SNEAKO - June 25, 2023


INSANE ISLAMIC LIBRARY TOUR WITH SHAYKH UTHMAN

Topics
library tour classic Arabic grammar Tafseer Saadi gift
Hosted by
Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy
Mentioned
Alhamdulillah Prophet Ibn Hajj Al Asqalani Charles Darwin Inshallah Tafseer Al-Quran Al-Adeem Sheikh Uthman Charlie Hebdo Ibn Kathir Shaykh Abdur Rahman Nasir Saadi Shaykh Abdul Rahman Shake Sneeko Tafseer Saadi Shaykh Uthman Ibn Al-Qayyim Big Farmer MashaAllah Mashallah Bukhari Asadi and 57 more
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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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00:00:00 How are you doing?
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00:00:25 It's 3 a.m. in Miami time from where I usually stream.
00:00:35 There we go.
00:00:40 Yeah.
00:00:41 So at first IRL stream, we finally got the backpack set up.
00:00:44 You can wear the backpack.
00:00:45 I can wear the backpack.
00:00:46 So we are live right now.
00:00:48 I'm going to keep the chat open on my phone.
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00:00:52 Hold on man, give me a second.
00:00:54 That's nice.
00:00:55 Yeah.
00:00:56 First IRL stream.
00:00:57 So we're going to be doing a lot more of these going to Thailand soon.
00:01:00 I need to go book the flights and be traveling around doing IRL streams.
00:01:03 So I wanted to do a test stream.
00:01:05 We did a podcast earlier with Sheikh Uthman, the student of Islam.
00:01:09 As-salamu alaykum.
00:01:10 As-salamu alaykum.
00:01:11 Thank you for the great lesson today, Namajid.
00:01:14 It's great having you with us in the community.
00:01:16 You're welcome, mashallah, anytime.
00:01:17 This is your house.
00:01:18 This is your community.
00:01:19 So we're live and we're in his house in San Diego, and this is his library.
00:01:23 I saw it in the background sometimes when we talk and we have them on debates.
00:01:27 So I wanted to do a tour.
00:01:28 There's so many books and you can pan around.
00:01:30 It's just, it's very beautiful in here.
00:01:32 And want to learn more? 0.96
00:01:35 You know, these streams we have like dumb humor sometimes. 0.88
00:01:38 You guys complain when I just look at Discord memes all the time. 0.73
00:01:40 So I think it's important. 0.98
00:01:42 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 Yeah, go for it. 0.96
00:01:46 They're really retarded streams sometimes. 0.99
00:01:48 This isn't YouTube. 0.83
00:01:49 This isn't YouTube.
00:01:50 So we can have high IQ streams and then go over some books.
00:01:53 We had a great podcast today.
00:01:54 I recommend you guys check that out.
00:01:56 And I was learning today.
00:01:57 He had a great Q&A and a great lesson in Namajid.
00:02:00 He had pretty much like a, are you an Imam?
00:02:03 Yeah.
00:02:04 So yeah, you were, do you have to, how do you become an Imam?
00:02:06 So an Imam is really a leader of a community.
00:02:09 But like for myself, alhamdulillah, I studied, like I went to scholars, I studied with them.
00:02:14 I got my masters in hadith and things.
00:02:16 And then leading the community, this is what an Imam is, right?
00:02:19 So we have other brothers that lead the prayer as well.
00:02:22 But you know, coordinating all the, all the lessons, you know, fixing issues, all that kind of stuff.
00:02:27 That's what an Imam does, you know? 1.00
00:02:28 So alhamdulillah.
00:02:29 Alhamdulillah.
00:02:30 Yeah.
00:02:31 It was great to see him to run that lesson today.
00:02:33 And you, you had everything.
00:02:35 Um, you had like a lesson plan, basically.
00:02:37 And you, you just went off for like about an hour and a half.
00:02:39 Yeah.
00:02:40 Everybody was paying attention.
00:02:41 It was a packed Majid.
00:02:43 It was like, there was not a space empty on the, on the rug on a Saturday night.
00:02:47 I was funny thinking they were like, is it Saturday night when we were on the car leaving?
00:02:50 I'm like, I could be in the club right now, but mashaAllah.
00:02:54 Alhamdulillah.
00:02:55 Our community Majdribah, it's a good community.
00:02:56 We get a lot of people that drive from LA, from far away.
00:02:59 They come every week.
00:03:00 Uh, our lessons are, and then I'll show you a little bit when we go through the books.
00:03:04 It's not just about talking.
00:03:05 It's the research of making sure the authenticity of the narration.
00:03:09 It takes a lot of time.
00:03:11 And I, I spend that because I don't want to teach something that's not authentic.
00:03:15 And every narration, I go and check it then.
00:03:19 Uh, and I'll show you inshallah as we go through it, how, how long that takes, you know?
00:03:23 Because like a lot of Christians, it's just about jumping, ha-hoo, ha-hoo. 1.00
00:03:27 A lot of people.
00:03:28 But as Muslims, we need to make sure that what we're saying is actually what the prophet said,
00:03:33 actually what's in the Quran, through checking the chains of narration.
00:03:36 And that's a beautiful science that Islam has. 0.98
00:03:39 Yeah.
00:03:40 And you could definitely see that, uh, Sheikh Azman does the research.
00:03:43 He walks, walks, uh, and talks the talk.
00:03:46 Definitely taking a lot of time.
00:03:47 You barely sleep.
00:03:48 That was a funny thing.
00:03:49 Like after the last time we were, we were spending all day together.
00:03:51 And then you said he went to bed at like 5 AM.
00:03:54 Yeah.
00:03:55 And then you have kids.
00:03:56 You homeschool your, I don't want to say too much information, but.
00:03:59 Yeah.
00:04:00 Yeah.
00:04:01 You homeschool your kids.
00:04:02 You know, I get a, I get a lot of support from the family.
00:04:04 A lot of work with my wife, my mom.
00:04:06 Um, I couldn't do it without them, but it's a lot of, a lot of work.
00:04:10 You know, it was 5 AM.
00:04:11 We prayed fudge and went to sleep.
00:04:13 And then, uh, 8 AM I had the people doing construction.
00:04:16 So we're up.
00:04:17 So that's all the sleep.
00:04:18 And you work a regular job.
00:04:19 I work a regular job.
00:04:20 You're doing, you, you barely have any time to sleep.
00:04:23 So it's pretty admirable to see how much dedication there is.
00:04:26 And it's just a reminder, like Chad, where how you guys, I don't know how old you are.
00:04:29 You get to put your age in the chat.
