A lot of Selena there we go sulla salam o alikum hooter light ricotta hamdulillah hamdulillah wa salatu salam ala sayyid and i wanna be ni wa mawlana muhammad wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallim wahoo – a local who died were to call well i thought i was inaudible on I
Mean Allah who – I look at backward Hoberman your head boku bahaminy yokore buna ela public hamdulillah thanks for having me in the Windy City it’s warm I’m very happy it’s warm hamdulillah hope it stays that way till I go back to Dallas and sha Allah know all jokes
Aside is my first time being at Darussalam and masha’Allah you know we don’t realize the blessings that Allah subhana WA Ta’ala has given us many times you know the scholars say that the darkest place is the place right under the candle you know the darkest place is the place
Right under the candle the candle shines light all over the country all over the room but the area that’s right adjacent to the candle is the area that is dark sometimes the reason I’m telling you is that you know you’re sitting at a candle that’s giving light to the whole country
Giving that divine inspiration that divine light make sure you step in the in the light don’t sit in the shade sometimes being too close you don’t realize what you have so I just want to remind myself and remind everyone to benefit from this weekend of absorber Sahaba is the greatest blessing in Islam
The greatest blessing is sohe companionship and that’s something I’m going to talk to you about this evening in sha Allah Ta’ala and I’m sure all of us have heard over and over again that the primary Felina that the Sahaba were given they weren’t called Hafez abu bakr and mawlana such-and-such they were
Called a Sahabi just because of the one that they kept presence with just because of the one they kept presence with because the hearts joined together Allah subhana WA Ta’ala he says why testimo bihabli allahi jami an wa rotifer rokku world Karuna Mottola alaikum it consumer Alif of a Nakuru becomes bottom
Bhanumathi he wanna our respected elders have given me the topic of talking about something which is extremely important being Muslim Americans it’s it’s the Brotherhood that that unites us we’ve all heard of all the the hadith that talked about the importance of us being together but many times that’s not
Realized in our communities I’ll share us personal incident you know I I went to all-white high school before I accepted Islam so I was the only black kid and as I was going into school I kind of had the impression that you know I’m gonna be the only black dude in the
School it’s gonna feel kind of weird you know all of these white kids I’m gonna feel I’m gonna stick out I’m gonna feel weird I had one impression but the moment I got into that environment I realized something and that same realization I realized when I came into Islam too when I went
In the real that the thought was that I’m black everybody else is white and I’m going to I’m gonna be different but you know allah subhanaw taala says in the quran cassabaum jimmy o ma fuluo whom chef that allah says regarding the disbelievers that were fighting against
The prophets i said them that you think all that their hearts are together they look like they’re together but hooloovoo home shefte but their hearts are all dispersed they’re all on different things so when I went in I realized that yeah you all they all looked white but
Once I was in that environment I realized oh a whop is something different than a right and I start to hear this kind of like oh he’s this he’s that and I’m like what you’re all white to me but when you’re in that environment you’re like oh okay so y’all
Don’t roll with y’all okay I get it so I’m not I’m no longer just the minority because toques Abu Jamil what hooloovoo home Chetta all on different things so the interesting thing is you know a condor walks in the mush it toss up a whom we won’t read the first
That is for the who fought on the muslims but the similar thing is there you realize that oh he’s from this gown he’s from Surat right if I say it correctly he’s from what is it oh yeah right there like yeah yeah yeah yeah those dudes over there yeah him over
There right you get inside and you like whoa hold on oh yeah he’s from you’re both from the same Sioux mod you both from the same Ethiopia nah but you know my clan don’t roll his clock it’s a power law so it’s really important for us to have this
Conversation because the prophets I said to them he said in a hadith that we all know very well you won’t enter Jannah until what till you love one another till you want love one another and in the verse that I just read Allah subhana WA Ta’ala is speaking about this
Blessing Watusi mooby’s habil allahi jami an wa that’s a fabric ooh the main thing we need to understand as a community is that we cannot survive as individuals in the society our iman won’t thrive we need one another we have to work together what kuru is and it consumed our done
Talking about who else in Hazara CH see understand this in order for Iman to grow brothers and sisters there has to be an environment conducive to that growth and that Brotherhood is what’s necessary so let’s look at this very closely one of the first things that the
Prophets I seldom does when he arrives in medina is what most of us know about the establishment of the the Masjid but the Masjid won’t survive by itself it needs an environment within which it can grow and thrive so what’s the second or first thing that the prophesied Salim
Does in Medina he establishes that Brotherhood now understand this the people who were in Medina before were at war for generations they were at each other’s throats for things that were forgotten many generations back one person hurts someone another person came back and now the war is still going but we don’t even
Know why we’re fighting anymore but amongst those people Allah subhana WA Ta’ala says where I left a vein of alluvium through the blessing of Islam through the supper of the prophets I said lamb Allah subhana WA Ta’ala bless this these people with one of his greatest blessings for a spittoon vineya
Mati he iguana first bottom bhanumathi he iguana by the blessing of Allah subhana WA Ta’ala he blessed you and gave you what Brotherhood amongst one another so the point I’m saying here is that we need to recognize that this blessing of brotherhood is something that has been slipping from our
Communities because of the minor differences and fik issues in in in oliwia something better than this my teacher says that your teacher says this this Facebook personality over that Facebook personality community has been very very shut that you know Imam Ghazali rahim of allah o allah imam
Ghazali rahim of allah in Illuma dean which is something all of us should you know be studying itself is a blessing so it’s one of the margins it’s one of the kurama’s of our allama adama dean amazing amazing and shake me bombuh or him o allah he wrote the entire area
Moon atom in a poem called methodical genin the whole area Sheikh Ahmed bomba from where who knows where he’s from synagogue masha’Allah he wrote the entire area in a poem the whole thing hey you know and he has a section where he talks about whoo-whoo-whoo he thought has a section where he talks
