[30:14]bar exam the MCAT the naplex if I pass it I am

[30:20]going to do a good deed so you make the vow after

[30:22]you pass the exam you forget what exactly you made an oath

[30:29]to do for Allah subhana wa ta'ala Did I promise to, for

[30:36]instance, donate $1,000 to the poor or to read five chapters of

[30:40]the Quran?

[30:41]Say it.

[30:42]I don't remember what my nither was.

[30:44]I do know that I definitely made a n.

[30:47]I'm sure of that.

[30:47]The obligation is on me.

[30:50]But I don't know whether I said I will donate $1,000 or

[30:53]I will read five chapters of the Quran.

[30:58]Can you apply the law of exemption here?

[31:00]No.

[31:01]Why can't you lie apply it?

[31:04]Because you do know you made a vow and you're obligated.

[31:06]Therefore, in this situation, what do you have to do?

[31:12]Sorry, it's it's a it's a tough one, right?

[31:13]So far, we've been lenient for you.

[31:16]Exemption.

[31:15]Everything's halal.

[31:16]Halal halal.

[31:18]Not this one.

[31:18]You have to do both.

[31:21]Why do you have to do both?

[31:22]Because you need to guarantee yourself that you fulfilled your ne.

[31:25]So in these types of areas, you cannot apply the law of

[31:31]exemption.

[31:30]So my dear brothers and sisters, when you look at the applications

[31:37]of this law, it's truly fascinating.

[31:38]And I just gave you a glimpse, the tip of the iceberg

[31:41]of how complex our laws are and how they beautifully guide our

[31:50]way.

[31:48]That's what the imams of Alam left for their followers in the

[31:54]time of occultation.

[31:54]when you don't have direct access to your imam.

[31:59]Yes, that's unfortunate.

[31:58]It's a trial.

[32:01]But Allah has given you the laws that clarify every subject for

[32:04]you.

[32:05]So, this is the second dimension which is the religious scriptural dimension.

[32:10]Let's get to the third application or dimension of this law and

[32:15]that is the social application.

[32:17]This one's very important.

[32:20]The spirit of the law of exemption is that if you don't

[32:24]have any evidence something is haram, it's not haram.

[32:30]Something is waj, consider it not waj.

[32:33]The spirit of this law when it applies to your relationships is

[32:39]never to be suspicious of people and accuse them without having evidence.

[32:48]This is one of the biggest trials that a believer goes through.

[32:54]My dear brothers and sisters, we human beings have the tendency to

[32:58]develop doubts about people.

[33:00]We're suspicious of them.

[33:04]We accuse them.

[33:03]We give our naps and ourselves the benefit of the doubt, but

[33:10]we don't give others the benefit of the doubt.

[33:14]Im Ali beautifully stated in a hadith that what destroys your faith

[33:22]is in another hadith.

[33:29]If you constantly have negative thoughts about others, suspicions, you doubt others,

[33:34]you accuse others, the Imam says you cannot really have a full

[33:39]religion.

[33:37]You cannot have a full dean.

[33:40]A believer is one who always gives others around him, fellow believers,

[33:45]friends, family members, the benefit of the doubt.

[33:49]Some people, they make a small mistake.

[33:52]We're very tough with them.

[33:55]We're very aggressive.

[33:56]We never forget that they committed that mistake.

[34:00]Is this fair?

[34:01]Allah wants me as a mu to always give the benefit of

[34:06]the doubt to my brothers and sisters.

[34:09]Literally make up excuses for them.

[34:10]It's okay.

[34:11]Why are we always assuming that people have bad intentions?

[34:14]Say it.

[34:16]My friend didn't invite me forar this year because he hates me.

[34:19]Because he has a plan to destroy my life.

[34:22]Maybe he forgot.

[34:24]Maybe his basement is not big enough and he just chose 10

[34:27]people randomly.

[34:29]Okay, maybe not randomly, but a little bit of randomness in there.

[34:32]Don't take it so seriously.

[34:35]We always question the intentions of one another.

