SNEAKO - April 08, 2024


FINAL DAY OF RAMADAN - SNEAKO X MOHAMMED HIJAB


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1 hour and 46 minutes

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203.07611

Word Count

21,548

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8

Misogynist Sentences

51

Hate Speech Sentences

94


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In this episode, we talk about our first ramadan experience and how it's been so far. We talk about the ramadan rush hour, ramadan fasting, and ramadan in general. We also talk about what it's like to be a ramadan goer and what it was like to go ramadan for the first time.

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00:00:00.000 in the past couple days very crowded bro that seemed like too much work a lot of work a lot
00:00:04.720 of work no just to get to the restaurant to get food and stuff it was a submission but why'd you
00:00:10.960 drive do you have some water i've got some here okay yeah it's not something though
00:00:17.120 okay we should start in about 15 seconds probably
00:00:20.400 you could probably you could see the viewfinder in the backpack if you see that screen does it look
00:00:24.400 okay if we're both sitting in the frame it's showing yeah i know it should show on the
00:00:37.360 on this you see you see that screen yeah it looks good
00:00:40.000 uh but what's it called uh km came pm yeah yeah so that starts now that ends at two well that's how
00:00:58.320 it was in uh mecca not not ends at two i mean it did once or twice but it would be about an hour
00:01:04.000 oh 15. oh so we're probably gonna miss it yeah yeah yeah okay it's exhausting i want to talk
00:01:11.280 about i want to talk about the the first ramen on experience um okay there we go right when uh
00:01:18.320 right when the stream starts i want to i think we're good i have some questions too from my community
00:01:25.360 that they they wanted to know of course okay they're saying looks good sounds good hey salam
00:01:29.840 alaykum guys the stream started right when the the prayer call went off for how do you say it again
00:01:33.520 kiam kiam i keep uh mispronouncing it we have muhammad ajab back in medina you just came straight
00:01:39.520 from mecca i saw everyone's posting the videos online it's the most crowded it's like three million
00:01:43.040 people in that city right now absolutely bro it's very difficult even just to get to the restaurant
00:01:47.760 anywhere you want to get you know you have to hustle you have to fight you know this but everyone is
00:01:53.920 there for a mission and it's one of those experiences where that you really feel like
00:01:58.080 de-individualized like you feel like there's something greater than you that you're doing
00:02:02.560 do you know what i mean it's it doesn't matter who you are where you come from or what money you have
00:02:06.800 or what background or status you think you have when you're there it's it's indiscriminate it doesn't
00:02:12.240 they don't i mean people don't care about that you're dead to do it you know the rituals and stuff
00:02:16.960 like that and so it's a humbling experience but it's also a very powerful experience was it like
00:02:22.480 was it okay on your feet like i saw were you able to do umrah and get by and i was you know
00:02:28.560 i don't know what it is but i feel like with anything long distance i find it difficult
00:02:32.560 because i'm what for me like i've got my my ring it tells me like this is called an aura ring so it
00:02:37.840 tells you aura ring like a-u-r-a-o-u-r-a okay yeah so it tells me like the steps of my sleeping and
00:02:44.320 everything like that um and so what it told me is that with the amra it was about eight to nine miles
00:02:49.680 okay of the approximation of eight miles nine miles of walking plus um yeah about nine miles
00:02:58.240 of walking uh 13 15 000 steps i don't know what it was and it took me about two and a half hours to
00:03:04.080 complete um and bumping in the shoulders with everybody yeah yeah i mean it's wheelchairs over
00:03:09.760 your feet for me i can't i find anything long distance whether it's long distance walking
00:03:15.040 running i'm not a lighter you know i find it difficult some people that are lighter we find
00:03:19.840 it more easy like people that i speak to that way less they find it like a breeze nothing but for me it
00:03:26.400 hurts my back it hurts my feet it's it's you're grinding you know in these kinds of experiences
00:03:30.640 experiences and then how how did you get over here you drove here today i don't know why you did
00:03:34.480 that it was how long was the drive like seven hours four hours no no it was about four hours i just
00:03:39.120 i know there's the bullet train but uh yeah it's just um sometimes i prefer being in the car you know
00:03:46.320 i understand and everybody uh people online are saying that this there's something special about
00:03:51.520 this ramadan would you agree like is it i don't know maybe it's my first one but it seems like
00:03:55.600 um it's has it been more packed than it usually is i haven't come here before in ramadan
00:04:00.480 i've come i've done two hajj's before and five amras um i haven't ever come in ramadan the hajj is
00:04:07.040 actually more crowded it is okay yeah it's more crowded uh but this for a non-hajj time
00:04:16.080 it was was almost comparable with hajj um but in terms of the crowding is uh it's almost frightening
00:04:24.480 it's scary in fact if someone's never been in a situation like that for example westerners if
00:04:28.960 they're watching this and they'd be they'd go to things like a football match a soccer match
00:04:33.040 or football match or even a festival or a cello rolling yeah and what we're gonna say in that
00:04:38.160 situation maximum 200 000 people would come even for a world cup final what we're saying two 300 000
00:04:43.200 people so to have a place where there's a million two million three million three million three million
00:04:48.560 in mecca yeah and and you have to organize that you know it's it's not easy at all it's not easy at
00:04:54.720 all it was so packed yesterday for tarawi that i couldn't even like it was the people were lined up
00:04:59.760 all the way to my hotel yeah i didn't even i so i just woke up i walked downstairs uh after i made
00:05:04.320 wudu and then people were just praying in the lobby and i ran into muhammad boy i have a guy filming
00:05:08.320 behind the camera his little brother was there praying next to me like i think how old is he 12 yeah
00:05:12.800 yeah 10 he's 10 years old it's just been it was 33 minutes straight it was a long i have to admit
00:05:18.160 you you seem tired uh but i i'm exhausted yeah the sleep schedule's brutal yeah um the i don't know
00:05:25.040 like i don't want to be complaining too much but it's just like it's just sleep pray sleep pray
00:05:30.080 it goes tarawi then kiyam then fajr then especially if you did your amara whilst you're fasting yeah
00:05:36.000 because that can be difficult is that what you did yeah i've done that it was it was a difficult day of
00:05:39.680 fasting for me very difficult but um one thing which is inspirational was seeing people like i've
00:05:45.040 seen people that almost cripple like handicapped disabled i saw a man hunched down and he's doing
00:05:51.200 the amara as well unbelievable like the resolve that he must have had how old was he you know i
00:05:56.800 would say about 80 um like maybe minimum 70 up to 85 that kind of injury and he was crippled you see
00:06:03.520 that all the time people like disabled people that are in a bad position but they still manage
00:06:09.680 to do it and they still want to do it it's the motivation that puts them through it and there's
00:06:13.360 something about religious motivation that gets us to do things that we would otherwise not ever do
00:06:17.120 like i would never fast 30 days consecutively but i would not eat or drink or have intercourse or
00:06:22.400 anything like that for 30 days consecutively in a time period designated i wouldn't do that unless
00:06:28.160 there was a religious incentive and so the rich incentive is powerful let alone do that and then you
00:06:33.520 know do umrah and then you know pray all this uh we had all those kind of things it's very difficult
00:06:38.960 it's mentally draining that's something i didn't really understand before becoming muslim was that
00:06:43.440 standing there especially for 33 minutes last night just listen and he started crying the reciter was i
00:06:47.840 don't know if you saw the videos but he was getting really passionate because uh if i'm not misunderstood
00:06:52.160 that's when they're finishing the quran yeah yeah yeah yeah i was i was there actually when it was so
00:06:56.800 packed uh well i was talking about medina here oh is he doing the same thing in medina yeah oh okay
00:07:02.160 yeah we had we had today's in a very famous car a very famous guy that you know he was crying as
00:07:07.200 well he's saying khatm quran as well the same thing finishing the quran and what was powerful was that
00:07:13.120 he did actually make that for palestine uh multiple times and when he did that everyone was roaring like
00:07:19.520 i mean i mean like everyone this is in everyone's mind you know and crying and stuff like that which
00:07:24.880 shows you that the palestinian case is still in deeply entrenched in the hearts of the muslims all around the
00:07:30.080 world all around the world but i didn't understand like how draining and like having to focus there
00:07:35.040 and just like make do i think about like your family everything that you're praying for
00:07:38.800 for that long of a period of time something like you're standing and focusing could be
00:07:42.720 so mentally like afterwards after the 33 minutes like i collapsed i literally had to like lay down
00:07:47.360 on the floor but i was looking at everybody else and everybody looked fine i'm like i have a lot to
00:07:51.600 i have a lot to get accustomed to exactly because it's good bro it builds resilience it's these kinds of
00:07:58.560 experiences you push yourself mentally and um what happens is your threshold for this kind of thing
00:08:04.320 increases just like anything anything else in life progressive overload yeah it's exactly like that
00:08:09.280 i mean it's uh i kept mentioning this before in the last podcast we had but that book willpower
00:08:14.720 um when he talked about the fact that willpower can expand and stretch like a muscle so you have to
00:08:19.920 put yourself through these experiences and there's something about um you know draining yourself having
00:08:25.520 a detox you know not being always on the phone for half an hour even if you just like leave social
00:08:31.280 media for half an hour just focus on something completely else um fasting all these kind of
00:08:35.840 things is it builds character and depth in character in a way i don't think anything else can i definitely
00:08:41.200 realize and i didn't expect it going into ramadan i thought it'd be like i was thinking it from like
00:08:45.440 the la intermittent fasting like okay it'll be good to like cleanse my body like maybe i'll detox the
00:08:50.800 toxins or whatever but i think the number one takeaway because this is the last day of ramadan correct yes
00:08:55.280 yes and then eat so can i eat tomorrow it's not tomorrow you're gonna you're gonna fast tomorrow
00:09:00.000 so tomorrow's fasting last day of fasting okay they're fasting then um then after that it's
00:09:07.200 but what's powerful is you're gonna have eid here in medina you don't have eid you're gonna have eid
00:09:11.760 here you're gonna do the eid prayers here and stuff okay which is very beautiful man i thought it was
00:09:16.080 extended one day like there's a someone was saying online that eid was extended one day because
00:09:20.080 something about the moon is that true no no it's not extended it's just like because it can either be
00:09:23.920 ramadan 29 days or 30 days depending on the moon yeah depending on the sighting of the moon so they
00:09:29.520 they looked at it today to see if the moon is going to be it's going to show for eid the credit the
00:09:34.960 moon and they looked at it and it's not the case so it's going to be after tomorrow so tomorrow is the
00:09:40.160 last day of ramadan okay so effectively maghrib okay is when id will start maghrib the the last prayer
00:09:47.600 tomorrow like 5 30. officially 6 30 you know officially that's in this country but officially
00:09:53.280 that's when i will start and then i can eat you can eat and in fact it's haram not to because
00:09:59.040 the day of aids you cannot fast you're not allowed to fast on right there really yeah okay good yeah
00:10:03.680 i want to fix that but i would say the number one i was thinking of it like from the health benefits
00:10:07.200 and stuff like that like maybe i'm gonna i'll feel like a superhero afterwards i think the number
00:10:11.280 one takeaway has just been patience like that health wise i'm not really sure what the benefits were
00:10:16.320 but you know costing of every of like everything about the schedule of the patience of being around
00:10:23.280 these people of seeing the way that people are able to focus um having to like come because i'm
00:10:27.680 a very short-tempered person yes i think because uh a lot of it has to do with social media the fact
00:10:32.720 that like everything is instantaneous and so then having to wait in line when there's 30 people or being
00:10:37.520 in a country here like where if the police tell you to do something you're not going to argue with
00:10:40.880 the cops like i do in new york you're just okay this is how it is over the hotel receptionist
00:10:45.040 has taken a long time just just if we were in mecca um two weeks ago and they're taking they're
00:10:49.760 taking an hour to get me the room you're not going to complain like in the united states you might have
00:10:53.680 an argument ask for the manager have a caring moment but it's just patience okay and hopefully
00:10:59.040 actually i think that i that did help me learn a lot of that um hopefully i got some mental resilience
00:11:04.480 from there it's true but sometimes they can take it too far as well let's be honest these guys yeah
00:11:08.880 they do yeah and i've had my fair share of problems here as well i mean a lot of the issues because
00:11:13.600 everyone is frustrated everyone is hungry everyone is tired and then there's like to get food here
00:11:19.760 like i say this is medina it's hard mecca was a mission bro like to get a bug i was standing there
00:11:25.040 but i was sitting down like a like a homeless man people were coming because i i had the ticket and
00:11:29.280 i had to just wait and i just said i'm not going to wait i'm not i'm going to preserve my energy for
00:11:33.040 tarawih so i just sat down yeah you know and i think people thought i was homeless
00:11:36.960 that's what this is how it feels like you know to be to be in this position yeah
00:11:41.920 same thing too we were praying yesterday uh i think it was after fajr and i was just trying
00:11:46.400 oh no it was right before fajr it was um it's called sahur and i was drinking an orange juice and
00:11:50.240 like having a um a cookie or whatever and there was just nowhere to sit so i just sat on the street
00:11:54.560 and the cars are going by and then like sitting on the road like a homeless guy but then like the
00:11:58.720 weird dichotomy like sitting there like homeless like with the rappers everywhere and then people