About this blessing of hora and I’m going to go through some of what he says in this with you with the point that we take away and understand that whatever blessing Allah has giving us it has it has who hook it has rights the the family you have the wife and
Children you have they have hook on you right the wealth you have it has a hook on you the knowledge that you are learning as to lab it has a hoe cuckoo has hack on you there’s a must olia you’ll be questioned and our responsibility before Allah is based on
Whether we know the hook of the blessings that Allah has given us and whether we have fulfilled the whole kook of those blessings which allah subhanho wa taala has given us so this major blessing that we’re talking about tonight is the blessing of who our Brotherhood or the lack thereof that is
In our massage it across the country Chicago is no exclusion every major inner every major city in America has these uh this problem and if and before I digress into this if we can look at one blessing of September eleventh one blessing I know some of the Shabaab
They’re too young don’t even they weren’t even to like third grade I was talking to my class I was teaching I teach I called him that’s he said you and I was talking to the lab so I was like you know where were you on September 11th they’re like shape we
Were in third grade I’m getting old man a lot yeah we were in third grade it was kind of weird hey but the blessing I was speaking about we’re talking about this blessing of ohoooo Brotherhood and knowing the rights of it and and recognizing learning those rights so
That were able to fulfill them hey ed so imam ghazali rahim a whole lotta ana he explains that what are the causes of love what are the causes of love between two people he says there are external causes of love there are external things that make you love one another why are we
Talking about this because the basis of Brotherhood in Islam is based on that love the hadith that says and let me know nakaka Raju and Wyatt that hadith that hadith that if your brother is going through a hardship that you should be disturbed not able to sleep because
Of that hardship that’s based on love because here’s the deal if your mother was going through that hardship if your father was going through that hardship if your son was going through that hardship well why you wouldn’t get any sleep but yah he of the law from the
Masjid who we see he’s having him we’ll see but everyone make dwell for him and I sleep perfectly fine the hadith says that when one Robel hurts tada Asahi will just sit the rest of the body reacts to that it can’t sleep so the reason the reason we don’t have that
Reaction is a lack of love therein so imam ghazali rahim ojala he says that first and foremost when it comes to love there are external as bad oh one more thing I’m sorry I see one brother taking notes see one masha’Allah solid now I’m at an institution of learning I’m at an
Institution of learning and when and when and when students of knowledge or scholars would drop gems you should be there grabbing those not because of me it’s not me right it’s about what we’re transferring here it’s about what we’re mom was a Imam Shafi rahim of allah I’ll
Give you an example real quick and I won’t digress on this too long when I was in Damascus and JAMA a boon or the mush it would be doubled this size in full when Sheikh Rajab deep will come to give it ups the moment Sheikh Rajab he would say one
Well why everyone’s head would go down and everyone in the entire Masjid hat then a Yanni a triple Celine Yannick yuck – yuck – why because because elke Taba when you when you write things down you preserve that you remember that you hold that dearer to yourself yo so you
Know if you got iPhones you got smartphones you know you’re recording it you whatever but you should throughout this week and I’m not speaking for my lecture right now I think about this weekend when you’ll have scholar after scholar coming to your candle to drop some knowledge take from that benefit
From that as much as you can and hold on to it so Imam Ghazali Rahim the whole lot let’s get back to this in sha Allah Imam Ghazali Rahim of Allah he says that there are external causes of love for the community external love for one another then you see someone beautiful
You love their knowledge you love their influence you love how they look you love the the benefit they give you and somehow but Imam Ghazali says but in reality there’s something even deeper within us he says there’s a balton there’s a deeper cause of love between
Us and he bases it off of a sahih hadith of the Rasul salallahu alayhi wasalam with rasulallah he said in a hadith Allah Allah junudu Ginetta firmata are affirming ha italic our martynuk are Amina Italica Rasul sorry Selim he said or why that the souls of humanity before
They came into this world they were put in different squadrons different groups you know and one of the son of he said when the souls were doing Tawaf around the arsh each soul was in a different stuff and if what ever saw that you were in those
Souls that were doing Tawaf with you it telephone you have a natural inclination to those people the rasoolallah is achieved before we were sent to this world our Allah renewed mujin nada that all of the souls of Benny Adam were put into different squadrons right like Group a group B
Group in different groups those souls that recognize each other they were grouped together they have an affinity with one another uncia you could say a parity with one another they they pour close to one another or Martin a car Amina a cat elephant and then the ROE
Suicide sell him he said in the same time when if you were placed in a different group from another soul then when you meet in this world your souls don’t necessarily click if telephone you don’t get that familiarity and I felt this the strongest with one brother I’ve
Met in Buffalo one of the african-american elders in Buffalo he’s now in Baltimore and and I had just become Muslim but when I met him the first day well y-yeah I felt like I I know you I know you from somewhere but what I never met him before
And HMDA that we’re still very tight so today you know and Imam Ghazali he narrates that this has power this has this is a very very powerful thing this bottling connection that brings us together and he narrates that that I loose I sell and he said now look at the
Power of this celestial connection between us this is narrated in a coma Dean by Imam Ghazali he says though an ammonia and – Allah Allah imagine SP he Mia – monarchic wha hidden wide movement Latoya jealous la la la ana munafa not munafiq the healthy modulus the Emir – movement while Manasa quiet
Latoya jealousy la a jeep the Rasul al-amin is hadith he says this is the power of that divine grouping that happened before the souls were imparted to the world this realm that in the Rasul SAS and said if there is a gathering of a hundred believers a hundred believers in a gathering in
One moon ethic in a gathering in a monastic walks in the door the Rasul sighs said him suddenly Jaya had that you’re jealous kill a hill come sit right next to him don’t even know why sitting there dinner suicide tell him he said if there’s a gathering of a hundred
Monastic in one movement and one movement walks in the door ledge AHA say anything you lay in it and subhanAllah Imam Ghazali he says that the owner of a promise they deduce that yada yada and the shovel Sheikh Mujib like when there’s that familiarity it pulls us
