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[0:07]All the for Allah.
[0:50]Fore!
[0:59]Foreign!
[1:00]Foreign!
[1:09]for Alhamdulill.
[1:48]Alhamdulillah.
[1:57]Alhamdulillah.
[2:08]Alhamdulillah.
[2:18]Alhamdulillah.
[2:27]Fore!
[2:28]Foreign!
[2:30]Foreign!
[2:45]Allah and What?
[3:36]foretic.
[4:18]more.
[4:34]What doche?
[5:04]for Alhamdulill.
[5:35]Alhamdulillah.
[5:41]Alhamdulillah.
[5:51]Alhamdulillah.
[5:57]foreign.
[6:20]for Soch.
[7:14]for both.
[7:34]Alhamdulillah.
[7:52]Alhamdulillah.
[8:12]Alhamdulillah.
[8:33][singing] for Allah.
[9:07]Alhamdulillah.
[9:34]All for when I foreign.
[10:53]Why?
[11:23]Ali Hussein.
[12:00]All foreign.
[12:50]All don't care.
[13:43]What to forchech.
[14:15]All the for Westch.
[15:14]Fore!
[15:15]Foreign!
[15:16]Foreign!
[15:25]for Nick Amen.
[16:09]Allah Text Fore!
[17:01]Foreign!
[17:02]Foreign!
[17:40]Salamat.
[17:41]Lord, Lord, either for Fore!
[18:54]Foreign!
[18:55]Foreign!
[19:16]for me.
[19:35]All [singing] I can't see.
[20:00]Marine fool.
[20:40]Be my salah.
[20:59]What else?
[21:28]I must Shore.
[22:11]for [singing] you.
[22:42]Fore!
[22:51]Foreign!
[22:52]Foreign!
[23:01]Forech.
[23:25]Forech.
[23:36]You have the Fore!
[24:12]Foreign!
[24:13]Foreign!
[24:16]forchech.
[24:46]Fore!
[24:47]Foreign!
[24:49]Foreign!
[24:57]forchech.
[25:42]Muhammad.
[25:58]Alam allayikum everyone.
[26:00]It is my honor to welcome you all to night 25 of
[26:05]our Ramadan program here at Mecca.
[26:07]Ramadan is a time where we pause from the rush of daily
[26:09]life and reconnect with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the Quran and
[26:12]with one another as a community.
[26:16]Every night we gather is an opportunity to reflect, improve ourselves, and
[26:19]strengthen our faith.
[26:21]Before we begin tonight's lecture, I'd like to share a few announcements.
[26:26]First, for families with children, please remember that the weekend school activities
[26:30]with sister Malik are taking place.
[26:32]She has been organizing wonderful programs and activities for the kids.
[26:36]So, parents are encouraged to drop off their children and allow them
[26:41]to benefit from these sessions.
[26:43]Okay.
[26:43]The kids program tonight is in the Musl.
[26:48]And then also, please keep an eye on the flyers shared in
[26:53]the announcements group chat.
[26:53]You can find upcoming programs and community events happening throughout Ramadan.
[26:58]Tonight's program is generously sponsored by the Vat family and other anonymous
[27:04]donors.
[27:05]We ask everyone to please recite for their for the souls of
[27:12]their but before a loud salawat.
[27:23]May Allah accept from them and reward them for supporting these gatherings.
[27:28]If anyone is interested in sponsoring one of these nights, please see
[27:32]Hassan after the program and inshallah he can help you out.
[27:34]And then I'd also like to take a moment to remind you
[27:39]all that tonight after the program, there is an program at High
[27:42]Velocity from 11 to 3:30 a.m.
[27:46]So there's going to be fun sports and activities for brothers and
[27:49]sisters of all ages.
[27:50]So it's going to be at High Velocity all the way until
[27:55]3:00 a.m.
[27:57]So um you guys can come to that.
[28:01]And while we wait for the speakerhammed.
[28:03][laughter] >> Okay.
[28:10]Yeah.
[28:10]We'll wait a couple minutes for a speaker inshallah.
[28:15][snorts] Okay, [clears throat] Muhammad.
[28:40]>> Okay.
[28:41]And now without further delay, it is my honor to welcome our
[28:46]respected speaker for tonight.
[28:47]Please help me in welcoming Hassan with three loud salawat Muhammad Ali
[28:52]Muhammad.
[29:17]Father.
[29:36]Alhamdulillah.
[29:38]Alhamdulillah.
[29:44]Alhamdulillah.
[30:10]Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
[30:17]Man, Muhammad All praise belongs to Allah subhana tala.
[30:50]I begin in his blessed name.
[30:52]And Allah has blessed us with the month of Ramadan.
[30:54][snorts] The month in which we practice how to pass the exam
[31:00]on this earth.
[30:59]An exam which is not easy.
[31:02]It's very difficult for there are so many distractions that we are
[31:07]faced with when we are tested on this earth.
[31:11]We have so many factors that come into our in our ways
[31:14]when we want to be upright.
[31:16]One of course is our emotion, our mood.
[31:20]We have good moods and we have bad moods.
[31:23]We have what we call a bio-ythmic cycle.
[31:25]There are days we feel very spiritual and then there are days
[31:32]we feel very not spiritual.
[31:32]So we go through these bi-ythmic cycles where we kind of modulate
[31:41]between spirituality and happiness and sadness and depression.
[31:44]That's one trial.
[31:46]We have chemicals in our body that constantly affects our moods.
[31:51]And then of course we have situations in life that we didn't
[31:57]predict.
[31:58]things that come in our ways when we plan.
[32:02]Let's say something and a sickness comes in, a tragedy comes in,
[32:05]a loss comes in, a new dimension of problems shows up.
[32:12]Now we have to realign ourselves.
[32:14]And then of course the human race, you know, you meet people,
[32:18]people have various moods.
[32:19]They're also going through by rhythmic cycles.
[32:21]So while you're in the peak of spirituality, you may [clears throat]
[32:27]meet somebody who is very low in spirituality, very depressed, finding very
[32:33]negative uh in life, right?
[32:33]And they drain you.
[32:34]What we call people who drain our energy, energy vampires, people who
[32:40]come complaining about life and then they drain us.
[32:42]And then on the flip side, of course, when we're in that
[32:47]lower stage of spirituality, the blessing of Allah is we meet people
[32:51]with high spirituality and they pick us up and take us into
[32:56]uh higher stages.
[32:55]Or we may be in a depressed mood and good news shows
[33:01]up and suddenly our mood changes.
[33:04]That's the good side.
[33:04]As Imam Ali Alisam says, every human being has two days.
[33:08]All human beings have two days.
[33:12]One day is for you, one day is against you.
[33:13]That's what life is about.
[33:16]So Allah subhana ta has blessed us in this month of Ramadan
[33:22]that through fasting we manage these modulations.
[33:24]We're able to have patience.
[33:28]We're able [snorts] to have vision.
[33:31]For patience of course means what?
[33:34]Patience directly translates to long-term vision.
[33:38]People who are impatient h lack long-term vision.
[33:40]They are not good in long-term vision.
[33:43]We're impulsive if not compulsive.
[33:46]But people with long-term uh vision, long long visions, they see not
[33:54]only tomorrow, but they see eternity.
[33:56]They see the foreverness.
[34:00]You find that attitude changes.
[34:02]If we can train our children to think long term, even within
[34:06]their own spectrum, and you teach them to be patient, you will
[34:11]find that they will be more successful.
[34:12]Stanford University did a study using the marshmallow project where in the
[34:19]very young age when they tested kids, kids who practiced abstinence and
[34:25]were able to delay their uh desire for pleasure f they found
[34:33]them to be much more successful in life than the kids who
[34:36]wanted instant gratification.
[34:37]Today, if you look at our systems that [clears throat] are coming
[34:43]out in technology, they're designed to enhance our instant gratification.
[34:47]You look at the swipe, you look at, you know, the social
[34:53]media systems, they're designed that you want excitement within 10 seconds, within
[34:58]15 seconds.