00:04:30 I'm 24 and I'm not, I get sleepy.
00:04:32 I'm here drinking a red bull.
00:04:33 Cause I need to stay awake right now.
00:04:34 I'm not sponsored by them.
00:04:35 This is bad for you.
00:04:36 Don't drink this stuff, but I don't want to grab bulls.
00:04:38 He doesn't.
00:04:39 He's just up.
00:04:40 He just has like a tea once in a while.
00:04:41 I love tea.
00:04:42 And the power of Allah is keeping you going.
00:04:44 We ask Allah for help.
00:04:45 All right.
00:04:46 So we're going to start.
00:04:47 Okay.
00:04:48 One thing important.
00:04:49 Anybody can buy books.
00:04:50 Anybody can just throw money at it.
00:04:51 That's not the point.
00:04:52 Each one of these books.
00:04:53 I've spent at least a few hours, some of them days and months researching the best print,
00:05:00 the most accurate, according to the manuscript.
00:05:03 I consult other scholars.
00:05:04 I consult my teachers.
00:05:06 So each one of these is, there's a lot of mind that's been, you know, time and effort
00:05:12 that's gone into making sure it's the best book.
00:05:15 So even if the size of the library isn't the biggest in the world, the value is in the quality
00:05:20 of the books.
00:05:21 So I've organized everything in a way that it has a logical flow.
00:05:25 So these three shelves onwards all the way across.
00:05:29 This is all Quran and Quran explanations.
00:05:33 Right.
00:05:34 So this, like for example.
00:05:36 But who wrote this?
00:05:37 So these are different authors.
00:05:39 Right.
00:05:40 This is a book called Ibn Kathir.
00:05:41 Yeah.
00:05:42 It's a very famous Quran explanation.
00:05:44 This is a different print of it.
00:05:46 The same book.
00:05:47 You'll see some of the volumes out because I actually, this is a, this is a working library.
00:05:51 It's not for show.
00:05:52 It's for use, you know.
00:05:53 So some of the books are out being used.
00:05:55 So this is Tafseer Al-Quran Al-Adeem, the Tafseer of the Quran by the great scholar Ibn Kathir.
00:06:01 And this print, like check out how beautiful that print is, right?
00:06:05 So, like the colors, the font.
00:06:08 I like, I love it.
00:06:09 Where do you get all these books?
00:06:10 All over the world.
00:06:12 Saudi, Jordan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Malaysia.
00:06:16 I go to book fairs.
00:06:17 I sit hours and hours at night.
00:06:19 Me and my seven year old daughter, we research different books.
00:06:23 I speak to different scholars.
00:06:25 This must cost like almost thousands of dollars and years of research to find all this.
00:06:30 This costs more than a Lamborghini.
00:06:33 Wow.
00:06:34 You know, but to me, this is better than a Lamborghini.
00:06:39 A Lamborghini can't get you closer to Allah. 0.97
00:06:41 No.
00:06:42 But knowing this knowledge and practice.
00:06:43 Is invaluable.
00:06:44 Yeah, exactly.
00:06:45 True box of things.
00:06:46 Thank you for the five.
00:06:47 May Allah protect you both inshallah one day.
00:06:48 We'll witness Shaykh Sneeko one day.
00:06:49 Well, I mean after this library I probably could be.
00:06:51 He's beginning.
00:06:52 That's it.
00:06:53 I told you there's an offer out there inshallah.
00:06:54 He'll start teaching you.
00:06:55 He'll get you on that knowledge inshallah.
00:06:57 So, if you look at the book, this is not just the book,
00:07:01 but the research done in checking all the narrations, checking how the...
00:07:06 See, the Bible for example, we don't even know the authors of many of the books are.
00:07:10 Right?
00:07:11 We looked at that earlier.
00:07:12 In hadith, we wouldn't allow that.
00:07:13 Right?
00:07:14 So, this research and this print is what I look for.
00:07:17 The best research.
00:07:19 And this, Dara ibn Jawzi's taba'a thaniya.
00:07:21 The second taba'a. 0.96
00:07:23 This is the best research print.
00:07:26 Dr. Hikmat Yasin.
00:07:28 Amazing work that's been done on this.
00:07:31 So, each one of these books I've spent hours and hours and hours trying to find,
00:07:35 make sure what is the most accurate.
00:07:37 So, these are all commentaries of the Qur'an and their different styles.
00:07:42 Like, these commentaries are on narrations.
00:07:44 So, this is a book that's put together by a group of scholars.
00:07:47 It's 24 volumes.
00:07:48 Where's this from?
00:07:49 These are all from different parts of the world.
00:07:51 This is from Saudi Arabia that I got.
00:07:54 This one I also got from Saudi.
00:07:56 Some of them from Kuwait.
00:07:57 Some from Qatar.
00:07:58 But this is amazing work because what they did is they went through all the old classic books
00:08:02 and collected any narration, any hadith, any statement of a Sahabi.
00:08:07 And then they put it there and they put all the references.
00:08:09 So, you see this is the hadithun sahih. 0.79
00:08:12 This is the authentic narration, right?
00:08:14 And then it gives the reference to the book.
00:08:15 So, then I can go to the actual hadith book and pull it as well.
00:08:19 Okay.
00:08:20 So, this is Qur'an explanations all the way.
00:08:23 These are more linguistic explanations here.
00:08:25 Looking at the Arabic grammar.
00:08:27 So, hadith is all explanations of what's directly written in the Qur'an.
00:08:31 These are the statements of the Prophet.
00:08:33 The statements of the Prophet.
00:08:34 Yes.
00:08:35 So, this is the Qur'an.
00:08:36 Why would the statements of the Prophet not just be all in the Qur'an?
00:08:38 Because the Qur'an is not the words of the Prophet.
00:08:40 The Qur'an is the words of Allah.
00:08:41 The words from Allah.
00:08:42 Yes.
00:08:43 Those are not the words of the Prophet.
00:08:44 Hadith is the words of the Prophet.
00:08:45 Right?
00:08:46 So, this is his personal opinions.
00:08:47 His statements.
00:08:48 His actions.
00:08:49 His statements.
00:08:50 His life.
00:08:51 What he said.
00:08:52 What he did.
00:08:53 What he approved of.
00:08:54 قول فعل اقرار النبي.
00:08:56 The action, statement and approvals of the Prophet ﷺ.
00:09:00 That is the sunnah.
00:09:01 But if there is a verse in the Qur'an.
00:09:03 And the Prophet explained it.
00:09:04 Then these books of tafsir will capture that.
