okay question number
one you bag the consumer
Society I don't know it's you bag it
that must be Australian
right but be realistic is there a Betha
model do you really believe that today a
society government by sharat gives it
away must be
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Turkish I suspect this guy might be part
of the Camal ATA
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Brigade do you really believe that today
a society governed by sh won't have an
economy and employment
PTO you believe money will grow on trees
in a sharat dash Islamic Society I don't
think so exclamation
mark yes mashallah definitely the Cal
atat Turk Brigade
U
um I I don't know I
suppose first of all I think you know
this uh individual you know may Allah
have mercy on
you um should read history should read
history because um if you read history
you will find exactly how economically
successful and how incredibly
Advanced the Muslim Society was when it
was governed by the laws of Allah
subhana wa ta'ala
it was Muslims who
practically invented
science it is Muslims who practically
invented or made possible modern
mathematics it was a Muslim government
that was so wealthy and an Empire that
was so
wealthy that when Omar IB
abdulaziz who they some people call him
the right the fifth rightly guided
kff had to distribute the zaka money he
found nobody poor enough in the whole of
the Muslim empire which stretched from
China to the edge of of Africa what is
now
Morocco all the way up into the north of
Spain and into France and down into
Africa this was the
extent of the lands of the Muslims and
in all of these lands you couldn't find
anyone who was poor enough to receive
the zaka this was in a society governed
by the
Sharia in
fact the reality is if we look at the
Muslim countries today in spite of their
desperate attempts to secularize themsel
and I think turkey being a prime example
of that okay but most of the other
Muslim countries as well have actually
achieved virtually
no
economic higher status than they were
before in fact we couldn't look at these
societies and say oh what models for the
rest of
humanity we couldn't say that at all but
when the Muslim lands were governed by
the
Sharia the Muslim empire was a light of
civilization and knowledge to the whole
of the
world it was a light of civilization and
knowledge to the whole of the world
people traveled from Europe to Muslim
Spain to study in the University in
Muslim
Spain in
Corda they had Lighting in the
streets a library and a bath on every
street at a time when the Europeans
considered it unhealthy to take a bath
more than once a
year it's
true in fact I have a friend of mine in
England he used to belong to a fascist
party called the BMP we have this party
in England called the British national
party the
BMP they're the you know like the
Nazis you know they believe that the way
to success in life is to get rid of all
the
pakistanis Negroes Turkish and anyone
else Arabs get the all out throw them
all out and England will be great again
this is the ideology
right anyway
as he was studying and reading
history he started
to realize something very
strange he began to realize
that when the world of
Christianity abandoned
Christianity they began to advance
technologically but when he looked at
the Muslim world he found
that when the Muslims were following
Islam they were
powerful and they were technologically
advanced when they left Islam they
became downtrodden and
humiliated and became backward he said
this is
extraordinary what sort of religion is
this because he had always this idea in
his head that religion necessarily must
take you back backwards but when he
looked at the history of Islam he found
the opposite he found the Muslims went
backwards when they left
Islam so the facts of History
contradict what this individual has
stated and from some of the other
questions we have to understand
something
here and I thought this was myself I
thought but it just shows something
maybe clear to you you but it doesn't
mean you made it clear to everybody
else you know I have not meant to in any
ways condemn earning a lawful
livelihood involving yourself in trade
that is
lawful to establish businesses and so on
and so forth there is no harm in this at
all this is a good thing no it's more
than good that it can be an act of
worship
for Allah it's something that Allah
loves and pleased is pleased with that
his slaves should seek his bounty in
this Earth but what the point I was
trying to make in this
talk was that the difference
is the difference
is that the consumer Society it is its
whole total philosophy that the man is
purely a material being and that
happiness itself comes from surrounding
yourself with material
possessions in other words you work in
order to live work in fact is the life
money is the
life not that you work to live but you
live to work you live in order to work
in order to get money so that you can
enjoy this is not the position of the
Muslim
the Muslim Works in order to
live so that what is enough to maintain
him and his family is
sufficient he doesn't need to exhaust
himself he doesn't need to destroy
himself he doesn't need to give himself
a heart attack when he's 40 years old
cuz he's so stressed out from his work
because work is only in order to
maintain himself and his
family and he does as much as is
necessary and then he will spend his
time that he has as he can to worship
Allah to read and study the Quran to go
to the mosque to spend time with his
family his
relatives to pursue some type of lawful
keeping yourself healthy and strong is
all part of something that is approved
of and loved in
Islam but all of this it's to do with an
attitude and an outlook on
life this is the
difference this is the difference the
muslim's attitude and the muslim's
Outlook is quite
different so this has not been a talk
about you know you shouldn't work it's
not a talk about we shouldn't try to
become Advanced technologically and
materially no this is not the point but
we do not believe that this is the
purpose of life we do not believe this
is the be all and end all of life we do
not make it our aim and we do not make
it our goal it is something we do by the
by okay you have said that it is the
biggest sin to worship others apart from
Allah this is what Allah himself says
this is what Allah himself
says do these others include being
slaves to fashion and work etc please
clarify for me this is a very good