[34:38]And I tell you, one of the reasons why marriages fail and

[34:42]relationships fail is because of lack of trust.

[34:46]When the husband starts to doubt his wife constantly, he doubts his

[34:54]her intentions.

[34:52]Everything that she does, he's suspicious of it.

[34:59]That destroys your marriage.

[35:00]When the wife keeps doubting her husband, one of the common questions

[35:07]that I get from spouses, say, "Can I spy on my wife's

[35:10]phone?

[35:11]On my husband's phone?

[35:14]I went through my spouse's phone and I discovered X, Y, and

[35:17]Z." Allah says in the Holy Quran, you have no right to

[35:22]spy.

[35:22]Even if it's your spouse, you think you own your spouse.

[35:24]You don't own your spouse.

[35:28]It's haram for you to go through the phone of your spouse

[35:30]without their permission.

[35:30]Haram, I say it haram.

[35:34]No law of exemption here.

[35:34]Sorry.

[35:35]No bar here.

[35:38]It's not lifted from you.

[35:40]Allah clearly states in the Holy Quran, don't spy.

[35:43]Don't spy on your family members, on your friends, on your loved

[35:47]ones.

[35:48]Give them the benefit of the doubt.

[35:50]That's what Allah wants from you, my dear brothers and sisters.

[35:55]Don't be so tough with one another.

[35:58]And believe me, many time we wrongly judge people.

[36:01]Many time we falsely accuse them and judge them.

[36:03]People have better intentions than we think.

[36:09]Sometimes they say one day a father, his daughter was struggling with

[36:15]her health.

[36:14]She needed medication, but he was broke.

[36:17]He didn't have the money to buy the medication.

[36:20]So he called his best friend.

[36:24]He told him, "Habibi, you're my best friend, and all these years

[36:28]I've been there for you.

[36:28]I need now $400 cash.

[36:32]My daughter is ill.

[36:34]I really need the medication." He told him, "Sure to I will

[36:40]bring you the money.

[36:40]Give me an hour." He's anxiously waiting.

[36:43]An hour passed.

[36:44]His friend didn't show up.

[36:49]So immediately, what happened?

[36:50]You open a window for Shan to keep whispering how evil he

[36:56]is.

[36:57]Why didn't he show up?

[36:58]He told me he'll bring the money.

[37:01]He didn't.

[37:00]He waited an hour and a half.

[37:02]His friend didn't show up.

[37:06]Two hours later, he called him.

[37:07]The phone's off.

[37:07]That's it.

[37:09]He took this as now this divine miraculous sign that my friend

[37:12]betrayed me.

[37:14]And he had all these ill thoughts against his friend.

[37:19]He was ranting and cussing at his friend.

[37:22]All these years I'm your friend.

[37:23]Now you go and disappear and turn off your phone.

[37:28]Well, as he's fuming and raging, 3 hours later, his friend shows

[37:35]up and he's barely able to breathe.

[37:38]It looked like he was, you know, in a hurry running.

[37:40]He told him, "Hhabibi, I'm so sorry to be late.

[37:44]I told you an hour, but I didn't have any cash to

[37:49]give you.

[37:47]I'm broke like you.

[37:50]The only thing I had was my phone.

[37:53]I went to the mall and I sold my phone.

[37:56]I thought it would take an hour, but it took longer than

[38:01]expected.

[38:02]I sold my phone.

[38:01]Here's the $400.

[38:05]Imagine how this guy felt.

[38:08]This is something, my dear brothers and sisters, that we do every

[38:13]day, every week, constantly with our loved ones, with our friends.

[38:16]Never judge anyone.

[38:19]You don't know what the circumstances of that person is.

[38:22]We don't know.

[38:25]Always be gentle with people.

[38:27]Give them the benefit of the doubt.

[38:29]Now, sometimes you'll tell me, say it, I gave this person the

[38:31]benefit of the doubt and that person took advantage of me.

[38:35]Sure, that happens.

[38:36]You don't think this happened with the imams, with the prophet sallallahu

[38:38]alaihi.