00:09:07 Right?
00:09:08 The verse.
00:09:09 The companion says.
00:09:10 This verse was about war.
00:09:11 This was about peace.
00:09:12 This was about this.
00:09:13 So, we know the context.
00:09:15 So, unlike the Bible.
00:09:17 Where a lot of times you don't have any statements.
00:09:19 Authentic from the disciples there.
00:09:21 Right?
00:09:22 There is no chain of narrators.
00:09:23 In Qur'an.
00:09:24 If you want to know.
00:09:25 If you spend the time and research.
00:09:27 You can find it.
00:09:28 Right?
00:09:29 And that's beautiful.
00:09:30 This is something unique to Islam.
00:09:31 Is this tradition of called the sanad.
00:09:33 Chain of narrations.
00:09:34 Right?
00:09:35 Is there anything like.
00:09:36 That's equivalent.
00:09:37 Of this library to something.
00:09:38 Like in Judaism. 0.99
00:09:39 Do they have.
00:09:40 So, Judaism. 0.80
00:09:41 They have a lot of urbanic writings.
00:09:43 I've been to some huge libraries.
00:09:44 But they don't have this chain of narrations.
00:09:47 The Old Testament.
00:09:48 Or you know.
00:09:49 The first five books.
00:09:50 Being the Torah.
00:09:51 And so on.
00:09:52 There is no chain.
00:09:53 Tying it to Musa.
00:09:54 We do.
00:09:55 That's unique to Islam. 0.98
00:09:56 And that's why you can preserve Islam.
00:09:58 Better than any other religious tradition in the world.
00:10:00 Now.
00:10:01 These.
00:10:02 Are linguistic.
00:10:04 Looking at the original Arabic grammar.
00:10:06 This is another thing.
00:10:07 For the viewers to know.
00:10:08 We don't have.
00:10:09 A manuscript of the Bible.
00:10:11 And Aramaic.
00:10:12 The language of Jesus.
00:10:13 Peace and blessings be upon him.
00:10:15 The earliest manuscripts are in Konaic Greek.
00:10:17 Earliest.
00:10:18 Semi-complete being 4th century.
00:10:20 This.
00:10:21 Quran.
00:10:22 Is revealed and preserved in the original language.
00:10:25 Like.
00:10:26 You know.
00:10:27 If you speak.
00:10:28 Tagalog for example.
00:10:29 And you say a word or a statement.
00:10:30 There you go.
00:10:31 When you translate it into English.
00:10:33 It's going to lose some meaning.
00:10:34 Right.
00:10:35 If you translate it now into Spanish.
00:10:36 From the English.
00:10:37 It's going to lose more meaning.
00:10:38 But we have the Quran.
00:10:39 Inna anzalnahu Quranan Arabiya.
00:10:41 Allah says that we reveal the Quran.
00:10:43 In a clear Arabic language.
00:10:44 So we have it in the original.
00:10:46 And then we have the original grammar.
00:10:48 From the classic Arabic. 0.92
00:10:49 It's called Fusha. 0.73
00:10:50 Can you still understand that?
00:10:51 If you speak modern Arabic.
00:10:52 Would that still make sense?
00:10:53 Yeah.
00:10:54 Like.
00:10:55 The news and books are written in classic Arabic.
00:10:57 So you speak this type of Arabic?
00:10:58 I do.
00:10:59 Yeah.
00:11:00 I speak classic Quranic.
00:11:01 Can we hear something?
00:11:02 Okay.
00:11:03 What does that mean?
00:11:04 Alhamdulillah.
00:11:05 I said how are you?
00:11:06 Okay.
00:11:07 What does that mean?
00:11:08 I said how are you?
00:11:09 Okay.
00:11:10 You speak in the Arabic.
00:11:11 The pure.
00:11:12 Classic.
00:11:13 Eloquent Arabic language.
00:11:14 Camel Jocky. 1.00
00:11:15 Thanks for this time.
00:11:16 May God bless you Sheikh Uthman and Brother Sneeko.
00:11:18 I don't want the chat to forget.
00:11:19 Muslims still mess with Nick Fuentes. 0.99
00:11:23 Fuentes 2024.
00:11:24 And he will do a debate with Sheikh Uthman.
00:11:26 Ready when he is.
00:11:27 Inshallah.
00:11:28 Let's continue.
00:11:29 Let's continue.
00:11:30 So these are linguistic tafsir.
00:11:32 Right.
00:11:33 Now if we keep going.
00:11:34 This is a very interesting tafsir.
00:11:37 This is one by subject.
00:11:39 Right.
00:11:40 So if you.
00:11:41 If you.
00:11:42 It's not just the Quran verse by verse.
00:11:44 But you look up different subjects.
00:11:45 It will give you all the verses in the Quran on a particular subject.
00:11:49 Right.
00:11:50 So.
00:11:51 You know.
00:11:52 Let's say.
00:11:53 You want to know about the ta'u. 0.96
00:11:55 I mean those.
00:11:56 Nawafil. 0.71
00:11:57 And those additional prayers and things like that.
00:11:59 You look it up.
00:12:00 It will give you all the verses.
00:12:02 It will give you the linguistic meaning.
00:12:04 So it's a.
00:12:05 It's a tafsir based by subject.
00:12:07 Mawdu'ah. 0.97
00:12:08 By subject.
00:12:09 This is the book I was showing you earlier for example.
00:12:12 And this is from Kuwait.
00:12:14 And what they did is they made the Quran. 0.97
00:12:17 With an explanation of the different styles of recitation.
00:12:20 To show that from one Quran. 0.90
00:12:22 Those are all just different styles of reciting.
00:12:24 So.
00:12:25 It gives you an in-depth understanding.
00:12:27 That even.
00:12:28 And how to pronounce things in a different accent.
00:12:31 Has been preserved.
00:12:32 Right.
00:12:33 Now.
00:12:34 This.
00:12:35 Up here.
00:12:36 This is going to be.
00:12:38 A very special book.
00:12:41 Which is called Tafseer Saadi.
00:12:43 Tafseer Saadi.
00:12:44 I usually have.
00:12:45 Any help?
00:12:46 Yeah.
00:12:47 I usually have a stepladder.
00:12:48 But you want to get that one?
00:12:49 Yeah.
00:12:50 You're taller than me.
00:12:51 Tall genetics.
00:12:52 Mashallah.
00:12:55 This is heavy.
00:12:56 Yes it is.
00:12:58 This is.
00:12:59 Let me put this down.
00:13:02 There's a very famous scholar.
00:13:04 Shaykh Abdur Rahman Nasir Saadi.
