SNEAKO - June 25, 2023


INSANE ISLAMIC LIBRARY TOUR WITH SHAYKH UTHMAN


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38 minutes

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In this test stream, we talk about how to become an imam, what it takes to be an Imam, and what it's like being a student of the Quran. We also talk about the importance of a good narration.

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00:00:25.000 It's 3 a.m. in Miami time from where I usually stream.
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00:00:40.000 Yeah.
00:00:41.000 So at first IRL stream, we finally got the backpack set up.
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00:00:52.000 Hold on man, give me a second.
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00:00:55.000 Yeah.
00:00:56.000 First IRL stream.
00:00:57.000 So we're going to be doing a lot more of these going to Thailand soon.
00:01:00.000 I need to go book the flights and be traveling around doing IRL streams.
00:01:03.000 So I wanted to do a test stream.
00:01:05.000 We did a podcast earlier with Sheikh Uthman, the student of Islam.
00:01:09.000 As-salamu alaykum.
00:01:10.000 As-salamu alaykum.
00:01:11.000 Thank you for the great lesson today, Namajid.
00:01:14.000 It's great having you with us in the community.
00:01:16.000 You're welcome, mashallah, anytime.
00:01:17.000 This is your house.
00:01:18.000 This is your community.
00:01:19.000 So we're live and we're in his house in San Diego, and this is his library.
00:01:23.000 I saw it in the background sometimes when we talk and we have them on debates.
00:01:27.000 So I wanted to do a tour.
00:01:28.000 There's so many books and you can pan around.
00:01:30.000 It's just, it's very beautiful in here.
00:01:32.000 And want to learn more? 0.96
00:01:35.000 You know, these streams we have like dumb humor sometimes. 0.88
00:01:38.000 You guys complain when I just look at Discord memes all the time. 0.73
00:01:40.000 So I think it's important. 0.98
00:01:42.000 Yeah, I know a lot of the streams are really low IQ and kind of, can I say retarded in your house? 1.00
00:01:45.000 Yeah, go for it. 0.96
00:01:46.000 They're really retarded streams sometimes. 0.99
00:01:48.000 This isn't YouTube. 0.83
00:01:49.000 This isn't YouTube.
00:01:50.000 So we can have high IQ streams and then go over some books.
00:01:53.000 We had a great podcast today.
00:01:54.000 I recommend you guys check that out.
00:01:56.000 And I was learning today.
00:01:57.000 He had a great Q&A and a great lesson in Namajid.
00:02:00.000 He had pretty much like a, are you an Imam?
00:02:03.000 Yeah.
00:02:04.000 So yeah, you were, do you have to, how do you become an Imam?
00:02:06.000 So an Imam is really a leader of a community.
00:02:09.000 But like for myself, alhamdulillah, I studied, like I went to scholars, I studied with them.
00:02:14.000 I got my masters in hadith and things.
00:02:16.000 And then leading the community, this is what an Imam is, right?
00:02:19.000 So we have other brothers that lead the prayer as well.
00:02:22.000 But you know, coordinating all the, all the lessons, you know, fixing issues, all that kind of stuff.
00:02:27.000 That's what an Imam does, you know? 1.00
00:02:28.000 So alhamdulillah.
00:02:29.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:02:30.000 Yeah.
00:02:31.000 It was great to see him to run that lesson today.
00:02:33.000 And you, you had everything.
00:02:35.000 Um, you had like a lesson plan, basically.
00:02:37.000 And you, you just went off for like about an hour and a half.
00:02:39.000 Yeah.
00:02:40.000 Everybody was paying attention.
00:02:41.000 It was a packed Majid.
00:02:43.000 It was like, there was not a space empty on the, on the rug on a Saturday night.
00:02:47.000 I was funny thinking they were like, is it Saturday night when we were on the car leaving?
00:02:50.000 I'm like, I could be in the club right now, but mashaAllah.
00:02:54.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:02:55.000 Our community Majdribah, it's a good community.
00:02:56.000 We get a lot of people that drive from LA, from far away.
00:02:59.000 They come every week.
00:03:00.000 Uh, our lessons are, and then I'll show you a little bit when we go through the books.
00:03:04.000 It's not just about talking.
00:03:05.000 It's the research of making sure the authenticity of the narration.
00:03:09.000 It takes a lot of time.
00:03:11.000 And I, I spend that because I don't want to teach something that's not authentic.
00:03:15.000 And every narration, I go and check it then.
00:03:19.000 Uh, and I'll show you inshallah as we go through it, how, how long that takes, you know?
00:03:23.000 Because like a lot of Christians, it's just about jumping, ha-hoo, ha-hoo. 1.00
00:03:27.000 A lot of people.
00:03:28.000 But as Muslims, we need to make sure that what we're saying is actually what the prophet said,
00:03:33.000 actually what's in the Quran, through checking the chains of narration.
00:03:36.000 And that's a beautiful science that Islam has. 0.98
00:03:39.000 Yeah.
00:03:40.000 And you could definitely see that, uh, Sheikh Azman does the research.
00:03:43.000 He walks, walks, uh, and talks the talk.
00:03:46.000 Definitely taking a lot of time.
00:03:47.000 You barely sleep.
00:03:48.000 That was a funny thing.
00:03:49.000 Like after the last time we were, we were spending all day together.
00:03:51.000 And then you said he went to bed at like 5 AM.
00:03:54.000 Yeah.
00:03:55.000 And then you have kids.
00:03:56.000 You homeschool your, I don't want to say too much information, but.
00:03:59.000 Yeah.
00:04:00.000 Yeah.
00:04:01.000 You homeschool your kids.
00:04:02.000 You know, I get a, I get a lot of support from the family.
00:04:04.000 A lot of work with my wife, my mom.
00:04:06.000 Um, I couldn't do it without them, but it's a lot of, a lot of work.
00:04:10.000 You know, it was 5 AM.
00:04:11.000 We prayed fudge and went to sleep.
00:04:13.000 And then, uh, 8 AM I had the people doing construction.
00:04:16.000 So we're up.
00:04:17.000 So that's all the sleep.
00:04:18.000 And you work a regular job.
00:04:19.000 I work a regular job.
00:04:20.000 You're doing, you, you barely have any time to sleep.
00:04:23.000 So it's pretty admirable to see how much dedication there is.
00:04:26.000 And it's just a reminder, like Chad, where how you guys, I don't know how old you are.
00:04:29.000 You get to put your age in the chat.
00:04:30.000 I'm 24 and I'm not, I get sleepy.
00:04:32.000 I'm here drinking a red bull.
00:04:33.000 Cause I need to stay awake right now.
00:04:34.000 I'm not sponsored by them.
00:04:35.000 This is bad for you.
00:04:36.000 Don't drink this stuff, but I don't want to grab bulls.
00:04:38.000 He doesn't.
00:04:39.000 He's just up.
00:04:40.000 He just has like a tea once in a while.
00:04:41.000 I love tea.
00:04:42.000 And the power of Allah is keeping you going.
00:04:44.000 We ask Allah for help.
00:04:45.000 All right.
00:04:46.000 So we're going to start.
00:04:47.000 Okay.
00:04:48.000 One thing important.
00:04:49.000 Anybody can buy books.
00:04:50.000 Anybody can just throw money at it.