[34:59]Our patient levels are going in the opposite direction.
[35:02]If you study, you will see that right now, one of the
[35:06]biggest problems in our society that we're facing with is gambling.
[35:10]A lot of our young generations are getting addicted to gambling because
[35:14]gambling has become so accessible in social media that you can simply
[35:18]download an application and it starts to get you going.
[35:24]This notion that there is a golden pot waiting with the next
[35:32]swipe or with the next you know click.
[35:34]What it does is it creates a very negative attitude because gambling
[35:40]actually counters sweat equity.
[35:41]The whole idea of gambling is to challenge sweat equity.
[35:44]Why should I work when can when I can just roll a
[35:48]dice and become a millionaire?
[35:48]Why should I struggle to become wealthy when I can just roll
[35:55]a dice or I can do a roulette and wherever it lands
[35:57]I I may get rich.
[36:01]What people fa fail to understand is that people who indulge in
[36:07]these kinds of behaviors can never give it up.
[36:08]So no matter how rich they become in gambling, they their net
[36:14]is always loss because the nature of a gambler is always to
[36:19]put everything on the line.
[36:21]And [snorts] therefore you will find that intrinsically a gambler is naturally
[36:25]a loser.
[36:27]And this is what the casinos are looking towards.
[36:31]They love the fact that addicted gamblers come into their institution because
[36:37]that's how they get rich.
[36:38]People like Sheldon Adlesen, for example, he made his money through gambling.
[36:43]Donald Trump made their money through gambling.
[36:48]Casinos are a very evil institution.
[36:51]In fact, they pump pure oxygen in casinos just to make sure
[36:53]that you don't get tired so that you spend 24 hours a
[36:59]day just tossing that coin or tossing that dice.
[37:01]And that is if you really look at it, it's built around
[37:06]the opposite of what Sharia in fasting does.
[37:10]Salah, long-term vision, sweat equity, struggle.
[37:14]You'll notice it is exactly the opposite.
[37:17]And it is an instrument of shaitan.
[37:18]Now, why do our children, our societies indulge in gambling?
[37:23]For example, right now, one of our biggest problems that we're facing
[37:28]in society is marijuana.
[37:29]The indulgence of marijuana, the legalization of marijuana.
[37:34]You'll find that many states have legalized this.
[37:36]Tetrahydrokinabonol used to be only 2% in it.
[37:41]Now it's 100%.
[37:43]It's laced with alcohol.
[37:43]It's laced with all kinds of it.
[37:46]Even subtle fentinyl is laced in it.
[37:48]Meaning people who smoke weed and forget about smoking now.
[37:53]They've put it in food.
[37:54]So they've got these gummy bears and anything anything to excite the
[38:00]the human psyche to get them inebriated in that state of being
[38:04]like a zombie because you see people who are who who indulge
[38:07]in marijuana you'll find that they're spaced out.
[38:11]They their critical thinking is nullified because research shows that tetrahydroinabonol which
[38:18]is the substance found in marijuana actually shrinks the human brain.
[38:22]It damages.
[38:23]It is the most damaging instrument.
[38:26]It's the most damaging chemical for the human brain.
[38:32]It damages the human brain.
[38:33]So the question is gambling, alcohol, you find um indulgence in drugs
[38:43]like marijuana.
[38:43]Why do people get into those?
[38:47]We must ask that question.
[38:48]in Dearbornne many of the youth would come to me and they
[38:51]said you know in high school a lot of kids are smoking
[38:53]weed so you know we just join it my question was why
[38:58]is it that so many of our kids boys and girls are
[39:00]indulging in this what is it that's making them go there and
[39:05]there is a clear evidence to show that the human mind the
[39:08]human being is made up of spirit and material when there is
[39:14]an attempt in society legalization and the illegal legalization where you now
[39:21]forbid people from becoming spiritual.
[39:24]So public schools disallow religiosity, disallow God consciousness, disallow spirituality, atheism which
[39:32]tries to negate the soul, the spirituality, the eternity of life because
[39:38]atheism promotes short-term thinking.
[39:40]You find that there is a void.
[39:42]If you ever ask kids who get into drugs, it is because
[39:48]they feel dejected.
[39:51]They feel it's an they're lost.
[39:53]It's like it's like you're lost in the jungle.
[39:56]A girl was asked a very profound question and her answer was
[40:01]brilliant.
[39:59]You know, a western girl, she was asked, "Do you do drugs?"
[40:05]And her answer was profound.
[40:06]It was a brilliant answer.
[40:09]She said, "I haven't gotten angry enough to start." That's a brilliant
[40:14]answer.
[40:15]I haven't gotten angry enough to start.
[40:17]Now, why is that the case?
[40:20]Well, when children are deprived of connection, deprived of hope, deprived of
[40:25]being driven, you know, to higher stages of existence.
[40:30]What you find therefore then is that there is a disconnection.
[40:33]Now, children are the young age especially now it's getting younger and
[40:39]younger.
[40:40]They're very busy in emulating or mimicking the adults specifically in relationships.
[40:48]So you find dating gets younger and younger.
[40:51]I remember when I came to the United States in the 70s,
[40:55]you know what shocked me was to see how boys and girls
[40:59]in sixth grade are holding hands and walking in corridors or sending
[41:03]love letters to each other.
[41:04]And then of course we encourage it on the 14th of February
[41:06]for Valentine's Day.
[41:08]where you start giving hearts to each other and say I love
[41:10]you.
[41:10]I love you.
[41:11]I love you.
[41:10]It's a nice thing.
[41:13]But these kids have no maturity to understand what does that mean.
[41:16]So to them it's just very what we call material.
[41:20]It's instantaneous feeling of being wanted because children their greatest drive is
[41:28]to find friendship.
[41:29]If you ask a child what's their greatest drive, it is to
[41:34]have a friend because they feel accomplished.
[41:38]They feel secure when they have friends.
[41:41]Friendship.
[41:42]Now a lot of times these kids who gather with each other
[41:44]in terms of friendships are not matured.
[41:46]They don't know how to deal with each other.
[41:49]So there's a high tendency that they harm each other through what
[41:53]we say comments that hurt each other's feelings and then the friendships
[41:57]break and then they move on to the next one.
[42:02]Well, each time there's a breakage there is a scar.
[42:06]these children get scarred.
[42:07]I'm I'm talking about in a situation where this child does not
[42:11]go to the mosque.
[42:12]This child does not talk about God.
[42:14]This child does not read the Quran.
[42:16]This child does not have a relationship in the family to fast
[42:21]and to be God conscious.
[42:22]When children live in these environments, their life is on these relationships.
[42:27]They build their entire spectrum of uh purpose in life through this.
[42:34]This scarring leads them to to subtle forms of depression.
[42:39]They get lost.
[42:41]They don't know what to do.
[42:42]And devian starts to become their ways and all they need is
[42:48]one friend to suggest a negative behavior and it can lead to
[42:52]destruction in that child.
[42:56]Many kids who are incarcerated in prison and they committed crimes when
[42:59]you ask them how did you get there?
[43:01]They [clears throat] will tell you that it was suggested at an
[43:04]early age or they were abused at an early age.
[43:09]They were left bereff of any kind of what we call structure
[43:11]upon which to have spirituality.
[43:14]So you notice that Islam has flanked us on so many dimensions.
[43:21]the five daily prayers, the fasting, the god consciousness, the duas, and
[43:27]then we the followers of B the Shia are the most blessed.
[43:30]For we have celebrations and commemorations of the 14 mum.
[43:37]They become so crucial within our lifestyle that they shape us and
[43:44]protect us from going astray.
[43:45]that when we have wilada and we have shahada, you find that
[43:49]these are constant reminders of the purpose in life.
[43:53]Our generations in the world today, they don't have this.
[43:57]So they go hang out in clubs and they go to malls
[43:59]and they don't know what else to do.
[44:01]So you notice that boredom becomes the devil's workshop.