00:13:06 He was the teacher of Shaykh Ibn Taymin.
00:13:08 He wrote a very simple.
00:13:10 To understand Tafseer.
00:13:11 And now it's been translated into English.
00:13:13 Very hard to find.
00:13:14 For a long time.
00:13:15 I couldn't find it in English.
00:13:16 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:17 I found it.
00:13:18 I bought it.
00:13:19 And this is a gift to you.
00:13:21 Free.
00:13:22 Mashallah.
00:13:23 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:24 From this heavy book.
00:13:25 Yeah.
00:13:26 But this is a very good Tafseer.
00:13:28 Tafseer Saadi.
00:13:29 When you said you were going to give me a book.
00:13:30 I didn't think you were going to give me.
00:13:31 Ten?
00:13:32 Yeah.
00:13:33 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:34 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:35 And this is a very light reading.
00:13:36 So.
00:13:37 Is it?
00:13:38 Yeah.
00:13:39 No it's not.
00:13:40 It's very.
00:13:41 This is.
00:13:42 This is light reading for me.
00:13:43 So.
00:13:44 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:45 This is a very simple Tafseer. 0.72
00:13:46 You can read it.
00:13:47 This is simple?
00:13:48 This is simple.
00:13:49 How long did that take you Shaykh to finish?
00:13:50 In Arabic this is one thick volume.
00:13:51 It's very easy.
00:13:52 You just read through it.
00:13:53 It's easy.
00:13:54 But here I mean.
00:13:55 If you look at these kinds of.
00:13:56 This is going to be tough to carry the suitcase.
00:13:57 Do you have space?
00:13:59 You make space.
00:14:00 He's looking at me bro.
00:14:01 This is knowledge.
00:14:02 You got space?
00:14:03 You got space.
00:14:04 Inshallah.
00:14:05 Inshallah.
00:14:06 But this is a very good Tafseer.
00:14:07 This is the later print.
00:14:08 The earlier print sometimes had issues.
00:14:10 But this is a.
00:14:11 I spent a lot of time trying to find this.
00:14:13 And Inshallah you will benefit from it.
00:14:15 So.
00:14:16 Okay.
00:14:17 But there is a condition.
00:14:18 You got to read it.
00:14:19 I'll read it.
00:14:20 Alright.
00:14:21 There you go.
00:14:22 I'm reading it.
00:14:23 Allahu Akbar.
00:14:24 Halas. 0.80
00:14:25 We'll put it down for you for now.
00:14:26 Wow.
00:14:27 You think you're going to go empty handed from here huh?
00:14:30 Yeah.
00:14:31 Okay.
00:14:32 So.
00:14:33 The second.
00:14:34 Now.
00:14:35 Three shells.
00:14:36 This is all hadith.
00:14:38 So.
00:14:39 Again.
00:14:40 There's always a logical flow in my library.
00:14:41 Right.
00:14:42 So this here.
00:14:43 Is the famous six books.
00:14:44 Right.
00:14:45 Bukhari.
00:14:46 Muslim.
00:14:47 Abu Dawud.
00:14:48 And their explanations.
00:14:49 So.
00:14:50 So.
00:14:51 Fath al-Bari. 0.99
00:14:52 Of Ibn Rajab al-Hambali.
00:14:53 Fath al-Bari. 0.99
00:14:54 Of Ibn Hajar.
00:14:55 Asqalani.
00:14:56 The Shurooh. 1.00
00:14:57 Of Sahih Muslim. 0.57
00:14:58 By Al-Nabawi.
00:14:59 These are different manuscript prints of Bukhari itself.
00:15:01 This is the most accurate that I have found.
00:15:04 In accordance to the manuscript of Al-Bukhari.
00:15:07 This is all the Fahra's table content.
00:15:08 But.
00:15:09 You can see this is one book.
00:15:10 And I am very passionate about good prints.
00:15:14 So you can see it's a cream color.
00:15:15 If you read a lot.
00:15:16 This is actually easier on the eyes.
00:15:17 You can see how clear the font is.
00:15:18 You can see all the research that's been put in to explain about the difference in manuscripts
00:15:32 and so on.
00:15:33 To show the accuracy of what we're preserving.
00:15:35 So this is Sahih al-Bukhari.
00:15:36 The most authentic book of hadith as we know.
00:15:39 These are all different explanations of it.
00:15:43 This is Abu Dawud.
00:15:45 And it's an explanation called Al-Ma'boud.
00:15:48 Al-Tirmidhi in its explanation.
00:15:50 So even if you're not Muslim.
00:15:52 You have to appreciate the scholarly academic work the great scholars of Islam have done.
00:15:56 You have to.
00:15:57 There's a lot of Christians upset in the chat.
00:15:58 But you have to admit that this is extremely impressive.
00:16:00 And the dedication to preserving the original text.
00:16:03 What are they upset about?
00:16:04 The fact that we have our religion preserved?
00:16:06 Yeah pretty much.
00:16:07 I mean people in the chat are saying like.
00:16:08 I love Jesus.
00:16:09 I love Jesus.
00:16:10 Regardless even.
00:16:11 I love Jesus too.
00:16:12 I love Jesus.
00:16:13 Peace and blessings be upon him.
00:16:15 But you see it's upsetting them.
00:16:17 But it's okay.
00:16:18 You know what?
00:16:19 Hate if you want to hate.
00:16:21 This is Sunun al-Nisa'i ibn Maja.
00:16:23 All the different books here.
00:16:24 Can I ask you.
00:16:25 Why did you decide to give this light reading out of everything in this library?
00:16:31 So I thought about something that can help you at your level.
00:16:36 Alhamdulillah your beginning.
00:16:38 And it's in English.
00:16:40 Okay.
00:16:41 So this tafsir. 0.92
00:16:42 Tafsir Sheikh Abdul Rahman Nasir Saadi.
00:16:44 It's very easy to understand.
00:16:45 It's a light reading.
00:16:46 Is it?
00:16:47 It's a light reading.
00:16:48 This is not.
00:16:49 This is light reading.
00:16:50 This is light reading.
00:16:51 Yeah.
00:16:52 If I gave you this 54 volume book here.
00:16:54 That would be some heavy reading.
00:16:55 Right?
00:16:56 So.
00:16:57 So.
00:16:58 This is light reading.
00:16:59 And it doesn't go into a lot of the difference of opinions and things.
00:17:02 So this is something very easy.
00:17:03 Even at a beginning level.
00:17:05 I thought a lot about what to give you.
00:17:06 Because you know you're my guest.