Close together you’re a monk Azad he narrates a funny story he said he saw one time you know because the higher why not they have a verily they have a similar you know liking to human beings in many ways there’s verses that talk about that so he said that one time you
Could take lessons from them Allah tells us to look at the creation and take lessons so and ones narration he says that there was a crow that he noticed with with it with a pigeon and they were sitting together and he’s thinking you know birds of a feather flock together
What what’s going on here and and and Imam Ghazali brings this in this chapter and then he says when the birds both stood up to kind of walk forward both of them had a hurt leg both of them had so he said Ossipon Allah Shilpa Shaitan when jetted the connections of two
Things maybe the external wasn’t connected but they were connected on a deeper level they came together now this this this level for Brotherhood Imam Ghazali said this is from the essaouira of Allah subhana WA Ta’ala this is from the secrets of Allah subhana WA Ta’ala
There’s no way for us to to know but what is the benefit we get from this the benefit from this brothers and sisters is that you can know yourself by the company you’re attracted to you want to know about yourself look at those places that you find yourself attracted to being in that
Company tells you a lot tells you a lot because of this hadith here so subhanAllah this is just a beautiful beautiful aspect about that deep love that’ll also kind of what’s out of put inside us so coming back to Brotherhood and this love that needs to be built in the community
The suicide Selim did whatever he could inside of Medina to stop all separation and fractioning within the community one of the situations that happen that just kind of gives us a understanding of this is that it’s a funny story that took place it’s narrated in sahih muslim by
Javan abdullah radi allahu taala an and i’m narrating this hadith for us because i want us to understand how much rasool us I shall have wanted to preserve the the Brotherhood within the community in Medina the hadith says abdul-jabbar bin abdul-allah theologian he says vada casa
Raju the mean and mahadji Deen Rajal and mineral and so on so you know Sahaba were just like us in the sense that they were human beings they played around they joked so one of the Mujahideen Caressa to level and what is cancer where students have had neither any of
Them here I’m not going to put him on the spot it’s cool Sean Wow so he he smacked him on the back one of them smacked him on they were in a less whoa they were doing some work they were in Oana journey and they were messing around how guys mess around
Sometimes so he smacked them from behind kya ho so right away the unsought he got upset got upset and this is something we need to understand see the Mujahideen came from a different place the unthawed had a different Tuvia one of the problems that we have in
America is America is this place where all of these people from all across the world come together and in this Masjid you’ll have 30 different nationalities 30 different languages I was in a Masjid up two weeks ago they did a poll on Yamaha there were 30 languages spoken by
The congregants of jimana now what’s the difficulty in that the difficulty in that is that not everything you find as funny is funny to me in my culture your method of communication is very different from my method of communication and as a community we need to warm our cinnamon wrastlin Allah be
L-‘ihsani call me heal you bayon Allah who every prophet came and spoke the language of a people because the language gives shows that you truly understand people I mean I’ll give an example if anyone here has learnt a second language what’s the last thing you understand in languages jokes you ever learn English
Like brothers learn English you understand you hear the joke don’t laugh because you don’t get the punchline you just laugh because everybody else is laughing like yeah yeah and then you look at all the words you like I get it but what’s so funny and the reason is is
Because because that takes a deeper level of comprehension and understanding to understand the jokes and the humor and the pain and how people speak I’ll tell you a funny story one day I was sitting in the must I was still up all about it and I was sitting with a
New Muslim and we were in a community like this in Buffalo and it was in a rough area not like this area it was in the hood that’s kind of rough area so it just so happened coincidentally it was Ramadan and there were a few muggings that were taking place around Buffalo so
One brother was walking to spudger he was walking to fudger and some youth jumped out of a car they started to beat him up older brother a hamdullah there was one auntie she was coincidentally looking out the window rather she always looked out the window
All right that’s all she did so she she started screaming and they ran away the cops came is like you saved his life masha’Allah so this one brother comes in the Masjid and he’s frantic I’m sitting down with the new Muslim now this new Muslim was
Maybe like four months old in Islam he’s just learning the new lingo he’s just learning the new mashallah laws in shawl laws you know he’s just learning so brother comes into my he’s frantic he’s like me guy oh brother guess what just happened like what happened he’s like brother shibir just
Got beat up not a new Muslim brother he goes mashallah no no we don’t say that now I know that this brother is just communicating what he doesn’t know how to say you know in le-let he went nah he’ll a garage your own he doesn’t know
How to you know Express he just knows a few of those Muslim terms and he knows mashallah means the will of God maybe this is the right word to say right now mashallah now severe sob what do you think he did mashallah the heroine aku illa billah inna llaha la rajim
How dare you say masha’Allah da I’m like subhana wa you don’t understand him he don’t understand you subhanAllah cultural literacy is something mustards have to increase cultural literacy cultural literacy is difficult because you come from this gown you saw Islam in this way we’re fighting legislation to keep immigration open so
More people come in in and more people accepting Islam if we don’t build cultural literacy this person who gets right off the boat comes to Darussalam sees praying allahu akbar hands to the side he’s like what the heck is this I just came from the guy only someone Islam so
The community has to have the mechanisms in place to build cultural literacy amongst people in the in the massage it as you fight for more open doors of immigration that means this much is going to be more pluralistic more diverse more people who have never seen a diverse understanding of Islam coming
And praying in this Masjid and on top of that more new Muslim saying masha’Allah out of place we have to build that cultural literacy that will maintain that Brotherhood you’ll understand that when this brother gives you something that’s his custom of saying in the highest form that he loves you and