question the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam
said woe be to the
worshipper of the dinar and the
Durham so the prophet sallallah
Alam described some people as being
worshippers
worshippers of the DIN and the
Durham so what is the condition what is
the
difference is it impermissible to dress
in clothes that are
fashionable is it impermissible to earn
money no this is not
impermissible but what is impermissible
is to reach a state of
obsession in fact we could say
enslavement to it where you are happy
when you have it if you have money you
are happy when you're getting money you
happy when the money is not coming you
are
devastated when you have the beautiful
clothes and you wear the latest fashions
you're happy you feel elated and when
you don't you feel like you're like life
is nothing this is the condition of
someone who has reached a condition that
is we could say like that they have made
this thing a rival to Allah their
happiness and their well-being is just
attached to
that so the worshipper of money will not
care where they get their money from
whether it is halal or Haram they don't
care as long as they get
it this is a sign of the person who is a
worshiper of
money whereas the Muslim will never take
their money except from the source that
is
Hal look and
allow so this is the sign the sign of
the person who is the worshiper of the
money is that this is what makes them
happy and
sad whereas the believer if they have
wealth they are happy and they are
grateful to Allah and if they don't have
wealth they are still happy and content
and they are still grateful to
Allah because their
heart is not enslaved to it so the
condition of the believer is that the
believer may have wealth in the hand but
the wealth is not in the heart it could
be in the hand but it is not in the
heart the good things of this life may
be in the hand but it is not in the
heart that is the
difference so this is where we draw the
lines between the people who are slaves
to Fashion slaves to money slaves to the
slaves to themselves and their passions
and their desires and those who are
slaves to Allah subhana
tala Sunday my parents are forcing me to
go to a wedding
he says can I use force and belt
them so it says maybe I can't read
properly that's something there and uh
it says PS my parents in the audience oh
gosh um if you mean by this if you mean
by this your parents are forcing you to
get married to somebody that you don't
want to get married to then this is
Haram to do
that and this is not from the religion
of Islam and this is not permitted in
the religion of Islam and if this person
means by that then I will tell you
categorically now it is not permitted
for your parents to force you or anybody
to force you a Muslim woman or a Muslim
man to marry somebody you do not want to
marry if you agree to this marriage you
have no no one to blame except yourself
don't come crying to isar 3 months later
I didn't want to do it but they fored me
Subhan Allah fear
Allah fear Allah your rights Allah has
given you your rights if you throw away
your rights then you throw away your
rights you have to stand up for the
truth so if this is what you mean that
they're forcing you to get married to
someone you don't want to get married to
then you should refuse and you have
every right to refuse and they have no
right to foree
whatsoever if that's what you mean but
if your parents are telling you to go to
a wedding you
know it's I don't know you know it is
you know you're supposed to accept an
invitation the prophet
said that whoever believes in Allah in
the last day should accept an invitation
if they're invited especially to a
wedding they should accept it as long as
there is not something Haram taking
place like free mixing of the Sexes or
the playing of music with the
accompaniment of musical instruments
singing of the women is permitted in the
wedding to the accompaniment of the D
which is a single tone drum but
music with instrumentation and that type
of stuff if that is taking place then
you have two choices either you will go
there and you will prevent the evil from
taking place in other words you must
make sure that the Sexes are separated
and the music is
stopped and if you want anyone to help
you you can call the guys you know what
comeing I think I think the thing is
that that might not be the wise thing to
do so um and you know so otherwise if
you can't do that you should not go to
the wedding you should not go to the
wedding and whether your your parents
are forcing you or not well you know I
don't really know what to advise you but
if you can get away with it that's
better okay how about working for money
to survive in life we dealt with that
working for money to survive in life is
good so worship for Allah as long is Hal
it is something that Allah loves and is
pleased with and and the prophet
sallallah alai wasallam said that the
honest Merchants are with the prophets
they're with the messengers of God
because to be an honest Merchant is
extremely difficult Okay so so being an
honest Merchant earning an honest
livelihood is something that Allah loves
and approves of and it is an act of
worship taxes and it goes on taxes on
interest are Haram but it's to live
without paying these things yes alhamd
is well I don't know about taxes you
might if you try without taxes you might
get arrested and put in jail you know so
you know inshallah it's permissible to
pay the taxes but if you can avoid it
you know I mean I don't want to be
arrested here you know
whatever right but Ian accountants spend
their lives telling their you know
bosses how to avoid taxes so if you can
get around it one way or another that's
good there's no problem in that
okay
um okay A friend of mine uh asks can the
Quran be proven to be the true way
inshallah it can absolutely and
definitely be proven and uh if you want
to find out more about that come to
Sunday's lecture Sunday's lecture will
be about the proof of the divine origin
of the Quran how can we prove that Islam
is the True Religion it's what the talk
is going to be about
okay if one realizes the true purpose of
life but is not happy because his
desires hinder him from worshiping God
what does one do to be happy how does
one overcome something which is so
powerful
well I hope coming to this talk you know
as a start in the right direction a lot
of it is to do with realizing the
reality that worshiping your
desires is not going to make you happy