00:12:02.560 asking for pictures it's like leave me alone for one second like this is not how i want to be seen
00:12:07.200 i'm hunched over like eating like a gorilla and then people want to take some how do you manage
00:12:11.200 that because it's like um he was telling me too muhammad was saying like yo you're like famous here
00:12:16.000 but like i come here to in medina to just kind of like get the peace aspect and to to focus and
00:12:21.680 i put my phone down i go to the maj to just read quran alone and then there's like oh there's always
00:12:26.560 like a lot of people how are you how do you manage that i that's that's part of the life now i'm afraid
00:12:32.000 to say i mean once you're this famous i mean even i you know i get it i get quite a lot actually
00:12:37.680 you're coming here i had to take a few pictures i don't know how many people had to stop and take
00:12:42.960 pictures of me it's it's kind of um what i would what i usually do is go to places where
00:12:48.000 that i know that my demographic are not there so i know where that is you know sometimes in the uk
00:12:54.960 i know where that is it's usually the areas which are there are some areas which like the elderly people
00:13:01.520 go to you know over the 65s certain times and stuff like that certain parks certain places
00:13:07.360 same thing with here there are some countries that are not familiar with your content
00:13:11.040 so if you know that okay these guys are staying in these hotels so i'd go to that hotel there
00:13:17.200 because and this like for example this area here i know there's a lot of people that are going to be
00:13:21.680 like english-speaking someone knocked on my hotel room door to try to get a picture yeah he woke me
00:13:26.000 like he woke up warner because he thought warner was my room that's very inconsiderate to be honest yeah
00:13:29.920 he was 15 but you know yeah but even then i mean this it's still very yeah that's very very
00:13:34.320 inconsiderate i mean i'm very surprised by that but things like that you know if you go to a place
00:13:40.080 where you know they're not there sometimes i can help but otherwise this is a bit of a is a bit of
00:13:45.280 a juxtaposition because on the one hand you're living the the hard life you know you're going back
00:13:49.840 to a humble kind of life everyone here is living that life everyone but on the other hand you you still
00:13:55.760 are a celebrity so that you have to kind of deal with both at the same time you could probably wear
00:13:58.880 a disguise i saw islam makachev was hey he had giant sunglasses and a hood yeah and a scarf yeah
00:14:04.400 the picture of medina it's like oh it makes a lot of i wouldn't recognize him i saw it the way he took
00:14:08.400 the picture with the hood and the glasses there's no way i would recognize him if he walked right by me
00:14:12.160 oh really so maybe but it's so hot it'd be hard to to do that is he did armada now i don't know i saw
00:14:18.400 a picture of him in medina two days ago oh is it you were with him no no no no with islam
00:14:23.120 islami and i met him back in las vegas but i didn't meet him here yeah i made him in shaytan
00:14:27.040 on some on twitter or something yeah i met him at a casino and he said uh get out to this place
00:14:31.520 brother like you can't be here but i was there it was uh a ufc event or something okay fine fine
00:14:37.120 but he's yeah he and khabib come here quite often yeah actually um a lot of guys i just see them and
00:14:43.360 that that's a good testament to that kind of character actually because you'd have to put on the two
00:14:47.600 everyone doesn't matter what you're making you have to put on the same two
00:14:52.080 garments that you would wear if you're actually going to die if you because if you if you're
00:14:56.400 if you're going to die in islam you have to put on these two garments the two towels the two towels
00:15:01.200 you know uh the leader and the izar and then you'd have then you'd be buried in those two garments
00:15:07.200 and so in a way hajj is a bit like a reenactment of the day of judgment because the day of judgment
00:15:12.640 everyone's going to be raised up in this way and so it doesn't matter who you are and what you're doing
00:15:18.880 you're going through the same motions you're going through the same experience there's no fast
00:15:23.120 track for this i mean i've already seen it with the very very high elites where they have like a
00:15:27.520 whole posse around them and then you know like for example royalty and so on but apart from that
00:15:32.560 even the most famous people they have to go through the same crowding and the difficulties
00:15:36.320 and all this kind of thing and i think it's good bro because at the end of the day like
00:15:40.560 we can easily become um very very entitled and that can drive us and then
00:15:49.120 when we have that level of entitlement it become can become delusional we think we're
00:15:54.240 owed things that we're not actually owed we can we can start people treating people with a bit of
00:15:59.280 disrespect we lose the humility a good character and so being in places like this it reminds us a bit
00:16:06.080 of the rough life the andrew tay experience is a good example of this because the andrew tay
00:16:11.120 experiences like look how he was living yeah very famous very rich had all this money right
00:16:16.640 everywhere he went was was well known but then he went to prison and so he had to contend with the
00:16:22.320 most difficult living after after having lived like a king effectively and it's even more difficult to
00:16:28.800 live like uh to go to prison or to live in a difficult manner after having lived like a king because
00:16:35.440 you're used to a certain level and then you're thrown into this situation so by putting yourself
00:16:39.840 in continuous difficulty if you ever have to go to prison if you ever have to go to a hospital if
00:16:44.160 you ever have to be put into a strenuous position then you've already got kind of training for that
00:16:50.320 you're already accosted you're pretty much living like a prisoner already yeah you need to have a little
00:16:53.920 bit of that in your life you know i feel like we always need that especially in the west because you
00:16:58.240 know if you think about it bro the way we're living in the west where the layman is living like the king
00:17:04.480 of yesterday a king imagine what he was what kind of service he would get he would get people come
00:17:08.240 and giving him grapes anything he wanted to get straight away all the kind of things that a king
00:17:12.880 would have so in order to really to strengthen ourselves and to give ourselves that resilience
00:17:19.360 and that actually if these positions do arise then to put ourselves in these kind of positions is very
00:17:26.720 powerful in fact that's why a lot of western people are moving to stoicism which is this philosophy
00:17:31.600 yeah it's called stoicism which basically is the idea that you're not in control of anything and
00:17:37.040 and also asceticism the idea of divorcing yourself from the world a lot of westerners like to go to
00:17:44.080 for example china or india or anywhere else and indulge in eastern meditative practices you know
00:17:50.480 meditation these kind of things research themselves intentionally yeah because they realize that over
00:17:55.120 indulgence in the living that they're used to is actually destroying them but with it that isn't once again
00:18:01.200 there's not really a an obligation for them to do that and it's not moving towards a particular
00:18:06.480 objective and and true purpose in islam there's an obligation and it's connected to a true purpose
00:18:11.840 right so everything and you cannot compare and now if anyone has been here in mecca medina
00:18:18.640 and i've done anything else in the world in any other religious practice you cannot compare the two
00:18:23.520 the seriousness the amount of people the dedication the hours the actual practice
00:18:28.640 nothing compares to the religious practice of islam if we're being honest no i haven't ever
00:18:32.640 experienced anything like this in my life yeah it's it's been brutal everyone is serious about it
00:18:37.280 dead serious whether you're a child whether you're an old person whether you're somewhere in the middle
00:18:41.600 whether you're you know able or disabled whatever it may be right everyone is serious during the prayer
00:18:46.640 yesterday i was like i was struggling i was like mentally like i got to do this i was like it was it was
00:18:51.200 it was genuinely like really hard to finish the 33 minute prayer yeah and then i saw his brother the 10 year
00:18:56.080 old reciting the quran in time uh with the reciter and he was there doing it he had to sit down for
00:19:01.120 a couple seconds but he was like he was locked in i'm like how am i having to struggle when somebody
00:19:05.920 half less than half my age is able to do this and then just remember that helped me stay back in the
00:19:10.160 mode and realize that uh and even yesterday like sitting in the maja reading quran seeing like five
00:19:14.960 year old kids reciting quran like while they're reading it like better than than i could in years and
00:19:20.800 it's it's a reminder about how seriously people take this like like you said the old men walking
00:19:25.200 around but i'm curious what what was the i mean you've done ramadan your whole life what do you
00:19:30.400 think this specifically um something that you focus on and learn the most if mine was yeah this ramadan
00:19:36.560 do you know like honestly what i what i do is i try and make dua i try i really think about
00:19:43.600 dua is supplication i try and supplicate for myself for my family for my community and this ramadan
00:19:50.640 which has been different has been a lot of the diet i've been making has been about palestine to be
00:19:54.880 honest like so much of it i would say maybe 60 to 70 percent of it genuinely because it's um it's
00:20:03.360 something in the in the hearts and minds of everyone and just seeing it i feel like it would be selfish of
00:20:07.840 me not to do that one can really see what kind of a person you are by what kind of dua you make
00:20:13.600 so if you can if you make dua for if you make supplication to allah that all you want is things in this
00:20:18.480 world then you're a worldly person right if you make that only for yourself then you're a selfish
00:20:23.440 person and if you make that for yourself and for the community and for people that are in pain
00:20:28.400 then that's the kind of person you are you're a communal person so you know i've been trying to
00:20:33.200 make more and more doubt for my family my loved ones the community in general the muslim community
00:20:38.400 i'll make a lot of that for them but in particular the palestinians and i think there's something about
00:20:43.040 this time around where palestine's been attacked which has really brought the muslims together
00:20:48.320 in a way i haven't seen before to be honest with you coming here i've been coming here a lot but
00:20:53.200 i've not seen the unity that i've seen this time around the emotion on the palestine you can tell
00:20:59.120 it's on everybody's mind oh it is it is as soon as as soon as they they mentioned the word palestine
00:21:03.920 it's like everybody knows what that means right and so yes that's what i've been focusing on this
00:21:09.600 time around but also i've been trying to focus a little bit more on my qualities like
00:21:14.320 i'm a bit of a wild card myself i'm rough around the edges i'm trying to work around like on certain
00:21:18.560 qualities so things that i want to improve on as an individual i want to become more humble
00:21:23.200 i want to become i want to remove my vanity and you know arrogance and these kind of things and
00:21:29.200 anything like that any negative thing because you know sometimes we focus on
00:21:34.640 things we can do like prayer and fasting and stuff but we don't focus as much on the virtues and that
00:21:41.040 you know that's what i'm trying to improve on that as well that's what i i would say that i had a
00:21:45.120 similar experience like in the beginning i remember i was asking you guys at hoshi dochi in london
00:21:49.920 um like is it okay to ask for worldly things and the common answer i don't know if it was you or from
00:21:55.040 warner but it was like you're supposed to ask allah for for everything because who else you can ask for
00:22:00.080 but every time i put my head to the floor and i would think about like i mean i was banned on
00:22:03.520 instagram during ramadan in mecca with abutamia during the stream and so sometimes i make do off
00:22:07.760 for that like can i have my instagram back or specific things like wealth um but it just like
00:22:12.640 while i'm making do off that it felt trivial and it's like why am i asking for these worldly things
00:22:16.800 that it it almost seemed like a sign that i wasn't supposed to be that i could ask for something
00:22:21.120 greater like instead of asking for my instagram back how about i ask for the ability to remove
00:22:26.640 that need for that in my life why do i need that like i only want that so that i can make more
00:22:31.440 money and so that i can bring people to my stream well if people want to find that i'll find another
00:22:35.360 way and you know there's always i think there's a step above a lot of the worldly things that you
00:22:39.760 ask for if you think about why you're asking for that there's something greater that that you could
00:22:43.760 look for and show gratitude for um i think that's a very mature way of thinking about things bro
00:22:49.840 honestly and and there's nothing wrong with asking for both the the instagram and and uh the
00:22:56.240 afterlife things and you know the virtuous things but it's it's a good way of of thinking about
00:23:02.320 things in fact in psychology there's there's this thing called trait neuroticism um which is it's
00:23:08.640 basically when when something goes wrong in someone's life their ability to moderate their
00:23:13.600 emotions basically that's what it is it's one of the five main emotions or five main markers that
00:23:19.200 psychologists look at when they're looking at um an individual and their makeup so trait neuroticism is one
00:23:25.920 of the of those things and um and so if if one for example let's take your instagram thing as an
00:23:32.800 example if something bad happens in someone's life a person who thinks of things in a very low
00:23:38.880 or primitive manner let's say will ask questions like why is this happening to me why me why always
00:23:44.320 me why is this the case it's a victim mindset yeah exactly the victim mindset is the most primitive
00:23:49.840 way and it's the most useless way from a psychological perspective the weakest potential way it's like
00:23:56.800 almost the infant level of dealing with the calamity in one's life and then you've got stage number two
00:24:04.160 where someone can at least evaluate and say okay well you know it's a bad thing that happened but maybe
00:24:10.400 there's some good things that come out of it and then the highest the pinnacle thing is that when bad
00:24:15.120 things happen to people they think of the best possible reason or best possible thing that how
00:24:21.520 that connects to their life so for example the instagram thing it's okay the instagram thing they
00:24:25.440 banned me on it but what does that actually mean you can start thinking of it from a dunya and deen