[44:06]When a child is bored, they become what we call subject to
[44:11]abuse.
[44:12]The reason we started the summer camp for kids very early on,
[44:18]37 years ago, I noticed this problem when I came out of
[44:20]the university, I noticed that if our kids are not given something
[44:25]to do meaningfully in the summertime, we're going to lose many of
[44:29]them.
[44:29]Now, here we just don't want to have kids running around and
[44:32]climbing walls and swimming.
[44:33]We want to have a dimension where they have that fun, but
[44:38]it's wrapped in the mercy of Allah, God-conciousness wise.
[44:41]So these kids who come to camp know how to interact with
[44:46]each other Islamically and therefore they find like-minded kids and they are
[44:51]now having fun without having these notions of getting into drugs and
[44:55]alcohol and gambling.
[44:57]This is the blessing that Allah has given us.
[44:58]month of Ramadan is a huge blessing upon us that we have
[45:04]to really reflect upon this fact that Allah subhana ta has placed
[45:08]so many blessings for us which other religions don't have you know
[45:15]Paul who's the founder of Christianity when you study him he eradicated
[45:20]these laws he rec he eradicated these rituals you know he even
[45:24]took what was haram to eat he made it halal what he
[45:29]did was it left a community in a very dangerous situation where
[45:36]alcohol eating pork and all kinds of in you know u destructive
[45:39]substances people take without any concentration did god allow this is this
[45:45]halal is this haram you notice in our general population people don't
[45:50]worry about such things whatever they are given insects they're given any
[45:54]kind of creatures that crawl animals of all types including carnivorous animals,
[46:01]they just consume.
[46:01]Whereas we Muslims are vigilant in ensuring that not only is the
[46:08]meat halal, how was this animal slaughtered?
[46:09]Allah says, "Eat that which in Allah's name is mentioned and Allah
[46:15]says certain things we have allowed for you and certain things we've
[46:18]made haram for you." We may think that Islam is prohibitive by
[46:22]making halal and haram upon us.
[46:25]But look at the reverse and how dangerous that is.
[46:27]that when you and I want to have freedom in life, we
[46:32]must institute laws.
[46:32]Laws protect freedom.
[46:34]For if we remove laws, which the West is trying to convince
[46:39]us of in a foolish way, though they have laws, too, but
[46:43]in a satanic way, they want to tell us that the laws
[46:45]of God are bad for you.
[46:49]the hijab, the salah, the the commandments of Allah, if you look
[46:53]at them, those ensure freedom, they ensure productivity for us.
[47:00]So, thank God we have a religion that warns us very clearly
[47:04]that mankind should avoid alcohol, should avoid gambling.
[47:06]But those come as a result of lack of spirituality.
[47:11]When we raise children in societies that become very what we call
[47:18]anim animalistic where your imp your impulse says I like that person
[47:22]so I'm just going to chase that person.
[47:24]And research shows that children who indulge in early dating do not
[47:29]perform well academically and they usually do not succeed in life.
[47:33]Think about that.
[47:35]A lot of research shows that people who indulge in those kinds
[47:38]of behaviors tend to fail.
[47:42]Why?
[47:41]Because emotionally they are scarred.
[47:43]You're indulging in relationships that has consequences.
[47:47]When a boy says to a girl, "I like you." And the
[47:52]girl says, "I like you." It's lovely.
[47:55]It sounds very nice.
[47:55]Then you say, "What do you do next?" That's where the real
[48:01]challenge starts.
[48:00]So those of you who are this age, brothers and sisters, be
[48:05]very careful that you may say, "Oh, that's a cute boy or
[48:08]a cute girl." Watch out because the minute you indulge in that
[48:12]direction now you're opening Pandora's box.
[48:15]You don't know what to do.
[48:18]And what is the only consequence that you're going to do is
[48:22]you're going to indulge in a haram act because your impulses now
[48:24]are going to take you into the into the shahy stage where
[48:29]you're going to become impulsive to want to have what we call
[48:32]carnal pleasure.
[48:34]If you look at the hedonistic idea of the western world where
[48:40]hedonism is pure pleasure, it leads to depression.
[48:43]It leads to drug abuse.
[48:45]It leads to gambling.
[48:45]It leads to loss of hope.
[48:49]It's very clearly shown that the ultra wealthy who indulge in these
[48:54]satanic activities are not happy.
[48:56]The Jeffrey Epstein of the world, the Bill Gates of the world,
[48:59]the Elon Musks of the world, the Donald Trumps of the world.
[49:03]You notice how no matter how many beautiful women they have, they're
[49:07]not happy.
[49:09]They want more.
[49:09]They abuse, they throw.
[49:12]They abuse, they throw.
[49:13]When does this madness stop?
[49:15]It becomes an insatiable addiction to self-destruction.
[49:20]Whereas in Islam, Allah says, "No, abstain.
[49:24]Hold on." Allah says, Marry your unmarried young ones.
[49:39]Marry them.
[49:41]Why marriage?
[49:43]What is marriage?
[49:43]The principle of marriage puts a stop to hedonism.
[49:49]Say just imagine the following.
[49:52]You're you're a teenager growing up in the west.
[49:53]I know I went through that where I was a little kid
[49:58]and everybody say, "Oh, that girl likes you.
[49:59]Oh, isn't she pretty?" You're 10 years old, 11 years old and
[50:03]these kids are already now, you know, girls are looking at the
[50:09]boys and you can see it the flirtatious behavior.
[50:12]Now, alhamdulillah, we have chemistry of attractions and it's a blessing that
[50:17]human beings have that ability to want to interact in a social
[50:24]way by which to uh become what we call have relationships.
[50:30]But you will notice that that's a biological reality children develop at
[50:35]an early age because if the society reaches maturity at that early
[50:43]age then they can practice relationships where marriage can be held.
[50:48]In the western world, it's 18.
[50:50]Islamically, it's maturity.
[50:52]In some countries, you'll find 13, 14 year old girls already have
[50:58]two kids.
[50:57]I've seen it with my own eyes.
[51:02]But see how they live.
[51:02]They are true mothers.
[51:03]These are 14y old girls who are acting like 30 year old
[51:08]women.
[51:09]They're highly matured.
[51:08]They know how to raise their children.
[51:11]You see that they are responsible.
[51:13]the boy is 16 years of age but he's highly responsible but
[51:19]that's in a culture that you have to raise a society that's
[51:22]capable of doing that in our western world that's not the ca
[51:28]the way it is to unfortunately today our young generation matures at
[51:33]a much later age because the way our cycle works we don't
[51:37]put the kind of responsible pressure on children we're just focused on
[51:42]academic pressure.
[51:43]We don't put social pressure on our children.
[51:47]Social pressure is minimum.
[51:49]It's academic pressure.
[51:49]Succeed in school, get your degree, make the money, then think about
[51:53]marriage, which is fine.
[51:57]And marriage should be as the holy prophet said, when you are
[52:00]ready to get married, you should get married.
[52:02]Marriage is, you know, is mustab it's not waj.
[52:06]But if you're going to commit an act of evilness indeently, then
[52:10]marriage becomes waj on you.
[52:12]Meaning if you have a strong desire for a relationship then marriage
[52:19]becomes waji otherwise it's mustab but you will notice that there has
[52:24]to be a level of maturity.
[52:25]My philosophy is that when children are born at an early age
[52:28]train them not to be ready to get married but train them
[52:33]to be responsible such that when they do get married soon thereafter
[52:36]children will be born.
[52:39]Now if a woman is carrying a baby in n for 9
[52:40]months, it's not easy now to indulge in academic or reflection and
[52:47]studying the Quran and you know because you are now overwhelmed with
[52:50]this responsibility of having to nurture a child.
[52:54]So I advise that children should start early on to prepare themselves
[52:57]for that moment.
[53:00]Not when children are being born, the parents are now trying to
[53:03]fix it, which is okay.
[53:04]But the ideal situation is children should be fixing themselves early on.