00:17:08 And as a Muslim.
00:17:09 Okay.
00:17:10 We honor our guests.
00:17:11 And I couldn't think of a better gift than knowledge.
00:17:13 So.
00:17:14 Inshallah you will take it.
00:17:15 MashaAllah.
00:17:16 I will take it.
00:17:17 If I gave you a deeper book.
00:17:18 Like an Arabic book.
00:17:19 Or like I have books in Pashto.
00:17:21 I have books in Urdu.
00:17:22 I have books in Arabic.
00:17:24 Uh.
00:17:25 I have a few books in English.
00:17:26 Not a lot.
00:17:27 Um.
00:17:28 Then it would be difficult.
00:17:29 But this is in English.
00:17:30 It's in English.
00:17:31 Sitting around.
00:17:32 Yeah.
00:17:33 Well what do you think?
00:17:34 Because I was speaking to our good friend Zerka.
00:17:36 And.
00:17:37 The Christian.
00:17:38 Uh.
00:17:39 He loves to do.
00:17:40 He's a Christian? 0.98
00:17:41 Well.
00:17:42 He loves.
00:17:43 He's a defender of Christianity.
00:17:44 The sword.
00:17:45 He says he likes to do cocaine and read the Bible.
00:17:47 Uh.
00:17:48 What do you think about intoxicating yourself before doing a bunch of reading?
00:17:51 No.
00:17:52 No.
00:17:53 You can't be drunk.
00:17:54 You can't be coked out.
00:17:55 You can't be cracked out.
00:17:56 You can't be doing meth.
00:17:57 You gotta be in your senses to read the words of Allah.
00:17:59 The Bible is the words of man.
00:18:01 Right?
00:18:02 So you can read any way you want.
00:18:03 Oh.
00:18:04 But the Quran is the words of Allah.
00:18:05 So I can't do cocaine and read?
00:18:07 No.
00:18:08 You can't.
00:18:09 Oh.
00:18:10 Yeah.
00:18:11 You gotta stay.
00:18:12 You can do some tea.
00:18:13 You can have some tea and read.
00:18:14 Okay.
00:18:15 Some green tea.
00:18:16 Hey.
00:18:17 Nice and relaxing.
00:18:18 No kilo with it though.
00:18:19 No kilo here.
00:18:20 Fine.
00:18:21 Alright.
00:18:22 So the second thing is the third shelf.
00:18:25 Three shelves here are all hadith.
00:18:26 Now this section is all books on checking the authenticity of hadith.
00:18:31 Like Shaykh Albani's work.
00:18:32 Ibn Hajj Al Asqalani's works.
00:18:34 So this is all here.
00:18:35 These are explanations.
00:18:37 Those are checking to see if the hadith is authentic.
00:18:40 These books as you can see are quite large on the different books of hadith.
00:18:45 This is all hadith going around. 1.00
00:18:47 Now from here all the way down to there are explanations of one book of hadith called
00:18:54 Buloog Al Maram of Ibn Hajj Al Asqalani.
00:18:56 These are an explanation of a book called Radha Salaheen.
00:18:59 So this is organized in a logical way.
00:19:02 So the book of hadith and its explanations and different types of books of hadith.
00:19:06 Now what I want to show you here, this is not something I did for this walkthrough.
00:19:11 This is something that I was doing.
00:19:12 I'm doing a research right now about the narrations that have to do with music in Islam.
00:19:17 So this is a book of a scholar named Al Hakim.
00:19:21 Of course he was from 400 to 600 something Hijri. 0.92
00:19:27 I mean 300 to 400 Hijri. 1.00
00:19:28 So very very early scholar of Islam.
00:19:31 He wrote a book.
00:19:32 I have a really good print of it.
00:19:34 But what I'm doing is I'm actually going through and checking.
00:19:37 So what I did, and this is important for your viewers.
00:19:40 Whether you're Christian, Jewish, atheist, Muslim, you gotta appreciate this.
00:19:44 The statement of the Prophet, of this here, this being Ibn Mas'ud, is mentioned with the entire chain of narrators.
00:19:51 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 Every name is there.
00:19:59 So what I did is I got this.
00:20:00 I found this.
00:20:01 Then I came over here.
00:20:03 These are the biographies of those scholars who narrated hadith.
00:20:08 Oh wow.
00:20:09 So each one of them, I looked them up.
00:20:11 Right?
00:20:12 This is a book called Si'ara Alam Nubala.
00:20:14 You can see it's 30 volumes right here.
00:20:18 Right?
00:20:19 This is where I found a lot of them.
00:20:20 So I went through them and found each one of these.
00:20:23 As you can see I've marked them.
00:20:24 And found what did the contemporaries say about him.
00:20:27 How good was his memory?
00:20:28 How was his moral character?
00:20:30 So we can confirm.
00:20:31 So this took me a long time.
00:20:33 Because it's not just, okay I read the hadith.
00:20:35 But I went through the chain.
00:20:36 Then I looked up each one's biography.
00:20:39 To make sure that this is authentic.
00:20:41 Right?
00:20:42 This is what I do for all the narrations.
00:20:43 Like today in the dars you heard me say, this is sahih.
00:20:46 It's mentioned in this book.
00:20:48 So this takes hours and hours and hours of research.
00:20:51 But at least I can make sure that I'm not just saying, you know, somebody said.
00:20:56 I want to make sure when I say the prophet said something, peace and blessings be upon him.
00:21:00 We're sure he actually said it.
00:21:02 And if there's anybody in this chain that's weak in his memory.
00:21:05 Or his moral character.
00:21:06 Or there's a break in the chain.
00:21:08 Will not accept that as sahih. 1.00
00:21:09 That will no longer be authentic.
00:21:11 So this is where my masters is in.
00:21:13 In checking hadith and things.
00:21:14 And this is really fun.
00:21:15 I love doing this.
00:21:16 I love doing this more than people love going to clubs and dancing and all that.
00:21:20 It's Saturday night and we're in the library.
00:21:22 It is.
00:21:23 And this is where it's happening.
00:21:24 This is the club.
00:21:25 It's late.
00:21:26 Yeah.
00:21:27 This is where you're finding.
00:21:28 Yeah.
00:21:29 So these books here are books on the science of hadith.
00:21:34 They're biographies.
00:21:35 These are weak narrators.
00:21:37 So we know about them.
00:21:39 These are all Arabic language, grammar, different Arabic dictionaries.
00:21:45 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 This, of course, this of course is my famous Bible, infamous if you're a Christian. 0.99
00:22:03 This is the kryptonite to all you guys.