You’ll understand that certain nuanced things and certain customs mean different things and we have to learn that as Muslims in America because we have unique mustards that are so diverse unlike any other country in the world so that means we have to build that cultural literacy to preserve that Brotherhood but that brotherhood
Brothers and sisters that diversity strengthens us if we protect it it strengthens us it’s give it gives us more to deal with it gives us more to more perspectives I’ll give an example from the CETA and get right back to this and sha Allah the story of this an Saudi
Who smacked the other that Mahajan who smack the other on the but now the reason I brought this all up because why is the MU had you’re hitting him like that he’s just messing around but the an Saudis don’t play like that generous you guys understand what’s happening here there’s a cultural
Friction here you know the other situation where the Mujahideen come they say you out of food allah our women are all talking back to us now what happened well they came to medina the medina women have you know talk back to their husbands so as they start chilling with
Each other they’re like yo you don’t talk back yeah we Matt well how do you do that you say this he ain’t gonna do nothing cuz you know so they’re like our women learned this from them cultures were theories were this was a pluralistic society
Medina don’t think of it as a model that it wasn’t a model that at all so here he smacks him maybe that’s the mahadji way of messing around and Saudis don’t play like that so the unsought egos yeah and and so yo boys come on and then the Mahajan’s they all work
Well now Julia kicked back in jang hyuk back in and suppose this JA Helias in our mustards we just do it in our own language starts talking Gujarati Bengali first it’s our do then we’re all together then when there’s some like oh then we switch the language job like I
Hold on you’re hold on cuz I just need y’all to know what I’m talking about right here and me my my people we just sit in there like they all the same like when I went to high school anyways so look what happened to the suicides amphipod results I sell them my body
That would jahiliyyah what’s this JA hylia going on uh-huh what’s just JA hylia uh-huh then the suicide Selim he said he said he said that oh ha ha oh stop this it stinks he literally said it stinks this is a severe because it breaks away the thing that actually
Makes us so strong amazing he did whatever he could to make sure that that Jack Elia that Olivia didn’t sneak back in because when the AH Subbiah comes back in the unity is what comes apart the unity is what breaks before I get into the next thing I want to talk about
Are the whole kook of a brotherhood as per Imam Ghazali I’m gonna give you eight or nine who cook of brotherhood rights of brotherhood eight or nine of them you’re going to write them down keep them record them snap them you Instagram I don’t care you’re going to
Preserve it so that we can act wanted inshallah but before I go into that I want to talk about one thing as we talk the different the difficulty with having a diverse community is when you see people practicing Islam differently when you see people different from you it challenges your
Own identity you start to question who you are like did I learn Islam correct back in the gown that I learn Islam back correct it wait why are they doing that so the reason why why much of America doesn’t like the heavy diversity and they want that model this is because
Seeing other people makes you think about yourself it makes you question your own choices and makes you conscious about who you are ethically morally so on and so forth what we have to do is this Shaitaan loves for us to see the differences between ourselves please understand this our responsibility is to
Not see the differences but see what unites us see what unites us and you know when we do that when there’s a common threat or entity emmitt enemy we automatically see what unites us when there’s a common threat that’s why I began tonight I was saying one of the
Best things that happened to us except for the loss of life and all of those things but one of the positive things that we saw from September 11th is that it made all of us come together it was like southern fille Sufi this that just
Like yo come though yo we got to talk things about to go down right now forget all leave all of that at the door we got bigger fish to fry but the moment there’s no common threats the enemies then you start oh his cookie sit aside you really noticed his CUFI
Plate his color he doesn’t wear a hard cookie he only wears the soft ones what really are you kidding me maybe we need them the mongols coming again to wake us up so we really see like what’s important here so for for us what we
Have to do is is stop seeing no small minutia differences and drop to that core see here’s the deal we all have the same purpose but a different role to play in that purpose that’s it you could tweet that one we all have the same real purpose but a
Different role what do I mean by that the hadith El Nino Nakara jewel and wide the believers are like one human being the role of the eyes is different from the role of the feet the role of the feed is different from the role of the heart but there’s a unified purpose you
Do you I’m doing me we’re doing the same thing at the end of the day the hem tomb so much oh yeah oh yeah oh geez hilarious oh my god it’s pond one now movie stuff told me to drop the earth duel he’s like your job that I do once
You try it you gotta do it you know I mean like all right he can hold ya tamam nee nee nee nee nee find a new yacht I mean kay Friday Calicut work hey Ken name we’re gonna get through these points in sha allah so the point being
Is first of all let’s take some to take away home points medina was a pluralistic diverse culture but despite that the prophesy seldom created a brotherhood there there were a cultural literacy that had to be built in medina meaning people had to learn how to understand how different cultures
Communicate the realization that in your massage it is that when you create programs you created in a in a way that welcomes other other members of the community as well right you don’t just make all the fools really really spicy and then tell me i gotta get used to it
Really you might as well tell me to leave like that means don’t be you can i give you another beautiful example the hadith of the lizard one time Sahaba were eating lizard and the prophesy salam was around and they offered it to him and he’s like no I’m good
And now if the Prophet says no what does that might mean what might that mean Haram right so that was it haha he’s like loud when I can that call me like I could nenene it’s not hard on but my people don’t eat that it’s a pan Allah
This is in the autopsy’s without us he’s not with like Chinese people he’s with other Arabs and he’s like my people don’t eat that we don’t eat that food look at the diversity being allowed there by the prophesize of them himself it’s amazing and now you like gulab
Jamun Chaya maintain a nickname cotta yeah you if someone came in the muster you gave him a date rama ball and he’s like I don’t eat dates what are you gonna do oh now the putter was coming watch the foots was coming well that’s kind of Sunnah so you know no
Seriously I never ate a date before I became Muslim I never touched never had a date like we didn’t it wasn’t on the menu we had apples oranges never had dates that was a pomegranate that was in Conan right the young guys don’t even know what that is the older guys who