because your desire desires will never
ever be satisfied they will never be
satisfied as much as you try to satisfy
them they will demand more and more and
more and you know there's there's not
much more one can say except to remind
yourself that the true happiness lies in
worshiping Allah and what you have to do
is take those first steps towards
becoming a worshipper of Allah that's
what you have to do and you start by
praying five times a day fasting the
month of Ramadan giving the
zaka giving in charity and so on and so
forth so these are the steps that you
start to take towards that path it's not
going to be something that's going to
happen immediately it can't click your
fingers and everything's going to change
it's going to take struggle it's going
to take effort this is the reality of
life it's a Jihad it's a struggle it's
an effort but the end goal is worth it
and and all of us realize that we
understand that's the reality of life
that you have to work for something in
order to achieve the benefit of that
thing so you know what I suggest to to
this person is you have to start start
by praying five times a day this is the
first place to start and then you go on
from there you go on from there trying
to do more and more and more of the
actions of
I how youth can spend and enjoy their
life in in
Australia
right okay the first thing I want to say
is really and
truly the real pleasure you know I you
it's something you can't describe to
somebody what is the pleasure how does
it feel the pleasure of being a
worshipper of Allah how does it feel the
pleasure of walking or treading a Path
of Knowledge to learn about Allah and to
learn about his religion what is the
pleasure of inviting people to Allah's
religion what is the pleasure of seeing
somebody who you've been talking to
change from being a bad Muslim to being
a good Muslim from being a non-muslim to
being a Muslim how can you describe the
pleasure of those things all I can say
is if you taste the sweetness of that
that is what you will all you will want
with your life and you will never be
happy if you you do those things and you
leave them I know Brothers in England
brothers who used to be in England and
they used to be involved in da involved
in cooling people Muslims and
non-muslims back to the religion of
Islam and they left England and they
went to live in a Muslim
country they went to live in a they got
a nice job living in a Muslim country
nicely looked after so on and so
forth and when they come back to England
they say we miss England not because
there's anything particularly nice about
England right but what they miss is the
da what they miss is calling people to
Islam how can you explain the pleasure
of these
things you know this is the the
sweetness of faith when you love for the
sake of Allah when you hate for the sake
of Allah when you give for the sake of
Allah when you withhold from giving from
the sake sake of Allah when Allah and
his messenger are more beloved to you
than anything else when you would rather
be thrown into the
fire then return back to
disbelief how can you describe the
sweetness of this the happiness the
contentment that someone would rather be
thrown into the fire maybe that
describes it maybe that describes it how
happy and peaceful and tent is someone
who would rather be thrown in a fire
than go back to being a disbeliever once
they are a
Believer how much happiness do you
want how much enjoyment do you
want so this is the thing sometimes
again we're caught up in this mentality
we feel we have to enjoy ourselves you
know do something to enjoy ourselves but
the real pleasure and the real enjoyment
is going to be in wor shipping
Allah so if you spend some time I don't
know going on a I don't know going walk
out you know whatever right I don't know
or I don't know taking some physical
activity but even when a Muslim does
these things when a Muslim does for
example like I don't know go you go and
play soccer or I don't know you go and I
don't know go camping or something even
then the believer will do these things
with the
intention that it is going to be a
worship for Allah that this break will
make you come back and make you stronger
in worshiping Allah that even when you
do these things you will be remembering
Allah you'll be make yourself fit and
you'll make yourself strong so you can
be stronger for the worship of Allah so
this is how the life of the believer
becomes so that everything is a worship
for Allah because Allah created us to
worship him so that is the whole life
should be you're sleeping and you're
eating even as the prophet said you will
get rewarded for going and having
relationships with your wife and the
companion said oh messenger of Allah
Allah will reward us for sleeping with
our wives and the prophet said if you
did it in a Haram way wouldn't Allah
punish you and they said yes so if you
do it in the Halal way Allah will reward
you Subhan Allah this is the
completeness of Islam you
know so that's a way to enjoy yourself
get married
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in okay recomend for
everybody this is a good question here
how do you respond to the statement
religion is the opiate of the
masses wow someone's been reading the
Communist Manifesto by KL marks then
it's
amazing you know the way I respond to
that is that yes that's true religion
can be the opiate for the masses in the
sense that false
religion religion that has become
fossilized like
unfortunately is the case with so many
of us it's become merely a matter of
formality and
tradition yes then this type of religion
isn't opiate it is isn't opiate it dulls
the people it dulls
them and in fact it is just another type
of false
consumption another false fantasy that
people live in But True Religion the
True Religion which is the religion of
Islam is not an opiate in the sense that
it makes the people dull and
inactive and not involved in
changing the evil and promoting the good
because all we we need to do is look at
the history of the prophets all of the
messengers were callers to Virtue who
struggled and strived and
sacrificed their time their lives their
properties in order to bring people to
what is good and what is right and call
them away from what is evil and what is
wrong look at Maham how he went to far
let the children of Israel go inviting a
Faron to worship Allah
look what they suffered and look what
they went through this can hardly be
described as an
opiate the same with Muhammad s.
