Ali Dawah - April 22, 2023


MUFTI MENKS EVENT BACKFIRES BAD - REACTION


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10 minutes

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2,762

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230

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Misogyny

8

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Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

28

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Jummah Kutbah' alaykum on what to do when people complain about the events held by MUfti Muna'a and how to deal with them. Iman Chatterbox is one of the most important events in the Islamic calendar and I was invited to speak at it this year.

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00:00:00.000 What is the aim of Iman channel?
00:00:01.500 What is the aim of Mufti Malka and them doing this event?
00:00:03.300 Light upon light.
00:00:04.040 Yeah?
00:00:04.500 Is it light upon light or darkness upon darkness?
00:00:08.380 If somebody prays one salah in the haram, 0.55
00:00:10.660 it's as if they have prayed 100,000 salas.
00:00:14.440 It's that praying five times a day for 54 years.
00:00:18.020 We have a brother here who we are teaching how to pray salah.
00:00:20.840 And we've had many people learn from this mat and come to the haram.
00:00:23.740 And if you donate it for one mat and somebody prayed two days salah here,
00:00:27.080 it's equivalent to one million salas.
00:00:29.400 By the way, this is not including their daily prayers throughout their life
00:00:32.080 and them teaching their children.
00:00:33.320 Click the button or the link and be a part of this amazing project.
00:00:36.480 JazakAllah khayr. 0.66
00:00:59.400 This year was the same.
00:01:00.240 And I was invited specifically this year to do a speaker's corner style Dawastu.
00:01:04.580 And I was there, alhamdulillah.
00:01:05.840 And I'm going to be talking about, you know, myself personally,
00:01:09.760 about these events, what I think about them.
00:01:12.040 But in general, there's been videos going around TikTok about people complaining.
00:01:16.140 I think there was a sister done it live. 1.00
00:01:17.680 I don't know.
00:01:18.060 I didn't really see it.
00:01:19.000 But she done it live complaining about, you know, the benefits of this or the harms. 0.99
00:01:23.360 I can't remember.
00:01:24.200 But I think it was very, you know, criticizing that bit.
00:01:26.380 Free mixing, intermingling and all that kind of stuff.
00:01:29.280 Alhamdulillah.
00:01:29.560 So I'm going to touch upon this because it's very, very important.
00:01:31.800 Now, I work with Iman channel closely.
00:01:33.140 So there could be a conflict of interest.
00:01:34.640 But I fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also. 0.99
00:01:36.400 Because Allah says in the Quran, speak the truth even if it's against yourself or your kin.
00:01:39.820 Now, I have to be just.
00:01:41.080 Now, I mean, if this was something that I disagreed with Iman channel,
00:01:43.560 I would privately speak to them and give them Naseer.
00:01:45.260 I wouldn't even bother doing the video.
00:01:46.620 But I'm not going to do that.
00:01:47.780 Why?
00:01:48.340 Not because I want anything from them.
00:01:50.400 Wallahi, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is my witness.
00:01:51.760 Wallahi billahi tillahi.
00:01:52.920 If I'm saying this because I work with them.
00:01:55.480 Okay, no.
00:01:56.420 Anyone that knows me knows me what kind of person I am.
00:01:58.360 I don't care who offers what to me or what benefits I have from them.
00:02:00.940 I will speak the truth.
00:02:02.360 I don't care if they stop working with me.
00:02:03.420 I don't care.
00:02:04.360 Yeah, Allah provides my risk, not you. 0.99
00:02:06.020 So, I want to be very open with you because I was there on the day.
00:02:08.260 And I'm going to tell you how it was.
00:02:09.580 Okay.
00:02:10.080 Now, first thing first, brothers and sisters, is that when I went there, I had my da'os too.