00:22:05 This we talked about earlier.
00:22:07 What's the famous one?
00:22:08 What's the famous one?
00:22:09 What's the famous one?
00:22:10 Leviticus 1332 or Matthew 1332?
00:22:11 Matthew.
00:22:12 Yeah, Mark.
00:22:13 Mark 1332.
00:22:14 Yeah.
00:22:15 Here you have books that are written by Christian authors.
00:22:18 study Bibles, Arabic Bibles, Persian Bibles, Greek Bibles, Hebrew, English, Tanakh, Dead Sea Scrolls, research on that.
00:22:30 I have also sections about Hinduism, Buddhism, but let's go.
00:22:35 This is different research, different languages.
00:22:38 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 That one you see in the blue, is probably the largest book I have.
00:22:57 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 So these are scholarly rulings.
00:23:06 So you can look up the subject and find the scholarly rulings and their evidences.
00:23:11 This section here, from here, all the way to down there, is what we call Fiqh, jurisprudence, right?
00:23:19 Islamic rulings, how to pray, how to fast, what is the evidence of that, the different schools of thought.
00:23:25 This here is Hanbali school of thought.
00:23:28 Over there, we have Hanafi starts.
00:23:31 This is Shafi'i, this is Maliki, this is other mazahib like Zahiri, Mahalla, and Shaukani.
00:23:38 These are different researches on different subjects, particularly.
00:23:43 From here starts the history section.
00:23:46 So this is, like I was saying, biographies.
00:23:48 This is Al-Dhahabi, amazing work.
00:23:50 Al-Siyar Al-Alam al-Nubala.
00:23:52 This is a book called Bidayah wa Nihaya fi bin Katheer.
00:23:55 The same one who wrote that Quran explanation.
00:23:57 Great scholar.
00:23:58 These are all, from here onward, these are all biographies of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
00:24:04 Peace be upon him.
00:24:05 All the way down here.
00:24:06 So from the earliest to the later, I do unboxings of books.
00:24:11 You can see sometimes, so those are fun things.
00:24:14 Instead of unboxing stupid things like shoes and stuff, we unbox and educate people about books.
00:24:19 These are books about the companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him. 0.93
00:24:23 Their biographies and about them.
00:24:25 Ibn Hajar Eskalani's Al-Isaba.
00:24:27 These are other history books.
00:24:29 Here I have medicine books.
00:24:31 This was actually written by my grandfather on homeopathic medicine.
00:24:35 Oh really?
00:24:36 Yeah.
00:24:37 Alhamdulillah.
00:24:38 He was my grandfather from my mother's side.
00:24:40 This is on homeopathic medicine.
00:24:42 But we have Islamic medicine.
00:24:43 So this has the cures to cancer in here?
00:24:45 It actually does talk about what you can take for cancer.
00:24:48 I mean, cures in the hands of Allah, but it does talk about that.
00:24:51 This is Ibn Al-Qayyim.
00:24:52 This is what Big Farmer does not want you to read.
00:24:55 Big Farmer doesn't want you to read any of these.
00:24:57 These are prophetic medicine books.
00:24:59 This is dream interpretation.
00:25:01 So the Islamic science... 0.97
00:25:03 Really?
00:25:04 Yes.
00:25:05 It's a really fun science.
00:25:06 And very few people are actually...
00:25:08 Do you know anything about dream interpretations?
00:25:10 Chad, what's a dream that you've had?
00:25:12 I want to hear some themes and maybe we could decipher them quickly.
00:25:15 The way dream interpretation in Islam works is it's individuals.
00:25:19 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 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 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 What is it?
00:25:41 Do you know what it means when you have extremely vivid dreams where you really believe that you are there?
00:25:47 So it depends, right?
00:25:48 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 Every one of those has a meaning.
00:26:01 What does the killing a snake mean?
00:26:03 That's not the way it works, right?
00:26:04 It has to do with your life, right?
00:26:06 It has to do with your life, right?
00:26:07 Because a snake can represent different things.
00:26:08 Right.
00:26:09 And we'll go to evidences, not just opinions, right?
00:26:11 But it takes time.
00:26:13 But that's why it's a science in Islam, right? 0.98
00:26:16 This from here is about jinn and magic, right?
00:26:20 So about things that affect people from the unseen, like there's a creation called the jinn. 0.98
00:26:26 A lot of people think ghosts or whatever, possessions, those are jinn. 0.99
00:26:30 And in Islam, we have evidences about when and how.
00:26:34 Someday, inshallah, if I get some time, I'm going to write a book on it as well,
00:26:38 where we're going to document Western documented incidences of jinn and newspapers, articles and all that.
00:26:44 And magic and all that kind of stuff.
00:26:47 From here onward, these are all creedal works. 0.91
00:26:51 What we call Aqidah in Islam.
00:26:53 And I've organized it in a chronological order.
00:26:56 So these are the earliest, from all the way from the early first three generations,
00:27:01 going to the later generations.
00:27:04 The works of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Al-Qiyyah, Muafuqdin Ibn Qudama, Lumu'at Al-Atiqad.
00:27:09 So going all the way, Kitab Al-Tuhid, the one that they talk about Wahhabis,
00:27:13 the one who wrote it, Muhammad Al-Wahhab.
00:27:15 These are his books and explanations.
00:27:18 And all the way coming to our time, like Sheikh Salih Al-Fawzan's book here.
00:27:22 This is all on the Islamic creed. 1.00
00:27:24 As you can see, I've run out of room.
00:27:26 So that's why I showed you earlier, we're building a bigger room for the library.
00:27:29 A lot of my books right now are in boxes, because I just don't have room.
00:27:32 These are different research subjects.
00:27:35 Darwinism.
00:27:36 Darwinism?
00:27:37 Yeah, I've got...
00:27:39 This is Darwin's doubt.
00:27:41 We didn't evolve from monkeys?
00:27:42 We did not.
00:27:43 And then Darwin's own theories.
00:27:45 In fact, you know, it's funny.
00:27:47 A lot of atheists don't realize Darwin was very racist and sexist.
00:27:50 He actually wrote about how...
00:27:52 Bass? 0.98
00:27:53 You know, so he talked about how different races evolved higher than other races.
00:28:02 Oh! 0.60
00:28:03 And since most of our races would not be on the higher evolved one, it probably wasn't
00:28:06 that based.
00:28:08 Oh, okay.
00:28:09 But he did say that men are more involved than women, so...
00:28:11 Bass? 0.98
00:28:12 W. Darwin?
00:28:13 I'm not...