wasallam look at his life look at his
history so this is I think how is one
way inshallah to respond to
that H you mentioned the consumer
Western Society are the Muslim societies
any less consumer orientated referring
to the Muslim today's Muslim
countries no I I don't think they are I
don't think they are in fact it seems
that the Muslim countries are falling
head Long Head Over Heels trying to
imitate the west and to run after the
west and that is mainly because they are
totally unaware of the
reality they think that you know Western
Society is what they see on the
Satellite Dish they see bayat
right and they think you know it's all
nice and you know very nice
and that's what they think that's what
they think they're going to get they
watch all this fantasy they watch
Independence Day you know and they think
fantastic we want some of that but the
reality is it's not like Hollywood it's
not like
Hollywood and and you know it's
remarkable I don't know about here but
in England we have a lot of brothers
coming over from Morocco and
Algeria and I know the brothers over
there the sisters as well have this
image of the West this glorified image
of the West almost literally as if the
streets are paved with gold this is the
idea they have I remember one brother
telling me that in Egypt for example
they Pro they have this propaganda that
in England yeah they have one tap for
water one for milk and one for
honey that's what they think right so
they have this idea right and in fact so
many brothers come from Algeria and
Morocco and these places and they come
thinking and they go to the discos and
they do this and they do that and they
come and bit by they start seeing the
reality of what it is really actually
like and mashallah so many of them start
practicing Islam and they start
practicing it very strongly which they
never did in their countries because
they saw for themselves the reality of
the situation they saw for themselves
what it is really like they look behind
you know the makeup and they saw the
reality of what is behind is an ugly old
bag all right yes thank you very
much have a mobile phone music session
now
anyone I remember one guy had ba
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony playing on
his mob was
fantastic right
okay oh we done that one
okay ah oh this is a nice question oh
yes what
advice do you have for the University
students enslaved to the
education and then the good job that is
projected out by te Etc
yes that's you see I you know I don't
like you know the Western you know
University I don't call it education you
know what you get in your school you
don't get education you get
indoctrination that's what you get it's
an indoctrination system you're not
educated you're indoctrinated as one of
my great friends his name is Abu sufyan
he's an afro car brother if you think
I'm sort of uh should hear him speak
anyway and he says as he says that what
does he say
actually it's going to right out of my
mind it's really going to Right Out of
My Mind Subhan
Allah anyway as I said it's not
education it's
indoctrination so you know I think that
you have to approach this with extreme
caution I'm not saying don't get a
University degree I'm not saying that
but and I'm not saying don't be educated
of course we must be educated of course
we must be qualified in fact Muslims
should be the most educated and the most
qualified they should be really because
it will be a means through which the
people will look at us with
respect and if you do it for that
reason that you wish to
uplift in the eyes of the community the
Muslim Community want them to look good
in the eyes of the community in other
words this is something that is
beneficial it's something that will be a
worship for allaha but you have to
understand that you have to understand
that and you have to be aware because
most of the people in reality who go
into this indoctrination system is
that's exactly what happens they get
they don't get educated they get
indoctrinated and that's now I remember
what my friend said right he said you
can give people freedom of speech when
you don't teach them how to think if
people don't know how to think you can
let them say whatever they like and
that's the reality people are not really
taught to think they are not taught to
think they are
information but to actually know how to
think to examine to analyze on a broad
level this does not take place in the
vast majority of
cases so then give them freedom of
speech why not because they'll never
really
understand so I caution you definitely
and I caution you not only concerning
yourselves but certainly and even more
your
children what are you putting your
children into what environment are you
putting your children into their
environment is Christmas Christmas time
oh you didn't celebrate Christmas you
didn't get any oh poor you didn't get
any Christmas presents oh dear oh well
maybe next year you know then Christmas
comes by then what is it it's
Easter oh you didn't get Easter eggs you
didn't get chocolate Easter eggs and
then it's the next thing Australia Day
or I don't know whatever right one thing
after the other comes and this is what
your children have to go through they
have to go through this
feeling as if they're missing out on
everything you know and then Eid comes
and what do we do we take them around to
see the
relatives mashallah give him a good time
you
know so really this is the problem it's
the problem so we need to really open
our own Muslim schools and our own
Muslim universities but that is going to
take effort it's going to take time it's
going to take money it's going to take
dedication but if you want to save
yourselves and your families from the
fire if you want your children and your
great grandchildren to stay Muslims
you're going to have to make that effort
brothers and sisters you're going to
have to start with yourselves you're
going to have to start with setting the
good example
yourselves you know this is very
important so for that
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question I leave that question there oh
dear what do you have to say about
makeup you know I have been made
Infamous throughout the whole well I
wouldn't say the whole world right not
yet I'm getting there right for my
comments about makeup because they're
particularly rude and
unpleasant however the truth must be
spoken
so I give everyone an opportunity to
leave now and save embarrassment
later you see makeup now myself
personally I cannot understand why women
want to put on makeup all right I mean
whenever my wife puts on makeup I said
what have you done to
yourself I said you look beautiful