00:04:51.000 That's not the point.
00:04:52.000 Each one of these books.
00:04:53.000 I've spent at least a few hours, some of them days and months researching the best print,
00:05:00.000 the most accurate, according to the manuscript.
00:05:03.000 I consult other scholars.
00:05:04.000 I consult my teachers.
00:05:06.000 So each one of these is, there's a lot of mind that's been, you know, time and effort
00:05:12.000 that's gone into making sure it's the best book.
00:05:15.000 So even if the size of the library isn't the biggest in the world, the value is in the quality
00:05:20.000 of the books.
00:05:21.000 So I've organized everything in a way that it has a logical flow.
00:05:25.000 So these three shelves onwards all the way across.
00:05:29.000 This is all Quran and Quran explanations.
00:05:33.000 Right.
00:05:34.000 So this, like for example.
00:05:36.000 But who wrote this?
00:05:37.000 So these are different authors.
00:05:39.000 Right.
00:05:40.000 This is a book called Ibn Kathir.
00:05:41.000 Yeah.
00:05:42.000 It's a very famous Quran explanation.
00:05:44.000 This is a different print of it.
00:05:46.000 The same book.
00:05:47.000 You'll see some of the volumes out because I actually, this is a, this is a working library.
00:05:51.000 It's not for show.
00:05:52.000 It's for use, you know.
00:05:53.000 So some of the books are out being used.
00:05:55.000 So this is Tafseer Al-Quran Al-Adeem, the Tafseer of the Quran by the great scholar Ibn Kathir.
00:06:01.000 And this print, like check out how beautiful that print is, right?
00:06:05.000 So, like the colors, the font.
00:06:08.000 I like, I love it.
00:06:09.000 Where do you get all these books?
00:06:10.000 All over the world.
00:06:12.000 Saudi, Jordan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Malaysia.
00:06:16.000 I go to book fairs.
00:06:17.000 I sit hours and hours at night.
00:06:19.000 Me and my seven year old daughter, we research different books.
00:06:23.000 I speak to different scholars.
00:06:25.000 This must cost like almost thousands of dollars and years of research to find all this.
00:06:30.000 This costs more than a Lamborghini.
00:06:33.000 Wow.
00:06:34.000 You know, but to me, this is better than a Lamborghini.
00:06:39.000 A Lamborghini can't get you closer to Allah. 0.97
00:06:41.000 No.
00:06:42.000 But knowing this knowledge and practice.
00:06:43.000 Is invaluable.
00:06:44.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:06:45.000 True box of things.
00:06:46.000 Thank you for the five.
00:06:47.000 May Allah protect you both inshallah one day.
00:06:48.000 We'll witness Shaykh Sneeko one day.
00:06:49.000 Well, I mean after this library I probably could be.
00:06:51.000 He's beginning.
00:06:52.000 That's it.
00:06:53.000 I told you there's an offer out there inshallah.
00:06:54.000 He'll start teaching you.
00:06:55.000 He'll get you on that knowledge inshallah.
00:06:57.000 So, if you look at the book, this is not just the book,
00:07:01.000 but the research done in checking all the narrations, checking how the...
00:07:06.000 See, the Bible for example, we don't even know the authors of many of the books are.
00:07:10.000 Right?
00:07:11.000 We looked at that earlier.
00:07:12.000 In hadith, we wouldn't allow that.
00:07:13.000 Right?
00:07:14.000 So, this research and this print is what I look for.
00:07:17.000 The best research.
00:07:19.000 And this, Dara ibn Jawzi's taba'a thaniya.
00:07:21.000 The second taba'a. 0.96
00:07:23.000 This is the best research print.
00:07:26.000 Dr. Hikmat Yasin.
00:07:28.000 Amazing work that's been done on this.
00:07:31.000 So, each one of these books I've spent hours and hours and hours trying to find,
00:07:35.000 make sure what is the most accurate.
00:07:37.000 So, these are all commentaries of the Qur'an and their different styles.
00:07:42.000 Like, these commentaries are on narrations.
00:07:44.000 So, this is a book that's put together by a group of scholars.
00:07:47.000 It's 24 volumes.
00:07:48.000 Where's this from?
00:07:49.000 These are all from different parts of the world.
00:07:51.000 This is from Saudi Arabia that I got.
00:07:54.000 This one I also got from Saudi.
00:07:56.000 Some of them from Kuwait.
00:07:57.000 Some from Qatar.
00:07:58.000 But this is amazing work because what they did is they went through all the old classic books
00:08:02.000 and collected any narration, any hadith, any statement of a Sahabi.
00:08:07.000 And then they put it there and they put all the references.
00:08:09.000 So, you see this is the hadithun sahih. 0.79
00:08:12.000 This is the authentic narration, right?
00:08:14.000 And then it gives the reference to the book.
00:08:15.000 So, then I can go to the actual hadith book and pull it as well.
00:08:19.000 Okay.
00:08:20.000 So, this is Qur'an explanations all the way.
00:08:23.000 These are more linguistic explanations here.
00:08:25.000 Looking at the Arabic grammar.
00:08:27.000 So, hadith is all explanations of what's directly written in the Qur'an.
00:08:31.000 These are the statements of the Prophet.
00:08:33.000 The statements of the Prophet.
00:08:34.000 Yes.
00:08:35.000 So, this is the Qur'an.
00:08:36.000 Why would the statements of the Prophet not just be all in the Qur'an?
00:08:38.000 Because the Qur'an is not the words of the Prophet.
00:08:40.000 The Qur'an is the words of Allah.
00:08:41.000 The words from Allah.
00:08:42.000 Yes.
00:08:43.000 Those are not the words of the Prophet.
00:08:44.000 Hadith is the words of the Prophet.
00:08:45.000 Right?
00:08:46.000 So, this is his personal opinions.
00:08:47.000 His statements.
00:08:48.000 His actions.
00:08:49.000 His statements.
00:08:50.000 His life.
00:08:51.000 What he said.
00:08:52.000 What he did.
00:08:53.000 What he approved of.
00:08:54.000 قول فعل اقرار النبي.
00:08:56.000 The action, statement and approvals of the Prophet ﷺ.
00:09:00.000 That is the sunnah.
00:09:01.000 But if there is a verse in the Qur'an.
00:09:03.000 And the Prophet explained it.
00:09:04.000 Then these books of tafsir will capture that.
00:09:07.000 Right?
00:09:08.000 The verse.
00:09:09.000 The companion says.
00:09:10.000 This verse was about war.
00:09:11.000 This was about peace.
00:09:12.000 This was about this.
00:09:13.000 So, we know the context.
00:09:15.000 So, unlike the Bible.
00:09:17.000 Where a lot of times you don't have any statements.
00:09:19.000 Authentic from the disciples there.
00:09:21.000 Right?
00:09:22.000 There is no chain of narrators.
00:09:23.000 In Qur'an.
00:09:24.000 If you want to know.
00:09:25.000 If you spend the time and research.
00:09:27.000 You can find it.
00:09:28.000 Right?
00:09:29.000 And that's beautiful.
00:09:30.000 This is something unique to Islam.
00:09:31.000 Is this tradition of called the sanad.
00:09:33.000 Chain of narrations.
00:09:34.000 Right?
00:09:35.000 Is there anything like.