Watch cartoons know that joke cool ok ok the point I’m trying to make is there was diversity there the prophesy son fought to maintain that pluralism and despite that pluralism do you remember when a man came to dissuade the prophesy selim from from coming for Omaha he
Stopped him the name of the the one who tried to stop him it slips my mind at the time someone remembers they can tell me um but when he looked at the Sahaba and he saw how mix and diverse they were he right away saw that as a sign of weakness he said
Oh these guys are gonna all run away and Abu Bakar of the alone will hit his hand with the back of the sword really hard and he said something hard to him you never want to remember that story but the thing he saw as weakness what their
Diversity but when it came to the battle AB Zod what happened in the battle box out one of the students real quick real quick one of the students yes with the glasses what happened real quick where was someone Farsi from Persia why was the ditch so unique the Arabs
Had never heard about it the prophets I sent him is saying we’re being attacked right now what do we do there was our oh no let’s just fight Salman is like wait I’m from a different country we had a different tactic we used well what is it
We used to dig a ditch it was a ditch like a ditch alright just show us the cultural diversity brought new ideas to the table the cultural diversity brought new ideas probably that’s a great idea we need more you Persian guys here right no seriously so my point being is that he allowed
Diversity and benefited from that there all right let’s just go straight directly into what Imam Ghazali calls the ho kook of brotherhood who cook a brotherhood why are we studying this amass the same brother why are we studying the whole kook of brotherhood I said earlier about who kook and
Blessings let me switch it up be louder who cook and blessings was the connection between them who cook I write something about all blessings have sorry to put you on the spot okay so by learning those those rights what do we do we preserve the blessing exactly
So the idea like your wife is a blessing but she has her coke right your children are a blessing to have your mouth has a blessing this blessing of brotherhood has who cooked that has to be preserved what are they you guys ready inshallah taking notes in sha Allah bismillah al
Apple al whether the first Huck Finn man is in wealth the first half is in wealth now this Huck has three levels write them all down the lowest level is that you help your brother with his Hajj at with your extra wealth the lowest the lowest you help your brother with his
Hatchet men lady imam ghazali says men lady I knew we jus Yasuo without him saying by janap could toss a bass player day without him asking so first level of it feel man is what someone who give it back to me and sha Allah extra well and your brothers necessities without him
Asking that’s important without asking to him to him number two imam ghazali says that the second level of pact the second level up let’s go up is that you treat him with your wealth as you as you found Allah yeah I even want the third level do you
Even want the third level you know Imam Ghazali narrating a narration Hassan bussy Rahim ojala no no listen to this father Abu Jaffa el Baca Leah’s hobby he listened to this he said i you de Cielo I had Roku Mia who become me become me happy
For Yahoo the myut he’s sitting with a gathering of people he’s like okay so would you allow your brother to reach in your pocket and take what you want they’re like no so he goes the car Lulla gone for less to be a Quan I’ll Amazon
Soon you’re not brothers he says when my jabe is your jabe subhanAllah your mother your mother she reaches and take some money what do you do well what should you do oh no like one Achaia you’re my mom this mine is yours why are you even asking this is the who what
This is the second level third level you can guess it what’s your name brother yeah no in front of you a nice to meet you out of sod what’s the next level you tell me what do you think it is first level was what your extra money goes to
The needs of your brother when he asked you for it second level was what your equal so we on film add pathani your job is his jabe third level you put him above your necessities you put him above your necessities I’m gonna move forward a little quicker and shot lozada
How about this can we have an unofficial Darce after yes tonight these brothers want everything I’m not gonna I came from Dalitz bro I’m not gonna like just come tomorrow back and finish I’ll be here tomorrow but not talking about this I want to finish this man but I don’t
Want to force anyone to stay too long so officially they’ve given me this five minutes but I have a lot to give you and it’s Friday night I mean people out at the clubs until doing whatever until they fall out and we just got always too late me not it G
Bismillah there we go I’m also move this up take a shawarma jo bhi jaane job you got it yes yes name now if you have to go no doubt if you have to go you have responsibly if your wife is gonna get very very mad you
Gotta tuck the kids in I understand know they have Huck but if you just want to sit and benefit let’s just keep going and shotlock is that okay huh okay bismillah bismillah all right the next one pakistani pakistani that fill Jana bin us peek over at Hajj at you use your
Physical self in fulfilling all the rights of your brother and that rights the needs had just of your brother first was money this is about physical you get up and you need help by okay madam you know your brother you I’ll give you an example you know brothers moving and you
Put it on whatsapp and nobody shows up when you’re moving you see who your two brothers arms now I’m not even joking because everyone gets busy when you’re moving that’s the real test of what law he you want to test people text I’m moving who can come and then when they
Come give him adult subhanAllah so he says the lowest level the lowest level of this one is LPN be honored in the souad the lowest level of this one is that you help the person when they ask you I’m moving can you come I’m on
My way and he said to that kid my Basha will establish are and you don’t go with like a cutaway move I’m here you called me no he says bill Basha yo I’m here sonica what’s up bro how you doing I’m here so that person doesn’t even feel bad to
Like I you just go just go home so he says with machete okay well also to her he said the second middle level is LP MB Hawaii LA and souad that you you you are fulfill the rights like you you look for there a hodge at without them asking and you physically
Fulfill those and help them without them asking in the highest level of this is he says is to put their hideouts above your hideout brothers and sisters Sahaba I’m gonna tell you one story prophesized Selim says I have a guest who wants to treat this guess you know the story you know
The story once the Hobby says I gotta come to my house goes home wife’s like we don’t have food only for the kids he says okay put the kids to sleep I’m gonna pretend to eat he’s gonna eat will put out the light so he doesn’t realize