beforehand now you put all this stuff on
yourself you know you know I know she's
trying and this but you she looks great
without it I don't know why she puts it
on right anyway if a Wife puts on makeup
for her husband you know and he likes
that and it is in the privacy of their
own you know amongst themselves that is
alhamdulillah it's okay okay I wouldn't
say it's
encouraged you know but it's okay it's
permissible
inshah however for women to wear makeup
outside the home where
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non men and strange men can see her this
is not permitted is not
permitted and this is now my famous
Infamous comment that I make but say
lipstick now there's a fact that must be
known about lipstick particularly the
red color of the
lipstick now the lipstick has a very
unfortunate
connotation now you all know
baboons and you know why baboons have
red
bottoms because the red bottom of the
baboon ad advertises its sexual
availability okay and it is a fact it is
a scientific fact that when women become
how can I
say
excited
yeah actually this is a fact their lips
their lips their lips the blood flows to
their lips and their lips lips become
red this is a fact when women become
excited that's what happened so happens
so actually lipstick is actually
artificially stimulating that same
process so it's actually saying it's
actually making a statement and you
might not even know this actually you
might not even know this but actually
it's through the body language and
that's we read each other's body
language it's actually saying that the
when you put lipstick on you make your
lips red it actually is saying to the
man who sees it I am excited by you
okay so like I say I don't think it's
appropriate for Muslim women to go with
baboons buttons on their
face anyway no but seriously and it is
serious point this is actually something
that is true it's a scientific fact that
I'm telling you so it's not correct for
Muslim women to you know put lipstick on
and uh that type of stuff because it is
not appropriate that they should give
that type of message rather the
believing women you know and the
believing men they should lower their
gaze and you know how Allah subhana tala
has ordered the believing women to cover
themselves to draw their outer garments
over their veils when they leave the
house so the woman should wear a which
is a veil and over that she should draw
her jilbab which is the outer garment
okay and it should be loose fitting and
should not show the shape of her body
and the reason for this is that so
people may know she is a believing woman
because that dress makes a statement it
makes a statement that this woman is not
interested in the attentions of men in
that sense of the word okay and it
forces her it forces people to treat her
not as a sex object not as an object of
sexual attention but it forces people to
treat her as a human being this is the
statement that her dress makes and this
is amongst the great beauty of the
Muslim woman's dress and I think wearing
makeup and lip lipstick would be in
contradiction to that so Allah knows
best what do you say about people who
worship
footy I'm this is not anything to do
with um f Is It Anyway some people
practically walked out of the lecture to
see what the scores
were
this as close as I've come to
tears I just hope that's not any of the
brothers from
Isco that's it guys you know you
finished all right
um I think you know uh you know it is a
bit sad isn't it you know you know like
train spotters you know that's what it's
a bit like people like that you know you
know there's little people who wear
anars and spectacles and they so oh
there's a 14623 b m and they write it
down little thing yeah I mean they're
sad they're a bit sad right and people
who have to leave a lecture you know to
go and see football scores that they
could find out half an hour later on the
radio they're a bit like train spotters
you know so may Allah guide them have
mercy on them
and
poor
people alhamdulillah alhamdulillah I say
really truly alhamdulillah Allah saved
me from that you
know there's too much laughing going on
here I'm going to get serious now
does okay that the question we've
answered that one sort
of a lot of people Turkish people love
Ataturk is this a form of
worship
Ataturk was an extremely thoroughly
unpleasant nasty
cfer he was a Jew he was a
Jew and Not only was he a Jew he
belonged to a sect of the Jews that even
the Jews think are far
astray this man came and destroyed Islam
in
Turkey he secularized turkey
he ordered the women to take off their
veils and as everyone knows until this
day you can't go to university in Turkey
if you wear a veil you can't get a job
in government if you wear the
hijab and this man Cal took the Arabic
script and changed it for the English
script so I don't think except Kamal
atatar is burning in Hellfire right now
along with far and all the other great
tyrants that have lived upon the face of
the earth and the way that anyone loves
a man like this I think anyone who loves
him reveres him or respects him cannot
be a Muslim they cannot be a Muslim
unless they are totally ignorant about
him and they don't realize these facts
but to know these things and to love
such a man absolutely negates Islam it
negates Islam in Islam you are
absolutely required to hate all that is
evil and all that contradicts the
religion of Islam and in fact I can't
think of a single figure in the Muslim
world who stands out in this Century as
the antithesis of Islam the opposition
to Islam like this
man most Turkish girls will only marry
Turkish guys very nationalistic yeah yes
that's true but anyway it's up to them
if they like Turkish
guys mashallah alhamdulillah that's good
there's nothing wrong with Turkish
guys so
alhamdulillah but I don't think anyone
should feel that they have to marry
someone from their own race
inshallah we think it is a good thing
that people should marry from different
races alhamdulillah because Allah made
us into tribes and Nations so that we
could get to know one another so we
could share and benefit from one another
not so that we could hate and despise
one another but alhamdulillah if Turkish
girls like Turkish boys
mallah that's
fine that's your
choice
correct okay there's a question here
which I just answered about why why
there are so many races
alhamdulillah did you know that Pepsi
has a great new
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taste
okay this this one's going to make you
laugh even more I think is it haram to
go and see Titanic four
times
so that's not that's not it guys wait
now you know because I did it says PC go