00:09:36.000 That's equivalent.
00:09:37.000 Of this library to something.
00:09:38.000 Like in Judaism. 0.99
00:09:39.000 Do they have.
00:09:40.000 So, Judaism. 0.80
00:09:41.000 They have a lot of urbanic writings.
00:09:43.000 I've been to some huge libraries.
00:09:44.000 But they don't have this chain of narrations.
00:09:47.000 The Old Testament.
00:09:48.000 Or you know.
00:09:49.000 The first five books.
00:09:50.000 Being the Torah.
00:09:51.000 And so on.
00:09:52.000 There is no chain.
00:09:53.000 Tying it to Musa.
00:09:54.000 We do.
00:09:55.000 That's unique to Islam. 0.98
00:09:56.000 And that's why you can preserve Islam.
00:09:58.000 Better than any other religious tradition in the world.
00:10:00.000 Now.
00:10:01.000 These.
00:10:02.000 Are linguistic.
00:10:04.000 Looking at the original Arabic grammar.
00:10:06.000 This is another thing.
00:10:07.000 For the viewers to know.
00:10:08.000 We don't have.
00:10:09.000 A manuscript of the Bible.
00:10:11.000 And Aramaic.
00:10:12.000 The language of Jesus.
00:10:13.000 Peace and blessings be upon him.
00:10:15.000 The earliest manuscripts are in Konaic Greek.
00:10:17.000 Earliest.
00:10:18.000 Semi-complete being 4th century.
00:10:20.000 This.
00:10:21.000 Quran.
00:10:22.000 Is revealed and preserved in the original language.
00:10:25.000 Like.
00:10:26.000 You know.
00:10:27.000 If you speak.
00:10:28.000 Tagalog for example.
00:10:29.000 And you say a word or a statement.
00:10:30.000 There you go.
00:10:31.000 When you translate it into English.
00:10:33.000 It's going to lose some meaning.
00:10:34.000 Right.
00:10:35.000 If you translate it now into Spanish.
00:10:36.000 From the English.
00:10:37.000 It's going to lose more meaning.
00:10:38.000 But we have the Quran.
00:10:39.000 Inna anzalnahu Quranan Arabiya.
00:10:41.000 Allah says that we reveal the Quran.
00:10:43.000 In a clear Arabic language.
00:10:44.000 So we have it in the original.
00:10:46.000 And then we have the original grammar.
00:10:48.000 From the classic Arabic. 0.92
00:10:49.000 It's called Fusha. 0.73
00:10:50.000 Can you still understand that?
00:10:51.000 If you speak modern Arabic.
00:10:52.000 Would that still make sense?
00:10:53.000 Yeah.
00:10:54.000 Like.
00:10:55.000 The news and books are written in classic Arabic.
00:10:57.000 So you speak this type of Arabic?
00:10:58.000 I do.
00:10:59.000 Yeah.
00:11:00.000 I speak classic Quranic.
00:11:01.000 Can we hear something?
00:11:02.000 Okay.
00:11:03.000 What does that mean?
00:11:04.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:11:05.000 I said how are you?
00:11:06.000 Okay.
00:11:07.000 What does that mean?
00:11:08.000 I said how are you?
00:11:09.000 Okay.
00:11:10.000 You speak in the Arabic.
00:11:11.000 The pure.
00:11:12.000 Classic.
00:11:13.000 Eloquent Arabic language.
00:11:14.000 Camel Jocky. 1.00
00:11:15.000 Thanks for this time.
00:11:16.000 May God bless you Sheikh Uthman and Brother Sneeko.
00:11:18.000 I don't want the chat to forget.
00:11:19.000 Muslims still mess with Nick Fuentes. 0.99
00:11:23.000 Fuentes 2024.
00:11:24.000 And he will do a debate with Sheikh Uthman.
00:11:26.000 Ready when he is.
00:11:27.000 Inshallah.
00:11:28.000 Let's continue.
00:11:29.000 Let's continue.
00:11:30.000 So these are linguistic tafsir.
00:11:32.000 Right.
00:11:33.000 Now if we keep going.
00:11:34.000 This is a very interesting tafsir.
00:11:37.000 This is one by subject.
00:11:39.000 Right.
00:11:40.000 So if you.
00:11:41.000 If you.
00:11:42.000 It's not just the Quran verse by verse.
00:11:44.000 But you look up different subjects.
00:11:45.000 It will give you all the verses in the Quran on a particular subject.
00:11:49.000 Right.
00:11:50.000 So.
00:11:51.000 You know.
00:11:52.000 Let's say.
00:11:53.000 You want to know about the ta'u. 0.96
00:11:55.000 I mean those.
00:11:56.000 Nawafil. 0.71
00:11:57.000 And those additional prayers and things like that.
00:11:59.000 You look it up.
00:12:00.000 It will give you all the verses.
00:12:02.000 It will give you the linguistic meaning.
00:12:04.000 So it's a.
00:12:05.000 It's a tafsir based by subject.
00:12:07.000 Mawdu'ah. 0.97
00:12:08.000 By subject.
00:12:09.000 This is the book I was showing you earlier for example.
00:12:12.000 And this is from Kuwait.
00:12:14.000 And what they did is they made the Quran. 0.97
00:12:17.000 With an explanation of the different styles of recitation.
00:12:20.000 To show that from one Quran. 0.90
00:12:22.000 Those are all just different styles of reciting.
00:12:24.000 So.
00:12:25.000 It gives you an in-depth understanding.
00:12:27.000 That even.
00:12:28.000 And how to pronounce things in a different accent.
00:12:31.000 Has been preserved.
00:12:32.000 Right.
00:12:33.000 Now.
00:12:34.000 This.
00:12:35.000 Up here.
00:12:36.000 This is going to be.
00:12:38.000 A very special book.
00:12:41.000 Which is called Tafseer Saadi.
00:12:43.000 Tafseer Saadi.
00:12:44.000 I usually have.
00:12:45.000 Any help?
00:12:46.000 Yeah.
00:12:47.000 I usually have a stepladder.
00:12:48.000 But you want to get that one?
00:12:49.000 Yeah.
00:12:50.000 You're taller than me.
00:12:51.000 Tall genetics.
00:12:52.000 Mashallah.
00:12:55.000 This is heavy.
00:12:56.000 Yes it is.
00:12:58.000 This is.
00:12:59.000 Let me put this down.
00:13:02.000 There's a very famous scholar.
00:13:04.000 Shaykh Abdur Rahman Nasir Saadi.
00:13:06.000 He was the teacher of Shaykh Ibn Taymin.
00:13:08.000 He wrote a very simple.
00:13:10.000 To understand Tafseer.
00:13:11.000 And now it's been translated into English.
00:13:13.000 Very hard to find.
00:13:14.000 For a long time.
00:13:15.000 I couldn't find it in English.
00:13:16.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:17.000 I found it.
00:13:18.000 I bought it.
00:13:19.000 And this is a gift to you.
00:13:21.000 Free.
00:13:22.000 Mashallah.
00:13:23.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:24.000 From this heavy book.
00:13:25.000 Yeah.
00:13:26.000 But this is a very good Tafseer.
00:13:28.000 Tafseer Saadi.
00:13:29.000 When you said you were going to give me a book.
00:13:30.000 I didn't think you were going to give me.
