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Gender Relations and Marriage in Islam.

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri (unverified)

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  1. hi on everyone for coming today
  2. mashallah um we're really pleased to
  3. have uh
  4. here today with us uh just to give a
  5. little bit of an intro
  6. um what we started his journey page in
  7. North Africa where he was born and
  8. raised he learned Quran there and also
  9. learned Jordan to do his high school and
  10. then he moved to Pakistan where he
  11. studied at the International Islamic
  12. University
  13. he came to the U.S in 1996 and since
  14. then he's been serving many uh dicks
  15. across the state States
  16. um of his most important achievements
  17. he's the founder of this an organization
  18. dedicated to educating
  19. um people and training them in jobs
  20. cities in Jose and he's also the founder
  21. of the tawasa organization which helps
  22. um
  23. this Foundation is dedicated to
  24. educating Muslim youth on how to apply
  25. Islam
  26. um currently he's a resident scholar at
  27. the Saratoga Masjid and we're really
  28. pleased
  29. this is actually coming up
  30. brothers and sisters
  31. we wanted to bring with me today brother
  32. on the board of MCA
  33. in Santa Clara it's the largest language
  34. talking about the space wise
  35. it has three buildings
  36. changed my end classes we did six weeks
  37. back to back at UC Berkeley
  38. 2008. in 2009.
  39. some children
  40. so I wanted them to come and see but he
  41. couldn't make it as a meeting but this
  42. is uh why I wanted to bring him and for
  43. him to speak to you a little bit is to
  44. know
  45. work on yourself you build yourself well
  46. you will be able Islam and Muslims in
  47. different capacities when you grow up
  48. get ready
  49. you will claim
  50. that honor that Allah will give you it
  51. is
  52. in the name of Allah for the sake of
  53. Allah
  54. and to me of this chain of servants that
  55. served this theme
  56. from the time of the Prophet saws
  57. I was asked to talk about these two
  58. topics
  59. in my judgment it's too much to cover
  60. what's wrong
  61. if we couldn't cover then maybe we can
  62. do full attention Java to merge them all
  63. together because they really deserve
  64. to be covered by itself
  65. the topic today is I'd like to stick to
  66. it gender approaching management
  67. oh
  68. relationships
  69. so if I put
  70. that could be you that could be me that
  71. could be anyone
  72. and we how many relationships
  73. does any one of us like
  74. give me a relationship
  75. you and
  76. um
  77. so I'm gonna do it like this
  78. friends
  79. okay wonderful
  80. and family right siblings
  81. from the new family
  82. okay
  83. right and
  84. what else like uh
  85. here's at school right
  86. but they have friends
  87. right so this is would you categorize
  88. this under what this is all if we put
  89. one
  90. title for it your relationship with
  91. people
  92. thank you
  93. relationship
  94. spiritual
  95. okay
  96. we do like this
  97. and that is between you and a lot
  98. excellent give me another relationship
  99. between you and maybe think Beyond
  100. between you
  101. absolutely
  102. creation could be objects creation it
  103. could be animals insects the ecosystem
  104. all of that absolutely
  105. I think outside the box
  106. with yourself
  107. between you and you
  108. that's actually the first relationship
  109. that any of us actually experience is
  110. you'll get to feel that is me actually
  111. becomes
  112. kicks in around eight
  113. before that interestingly as children we
  114. have what we call Collective
  115. Consciousness like you know and the rest
  116. of the family your moments the units
  117. after 9 10 you're starting
  118. oh what does it mean what do I want to
  119. be like
  120. you start asking you all the time ago
  121. you stop wanting to find yourself right
  122. the relationship between you and you
  123. the most important relationship after
  124. your relationship with Allah
  125. so what's left relationship between you
  126. okay
  127. and it's really a plus for us Muslims