This is what we’re talking about we read that we heard that before now I’m giving you two from a different perspective number three hot italian island lease and this Sukkot I listed lease and this the second right is that your tongue doesn’t speak in certain situations suits you hold the tongue he
Says and he says will be not okra so that this one is about the tongue there’s times when you’re gonna have to not speak not speak and there’s other times when you have to speak for that person so he gives examples of those I’m gonna share with you right now
He says I’m muscle who’d for who is good I’m Vika do you believe the authority you was able to eat that you don’t mention his Abe his youth in his presence or in his absence that’s the suit everyone understand what number is this number three the third right of your
Brother a Brotherhood is the right of the tongue and that is through sue coots Orban nuke Carmona or being silenced or been not or speaking now what is the the silence one while not mentioning is false in front of him to HaMashiach array yeah yeah yeah or when they’re not
There what me a Carter let me tell you real quick just so I might not get the chance Reba don’t let someone’s back bite in front of you about someone else you know why I’m sure you’ve heard this before from other scholars the person that backed bites which you will back
Bite you for sure just remember that the person that back bikes with you when he’s with someone else he’ll do the same thing that’s his principle he has no principles his principle is that he backed bites so here you are back fighting with them just know as you’re
Laughing like and like a week he’ll be with someone else doing it about you so just close the door now I’m good bro I’m good I know it’s awkward sometimes even if it’s an elder sometimes you have to learn how to stop backbiting I get questions from the Shabaab all the time
What do i do my dad’s backbiting my uncle my mom like there’s Eddie but I know he’s back by tea right now what do I do Michigan is hard you have to find a way with Adam to back out of that it’s not easy sometimes okay let’s go forward so
He says fulfill Joomla generally speaking when it comes to this third Wright brothers and sisters John Bosley and yes good and cool economy okra just don’t speak what the person won’t like allah azzawajal by allah he nuts see i’m gonna be maru now here’s the other side of it in the tongue sometimes
The right of your brother is that you actually speak up if i’m doing wrong and i feel young man is in baboon the bow then i do a little tapping the allah subhanho wa taala says on that day friends will be enemies of each other and one of the reasons is the
You see me doing something wrong and you’re a true brother what do you do for me and you let me know you try to stop me cuz you’re like yo man I’ll give an example you know you you’re going to school going to class you just you know
Ate something and you got something right here you know don’t ask me but hey they say hey there’s something in the beard now some people just look at you like hey how you doing man you walk around the whole campus and they didn’t say anything one of your friends the first
Thing he’ll do he’ll come they’ll pull it out or hey you got something there jazakallah you hurt my feelings but you saved me you help me so the idea is that that the true friend doesn’t do Madonna Madonna is a dangerous thing Madonna is when you overlook the bad
People are doing you just let them go sicko fancy you just let they let it go know you speak up okay for him to a man sha Allah fight ok the next one number four so number four actually imam ghazali rahim allah he is connected to
The third one he says allah lee sangbin not en el agua Kamiya that is so good and in makrooh you actually did not build my boo well who are hustle aqua he says that the the fourth one is that connected to the tongue that you speak when necessary so
The third one was only not speaking and the fourth one was that you speak when necessary and I already explained that to everyone in sha Allah Ta’ala number five Allah ones Alette we have a culture of a not accepting faults of people in our in our country the moment a scholar
A person someone does something we take we grab it we grab it we share it no mistakes accepted you know a character assassination done he says here aqua and zealots one of the rights of boohoo WA is to be able to let go of slips there’s a there’s a poem in Arabic
Lee jawad in xela like what’s the poem like what every every seed has a slip every stallion has a slip to where it slips up for a moment but it’s still a stallion it still runs well but it slipped so he says here that the next
One is that number six or five sorry is that we learn how to overlooks a lot for Karla Raja not Subhan Allah he said your brother needs you the most many times when they slip up they do something Haram they do something bad and you just like yo man stop for Allah
Sometimes they need you the most at that moment they need that love and affection from you the most where you like yo bro I understand man yo don’t do it again but yo I understand man let’s go you’re good yo let’s go on it’s done yo is done Allah forgives you move them
Forward so he said it’s so beautiful pod he’s I want you mechanic Aleya Alon he said a person was seen with one of the his friends that had did something wrong and they said why are you still with fool on you know he did that and he said I’m
Watching my account my County Leia Alon now’s when he needs me the most I’m not gonna leave him now it’s a pound of law number six it’s a pound of what very seldom do we do this do i iook iike the Hayati hue about the ma ma te riku limited Ruby
Healy enough sick you make to offer that person and I hate it I hate to say to narrate this hadith sometime from this perspective but you know the hadith that says when you make dua for someone else the Angels make this door why like a myth and why like a myth I
Don’t like to narrate it right away because sometimes it creates this again it’s about me again it’s about me again the prophets item is just telling us an extra for Leela of making dua the incentive is not like all I’ll give him a pious wife two of them
Three maybe even four if he wants to me Allah and the whole time you’re like angels come on angels angels please thank you know the hadith is just telling us an extra incentive that this happens to the pure intention is Abdullah needs my dua and whatever I
Raise my hand and make dua for its Muslim she is accepted it’s accepted and you don’t have to tell the brother either you know after you make hey brother I made you out for you no don’t mess up your class do it purely and that’s it inshallah tada
What number is that number seven you know somebody is your friend for like 10 years 7 years they would make one mistake done Imam Ghazali he says Allah Wafaa what a class and were fast they stay true the prophets I seldom used to take care of a woman and send
Her gifts because she knew I had Eva for years after because of that one jor that one connection he maintains that the relationship because she was close to Khadija now 20 years later he still giving gifts to her sending her things sending her food sending her money
Sending her this so he says Allah Wafaa to stay true over time don’t stop a relationship because one slip-up one mistake oh I’m done now no realize that oh time will be tested things will happen but stay true to those relationships and the number number numbers then salmon Imam Ghazali rahim a