[53:09]Meaning parents should raise their children to be responsible and to be
[53:13]uh cognizant of their obligations early on so that tomorrow when they
[53:20]do become fathers and they do become mothers, you see that they're
[53:26]ready.
[53:27]What does that mean?
[53:27]How much Islam do children have?
[53:30]How muchhed do they understand?
[53:32]How much Quran do they know?
[53:36]These are things that we must indulge our children early on.
[53:38]If we don't, we will lose them.
[53:40]For tomorrow when they become parents, they will make a lot of
[53:44]mistakes.
[53:44]And guess what?
[53:46]If children are born, they will witness those mistakes.
[53:49]And when they do witness those mistakes, it scars them.
[53:54]Parents should never argue in front of children.
[53:58]for example, it's it leaves a mark on them when they see
[54:02]parents arguing.
[54:01]So these are all examples I give that Allah subhana ta has
[54:06]laid upon us a wonderful reality where even marriage is the sunnah
[54:14]of the prophet.
[54:13]The prophet said meaning that is the sunnah of the prophet and
[54:21]those who are against it are not from the prophet.
[54:25]Now why does Islam put that You will notice that when two
[54:27]people want to get together, even in temporary marriage, you'll find that
[54:33]the minute you propose a contractual agreement, it changes the vision.
[54:39]Your mind instantaneously shifts.
[54:41]For now, it's no longer what we call pure carnal pleasure.
[54:46]It's very interesting.
[54:48]When two people get into business, they have a coffee and they're
[54:52]drinking coffee and they talk about this great idea.
[54:55]And then while they're talking about this great idea, they say, "Let's
[54:59]start." And now the business starts.
[55:01]No contract.
[55:06]Inshallah.
[55:06]Inshallah.
[55:06]So you start a business and you say, "Ishallah." No contract, no
[55:11]agreement, no percentages, no structure.
[55:16]Are you getting this?
[55:18]Follow this very quickly because I want to touch on a very
[55:24]important subject about the Quran today.
[55:25]But this is an important point to make.
[55:28]You'll find that the business starts.
[55:30]Now watch.
[55:32]If the business does well and starts making money, [snorts] you have
[55:40]a problem because the two partners, each one will say, "Well, I
[55:43]deserve a higher percentage." Why?
[55:45]Well, because he was my genius.
[55:50]I'm the one who was at the at at the shop or
[55:50]in this business.
[55:52]I put more sweat equity.
[55:53]I used to stay one extra hour than you.
[55:56]So, I should get 70% of the business.
[55:58]The other one says, "No, no, no, no.
[56:01]You know, the most will agree up." Notice chaos.
[56:05]Flip it and the business goes bad.
[56:08]You start blaming the other.
[56:09]You're the one who caused me to go into this business.
[56:11]It was your stupid idea to take me into this.
[56:13]Notice what was the problem in both cases.
[56:16]No contract.
[56:18]When you have a contract, it's written.
[56:20]Whether you make it or you lose it, it's fixed.
[56:25]The blessing of marriage is exactly that.
[56:26]When two people indulge in relationship without contract, it's the same danger
[56:31]as that business.
[56:33]For when two people get together and a child is born, you'll
[56:36]find many a times either one or both of the parents are
[56:40]unhappy with the birth of the baby because now it's accidental.
[56:45]And when there's an accident, this poor child becomes a victim.
[56:48]I have seen so many children in my life who say that
[56:52]their parents hate them because they were born accidentally.
[56:53]I said, "What do you mean accidentally?" He said, "My parents were
[56:57]not married.
[56:58]They were just living together.
[57:00]There was no marriage relationship.
[57:02]Notice how dangerous that is.
[57:04]That even the child who was born now is condemned because there
[57:09]was no contract.
[57:09]There was no projection.
[57:13]There was no planning.
[57:13]It was an accident.
[57:16]It was pure pleasure that led to a child being born.
[57:18]Notice how dangerous it is.
[57:19]Tell me my dear brothers and sisters of wall on this pulpit
[57:26]which religion emphasizes marriage and decency other than Islam.
[57:30]Tell me.
[57:32]I've seen so many people of other faiths get married and their
[57:35]children join them in in the wedding.
[57:38]The father is holding the baby while he's now he's getting married
[57:44]to the mother.
[57:44]If that's the case, even if if that is the case, that's
[57:48]a good thing.
[57:49]At least they're getting married.
[57:50]But you'll notice, why get married after the baby is born?
[57:53]How dangerous is that?
[57:57]For there was no contract.
[57:58]So notice in Islam, gambling, alcohol, all of these are designed to
[58:04]prevent us from going into this abyss.
[58:07]Relationships, we're in the western world today.
[58:11]We encourage our children.
[58:12]I remember growing up in in in New York and my friends,
[58:18]you know, if if in a family I was I was close
[58:20]to a family and and the mom was proud that her daughter
[58:23]found a boyfriend and she's so excited because the boyfriend is coming
[58:28]home today.
[58:29]And I'm looking and I'm thinking, subhan Allah, you know, mom is
[58:34]excited that my daughter has a boyfriend.
[58:35]What kind of a mother is this?
[58:37]This is the western world we're living in.
[58:40]And I'm not saying western, it's eastern too.
[58:41]Unfortunately, it's across the world.
[58:44]When we lose hope in Allah, this becomes the standard that our
[58:50]children now are put in this dangerous pathway where there is no
[58:55]thinking contract.
[58:57]And I'm advising my young generations, please understand, you get involved and
[59:03]tangled with one person, it's going to scar you.
[59:04]You're going to have a problem.
[59:07]I promise you.
[59:07]Because research shows that 95 99% of relationships, early relationships don't end
[59:14]up in marriage.
[59:14]It's just experimental.
[59:17]So what happens to teenagers?
[59:21]They get scarred when they have had three, four, five, six, seven
[59:25]relationships where they they they dated and then they dropped and then
[59:28]they dated and they dropped.
[59:29]Each time they dropped, they were scarred.
[59:31]Those scars add up at the time of marriage.
[59:35]Now that girl who's going to get married to this boy uses
[59:38]all those scars to attack the future husband and vice versa where
[59:45]the husband attacks the future wife.
[59:46]Hold on.
[59:48]Are you sure?
[59:47]Can I trust you?
[59:48]Da da da da.
[59:49]What's your black book?
[59:51]Do you have a black book?
[59:51]And what if you did?
[59:54]Think about it.
[59:54]You got think about this relationship.
[59:55]You know, you find girls having friends who are males or guys
[60:00]having girls as friends, girl friends, not in a dating sense, but
[60:07]friends.
[60:05]Well, we go study together, you know, we hang out together, we
[60:10]go to the mall together.
[60:11]It sounds benign, doesn't it?
[60:12]It sounds very innocuous right now.
[60:18]Watch.
[60:19]So, let's say you're so used to that and since childhood, now
[60:23]you're 25 years of age.
[60:26]All these boyfriends you got and these girlfriends you got.
[60:29]It's time to get married.
[60:31]You're going to invite your boyfriends and girlfriends.
[60:34]You're getting married now.
[60:36]The girl you're marrying says, "You know, these are all my girlfriends
[60:40]and I'm going to keep relations with them." Or what are you
[60:43]going to do when you marry?
[60:44]You're going to have to drop these girlfriends.
[60:47]No wife will dare allow my husband to maintain a relationship with
[60:54]his girlfriends.
[60:54]Notice how satanic the whole idea is.
[60:58]Why do people indulge in girlfriend's boyfriend?
[61:01]No future thinking.
[61:03]For the moment, it's fun.
[61:04]We all go out, we hang out, we bump into each other's,
[61:09]you know, elbows, we hug each other, you know, habibi, you know.
[61:13]Yeah.
[61:14]Okay.
[61:15]No problem.
[61:14]around the corner, doomsday waits you.
[61:17]Because even in the western world where they hug each other and
[61:21]they kiss each other, you'll find that when they get married and
[61:25]if your husband has a secretary who goes into a room and
[61:31]and closes the door, the wife starts to be suspicious and says,
[61:34]"Hey, what's going on?" I said, "What's the problem?
