Abandon the Groups and Cling to the Roots

بونالي لا يدى هيدلا الله لقال يا محمد يا رسولة لقال يا لا يدى هيدلا الله لقال يا محمد يا رسولة اسمنا رحمام رحيم الحمد الله وصرات والسرام وعلى سيدنا رسول الله مفتحيننا في تحل عريثين وفي القناة وفي قصالحين الله معلمنا ما ينفعنا ونفعنا بي معلم تنوزدنا علمة الحمد الله السلام عليكم مرحمة الله وبركاته I hope everybody's well الله سبحانه وتعنى برتاكتم بلاس all of you wherever you are الحمد لن in the first podcast we had already two countries that actually so I know that I'm speaking in the United States and sometimes we tend to be a little American centric so my apologies to all the people in other parts of the world I do take that into consideration I want to look at a text message that's related in the Sahih it's really an extraordinary Hadith I mean all the Prophet's isem's Hadith are extraordinary because he was extraordinary in every sense but this Hadith I think has a lot to tell us about the time that we're in that day and he says he says he says this Hadith begins in which Hodeifa had been in the man and he was somebody who was really concerned about the signs of the latter days and he asked the Prophet constantly and a lot of the Hadith about the Fitton and the latter days are from Hodeifa but he said that the people were asking the Prophet about good but I asked him about evil out of fear that I might end up confronting it and so I said it's the age of ignorance the Jahaliyah and Shar then Allah brought this good to us is there after this good more evil and the Prophet said yes and then Hodeifa says then he said after that evil good again and he said but in it is Dachhan and Dachhan in Arabic is smoke and there's actually a chapter called the chapter of smoke and right now we're in the Bay Area and we've had a lot of smoke so it's a horrible thing when smoke afflicts you Arabic but Dachhan is what after there's been a conflagration of fire left over on the things that affected the fire affected so the Prophet of the time was indicating that these fitna would happen but there would be the remnants of the fitna so the Khair would not be pure like it was when it'll have the effects of the fire after it and then I said what's the Dachhan because he understood this was a metaphor it was a metaphor and so he said they are people who will guide with other than my guidance and in Arabic you can use which means guidance but you can also use it for evil like to guide somebody down a wrong path you know he guides him to evil it can be used that way but you will know there's some ruff from them because like the Martezidite were Muslims and they had a lot of good in them but there was things tunker there are things that you're going to reject from them also and then is that after that good evil again so how they want to make sure to the gates of hell whoever responds to them they will thrust them in the hell Qutu Yarrah Surullah Sif Hum Lana O Messenger of Allah describe them for us in other words tell us what they're like so that we might know them Fakalah hum min jalditina Yateq al-Namuna bi al-Sinatina they are from us they look like us Yateq al-Namuna bi al-Sinatina and they will speak our language so they're using our language Qutu Fumatat muruni in Adrakani Dharika so what do you command me to do if I should ever see these people or that situation qara talzam wa jamaat al-Muslimin wa imamuhm cling to the jamaat al-Muslimin notice he says jamaat al-Muslimin meaning cling to the majority of Muslims and their leader their imam now for me I see this as divine inspiration because who given that he was at that time I don't think he could have ever imagined they're not being a jamaat or an imam but he did and that's Ilham from Allah because he said Qutu what if there's no jamaat and there's no imam qara faatazil tilkel ferak كلها then avoid all of the sex so S-E-C-T-S these are the groups that all make their claims Imam Malik was asked how do we know them he said they will use names other than muslimin they'll call themselves which does not obviously involve calling somebody a malik or a hambali because those are valid teachers that you're associated with or they're schools but they're muslim like every hambali says and he wants to be raised up as a muslim not outside of the jamaat al-Muslimin so that's what he said he said avoid all those groups or they're muslimin or they're muslimin or they're muslimin or they're muslimin and he said "Banzai a tree" you know how to "Banzai a tree" the Japanese learn that if you keep cutting the roots the tree will never grow into its giant effulgent form it'll just be a little bonsai tree that you can keep in your house on a shelf it won't grow to give shade or fruit or any of those things so cutting people off from their roots so he was saying it's the root of the tree and what is the root of the tree to heed to waqal al-Allah trust in Allah don't trust in groups don't trust in ideologies don't trust in anything anybody's going to tell you because they will sever you from your roots and the roots are what nourish the tree without the roots they cut off the idea that we were created by God I mean that look at humanity now being told oh you came from this they claim that was like lightning struck upon and then this begins that even though they know you don't get DNA without RNA and you can't get RNA without DNA it's a chicken egg problem where did it all come from where's the source even if you look there's a very interesting he's a contrarian he's a genius and I don't think he takes a position I think he considers himself an agnostic maybe I think probably but an agnostic is at least humble enough to say "I don't know" because agnostic from the Greek "Agnosis" without knowledge so he's just saying "I don't know" but the atheist is a mom I mean this is what an atheist is like so David Berlinski who is a very brilliant philosopher and mathematician there's a very interesting interview with him and a very famous microbiologist and a mathematician on Hoover Institute and one of the things that he points out and the microbiologist who had traditionally believed in evolution ends up really conceding to him impossible for a life to have emerged the way that the evolutionary biologists explained it it's so astronomically out of any statistical reasonable argument Because it's much too complex, Darwin believed that the further down you went, the simpler it went, and what we're finding is the further down you go, the more complex it gets. In fact, one cell in your body contains more information than the entire 25 million volumes that are in the Library of Congress. I