Whole ayah ayah he says target’s a caliph would tuck leaf we all know to color all right that’s like a basic or the word terracotta caliph what tech leaf don’t do to curl up with with with your brothers and sisters don’t do to color formalities don’t it the color for
Them and don’t put them do tuck leaf as well don’t put them through chuckling as well extra burden on them that’s number eight okay so what we just went through I’m gonna ask one brother who wants to give him back to me and sha Allah Ta’ala
Who wants to save them all to me someone bismillah I’m a call on someone like the teacher always does this mean now go ahead huh you could look at him yeah yeah so the first one was helping out through wealth and that has three levels we should at
Least be at the lowest level go ahead in wealth correct all right next one physically so happily when they asked I’m there in the baek-mae Otto come no no putting their needs helping them physically with their needs before yourself yeah go ahead next one so the tongue number four and five are
The tongue what’s the first one yes so just think of it this way your tongue so cute the silence is what is sometimes what you owe your brother and Brotherhood keep going yes not not just allowing that to happen many times because of a friendship you don’t want to threaten the friendship so
You just allow harm to happen like I might just act like I didn’t see that no that’s moved out Hannah that’s called literally muda Hannah you know you know what you know the word muda hannah has a root word what’s the three-letter root word Gehenna what is that doing me I owe
You now you say butter someone up it literally an Arabic same exact thing to butter someone up ah yeah yeah yeah you’re good you’re great you’re excellent you don’t mean he’s excellent he’s horrible but you’re just saying that so you can get some benefit the word in Arabic is Madonna from the word
Dylan we use the same thing in Arabic to butter someone up go ahead yes allowing people to make mistakes we have a culture of looking for mistakes looking for mistakes and then putting them on blast just look at the last few years in a minute of muslim-americans we find one
Slip-up there it is there’s our chance now done let’s take them down put it on blast it’s a pan a lot go ahead which one was that what number was that six okay go ahead exactly now listen up Imam shalini Rahim of Allah he wrote a book called a Lenoir
Di da Basava in the last year in which he wrote sixty heuk of brotherhood I gave you eight of imam ghazali it’s been translated in english as well the etiquettes of friendship I think it’s on Amazon the Arabic you can find the PDF of Imam Shivani call al Anwar piada
Basava in the rakia I know it’s late but I have a little bit more I want to give you in sha allah o allah and as we as you say in Urdu Campeche say it’s very beneficial for you in sha allah we’re talking about brotherhood and one of the
Aspects that is necessary is difference of opinion we all know that it’s the first thing I learned as a convert there’s different difference of opinion but how do we handle debate and discussion and when should we engage in debate in discussion understand my question we have difference of opinion you say
Moonside I’m just giving this example is just cherry picking an example I’m just picking this for the sake of ease you say moon citing local you say calculations and now we start arguing in the for era in the for a right there we just start talking about it let me bring
My Delisle let me bring your dunya what are the what are the conditions for discussion and debate on issues because we want to maintain a Brotherhood it’s important to understand when we should engage in this type of debate Imam Ghazali Rahim ojala gives us 9 conditions for debate I’m gonna drop
Them on you very quick in the next 15 minutes max inshallah inshallah so these are the conditions when you should engage in debate when you find all eight of these it’s time to go forward understand it’s okay to go forward when you find all eight of these if you don’t
Find these keep it moving go do something else busy yourself with something number one the first condition is that Elias who Luba he will home in Peru Dalkeith aiya man Lamia topography and Peru a feudal a yawn first condition if you have any part of the line that you’re not doing
You can’t start this part of the key fire first one okay let me explain for everyone in Islam we have two types of rulings one type of ruling is particles ie one type of ruling is particle ie what does that mean everyone has to do it right
Follow you keep iya some people have to do it some people are involved in debate which is photo to keep fire and they’re not even praying Podger they’re not doing fog do 19 so the first thing in mind has added our team of Allah to Allah he says is that you are not
Missing in epub dulain while you’re trying to do this Fargo key fire Phantom number 2 that there’s no that there’s no other four dual key fire that you’re leaving out meaning if there’s other part will keep ayah that you could be handling that are more important you
Should be handling them before you get into a debate with someone so look at other father occupied the first one was looking at for denying the second was looking for the other key occupier number three an akuna mohammad abu nidal you’ve treviri he lobby method : and
Pool on this is one of the most important ones you cannot imam ghazali says you cannot get into a debate with a person who doesn’t know proofs themselves and it’s only following their teacher I’ll give an example someone comes to me and our user must Allah I’m
Buddy bro go talk to Imam Abu Hanifa I’m good yo why are you arguing with me everyone didn’t get that one yet you’re beat if you come and debate to me about where my hands go give an example your beef isn’t with me because I’m a mu
Cutlet your beef is with abu hanifa go talk to him so what happens is you have people always going to people and debating them but this guy isn’t a person you should be debating because he’s just following his teacher has everyone understood this one extremely important it will save your time in life
I’m giving you like like this will give you the light just walk off the mush like y’all I’m good son I come does everyone understand that has anyone not understood this one please someone come on everyone understood it sorry if I saw ma sha Allah hamdulillah so if that
Person is not under giving fatwa biryani he now if I come up and give my own Fatah like oh yeah I think this is this now you go okay yeah let’s talk about it sir but if I’m just following someone go to that guys teacher talk to that now the
Funny thing is you’ll see two students arguing with each other you see two students he’s dude enough Shaikh fool on he stood up shake pull on these dudes arguing each other subhanAllah what kind of jahiliyyah is this a jeep in the two shakes are boys two shakes are cool that
I always sup man how’s it going yeah these dudes arguing with each other subhanAllah what number was that and before this is important debate for the sake of hypothetical should not happen a quarantine man was Ali hypotheticals it didn’t happen yet why are you wasting your life on these this what Imam