[61:38]We've been doing it all our lives.
[61:39]So why now?" Oh, it's different now.
[61:44]Is it?
[61:44]You haven't trained yourself that way.
[61:46]All your life you trained yourself the opposite way.
[61:50]So what's different?
[61:50]Tell me.
[61:51]When Islam says our children should be kept within the modicum of
[61:56]modesty and then we are attacked because we're prevented from our daughters
[62:01]meeting future husbands because they're no longer displayed in parties.
[62:06]Tell me what's the solution to this problem?
[62:09]Should we expose our children so that the mothers feel happy that
[62:15]my daughter has been exposed to so many potential husbands?
[62:18]Is that how it works?
[62:19]Never.
[62:20]It never works that way.
[62:22]Thank God we have a religion that is of uprightness and modesty.
[62:36]Everything I've stated, by the way, is in the Quran.
[62:40]Everything I've stated is in the sunnah of everything I've stated is
[62:45]in the sunnah of b.
[62:45]And the reason I'm speaking this way is when you and I
[62:51]go home go into sujud all of us and thank Allah that
[62:55]we have such a religion where our children alhamdulillah inshallah will not
[63:01]indulge in alcohol will not indulge in drugs for they lace these
[63:04]drugs.
[63:05]They laced them because they want us to get inebriated even more.
[63:08]You know, alcohol is a drug, a legal drug.
[63:12]But you notice that the FDA does not regulate alcohol because the
[63:18]Europeans who came into this country, as you know, in the early
[63:24]20th century, alcohol was prohibited in the United States.
[63:26]It wasn't allowed.
[63:28]And you know, the interesting fact was that the the the flag
[63:32]bearsers of the prohibition were women.
[63:34]Women were the most vocal against alcohol in the United States.
[63:40]You study the movements of the prohibition, you will see that all
[63:46]movements, women would come out in droves challenging, okay, the legalization of
[63:53]alcohol.
[63:55]The prohibition was was managed by women.
[63:56]Subhan Allah.
[63:58]Why women?
[63:59]Because women were mothers.
[64:00]They were the family bearers.
[64:02]And they knew their husbands drinking alcohol destroyed the fabric of the
[64:08]family.
[64:08]When the husband would go out and drink with their friends, they'd
[64:12]come home and destroy the family.
[64:15]Women were most aware of this problem.
[64:18]And in America, interestingly, the prohibition was in this country up till
[64:23]the early 20th century.
[64:23]This is stunning.
[64:27]Stunning.
[64:25]the Europeans, the Germans, the Irish, okay, the British, all of them,
[64:33]they came in because in in their part of the world, because
[64:35]they're so depressed in that part of the world that their culture
[64:39]and lifestyle was to constantly go into pubs and bars that if
[64:44]you go to England, you go to Germany, you go to Ireland,
[64:46]you'll find every other block there's a pub.
[64:49]And what is a pub?
[64:52]pure.
[64:51]You're talking about regular beers as well as hard liquor.
[64:56]These people are destroying their brains, their livers, their lifestyle.
[65:01]Why?
[65:02]Why are these people so culturally that?
[65:05]It's because they abandoned Allah.
[65:07]They abandoned the rituals of salah and fasting that when you abandon
[65:13]that, what else are you left with?
[65:15]that the minute they get out of work in New York City,
[65:19]I used to go meet my clients.
[65:20]And at 4:30 in the evening, in the in the evening, all
[65:23]the all the bars are full.
[65:27]They called it happy hour.
[65:28]And then these people go in and they get drunk for two
[65:30]hours before they go home.
[65:33]It was a classic rule.
[65:34]Monday to Friday in my university, Thursday night, kegs, beer kegs would
[65:40]be rolling in our campus.
[65:42]beer.
[65:43]I'm talking about 50,000 gallons of beer a weekend.
[65:47]That was how much my university was consuming.
[65:50]And my university wasn't the biggest university.
[65:53]About 22 23,000 students.
[65:55]And I witnessed it.
[65:58]I was watching this.
[65:58]Allah says, "Watch travel.
[66:04]Watch what I have given you." And I would watch these university
[66:08]students who on Sunday night would take coffee and go into the
[66:13]libraries because now they had hangovers and they had headaches and then
[66:17]Monday they start again to fill the brain which on Thursday they
[66:21]destroyed.
[66:22]This cycle was satanic to me.
[66:23]I saw it.
[66:25]It's the same thing that happens everywhere.
[66:29]You find that in the western world they legalized alcohol in such
[66:32]a way that they took it out of the FDA regulation.
[66:36]And now you find you go to supermarkets two, three, four isles
[66:41]of alcohol.
[66:43]Not one aisle.
[66:43]You have one aisle of vegetables, one aisle of drinks, you know,
[66:47]soft drinks, but three, four aisles of alcohol.
[66:51]I always wonder why do they have three, four isles?
[66:55]because Allah is telling me that's what they consume.
[66:57]The consumer, remember these supermarkets would not make three, four aisles if
[67:03]there wasn't a market for it.
[67:04]So I look around and I'm seeing that my population around me
[67:11]is constantly drinking alcohol and they're drunk.
[67:14]And this to me is pro highly problematic.
[67:17]Alhamdulillah.
[67:19]Now, now I'm seeing, by the way, the new generation is realizing,
[67:24]thank God, because of the data that's coming out that they're moving
[67:28]away from alcohol.
[67:31]The alcohol consumption is reducing.
[67:32]Thank God.
[67:34]I see the new generation is becoming more more acutely aware of
[67:39]this even about sexuality.
[67:39]The new generation now is becoming more aware of indulgence in sexuality.
[67:45]But the social media, the the the pornography world is now inundating
[67:50]them with freebies to make sure that that's what's being controlled.
[67:56]And the irony is one of the biggest pornographic sites is owned
[68:01]by a rabbi.
[68:01]Think about this.
[68:04]How absurd is this that the satanic world is so intermingled within
[68:09]the institutions of so-called religion that they know how to control humanity?
[68:14]Muhammad Muhammad.
[68:19]>> I'm shifting subjects now, but I want you to pay attention
[68:24]because yesterday I talked about jealousy and it's a behavior that we
[68:27]need to focus on and I'm going to touch on it very
[68:31]briefly.
[68:29]The verse I recited is in Zumar, the verse I started with
[68:34]and I'll translate it.
[68:35]Allah has revealed the best announcement.
[68:37]The Quran is the best announcement.
[68:39]All this that I mentioned, the Quran has warned us of this.
[68:46]Right?
[68:44]You will notice that if Allah didn't send this book, Allah says,
[69:01]"He it is who sent from among you your prophet." Here is
[69:07]the unlettered prophet.
[69:09]The prophet who was unlettered, meaning Allah taught him.
[69:12]He didn't go to school.
[69:12]He didn't get his uh ability to read and write and education
[69:20]from anybody.
[69:17]Allah taught him.
[69:21]He recited the signs.
[69:29]Okay?
[69:26]Purified you and taught you the law and gave you wisdom.
[69:34]Allah says before this you were in utter darkness.
[69:37]So Allah is once again telling me the Quran is also that
[69:40]that if Allah did not reveal the Quran, you and I would
[69:44]have been in utter darkness.
[69:45]Here Allah says Allah revealed the best announcement, a book confirmable in
[69:50]its various parts, repeating where at do shutter the skins of those
[69:54]who fear their Lord.
[69:56]Then their skins and their hearts become pliant to the remembrance of
[70:00]Allah.
[70:01]Meaning you become soft.
[70:01]you become you'll have you start to to to bow towards Allah
[70:10]because the Quran just melts the heart.
[70:14]Then Allah says this is Allah's guidance.
[70:17]He guides with it whom he pleases and as for him whom
[70:21]Allah allows to go astray, there is no guide for him.
[70:25]Now notice that the Quran does not follow chronological arguments.
[70:33]You'll find all books written by human beings typically have chronology.