00:13:31.000 Ten?
00:13:32.000 Yeah.
00:13:33.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:34.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:35.000 And this is a very light reading.
00:13:36.000 So.
00:13:37.000 Is it?
00:13:38.000 Yeah.
00:13:39.000 No it's not.
00:13:40.000 It's very.
00:13:41.000 This is.
00:13:42.000 This is light reading for me.
00:13:43.000 So.
00:13:44.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:45.000 This is a very simple Tafseer. 0.72
00:13:46.000 You can read it.
00:13:47.000 This is simple?
00:13:48.000 This is simple.
00:13:49.000 How long did that take you Shaykh to finish?
00:13:50.000 In Arabic this is one thick volume.
00:13:51.000 It's very easy.
00:13:52.000 You just read through it.
00:13:53.000 It's easy.
00:13:54.000 But here I mean.
00:13:55.000 If you look at these kinds of.
00:13:56.000 This is going to be tough to carry the suitcase.
00:13:57.000 Do you have space?
00:13:59.000 You make space.
00:14:00.000 He's looking at me bro.
00:14:01.000 This is knowledge.
00:14:02.000 You got space?
00:14:03.000 You got space.
00:14:04.000 Inshallah.
00:14:05.000 Inshallah.
00:14:06.000 But this is a very good Tafseer.
00:14:07.000 This is the later print.
00:14:08.000 The earlier print sometimes had issues.
00:14:10.000 But this is a.
00:14:11.000 I spent a lot of time trying to find this.
00:14:13.000 And Inshallah you will benefit from it.
00:14:15.000 So.
00:14:16.000 Okay.
00:14:17.000 But there is a condition.
00:14:18.000 You got to read it.
00:14:19.000 I'll read it.
00:14:20.000 Alright.
00:14:21.000 There you go.
00:14:22.000 I'm reading it.
00:14:23.000 Allahu Akbar.
00:14:24.000 Halas. 0.80
00:14:25.000 We'll put it down for you for now.
00:14:26.000 Wow.
00:14:27.000 You think you're going to go empty handed from here huh?
00:14:30.000 Yeah.
00:14:31.000 Okay.
00:14:32.000 So.
00:14:33.000 The second.
00:14:34.000 Now.
00:14:35.000 Three shells.
00:14:36.000 This is all hadith.
00:14:38.000 So.
00:14:39.000 Again.
00:14:40.000 There's always a logical flow in my library.
00:14:41.000 Right.
00:14:42.000 So this here.
00:14:43.000 Is the famous six books.
00:14:44.000 Right.
00:14:45.000 Bukhari.
00:14:46.000 Muslim.
00:14:47.000 Abu Dawud.
00:14:48.000 And their explanations.
00:14:49.000 So.
00:14:50.000 So.
00:14:51.000 Fath al-Bari. 0.99
00:14:52.000 Of Ibn Rajab al-Hambali.
00:14:53.000 Fath al-Bari. 0.99
00:14:54.000 Of Ibn Hajar.
00:14:55.000 Asqalani.
00:14:56.000 The Shurooh. 1.00
00:14:57.000 Of Sahih Muslim. 0.57
00:14:58.000 By Al-Nabawi.
00:14:59.000 These are different manuscript prints of Bukhari itself.
00:15:01.000 This is the most accurate that I have found.
00:15:04.000 In accordance to the manuscript of Al-Bukhari.
00:15:07.000 This is all the Fahra's table content.
00:15:08.000 But.
00:15:09.000 You can see this is one book.
00:15:10.000 And I am very passionate about good prints.
00:15:14.000 So you can see it's a cream color.
00:15:15.000 If you read a lot.
00:15:16.000 This is actually easier on the eyes.
00:15:17.000 You can see how clear the font is.
00:15:18.000 You can see all the research that's been put in to explain about the difference in manuscripts
00:15:32.000 and so on.
00:15:33.000 To show the accuracy of what we're preserving.
00:15:35.000 So this is Sahih al-Bukhari.
00:15:36.000 The most authentic book of hadith as we know.
00:15:39.000 These are all different explanations of it.
00:15:43.000 This is Abu Dawud.
00:15:45.000 And it's an explanation called Al-Ma'boud.
00:15:48.000 Al-Tirmidhi in its explanation.
00:15:50.000 So even if you're not Muslim.
00:15:52.000 You have to appreciate the scholarly academic work the great scholars of Islam have done.
00:15:56.000 You have to.
00:15:57.000 There's a lot of Christians upset in the chat.
00:15:58.000 But you have to admit that this is extremely impressive.
00:16:00.000 And the dedication to preserving the original text.
00:16:03.000 What are they upset about?
00:16:04.000 The fact that we have our religion preserved?
00:16:06.000 Yeah pretty much.
00:16:07.000 I mean people in the chat are saying like.
00:16:08.000 I love Jesus.
00:16:09.000 I love Jesus.
00:16:10.000 Regardless even.
00:16:11.000 I love Jesus too.
00:16:12.000 I love Jesus.
00:16:13.000 Peace and blessings be upon him.
00:16:15.000 But you see it's upsetting them.
00:16:17.000 But it's okay.
00:16:18.000 You know what?
00:16:19.000 Hate if you want to hate.
00:16:21.000 This is Sunun al-Nisa'i ibn Maja.
00:16:23.000 All the different books here.
00:16:24.000 Can I ask you.
00:16:25.000 Why did you decide to give this light reading out of everything in this library?
00:16:31.000 So I thought about something that can help you at your level.
00:16:36.000 Alhamdulillah your beginning.
00:16:38.000 And it's in English.
00:16:40.000 Okay.
00:16:41.000 So this tafsir. 0.92
00:16:42.000 Tafsir Sheikh Abdul Rahman Nasir Saadi.
00:16:44.000 It's very easy to understand.
00:16:45.000 It's a light reading.
00:16:46.000 Is it?
00:16:47.000 It's a light reading.
00:16:48.000 This is not.
00:16:49.000 This is light reading.
00:16:50.000 This is light reading.
00:16:51.000 Yeah.
00:16:52.000 If I gave you this 54 volume book here.
00:16:54.000 That would be some heavy reading.
00:16:55.000 Right?
00:16:56.000 So.
00:16:57.000 So.
00:16:58.000 This is light reading.
00:16:59.000 And it doesn't go into a lot of the difference of opinions and things.
00:17:02.000 So this is something very easy.
00:17:03.000 Even at a beginning level.
00:17:05.000 I thought a lot about what to give you.
00:17:06.000 Because you know you're my guest.
00:17:08.000 And as a Muslim.
00:17:09.000 Okay.
00:17:10.000 We honor our guests.
00:17:11.000 And I couldn't think of a better gift than knowledge.
00:17:13.000 So.
00:17:14.000 Inshallah you will take it.
00:17:15.000 MashaAllah.
00:17:16.000 I will take it.
00:17:17.000 If I gave you a deeper book.
00:17:18.000 Like an Arabic book.
00:17:19.000 Or like I have books in Pashto.
00:17:21.000 I have books in Urdu.
00:17:22.000 I have books in Arabic.
00:17:24.000 Uh.
00:17:25.000 I have a few books in English.
00:17:26.000 Not a lot.
00:17:27.000 Um.
00:17:28.000 Then it would be difficult.
