Ali Dawah - IS NIKE REALLY HARAM？？ - KNOWLEDGE CORNER

00:00:00.000 Salam, Salam, Salam

00:00:30.000 Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends welcome to the knowledge corner as you guys can see there is a corner and inshallah we do have some knowledge one of my dead dogs I always try my best and that's what I'm known for but anyways brothers and sisters welcome to this corner inshallah we're here with Sheikh Mohammed Uthman inshallah

00:00:59.800 and also we'll have Sheikh Mohammed Tarawna as well in this specific corner where we will be discussing and talking about your questions that you ask us and we pose that to the people of knowledge and this is something very important for us to do as laymen like myself to not talk about matters that I'm not qualified to and stick to my lane it's very important because a big problem within the ummah a lot of youngsters be it myself you know sometimes I have to correct myself as well and say look know your limits stay to your limit and this is the reason why we have the knowledge corner because we can come to the people of knowledge

00:01:29.780 ask them and let them tell us what we should know rather than the opposite way inshallah so Sheikh Mohammed Uthman may Allah bless you welcome

00:01:38.220 actually this is your show I don't really welcome you

00:01:40.940 may Allah bless you inshallah

00:01:42.700 so what we're going to do is inshallah we have we're going to go through a few things yeah we want to be structured we like to be structured inshallah yeah

00:01:49.140 so what we're going to go through is the clothing for men and women we're going to discuss obviously we'll start with the men's

00:01:56.520 we'll start with the men we'll mention a few principles to do with the that affect the men directly and then after that we can mention a few principles concerning clothing of the women inshallah and there's a lot of today there's a lot of you know certain things apply to both and we'll mention it with examples as well inshallah no problem so what we're going to do is we're going to talk about briefly about men's clothing how it should be women's clothing how it should be and then we're going to inshallah talk about more about maybe branding

00:02:17.960 we might even mention it within the examples inshallah the best way of understanding the principles is to give examples for that inshallah

00:02:24.920 so we're going to save you know that bit inshallah maybe in it it's going to be in it yeah hopefully

00:02:29.200 okay no problem inshallah so let's go for it I'll leave it to you

00:02:32.780 so we'll mention a few principles to do with men inshallah and this is principles that I will mention inshallah are principles that the majority of the fuqaha the majority of the school of the fiqh agree upon

00:02:42.660 and there are khilaaf there are difference of opinion within some of them and I will mention that inshallah very briefly

00:02:47.520 the first principle is to do with silk and gold obviously for men and these are principles concerning men for men it's haram for them to wear clothing that has silver and gold in it whereas for the woman it's permissible for them to wear this

00:03:00.680 some of the fuqaha the scholars of fiqh such as the hanabilah and this is the main opinion of hanabilah and others state that there are certain exceptions for men such that if there are four fingers worth of

00:03:09.720 silk then it's permissible for them to wear that in their clothing there could be a medical reason for this etc as was done by some of the sahaba

00:03:16.980 and so that principle is clear inshallah yeah so basically if someone can have a medical condition to wear it as well

00:03:23.620 yes if they have to wear like a clothing purely of silk then for a medical reason or for a haja a need an extreme need then they can do so

00:03:31.480 other than that then it's permissible to have it within you know four amounts of silk regarding about this much

00:03:38.000 okay and some sahaba worry some sahaba worry some sahaba worry due to medical reasons

00:03:41.600 oh okay that's interesting I didn't know that that's something new we learnt today okay all right let's just clear

00:03:45.740 the second principle is to do with covering the awrah covering the awrah now I mentioned specifically four things to do with this the first thing is the awrah or the private area of men

00:03:55.040 now the former dahib agree that the private area of a men is from the belly button to the knee from the belly button to the knee

00:04:01.840 now this is due to the hadith and it is so authentic but some of the fuqaha especially specifically the Hanafiya they state that the knee is not included within it the knee is not included within the rakbah

00:04:15.280 now of course the difference of opinion amongst us regarding the belly button and regarding the knee etc etc we believe that there is no need to go through that inshallah ta'ala

00:04:24.640 second thing is to do with the thighs now that's a very popular question are the thighs part of the awrah or not are the thighs part of the awrah or not

00:04:35.140 now the four madhahib generally agree that the thighs are part of the awrah part of the awrah you have a riwayah narration from Imam Ahmed the mathhab is not this narration it's the other narration that says it is but there is a riwayah from Imam Ahmed that says the fakhi the thigh is not from the awrah

00:04:52.640 okay and some of the fuqaha within most of the madhahib have chosen these specific or chosen this specific opinion such as Ibn Arabi Maliki the qadi the famous judge may Allah have mercy upon him