  128. out of being a Muslim
  129. considers it
  130. through this Revelation that Allah gave
  131. to us so if I were to go positive
  132. thank you
  133. we go angel
  134. right
  135. right off the gym
  136. there's two new human beings of people
  137. there's two types there is Muslim
  138. and then
  139. It's also two does that bother you it
  140. doesn't doesn't do anything to you but
  141. it's that friend actually could be and
  142. there is a half good one
  143. standing against the truth standing
  144. against what's right fight like what the
  145. not everyone in Mecca torture or attack
  146. the Muslims
  147. some did
  148. some just took a side right
  149. Allah the same
  150. if there is a human there is Catholic
  151. and as fighting the truth
  152. then Allah
  153. which most of us Muslims actually
  154. the shaytan is a word is given to the
  155. human actually before the journey at
  156. least
  157. and is given to us so Allah
  158. like wise women's
  159. between the inside
  160. so and of the journey there is two types
  161. Muslim then there is two types peaceful
  162. from doesn't bother you don't bother and
  163. then there is the one that is
  164. to help and she works straight under the
  165. command of a place I don't want to take
  166. all shaytan
  167. now in the world this is very important
  168. part of afraid of clash of that is Jin
  169. so we feel what we don't see
  170. but actually the one that is more
  171. dangerous
  172. I'll give you an example
  173. if you feel
  174. the Japan is inspiring you to do
  175. something wrong
  176. right agitated or do something what do
  177. you say in order
  178. um
  179. away from you
  180. try say I would believe you have a bad
  181. friend sitting next to you
  182. he's going nowhere
  183. people
  184. are more dangerous amongst the treatment
  185. we don't follow the trends of gym
  186. we don't follow the last trip you know
  187. the last way
  188. the last trend of the human beings
  189. whatever is happening in the market like
  190. whatever the less crazy stuff happens
  191. okay the last thing relationship between
  192. you
  193. spouse you're already getting there
  194. get to the red Pizza
  195. um
  196. outside the box between you
  197. what's happening with you daily
  198. you're not suing you on you
  199. what's happening between who you did
  200. what are you dealing every day
  201. of the world
  202. life is hard right
  203. so
  204. I like this I like this
  205. you know this
  206. this here even though
  207. it was very simple when you say that
  208. how does double arm benefits me that's
  209. what the Quran is talking about
  210. so many ions how does the Quran benefit
  211. you in your daily life how can you act
  212. it's very important that you know what
  213. you are dealing with in life
  214. is something called angels of Jin it's a
  215. problem
  216. it's a big problem they're kicking you
  217. like a soccer ball and you don't even
  218. know that you're being gay so this is
  219. very very important to look amongst
  220. human people that are struggling and
  221. that's what I wanted to reach that to
  222. you that's what was in the far the
  223. relationship that you discuss with you
  224. and yourself you want a lot you want
  225. people family
  226. exactly what you said guys
  227. right Society
  228. that's where the trends in the culture
  229. right here between you and the Unseen
  230. which is angels and then
  231. the relationship between you and Allah's
  232. creation right
  233. and that is the
  234. if we come here back
  235. let's talk about
  236. you now we're not gonna talk about
  237. anything else you versus you from The
  238. Book of Life
  239. one okay
  240. like for you to be able to deal with my
  241. life
  242. that you need in life is for you to know
  243. yourself before you are able to know
  244. what you're looking for
  245. if you don't know yourself how can you
  246. develop this knowledge how do I know
  247. someone
  248. that we are
  249. I always sometimes like to bring um but
  250. you know sometimes you arrive
  251. on that post or something like
  252. imagine yourself
  253. layers of posters
  254. so if we are talking about you
  255. give me something that is about me or I