watch it because it's GL it's sad when
Jack
does you know guys I tell you something
right I I I probably someone at least is
going to probably want to assassinate me
after I what I'm going to say here but
um you know I don't really get very sad
when you know a non-believer dies I mean
I'm sad that they die a Believer you
know at that on that level I'm sad you
know but you know the prophet Sall
alaihi wasallam said when someone dies
bury them quickly if it's a good person
you will hasten them to good and if it
is an evil person you know you will be
rid of them you'll be rid of them so y
you know we say that when someone who is
a non-believer especially someone who is
a caller to disbelief and I mentioned
for example two particular personalities
that died recently Lady
Diana and Mother Teresa both of them
Ardent callers to disbelief in Allah
subhana wa ta'ala so alhamdulillah I
remember when my dad came I actually I
was staying with my parents and my dad
came down and told me you know in the
early in the morning you know that lady
dies died you know I said alhamdulillah
you you know alhamd
is it a sin to desire these things on
this this uh what is it a sin to desire
these things on the side
IE okay is it a sin to desire these
things in other words you want the
things of the world is it a sin to
desire them is it a sin uh to want for
them
money
um flashy houses clashy houses flashy
houses
Etc um I don't think it's uh it's not
Haram to want for the good things of
this life alhamdulillah it's not Haram
to like the good things of this life
this is some of the bounties and the
blessings of Allah and as long as having
them makes you grateful to Allah as long
as having them makes you grateful to
Allah but this is what is important you
have to understand brothers and sisters
that wealth very often can lead you to
be ungrateful to Allah and wealth is not
always a blessing from Allah wealth is
not always a blessing from Allah
sometimes Allah bestows wealth upon
people in order to punish them in order
to punish
them and they become and they go astray
because of it so sometimes wealth can be
a source of misguidance and in fact some
of the companions of the Prophet when
they received wealth they behaved as if
a Calamity had come to them a Calamity
had come to them because they realized
that it was a test and that's what we
have to understand brothers and sisters
that this world is a test and the things
of this world is a test if we use it for
good and we use it to be grateful to
Allah and having it makes us more
grateful to Allah alhamdulillah it is
good it is good but if it makes you
forget Allah it makes you forget to
worship Him and Obey him then it is is
bad and it's that simple alhamdulillah
so if you desire it in the sense that
you know you expect that these things
money and a nice house or something even
a nice car whatever if it will make you
grateful to Allah alhamdulillah it's
good you know but if it is something
that's going to lead you astray it's not
it's going to be something
evil okay
this actually quite this is quite a good
question here right are denim jeans okay
to wear even though they are a symbol of
the western youth culture similarly
slacks which are a symbol of Western
capitalism Western
capitalism okay um is it haram oh it's
very we should be very careful to say
something is Haram
to make something Haram is a big thing
and only Allah and his
messenger have the right to say or to
right to make something Halal and to
make something Haram however generally
we can say that the prophet both Allah
and his
messenger have warned us from
imitating those people who do not
believe in Allah and do not follow the
religion of Islam
because if you begin to dress like a
people you surely soon will begin to
imitate them in your actions one thing
almost inevitably is going to follow
from the
other so although we can't say that to
wear you know the Denim and this type of
stuff is Haram it is something that it's
a good point the questioner made it is a
symbol you know of the Western youth you
know and so on and so forth so you know
inshallah it's probably better for you
and your religion not to try to follow
those type of Fashions and those type of
things but to say it is Haram this is a
big thing to say it is Haram but
generally we should be cautious of
imitating and seeking to imitate and
trying to make ourselves look like those
people who are the people of unbelief
and this is an extremely unhealthy
attitude and the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam said the people you are
imitate the people you imitate you are
one of them so the people you imitate
you're one of them if you wear jeans
because I don't know that you're just
comfortable and you just wear jeans and
you know you're not trying to imitate
them and trying to look like them
alhamdulillah but this thing where you
want to look like them you want to
imitate them the way they dress you want
to dress so on this is very dangerous
it's very dangerous ous because
inevitably you will start to behave like
them you know you're going to be
embarrassed to grow your beard you know
that beard sort of gets in the way of
being you know fashionable right you
know I mean you know a big beard you
know doesn't quite go does it you know
the same with the hijab you know it
doesn't quite go you know so you have to
be careful because then you're going to
go down a very slippery
slope are women allowed to take part in
wi Lima in segregation and why are not
women invited to Wi Lima I have no
idea um they are permitted to um uh take
part in the wi Lia and um why they're
not invited I don't know I have no idea
it must be something that happens down
under here you
know is every type of music not allowed
in Islam okay music music you know the
talk was again like I said not supposed
to be a talk mentioning all the proofs
and the evidences as to why music is
prohibited in this on that but anyway
very
briefly Inari the prophet sallai wasam
he mentioned that my um my nation will
try to make lawful three things which I
have made unlawful and one of the things
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
mentioned was musical instruments
musical
instruments okay also the prophet
sallallah alaihi
wasallam when his son Ibrahim
died he started to cry and shed tears
and the companion who was there and who
was with him at the time said oh
messenger of Allah haven't you forbidden
this meaning haven't you forbidden this
crying and the prophet said
no this is from
compassion but I have forbidden to two
sounds which are
imbecilic and sinfully Shameless fer
imbecilic and sinfully Shameless one the