00:17:29.000 But this is in English.
00:17:30.000 It's in English.
00:17:31.000 Sitting around.
00:17:32.000 Yeah.
00:17:33.000 Well what do you think?
00:17:34.000 Because I was speaking to our good friend Zerka.
00:17:36.000 And.
00:17:37.000 The Christian.
00:17:38.000 Uh.
00:17:39.000 He loves to do.
00:17:40.000 He's a Christian? 0.98
00:17:41.000 Well.
00:17:42.000 He loves.
00:17:43.000 He's a defender of Christianity.
00:17:44.000 The sword.
00:17:45.000 He says he likes to do cocaine and read the Bible.
00:17:47.000 Uh.
00:17:48.000 What do you think about intoxicating yourself before doing a bunch of reading?
00:17:51.000 No.
00:17:52.000 No.
00:17:53.000 You can't be drunk.
00:17:54.000 You can't be coked out.
00:17:55.000 You can't be cracked out.
00:17:56.000 You can't be doing meth.
00:17:57.000 You gotta be in your senses to read the words of Allah.
00:17:59.000 The Bible is the words of man.
00:18:01.000 Right?
00:18:02.000 So you can read any way you want.
00:18:03.000 Oh.
00:18:04.000 But the Quran is the words of Allah.
00:18:05.000 So I can't do cocaine and read?
00:18:07.000 No.
00:18:08.000 You can't.
00:18:09.000 Oh.
00:18:10.000 Yeah.
00:18:11.000 You gotta stay.
00:18:12.000 You can do some tea.
00:18:13.000 You can have some tea and read.
00:18:14.000 Okay.
00:18:15.000 Some green tea.
00:18:16.000 Hey.
00:18:17.000 Nice and relaxing.
00:18:18.000 No kilo with it though.
00:18:19.000 No kilo here.
00:18:20.000 Fine.
00:18:21.000 Alright.
00:18:22.000 So the second thing is the third shelf.
00:18:25.000 Three shelves here are all hadith.
00:18:26.000 Now this section is all books on checking the authenticity of hadith.
00:18:31.000 Like Shaykh Albani's work.
00:18:32.000 Ibn Hajj Al Asqalani's works.
00:18:34.000 So this is all here.
00:18:35.000 These are explanations.
00:18:37.000 Those are checking to see if the hadith is authentic.
00:18:40.000 These books as you can see are quite large on the different books of hadith.
00:18:45.000 This is all hadith going around. 1.00
00:18:47.000 Now from here all the way down to there are explanations of one book of hadith called
00:18:54.000 Buloog Al Maram of Ibn Hajj Al Asqalani.
00:18:56.000 These are an explanation of a book called Radha Salaheen.
00:18:59.000 So this is organized in a logical way.
00:19:02.000 So the book of hadith and its explanations and different types of books of hadith.
00:19:06.000 Now what I want to show you here, this is not something I did for this walkthrough.
00:19:11.000 This is something that I was doing.
00:19:12.000 I'm doing a research right now about the narrations that have to do with music in Islam.
00:19:17.000 So this is a book of a scholar named Al Hakim.
00:19:21.000 Of course he was from 400 to 600 something Hijri. 0.92
00:19:27.000 I mean 300 to 400 Hijri. 1.00
00:19:28.000 So very very early scholar of Islam.
00:19:31.000 He wrote a book.
00:19:32.000 I have a really good print of it.
00:19:34.000 But what I'm doing is I'm actually going through and checking.
00:19:37.000 So what I did, and this is important for your viewers.
00:19:40.000 Whether you're Christian, Jewish, atheist, Muslim, you gotta appreciate this.
00:19:44.000 The statement of the Prophet, of this here, this being Ibn Mas'ud, is mentioned with the entire chain of narrators.
00:19:51.000 From when it was written down, all the way to the companions, and some of them all the way to the Prophet, peace be upon him.
00:19:57.000 Every name is there.
00:19:59.000 So what I did is I got this.
00:20:00.000 I found this.
00:20:01.000 Then I came over here.
00:20:03.000 These are the biographies of those scholars who narrated hadith.
00:20:08.000 Oh wow.
00:20:09.000 So each one of them, I looked them up.
00:20:11.000 Right?
00:20:12.000 This is a book called Si'ara Alam Nubala.
00:20:14.000 You can see it's 30 volumes right here.
00:20:18.000 Right?
00:20:19.000 This is where I found a lot of them.
00:20:20.000 So I went through them and found each one of these.
00:20:23.000 As you can see I've marked them.
00:20:24.000 And found what did the contemporaries say about him.
00:20:27.000 How good was his memory?
00:20:28.000 How was his moral character?
00:20:30.000 So we can confirm.
00:20:31.000 So this took me a long time.
00:20:33.000 Because it's not just, okay I read the hadith.
00:20:35.000 But I went through the chain.
00:20:36.000 Then I looked up each one's biography.
00:20:39.000 To make sure that this is authentic.
00:20:41.000 Right?
00:20:42.000 This is what I do for all the narrations.
00:20:43.000 Like today in the dars you heard me say, this is sahih.
00:20:46.000 It's mentioned in this book.
00:20:48.000 So this takes hours and hours and hours of research.
00:20:51.000 But at least I can make sure that I'm not just saying, you know, somebody said.
00:20:56.000 I want to make sure when I say the prophet said something, peace and blessings be upon him.
00:21:00.000 We're sure he actually said it.
00:21:02.000 And if there's anybody in this chain that's weak in his memory.
00:21:05.000 Or his moral character.
00:21:06.000 Or there's a break in the chain.
00:21:08.000 Will not accept that as sahih. 1.00
00:21:09.000 That will no longer be authentic.
00:21:11.000 So this is where my masters is in.
00:21:13.000 In checking hadith and things.
00:21:14.000 And this is really fun.
00:21:15.000 I love doing this.
00:21:16.000 I love doing this more than people love going to clubs and dancing and all that.
00:21:20.000 It's Saturday night and we're in the library.
00:21:22.000 It is.
00:21:23.000 And this is where it's happening.
00:21:24.000 This is the club.
00:21:25.000 It's late.
00:21:26.000 Yeah.
00:21:27.000 This is where you're finding.
00:21:28.000 Yeah.
00:21:29.000 So these books here are books on the science of hadith.
00:21:34.000 They're biographies.
00:21:35.000 These are weak narrators.
00:21:37.000 So we know about them.
00:21:39.000 These are all Arabic language, grammar, different Arabic dictionaries.
00:21:45.000 So this here is a section dedicated to Bibles, Jewish scriptures, books about the Bible, books refuting the Bible, books trying to confirm the Bible, mostly by non-Muslim authors.
00:21:58.000 This, of course, this of course is my famous Bible, infamous if you're a Christian. 0.99
00:22:03.000 This is the kryptonite to all you guys.
00:22:05.000 This we talked about earlier.
00:22:07.000 What's the famous one?
00:22:08.000 What's the famous one?
00:22:09.000 What's the famous one?
00:22:10.000 Leviticus 1332 or Matthew 1332?
00:22:11.000 Matthew.
00:22:12.000 Yeah, Mark.
00:22:13.000 Mark 1332.
00:22:14.000 Yeah.
00:22:15.000 Here you have books that are written by Christian authors.