[70:37]You know if you read for example fairy tales it starts in
[70:41]the beginning.
[70:43]You'll start the story starts from the early age.
[70:44]This is what happened.
[70:47]It's chronology right?
[70:47]Even in the Bible in the beginning you know God talks about
[70:50]chronological.
[70:50]The Bible is chronological.
[70:52]It talks about the initial mission up to the end up to
[70:57]supposed crucifixion of Christ.
[71:02]For example, the Quran violates all of that.
[71:03]The Quran does not follow chronology.
[71:08]It violates.
[71:07]It goes to the present, to the future, to the past.
[71:13]It's constantly shifting.
[71:12]Quran never completes a story.
[71:14]You'll find that the story of MS is scattered in the Quran
[71:20]in various chapters and you have to go and catch each one.
[71:23]You're wondering why does the Quran violate chronology?
[71:27]Why doesn't the story end?
[71:28]Why does one part say one thing and then another chapter continues
[71:31]with that story and then another one continues like the story of
[71:36]Adam for example and El there are so many chapters in the
[71:40]Quran that talk about the event of El and Adam.
[71:43]The only chronology the Quran typically follows is Yuf.
[71:46]You'll find the story of Yuisam starts with Quran.
[71:54]We're going to give you a great story.
[71:59]It's a story which is magnificent that in the Quran in Yuf
[72:05]which is the 12th chapter of the Quran Allah describes the story
[72:08]of Yu how as a child where Yu says to his father,
[72:22]"I had a dream of 12 planets bowing to me and the
[72:24]sun and the moon bowing to me." Notice Ysef's father, Yakob, says,
[72:34]you know, do not reveal this to your brothers.
[72:40]I will touch on it briefly on the principles of jealousy and
[72:43]you will see just the story of Ysef is so elegant with
[72:46]reference to what I mentioned yesterday about Hassad.
[72:49]But I'm I want to stress on this important point because this
[72:54]is information that's important in this month of Ramadan.
[72:56]So forgive me if I am connecting multiple dots at the same
[73:00]time but it's all the same.
[73:02]As Allah mentions in the verse I mentioned in Zar, Allah says
[73:05]they're conformable in parts.
[73:06]So when Allah is talking about the spider or if he talks
[73:11]about the insects or he talks about the sky, the moon, it's
[73:14]all connected one.
[73:16]What is one?
[73:16]The authority of God, the of Allah subhana tala, the mercy of
[73:23]Allah, the signs of God, the purpose of life, the prophethood, the
[73:26]mission of prophethood, the importance of guidance from prophets, the importance of
[73:32]guidance from the ones who come after the prophet who are the
[73:35]laminum.
[73:36]Quran is constantly addressing that and at the same time Quran is
[73:39]always reminding us that you are on a trial.
[73:43]So make sure you behave for what awaits you tomorrow is the
[73:47]day of judgment.
[73:47]The day of judgment is crucial crucial crucial crucial.
[73:51]So these three major components are constantly being mentioned in the Quran.
[73:55]But you will notice that the Quran the reason it violates chronology
[74:00]is because the Quran is a book of morals.
[74:06]So let me stress on this very carefully.
[74:08]You will notice Quran is not a story book.
[74:10]Quran is not a book of science although science is in it.
[74:16]Quran is not a book of prophecies although prophecy is in there.
[74:19]The Quran is not a book of um no matter how we
[74:25]look at it, you'll find the Quran is all of the above,
[74:30]but they're constantly shifting Muhammad.
[74:38]>> Why is that?
[74:40]Because the Quran is the book of morals.
[74:47]The Quran guides you to that which is most upright.
[74:51]Can you can we just cut that out, please?
[74:54]Because it's very disturbing.
[75:05]>> Shut the door.
[75:07]Close the door.
[75:18]So now let's examine if I talk about morality, what is morality
[75:24]built on?
[75:26]Goodness versus evilness.
[75:28]If I say to you 10,000 years ago there was this man
[75:33]who gave charity to the poor and fed them.
[75:36]Okay?
[75:36]And then I talk about an insect doing something.
[75:41]And then I talk about the planets.
[75:43]You will notice that they're all built on moral arguments of goodness
[75:47]and therefore there is no need for chronology.
[75:51]Quran doesn't follow chronology because it doesn't need a sequence.
[75:54]What is chronology by the way?
[75:56]Those of you are wondering chronology means it follows from past to
[76:00]present to future.
[76:03]Quran doesn't follow that.
[76:04]Okay, it's very important to understand that.
[76:07]The reason is because Quran is a book of morals.
[76:09]morals is what the Quran is focusing on.
[76:11]Not stories, not science, not prophecies, none of the above.
[76:18]It's a book of high moral standards.
[76:21]And when you talk about morality, you don't need time.
[76:23]So if I tell you 10 million years ago there was a
[76:28]creature who did something good, you don't care how far it away
[76:31]it was because it's the goodness that matters.
[76:34]If I tell you tomorrow XYZ will happen in goodness or evil
[76:39]will happen, it doesn't matter about tomorrow.
[76:41]What matters is the good versus evil.
[76:44]You will notice that good and evil have no time relationship.
[76:48]And the Quran is a book of morals.
[76:49]Therefore, it violates time.
[76:53]It's it's it's the only book in the world that is presented
[76:56]this way.
[76:57]It's the only book.
[76:57]But Allah says notice from to there's no disconnection at all whether
[77:05]Allah talks about the universe when Allah says for example indeed the
[77:13]Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests.
[77:19]Why does the Quran say and what is two east?
[77:23]There should be just an east and a west.
[77:24]Subhan Allah.
[77:26]Allah is telling me that the earth is spherical.
[77:29]It's not flat.
[77:29]That's why Allah calls two east and two west.
[77:32]Quran is now telling me scientific matters.
[77:35]But notice is mentioned into it.
[77:41]Right?
[77:42]Allah is telling me that the earth is spherical because when something
[77:46]is spherical then it has multiple easts and multiple wests.
[77:51]It's brilliant in the Quran.
[77:53]Allah is describing scientific matters.
[77:55]But once again showing me his authority and telling me how matter
[78:00]really is.
[78:01]This is brilliant.
[78:01]When you look at the Quran in terms of the birth of
[78:06]a child when Allah says we created, we raised mountains for example,
[78:10]right?
[78:26]Notice in this Allah mentions we made the the heavens without pillars
[78:33]that you can see means you cannot see forces there are forces
[78:38]there are centrial forces centrifugal forces they're attractive forces all kinds of
[78:44]forces that keep planets in spa in where they are located but
[78:48]Allah says meaning they're not visible.
[78:50]They're invisible.
[78:53]We raise mountains so that the earth should not convulse because the
[78:58]earth is not a perfect sphere.
[79:00]It's egg-shaped.
[78:59]So when you spin it, it will wobble.
[79:01]Allah says we raise mountains to balance the wobbling so you don't
[79:06]feel the speed of the earth spinning.
[79:09]Notice it's a very pure scientific terminology, right?
[79:11]And then Allah says we bring water from the sky and we
[79:15]make the belly of the earth grow.
[79:17]and how much blessing you get.
[79:20]Pure science.
[79:21]But then Allah says this is what God created.
[79:28]Show us what anyone has created.
[79:32]Notice two aspects instantaneously working together outside the jurisdiction of time.
[79:35]One is the physical reality of God's mercy upon us and the
[79:41]divine authority of God.
[79:42]And the profound question Allah is asking is there anyone other than
[79:46]me that made this.
[79:50]So notice the authority of the mercy of Allah the blessings that
[79:52]you and I have all are within this prescription.
[79:57]Subhan Allah all at one shot and it is not bound in
[80:00]time.
[80:01]This is the rahma of the Quran Muhammad.
[80:07]Now Allahha subhan Allah says that you know um he he he
[80:17]tells us about the Quran.
[80:21]So I want to now just um Muhammad Ali Muhammad this Quran
[80:31]Allahh mentions in Isra something very interesting.