[38:39]That's your trial.

[38:39]Allah wants to elevate you.

[38:42]It's a trial for that person.

[38:43]Leave the rest with Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[38:47]Don't be obsessed with the outcome.

[38:49]So when you apply the spirit of this law without evidence, my

[38:54]dear brothers and sisters, never pass a judgment on anyone in your

[39:00]life, you could be wronging that person.

[39:03]And that's a major sin in the eyes of Allah subhanahu wa

[39:05]ta'ala.

[39:06]That is the third dimension.

[39:07]The fourth application and dimension of the spirit of this law is

[39:12]when we constantly judge Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[39:17]You know who's the most judged being in the universe?

[39:21]Not you.

[39:22]Some people think I'm the most judged person.

[39:26]Everybody judges me.

[39:26]Everybody accuses me.

[39:29]No, you're not.

[39:29]Who's the most judged person in the universe?

[39:33]Well, not person, but being.

[39:36]That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[39:39]Every single day, billions of people judge God.

[39:44]We go through trials.

[39:46]We go we go through difficulties and quickly we accuse Allah.

[39:50]Oh Allah, why did this happen to me?

[39:53]Oh Allah, you betrayed me here.

[39:54]You didn't stand with me.

[39:57]You didn't help me.

[39:58]And we experience that rage, that anger, that disappointment.

[40:00]Ya Allah, that was my DREAM JOB.

[40:03]THAT'S ALL I WANTED FROM YOU AND you didn't give it to

[40:06]me.

[40:07]And we attack Allah.

[40:06]We're constantly in attack mode.

[40:10]Ya Allah, this dream girl that I've been waiting for, I killed

[40:14]myself to marry her.

[40:15]You didn't let it happen.

[40:18]Well, initially, she's the dream girl.

[40:18]Sometimes, believe me, 3 months after the marriage, ya Allah, what happens?

[40:23]We quickly judge Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[40:27]And the most difficult one is if you have a health crisis.

[40:31]If it's a chronic serious health crisis, many times we judge Allah.

[40:36]We attack Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[40:37]We reject the will of Allah.

[40:41]And subhan Allah, recite dua.

[40:44]Why is this dua so beautiful?

[40:47]And we recite it every night in the month of Ramadan.

[40:58]Oh Allah, I do acknowledge that sometimes you delay something.

[41:04]You postpone some something.

[41:06]Not because you're not generous.

[41:07]Ya Allah, you are the peak of generosity.

[41:10]You are the peak of mercy and compassion, but because you know

[41:13]the outcome of things and you know this is not good for

[41:18]me.

[41:18]But I'm ignorant and I don't know and I keep accusing you.

[41:21]Oh Allah, oh Allah, forgive me for that.

[41:32]Ya Allah, I've not seen anyone who is more patient than you.

[41:37]Every day I challenge you.

[41:39]I don't accept your will.

[41:40]I don't give you the benefit of the doubt.

[41:42]But every single day, you continue to bless me.

[41:47]Every single day, you give me life.

[41:49]You protect me, my family.

[41:50]You give me new blessings that I never had anticipated.

[41:54]Indeed, Allah is the most generous.

[41:57]And in the month of Ramadan, we create that spirit of trust

[42:03]in Allah.

[42:05]Anything that happens, my dear brothers and sisters, there's goodness in it.

[42:09]They say there was a king in the past who was an

[42:14]atheist.

[42:15]He didn't really believe in God.

[42:17]He had a wazir.

[42:18]He had a minister who had full faith in God.

[42:22]Anything bad that would happen, the wazir would say, "Ishallah, it's good.

[42:29]There's some goodness in it." The king didn't like that.

[42:36]It agitated him.

[42:35]So one day the king was eating fruits and he was cutting

[42:41]some of those fruits.

[42:40]So he accidentally cut his finger.

[42:43]Especially in the past, knives were bigger and sharper.

[42:48]So he cut his finger.

[42:50]He started to panic.

[42:54]And his minister who believes in Allah, what did he say?