00:22:18.000 study Bibles, Arabic Bibles, Persian Bibles, Greek Bibles, Hebrew, English, Tanakh, Dead Sea Scrolls, research on that.
00:22:30.000 I have also sections about Hinduism, Buddhism, but let's go.
00:22:35.000 This is different research, different languages.
00:22:38.000 Now, if we come to this side, this entire top shelf are all books of fatawah, of Islamic rulings, by different scholars like Shaykh Ibn Ataymeen, this one from Abdul Qayyam.
00:22:53.000 That one you see in the blue, is probably the largest book I have.
00:22:57.000 And I reward one of our very good brothers, he's in Utah, Abu Abdullah, he's the one that got this for me from Kuwait.
00:23:03.000 So these are scholarly rulings.
00:23:06.000 So you can look up the subject and find the scholarly rulings and their evidences.
00:23:11.000 This section here, from here, all the way to down there, is what we call Fiqh, jurisprudence, right?
00:23:19.000 Islamic rulings, how to pray, how to fast, what is the evidence of that, the different schools of thought.
00:23:25.000 This here is Hanbali school of thought.
00:23:28.000 Over there, we have Hanafi starts.
00:23:31.000 This is Shafi'i, this is Maliki, this is other mazahib like Zahiri, Mahalla, and Shaukani.
00:23:38.000 These are different researches on different subjects, particularly.
00:23:43.000 From here starts the history section.
00:23:46.000 So this is, like I was saying, biographies.
00:23:48.000 This is Al-Dhahabi, amazing work.
00:23:50.000 Al-Siyar Al-Alam al-Nubala.
00:23:52.000 This is a book called Bidayah wa Nihaya fi bin Katheer.
00:23:55.000 The same one who wrote that Quran explanation.
00:23:57.000 Great scholar.
00:23:58.000 These are all, from here onward, these are all biographies of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
00:24:04.000 Peace be upon him.
00:24:05.000 All the way down here.
00:24:06.000 So from the earliest to the later, I do unboxings of books.
00:24:11.000 You can see sometimes, so those are fun things.
00:24:14.000 Instead of unboxing stupid things like shoes and stuff, we unbox and educate people about books.
00:24:19.000 These are books about the companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him. 0.93
00:24:23.000 Their biographies and about them.
00:24:25.000 Ibn Hajar Eskalani's Al-Isaba.
00:24:27.000 These are other history books.
00:24:29.000 Here I have medicine books.
00:24:31.000 This was actually written by my grandfather on homeopathic medicine.
00:24:35.000 Oh really?
00:24:36.000 Yeah.
00:24:37.000 Alhamdulillah.
00:24:38.000 He was my grandfather from my mother's side.
00:24:40.000 This is on homeopathic medicine.
00:24:42.000 But we have Islamic medicine.
00:24:43.000 So this has the cures to cancer in here?
00:24:45.000 It actually does talk about what you can take for cancer.
00:24:48.000 I mean, cures in the hands of Allah, but it does talk about that.
00:24:51.000 This is Ibn Al-Qayyim.
00:24:52.000 This is what Big Farmer does not want you to read.
00:24:55.000 Big Farmer doesn't want you to read any of these.
00:24:57.000 These are prophetic medicine books.
00:24:59.000 This is dream interpretation.
00:25:01.000 So the Islamic science... 0.97
00:25:03.000 Really?
00:25:04.000 Yes.
00:25:05.000 It's a really fun science.
00:25:06.000 And very few people are actually...
00:25:08.000 Do you know anything about dream interpretations?
00:25:10.000 Chad, what's a dream that you've had?
00:25:12.000 I want to hear some themes and maybe we could decipher them quickly.
00:25:15.000 The way dream interpretation in Islam works is it's individuals.
00:25:19.000 So we have to know about you because what you see in a dream will have an effect based on your life.
00:25:25.000 So one of the great scholars and artists, Ibn Sirin, he would sit with somebody from the morning till the noon to first ask them and then he would interpret their dreams.
00:25:34.000 So we have evidence from the Quran and Hadid what certain things and dreams mean, but it's going to be to the individual.
00:25:40.000 What is it?
00:25:41.000 Do you know what it means when you have extremely vivid dreams where you really believe that you are there?
00:25:47.000 So it depends, right?
00:25:48.000 Some of those are going to be warnings from Allah depending on what you see, like what colors, what animals, like somebody seeing their beard being shaved or somebody seeing killing a snake.
00:26:00.000 Every one of those has a meaning.
00:26:01.000 What does the killing a snake mean?
00:26:03.000 That's not the way it works, right?
00:26:04.000 It has to do with your life, right?
00:26:06.000 It has to do with your life, right?
00:26:07.000 Because a snake can represent different things.
00:26:08.000 Right.
00:26:09.000 And we'll go to evidences, not just opinions, right?
00:26:11.000 But it takes time.
00:26:13.000 But that's why it's a science in Islam, right? 0.98
00:26:16.000 This from here is about jinn and magic, right?
00:26:20.000 So about things that affect people from the unseen, like there's a creation called the jinn. 0.98
00:26:26.000 A lot of people think ghosts or whatever, possessions, those are jinn. 0.99
00:26:30.000 And in Islam, we have evidences about when and how.
00:26:34.000 Someday, inshallah, if I get some time, I'm going to write a book on it as well,
00:26:38.000 where we're going to document Western documented incidences of jinn and newspapers, articles and all that.
00:26:44.000 And magic and all that kind of stuff.
00:26:47.000 From here onward, these are all creedal works. 0.91
00:26:51.000 What we call Aqidah in Islam.
00:26:53.000 And I've organized it in a chronological order.
00:26:56.000 So these are the earliest, from all the way from the early first three generations,
00:27:01.000 going to the later generations.
00:27:04.000 The works of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Al-Qiyyah, Muafuqdin Ibn Qudama, Lumu'at Al-Atiqad.
00:27:09.000 So going all the way, Kitab Al-Tuhid, the one that they talk about Wahhabis,
00:27:13.000 the one who wrote it, Muhammad Al-Wahhab.
00:27:15.000 These are his books and explanations.
00:27:18.000 And all the way coming to our time, like Sheikh Salih Al-Fawzan's book here.
00:27:22.000 This is all on the Islamic creed. 1.00
00:27:24.000 As you can see, I've run out of room.
00:27:26.000 So that's why I showed you earlier, we're building a bigger room for the library.
00:27:29.000 A lot of my books right now are in boxes, because I just don't have room.
00:27:32.000 These are different research subjects.
00:27:35.000 Darwinism.
00:27:36.000 Darwinism?
00:27:37.000 Yeah, I've got...
00:27:39.000 This is Darwin's doubt.
00:27:41.000 We didn't evolve from monkeys?
00:27:42.000 We did not.
00:27:43.000 And then Darwin's own theories.
00:27:45.000 In fact, you know, it's funny.
00:27:47.000 A lot of atheists don't realize Darwin was very racist and sexist.
00:27:50.000 He actually wrote about how...
00:27:52.000 Bass? 0.98
00:27:53.000 You know, so he talked about how different races evolved higher than other races.
00:28:02.000 Oh! 0.60
00:28:03.000 And since most of our races would not be on the higher evolved one, it probably wasn't
00:28:06.000 that based.
00:28:08.000 Oh, okay.