  256. have
  257. hey when okay great a goat has a brain
  258. too
  259. much
  260. yeah
  261. the mind is the
  262. non-tangible part of your mind give me
  263. more
  264. made of emotions okay
  265. so here
  266. right
  267. emotional
  268. emotional
  269. heart
  270. excellent
  271. there is a name I will share it with you
  272. let's go
  273. what's the most yes
  274. and we can translate it
  275. Spirit right
  276. okay give me more so we found out now
  277. three yes desires
  278. which part of you is responsible for the
  279. desires
  280. absolutely so
  281. he
  282. absolutely nuts in English we call it
  283. self
  284. and it has a function right
  285. so I'm gonna just move quickly so that
  286. we can move inshallah we can have
  287. another class those players okay what
  288. else
  289. exactly the body we have three words in
  290. Arabic
  291. one is
  292. and then we have
  293. In classical Urdu they use better
  294. nothing okay
  295. so we have that body then we have
  296. another The Nest is responsible
  297. for telling means
  298. and your walks that's the job
  299. and just to have a good self-esteem
  300. and self-confidence enough is to have
  301. experience arrogance it's an ego and
  302. show up on this definitely have
  303. confidence and to have
  304. like a good view about yourself because
  305. that was
  306. okay what are we missing we're missing
  307. you will
  308. the Free World comes because we have all
  309. something about by the way
  310. so I think Dr Ann talks about
  311. deep
  312. mind
  313. and we will find out what Allah calls
  314. this
  315. depth
  316. or in other words if I
  317. how many do we have
  318. so if you're looking at this body
  319. yourself your emotional part
  320. in the Quran the name of that is
  321. actually it means
  322. and there is another word
  323. which is actually according to the
  324. vocabulary
  325. does not mean any emotional but in deep
  326. consciousness
  327. because you're a human
  328. one execution like the right time and
  329. one The Heart Right like one the process
  330. sir and one is like the thing that keeps
  331. happening so
  332. because you can't see your mind and you
  333. have another mind that sees that mind
  334. from outside
  335. so then you are able to
  336. okay
  337. so here we go
  338. mind Apple sorry
  339. these are
  340. you know things that we need to know why
  341. am I talking once you learn this in
  342. depth
  343. of the Quran
  344. with yourself now
  345. when it's
  346. when it comes to relationships that when
  347. a human interacts with another human
  348. for all of these seven start talking to
  349. each other
  350. it's not only only your friend oh I like
  351. him he's my friend oh she's my friend
  352. it's not like that when you
  353. all of this rubs against you
  354. not only one thing
  355. you know I'm sorry this is like I showed
  356. you that
  357. foreign
  358. language and
  359. believe what is the effect of a touch
  360. in the block you're buying the same
  361. level as your my life
  362. basically language you know how these
  363. two three four five languages and even
  364. if you speak one language and go deep in
  365. it you know how much mine has four
  366. different things we communicate with
  367. them
  368. same level is given to touch
  369. don't touch with Haram
  370. Allah knows what he's talking about
  371. it's not just
  372. a pleasure Xena is not just a pleasure
  373. adultery and foreign
  374. look at who he'd be friends
  375. on my friend's religion
  376. because you're robbing seven against one
  377. right so this not only
  378. we use this in what we call
  379. we actually use this even for us to
  380. choose friends from the same gender
  381. something about
  382. we're getting closer now to the topic of
  383. management something in this area that
  384. every time I read it it blows my mind
  385. foreign
  386. countless men and women
  387. requests
  388. beware of several ties of kinship
  389. relationships right
  390. here
  391. in be mindfulness in whose name your
  392. request is the exchange of values
  393. meaning
  394. don't oppress the others don't
  395. destroy relationships if you're about to