00:02:13.540 Alhamdulillah.
00:02:13.880 I was there and many people came.
00:02:15.560 People came with Shubahat about the issue of Qadr.
00:02:17.420 If Allah knows everything and we have a will, how does that work? 0.98
00:02:19.820 We had sisters come in about hijab. 1.00
00:02:21.380 How can I start, you know, wearing the hijab?
00:02:22.980 We had brothers and sisters come in that saying that they're sinful, etc.
00:02:26.100 Around relationships, how can I make it halal? 0.94
00:02:28.560 There was people who were asking questions.
00:02:30.040 There were two non-Muslims came on the verge of accepting Islam.
00:02:33.600 You name it.
00:02:34.400 So many different questions.
00:02:35.480 A sister came about divorce, whatever it may be, you know.
00:02:37.600 So much stuff, so much emotions.
00:02:38.760 One of them was crying, subhanAllah.
00:02:40.100 So, Alhamdulillah, it was very, very beneficial, Alhamdulillah, from what I saw.
00:02:43.380 And the point is the following, guys, yeah.
00:02:45.280 Now, with these kind of stuff, you need to understand something.
00:02:47.540 If we look at it from a perspective.
00:02:48.880 Now, for example, Alhamdulillah, I've been practicing for about 10 years, okay.
00:02:51.340 I can say that, you know, I do the basics, Alhamdulillah, yeah.
00:02:53.740 Now, if I go to these events and I look at it from my perspective, where I am now, yeah, okay.
00:02:59.640 And if you guys are watching this and you are pious or whatever it may be,
00:03:02.220 and you are looking at it from there, the question I would ask you is,
00:03:04.640 why are you even going there?
00:03:05.660 I'll ask a very simple question.
00:03:06.860 If you know, for example, there might be something that you might dislike to your taste,
00:03:10.040 yeah, for example, why are you going there?
00:03:11.960 You should be in a better place, yeah.
00:03:13.080 If you believe that they weren't up to notch or scratch or whatever they're doing,
00:03:17.180 why are you even there?
00:03:17.980 You should be in your house.
00:03:19.120 I mean, especially your sister.
00:03:20.020 I would say, why are you even there?
00:03:20.940 If you're going to criticize it, why are you even there?
00:03:22.980 The question can be asked.
00:03:24.020 You know, we can go down this rabbit hole and be like,
00:03:26.120 hold on, sister, why are you even going there without your mahram? 0.70
00:03:27.960 Why are you even going there without your husband? 1.00
00:03:28.920 Even if your husband was there, why are you guys even there for?
00:03:30.940 If we're going to make it seem as if this was an intermingling,
00:03:33.340 free mixing event where Mufti Menk is promoting all this kind of stuff,
00:03:35.940 number one, I'm going to say the following, guys.
00:03:37.400 Okay, we need to get over our high horse,
00:03:39.240 because Allah says in the Quran that indeed he found Jew lost and he guided Jew.
00:03:43.000 Yes?
00:03:43.440 Okay.
00:03:43.920 Now, brothers and sisters, you need to understand,
00:03:45.940 get off this piety, piety attack. 1.00
00:03:48.160 It's a piety attack.
00:03:49.140 Okay.
00:03:49.480 In a nutshell, I went on TikTok and I was thinking,
00:03:51.660 okay, what's going on?
00:03:52.220 I went through a lot of videos.
00:03:53.220 Okay.
00:03:53.620 I saw sisters there. 0.97
00:03:55.320 Okay.
00:03:55.580 Like on a TikTok, I was just going and I was seeing what kind of people have come there.
00:03:58.980 Okay.
00:03:59.380 And I was just looking, like going through it and I was thinking,
00:04:01.000 okay, what kind of sisters are these individuals? 1.00
00:04:02.500 I would press on their account and I realized some of them,
00:04:04.340 I would like obviously press and I realized that they don't even wear hijab.
00:04:06.540 So I would just go back to the videos.
00:04:08.180 And I realized there were people there who were not even practicing,
00:04:11.780 who were not even wearing the hijab.
00:04:13.820 Literally, one of the sister who was wearing the hijab in the event,