00:24:29.840 perspective and a manner you can frame it in a narrative which is actually favorable so you can say to yourself
00:24:35.120 well they've taken on my instagram but it's better that they've taken my my instagram at say one point
00:24:40.720 whatever a million than at five point something million because it would have been more painful
00:24:45.760 right sure okay that's one way of putting it or another thing is they've taken away my instagram
00:24:52.480 but by them taking away my instagram they've made me into a case study a historical case study
00:24:57.280 i mean they're mentioning your name in the senate for example that's a pretty significant ordeal that
00:25:01.760 makes you eligible to be spoken about and written about actually on a historical level before you were
00:25:07.760 just a youtuber and a streamer now you're a historical figure now someone can can write your
00:25:12.560 names nico and and the case where he was removed from instagram and meta in the year such and such
00:25:18.400 you can be referenced and in fact you can be referenced in a way to show how these organizations
00:25:24.800 and these major you know uh social media platforms are centering certain things which they consider to be
00:25:32.080 disfavorable to their own narrative another way you can think of it is well it's made me think of
00:25:37.360 new creative ways to spread my message it's made me focus more of my effort on just these other
00:25:44.240 platforms it's made me um think about diversifying not just my social media platform portfolio but also
00:25:52.960 diversifying my life portfolio because i realized that if it's the case that by click of a button or
00:26:00.000 decision of a decision maker someone can take me off a platform like instagram or youtube or anything else
00:26:05.440 that i shouldn't allow these people to have that much control of my happiness and therefore i need
00:26:11.760 to bring happiness from within right you know and and that's something that the stoics speak about
00:26:16.960 they call it the dichotomy of control where they say that in reality if something is not in your
00:26:23.200 control if something you've tried everything you can within the law within the parameters within what's in
00:26:29.280 your control once you've tried everything in your control and the thing still happens you would say
00:26:34.720 okay well then i've tried everything i can it's out of my control and we would say from a muslim
00:26:39.680 perspective it's qadrallah it is the will of allah that that happens and the will of allah is always good
00:26:44.560 for you like even bad things that you may think are bad for you are actually good for you in the long
00:26:50.400 run there are many things maybe that happened in your life which at the time you might have thought
00:26:54.880 were bad but when you look in hindsight okay well this happened because of this reason and this has
00:26:59.920 helped me in these ways and so uh the reason why i brought this to your attention is just to show you
00:27:05.760 that sometimes bad things can be good for you but the way you frame them in your mind is what makes
00:27:13.040 the difference between someone who thinks of things in a primitive primitive manner versus someone who's
00:27:17.440 thinking about a mature manner and but by the way you've just framed it it's clear that your ability to
00:27:23.200 look at the world in a in a perpetually optimistic way fits more into the more mature category which
00:27:29.520 is a good thing and i also realize that there's no other outlook there's no other way to view
00:27:33.680 life like there's there's no benefit in seeing it from a victim mindset exactly or having a pessimistic
00:27:38.800 view like how does that benefit you at all it doesn't the best way to go about life is to think
00:27:42.800 that everything to try to see the good in everything and then even if things are stressful and there's more
00:27:46.960 attacks from different angles the fact that that's going to harden you and you're going to be a better
00:27:50.160 person and be able to avoid that in the future it's a part of the frustration is even someone
00:27:55.280 like him he's like oh i've seen your stuff everywhere he doesn't know where i stream you
00:27:58.800 know so but that's gonna it's gonna make me um a better content creator and figure out how to
00:28:03.360 advertise myself in um in different ways and how to get the content out in a way that other content
00:28:08.160 creators don't need to think about it because they have access to the platforms but then once again
00:28:11.760 it seems so trivial because then again i've been making lots of dua for palestine as well and it's like
00:28:16.160 like the fact that i like even that's a struggle you know losing a platform when these people
00:28:21.840 obviously we know everything that's going on um it's it seems so childish really to to think that
00:28:27.760 that's any any sort of struggle and so i think everybody here has been um i i definitely can feel
00:28:34.400 the the same sentiment that everybody here has been thinking about about palestine as well um but
00:28:40.800 do you think that next year it's going to be the the same sort of attitude do you think that the
00:28:44.320 the amount of people here right now is because of what's happening in palestine is it because
00:28:48.160 it's the fastest growing religion what's the reason that there's so much energy here right now
00:28:53.680 to be honest in ramadan this place is known to bring a lot of people in ramadan it's a standard
00:28:58.400 thing because you know you've got the rewards of ramadan and then you've got the rewards of being
00:29:03.120 in one of the mosques so when you combine the rewards you have like massive rewards and people just
00:29:09.120 want to you know people just want to take those rewards and you can see it's it's a historical
00:29:14.400 thing for the last i think 10 15 20 years it's always been packed but as i say i think the energy
00:29:19.920 is different and that energy is because of palestine i think that that energy of people are now looking
00:29:26.240 making longer they are working harder i think that that has changed the game is it good what's wrong
00:29:34.000 the battery's dead okay that's fine thank you sorry yeah so i think from that angle the palestine
00:29:45.360 thing is definitely um a game changer from that perspective but it's always been crowded like
00:29:50.240 this people have always been serious and if you come and hajj which is the next level up that's in
00:29:54.880 june right it's in june yeah i have to look at the calendar it's the month of hajj in the islamic
00:30:01.200 calendar it's also synchronized with the moon yeah okay yeah yeah and so this is uh maybe yeah
00:30:07.280 june sounds about right if you if you do a hajj you'll see a different level and it's even harder
00:30:12.640 the walking is more you have to now you you'd have to go to a place called uh mina and like you're
00:30:18.800 going to be sharing a room with like 20 or 30 other men oh yeah and it's going to be difficult you
00:30:23.440 know you're going to be you have to do that um when you say you have to it's not obligation
00:30:29.040 uh it's it's not it's not a pillar of it's not a pillar of the hajj according to some of the schools
00:30:34.080 of thought but it is an obligation according to all of the schools of thought apparently effectively
00:30:40.560 but you can stay for two days which is the obligation in that place or you can stay for
00:30:45.920 longer which is more the recommended action so the quran says so if you stay in two days for two days in
00:30:56.720 that place there's no problem for you but really and truly there's differences like you can you could
00:31:01.840 do a hajj which has all the obligations inside of it like going to muzdalifah and going to
00:31:08.320 you know mina um spending time they're doing that obviously is a rockin i don't know if you have to do
00:31:13.920 you know it's just it's basically it's a small mountain that you go and uh you you make the whole
00:31:20.640 day on there but there are things like muzdalifah is very interesting because there's a rocky floor the
00:31:25.680 desert you're going to be walking in the desert and you have to sleep i mean you don't have to but
00:31:30.160 it's it's sunnah to sleep on the floor in the desert in the desert yeah effectively it's the
00:31:35.440 desert i mean there's there are there are people that have that sell coca-cola or maybe not coca
00:31:39.600 anymore but drinks and ice cream and stuff like that but it's you have you get a sleeping bag and
00:31:45.920 you'll sleep on the floor for example and people do and it's very interesting because you have a very
00:31:51.200 sweet sleep when you do that it's like it's very because you're so tired you've been walking for
00:31:56.000 such a long time now you're literally camping in the on the floor in the desert and everyone you're
00:32:02.480 next to people that are strangers someone from nigeria here someone from bangladesh over there
00:32:06.320 someone from pakistan some of egypt and you're just sleeping and you're sleeping back it's it's it's
00:32:11.040 an experience and a half um very interesting and then you get your get your head shaved off you've
00:32:16.960 done that with amra as well you do the same kind of do you have a shaved head right now yeah yeah
00:32:21.520 i have a shaved head yeah oh wow
00:32:25.280 you know it's exciting it doesn't look kind of bad you know yeah i mean it is what it is
00:32:33.840 and so i realized during ramadan how the absence of something makes you appreciate having it so much
00:32:39.280 more like the way you described the sweet sleep like getting a good night's sleep here is like a
00:32:43.840 probably equivalent to what heroin is like it's just that the the dream state that you got to be
00:32:48.320 in the appreciation you have or like even breaking fast i've never appreciated food more never
00:32:53.120 appreciated sleep more uh i think that i would recommend that to everybody watching and then also
00:32:58.960 the the the fact of um you were talking about good deeds and how you're you know it's multiplied
00:33:04.240 during that month and during this month as well as also being here um and maybe think about like
00:33:09.360 things like charity in a different way or being kind or when someone says salam alaikum replying like
00:33:14.640 greater than how they were um greeted you like with the walaikum salam with more gratitude and more
00:33:20.320 peace behind it um i haven't i didn't think that way before and and think about it like like good deeds
00:33:26.480 in terms of currency um i never really thought about zakat like um in that way and do you remember the
00:33:35.120 the charity that we were promoting back in london our project iftar yeah yeah we broke the record of
00:33:39.200 uh of 60 000 and now i think we're at a hundred thousand dollars right now for for people that's
00:33:43.760 really good for people in gaza uh someone had a question for you they're wondering uh can they do zakat
00:33:49.040 online or does it have to be does it require that you do it in person so there's two kinds of zakat
00:33:54.000 there's zakat al-mal and zakat al-fitr yeah so zakat al-mal is like 2.5 percent of your wealth
00:33:59.760 um and zakat al-fitr is effectively feeding for every member of your family that you're responsible
00:34:06.640 for somebody let's say for example the meal is worth five pounds sterling or five or six dollars
00:34:13.120 um for each person in the family you'd have to pay that classically in the books of the books of
00:34:18.720 jurisprudence they would say that you'd have to you know give them the actual material so for example
00:34:25.120 you'd have to give them dates so you'd have to give them barley or you have to give them wheat
00:34:28.880 now because it's so difficult to find people especially in the western world who are so
00:34:33.520 impoverished that you would actually have to give them dates so that they can uh they can consume
00:34:38.640 doing it online is the main fatwa that most of the scholars of islam they they follow it now or they
00:34:44.160 do it but obviously it's much better if you could find the impoverished people in your and it usually
00:34:49.440 happens before the the salat light the the prayer of aid in our case it would be let's say once once
00:34:56.640 wednesday in satellite it would be thursday or something so before the salat light that should
00:35:02.640 happen that's the cattle fed and the cattle male is 2.5 percent of your wealth um that obviously has
00:35:09.200 conditions and so on it's how much wealth you have which is not i mean for example your properties are
00:35:14.800 not included in that they're not included in that so if you have houses or property portfolio it's like
00:35:20.000 zakat evasion no not really not really because it's um it's it's not really um that's not the
00:35:26.080 wealth that we're talking about for example if you own jewelry right we're not talking about money on
00:35:31.840 the jewelry we're talking about money that if you have if you have for example a business and um the
00:35:38.320 stock that you have that's left that's left after the year has elapsed that 2.5 percent of that or let's
00:35:44.880 say you have savings in the bank uh let's say you have 20 000 or 50 000 or 100 000 in the bank you'd be
00:35:51.120 you'd have to do 2.5 percent of that so that's zakat ul mal zakat ul fitrah as i mentioned is
00:35:56.800 if it's just yourself that you're right now you're not married it would be muslim people
00:36:01.920 that you're responsible for so even if very interestingly the scholars say
00:36:05.920 for example even if you have like a wife who's pregnant
00:36:09.120 yeah uh so long as the baby is over like 120 days some say you have to pay
00:36:16.240 zakat ul fitrah for that for the baby too yeah so if children by the way are liable for that but the
00:36:22.560 father pays for it okay okay so for every child that you have in the house you pay zakat ul fitrah for
00:36:28.080 them as well this is the classic view i mean this is no controversy so zakat ul fitrah is once a year
00:36:35.360 and islam doesn't have by the way taxes taxation like there's no
00:36:43.280 in the islamic state there's no such thing as taxing 20 percent taxing they don't tax your income
00:36:48.320 there's nothing like that in islam some scholars have tried to squeeze that into the islamic
00:36:52.640 paradigm but it's not let's be frank and honest there's nothing like that in islam there's only
00:36:58.080 zakat and sadaqa sadaqa is giving charity but there's no such thing as dariba dariba is this idea of
00:37:03.840 taxation or taking 20 even in egypt i know that they have that in the uae and they have it all
00:37:08.800 over the muslim world but it's not something islamic it's something which they've taken from
00:37:12.560 the western world okay something that the government supplemented yeah okay it's not something that's
00:37:17.600 not islamic um that's not to say that i mean there's a whole discussion as to is it possible to
00:37:23.040 take money for taxes from people or not i'm not getting involved in that discussion but clearly
00:37:28.400 from the same perspective there's no such thing as taxes it's not an islamic concept whether it's
00:37:32.560 possible to put it on and it's some scholars will say no some say this is actually a kind of theft
00:37:38.400 why are you stealing from the money of the people like this one of the seven uh greatest sins in islam