  396. hurt somebody
  397. that's what it is now
  398. if you don't realize this verse to me
  399. on a deep level
  400. it has taken care of two things there is
  401. a
  402. discrimination based on race and
  403. discrimination based on because it seems
  404. countless men and women
  405. came from these okay
  406. so all the cases of this world came from
  407. this
  408. you know what do you sound when you look
  409. at someone else from another race
  410. because of color or Legends
  411. I am better than you
  412. you know what it sounds
  413. like one brother or sister who came from
  414. the same moment that had raised in the
  415. same house
  416. and you say
  417. that's it
  418. mankind all mankind
  419. number one number two Allah said that
  420. men and women
  421. who have actually one soul
  422. if men and women with one Soul then how
  423. can you just come in
  424. you know in the Bible it says oh God
  425. created Adam and Eve
  426. so
  427. it's mate
  428. and from both of both of them
  429. he brought so many women subhanallah
  430. every time I reflect on this point we
  431. sell in your body is half of it from
  432. your dad
  433. and that's why I tell people no matter
  434. what you're against it to you when
  435. you're growing up
  436. because you would end up hating yourself
  437. if you hate your mom you hate fifty
  438. percent fifty percent of you you ate
  439. both of them you eat all of them
  440. it's not a good flight hating
  441. yourself like literally you're looking
  442. in the mirror and you say to the right
  443. side
  444. but I love that it's happened
  445. right it's fascinating so reflect on
  446. this because this is very helpful
  447. subhanallah like how Allah
  448. like we don't start from an agitated
  449. point of having a man is trying to prove
  450. something this fight this constant
  451. and then you'll end up with main
  452. chopiness
  453. everyone is fighting everyone's trying
  454. to prove something you come back to the
  455. Quran
  456. shh it all operated from a single song
  457. and from it Allah so you come from the
  458. same Soul so it it you know the mothers
  459. do you want to talk about women in
  460. general
  461. they're actually talking about
  462. themselves
  463. about themselves it's like you're
  464. talking about that so what's the effect
  465. of this why is this important is when
  466. you hit a certain age
  467. it depends on your qualities in life now
  468. I want you to imagine
  469. that you live in a Time
  470. who studied when this green School
  471. became part of
  472. the world curriculumness when you open
  473. like you have a class like you have to
  474. go elementary then you know this is like
  475. 100 years old 100
  476. 50 years old maximum in which you have
  477. to go to great great school all this
  478. time there was nothing like if your
  479. child growing there's nothing called
  480. and I'm gonna go
  481. none of that exists
  482. so Humanity took a long time without
  483. them
  484. if you are living in a culture where
  485. you're 10 years old you start
  486. or working with your mom what do you
  487. think what's on your mind by age 13 14.
  488. there's no Elementary Middle School High
  489. School school college there's nothing
  490. there's nothing in there
  491. criticized
  492. oh my God
  493. she should have went to elementary
  494. school
  495. there was none of them
  496. I want to start my own house
  497. that was there so if you think about it
  498. why do we feel this urge those marriage
  499. especially when you reach a certainly
  500. like you know
  501. 18. by the way there's nothing there's
  502. no magical number about 18.
  503. in the second world war they started
  504. drafting soldiers
  505. in fact
  506. up to 21. then they looked into 19. and
  507. they know according to 18 then they
  508. started at 18. this war there is no
  509. rhythm or rhyme there is no where they
  510. can present why it says at 18 nothing
  511. it's just the Second World War soldiers
  512. then by the time the United States got
  513. involved and Churchill has already
  514. prepared the speech and handing over
  515. England to Germany the United States
  516. interfere and they won the war for 17.