Ghazali says hypothetical I know the whole hanafi madhhab was based on this but anyways he says hypotheticals does everyone understand he says if it didn’t happen yet no need for us to get into a debate over it why waste your time on it Imam was Ali’s number which one for so
This actual real situation that happened next one number 5 I answer Coonan munawwara feels halwa happy lady waha Moomin Mohave or Baena other than a cavity was a la tène he said that the debater should love a secret debate over a public open debate now only debate you
Of the whole place is packed I want to see everyone to see you lose no he said that he loves sight just me and you and if you read about imam Abunimah and others meeting together in medina they sit together after isha and their talking is just them two until fuzzier
That they didn’t call everybody I’ll hey everyone listen up about the talk hey so listen no so but let me qualify this because we have some hum did a lot of people doing great work of Deen here that are debating and defending the Deen there can be definitely without doubt a
Shadow of a doubt a benefit of public public debating public debating this is about the heart of the debater this is about your heart is your heart at that level where you love the silent debate just as well because the point is to reach truth that’s what we’re gonna get
To next let’s go forward what number was that brothers and sisters and he says Subhan Allah he says privacy is more suitable for thinking clear you know if you’re debating publicly and you catch me in a logical you know conundrum what am I gonna do entrench everyone understand
What I’m if I’m proven wrong in front of this whole room what am I gonna do I’m gonna dig in my heels you know Robert Cal Dini he rates he writes in a preset suasion that one of the ways they they get people to buy
More things is to just one time a test to something one time write it once you’ve written or said at one time because of the desire to to look what’s the word consistent thank you the desire to be consistent a person will entrench themselves even if everything is
Pointing the wrong way they just entrance so the public debater when he’s proven wrong publicly if he was by himself he would do what ah man yeah that’s great Wow good point but now I’m in front of hundred people what am I gonna do no no that you’re still wrong I
Understand this point cool let’s go to the next one number six Anya Coonan hey while we’re almost done were only doing nine of them Anya Coonan hello our feet are a bit Huck that the debate should just be about finding truth and he says that the person should be trying to find truth
Just as if they lost something it’s not about you as a personality it’s about us looking for the truth and I’ll give you one quote and move to the next one Imam Shafi used to say whenever I discuss a masala I say in my heart oh Allah make the truth come on that
Brothers heart not on that person’s tongue not on my tongue used to make this dua a lot let the truth show on this person’s tongue the truth because the point is the truth not you or not me for him to him type next one then number
Seven he says L am NOT Minaj era who a Muhammad Amin into Kyle min Hodja Hodja when Mandela de la Delhi he says if it’s a truth in the spirit of debate allow the interlocutor to move away from a proof that they already stated very
Hard in a public debate so the point is you catch someone in a wrong proof and you say well you’re saying this it means this and they’ll go oh well let me change that but if it’s a proper public debate like no no no stay there let me knock you out
Stay right there hold on stay you said this now here’s the conclusion to that knocked out he says no allow the person to say you know what no I think that may be wrong all right let me change that a bit understand okay next one lau now do
You havea elemental what l is the father men don’t debate people unless you know that this person has fired for you you know uh you know subhanAllah I went to study for a little short time with Hamza sortez in England and he told us a story he was the going to debate
Someone and on the way out you know some like undergrad dude wants the kind of debate them please like who are you ain’t just kept going he’s like I’m debating this guy because there’s Fida in it I’m not just going to pick a debate with every single person
On the road so imam society he’s saying that the person has to be someone that you see there’s a FISA a benefit that you can gain from that discussion with that person if he’s JA he’ll just leave it no point what number was this was it not oh come on guys
Okay all right we’re wrapping it up right now and sha Allah Ta’ala yeah that’s the last one in Charlotte odda brothers and sisters it’s been a long night I went well past my time I really wanted to share all of this this information with you the key to our
Communal growth is to create a community based on brotherhood with argumentation and dispute we won’t have Brotherhood mallalieu Coleman bada who da cannon Allah Allah Oh to judge the prophesized Adam says the first sign that a nation a group of people is going off is they start arguing give up arguing there oh
Ha give it up and leave it to those people who are specialized in it let them do it the rest of us get on with our lives leave the argumentation second thing learn the rights of Brotherhood the same way a man getting married needs to learn the rights of his wife the same
Way a woman who is getting married needs to learn the rights of her husband similarly we have to learn the right of brotherhood as a community study those I gave you eight of them scholars have written a lot on them come to me after I’ll share the book with you if you know
Arabic and you can sit with any of these two lab or in and read the book with them inshallah Chicago has so many autumn Amash Allah to Allah and understand this blessing of Allah subhana WA Ta’ala let’s make it short to our inshallah and wrap it up in
Sha Allah Ta’ala hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen lo malik al hamdu kulu kulu kulu well alaikum ruku Luallen it over several a lot of medical ham do have that are local I can read what I can do about the Rideau a llama sorry allah sayidina muhammad wa ala re wasabi was suddenly
Homicide allah said o muhammad wada Ali wasabi he was telling them Ya Allah we ask you to join our hearts together your up with Al Amin yeah although we ask you to take out equity laugh in argumentation from our communities your about Al Amin ya allah
We ask you to make us like the hadith where your beloved Prophet SAW LM said Elmo me no naka raja and wydad Ya Allah give us the reality of that yah repel Al Amin ya allah reward all of those who spend extra time staying here tonight to
Learn more about your Deen Yara banana mean and give us the ability to act on everything we learned about yout up and on I mean now Allah give us the reward for everything that was said tonight everything that we learned and give us the ability to make intention yara
Banana mean to act upon it Juana al hamdulillah rabbul aalameen subhana rabbika rebel SETI my zphone was salamun ala l-mursaleen well hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen jocular hire everyone for staying late Shakalaka Salam alaikum so lively car too
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