sound of a voice to the accompaniment of
musical instruments and the other the
sound of waiting with the accompaniment
of tearing the hair and renting the
clothes so what the prophet meant by
that is by the second one is the wiing
over the dead that comes with you know
like that and tearing the clothes right
which the prophet called it kufur he
said it's kufur he called it in this
Hadith in theic and sinfully Shameless
and the prophet also from this clearly
forbade the sound of a voice to the
accompaniment of musical instruments so
singing to the accompaniment of musical
instruments there is no doubt that this
is Haram and the prophet condemned it in
the strong type of
language okay
however the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam permitted
singing in the
weddings and he permitted this the women
to sing in fact he encouraged them to
sing in the weddings and to accompany it
with the duff the duff is a type of drum
that has a single tone it's a single
tone drum so the prophet allowed the
singing in the weddings of the women he
also allowed singing on the Eid of the
young girl the young girls when I say
young I mean below the age of you know
maturity so these girls are permitted to
sing in the
Eid then how about other types of songs
like Islamic songs which are sometimes
called nids for example are these
permitted then Scholars differed about
that some of them like iMed he said it's
good it's permitted and it's good it's a
nice thing if these songs contain the
praise of Allah subhana wa tala or you
know such things alhamdulillah uh this
is good and he permitted it however
others like for example Imam Shafi he
didn't like it at all in fact he used to
say about song generally he said song
resembles the vein and lo lo loathsome
thing vein is useless and loath some
hated thing it resembles the vein and
loome thing and no one partakes of it
frequently except an incompetent fool
whose witness is to to be rejected this
is what Imam shaffi thought of people
who used to sing a lot so we find that
again if we look to all the four schools
of thought all of the
imams uhb Shafi Malik Abu hanif may
Allah be pleased with all of them and
have mercy on all of them all of them
forbade music and all of them declared
it to be Haram Abu hanifah in fact
allowed that if someone heard music
coming from a house they would he
allowed them to go into the house and to
destroy the musical instruments in the
house this is the position of Abu
hanifah so um this is clear from both
the sayings of the Prophet s wasallam
and from the position of the imams uh
concerning the music and alhamdulillah
what is allowed from it and what is not
allowed from
it there's a question here h
is it haram if you are
gay you shouldn't laugh maybe someone
doesn't know maybe someone really
doesn't know okay first of all I don't
like to use this word gay this word gay
to use it is already to be fooled by the
propaganda of these
people okay this word is used in order
to make this evil and vile Act
acceptable in
society they should be called at least
homosexuals this is the
least better to use a more derogatory
term like sodomites this is a better
term sodomite refers and therefore
automatically brings to mind in the
minds of the people Sodom and gomorah
which are the two towns to which Allah
sent the prophet
Lam who indulged and they would first
people to indulge in this evil and vile
act which Allah severely criticized and
condemned in the Quran and Allah
destroyed utterly these towns of people
because of their participation in the
act of
homosexuality okay so I ask you to refer
to the verses of the Quran in that
regard and read for yourself what Allah
subhana wa ta'ala says about them
however we want to say something and
it's important here
if
somebody for one reason or another
partakes in Acts of homosexuality
whether it is a woman with a woman or a
man with a
man then this does not make that
individual an unbeliever it does not
take them out of the fold of Islam there
is no sin there is no sin except
sh that removes you from the fold of
Islam
this is the consensus of all of the
scholars of
Islam that there is no sin which takes
you out of the fold of
Islam except
shik
however if you
believe that homosexuality is
permissible and it is all right to be a
homosexual then this takes you out of
the fold of Islam and you become a cfir
because does anybody who makes Halal
allowed or good something which Allah
has made Haram and forbidden then they
have made them equal to Allah they have
taken upon them
themselves the making of Halal andam
which is only belonging to Allah subhah
wa ta'ala so whoever competes with Allah
with that has made them a rival with
Allah and they have taken them out of
the fold of
Islam
there's a good question here but I'm too
embarrassed really to to I shouldn't be
shy
right allahar anyway there's no shyness
in the dean so I don't want to anyway
let's read it there's
allahar okay here we go take a
glass
even trying a lot of
times I can't stop
fantasizing about
girls please advise me the easiest way
to give this evil habit there I did it
it's a bit sympathetic there you
know okay so um
right the easiest way number one is not
to look at
girls the prophet
Allah subhana he told us in the Quran to
lower our gaze to lower our
gaze this is something that is ordered
by Allah subhana wa
tala the the first
look the first look is permitted and the
first look does not
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mean that's just one look no the first
look is you know you're walking or
something you see and then you lower
your eyes straight away this first look
is forbid This Is
Forgiven okay but these eyes that look
and this is the same for the women to
look at the men and the when men to look
at the women they're the arrows of Shan
with which Shan kills the
heart every time you look it is a sin
and every sin puts a black spot on your
heart and you will keep sinning and keep
sinning until your heart becomes
covered and this is the rust that Allah
talks about that covers the heart and
makes the person heedless of Allah
subhana
tala
so this is the first step in order to
help you the Second Step as the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam said oh young
men marry if you are
able for it will help you lower your
gaze and guard your private parts
so marriage is something that the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam has
ordered us with oh and it's an order it
is an order if you are able in other
words if you have reached the age of
maturity where you are physically able
to have intimate relations with a woman