  517. so there's no rhythm
  518. the idea here is
  519. you start feeling
  520. you want to get married do you know what
  521. that feeling is
  522. that feeling you're mostly origin
  523. it's made so that's all that tips
  524. so what happens with this this idea so
  525. how do you go about
  526. I want I think something is missing
  527. when you were a child you didn't feel
  528. that this would be your puberty and now
  529. you're becoming a full manager woman
  530. you're like I need something I don't
  531. know why I'm thinking about this that I
  532. think because you're thinking you have
  533. to become one so
  534. again like us
  535. all right
  536. so
  537. industry
  538. Allah okay
  539. if you're not a brother sister
  540. just one Halal way one positive way one
  541. good for you to have a relationship with
  542. another person because you're feeling
  543. you need to be holy marriage
  544. okay what if I'm not getting mad right
  545. now look how I must interact with one
  546. another
  547. you never said don't talk to winner it's
  548. hard you can't even look at it it's just
  549. you know what Allah said
  550. if you're feeling why the interaction is
  551. starting to look beyond the person
  552. themselves that you're talking to a
  553. person which we talk which started
  554. feeling that you're interested in that
  555. person themselves
  556. Allah said lower your gifts
  557. because the person in front of you is
  558. not an object of pleasure
  559. that's a human
  560. done to
  561. as you know to women is what made them
  562. objects of pleasure even I don't know if
  563. you you were young they stopped doing
  564. that but up to 10 years ago would like
  565. you're driving Pepsi
  566. and there's like a girl like
  567. naked just dancing
  568. between Pepsi and a woman
  569. no
  570. and every time go right now every time I
  571. travel for a speech I want to check that
  572. this culture change I'm looking
  573. card cover a woman with bikini
  574. okay
  575. a woman with bikini
  576. business deals
  577. a woman almost from bikini right
  578. exactly
  579. even even magazines about men the cover
  580. is
  581. objectifying of women
  582. foreign
  583. talks to women
  584. look and protect their private parts
  585. because what Allah is telling you it
  586. goes from stocking to getting
  587. comfortable to ending up too comfortable
  588. so you should not be alone
  589. telling them to think about each about
  590. to fall into Haram
  591. and protect the private parts
  592. that's more pure for them you are a
  593. human you're not an animal
  594. Allah did not make us let us
  595. you know leopards what they do
  596. they are solitary a male and female
  597. liver only spent
  598. three days together mate and then they
  599. separated
  600. after three days it's done that's it
  601. if Allah wanted us to be like that he
  602. would have created us like that you
  603. don't it's you know this idea oh look oh
  604. we're just living just open uh so
  605. relationship it means nothing you know
  606. and then they start interpreting no I'm
  607. just having a physical relationship
  608. once you touch a person
  609. I don't know how to describe it to you
  610. you know
  611. on the screen
  612. right and like my kind of like this is
  613. my Facebook
  614. has a lotion and then you turn off the
  615. screen there is a print you cannot see
  616. it when it's gone
  617. but there is when you let someone in so
  618. you
  619. emotionally mentally will let them into
  620. you if you're not on the steps that we
  621. will show you there are steps to manage
  622. you are allowing someone to leave the
  623. print fingerprint on your maps on your
  624. mind on your soul and then they leave
  625. and then someone doesn't put that friend
  626. and then they leave and then
  627. print and then
  628. it's not healthy we are not created but
  629. that we are tossing well
  630. we have honored the children of Adam
  631. look the angel losses I created the
  632. skies
  633. for you literally four years
  634. everything on planet that Earth I
  635. created it for you
  636. I have saw the Earth so I do believe
  637. human beings will start traveling to
  638. other galaxies season to descriptive to
  639. you the skies and the Earth and that's
  640. still coming right so the idea is if
  641. you're honored
  642. you can't act like oh we're just animals
  643. you know through the evolution Theory
  644. they want you to relax okay if you want
  645. a dinosaur you know
  646. 65 million years ago
  647. the dinosaurs died but then we survive
  648. how I don't know
  649. so anyways
  650. and this is something created right
  651. until the beginning one that they should