00:28:09.000 But he did say that men are more involved than women, so...
00:28:11.000 Bass? 0.98
00:28:12.000 W. Darwin?
00:28:13.000 I'm not...
00:28:14.000 I'm not supporting that.
00:28:15.000 I don't either.
00:28:16.000 Alright.
00:28:17.000 Um... 0.96
00:28:18.000 Wasn't he a sanus and wasn't he kinda gay? 0.98
00:28:20.000 I thought Charles Darwin was gay. 0.92
00:28:21.000 I don't know.
00:28:22.000 I don't know about sexuality, but this is scientific works about that.
00:28:26.000 And these are books of zuhud, which is like how to be a better person, how to clean your
00:28:32.000 heart, how to, you know, kinda not have jealousy and not have hatred, how to just cleanse
00:28:39.000 yourself from those diseases.
00:28:40.000 We call it zuhud and tezkiah.
00:28:42.000 That's that section right there.
00:28:44.000 So, this is a quick intro into the library.
00:28:49.000 Um...
00:28:50.000 We could spend literally a few days just explaining the books, but...
00:28:55.000 Yeah.
00:28:56.000 Any questions?
00:28:57.000 A few months to read all these books.
00:28:58.000 That's a week at best.
00:29:00.000 That's a week?
00:29:01.000 Let's take a little...
00:29:03.000 A little peek.
00:29:05.000 Okay.
00:29:06.000 At my homework.
00:29:08.000 Tafsir...
00:29:09.000 Asadi.
00:29:10.000 Asadi.
00:29:11.000 Okay.
00:29:12.000 Oh, Bambakla. 0.98
00:29:13.000 That must translate into...
00:29:14.000 Ooh, yay! 0.56
00:29:15.000 Oh, it starts with jihad, when jihad refers to fighting.
00:29:27.000 Although jihad is often translated into English as holy war, it must be noted that war has
00:29:31.000 never been described as holy in any of Islam's primary texts or even early Islamic literature.
00:29:36.000 Linguistically speaking, jihad is an Islamic term that applies to a broad spectrum of activities,
00:29:41.000 ranging from daily striving to meet the day's challenges, to striving against one's desires
00:29:45.000 and self, to the struggle to provide for one's family.
00:29:48.000 Okay.
00:29:49.000 So...
00:29:50.000 It's nice, right?
00:29:51.000 When you...
00:29:52.000 Do you say commit jihad or do jihad?
00:29:54.000 Perform jihad. 0.87
00:29:55.000 When you perform jihad, can that be an act of sin?
00:29:59.000 Well, I mean, it depends what you mean, right?
00:30:02.000 Jihad is to make an effort, right?
00:30:04.000 But if you're doing an Islamic jihad, you're doing something good, not sinful.
00:30:08.000 Can I explain the story?
00:30:10.000 Go for it.
00:30:11.000 I was playing chess in an Islamic country with somebody pretty high level.
00:30:18.000 And I was telling him that I was thinking about reverting.
00:30:20.000 This is right when I first said my shahada.
00:30:23.000 Okay.
00:30:24.000 And I'm sitting there.
00:30:25.000 I was telling him how I had a problem with Charlie Hebdo.
00:30:27.000 I'm sure you know about it.
00:30:28.000 Sorry, 2012.
00:30:29.000 He wasn't familiar with this.
00:30:31.000 I was explaining that Charlie Hebdo was a satirical French newspaper
00:30:34.000 and they were doing disrespectful things, making drawings.
00:30:37.000 And he said, what were they doing?
00:30:40.000 Were they drawing the prophet?
00:30:41.000 And I said, yeah.
00:30:42.000 And they were drawing women in bad ways.
00:30:46.000 And then he said, like, what did they do?
00:30:49.000 What ended up happening?
00:30:50.000 I'm like, well, the whole Charlie Hebdo, they shot it up.
00:30:54.000 And I said, I was like, that was my problem with Islam. 1.00
00:30:56.000 That's why I didn't revert when I was younger.
00:30:57.000 I was interested and I was like, I don't like this.
00:30:59.000 And then I was explaining to this and he stands up from the chair.
00:31:02.000 He says, Alhamdulillah.
00:31:04.000 And he's just like, even though it's not in the Quran,
00:31:07.000 it says that you shouldn't kill people, obviously.
00:31:09.000 He still considered that an act of jihad.
00:31:12.000 So again, Islamically, we have rules to jihad, right? 0.97
00:31:15.000 And from the rules is you don't take jihad in your own hands,
00:31:18.000 meaning that unless you're being attacked and you're defending yourself,
00:31:22.000 when you do an offensive act of jihad, you need a leader, right?
00:31:25.000 So it's not like everybody's like, like, I can't just be like,
00:31:28.000 I'm declaring jihad on Norway and just attack.
00:31:30.000 That's not Islam, right? 1.00
00:31:31.000 Every one of these books has a whole chapter on how jihad has to be performed,
00:31:36.000 meaning you don't kill women, you don't kill children, you don't kill the elderly.
00:31:40.000 So when you walk into a building and you shoot up everybody,
00:31:42.000 that's against the rules of jihad.
00:31:46.000 Okay.
00:31:47.000 But there's...
00:31:48.000 Well, I'll read the book and I'll figure it out.
00:31:49.000 Okay.
00:31:50.000 This is good.
00:31:51.000 Ask.
00:31:52.000 When you're reading and you run into something you don't know,
00:31:54.000 that's what I'm here for.
00:31:55.000 Do you think that this is better to start with than the Quran? 0.92
00:31:58.000 This is the Quran.
00:31:59.000 This is?
00:32:00.000 Yeah.
00:32:01.000 It's an explanation of the Quran. 0.52
00:32:02.000 It goes by the chapters.
00:32:03.000 It'll take you...
00:32:04.000 So this is just the beginning.
00:32:06.000 Right?
00:32:07.000 So...
00:32:08.000 What if I just read the Quran?
00:32:10.000 Yeah.
00:32:11.000 So this is the same thing.
00:32:12.000 See, this is the Quran and this is a very light explanation.
00:32:15.000 So it'll go through each verse and then it'll go through a very light.
00:32:19.000 Right?
00:32:20.000 So if you just read the Quran, like the person you had met said you might understand some 0.53
00:32:22.000 of the verses, right?
00:32:23.000 Right.
00:32:24.000 As a beginner.
00:32:25.000 So this will give you a very light, easy to understand explanation.
00:32:28.000 Right?
00:32:29.000 Okay.
00:32:30.000 So just like reading the Quran, a little bit of commentary to make it easy for you.
00:32:34.000 But who wrote this?
00:32:35.000 A great scholar named Shaykh Abdul Rahman, Nasir al-Saadi.
00:32:38.000 And does everybody agree that he's trustworthy?
00:32:42.000 I mean, I can't speak for everybody.
00:32:45.000 It was almost two billion Muslims, but he's well known and well accredited and well accepted
00:32:50.000 across the Muslim world.
00:32:51.000 And this book has been translated into many different languages including Urdu and English.
00:32:56.000 If you go to most countries and you speak to very knowledgeable scholars from Kuwait and
00:33:03.000 Qatar and Saudi and Egypt and so on and Jordan, they will find this to be a very credible and
00:33:10.000 acceptable work.
00:33:11.000 Right?