00:37:42.560 is usury yes so but taxes are different not necessarily usually but it's it's the government
00:37:48.400 now taking it from the people right but in this situation um i'm saying that islam doesn't really
00:37:53.840 have a system of taxation it has only a system of zakat and sadaqa those two things i think that was
00:37:59.600 good dollar for a lot of people there they might convert just because i i know that in the right
00:38:03.120 wing you know this idea of small government that's like this is actually a point where we agree
00:38:07.840 with uh what you would call classical liberal fiscal liberals on the right i'm talking i'm not talking
00:38:12.560 about social liberals i'm talking about monetary liberals the economic liberals the ones who talk
00:38:17.200 about small government we would agree with them on that point would say like really and truly this
00:38:21.120 idea of exuberant taxes and stuff like that like especially in europe 30 40 50 this is completely
00:38:26.560 islamic i don't know if you saw there was um well i got some backlash and that by extension you got
00:38:32.320 some backlash for that that podcast we did with ali dawa and the warner for um uh there was the one
00:38:38.080 thing where i said that like a man needs to guide his woman in order to like a man helps his woman like
00:38:44.640 come closer to islam and then all the a lot of muslim feminists got upset they were saying that
00:38:51.120 like more women than men are converting to islam they don't really need to you mind grabbing some
00:38:54.960 waters for yeah thank you uh did you see any of that i i think i saw it but i didn't click on it
00:39:01.040 okay i didn't click i i just saw it i said you know this is one of those things you know
00:39:05.040 thank you thank you very much for that i appreciate that is the tea still coming
00:39:09.360 he called it in yeah okay um yeah make another call so i they they could probably see we're getting
00:39:15.760 tired but um it's good oh anyway we're getting well i was getting backlash for saying that yeah yeah
00:39:22.080 and then i explained it i had this debate with the with the brother brother adele i don't know
00:39:25.520 if you know who he is what's his name uh adele i don't know if he's there right now he's doing
00:39:30.240 something where you have to only stay in the majid for oh at the cafe yes at the cafe so he so we met
00:39:34.640 there and we spoke about it he was saying how um how important women are and that like a man is not
00:39:41.680 supposed to uh is not in charge all the time but do you remember do you remember when i said that on
00:39:45.840 the podcast like it goes man yeah i mean people make big thing out of nothing nothing because i do
00:39:51.840 remember you saying that and i i don't see it was that inflammatory to be honest i mean i'll be
00:39:57.040 honest i i was trying to decipher what you said or meant or whatever and i think ali even challenged
00:40:02.800 you on the point he did he said that more women convert than men yeah yeah so i mean it's it's not
00:40:07.760 like everyone agreed on the on the panel and everyone was like singing from the same hymn sheet and
00:40:11.840 stuff i think ali was responding and i think he was trying to maybe politely disagree with you on some
00:40:16.800 issues but for for why would someone be so sensitive as to find that inflammatory i mean there are
00:40:22.800 contexts in which your statement could be considered to be true in the sense that for example a woman
00:40:28.000 being guided by a man in islam for example a husband right that's or a father or father like for instance
00:40:35.920 the the hadith of the prophet that every shepherd is responsible for his flock and that the man is
00:40:42.160 responsible for his flock and the woman is responsible for her flock so the man is more is
00:40:46.320 more responsible than the woman because she's responsible for the woman and the children
00:40:51.600 and so there's clearly a an added responsibility that's not to say a woman cannot find guidance by
00:40:57.360 herself yeah i mean for example if she had the quran and sunnah she could it's not it's physically
00:41:02.080 impossible for her to it's logically impossible for her to find guidance for example there are stories in
00:41:07.440 the quran like mary you know she was isolated and she found guidance just through allah more so
00:41:13.760 pharaoh's wife asia okay she was pharaoh's wife okay the one who adopted moses uh yes as so they both
00:41:21.440 adopted moses i mean pharaoh himself him you know adopted moses in a sense because he was moses grew up
00:41:27.360 according to quran in pharaoh's household but asia was um was praised in the quran as a result of going
00:41:35.920 against pharaoh you see because pharaoh was against her he was and she even made dua to allah she said
00:41:47.680 that may god like save me from pharaoh and his people and save me from the oppressive people which
00:41:53.920 are pharaoh's people you know so allah praised her because despite having all the forces against her
00:42:00.640 she was able to find guidance because she she saw but then you could argue well just because she saw
00:42:06.320 moses and moses was in a sense even though he wasn't related to her a kind of role model for her
00:42:12.560 but nevertheless she was it wasn't like a father or a you know husband guiding her it was in in that
00:42:18.240 story it was uh she found guidance through allah because she saw the prophets who was in this case
00:42:24.080 moses and aaron and allah praised her for it you see the quran doesn't have this i mean if we did an
00:42:30.400 honest assessment of the quran it's not the to be fair the quran is not sensitive to the idea of
00:42:37.600 women having power do you know what i mean like for example let me give you an example right so the in
00:42:43.120 two surahs in the quran chapter number 27 and chapter number 34 surat surat naml and surat al-saba chapter 27 and
00:42:52.560 34 in both of those chapters of the quran a story is related of a woman called sabah in fact chapter 34
00:42:59.360 is named after her okay and she was a queen okay now it's really interesting because in the previous
00:43:08.000 surah in the case of uh in the first world i mentioned sabah was depicted sorry pharaoh was
00:43:17.920 depicted as a as a tyrant pharaoh okay in egypt but then sabah who was at the same time as solomon
00:43:25.200 salomon or solomon you know king solomon she's depicted as a very wise woman and she was a queen
00:43:31.760 so for example the quran here we have a woman okay in the quran who is a queen who is depicted in a very
00:43:39.920 fair-minded you know wise way she she even sought consult consultation from her in a council as to
00:43:49.680 what to do with solomon the king and who's also a prophet according to both religions actually
00:43:55.200 christianity and islam um and so for example solomon uh or solomon he he threatened
00:44:04.720 oh he threatened sabah in the story and then she didn't know how to respond so she she went to her
00:44:13.040 her her uh you know council and she asked them you know in uh in the buluka she said now in fact
00:44:21.600 firstly she said what do you what do you advise me to do so they responded and said uh we are
00:44:28.400 uh uh tell us what to do she says that truly kings and she was yani in implying solomon when they go
00:44:49.360 into a place they destroy they destroy it and they make the people who are lofty very lowly
00:44:58.400 they will do the same thing to us and she goes what i'm going to do in this story she says what
00:45:02.640 i'm going to do is i'm going to send him a hediya a gift now she said solomon a gift solomon now he's
00:45:09.520 a prophet and he's a king and sabat sends him a gift as soon as he sends her you'd think that
00:45:16.720 someone would be you know calm and this and that and she said he said uh he said are you sending me this
00:45:21.920 uh why are you sending me this he says what allah has given me is better than what you have what you're
00:45:27.200 trying to give me and then he said uh send back this letter this is what solomon said he said send
00:45:33.680 back this letter don't become arrogant on me and come that's it and if you don't we're gonna we're
00:45:41.760 going to fight you we're going to do that so so basically what happened was sabat she went to solomon
00:45:49.040 and she she was invited as a queen she looked at how they were doing she looked at his life
00:45:54.720 she saw how they were worshipping god and she became muslim so it was a happy ending for her
00:45:59.600 but she was a queen so it's not like islam as a religion or the narrative of the quran we're
00:46:04.960 triggered by women being in power or this and that because if this was the case why is the quran keep
00:46:09.440 telling us stories of women who are in power or positions of influence or positions of piety and so
00:46:15.840 on and so forth we have we have no issue of that the issue is where you think that a woman in a familial
00:46:24.240 setting okay in particular in a familial setting should have an equal say as a man because the quran
00:46:30.640 is very clear about that no yeah the quran says for example in chapter 4 verse 34 that men are
00:46:40.080 maintainers and protectors of women because of what allah has given some that he hasn't given others
00:46:45.520 you know and allah says in the same chapter
00:46:56.880 that do not wish what the other one has um for a man is a portion of what he has earned and for a
00:47:01.600 woman is a portion of what she has earned so we have this complementarity idea it's a complementarity
00:47:08.240 situation it's not a it's not a competition it's a complete it's compromise complementarity
00:47:14.880 between a man and a woman but on the point of i mean it depends on the context that's why i was
00:47:19.360 trying to understand from you what exactly we're trying to say in islam yes the man is given uh you
00:47:25.200 know rights in a familial setting he is the husband he is the father and he has the final say in these contexts
00:47:32.560 um but it could be that a woman if for example let me give you an example if a woman she's pious and
00:47:38.720 muslim right and let's say she's a daughter of a man who's not in none of those things he's not muslim
00:47:46.320 even then in a way she has to take he's relinquished his leadership because she has to take a kind of
00:47:52.000 leadership a spiritual leadership and then in the quran you're not supposed to do that it's supposed to be
00:47:56.240 that a man a muslim man can marry a jewish woman or a christian woman uh under the the idea that he's
00:48:02.560 going to convert her once they get married but on the reverse a muslim woman cannot marry a jewish man
00:48:08.240 or a christian man because he's the one who's supposed to be leading spiritually and overall the
00:48:13.120 bigger point was it's not to say that women cannot ever cannot be religious without the presence of a
00:48:17.760 man the bigger point is that men should take the responsibility and it's soon not it's in the quran
00:48:22.720 that we're the ones that are supposed to be leading especially with those ideas in the household
00:48:26.640 and ultimately it's our job to to maintain those those rules in the family absolutely yeah that's
00:48:32.480 true and i was wondering because i got a lot of backlash like you know i don't it's the month of
00:48:37.200 ramana but like people are people are getting really angry about that really really upset what
00:48:41.200 are you saying that what's the issue um i would say it was a lot of like a muslim feminists which i want
00:48:46.000 to get into that idea first like how that even works um but like the muslim feminists they were saying
00:48:50.400 like um you know calling me a grifter saying that i'm a misogynist like wishing dead like it was it
00:48:55.440 was bad it was um it was pretty bad but it seems um kind of hypocritical to me because how could you
00:49:01.840 be a muslim feminist because the ones that were really upset and were wishing harm upon me i click
00:49:06.800 on their profile and it's it's all these like feminist things like you know the cardi b a lot of the
00:49:11.040 same ideas that we see with like um feminist women in the west who are godless they kind of they
00:49:16.960 attach those ideas to islam i'm wondering how can feminism and islam coexist well i mean they can't
00:49:23.120 i mean this is the short answer because feminism if one wants to be integrous and actually take
00:49:29.120 feminism like let's say we'll talk about secondary feminism in particular um where the writings and
00:49:34.800 the movement and these kind of things if you want to take that seriously and you also want to take the
00:49:39.440 slam seriously then you can't take both seriously at the same time because if you want to take feminism
00:49:44.800 seriously especially in the sec in the 60s second wave feminism this idea of domestic drudgery was
00:49:53.200 was one of the top things that they were talking about so people like betty friedan people like simon
00:49:58.160 de bovois people uh obviously uh jermaine gray who's still alive now all of these were like you could you
00:50:06.080 could call them the mothers of feminism one thing united them which was their idea of domestic drudgery the
00:50:12.800 idea that uh in in in the domestic environment a woman should not be cleaning cooking she in fact
00:50:20.000 simon de bovois in one of her books the second sex which was seen as a seminal work in fact most
00:50:24.880 universities consider it to be the most important works of the 20th century yeah and i've got all i've
00:50:30.560 done you know courses on this and i've written books on this but the suffice it for me to say is that
00:50:36.160 she writes that the institution of motherhood itself is something to be is something that you
00:50:41.920 should try and avert but you shouldn't even try to be a mother because it's it's exploitative she
00:50:46.640 she says in fact the way she frames it is that a man is biologically oppressive to women it's just
00:50:53.520 like that my biological determinism but that you could say is an extreme position what wasn't an extreme
00:50:59.440 position in feminist works was the idea that a woman in the house setting is considered to be an
00:51:07.120 inferior and therefore should not accept that subordinate position because equality would did
00:51:12.000 would uh indicate that there shouldn't be uh differentiation in roles between men and women
00:51:18.320 this is this is the argument effectively and so if this is the argument that you want to make and you
00:51:22.800 want to be you want to be believe in these kinds of principles you want to be connected with these kinds
00:51:28.160 of principles how on earth can you believe in this but at the same time believe that the man you have
00:51:32.800 to obey him i mean if you went to any of these women in the second wave feministic movement even going
00:51:38.960 on to black feminists like bell hooks and audrey lord because in the 70s and 80s you had this kind
00:51:44.000 of black feminist movement right because they said well we actually haven't had enough representation
00:51:49.680 of black people so these women came up up until kimberly crenshaw in 1984 where she wrote a seminal work
00:51:56.640 for them because it's rubbish to be honest i've read it all myself it's called and she discussed uh
00:52:03.600 what she called intersectionality yeah so that whole tradition if you even want to call it that
00:52:09.200 well that whole corpus from the 1960s until the 1990s and beyond of feminism where we're talking about