  652. lower their way
  653. guard their private parts and not
  654. displaying their charms and their Beauty
  655. Beyond the face and the hands and the
  656. Lord
  657. conservative normal dressing like with
  658. with
  659. Haya and with you know that covers you
  660. so they should let's
  661. fall and cover their mid lines
  662. there's a lot of pockets
  663. [Music]
  664. and the chest
  665. three women on that area like how do you
  666. know a woman was a slave or three that
  667. the slaves were not allowed to cover
  668. their head
  669. that's how you knew it so Allah was
  670. already in Arabia but when Allah told
  671. them what did they use is to cover the
  672. sleeves and then low-cut to sew the
  673. chest
  674. before attraction for men stop clothing
  675. you name it whatever today there is was
  676. at the time
  677. so Allah said let them covered
  678. did that anything a woman wears has long
  679. sleeves and covers the mature lovers
  680. which is not so tight so see through so
  681. describe things so it's just meant this
  682. you know as long as it's
  683. normal and acceptable within the culture
  684. what we call today hijab
  685. and and and then people should have
  686. simple knowledge you would oh my God was
  687. never mentioned in before really
  688. listen hijab
  689. curtain that you use to cover anything
  690. so Allah says do not speak to the
  691. mothers of the Believers except
  692. is live the news
  693. is
  694. that and cover this area
  695. so what's the name of hijab
  696. but today culturally we call it okay
  697. oh
  698. Allah
  699. says
  700. their sons their husbands Sons
  701. maybe the husband
  702. because
  703. if the father man is a woman the son can
  704. live for many that woman to the Allah
  705. and if a son marry a daughter of a lady
  706. her mother becomes
  707. that's why your mother-in-law you cannot
  708. hurt us
  709. because we can never ever marry her your
  710. father-in-law you can never give up you
  711. know
  712. so Allah makes it easy for family
  713. interaction
  714. even if you divorce them
  715. even if you divorce the woman you cannot
  716. marry her mother and you cannot marry
  717. her sister too so that there's no
  718. animosity you know your divorce the
  719. system against each other and harm you
  720. know so
  721. husbands Sons
  722. Brothers Sons your nephew right
  723. their sisters Sons
  724. their women's
  725. gave
  726. ten categories in which a woman does not
  727. need to wear that in front of the others
  728. ten categories right fine
  729. in this is
  730. because
  731. indeed it is ever in the way
  732. Allah 1400 years ago talked about sex
  733. addiction in addiction
  734. because
  735. it's not only as an immoral is an evil
  736. way
  737. means when you get into it it will
  738. become an addiction and you need a
  739. treatment from it it's going to become a
  740. habit you're going to be doing it all
  741. the time something really really
  742. important to pay attention to
  743. because that's the alternative to the
  744. hello in Islam it's something unique
  745. because it's the object that you get to
  746. choose
  747. you get to choose your mom
  748. you're dead
  749. your sister you can't
  750. who's your uncle you your answer is
  751. your own brother long term
  752. is marriage but you're the only
  753. relationship that you have that choice
  754. in so it makes Plus
  755. it's the oldest really relationship
  756. between two human beings the first first
  757. two human beings
  758. what was the relationship between them
  759. the first relationship was not father
  760. mother son no brother and sister the
  761. first relationship was a husband and
  762. wife relationship in the books right
  763. Nation
  764. [Music]
  765. through children half of them from that
  766. half of them
  767. the absolutely
  768. children you will never die
  769. because
  770. you never die if you have children
  771. because someone is carrying
  772. it's the only relationship
  773. with your life forever happy and manage
  774. [Music]
  775. thank you
  776. your children
  777. you're laying in your brain
  778. your children are alive they do
  779. marriage
  780. because it brings children it changes
  781. your life forever
  782. because of his wife and a woman can eat
  783. like really if you invest in that really
  784. relationship it could be probably the
  785. only reason
  786. simply in the Hadith
  787. a woman was jumped according to be taken
  788. to hell
  789. so she said Yamaha
  790. I will not go to heaven to move on more
  791. and he never taught me
  792. never cared about me and he never showed
  793. me the husband who's supposed to work
  794. with them