00:04:16.460 I saw it, I was thinking what she's saying about it, how she found it.
00:04:18.480 She found it very pleasant, the food, the atmosphere.
00:04:20.680 And I went to her account and I zoomed back out because I realized that the sister
00:04:24.060 doesn't forget wearing the hijab. 0.93
00:04:25.720 She dressed very inappropriately.
00:04:26.980 So I had to fly out her account and I thought, subhanAllah.
00:04:29.160 But it made me realize something that this sister was not even,
00:04:32.500 forget wearing the hijab, she was dressed inappropriately in her account.
00:04:35.720 Yeah.
00:04:36.060 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide on us. 0.98
00:04:37.420 Okay.
00:04:37.820 And I thought to myself, subhanAllah,
00:04:39.280 if as a person who is practicing goes to that event,
00:04:41.620 I can criticize a lot of stuff.
00:04:42.680 I'm telling you, I could have.
00:04:43.620 Number one, was there free mixing?
00:04:45.840 Yes.
00:04:46.380 Yes.
00:04:46.800 Did I see people kind of intermingling?
00:04:49.220 Can you say?
00:04:49.860 Yes.
00:04:50.440 There was.
00:04:50.840 I'll be honest with you.
00:04:51.300 I saw these stuff happening.
00:04:52.660 Yeah.
00:04:53.000 Was it like everybody's doing it?
00:04:54.320 Nonsense.
00:04:55.020 Yeah.
00:04:55.460 Now, let me tell you that somebody who has a good,
00:04:58.240 who thinks from a perspective of, you know what,
00:05:00.640 what is the aim of Iman channel?
00:05:02.400 What is the aim of Mufti Malkin and them doing this event?
00:05:04.260 Light upon light.
00:05:05.020 Yeah.
00:05:05.460 Is it light upon light or darkness upon darkness?
00:05:07.120 I believe it's light upon light.
00:05:08.380 Why?
00:05:08.840 Because the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said the following.
00:05:11.220 And I'm going to read it for you guys.
00:05:12.040 Okay.
00:05:12.600 He, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,
00:05:14.540 the most beloved places on earth that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the Masajid.
00:05:17.600 And the most despised places on earth are, to Allah, are the markets.
00:05:21.200 The marketplaces.
00:05:22.140 Now, just bear this in mind.
00:05:23.440 If we live under an Islamic country, Islamic state, yeah? 0.95
00:05:25.740 Will there be markets?
00:05:26.720 Yes, there will be markets.
00:05:27.820 Is the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, forbidden markets? 1.00
00:05:29.540 Because he will say, clearly, it's haram for you to go to the markets.
00:05:31.540 No, he's not.
00:05:32.180 He's saying that there are evil there.
00:05:34.040 Now, if there are evil there, is there also good there?
00:05:36.280 Yes.
00:05:36.660 There are people who are doing trade.
00:05:37.980 There are people who are doing work.
00:05:39.220 There are people who are going there genuinely to do shopping.
00:05:41.720 Amongst them, are there people who want to go to intermingle?
00:05:44.200 Free mix?
00:05:44.780 Yes.
00:05:45.420 Now, does Iman channel have a responsibility on every single individual and put a CCTV camera on their head?
00:05:49.560 No.
00:05:50.120 Because the deen says, you, as a person, are accountable.
00:05:53.340 Iman channel did this amazing thing.
00:05:55.100 And I believe it's amazing.
00:05:55.960 Why?
00:05:56.280 Because people from all different backgrounds, sisters who don't wear the hijab, brothers who are doing drugs, smoking weed, doing this. 1.00
00:06:01.480 I spoke to so many people, so many people.
00:06:03.540 And I thought, subhanAllah, this event is a full event of sinners, including me. 0.98
00:06:07.060 We're all sinners, but we are trying to better ourselves.
00:06:09.720 And when I spoke to them and I understood this, now was there free mixing happening?
00:06:12.900 Yes, there was.
00:06:14.220 There was happening.
00:06:14.860 But how is that organizer's fault?
00:06:16.680 If you've got a marketplace where people are going to shop, et cetera, and people are talking to each other, whatever, how could you?
00:06:21.440 Well, you're going to have the Sharia police to come and do it? 1.00