00:52:18.160 obedience is considered to be oppression patriarchal society is considered to be wrong and by that they
00:52:23.520 mean the man being in any kind of power position over a woman a domestic drudgery an attack on the
00:52:29.440 institution of motherhood all of these points are fundamentally and diametrically opposed to the
00:52:35.520 religion of islam to the point and this is going to sound harsh where i suspect many of these muslim
00:52:41.360 feminists that the so-called muslim feminists are either apostates from the religion of islam
00:52:47.040 uh clandestine apostates so they're hiding it surreptitiously they don't actually want to because
00:52:54.400 for some reason socially they don't want to um they want to still have the label of being a muslim
00:53:00.400 but covertly you know they don't really believe because how could you read surah to nisa how could
00:53:07.360 you read for example uh verses from the quran which says that man you have to obey him for example the
00:53:13.040 verse verse 434 mentions the word obedience it's in the quran it's not just in the sunnah because
00:53:18.880 the sunnah is very clear you know you have to very clear you have to obey your husband
00:53:25.680 so it's in the quran it's in the sunnah i believe these muslim feminists they fall into two categories
00:53:30.480 either number one the past yeah apostates from the religion of islam not not true muslims clandestine
00:53:36.160 apostates of some sorts what you call zanadiq um they don't represent outside here what what we're
00:53:43.120 seeing in mecca and medina and these kinds of religious people yeah in the muslim world they
00:53:46.800 don't represent the 95 they really don't according to all the polls that have been done even by pure
00:53:52.400 research and other things they are a loud minority of minority of minority yeah yeah and i like that you
00:53:58.560 call them apostates and not like adaptive muslims because that's how you get uh right now don lemon just
00:54:03.760 got married um these gay guys in new york i married the cnn reporter yeah uh the marriage photos with
00:54:08.640 a giant crucifix right behind his head yeah right and people aren't calling them apostates of
00:54:13.200 christianity that are saying like this is like new wave there's no such thing as no way of islam
00:54:17.840 apostates and some of them are ignorant though so some of them don't realize okay you cannot have
00:54:23.040 these two beliefs at the same time well i'm saying but there's no there's not criticism from within
00:54:26.480 the christian like people generally people do not call that apostate but there's there's no you can't
00:54:31.600 adapt islam islam islam is the way it is and that's there are some things about islam that there's no
00:54:36.960 room for interpretation in there at all and these are some things so you know i wouldn't go and
00:54:42.400 pronounce an individual person to be a disbeliever because they they could still be ignorant and this
00:54:48.800 is called and it's not for lay people or anybody to go out and say okay you're a disbeliever unless they
00:54:54.640 come out and say like there's a particular woman uh her name is amina wadud actually she's she's based
00:55:02.240 in berkeley uh and then in l.a in berkeley in california yeah but she has a book and she says that when
00:55:11.440 she we mentioned chapter 4 verse 34 when she read 434 she said i had a conscientious gap and i said no
00:55:18.880 that's what she said so many people have and i'm not saying i'm one of them but i said well if you're
00:55:23.520 saying no to the quran then you're not a muslim why why are you still wearing the headscarf why are
00:55:27.760 you still you know pretending to be a muslim and 434 is obey your husband yeah it's because it says
00:55:33.760 lots of things in that verse but it's the most i would say it's the most clear verse about hierarchy
00:55:37.840 in the whole quran but you know in terms of uh men women husband and wife 434 and it's also attacked
00:55:44.320 by orientalists and feminists and stuff like that so she says no so if i'm saying you're saying no to
00:55:50.080 whom you know saying no to allah so so how does that make you a muslim then there's the question
00:55:55.600 now she could still be an ignorant person even though she spent her whole life studying islam
00:56:01.680 i don't think she is personally i don't think that her belief is compatible with islam i could consider
00:56:07.520 her to be this believer of islam i would not pray behind i would not let any woman of mine pray
00:56:13.280 behind her or something like that i know so it would not happen like that but uh so what's the
00:56:20.480 other one so it's apostate what's the second one ignorant okay there's no third there's no third
00:56:25.040 uh unfortunately there's no third category either you're an apostate or you're ignorant if you if you
00:56:31.680 want to say that okay well um it's about obedience and all these kind of things i don't agree with them
00:56:38.240 do you know i mean if someone is i would say either you're an apostate or you're ignorant there are
00:56:42.800 some things in the like for example about homosexual sex it's very clear yeah no but some some muslim
00:56:49.600 come and said you know um if this is uh okay i say it's okay it's okay for non-believers you're not
00:56:57.040 one of them now do you know what i mean yeah it's fine so because if we open the door for that the
00:57:04.880 religion of islam will become like catholicism well catholicism there are so many things in the catholic
00:57:10.400 faith that were considered to be wrong which are now considered to be true yeah now i i don't see
00:57:16.720 like for example you could say well that's because the context has changed but some of those things
00:57:20.160 are not contextual they're theological i'll give you an example right there was this whole controversy
00:57:24.320 and this is up in the time of augustine about babies that are not baptized that they will go to
00:57:28.880 hell i don't know if you've come across this no i did not know that so there were proclamations
00:57:32.480 even augustine mentioned this i mean it's a very big controversy in the catholic church
00:57:36.720 babies that are not baptized they go to hell baby for muscles i don't know baptized when you
00:57:41.520 put them in the water yeah i was baptized yeah so so some scholars i mean in the catholic faith this
00:57:47.920 was one of if not the official position and then okay recently the popes have come out of these
00:57:54.320 declarations and so on i said actually that's not the case but that's not something which is a context
00:57:59.360 related thing that's a heaven and hell so what all these babies went to hell these babies went to heaven
00:58:02.720 now yeah because the pope changes minds so who's a god pope or you go the god who's the
00:58:07.120 do you know what i mean yeah yeah so the religion of islam cannot be subject to that kind of change
00:58:12.480 it's one of the miracles and evidences for the veracity of islam that the religion of islam is
00:58:17.040 actually preserved it's preserved in text it's preserved in practice and it's preserved by the people
00:58:23.600 it's it is preserved like what you're hearing outside now is a testament to the preservation of the
00:58:28.560 religion of islam i hope they can hear it i really hope it's very yeah what you this
00:58:32.560 is a testament to the preservation of the religion of islam there is no equivalent anywhere else for
00:58:37.120 any other religion alhamdulillah yeah and so that's once you have someone like a muslim feminist thinking
00:58:42.560 that they can come and change and corrupt the religion of islam i consider that to be a disgrace
00:58:49.600 an abomination yeah she could be a kafir but once again i wouldn't i wouldn't label her as that be
00:58:53.760 careful of making that right but i mean i wouldn't personally label until i've seen and spoke and you
00:58:58.800 know and so on but it could be absolutely yeah they're very upset with me right now and i had a
00:59:04.160 back and forth with adela that was basically defending them and you know trying to get like
00:59:08.560 sympathy from um from muslim feminists uh but it was pretty ironic afterwards because i'm siding with um
00:59:14.720 i think that men should lead you know that i think women should obey their husbands and i think that like
00:59:18.560 we should be the the leaders of theology in the home um and then after we had this debate it went viral
00:59:24.160 again responding to that thank you you can bring it here and after he was getting praise from these
00:59:28.560 muslim feminists one of them tweeted oh let's not praise adele he's been accused of such and such with
00:59:34.640 the woman but don't praise him and without any evidence she just accused him of being like
00:59:40.640 they she said he was he was violent towards women thank you so much um uh how do i pay
00:59:46.240 um can i put it in the room no no no no i'll put it in the room once you yeah do you have a pen
00:59:58.560 thank you brother is that the saudi arabian one yeah very good yeah saudi coffee i like that one
01:00:03.040 brother that's the best one to be honest it's world class bro it really is i've been drinking that's all
01:00:09.520 i drink besides water here's saudi coffee thank you well basically this guy after he defended the muslim
01:00:15.840 feminist um they started accusing him saying that of nothing they just said they insinuating that he
01:00:20.960 was a great fist or something and didn't provide anything and then um some of the brothers were
01:00:25.920 messaging this girl that were putting out those accusations she had no evidence she had nothing
01:00:30.080 she and she said that we should believe women and if women say that they were hurt or they were wrong
01:00:34.400 she's inclined to immediately believe them so she's believing a random dm and then putting you have
01:00:39.040 to believe them under every circumstance believe all women that was like one of the feminist
01:00:42.560 ideology then it's i've messaged him afterwards i'm like hey i was right and he said he agreed
01:00:46.400 it's like actually maybe you were right because she she just said that i don't even know what she
01:00:49.840 was accusing him of but all the women believed it because i mean let's be honest guilty until
01:00:54.000 proven innocent women are easily manipulated you know they're very easily going to be swayed by
01:00:58.240 someone like that they can be and there's evidence of that i mean so look i mean especially
01:01:01.920 with the emotive arguments you know and especially a woman who's been through something like that and
01:01:05.840 and actually been through it right so because there's a lot of women out there that have
01:01:08.800 actually been through traumatic experiences i know it's a buzzword now and to be honest
01:01:12.960 i think that this word has been abused as well the word trauma people throw it around oh they hit their
01:01:17.920 head on the on the wall they say oh i had a traumatic experience today but um some women have been through
01:01:24.400 some very difficult things and as a result um they can sympathize with with false claims but what this
01:01:31.200 is ironically in terms of that is when the when the evidentiary bar for such a thing becomes so low
01:01:37.360 a dm that's yeah it becomes so low like you know it becomes so it basically is guilty until proven
01:01:43.600 innocent it becomes so low that actually trivializes the actual cases where someone has been
01:01:49.280 graped or hurt or sexually assaulted right because let's be honest right there are those cases okay let's
01:01:56.400 be frank there are those cases yeah like for instance if any of us we have you know i've got daughters you
01:02:03.200 know you have wife whoever if we actually witnessed someone sexually assaulting our loved ones who
01:02:11.520 are women there are some scholars like ibn hassan right one of the great andalusian scholars of the
01:02:16.240 fifth century he says that you know the the the ayat of muharaba actually apply which are the ayat of war
01:02:21.520 you can you can do whatever you want with it kill him you can you cannot imagine if you witness such a
01:02:27.360 thing that you would you yourself wouldn't have an emotional reaction so in fact i don't know of
01:02:34.320 anyone that could have more an emotional reaction to me if i were to witness something like that of
01:02:37.760 a woman being dealt with in that manner uh so but i would require some kind of evidence a dm is not
01:02:44.320 an evidence you know what i mean because that's what we run with these muscle feminists that's all
01:02:48.080 they need and all of them believed it like all the people that were uh accusing me of being
01:02:52.560 misogynist all this all them like they flipped on adele and adele was siding with them just because
01:02:57.040 of one dm that they didn't even read themselves which is because one woman said it he's gonna
01:03:00.640 fall on his sword because he's using the same if you allow this evidentiary bar for yourself
01:03:06.320 for other people then it will be used against you in the same way if this is the evidence that you
01:03:11.280 allow for other people even it's your enemy okay a dm believe a woman or this kind of thing one day a
01:03:16.320 woman can be have some kind of scorn against you and she uses the same evidentiary bar and you're
01:03:20.240 finished yeah because yeah because now you've said you you've said to the public that i accept as
01:03:28.720 a genuine evidentiary bar this level any woman that's giving me you know a dm no i don't accept
01:03:37.840 this i don't accept it so i kind of feel bad for the guy but i mean if you didn't kind of prove me
01:03:43.120 right but anyway since um you you have been really active on social media during ramadan too which is
01:03:48.640 it's not easy uh you just came back from that debate with fresh and fit and i got to say that
01:03:52.080 that was that was very entertaining i'm not going to lie and i was asking about the love speech
01:03:55.680 community before the stream like what's some questions um there was one question from a sister
01:03:59.360 she said uh did paul meet muhammad look the brother fresh um and myron i think that they are
01:04:12.320 essentially good guys very good guys yeah i think they're good some of my best friends
01:04:16.720 i think that these guys have i don't even think that they were trying to i didn't go hard on them
01:04:22.400 i didn't try to attack them or hurt them or debate them because i feel like they're coming from a place
01:04:28.320 where they want to improve men they're seeing the problem the problem where the men have been
01:04:33.200 emasculated they've been harmed by certain ideologies related to feminism the the main thing i would say
01:04:41.520 about red pill community is that they've gone into over correct mode and sometimes an over correct is
01:04:47.200 required actually because when a pendulum swings too much this way it goes the other way it goes that
01:04:51.440 way and that and they are the manifestation of the pendulum spinning the other way yeah if you keep
01:04:57.520 telling me about feminism and you don't require evidence for to prove a man is is raping a graping
01:05:03.840 another woman and you don't need this and the woman is not and the man is not respected and this and
01:05:08.160 this and that okay that's going to simmer in the minds of men in the west and the east and