that is ability and number two you have
a dwelling you have a place where you
can live you are therefore able
according to the Sharia definition you
have become
able therefore you are ordered to get
married you are ordered to get
married if you are not able it is still
permitted for you to get married it is
still
permitted but obviously you're going to
probably have to seek the help you know
of your parents or something if you
can't find a dwelling or something like
that of your own then you know you're
going to have to come to some
arrangement there but you is it still
permitted and still good for you to get
married if you are not able to get
married then the prophet sallallah alai
wasam he
ordered devote yourself to fasting
devote yourself to fasting because it
weakens the sexual passions and this is
true for the men and the women okay this
applies for the brothers and the sisters
okay devote yourself to fasting and
devoting yourself to fasting does not
mean only fasting the month of Ramadan
right it means that you you fast I would
say probably at least twice a week at
least on the days that are Sunnah the
Monday and the Thursday but even more it
would be better to fast once every other
day a day you fast a day you don't fast
a day you fast a day you don't fast this
will be better for you if you are not
married and you are finding this problem
even if you are not finding this problem
it is better to to do this and Allah I'm
not defining what devoting yourself to
fasting is but that is my opinion it is
better for you fast a day break fast
another
day okay this is the way in order to
inshallah solve this problem that you
have someone asked about masturbation is
it permitted
okay
and masturbation and Allah knows best is
only permitted as to so as to speak in
an absolute emergency
okay okay because if it was permitted
generally if it was permitted generally
as a way to avoid this problem yeah then
the prophet Sall alai wasallam would not
have said devote yourself to fasting he
would have said you know something
appropriate relieve yourself you know
whatever the appropriate manner right
that the prophet would have chosen the
best words to use alhamdulillah but he
said devot yourself this is one of the
clear proofs or one of the proofs anyway
that is used to say that masturbation is
not allowed because otherwise if it was
allowed the prophet would have suggested
this as a solution however the prophet
did not suggest it as a solution however
one of the scholars IM Ahmed H he said
that if it is you know to prevent
yourself absolutely from fornication in
other words you know unless you relieve
yourself you are going to fornicate
then it is permitted to do it okay but
it should not be a means that you use in
order to you know uh Release Yourself
from this problem
okay there's a question here we've
already answered the question about
makeup right um and there's also a
question about piercing of the body okay
um yeah I can't you know tell you
actually you know I'm not really sure
whether this I I can tell you that I
know some Scholars have said and I've
heard from some Scholars that they do
not allow the piercing of the body
except for ears except for earrings even
nose studs they don't allow it and they
say that this is defacing the creation
of Allah subhana wa tala is is what they
say but Allah subhana tala knows best
Allah Knows Best
it is not allowed to pluck the eyebrows
this is certainly not allowed and this
is clear in fact Allah has cursed the
women who pluck their eyebrows they have
been cursed and that's what the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said plucking
the eyebrows is forbidden okay and this
is defacing the beautiful creation of
Allah subhana taala and trying to change
the creation of Allah but as for you
know the piercing then this is the
scholars
reasoning that he says that this is Def
facing the creation of Allah but Allah
knows best
anyway Allah well you know some brothers
and sisters claim that dancing to music
keeps them fit like
aerobics and they say a good Muslim is a
fit one
and what do you say about this thank you
yes it's true that the strong believer
is preferred to the weak believer
although in both there is good the
strong believer is preferred to the weak
believer although in both there is good
but this does not justify you know
dancing to music because music is Haram
and there are many many other ways
alhamdulillah to take exercise and to
keep yourself fit uh that does not need
to involve those
things is drawing Haram drawing if you
mean drawing faces of people or figures
of
animals uh in which you can clearly see
their faces then yes this is Haram it is
not allowed to draw any living thing in
fact the prophet sallallah Al wasallam
said the worst people on the day of
judgment will those will be those who
drew figures or who drew living
things and that Allah will bring them on
the day of judgment and Allah will say
to them did you try to to create when I
was alone the creator of the heavens and
the Earth and then Allah will order them
to put a soul into that thing which they
drew which they will never be able to
do okay smoking drugs is this allowed or
is it
haram anything which intoxicates is
Haram as the prophet s. wasam said in
authentic narration in Muslim and s that
anything which
intoxicates is
Haram is all is sorry everything which
intoxicates is and is wine so anything
which intoxicates you then the ruling of
wine applies to
it and that is that it is forbidden it
is forbidden and it is extremely
forbidden in fact the prophet sallallah
alai wasall called it the mother of
evils intoxication drinking wine is is
the mother of evils and whoever drinks
wine or whoever intoxicates thems their
prayers will not be accepted for 40 days
their prayers will not be accepted for
40 days even though you are still
obliged to pray because there is two
matters here number one the obligation
of
praying that obligation Remains the
other is the reward and the benefit and
the acceptance of the prayer the first
one Still Remains with you and for 40
days you will lose the second one to
abandon your prayer Al together then
this would perhaps take you out of Islam
and if you died like that then you may
be among the Eternal dwellers of the
Hellfire so the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam severely warned people
against intoxication and marijuana
hashish okay any of that stuff acid
heroin
cocaine
ecstasy Valium all of those things they
are Haram they are Haram they are Haram
and smoking them injecting them anything
this is not
allowed should we
um we'll leave it there
inshallah thank you for all your
questions