[80:48]This is in.
[80:51]Okay.
[80:52]Verse number 88.
[80:52]Listen to what the Quran is saying.
[80:57]This is very interesting.
[80:57]Now Allah says, "If mankind along with the jin, as you know,
[81:00]jin are creation made of fire.
[81:03]If they combine together to bring the like of this Quran, they
[81:10]could not bring the like of it.
[81:13]Meaning Allah is challenging mankind that all mankind, okay, all you get
[81:22]together and bring us something similar to the Quran.
[81:28]Allah even challenges that if you can't then bring 10 chapters like
[81:32]this.
[81:33]Forget about the whole 114 chapters.
[81:35]Bring 10.
[81:36]Allah says they will not be able to though some of them
[81:39]were aiders of others.
[81:42]Now the Arabs of the prophet's time were experts and they could
[81:46]have easily taken this challenge and they tried.
[81:49]In fact there were some expert poets who tried to bring the
[81:52]Quran or similar to the Quran to challenge it.
[81:55]They were they became a laughing stock of the Arabs.
[81:59]The Arabs started laughing at them because it just wasn't confirmable in
[82:04]ethics, in rationality, in reason as the Quran 14 centuries that stands
[82:09]until today.
[82:11]Even with Chad GPT, even if we took all the AIS put
[82:14]together, even we took the ASI, okay, meaning the artificial super intelligence,
[82:20]combine it, they will not be able to produce a Quran like
[82:26]this.
[82:25]Researchers have said in Arabic in poetry there are 16 Bihar.
[82:31]Bihar meaning seas.
[82:35]Each poet each system of poetry is bahar is a sea.
[82:39]There are 16 types of Bihar in Arabic.
[82:42]Every expert in Arabic will tell you if you study the language
[82:48]of Arabic you will see there are 16 versions or types of
[82:51]poetry in the world in Arabic.
[82:57]The Quran violates all 16.
[82:58]It doesn't observe any of them.
[83:01]It has its own unique strategy.
[83:03]Quran has rhythm rhythm in it.
[83:06]The Quran has its own pros and style but it violates all
[83:12]existing human capacities.
[83:12]This has been noted by Arab grimarians who are not Muslims or
[83:16]Christians.
[83:17]Now study it.
[83:20]You will notice that the best Arabic in the prophet's time were
[83:24]the Bedawins.
[83:26]The Bedawins had the best form of Arabic in the time of
[83:29]the prophet.
[83:30]The Arab, the the the Arabs of the desert, they had the
[83:33]best Arabic.
[83:34]That that is why it was it was traditional for children to
[83:41]be sent to the desert to learn language.
[83:42]But there was no structured grammatical ordinance in Arabic.
[83:47]After the Quran was revealed, it became the standard of grammar.
[83:52]So think about it.
[83:56]Arabic was there before the Quran.
[83:56]Allah says in this Quran was revealed in Arabic so you understand.
[84:04]But the Quran comes in Arabic to the people but it becomes
[84:09]the standard of grammar for humanity.
[84:11]Just think about it.
[84:11]You go to any university in the world, you go to a
[84:15]Christian university that is Arabic and ask them what is the standard
[84:18]of Arabic, they will tell you the holy Quran Muhammad Muhammad.
[84:25]>> So I just wanted to make this point subhan Allah that
[84:29]until today nobody has been able to make a copy of the
[84:33]Quran.
[84:32]You look at religions as I mentioned 100,000 of them.
[84:36]You go read the Bhagad Gita.
[84:37]Go read the Sanskrit.
[84:39]Go read the Bible, the Old Testament, the New Testament.
[84:41]You read the Talmud.
[84:44]No comparison.
[84:46]It's human concoction.
[84:50]There is vileeness in it.
[84:51]There is u vulgarity in it.
[84:54]There is gross violation of human rights in them.
[84:57]But the Quran is none of the above.
[85:00]The Quran is universal.
[85:05]Quran addresses Jews, Christians, and savians.
[85:12]Quran is now addressing by name people of other religions.
[85:17]There is no scripture in the world that mentions other religions in
[85:22]their books except the Holy Quran to prove the point that Allah
[85:25]is the universal lord of all of mankind and that he's addressing
[85:32]all of mankind.
[85:31]when when Allah says or Allah says you will notice the Quran
[85:41]is addressing all kinds of people in all different structures and strategies.
[85:44]So I just wanted to make this a very important point since
[85:47]these are the last days.
[85:49]I think it's important for us to have this under our belt
[85:52]to understand that the Quran is the only book that is structured
[85:55]so well and as I mentioned the 114 chapters of the Quran
[86:01]I think this is very important to understand was put together by
[86:04]the holy prophet himself.
[86:06]People say that after the prophet the Quran was assembled.
[86:10]These are lies designed to give credit to those who usurped the
[86:15]will of Amir.
[86:16]Okay?
[86:16]They're they're designed and you will notice Mut Ascari who was a
[86:22]great historian who died recently who has written a lot of history
[86:25]on all the the Khalifas even Aisha and so on.
[86:29]He says whenever you see any hadith that is chronological where there
[86:32]is the first Khalifa, second Khalifa, third Khalifa, you know this is
[86:37]what we call anacronistic meaning it was written later on in time
[86:41]to give credit to the preceding.
[86:42]Somebody wrote it later in time.
[86:44]It wasn't the prediction because there is never a hadith of the
[86:50]prophet that ever mentions the four kiffs in sequence because they didn't
[86:54]exist.
[86:55]They were not the case to be.
[86:56]There is not a single hadith of the holy prophet ever mentioning
[86:59]the four khalifas in sequence.
[87:01]Never.
[87:02]There's no such thing.
[87:03]Anytime you listen to any hadith where there is a sequence of
[87:07]the first khalifa, second khalifa, third khalifa, you know it was a
[87:11]time of muawa and thereafter somebody has written it thereafter.
[87:13]Meaning it's a concoction of the human mind.
[87:17]The Quran on the other hand is such a sublime book that
[87:23]it was put together.
[87:25]Allah says, "It is upon us to collect it.
[87:32]It is upon us to reveal it to you and it is
[87:35]upon us to protect it." So Allah says the collection, the protection,
[87:42]right?
[87:40]The recitation, it's all in the Quran.
[87:43]So it is common sense for us that Allah is the lawgiver
[87:49]and he ensures that the religion of Islam is perfect because Allah
[87:53]would never say these terminologies of only comes after every piece of
[88:04]the equation is put in its place by the command of Allah.
[88:07]Meaning that the Quran was entirely put together structured in the 114
[88:12]chapters exactly where it is.
[88:13]Imam Ali Alisatam who was one of the scribes of the Quran
[88:19]put the chronology in terms of when the Quran was revealed.
[88:21]The 96th chapter came first and the last one came is the
[88:26]110th chapter and each one that came imam was describing why it
[88:29]came where it came when it came and what it was revealed
[88:34]for in the context of what it was.
[88:37]He wrote that as they said that Imam Ali proposed this Quran
[88:41]to man and man rejected it.
[88:45]I don't believe that is the case.
[88:47]Imam Ali would not present such a Quran because the Quran was
[88:50]already intact.
[88:52]Imam Ali would challenge if anybody destroyed the Quran.
[88:54]He would go after anybody who tried to adulterate the Quran.
[88:59]But there was no need for the Imam to present anything because
[89:01]the Quran was complete.
[89:02]The idea that the Imam now proposes a Quran to Oman implies
[89:07]that there was no Quran before.
[89:09]Think about this.
[89:11]Okay?
[89:12]If IM Ali Alisam did propose that it was only to add
[89:16]the power of knowledge to the ummah to say that this Quran
[89:19]which was revealed, let me show you its essence so that the
[89:24]taps is built by us.
[89:24]But I want to make one critical point in this matter.
[89:30]The obligation in Islam is that we have nua and we have
[89:34]what we call immedah in both sequences you will find everywhere in
[89:40]the Quran where there is an im orifa it is preceded by
[89:44]the word jalah jalah in Arabic means to appoint to make misam
[89:52]is saying to Allah Make my brother my helper.