00:06:23.240 Like the hadith says, did the hadith forbade the marketplaces?
00:06:25.840 No.
00:06:26.400 It said there are places where it's disliked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because of this.
00:06:29.760 But the tarawih, alhamdulillah, was amazing.
00:06:32.180 15,000 people, Muslims who are not practicing, connecting to their Lord.
00:06:35.840 They had 19 shahadas.
00:06:37.560 Yes, 19 shahadas. 0.89
00:06:39.040 Sisters praying tarawih on the 27th night.
00:06:41.080 Brothers praying tarawih.
00:06:42.240 They could have been anywhere else.
00:06:43.760 They could be in, God knows, in the clubs, doing drugs, doing this, not even fasting.
00:06:47.900 The fact that they come into this Islamic event, they had to observe the hijab.
00:06:51.240 Those who were not even wearing the hijab, they were observing the hijab.
00:06:53.500 Those who insult and swear, use foul language, brothers or whatever it may be, they had to keep their tongue.
00:06:57.720 You know, so there were so many benefits out of it.
00:07:01.120 So to go and only take as if, oh, the evil, this is nonsense.
00:07:04.880 Wallahi, you've got, it can be a form of kibber. 0.97
00:07:06.980 You have arrogance.
00:07:07.760 Why would you look at this event and see nothing but evil?
00:07:10.560 Subhanallah.
00:07:11.240 Like Ibn Taymiyyah says, I always use this.
00:07:12.780 Some people are like a fly.
00:07:14.160 Oh, you went to the event and saw only the poo, the free mixing, all this.
00:07:17.360 Is that the only thing you saw?
00:07:18.380 You saw nothing good?
00:07:19.320 You didn't see the tarawih being prayed?
00:07:21.200 Sisters who are not wearing the hijab praying? 0.95
00:07:22.700 Brothers who are involved in drugs and whatever it may be?
00:07:24.300 Praying there, breaking iftar together, remembering Allah, having nasiyah, praying salah together.
00:07:29.520 Nothing, none of that.
00:07:30.540 It was just evil.
00:07:31.480 Get the hell out of here, please.
00:07:32.620 With all due respect, get the hell out of here.
00:07:34.460 Trying to make this event, you know, it's darkness upon darkness.
00:07:36.760 Wallahi, it was light upon light.
00:07:37.880 It was.
00:07:38.420 Were there some darknesses in the sense of people sinning?
00:07:41.420 Of course there was.
00:07:42.380 But it is unjust for us to now move and be like, yeah, may Allah go again.
00:07:46.260 Get the hell out of here, man. 0.78
00:07:47.580 Get the hell out of here.
00:07:48.680 Just imagine this.
00:07:49.720 Imagine you are a non-practicing young girl or a young boy.
00:07:53.120 Would that place be somewhere good or bad for you?
00:07:55.660 It will be the most perfect place for you.
00:07:57.300 That is the problem that we have.
00:07:59.260 We do not look at it from a perspective of a young girl who's dressing inappropriately
00:08:02.920 or a brother who's also dressing inappropriately or doing God knows what, committing what?
00:08:07.280 Coming to an event where you're realizing it's a Muslim event, 0.99
00:08:09.840 you have to conduct yourself in a certain way.
00:08:11.500 You're coming there and you're seeing it.
00:08:13.420 And on top of that, you're coming and praying tarawih.
00:08:15.280 Maybe they did not pray tarawih at all in that Ramadan.
00:08:17.320 Praying tarawih, breaking iftar, seeing the brotherhood, giving nasiyah,
00:08:21.000 talking, hearing a reminder, 19 shahadahs, subhanAllah.
00:08:24.360 But if you want to get on your high horse and I'm pious and you know,
00:08:27.120 I wear my niqab and I wear my foe like me, subhanAllah, 1.00
00:08:29.580 and I go and go look at these people, they don't feel like,
00:08:32.000 wallahi, this arrogance, wallahi, this arrogance. 0.72
00:08:34.540 If you came to that event or look from a certain perspective and said,
00:08:37.540 oh, this is how it should be, wallahi, arrogance.
00:08:40.240 Do not forget Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guided you.
00:08:42.520 My dear sister in niqab or hijab or abaya, whatever you're wearing,