  795. with her because
  796. you could change your life
  797. consider your body
  798. why
  799. [Music]
  800. because it's
  801. totally important
  802. to get in your blind spot
  803. most of it on the foreign
  804. [Music]
  805. foreign
  806. uh
  807. guys
  808. the effects
  809. there's so many new studies right now in
  810. the world
  811. right like
  812. they now finally they thought we used to
  813. talk you Muslims but you always have a
  814. problem
  815. what right exercise
  816. right this is what the roles can be done
  817. just and then you know what is it Snow
  818. White right
  819. Frozen right so special it was just
  820. ready
  821. then the second thing
  822. the second thing that uh you know that
  823. we are very unique
  824. and
  825. is another thing
  826. so the idea is we're constantly thinking
  827. about marriage
  828. thank you
  829. we clicked right
  830. this this
  831. place
  832. you're not faster thinking does not work
  833. should you click on your future
  834. Thanksgiving
  835. of girls
  836. from their camps
  837. I want to marry this guy
  838. he's not a good guy the same thing
  839. and three four years to pass on
  840. I know you don't trust me
  841. with a girl
  842. it's not gonna work and it's not a good
  843. relationship
  844. you don't understand
  845. we have chemistry between
  846. four years
  847. parents
  848. because we don't see we don't see good
  849. reasons not because there's no
  850. discrimination
  851. and the girl that for four years we were
  852. begging her
  853. to not go I want you to give me
  854. Universe now
  855. chemistry biology
  856. none of that said I am not getting your
  857. divorce
  858. you have to go through this like you may
  859. not
  860. have to go after them
  861. same thing goes with guys
  862. so what I tell people
  863. I tell people
  864. the idea is just more intelligent
  865. and you should listen to it
  866. do not shut down when it comes to your
  867. parents
  868. I don't know how to explain this but we
  869. even turned 13.
  870. we think we were born yesterday
  871. nothing came out what does that 13 years
  872. old
  873. before your adults have their parents
  874. what did you do for me anyway
  875. I think I taught you everything
  876. life
  877. your mother but they don't think because
  878. short memory because
  879. you know
  880. who the members when you went in your
  881. mother
  882. who remembers
  883. nobody right those are the diaper news
  884. right
  885. who remembers if for some of you you are
  886. smarter that might release memory when I
  887. was six years old
  888. I remember my life my community from age
  889. 10 enough
  890. just listen
  891. to your mind
  892. do you really know you before
  893. you
  894. before you knew yourself they really
  895. know you more than your knowledge
  896. be mature how are you gonna get into an
  897. organic relationship
  898. common deaths
  899. this is why I attended boys and girls
  900. have no regard
  901. foreign
  902. then it's going to be very easy to dump
  903. your spouse
  904. listen
  905. listen call I might have mashallah very
  906. understanding moms and death some of you
  907. that the mom is understanding that that
  908. is not something that that is
  909. understanding your momma we're going on
  910. fire with you just open the subject
  911. just and take the opinion and then make
  912. your decision but don't close that
  913. it's your block blind spot
  914. marriage is a choice
  915. it's nothing it's nothing oh my God no
  916. it's not the choice
  917. it's not see Allah knows what's nothing
  918. it's your choice what are you choosing
  919. so
  920. I tell people
  921. you know
  922. learn about the person per person's past
  923. one of the biggest things that oh uh I'm
  924. not gonna judge him by his past
  925. I'm not going to judge him by her past
  926. okay you know
  927. and whenever a person is doing for 22
  928. years they're gonna most likely to do it
  929. I'm not saying
  930. you know and this idea of the way we
  931. don't judge
  932. if I bring you right now
  933. a plate of fruit
  934. s you have no idea what this food is
  935. like we are from a culture and then I
  936. bring your food from another country are
  937. you just didn't take it
  938. like once you look at it and say look
  939. is this hello does this happen does this
  940. have four
  941. is this how long has
  942. it Allah there is two types of judgments
  943. one judgment is how 24 7. the judgment
  944. is I cannot look at a person and say oh
  945. he's going to heaven
  946. we can't do that generally that's how
  947. long
  948. oh he's a sinner
  949. foreign
  950. and the one who's accused