01:05:13.360 everywhere else in the world and it's become resentment and it's going to become you know what
01:05:18.800 we're going to start using women in this way and do this and we're going to act like that and we
01:05:22.160 understand these methods now of these women these entitlement women these modern women and there's a lot
01:05:26.960 of truth in this this i cannot lie there is so much truth that i agree with from this from the
01:05:33.040 whole movement the reason why i brought up some issues of high value men and this and that that
01:05:39.760 was only because i was thinking about the matter in a more logical and i would say academic manner
01:05:46.000 frankly i just wanted to share my ideas on that but there are so many things that they've got right
01:05:51.280 there are many things that they got wrong there are so many things they're right they've got so much
01:05:54.640 more right than the feminists there's no doubt about that it's not right i mean there's no comparison
01:05:59.120 between them and the feminists i don't allow it but everyone gets things wrong because it's not
01:06:05.760 unless you're getting it from god there's going to be false it's going to be faulty if things and we
01:06:09.840 have to address those things like stoicism it's adopting a lot of the traits of islam without
01:06:14.080 searching for a higher purpose so you're just you're doing things for the sake of doing them but rather
01:06:18.800 than to get into heaven so yeah it is barely necessary and i've seen they're getting a lot
01:06:23.920 of backlash right now i think more than i've seen especially from the conservatives the religious
01:06:27.520 people um i think as more people are starting to embrace islam and are are getting fed up with that
01:06:33.200 i think a lot of people disagree with myron's 50 bodies idea saying that a man needs to sleep
01:06:38.400 with 50 women to understand them i think a lot of people are disagreeing with that that's something
01:06:41.760 i don't publicly disagree with him quite a bit too i understand why he thinks that but now i'm seeing
01:06:45.760 them uh get more backlash than ever and they are doing a lot of good i think that of any men's
01:06:50.480 podcast they've saved more lives than any other podcast and they deserve more respect and so we
01:06:54.800 i think we should stand by our brothers i think we should help the brothers and not push them away
01:06:58.400 because i think that these brothers have a lot of potential and my expect with my approach with
01:07:04.880 people like myron and my people are fresh and other people who i think really either secretly or
01:07:11.920 openly i haven't seen much of their content to know i actually agree with you a lot of the islamic
01:07:16.560 principles they agree with it they do especially when it comes to gender issues i think we shouldn't
01:07:20.960 be too harsh on them because you know the islamic spirit with these things and i and people even
01:07:26.880 till this day they criticize me on my public support for hundred tape for my help with him but i i've said
01:07:34.240 the same thing and i'll say it again even if a feminist becomes a muslim and she has a background like
01:07:38.320 this you welcome her i'll welcome her and i will help her even if it takes years and i believe that's
01:07:42.640 what islam is about because for example one of the recipients of zakat is an al-mu'allafati qloobu
01:07:49.920 it's mentioned in surah taubah chapter 9 verse of the quran which is there are eight recipients of
01:07:54.720 zakat one of them is people who are not muslim yeah but they they are people who the hearts are there
01:08:02.320 yeah their hearts are effectively there their hearts are can be softened by islam you give them gifts you give them
01:08:08.480 you treat them nicely the idea is in islam people that are close to islam don't push away bring them
01:08:13.120 closer even if it if you have to play the long game bring them closer and i believe looking at the way
01:08:18.880 of the seed of the prophet that's how he done it so we shouldn't be too harsh with people like mayran
01:08:23.920 yes there are some things about how he didn't defend the prophet and so on he must be spoken about
01:08:28.960 okay fine but don't push him too much because you know he could be a great person who like yourself or
01:08:34.960 like andrew tate or like anybody else comes into islam and becomes and brings so many people with
01:08:40.320 him to islam and he's already a muslim actually myron but i'm saying becomes more religious for
01:08:44.960 example so i don't think we should we should be pushing these people away i don't i really don't
01:08:49.040 think so and i think that we can tweak everyone deserves to be criticized we've been criticized and
01:08:55.280 we are right now yeah we're criticized and it's good for us i believe criticism is good it hardens you and
01:08:59.600 it makes you uh shave the edges off and make sure that you get to the the true otherwise you'd be a
01:09:04.000 narcissist you're just gonna you're gonna think i mean imagine receiving all praise and no criticism
01:09:08.560 what kind of a person would you be bro what kind of a person would i be would be a narcissist criticism
01:09:13.280 saves us bro it saves us from delusion it gives us good deeds because when people criticize us
01:09:19.520 and it's wrong for example then we're beneficiaries of that on the day of judgment it makes us stronger
01:09:25.520 you know and so everyone needs to be criticized including myron and he needs to be able to accept
01:09:30.960 criticism as well of course because i've seen some recent video of him on twitter and you know shouting
01:09:37.440 you know defending fresh i think it was and that was brotherhood that's loyalty it's loyalty is
01:09:42.480 brotherhood it's all very well and good but then you know i mean i've also had moments where you know
01:09:47.520 i regret and maybe i went too emotional stuff like that so yeah they're good clips they're great clips but
01:09:53.520 then it could be used against you because then someone's gonna say why weren't you like that when
01:09:56.320 it came to the prophet why weren't you like that came to this and that's true and then you're gonna
01:09:59.360 have to start firefighting again right so what you decide to be emotional about is something which
01:10:06.400 will be held against you you know especially i mean as i say i think that we shouldn't be too harsh on
01:10:12.480 them and they're your friends and i think we can bring them closer and one day we'll bring them here
01:10:17.280 and let them taste what we're tasting and then enjoy what we're enjoying yeah i mean i can tell that
01:10:23.520 from my point of view i could tell that the the stress of it's a stressful world the content space
01:10:28.480 especially when you're speaking up for these issues getting the amount of attacks that they
01:10:31.680 get like they got demonetized they speak about zionism so they're getting attacks from all these
01:10:35.680 angles and it's like the stress from from the world from all those attacks is like really starting to
01:10:40.800 so i want to see them like you know find some find some more peace but what's your what was your
01:10:45.840 perception of um of that fresh debate especially with christianity it's i mean basically i that was that
01:10:52.320 specific debate and it wasn't um with you and fresh but with shake with mine in the past that was what
01:10:57.920 helped bring me to islam that debate about the trinity and how three can be one it's just something
01:11:02.160 that like uh i grew up believing as a catholic but it just it never made sense and it was never
01:11:07.360 explained properly so having a muslim debate and like just literally thinking how can three be one
01:11:12.240 yeah like it literally does not make any sense and then um i liked it it was a funny argument i
01:11:18.160 watched it back i think his argument was um who created math yeah and it's like uh because he was
01:11:24.720 trying to say like man well again man technically created uh the figures to draw numbers but the idea
01:11:30.880 of math as a science it just is it's objective without a man did not create that it just is so that it was
01:11:37.280 um it was interesting to still man his position at the highest level look i think he was basically
01:11:42.880 saying can god make the impossible possible right because like for example two plus two equals four
01:11:48.480 is it can can two plus two equals three or five no it's impossible but can god do that and what
01:11:54.720 we're saying is that i think he said it himself and i said can god uh create a rock so heavy that he
01:11:59.760 can't lift and he said the question doesn't make sense so i was trying to make him understand what
01:12:05.280 do you mean by the question doesn't make sense because the idea of a rock so heavy that god
01:12:09.680 can't lift is unintelligible it doesn't make sense it's an impossibility so it doesn't exist
01:12:14.880 and so he's trying to say like oh that means god's limited but well in fact like the fact that god uh
01:12:19.840 i think he was trying to say um can god die and you're like no god can't die so god's limited well
01:12:25.200 in fact the fact that god can't die makes him more unlimited yeah right that's a limit death is a
01:12:29.760 limitation the thing is in logic there's a there's a whole category of things called
01:12:34.560 impossibilities yeah like for example squared circle a squared circle cannot exist in the real
01:12:41.200 world you can't even think about it i mean it's not something which exists there are two opposite
01:12:46.560 things and they fulfill the criterion for contradiction yeah now because they don't exist we cannot speak
01:12:55.360 about anyone creating them because they don't exist it's a impossible entity doesn't exist and it can't
01:13:02.720 exist so the idea of two plus two equals five it's not just that it doesn't exist it can't exist and
01:13:09.040 god the idea of god can god make two plus equals five is equivalent to can god make a rock so heavy
01:13:15.520 that he can't lift it's equivalent to can god cease to exist can god kill himself let's go further can god
01:13:20.560 lie can god rape can god steal we would say these are all impossibilities it doesn't make sense for
01:13:28.560 example the idea of god can god steal how can god steal anything when he owns everything the idea
01:13:33.920 makes nothing so it's not limitations it's just not it's an impossibility these are impossibilities
01:13:38.080 yeah these are impossibilities so i understand what look someone can attack him and say look he's so
01:13:43.520 low iq he doesn't understand that mathematics is something which was discovered rather than but
01:13:49.040 i think i know what he was trying to say and it's not such a low iq statement
01:13:54.000 uh he's trying to say well maybe god can make the impossible possible but we're saying that if
01:13:59.680 you let that happen i mean aristotle for example aristotle was a very famous logician before christ he
01:14:06.240 wrote a book called the metaphysics and in that book he said that basically if you
01:14:13.440 if you don't have the law of non-contradiction anything can happen there's no such you cannot
01:14:18.240 even have a discussion like for example the statement that he said which is that can god
01:14:24.880 make two plus two equals five whatever it may be or god can do it for god is possible that statement
01:14:31.280 itself is susceptible to self-refutation because there's no requirement for it to be coherent
01:14:40.560 in a world where it's possible for contradictions to exist
01:14:42.960 so it's a self-refuting point so the moment you get rid of the law of non-contradiction you can't
01:14:49.840 even have a discussion with anybody about anything because truth doesn't need to be coherent if it's
01:14:54.960 possible if it's in any possible world the case that truth doesn't need to be coherent and the law of
01:15:02.080 non-contradiction can apply or two plus two equals five or whatever other impossible thing can happen
01:15:06.320 then you don't there's no more a requirement for us to be coherent or cogent or make proper sense
01:15:12.640 nonsense can make is as good as common sense in that paradigm but that is
01:15:19.440 the kind of thing christians have to resort to in order to make sense of the trinity
01:15:25.600 but uh as i said i think fresh if you if you just you know opens his heart to islam he might come
01:15:30.720 muslim as well i don't know if he's a huge figure in uh the social media world he is is he yeah he's
01:15:37.520 very so he would be a great person for us to have as well the young people follow him and stuff like
01:15:41.760 that he's a fantastic guy do we have some more questions some of them are silly um uh parham says
01:15:47.760 would muhammad ajab prefer to fight 100 chicken-sized ben shapiro's or one elephant-sized rabbi shmuley
01:15:54.000 one uh slowly because the elephant i can run away from i can run around right right those hundred
01:16:00.960 chickens are gonna kill me they're too fast right now the elephant is fast as well but i just have
01:16:07.200 to avoid one and you can crawl underneath yeah yeah i'd rather go for the elephant it's one target
01:16:13.120 that was a quick answer it seems like you thought about that before you can do a second navigate the
01:16:17.040 more i can't second a hundred uh thing well 10 of them could kill me dgm says if i get a girl pregnant
01:16:22.320 from zena do i have to look after the baby the answer is yes right there's no abortion is um
01:16:27.280 as a major son the question is if i get a girl pregnant from zena do i have to look after so
01:16:32.800 scholars of islam would not attribute this baby to him really yeah they wouldn't now that's what
01:16:40.960 scholars of islam would say like from a lineage perspective because kids that are born outside of
01:16:46.800 the marital confines are not attributed to the father so were they attributed to satan to
01:16:52.160 the mother oh so she because she's committed that act according to islam she doesn't need to pay
01:16:58.640 nothing wait so really yeah yeah so we're good what do you mean like man i i'm i can go commit zina
01:17:08.560 i'm out of here but but having said that because of new age biological realities like if he knows for
01:17:15.120 sure this is my child yeah he might either want to marry that woman and sanctify the situation and
01:17:21.920 raise a child well i think it would be right for him to at least do that but if you talk about
01:17:27.840 technically what scholars of islam would say they would uh they would say there's no relation
01:17:31.760 i wouldn't care about it so you can so you're good but zina obviously is a major sin so you should
01:17:37.200 never do that anyway and well you wouldn't want to like personally i wouldn't want another man raising
01:17:41.200 my child do you know what i mean so uh dj mol says can i listen to music in jana
01:17:49.840 uh the kinds of the yeah what kind of music is this is for example if we have to define what music is
01:17:56.000 like what most of the scholars that say music is haram now there's a different opinion about that
01:18:00.080 the majority of scholars say music is haram right based on the view that there's a hadith which
01:18:05.520 is says in bukhari there are four things that people will make halal what is haram and one of
01:18:14.960 them is music so majority of scholars of islam vast majority they say that means that music is
01:18:22.320 haram although there are notable exceptions for example ibn hazm huge scholar he says it's halal and