mean, these type facts, you know, that might be a bit of a hyperbole, but that's the truth. I mean, the complexity of the genetic code is so extraordinary. And so this idea that we just arose without design and without purpose is so antithetical to basic fitra. We do not accept it, like I can't accept that, and it's not because I don't understand it, I've read enough about it. I had quite a bit of college level microbiology, biology, chemistry, anatomy, and physiology. To me, it made a more convincing argument for me of the existence of God and not the opposite. And I know that there are scientists, but I really believe that it's a kind of confirmation bias, that they're already atheist, and then they're just looking for excuses to justify their atheism. Now you could say, well, I was already a believer, and I'm just looking for, well, okay, we'll all find out when we die, whose confirmation bias was confirmed. So you sever that connection, that they're a creation of God. And then you cripple their aspirations. In other words, you sever this desire. See, look at the word desire. Desire comes from yearning for the heavens. I mean, if you look at the root of that in English, right, yearning for the heavens. And so human beings yearn for something outside of themselves. That's why people do drugs and alcohol and all these, because they want to get outside of themselves. It's called ecstasy, ecstasy is getting outside of yourself. And the self is what wears us down, the ego, all these horrible things that disappoint us constantly as human beings. And so this desire to reach Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is what the human being really wants. But there are forces in the world that are dark, demonic forces that are working to prevent this from happening. And they're from humans and also the spirit world. There's a whole spirit world that exists alongside this world. But they have there's a strategic alliance with people that are walking amongst us. The Prophet (pbuh) says toward the latter days, there will be shayah-thin in the forms of human beings. So they're literally shayah-thin. And so when you say like somebody's down to earth, down to earth, on the one hand it means they're real. But there's another aspect of it of getting them down to earth. This is from a brilliant theologian who said that, you know, bring them down to earth. In other words, make their aspirations worldly and not other worldly. So get them down to earth. And then cut off the idea that there is something inherent in their being. So remove this idea of having an essential human nature. So for instance, we believe that there's a fitra of the human being. And falter, which is one of the names of God, is the originator of that fitra. So we have a divine, principled nature. And part of that nature, as Aristotle points out in the introduction to his book on metaphysics, that all human beings desire to know. So that is part of our human nature. Because we know we're different from all the other animals. We think, and thinking is immaterial. It's non-material. It's thinking as a spiritual phenomenon. You can look at electrical activity in the brain, but thought itself, consciousness itself, is not material, dreams. People live whole lives in their dreams. So we are spiritual beings embodied in these bodies. And so cutting them off from that idea that there's a fitra. And then tell them that morality is just a social construct. Morality is what the society says is right or wrong. So remove absolutes, and everything becomes just relative. It's all relative. What's interesting about relativity is that you cannot assert relativity without the irony of asserting absolutes. Because if you say everything's relative, that is an absolute statement. And so you're actually by negating absolutism, you can only do it by asserting it. I mean, that's an amazing irony that humans are stuck with. And so make all of our rights depend on the state. Like the state is what gives you your rights. No. Our rights come from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, we have enabled the human being. We've enabled many Adam. And so our rights are unalienable. They come from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and we have a right to life. From inception all the way to birth. To take that right away from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala put in a karar machine. He put it in a protected abode. That's what the womb is called. And the womb is called Rahim, because it's merciful. What greater lack of mercy than to rip out a growing life in the womb with a suction machine? It's just stunning that no Muslims in the past in their right mind would have ever done that. And that's why abortion is prohibited in most of the, all the Muslim countries that actually follow some form of Islamic law. It's prohibited. It's only in the secular states that you'll find that it's not. But in all the ones, because the opinion of any permissibility is so weak in all the schools. And I know some of the modern Hanifis will argue with that. But when I really investigated it, in the early period nobody was of these opinions. So that's a huge problem. And then so what you end up with is these atomized human beings that are just all they are is actions and reactions. They're just catabolic and anabolic phenomenon happening. And there's no real meaning to them. And then this is what they teach in schools. And then they wonder why children are cutting themselves and committing suicide. What do you do with children? When you tell them that life is meaningless, it's pure accident. You're only here because of an accident. No, we're purposeful human beings. So these are the problems that we're dealing with in this time. And what that does, it basically strips human beings of all of their spiritual power. Because the real power that the human being has is in the human spirit. And that's why the human spirit is able to overcome so many things. So these are the problems that we're dealing with in the modern world. We're dealing with people that are cut off from their roots. And this is why this hadith is so, to me, so significant. The Prophet (pbuh) was saying cling to the root, get back to the root until death comes on you. And the root of our religion is the book and the son of the Prophet (pbuh) this book that we were given. It has all the guidance that you need. You do not need guidance outside of the book and the son of the Prophet to live a meaningful rewarding life that leads to paradise. And so seeking the knowledge to gain that is why it's a path to paradise.