00:33:12.000 Okay.
00:33:13.000 And that's why I gave you a good simple beginning work.
00:33:14.000 Because those books are going to...
00:33:15.000 Simple.
00:33:16.000 Yeah, simple.
00:33:17.000 One more time chat to show how his simple reading for Shaykh Uthman.
00:33:20.000 This is Harry Potter 1 through 38 that I have to go through.
00:33:24.000 People read all that nonsense.
00:33:25.000 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer.
00:33:27.000 What's that other, the one of the ring and all that, right?
00:33:30.000 Yeah.
00:33:31.000 People spend all that kind of useless time.
00:33:33.000 This is getting closer to your Lord.
00:33:35.000 This literally is an easy read.
00:33:37.000 I could have given you some complicated books.
00:33:39.000 Like this here is Ibn Kathir in English.
00:33:42.000 I was thinking about giving this to you, right?
00:33:44.000 But this is a little bit difficult.
00:33:46.000 You need a little...
00:33:47.000 But that's just one book?
00:33:48.000 Yeah, that's one book.
00:33:49.000 And this is a bridge.
00:33:50.000 Oh, oh.
00:33:51.000 This is a summary.
00:33:52.000 Right?
00:33:53.000 Shaykh Uthman, I gotta be honest.
00:33:54.000 I don't know if you know what one book means.
00:33:56.000 This is one book, yeah.
00:33:58.000 It's ten volumes, but it's one book.
00:34:01.000 I'm not sure we agree.
00:34:03.000 Maybe there's an Islamic definition of book.
00:34:05.000 But that's not one.
00:34:07.000 It's fine.
00:34:08.000 This here is one book.
00:34:11.000 But it's 24 volumes.
00:34:13.000 He doesn't understand both.
00:34:15.000 This here is one book.
00:34:17.000 No.
00:34:18.000 And this is a fun read book, by the way.
00:34:20.000 No.
00:34:21.000 No.
00:34:22.000 This is 36 volumes.
00:34:24.000 Ah.
00:34:25.000 And you read all this?
00:34:26.000 So these kinds of books, you don't really read cover to cover.
00:34:29.000 This is a subject-based tefsi, right?
00:34:31.000 So meaning when I'm researching a particular subject, I'll go and I'll find that subject
00:34:36.000 and I'll read it.
00:34:37.000 There's no book in here that I haven't benefited from, that I haven't read.
00:34:40.000 But I don't mean that I've read them cover to cover.
00:34:43.000 What percentage of this library do you think you've read?
00:34:46.000 I don't know.
00:34:47.000 It's a good question.
00:34:48.000 To me, this is fun.
00:34:49.000 I don't do this for, you know, like records and stuff.
00:34:53.000 This is my little piece of heaven on earth, right?
00:34:57.000 This is the place where you have the knowledge that can get you to paradise about your Lord,
00:35:03.000 about the rulings, about how to live, how to be a better person.
00:35:06.000 So this is, you know, sometimes I'm researching a certain subject and I'll sit and I'll read
00:35:11.000 through a couple of volumes in a night, you know.
00:35:14.000 And sometimes I'll just pick up and read a couple of papers and that's all I need.
00:35:17.000 So, you know, this is not really something that I sit and I go, okay, I'm going to read
00:35:21.000 this book from here to here, right?
00:35:23.000 I recognize this up here.
00:35:25.000 I don't know if I can stand here.
00:35:27.000 This is...
00:35:28.000 Fiqh.
00:35:29.000 Jami' al-fiqh.
00:35:30.000 There's amazing work.
00:35:31.000 There's a great scholar of the past called Ibn al-Qayyim.
00:35:34.000 If you're Muslim and you know Ibn al-Qayyim, you got to read his work.
00:35:38.000 Is this the sign that they have in the Majid?
00:35:42.000 No, this is Fiqh, which means understanding.
00:35:45.000 Okay.
00:35:46.000 Yeah, but the writing in Arabic is kind of like the ones you see in a lot of Masajid and things.
00:35:51.000 Like this is one book that's collected from one scholar's work, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
00:35:56.000 Great, amazing scholar.
00:35:58.000 So they've collected from his works, his works like an introduction, his life, his writings
00:36:05.000 on Islamic belief, his writings on jurisprudence all the way here, his writings in hadith,
00:36:11.000 his writings in the biographies of those narrators that I was showing you earlier, Adab
00:36:16.000 ibn Zuhud in Cleansing the Heart, Tables of Contents.
00:36:19.000 So this is an amazing, amazing work.
00:36:21.000 This is called Al-Mughni. 0.98
00:36:23.000 These are the same book, but I had this one and a better print came out so I had to buy
00:36:28.000 it.
00:36:29.000 This is one of the greatest books of Fiqh ever written by a scholar called Ibn Qadamah.
00:36:34.000 And again, if you're not Muslim, you at least have to appreciate the scholarly work of the 0.98
00:36:38.000 great Muslim scholars.
00:36:39.000 How did we preserve the Qur'an, the meaning of the Qur'an, the Arabic of the Qur'an, how
00:36:44.000 we check the statements of the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him.
00:36:48.000 This is the work that goes into it.
00:36:51.000 Thank you for the tour.
00:36:52.000 I really appreciate this on a Saturday night.
00:36:54.000 My pleasure.
00:36:55.000 Chet, people could be, right now I couldn't stop thinking about that on the drive home
00:36:58.000 from the Majid.
00:36:59.000 It's a Saturday night, I'm very used to, I'll just like in my head, I'm trained to
00:37:03.000 be like, okay, Saturday night, I need to be drinking alcohol, listening to Haram music 0.99
00:37:07.000 in the club right now.
00:37:08.000 Like that's where I need to be just because.
00:37:10.000 Saturday night, you'd have a nice cup of tea and a good library and a good book and you
00:37:14.000 need to be doing some light reading.
00:37:16.000 Light reading.
00:37:17.000 Well, we had a great time, we had some good food.
00:37:20.000 And tell me this, how many of the young people, how many young people did you see in the Masjid
00:37:24.000 today?
00:37:25.000 So many.
00:37:26.000 So many children.
00:37:27.000 How many reverts?
00:37:28.000 A lot of reverts.
00:37:29.000 This is the beautiful environment.
00:37:30.000 Very diverse.
00:37:31.000 That we have diverse, a lot of reverts, a lot of young people.
00:37:34.000 Saturday night, they could be anywhere but they were in the mosque.
00:37:37.000 You know, we really appreciated you coming.
00:37:40.000 And alhamdulillah, you brought a good energy.
00:37:42.000 And like I said, you're always welcome.
00:37:44.000 This is your home.
00:37:45.000 This is your city.
00:37:46.000 This is your Masjid. 0.90
00:37:47.000 MashaAllah.
00:37:48.000 Thank you, Sheikh Usman.
00:37:50.000 Shout out to One Message Foundation.
00:37:52.000 And we're out.
00:37:54.000 We'll see you guys tomorrow. 0.98
00:37:55.000 We're going to be shooting some guns.
00:37:57.000 Hopefully that connection works.
00:37:58.000 This is the first IRL stream and there's many more to come.
00:38:01.000 Thank you.
00:38:02.000 InshaAllah.
00:38:03.000 Cool.
00:38:04.000 Thank you.