00:05:03.140 he chose this opinion and others Shaykh Uth Ameen nowadays he mentioned this is his favorite opinion as well so that is best to be safe inshallah ta'ala

00:05:13.140 it's best for us to always err on the side of caution and that something is safer for us especially with concerns our deen

00:05:20.640 so the third issue concerning the principles for men is the issue concerning clothing that is tight now some of the fuqaha said it's haram to wear clothing that is tight for a man

00:05:31.140 okay for a woman there is agreement in this to do with a janib non-relatives okay but as for a man there is a difference of opinion some say that it's completely haram if clothing is tight like for example these trousers that you're wearing it accurately describes your leg

00:05:43.640 the Maliki on the other hand they have quite a middle part is this tight this would be because I'm sitting down so for example if I just stand up if I can show you 1.00

00:05:54.140 as you can see it's it's tight but when I'm sitting down for example and this is a question I was going to ask you Shaykh

00:05:58.140 when I'm for example when I'm sitting down because this folds underneath or something it looks like that so when I'm standing

00:06:03.640 it's it's it's it's it's quite loose then essentially yeah so so how do I go about that because it's

00:06:07.140 so according to the Malikiya their opinion that it is it it it is rather than being haram it's karaha now this is for clothing that does two things

00:06:13.640 it accurately describes the aura but specifically and this is the second thing it describes the private parts okay now many of the fuqaha said this is haram completely

00:06:22.140 the Malikiya said that it is karaha it is particular case and it's better than on the side of caution inshaAllah

00:06:28.140 the fourth thing is the issue of whether or not clothing is they call it shaffafa meaning see-through or not okay now the fuqaha the majority of them if not all of them

00:06:40.140 state that if clothing is see-through then it's haram because obviously we describe the aura so that's clear inshaAllah

00:06:46.140 these are the main things to do with the aura of a man okay the second or third principle which I think one that you know caused a lot of confusion recently is the issue of tashabba

00:06:56.140 the issue of wearing clothing that either resembles the kuffar yeah or resembles woman now woman is clear 0.60

00:07:03.140 Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prohibited wearing the clothing that or that resembles the clothing of a woman so that a man imitates a woman and likewise the reverse that a woman imitates a man 0.50

00:07:13.140 yeah so that's clear but the issue of tashabba or wearing the clothing of the kuffar is an issue in which yes there is a lot of I would say a lot of confusion about

00:07:22.140 a lot of confusion of course we know the message of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said from the hadith of Ibn Umar

00:07:26.140 Ibn Abu Dawood

00:07:28.140 Ibn Abu Dawood

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00:07:30.140 Ibn Abu Dawood

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00:07:33.140 It's important to understand that this resemblance is to do with their religious clothing their religious clothing clothing that is specific to them so for example if you put on the religious clothing of a certain group of non muslims then that is tashabba and that is haram

00:07:47.140 So is there a difference or for example let's say what a nun wears what a nun or a priest or a Jewish person a Buddhist person a Hindu is this the same thing as someone wearing an England shirt which has a cross on it something that relates to a deity that was worshipped before are these two same things or are they separate

00:08:09.140 So as we said wearing clothing specific to a specific religious group that identifies them and is specific to them for their religion is haram specifically wearing a cross now there is a near consensus amongst the fuqaha that wearing a cross is haram some have even gone further to state that it is an act of major kuffar and you find this in Qawad al-Islam and you find many of the strong discussion on this by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami who is a famous Shafi'i scholar and others okay

00:08:36.140 So now the question would be to do Qiyas analogy on the cross and other religious symbols as well that are specific again to religious groups if this symbol is again something specific to them and it clearly identifies their religion then that will take the same ruling that will take the same ruling however I think what you are getting at are things that are not specific to their religion anymore anymore it's not identifiable as being something specific to their religion anymore okay which is subject to the Urf that goes back to the Urf that goes back to the customs and understanding of the people

00:09:06.120 Urf and customs okay and we have a principle a major principle in the Sharia which says that we take into consideration the customs of the people where the Sharia has allowed it to take into consideration okay not every issue but a certain issue the Sharia has allowed it why because it hasn't defined it it's left it open okay Islam didn't come to destroy the cultures of people it came in fact to realign the cultures with what Allah intended with

00:09:33.120 Okay now if and I was going back to what Ibn Hajjir mentioned Fatul Bari he discusses the hadith of Barab Ibn Azim in which the Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam commanded them with a certain number of things and he prohibited them with a certain number of things and one of the things is Al-Maytharatul Hamra now Al-Maytharatul Hamra is literally like a cushion a red cushion that would be placed underneath the saddle you know not top of a horse it would be placed underneath