00:28:14 I'm not supporting that.
00:28:15 I don't either.
00:28:16 Alright.
00:28:17 Um... 0.96
00:28:18 Wasn't he a sanus and wasn't he kinda gay? 0.98
00:28:20 I thought Charles Darwin was gay. 0.92
00:28:21 I don't know.
00:28:22 I don't know about sexuality, but this is scientific works about that.
00:28:26 And these are books of zuhud, which is like how to be a better person, how to clean your
00:28:32 heart, how to, you know, kinda not have jealousy and not have hatred, how to just cleanse
00:28:39 yourself from those diseases.
00:28:40 We call it zuhud and tezkiah.
00:28:42 That's that section right there.
00:28:44 So, this is a quick intro into the library.
00:28:49 Um...
00:28:50 We could spend literally a few days just explaining the books, but...
00:28:55 Yeah.
00:28:56 Any questions?
00:28:57 A few months to read all these books.
00:28:58 That's a week at best.
00:29:00 That's a week?
00:29:01 Let's take a little...
00:29:03 A little peek.
00:29:05 Okay.
00:29:06 At my homework.
00:29:08 Tafsir...
00:29:09 Asadi.
00:29:10 Asadi.
00:29:11 Okay.
00:29:12 Oh, Bambakla. 0.98
00:29:13 That must translate into...
00:29:14 Ooh, yay! 0.56
00:29:15 Oh, it starts with jihad, when jihad refers to fighting.
00:29:27 Although jihad is often translated into English as holy war, it must be noted that war has
00:29:31 never been described as holy in any of Islam's primary texts or even early Islamic literature.
00:29:36 Linguistically speaking, jihad is an Islamic term that applies to a broad spectrum of activities,
00:29:41 ranging from daily striving to meet the day's challenges, to striving against one's desires
00:29:45 and self, to the struggle to provide for one's family.
00:29:48 Okay.
00:29:49 So...
00:29:50 It's nice, right?
00:29:51 When you...
00:29:52 Do you say commit jihad or do jihad?
00:29:54 Perform jihad. 0.87
00:29:55 When you perform jihad, can that be an act of sin?
00:29:59 Well, I mean, it depends what you mean, right?
00:30:02 Jihad is to make an effort, right?
00:30:04 But if you're doing an Islamic jihad, you're doing something good, not sinful.
00:30:08 Can I explain the story?
00:30:10 Go for it.
00:30:11 I was playing chess in an Islamic country with somebody pretty high level.
00:30:18 And I was telling him that I was thinking about reverting.
00:30:20 This is right when I first said my shahada.
00:30:23 Okay.
00:30:24 And I'm sitting there.
00:30:25 I was telling him how I had a problem with Charlie Hebdo.
00:30:27 I'm sure you know about it.
00:30:28 Sorry, 2012.
00:30:29 He wasn't familiar with this.
00:30:31 I was explaining that Charlie Hebdo was a satirical French newspaper
00:30:34 and they were doing disrespectful things, making drawings.
00:30:37 And he said, what were they doing?
00:30:40 Were they drawing the prophet?
00:30:41 And I said, yeah.
00:30:42 And they were drawing women in bad ways.
00:30:46 And then he said, like, what did they do?
00:30:49 What ended up happening?
00:30:50 I'm like, well, the whole Charlie Hebdo, they shot it up.
00:30:54 And I said, I was like, that was my problem with Islam. 1.00
00:30:56 That's why I didn't revert when I was younger.
00:30:57 I was interested and I was like, I don't like this.
00:30:59 And then I was explaining to this and he stands up from the chair.
00:31:02 He says, Alhamdulillah.
00:31:04 And he's just like, even though it's not in the Quran,
00:31:07 it says that you shouldn't kill people, obviously.
00:31:09 He still considered that an act of jihad.
00:31:12 So again, Islamically, we have rules to jihad, right? 0.97
00:31:15 And from the rules is you don't take jihad in your own hands,
00:31:18 meaning that unless you're being attacked and you're defending yourself,
00:31:22 when you do an offensive act of jihad, you need a leader, right?
00:31:25 So it's not like everybody's like, like, I can't just be like,
00:31:28 I'm declaring jihad on Norway and just attack.
00:31:30 That's not Islam, right? 1.00
00:31:31 Every one of these books has a whole chapter on how jihad has to be performed,
00:31:36 meaning you don't kill women, you don't kill children, you don't kill the elderly.
00:31:40 So when you walk into a building and you shoot up everybody,
00:31:42 that's against the rules of jihad.
00:31:46 Okay.
00:31:47 But there's...
00:31:48 Well, I'll read the book and I'll figure it out.
00:31:49 Okay.
00:31:50 This is good.
00:31:51 Ask.
00:31:52 When you're reading and you run into something you don't know,
00:31:54 that's what I'm here for.
00:31:55 Do you think that this is better to start with than the Quran? 0.92
00:31:58 This is the Quran.
00:31:59 This is?
00:32:00 Yeah.
00:32:01 It's an explanation of the Quran. 0.52
00:32:02 It goes by the chapters.
00:32:03 It'll take you...
00:32:04 So this is just the beginning.
00:32:06 Right?
00:32:07 So...
00:32:08 What if I just read the Quran?
00:32:10 Yeah.
00:32:11 So this is the same thing.
00:32:12 See, this is the Quran and this is a very light explanation.
00:32:15 So it'll go through each verse and then it'll go through a very light.
00:32:19 Right?
00:32:20 So if you just read the Quran, like the person you had met said you might understand some 0.53
00:32:22 of the verses, right?
00:32:23 Right.
00:32:24 As a beginner.
00:32:25 So this will give you a very light, easy to understand explanation.
00:32:28 Right?
00:32:29 Okay.
00:32:30 So just like reading the Quran, a little bit of commentary to make it easy for you.
00:32:34 But who wrote this?
00:32:35 A great scholar named Shaykh Abdul Rahman, Nasir al-Saadi.
00:32:38 And does everybody agree that he's trustworthy?
00:32:42 I mean, I can't speak for everybody.
00:32:45 It was almost two billion Muslims, but he's well known and well accredited and well accepted
00:32:50 across the Muslim world.
00:32:51 And this book has been translated into many different languages including Urdu and English.
00:32:56 If you go to most countries and you speak to very knowledgeable scholars from Kuwait and
00:33:03 Qatar and Saudi and Egypt and so on and Jordan, they will find this to be a very credible and
00:33:10 acceptable work.
00:33:11 Right?
00:33:12 Okay.
00:33:13 And that's why I gave you a good simple beginning work.