[42:57]He said, "Ishallah, there's goodness in it." The king was furious.

[43:03]How dare you say there is goodness in this?

[43:07]What goodness is there in my finger being chopped?

[43:09]I'll teach you a lesson.

[43:12]I'll teach you a lesson.

[43:14]So he ordered his guards to put this minister in prison.

[43:19]As he was being taken to the prison, the poor minister who

[43:23]believes in God, he said, inshallah, there's goodness in this.

[43:29]The king started to make fun of him.

[43:31]He said, "Look at this fool.

[43:33]I'm sentencing him to a life sentence in prison." And he says,

[43:36]"Ishallah, yell, go in the prison and enjoy all the that you

[43:42]want." A while after The king is going hunting.

[43:46]He had a habit of going hunting.

[43:50]When he went to hunt, this king lost his way and he

[44:00]was found in a Bedawin village with savage people who were pagans.

[44:07]So they arrested the king.

[44:07]He lost his way.

[44:08]And the caravan that was with him, he lost them in the

[44:13]jungles.

[44:12]So they arrested him and then they took him to an idol

[44:15]and there was a huge ceremony.

[44:16]He told them, "What's going on?

[44:18]What do you want?" They told him, "Today is our day of

[44:24]sacrifice.

[44:25]We sacrifice a human being to our idols." He told them, "I'm

[44:28]a king." Like, "King?

[44:28]What king?

[44:29]You're not in your territory.

[44:30]Sorry.

[44:31]We're gonna kill you." Before they decided to kill him, the chief

[44:37]of the tribe, he said, "We have to make sure that the

[44:41]sacrifice we offer to our gods, to the idols, they are complete.

[44:45]It has to be a full body with no defects.

[44:48]So can you please examine his body so we can see that?"

[44:53]They examined his body.

[44:57]They realized that he is missing a finger.

[44:59]So the leader of the tribe, what did he say?

[45:02]The chief saysamlaykumah.

[45:04]The chief said, "Sorry, we're not going to accept that.

[45:10]Bring somebody else." So they let him go.

[45:14]He went back and on the way he remembered the incident of

[45:20]him cutting his finger and it was the loss of this finger

[45:26]that saved his life.

[45:25]So he started to cry.

[45:28]He found faith and hope in Allah.

[45:30]Ya Allah, now I know why that happened.

[45:33]really there was in it.

[45:33]So he went back, he hurried to his kingdom.

[45:36]He brought the wazir, the minister, and he freed him.

[45:37]He told him, "I'm really sorry.

[45:40]What you said was true.

[45:41]There was goodness in that.

[45:42]Had it not been for that, I would have been dead meat

[45:46]right now.

[45:47]But I have a question to ask you.

[45:50]For years, I put you in the prison unjustly.

[45:53]And you said there is in it for me.

[45:56]I wasted your life for three years.

[45:58]What goodness was there in you going into prison?

[46:01]Can you tell me?

[46:01]He said, "Yes, I'll tell you." Remember, king, when you would go

[46:04]on hunting trips before you put me in prison, who would go

[46:08]with you?

[46:09]He said, "You would go with me." He's like, "Okay, if we

[46:12]were both arrested, you have a missing finger.

[46:15]They did not accept you as the sacrifice.

[46:17]If I were with you, what would have happened to me?" He

[46:19]told him, "You would have been the sacrifice." He's like, "Allah, put

[46:23]me in prison for a few years to protect my life." You

[46:27]see the in it every single day my dear brothers and sisters

[46:34]we judge Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the spirit of the law

[46:37]of exemption is that never accuse anyone in your society or never

[46:41]accuse Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala there is goodness in what happens and

[46:46]there is goodness in people around you we ask Allah subhana wa

[46:52]ta'ala to illuminate our hearts and minds dear brothers and sisters inshallah

[46:58]Tonight we will begin the of we will be commemorating on six

[47:02]nights.

[47:03]So inshallah now in a few minutes we will begin the may

[47:10]Allah subhana wa ta'ala bless you all.

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