00:10:03.120 And he said it would be prohibited and he said it could be prohibited due to a maslaha dunyawiya something that's specific to this world okay not necessarily the religion okay and he mentioned a number of things or he said it could be due to a religious reason a religious reason and he mentions that that religious reasoning does not necessarily apply now so therefore therefore if we take that then this was something specific to a certain religious group of the past

00:10:33.120 It is not makrood at all to use this okay so it's something that is specific to a person this is what I want to highlight here okay okay specific to a religious group and this changes from time and place and person as well and it changes them basically depending on the culture okay okay so say for example we have a clothing and it has a certain symbol on it okay now there'll be two questions to ask here

00:11:03.120 Is it an actual symbol of an actual symbol of an actual symbol of a religion of old or not if it is then we could say yes it is haram why vaqiyas or analogy on the cross yeah okay but if we say the symbol there is no specific symbol to actually relate this back to for example the cross or any religious group okay then we would say it depends on the urf it depends on the culture okay it could be that something may have religious connotations to it in the past but it no longer has any religious connotations to it

00:11:32.620 anymore therefore uh it is uh it is not haram to wear it is it is not counter resemblance to the kuffar say for example nike nike and this what i mentioned about the symbol applies there okay and this is not my to really investigate these things at all this goes back to the people for example the founders of the company etc however if we say that if there was a clear symbol for example of the goddess of victory yeah nike or something i'm not sure there was a clear symbol of her and this is what was used in the past

00:12:02.400 and we would say yes you can do analogy on the cross to make it haram and this is a valid opinion yeah but if you say there is no clear symbol of it okay then therefore subject to our condition it is not associated with any particular religious group yeah so therefore to say it's haram is very difficult to say that but i must say ali uh that my my dear brother may bless you jannah that this is an opinion that in which there is valid difference of opinion

00:12:32.400 jah is permissible jah is permissible to wear it due to what i have just mentioned we have to respect that as well and this is very important why because we utilize a principle

00:12:40.100 which the usuliyun the scholars of the principles of fiqh have a agreement on yeah which is la inkar fi masail l-ajtihad what does that mean

00:12:48.040 that means that you cannot say

00:12:50.440 if it's a valid difference of opinion i am more correct than you and you are wrong and this is

00:12:55.880 just touch upon this is actually the main reason why we're doing this because we want to break down this

00:13:00.600 print this mentality of thinking that there is an opinion over the other one or my opinion against yours

00:13:07.380 because what it does is it causes the youngsters specifically those who

00:13:10.660 they don't know the basis of their religion fighting each other based on this thing and this behavior of

00:13:15.300 no this is the opinion and that's that opinion and you should go and do this this is the mentality that

00:13:20.540 we're trying to get rid of you know and nurture the youngsters to understand and respect each other's

00:13:25.380 opinion then say no this is the opinion and you must do this absolutely and that's the that's one of the

00:13:29.960 reasons why we're doing this actually it's actually one of the main reasons why i wanted to do this to

00:13:33.420 give people like you said before there's another opinion and we totally respect that you respect for us to

00:13:36.880 not respect it shows our ignorance it shows that we're not implementing this principle of course exactly and it

00:13:41.140 shows actually lack of knowledge because if you had some knowledge and understood it you would

00:13:45.080 understand that there's a difference of opinion you know and this shows importance of usul al-fiqh

00:13:48.760 which is essentially what is it it's a process to understand the sharia to understand fiqh not

00:13:54.860 only that but to apply it exactly to apply it and this is what we call tahqiq al-manat it's a very

00:14:00.080 important part of usul al-fiqh and essentially applying a ruling on the waqi or the reality of our

00:14:06.260 modern day it's something that is subject to ijtihad ijtihad mean independent legal reasoning it may be right

00:14:12.380 it also may be wrong exactly it is not the truth we cannot say allah has said this or there is

00:14:19.120 consensus so we can say that there is a valid difference of opinion on the matter there is an

00:14:24.160 opinion that they say look it's haram and there's a period that say look it's not because it's something

00:14:28.960 that we use on a daily basis and it's not just with nike this is with honda this is with even the

00:14:34.300 england shirt because there is a cross on it for example the english shirt um this can be with mondays

00:14:39.400 thursdays fridays the words that you utter however no you see cross is slightly different you see

00:14:43.740 because we mentioned before that of course there is a consensus amongst the fuqaha that wearing a

00:14:47.440 cross is haram some have even gone further as we mentioned before uh so that's not part of okay

00:14:52.140 because that's still that religion is still alive and it's um social okay yes it's a clear religious

00:14:57.460 symbol for something that isn't i believe this is where the discussion should be but that being said