01:18:26.960 he says that hadith is a huge scholar he has a whole book in saying it's music is not haram
01:18:36.800 a shaukani he has a whole book saying it's not haram uh some scholars from the shafi school say it's
01:18:41.760 not haram uh the music they're talking about is just any musical instrument but the majority of scholars
01:18:47.200 say it's haram there were some scholars from the early generation who actually said that who believed that
01:18:51.360 music was halal interestingly like even major sean and so on interesting but uh there are three uh
01:18:59.040 opinions about music so nasheeds and so on the voice if it's with the voice uh most scholars allow that
01:19:06.400 because there's nothing wrong with the human voice if we're talking about the uh the musical instruments
01:19:13.120 and the bonjo and the guitar and all that kind of stuff and most scholars uh disallow that although
01:19:19.760 the the shafi school some allow some instruments and some don't allow some instruments uh so on your
01:19:25.760 question there may be some instruments and some music in jannah which are which are permissible and
01:19:35.040 allowed and which sound better than anything you've heard in dunya in the same way as there's like for
01:19:40.240 example there's wine in jannah but that doesn't correct have all of the negative effects so it's
01:19:45.520 not going to make you a drunkard yeah but you'll enjoy the taste yes okay um people are also asking
01:19:51.920 i i'm curious about this one because within my community i have a lot of christians the question
01:19:55.840 is should muslims and christians put their differences aside and just focus on the greater
01:20:00.320 enemy which is satan shaitan it depends on the issue at hand so we wouldn't pray together because we
01:20:07.920 have different ways of praying and we also have different people that we pray to i mean we pray
01:20:11.920 to one god they pray to three uh i mean effectively that's what's happening so we wouldn't okay we'll
01:20:17.040 say you praying to three god is worse than praying it's the same as praying to the demons or pray to
01:20:20.480 the devil himself because it's it's kind of this one policy for another policy right i mean praying
01:20:26.400 to muhammad is or praying to muhammad sallam the prophet or praying to jesus or praying to the devil
01:20:31.920 all of that we would consider to be paganism right so but also says in the quran to not debate with
01:20:38.000 the jews and the christians i i read that for the first time but it says actually so it says do not
01:20:45.200 debate with the jews or christians except with the way which is better okay
01:20:50.800 this is chapter 29 of the quran except for those who have oppressed among them
01:20:55.040 so yeah those who are oppressed we don't even debate them you know we don't need to debate them so there
01:21:00.800 are some issues which we can come we can combine efforts with christians yes like the lgbtq issue
01:21:07.760 feminist issue other issues the the woke issue many issues uh the palestine issue
01:21:14.160 other injustices that are happening in the world whether it be in south sudan whether it be in
01:21:19.040 sudan in general and now because we're seeing it happening in sudan whether it be in congo
01:21:24.480 whether it be in any part of the world where there's work that needs to be done muslims and christians
01:21:29.120 should come together and work together and put their differences aside for those projects but
01:21:34.000 when it comes to worship and stuff like that obviously we have our separate institutions
01:21:38.640 what about um free speech absolutism this is something that i agree with myron about
01:21:42.400 um and i understand it i want to ask you about this being a free speech absolutist is an anti-islamic
01:21:48.880 position because there's some there you have to draw the line when it disrespects or when it um
01:21:54.240 goes into polytheism and stuff like that but when it comes to curating my community and curating my
01:21:59.040 stream i do believe in free speech the same way that people make fun of like they make fun of hindus
01:22:03.600 and pajits they say all the time um so i think if you're if all day long we're going to make fun of
01:22:08.880 zionists and and pajits hindus then people should be able to make fun of um from of everybody is free
01:22:14.960 speech absolutism um is that an anti-islamic position should i not allow everything should i like
01:22:19.840 tell the mods to be specific see what you what one can say is this one can say that in western
01:22:28.560 governments okay that we're not making a political case for or against free speech the way you guys do
01:22:36.400 it yeah i'm i have an agnostic position towards free speech for against the way you guys do it
01:22:43.520 why why would i say it like that the way the way i would say it like that is because
01:22:47.360 of the same reason that you've just mentioned if for example uh it benefits muslim communities to
01:22:54.800 have certain laws about free speech and removing those laws could affect the dawah could affect
01:23:00.800 certain things the question about the detriment and the costs are questions that scholars of islam
01:23:06.480 would have to discuss now in islamic lands islamic lands is different we're talking about islamic
01:23:12.960 law of course we don't believe in this we don't believe in that it's okay to attack jesus that's
01:23:18.320 okay to attack muhammad sallam attacked any of the prophets uh that anybody does it because someone
01:23:25.120 could say well you have free speech to say whatever you like yeah which means you can mock the prophets
01:23:30.720 we say fine then uh why why stop at uh free speech to mock the prophets and not free speech to break the
01:23:38.080 law so for example you can you can mock the prophets we want these other guys who are the terrorists who
01:23:43.920 we also disavow they want to break the law so just as much as i have an agnostic position about this you
01:23:51.280 have to worry about those terrorists who are going to attack you if you do this because it's not just
01:23:56.240 and this is it's no islamic exceptionalism here there are certain things that if you say if you go too far
01:24:01.440 in saying violence with any community it can lead to violence now if you go to mexico if you go to
01:24:06.960 colombia if you go to harlem and new york if you go to anywhere and you say certain things against
01:24:12.160 certain races and cartels and people certain gangs and mafias certain religious figures there's going
01:24:18.080 to be a response okay now no one is saying you can't say what you want you can say what you like if
01:24:23.600 you go to those places if you go to middle of harlem like in diehard three and have a sign that says i
01:24:30.080 hate niggers you can do that all you like free speech now but someone can say you know what i've
01:24:36.000 i'm very offended by this i'm going to decide to shoot this guy black person says this offends me
01:24:41.280 and a lot of black people and a lot of feminists those woke people would defend that and say that
01:24:44.880 that's no problem so i'm saying to shoot him uh he's going to shoot him now so you don't just have to
01:24:51.600 fear the law when you're when you're saying what you want to say you have to fear the people
01:24:55.840 so so much as because what is an extension of free speech absolutism is free it is anarchy actually
01:25:05.120 because if you think about the political spectrum right
01:25:09.840 free speech absolutism is on the way to a kind of anarchical system at least on a social level okay
01:25:17.680 if you if you think about objectively because the the government is deciding not to get involved in
01:25:22.800 what people say okay so what's one step further than that one step further than that is to say
01:25:28.080 well the government shouldn't get involved actions do either so that's physicality so if you want to
01:25:33.760 take a more radical position than free speech absolutism then you should allow vigilantism actually
01:25:39.840 but whether or not you allow it the vigilantes won't care do you know what i mean so
01:25:45.600 the terroristic position which is something which we must say on the stream we completely
01:25:50.560 survive it and we we are against it or the terroristic or the gang position or let's call it the
01:25:57.760 belligerent position or whatever it is which is that if these people's people my race my country my
01:26:02.400 religion whatever that's the position that will respond to violence and even more than violence it will
01:26:08.080 be something which would that position is an extension actually of the free speech absolutism position
01:26:13.360 it's extension of it it's actually more in the it's more in the side of freedom
01:26:19.840 and so if someone wanted to push the envelope why stop there vigilantism okay you want to offend him
01:26:26.400 with your words he wants to offend you with his violence it's an extension so i say look i'm not
01:26:34.960 against it i'm not making a legal case i don't care what the americans do with their law
01:26:38.640 mm-hmm with all due respect who am i who am i to go and tell the americans to put this law into
01:26:43.920 places and what effect will my protestation have on whether the americans decide to put this law or
01:26:50.800 the europeans decide to put what about in the uk i see some criticism more from i would say the christian
01:26:56.320 whites in the uk the the fact that islam is growing so fast uh in the uk and i even saw some statistic
01:27:02.320 i say like 30 i'm not sure if it's real saying like 32 percent of uk muslims want sharia law and they're
01:27:08.320 getting afraid like uk is losing its soul you know they were uk culture is drinking a pint on the
01:27:13.840 corner and watching the football match and then beating up a manchester city fan that's uk culture
01:27:18.720 is getting drunk with the lads going out and then you know may that's in islamic culture does not
01:27:25.840 really coexist with that idea of um yes that's more of a conservative position actually if you think
01:27:31.520 about it because if and when i say conservative position i'm talking about british conservatism
01:27:36.480 because british concert like which was promulgated by someone like edmund burke there's a guy called
01:27:40.960 edmund burke in the 80s 1800s 1900s people like him these conservatives they basically want to hold
01:27:48.320 on to tradition okay so the question is at what point do we start the clock because let's say for example
01:27:54.480 i i as a let's say aristocrat englishman want to start the clock in the year 1650
01:28:01.920 uh where it was where shakespeare's works were fresh where you know i don't know you know jamesian
01:28:09.120 you know the king james version has just come of the bible just come out and i want to use that
01:28:12.480 language someone says no we want to push it a little further to the 1800s we want to bring those
01:28:16.640 traditions and cultures back someone pushes it for the less 1950s right before the sexual revolution
01:28:21.440 before the feminist who gets to decide to start the clock when and where and
01:28:25.440 and and how but what i find contradictory is that the same right-wing people who attack
01:28:32.640 um people who attack uh who who are let's say free speech absolutists yeah
01:28:38.960 who who in a sense are arguing for a liberal position when it comes to free speech that they
01:28:45.280 also want a conservative reality so because look think about it if you if you want if you want a
01:28:50.080 society of 80 million people well let's say 70 million people right in britain you want a society
01:28:56.320 to have free speech that's the right-wing position you're speaking about free speech now we see in
01:29:00.640 most of the outlets gb news talk tv somewhere yeah we do see they're speaking about free speech all the
01:29:06.560 time yeah so if that's what you want you want free speech but at the same time you're telling us
01:29:14.640 that society is being corrupted by freedom of expression and speech isn't that contradiction
01:29:20.640 right well i mean they're saying it freedom of speech but also the invasion of like they call it the
01:29:27.440 don't don't say freedom of speech they select the freedom so you say i want white freedom of
01:29:30.880 speech then i don't like black because they're attacking the carnival like you know the jamaicans have
01:29:35.040 this thing in the carnival yeah and it has to be attacked actually because some of the things
01:29:38.400 they do it's disgusting yeah that's the part where people are like don't make fun of culture
01:29:41.840 like don't disrespect jamaican culture if their country culture is like getting naked and humping
01:29:46.240 each other in the streets and that's that's only recent by the way i don't know maybe i used to watch
01:29:50.880 this uh the carnival maybe about 15 years ago wasn't like that only recently the gangs have
01:29:55.520 started to come out these guys they're making a mockery of it i think carnival like when my dad was
01:30:00.080 growing up uh haiti um has a similar one it wasn't the way it is now yes exactly you see all the
01:30:04.400 streamers are going there to jamaica they're they're pretty much just like almost having sex
01:30:07.840 in the street it's disgusting you know and and then if you ever criticize it like this is jamaican
01:30:11.840 culture i mean shouldn't you like we should i mean if there were cannibals in a certain culture
01:30:16.240 we would say hey maybe you should not be eating each other this is your culture is wrong of cannibalism
01:30:20.800 i personally love jamaican culture i like the food i like everything bumbakla yeah well bumbakla do
01:30:24.880 not yeah you know it is you don't you don't eat a bia can done no yeah you don't know but whilst we
01:30:31.040 all are affected in england by jamaican culture but as i say if this if this you want to that's
01:30:36.880 actually a besmirchment of uh jamaican culture i think this is a carnival that recently what i've
01:30:40.720 seen because i it's like a parody i live it i live in the area where the kind of what kind of
01:30:44.000 what happens i see people coming out with knife and this and that bro like you know don't tell
01:30:47.120 me this is jamaican culture because now you're besmirching uh the jamaican culture but what i'm
01:30:51.760 saying is uh the point i'm making is uh you know if you want free speech and expression if that's what
01:30:58.160 you're calling for yeah okay don't complain about the results of that if the results of that are
01:31:03.840 muslim people coming into the country people converting to islam then that is the results
01:31:07.680 of what you call for you can't have that and not have that at the same time and people get really
01:31:11.760 upset like you see the videos of one umma uh getting like white kids to take shahada like that
01:31:16.480 really makes them upset and i don't even think it's like a religious issue i think it's a racial issue
01:31:20.960 the fact that they're seeing like brown people convert their white people and then you see
01:31:24.080 the comments deport deport yeah what a british citizen so next who's going to be deported you
01:31:29.280 because you're going to set a precedent for brown people to be deported then you're going to have
01:31:32.800 something which goes against the state and then you're next yeah i i didn't i didn't realize how
01:31:37.360 strong um islam i don't like that word islamophobia because it sounds like homophobia or transphobia