00:33:14 Because those books are going to...
00:33:15 Simple.
00:33:16 Yeah, simple.
00:33:17 One more time chat to show how his simple reading for Shaykh Uthman.
00:33:20 This is Harry Potter 1 through 38 that I have to go through.
00:33:24 People read all that nonsense.
00:33:25 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer.
00:33:27 What's that other, the one of the ring and all that, right?
00:33:30 Yeah.
00:33:31 People spend all that kind of useless time.
00:33:33 This is getting closer to your Lord.
00:33:35 This literally is an easy read.
00:33:37 I could have given you some complicated books.
00:33:39 Like this here is Ibn Kathir in English.
00:33:42 I was thinking about giving this to you, right?
00:33:44 But this is a little bit difficult.
00:33:46 You need a little...
00:33:47 But that's just one book?
00:33:48 Yeah, that's one book.
00:33:49 And this is a bridge.
00:33:50 Oh, oh.
00:33:51 This is a summary.
00:33:52 Right?
00:33:53 Shaykh Uthman, I gotta be honest.
00:33:54 I don't know if you know what one book means.
00:33:56 This is one book, yeah.
00:33:58 It's ten volumes, but it's one book.
00:34:01 I'm not sure we agree.
00:34:03 Maybe there's an Islamic definition of book.
00:34:05 But that's not one.
00:34:07 It's fine.
00:34:08 This here is one book.
00:34:11 But it's 24 volumes.
00:34:13 He doesn't understand both.
00:34:15 This here is one book.
00:34:17 No.
00:34:18 And this is a fun read book, by the way.
00:34:20 No.
00:34:21 No.
00:34:22 This is 36 volumes.
00:34:24 Ah.
00:34:25 And you read all this?
00:34:26 So these kinds of books, you don't really read cover to cover.
00:34:29 This is a subject-based tefsi, right?
00:34:31 So meaning when I'm researching a particular subject, I'll go and I'll find that subject
00:34:36 and I'll read it.
00:34:37 There's no book in here that I haven't benefited from, that I haven't read.
00:34:40 But I don't mean that I've read them cover to cover.
00:34:43 What percentage of this library do you think you've read?
00:34:46 I don't know.
00:34:47 It's a good question.
00:34:48 To me, this is fun.
00:34:49 I don't do this for, you know, like records and stuff.
00:34:53 This is my little piece of heaven on earth, right?
00:34:57 This is the place where you have the knowledge that can get you to paradise about your Lord,
00:35:03 about the rulings, about how to live, how to be a better person.
00:35:06 So this is, you know, sometimes I'm researching a certain subject and I'll sit and I'll read
00:35:11 through a couple of volumes in a night, you know.
00:35:14 And sometimes I'll just pick up and read a couple of papers and that's all I need.
00:35:17 So, you know, this is not really something that I sit and I go, okay, I'm going to read
00:35:21 this book from here to here, right?
00:35:23 I recognize this up here.
00:35:25 I don't know if I can stand here.
00:35:27 This is...
00:35:28 Fiqh.
00:35:29 Jami' al-fiqh.
00:35:30 There's amazing work.
00:35:31 There's a great scholar of the past called Ibn al-Qayyim.
00:35:34 If you're Muslim and you know Ibn al-Qayyim, you got to read his work.
00:35:38 Is this the sign that they have in the Majid?
00:35:42 No, this is Fiqh, which means understanding.
00:35:45 Okay.
00:35:46 Yeah, but the writing in Arabic is kind of like the ones you see in a lot of Masajid and things.
00:35:51 Like this is one book that's collected from one scholar's work, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
00:35:56 Great, amazing scholar.
00:35:58 So they've collected from his works, his works like an introduction, his life, his writings
00:36:05 on Islamic belief, his writings on jurisprudence all the way here, his writings in hadith,
00:36:11 his writings in the biographies of those narrators that I was showing you earlier, Adab
00:36:16 ibn Zuhud in Cleansing the Heart, Tables of Contents.
00:36:19 So this is an amazing, amazing work.
00:36:21 This is called Al-Mughni. 0.98
00:36:23 These are the same book, but I had this one and a better print came out so I had to buy
00:36:28 it.
00:36:29 This is one of the greatest books of Fiqh ever written by a scholar called Ibn Qadamah.
00:36:34 And again, if you're not Muslim, you at least have to appreciate the scholarly work of the 0.98
00:36:38 great Muslim scholars.
00:36:39 How did we preserve the Qur'an, the meaning of the Qur'an, the Arabic of the Qur'an, how
00:36:44 we check the statements of the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him.
00:36:48 This is the work that goes into it.
00:36:51 Thank you for the tour.
00:36:52 I really appreciate this on a Saturday night.
00:36:54 My pleasure.
00:36:55 Chet, people could be, right now I couldn't stop thinking about that on the drive home
00:36:58 from the Majid.
00:36:59 It's a Saturday night, I'm very used to, I'll just like in my head, I'm trained to
00:37:03 be like, okay, Saturday night, I need to be drinking alcohol, listening to Haram music 0.99
00:37:07 in the club right now.
00:37:08 Like that's where I need to be just because.
00:37:10 Saturday night, you'd have a nice cup of tea and a good library and a good book and you
00:37:14 need to be doing some light reading.
00:37:16 Light reading.
00:37:17 Well, we had a great time, we had some good food.
00:37:20 And tell me this, how many of the young people, how many young people did you see in the Masjid
00:37:24 today?
00:37:25 So many.
00:37:26 So many children.
00:37:27 How many reverts?
00:37:28 A lot of reverts.
00:37:29 This is the beautiful environment.
00:37:30 Very diverse.
00:37:31 That we have diverse, a lot of reverts, a lot of young people.
00:37:34 Saturday night, they could be anywhere but they were in the mosque.
00:37:37 You know, we really appreciated you coming.
00:37:40 And alhamdulillah, you brought a good energy.
00:37:42 And like I said, you're always welcome.
00:37:44 This is your home.
00:37:45 This is your city.
00:37:46 This is your Masjid. 0.90
00:37:47 MashaAllah.
00:37:48 Thank you, Sheikh Usman.
00:37:50 Shout out to One Message Foundation.
00:37:52 And we're out.
00:37:54 We'll see you guys tomorrow. 0.98
00:37:55 We're going to be shooting some guns.
00:37:57 Hopefully that connection works.
00:37:58 This is the first IRL stream and there's many more to come.
00:38:01 Thank you.
00:38:02 InshaAllah.
00:38:03 Cool.
00:38:04 Thank you.