00:15:01.680 it's a great area it's a great it's a great area and we have to instill also into our brothers

00:15:06.220 and our sisters the concept of wara what is wara the concept of wara is that you leave something

00:15:12.540 that may harm your akhira you leave it yes you want to be on the safe side yes meaning that you know

00:15:18.640 my deen is more beloved to me than buying this particular merchandise so i want to leave it in

00:15:23.720 this case so then why why can't we say why don't people do that with nike or be a honda hondas there's

00:15:30.060 a lot of things that fall into this where do we draw the fine line because we can say people can say okay

00:15:33.760 we're using that principle how could i go with the other opinion which says it's permissible

00:15:37.360 and not go with the one that says it's haram you see it depends firstly this is comes down to an issue

00:15:44.880 if we say that there's a valid difference of opinion and this is connected to another opinion

00:15:48.960 which is what do we do when we have more than one fatwa in front of us yes okay we call this

00:15:53.340 what do we do now i personally counted when i reached out to this masjid ala many years ago

00:15:58.480 that there is over 15 different opinions wow and what a person should do in this particular case

00:16:03.520 oh really well there's so many opinions 15 opinions for the two opinions precisely so what do you do

00:16:09.600 some say hala some say hala what do you do now the opinion i chose is the opinion of a tufi 0.96

00:16:13.680 which says that you take the opinion of the person or the mufti who you trust two things you trust his

00:16:19.940 knowledge and you trust his level of taqwa you trust his ibadah that he's a person who fears allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:16:26.880 then you've done what's obligatory upon you allah jallahu wa'ala says

00:16:31.920 ask those of knowledge if you do not know so you've done what's important others say other

00:16:35.600 things some of the scholars say it's all valid opinions some of them say you should take the

00:16:39.120 hardest opinion the harshest opinion on you for fear of not falling into it some say you could you

00:16:44.400 should take the easiest opinion whatever is easy for you take that there's a number of different

00:16:48.240 opinions but this is definitely the strongest opinion in fact i would say many of the usuliyoon

00:16:52.960 follow this that you should depend on two things firstly the taqwa of a person and also uh what

00:16:58.000 did we say we said taqwa and the knowledge of this person okay uh it was good it was actually

00:17:04.560 mashallah i hope you gave a bit of insight to the people who's going to speak about the sisters uh

00:17:08.960 clothing as well but i think we're very limited to time and we don't want this to go over time

00:17:12.720 inshallah but it's a very important topic yes to do with sister clothing i mean it is there's you know

00:17:16.720 too extreme generally to do with the sisters clothing it's important that we mention everything

00:17:20.640 as the sharia exactly really dealt with this issue yes we can cover it on the next one inshallah is

00:17:26.400 there anything else you want to say um i think i may have misquoted the hanafia right at the beginning

00:17:29.840 when discussing the aura between the men and the aura of a man between the belly button and the knee

00:17:35.120 okay so the majority of the scholars view that the belly button and the knee is not part of the aura

00:17:39.440 i believe the ahnaf view yes it is part of the order especially the knees okay just okay all right important

00:17:44.720 to mention all right brothers sisters hope you guys have understood it clearly inshallah

00:17:48.720 um and got the advice that's needed inshallah so it's up on you now to take that knowledge and say

00:17:54.400 you know what i'm either going to abstain from it or there's a valid opinion i'm just going to wear it

00:17:59.040 so that's totally up to you we've given you the knowledge a balanced uh knowledge coming from two

00:18:03.040 angles that are valid and that's about inshallah inshallah you guys have benefited and don't forget do

00:18:06.960 not fight with one another over these opinions seriously that's exactly what we're trying to abstain from

00:18:12.800 there's a valid opinion you just say brother you believe that okay no problem may allah bless you

00:18:16.640 you're my brother don't hate people are boycotting each other over this stuff it's a very very

00:18:21.040 that's not permissible by the way exactly exactly famous principle that a mustahead should not be

00:18:26.000 called an innovator amongst the sulim subhanallah yeah all kinds of things he's either between two

00:18:30.800 roads or one road exactly and he's and he's your brother subhanallah we are told that certain sunnah

00:18:34.720 things that we do we should not do over if our brother if i'm fasting and you invite me my brother

00:18:39.280 my brother's right overcomes the sunnah action i'm going to do and you're boycotting your brother

00:18:42.880 over something that's a difference of opinion anyways brothers sisters assalamualaikum from the

00:18:46.640 knowledge corner for me and shaykh mohammed uthman until next time assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

Ali Dawah - September 05, 2018

IS NIKE REALLY HARAM？？ - KNOWLEDGE CORNER

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