00:08:45.120 and my brother, he's got a long beard, he's got Quran under his left arm
00:08:48.240 and maswaq in his big teeth.
00:08:50.200 You don't ever forget that day and that point where you used to commit zina,
00:08:54.460 you used to drink alcohol, you used to do drugs,
00:08:56.740 you used to do the most filthy of our acts.
00:08:58.400 And it was one reminder in a masjid or one video here or one nasiyah there
00:09:02.360 that slowly got you to guidance that you are now practicing
00:09:05.560 and now you're in your high horse, mashallah, tabarakallah. 0.58
00:09:09.080 Looking at people and these people don't fear Allah.
00:09:11.160 Allah, you fear Allah. 0.97
00:09:13.980 You fear Allah.
00:09:14.940 Iman channel, umuftimanku, any of them, don't wake up one day and go,
00:09:18.080 how can we disobey Allah and his messenger today?
00:09:20.040 I know we're going to free mix.
00:09:21.760 Yalla habibi, who cares about Allah and his messenger? 1.00
00:09:24.240 We're going to do this.
00:09:25.560 Alhamdulillah, I know and I can vouch for these individuals.
00:09:28.300 I can vouch for them.
00:09:29.200 I know I'm an Iman channel.
00:09:30.660 And the head of Iman channel, I'm not going to mention by name,
00:09:32.160 wallahi is a brother who fears Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
00:09:34.520 wants the best for the ummah and always gives me nasiyah.
00:09:36.880 Always, always gives me nasiyah. 0.96
00:09:38.000 When I do a video, it might be something that's not appropriate.
00:09:40.520 He was a message.
00:09:41.140 He made me take down two videos.
00:09:42.340 He messaged me.
00:09:42.900 And they say to him, ah, who do you think I am?
00:09:44.140 My Alida, I would be great.
00:09:45.180 One million subscribers, please, sir.
00:09:46.420 Kiss my hand.
00:09:47.180 I would be billah.
00:09:47.900 I say, no, Akia, you're right.
00:09:49.160 I see where you're coming from.
00:09:49.820 I took the video down.
00:09:50.700 He wants goodness for the ummah.
00:09:52.120 So I tell everybody to fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 1.00
00:09:54.780 And wallahi, wallahi, if I'm saying these statements about him,
00:09:57.620 because I want something from him, I don't want nothing from him.
00:09:59.580 I'm not saying it.
00:10:00.800 I'm saying what I see.
00:10:02.140 These brothers want good for the ummah.
00:10:03.360 They're making these events so we can come together.
00:10:06.640 That's all I'm going to say, brothers and sisters, inshaAllah.
00:10:08.740 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect and preserve us
00:10:10.480 and make us among those who are humble, who help others and not be judgmental.
00:10:14.080 He does that.
00:10:14.580 He does that.
00:10:14.940 Look at him.
00:10:15.200 Look at him.
00:10:15.680 Wallahi, Allah will test you in such a way. 1.00
00:10:17.640 That brother or sister, these events that you look at, wallahi,
00:10:20.620 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put you in a situation,
00:10:22.500 to that sister who dressed inappropriately that you have a go at or look at, 1.00
00:10:25.420 you will be worse than them.
00:10:27.360 And if you can do it, come, you do an event.
00:10:28.940 Let's see how well you can do it.
00:10:30.360 Dividing markets.
00:10:31.000 Let's see how easy it is that you're going to have brothers in one side.
00:10:33.700 Let's see how easy it is.
00:10:34.860 You know, the one who doesn't know how to do it, he talks a lot.
00:10:36.940 And the one that knows how to do it, does it.
00:10:38.540 So may Allah forgive all of our shortcomings, inshaAllah.
00:10:40.920 And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless Iman channel and Muslim men 1.00
00:10:43.480 that they do more events like this that can benefit all the ummah at large.
00:10:47.660 And of course, there's going to be things that happen that are not perfect.
00:10:50.760 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive us. 0.98
00:10:52.040 Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.