[90:03]Notice very profound.
[90:03]Mus Alisam was an ulam prophet meaning he was a nabi.
[90:09]He was a rasool and an imam and he brought revelations to
[90:12]mankind.
[90:13]So Mus Alisam among the five is a meaning he is very
[90:18]high among all the prophets.
[90:20]When Allah says to him go to Fon, I want you to
[90:25]pay attention please because this is crucial.
[90:27]His brother Harun was a Nabi was already appointed as a prophet
[90:33]of God.
[90:35]He was already an appointee.
[90:36]Do you understand this?
[90:37]Pay attention please.
[90:39]Very important.
[90:39]And to that world out there that's listening to this who may
[90:43]be from different schools of thought, focus on this please because we
[90:48]seem to have gotten a bit sidetracked in this matter.
[90:51]Mus Alisam is told by Allah go to he has exceeded he
[90:59]has exceeded his boundaries.
[91:02]Now all Mus Alisam has to do is look at his brother
[91:05]says come on let's go because he's already a prophet.
[91:13]He's already a prophet and he's a rasool im.
[91:15]He doesn't need permission from God.
[91:19]God has already given him permission.
[91:20]Notice he says Mus Alam is talking to God now.
[91:32]Okay.
[91:32]Oh Allah expand for me my heart because this is a heavy
[91:39]task.
[91:39]Think about this.
[91:40]It's really powerful.
[91:42]It's profound.
[91:41]You find that Allah subhana t now is showing us in the
[91:47]Quran that Musam is begging Allah to expand his heart because he's
[91:50]going to come in front of and make my brother my helper
[92:00]why why is he asking Allah to make Haron his brother Harun
[92:03]is already a prophet notice the caliphate when it is chosen by
[92:07]people a prophet cannot appoint another prophet how did we point anybody
[92:12]h Quran is so profound in its beauty that when you examine
[92:18]it it's magnificent so you notice that the role of our imams
[92:23]is to protect so and what is the role of an imam
[92:28]to guard to guard the message they don't bring new messages they
[92:32]reflect the message and they protect that's why the prophet said I
[92:38]am the uh city of knowledge And Ali is the gate, right?
[92:42]And whoever wants to enter the city must come through the gate.
[92:45]So the role of Imam Ali Alisam and the 11 imams is
[92:49]to guard the message of the prophet.
[92:51]Clear?
[92:52]So now the message of the prophet comes from where?
[92:56]From his sunnah.
[92:56]Yes.
[92:56]But what is the most profound thing he left us?
[92:59]The Quran.
[93:00]So here's a very quick point I want to make before I
[93:04]end.
[93:03]You'll find that if the Quran was not collected or the Quran
[93:08]that we have in our hand is not correct, then don't we
[93:10]agree that the role of the imam has been nullified?
[93:13]For the imams have allowed an egregious mistake because if the idea
[93:18]was that the Quran had to be collected after the holy prophet,
[93:22]it was a huge breach.
[93:23]Number one that what the prophet meant by leaving us with the
[93:28]Quran, people would be stupified.
[93:29]What Quran?
[93:28]As I mentioned the other day, Quran was left.
[93:31]It was left exactly as the way it is.
[93:34]It was structured the way it is.
[93:39]In fact, our Sharia says that if you readil in salah, you
[93:41]have to read in salah together.
[93:44]Meaning that if you're going to recite fat and you read in
[93:50]your prayers, you have to read also Qur.
[93:53]It's waj.
[93:51]Why?
[93:52]If you look at feel and they're next to each other.
[93:56]So I think it's 10 108 and 109 or something like that.
[93:58]the two you'll find these two are together.
[94:01]Why are they together?
[94:03]Because Allah is proving to us that this was already put together
[94:06]by Allah subhana tala.
[94:06]And the imams would never allow a false Quran to spread.
[94:11]So I'm just stressing on this point that when you and I
[94:14]hear that the Quran was collected and that man burnt all the
[94:19]wrong Qurans.
[94:18]No, these are all fabrications and lies and they absolutely violation of
[94:25]Allah's intrinsic law.
[94:29]I've run out of time tonight.
[94:32]I'll continue with this recitation inshallah tomorrow with reference to the story
[94:37]in the Quran about jealousy.
[94:38]And I want to stress on the importance of jealousy specifically with
[94:43]reference to the story of prophet yuisam.
[94:46]You will see that Allah describes various angles in the Quran about
[94:53]human misbehavior when it comes to our feeling envy.
[94:55]People use the word envy.
[94:58]Envy is also jealousy.
[94:59]By the way, when people say, "Oh, I envy you." Don't use
[95:04]that word.
[95:03]Please don't use that word.
[95:06]I envy you.
[95:05]There's a negative implication to the term envy.
[95:09]People say, "No, envy is not as harsh as jealousy." No, it's
[95:14]bad.
[95:12]Say, okay, say, "I admire you." Why do you envy somebody?
[95:17]I envy that you can do you can read Quran.
[95:21]I envy that you're so smart.
[95:22]Don't say that.
[95:24]say I admire the fact that you read Quran.
[95:26]I feel blessed that you read.
[95:28]Why can't we use positive terms?
[95:29]Let's not use the word of jealousy.
[95:31]Let's not use the words of envy.
[95:33]I think these are negative characteristics that should be avoided.
[95:36]But as I mentioned, you will see the story of prophet Ysef
[95:41]tomorrow when I describe it.
[95:42]You will see that these are children of prophets and they did
[95:46]a very very evil thing.
[95:50]But look how Allah flipped it.
[95:52]And the story of Ysef when Allah says, please pay attention for
[96:01]if you want to feel touched for to me my life when
[96:06]I when I was growing up, the story of Ysef touched me
[96:08]so much.
[96:09]I continue to have the the resonance and the vibrations of the
[96:12]life of Yuisam until today in my life.
[96:14]And I pray that I continue to have it until I die.
[96:44]My respected brothers and sisters, let's pray for our Muslims who are
[96:49]fighting a vicious war, a war that's going to decide hak from
[96:53]bat.
[96:53]Honestly, this is existential in nature.
[96:55]Forget about what the world has to say.
[96:59]This is an existential battle almost mimicking the footsteps of Kbala.
[97:03]And you and I need to pray to Allahhanaa to grant victory
[97:06]to the people of justice.
[97:09]There's a beautiful point somebody made.
[97:12]Somebody asked this Arab and said, "Are you Sunni or Shia?" And
[97:14]the Arab looked at this community and says, "You are all wrong.
[97:17]It is not about Sunni or Shia.
[97:20]Why don't you ask me if I'm on justice or injustice?
[97:22]That is the question you and I should be asking.
[97:25]Let's not go around asking people, are you Sunni or Shia?
[97:27]Are you Christian or Jew?
[97:30]Say, are you on justice or are you for injustice?
[97:32]That's the kind of question you and I should be asking because
[97:36]religion and diversity of religion is here to stay and we need
[97:39]to respect all variations of of iman or people have.
[97:43]It's it's not upon us to to what we call enforce religion
[97:46]on people's hearts.
[97:48]It is for us to discuss it and to have dialogue but
[97:50]it is upon us to encourage each other justice against injustice because
[97:54]Allah loves people who are the peacemakers.
[97:59]Inshallah we are among the and inshallah soon as I mentioned soon
[98:05]because this battle started right around the time of the battle of
[98:08]Badr and I think it's very profound for the battle of Badr
[98:13]was won by Imam Ali Alisam and Hamza ibn Abd Muttalib these
[98:16]two put the momentum together and they saved every battle IM Ali
[98:21]saved he saved Kandak he saved every battle and we ask Allahh
[98:28]by by the power of and By as what the angels say,
[98:33]there is no youth like Ali and there is no sword like
[98:37]Zulfikar.
[98:37]That by that prayer we ask for justice and equity on this
[98:41]earth.
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