01:31:42.160 but i didn't realize how stigmatized that was i was from the perception that people saw the um
01:31:47.440 the good in islam it's like what's the alternative you know it seems like everything that muslims stand for
01:31:53.440 is all the principles of islam are really good for society so the fact that it gets these people
01:31:58.640 that upset it's not a it's not a moral issue it's a it's a racial one they don't like to see there
01:32:04.240 but you have to you know there's you have to empathize with them a little bit you know growing
01:32:08.880 up with the james bond and wayne rooney's dominating and then now seeing it changed the way it is it's got
01:32:14.640 to hurt it does go ahead but you know at the end of the day you know you you wanted to take this much
01:32:21.760 money from the rest of the world through colonialism now you've called these guys back over to help fix
01:32:28.320 your country after the 1950s and 60s they fixed your country we're going to tell them to go get out
01:32:34.000 this is i mean this is exactly what happened right you had world war one and two um why are these
01:32:40.000 pakistanis and these mongolies and these jamaicans what are they doing in england they're doing there
01:32:45.120 because the english people wanted them in there to fix their country so now that they've done that you
01:32:49.120 can't complain about the results of this they're here they're here what are you going to do with
01:32:54.000 them it's a reality unless you want to become a fascist state like you want to become like hitler
01:33:00.160 and of nazi germany and say look we only allow this race here you and we're gonna we have a muslim
01:33:05.280 problem we're going to get rid of them unless you want to go down that route which you can't say you
01:33:09.280 believe in that and freedom of expression at the same time because that is against freedom of expression
01:33:13.760 what was do you know what hitler's position was on islam um i don't know i've heard some people say
01:33:19.360 recently that they that hitler respected islam but i'm not sure i don't i don't know i mean there's a
01:33:24.240 lot of misinformation i personally believe that if muslims lived in his state they'd probably he'd
01:33:27.600 probably do the same thing with them you know there were no there were no like muslim significant
01:33:33.680 muslim population in germany at the time most people talk about that uh they talk about the mufti
01:33:40.080 and hitler and that little meeting they had and they're trying to say that they connect it with
01:33:45.440 the fact that okay well you know how could he be with the mufti of palestine at the time i mean
01:33:51.840 he also met with the orgon or at least he done the nazi party had connections with the then jewish
01:34:01.120 parties who would make up the state of israel like the other one for example and they both
01:34:07.840 collaborated on getting the jews out of germany because they both have a common objective and
01:34:12.160 that's mentioned in peer-reviewed journals so if you say okay well hitler had this connection with
01:34:17.840 the mufti of jerusalem he also had it the nazi party also had a connection with the jewish parties
01:34:22.800 as well they did yeah so you know i don't know exactly what his position was on islam but it wouldn't
01:34:29.840 matter because he had his own thing and he believed in the aryan race he believed that the white man was
01:34:34.720 best he believed is that true yeah of course he did yeah i never saw a speech where he was talking
01:34:39.200 about that eugenics and stuff it was mostly about like nationalism in germany stuff like that i didn't
01:34:44.960 see i couldn't find like like speeches i couldn't find solid information about the about whites being
01:34:49.760 the supreme race i think there is i think because they had eugenics programs and stuff though the blue
01:34:54.880 eyes and the white skin and stuff like that there's they did have there's a lot of that well speaking
01:35:00.400 about hitler um where do you think the the future of this this israeli palestine issue where is that
01:35:06.000 going to go i got some some heat but i was i saw that they attacked the um the iran consulate in
01:35:11.200 syria i i said um i tweeted we stand with iran and a lot of people got really upset i got calls from
01:35:16.880 people like americans saying like oh like don't say this you're in saudi arabia or americans saying
01:35:21.120 like oh iran's the enemy all this stuff i was just you know the fact that they got bombed by by the idf
01:35:25.680 um and the consulate in syria but where do you think that this is going and and how does this
01:35:30.720 i didn't get to ask you this like too extensively in london but how does this relate to the end times
01:35:35.120 that's something that um the love speech community is always talking about is the the coming of the
01:35:39.280 dajal and you know the red heifer stuff like this where do you foresee the the future of the israeli
01:35:44.880 conflict some people are saying that iran is gonna is gonna fight them now um i don't think they will
01:35:50.960 i i think iran is quite strategically um cautious actually they've got two or three pawns they've got
01:35:58.480 the hezbollah they've got the houthis and they've also got other you know in a way they're connected
01:36:05.600 with hamas in a way so i don't think it would make sense for iran to risk being invaded by the united
01:36:12.480 states of america by striking israel if they did that it would be unprecedented in their cautious
01:36:18.800 strategic decision making in the last 20 or 30 years they have never done anything like that
01:36:24.240 and they i and because that gives america all the legitimacy in the world to go and attack iran
01:36:30.160 right so i don't think they're that silly unless they had the backing of china and and all russia
01:36:36.240 like the explicit packed backing of them so i don't think i think this is just um
01:36:41.360 um i think this is just pr pr pr for who for them i think the whole season the and the iranians have
01:36:50.320 have really shot up in public and popularity recently in the muslim world so their fiery
01:36:56.240 speeches and their attacks and their threats even though they're shia yeah there have been times in the
01:37:02.160 in the history of like the middle east where the hezbollah and the iranians and the houthis have have
01:37:10.000 shot up in popularity and this is one of those times especially hamas came up recently and them
01:37:16.240 in the islamic jihad which is number two uh kind of faction in uh in in palestine both of which who
01:37:23.840 explicitly praised iran for what for for their stance uh you know on the issue of palestine
01:37:31.360 they they they they praised iran they praised yemen and they praised um hezbollah they so this is a
01:37:41.440 sunday group hamas praising three different i know hezbollah is comprised of shia and is yemen
01:37:45.520 comprised of shia too yeah but it's a different kind of shia this the yemeni ones are the we call
01:37:49.360 zaydi shiais which are much closer to sunnis so people are also asking this question like what's the
01:37:54.560 um like why are so many shia why seem like shias are backing palestine more than any sunni nations
01:38:00.640 or any sunni factions i think political reasons i mean don't forget what's happened in the last 20 or
01:38:06.000 30 years is unprecedented it's it's um it's to do with how america has played the game
01:38:14.880 and how they've allied with certain muslim countries including the one they're in right now yeah
01:38:20.880 so i think that that is probably uh the reason and so after the the islamic revolution
01:38:30.080 in 1979 in iran iran became much more alienated in the you know in the middle east so they've had to
01:38:38.800 they've had to strategically kind of um depend or let's say depend on on china and russia in a much more
01:38:48.160 more so china in a much stronger way than the west what was the that i remember reading a book
01:38:53.280 about that but i can't remember now so it was it like it was a clash with liberalism in iran
01:38:57.920 in 1979 what was that revolution so this was what you had before you had the person called the shah
01:39:04.720 and um this was a western puppet you know at the time in iran he was disposed actually he ran he
01:39:11.520 he exiled to egypt yeah you know he ran and hid there and um at the time khomeini who was this
01:39:20.640 figure of the shiis he was in his of all places france and he went from france came back to iran
01:39:29.760 and he led this revolution and it was they've created this system now where uh it's a parliamentary
01:39:36.800 system but it has at the top of it this you know the religious figure before it was called khomeini
01:39:42.400 now the guy's called khameini you know and um they've also they've also got a prime minister so
01:39:48.960 before it's ahmad i forget the name of the guy now ahmad was the famous guy who said that you know
01:39:55.200 we want to erase israel from the map and so on um and it's very interesting because
01:40:04.080 iran is a country which for the last 20 to 30 years have had the most apostates from islam
01:40:09.200 than any other country in the world why is that and i think part of the reason why that is the case
01:40:14.400 is because of the government because they were seen and whether this is true or not this is a
01:40:20.240 discussion separate discussion but i think that they were seen by their population by large
01:40:25.120 swathes of the population as very repressive very like overly claustrophobic level repressive
01:40:33.280 and i think that that made people rebel in their mind psychological rebellion
01:40:39.440 uh to a point we've never seen that before so i mean the the they've had a war with iraq iran had a
01:40:47.680 war in the 80s with iraq but in terms of combat like one-on-one combat uh with any other nation
01:40:55.840 iran really hasn't they've used their pawns they've used hezbollah they've used
01:41:00.320 the uh the houthis they've used other people but they have not necessarily engaged in the last 10 15
01:41:05.200 years themselves directly in any conflict and they've been quite cautious strategically so i don't think
01:41:09.840 unless they have a dramatic change but for them to have a dramatic change they'd have to be some real
01:41:15.280 thing that they're going to win from this and i don't think they'd be willing to risk this just for
01:41:19.680 a pr victory so um iran will speak that they will talk the talk but i don't think they'll walk the walk
01:41:27.040 so the hype is not justified i don't think so i don't think iran will do it hezbollah could do
01:41:32.080 because they're just literally on the borders and but they'll also be cautious and they have been cautious
01:41:37.440 so they'll do certain things but they won't go too far they'll play
01:41:41.120 a cautious game they realize the enemy is quite strong and the enemy realizes they're quite strong so
01:41:47.680 it's a stalemate at the moment they'll do like skirmishes i don't think they want to go further
01:41:51.040 than that but it's more than anyone else is doing so you think in order for iran to really do something
01:41:57.760 it's going to result in world war three pretty much because china is going to need to get involved
01:42:01.360 i don't think so because i don't think china would get involved i don't think they'll protect them
01:42:06.080 i don't think they'll protect them why because what they got to what they got to gain from that
01:42:09.920 and china and china is not the country that would make the big difference because china needs america
01:42:16.000 they're an interdependent economic relationship with them so i don't think they'd be willing to
01:42:21.200 you know risk that for just sacrifice that for this no i don't think so it would be russia that would
01:42:26.480 be the key player i think but i don't think they'd get involved either but russia is has got a lot more
01:42:33.440 to gain because they're in war with ukraine and stuff like that from weakening the west
01:42:39.440 um but i just don't see i don't i don't see i don't see it being in the interest of anyone
01:42:46.400 to expand the war to a regional conflict and i think america knows that
01:42:54.000 yeah and what about the what about the end times is there any what do you know about the red heifer
01:42:59.200 stuff like that because people they yeah so the red heifer thing i mean that is it's legitimate in
01:43:05.920 the sense that okay this is some verses in the book of numbers and these guys actually believe in it
01:43:12.800 the jews actually believe that or some jews the red cow by the way the red cows that they've
01:43:17.200 gotten from texas and they've flown over for 500 000 and uh they're going to slaughter them
01:43:22.400 um tomorrow after tomorrow i don't know three or four days coming up yeah yeah and uh the temple
01:43:28.880 institute you know the uh in israel they're saying once that ceremony has been done they want to
01:43:35.280 replace masjid al-aqsa with their own temple the second temple of solomon um and i was reading in the
01:43:42.560 quran or masjid al-aqsa is actually really is more significant than i thought it's one of the
01:43:46.800 uh this is the top three yes yeah very significant now if masjid al-aqsa this is a real question now
01:43:54.720 if masjid al-aqsa is attacked and destroyed responsibility uh or attacked by the israelis
01:44:03.920 would that create global upro uprising throughout the muslim world i think in some countries it may do
01:44:11.280 could create rebellion which countries jordan because half of the um population is palestinian
01:44:17.840 what about lebanon possibly they're there i would say the high alert countries
01:44:24.400 uh jordan lebanon i don't think it would do so as as bad as it may sound i don't think it would do so
01:44:29.040 in egypt uh i don't i don't think it i think that now we're talking iran hezbollah and all those guys
01:44:38.000 there's about four or five countries that could end up deciding to go pretty hard on on israel if
01:44:44.720 they do that but not egypt why i don't think this is the the size of the population your country i
01:44:52.560 forgot yeah yeah i think that because a lot of the the worry is that if egypt gets involved in a conflict
01:44:58.240 with israel that the so many people will die like if we're saying 30 000 people is a lot
01:45:07.520 you just got 110 million people so people are going to say well that even the population i think a lot
01:45:12.960 of them will think is it worth it i think even the population will think that wow but i think a
01:45:19.760 huge chunk of the population will say it is worth it so that you'd have a an issue on your hands
01:45:25.680 throughout the whole muslim world if it depends on what they do with it if they desecrate it that's
01:45:30.560 one thing if they destroy it and try and put the temple on top of it i think in many ways that could
01:45:35.760 be the catalyst for something massive to happen in the muslim world massive like a complete change
01:45:41.360 and then america will no longer be in control because america wouldn't want that to happen because
01:45:47.360 right now they've got the con the situation under control to a certain extent if something like that
01:45:52.480 happens it creates a new impetus a new catalyst so i it's it's a really it's a toss-up it depends on
01:46:01.680 what kind of images we see i don't know i really i think that