  951. forgiven who gets to speak in my name
  952. you're not God to judge me judgment
  953. judge judge how to choose a friend
  954. judge how to
  955. don't you judge don't you use your mind
  956. but you go to a counselor
  957. just for taking a class
  958. but you need a counselor do you think
  959. do you think some advice that's a class
  960. how long you're gonna be married to that
  961. class
  962. a quarter
  963. honestly then you forget it for the rest
  964. of your life you go to the counselor
  965. you're sitting down and you're looking
  966. at
  967. oh
  968. don't mix judgment in terms we judge a
  969. person for life
  970. as my spouse or not these are two
  971. different things you use your judge
  972. before you get when you leave your house
  973. what clothes do you want to put
  974. when you go to class you collect
  975. department is not wrong okay
  976. you get to know their family so you know
  977. people don't like again
  978. yes a person could be different
  979. but
  980. do you have you investigated them yeah
  981. that's a good brother and a bad brother
  982. right are you sure he's not like the bad
  983. brother
  984. divorced not like a brother
  985. is but
  986. investigation this idea basically we're
  987. just gonna fall in love everything will
  988. work out
  989. this is this is
  990. another thing you need to know their
  991. friends what is
  992. the person will have the faith so let
  993. one of you see
  994. all of you
  995. with them
  996. mashallah
  997. this is what the prophet saws
  998. right number four what are the goals
  999. what's your goal to marry you
  1000. know
  1001. what are your goals
  1002. the person has to have a book they have
  1003. to have a life
  1004. you know
  1005. because why
  1006. you know I tell people even when you hit
  1007. one of the spouses selling the other you
  1008. are my advice you are my soul your eyes
  1009. you are my only friend oh my God
  1010. you can't be someone's own name
  1011. good friends
  1012. you want to have his friends
  1013. and then so now the relationship is not
  1014. loaded if he's your heart
  1015. and then release your everything's stuck
  1016. in that relationship you're gonna be
  1017. suffocating because you don't you do
  1018. they can't be out of your sight of life
  1019. right
  1020. so the idea is I think about these
  1021. things um I'm telling you like I just 25
  1022. years
  1023. people ask me to do marriage counseling
  1024. I thought I have no idea
  1025. sometimes doesn't work sometimes it
  1026. doesn't
  1027. people
  1028. you know how Nevada saves your marriage
  1029. because this is
  1030. Allah is the first love in my heart that
  1031. might be
  1032. and in the world of human beings are
  1033. like okay
  1034. and if I realize
  1035. and if my source of peace social peace
  1036. is your spouse
  1037. your spouse is a human
  1038. he or she
  1039. down a week a down month a down a year
  1040. for whatever reason if they don't have
  1041. your Iman and Allah
  1042. makes the relationship and not loaded
  1043. because you have a god
  1044. you get your peaceful
  1045. life and you have other friends so the
  1046. relationship between the husband and
  1047. wife is not are loaded and bare that's
  1048. why relationship fails because it is
  1049. longer than longer and then loaded and
  1050. loaded
  1051. you would suffer him in the relationship
  1052. because of your love you will suffocate
  1053. for the life
  1054. is humanity
  1055. nothing else in life except
  1056. you so that's very healthy when you're a
  1057. good believer in it because you're busy
  1058. life evaluate their faith and capture
  1059. the prophets of the world if a man comes
  1060. to you and you would like to talk to the
  1061. families
  1062. if you like
  1063. because
  1064. and it should reflect in your
  1065. relationship with people but you're
  1066. gonna live with your spouse
  1067. you're not gonna pray for to yourself
  1068. and pray to Allah but you're gonna have
  1069. to leave out
  1070. so
  1071. the person has to have a good character
  1072. any character
  1073. our language
  1074. is making people speak foul language
  1075. this is
  1076. you know I want to show you something
  1077. here
  1078. you know the words that Allah mentioned
  1079. you mentioned the word
  1080. is it's called the name of Allah
  1081. here's how people can talk
  1082. literally I have people telling me that
  1083. I love you you take me to dinner after
  1084. the movie
  1085. if you bring it with the flowers oh I
  1086. love it and then they make this easier
  1087. what happens when I don't make you feel
  1088. like that and I don't love it
  1089. then who do you love I hate you
  1090. okay please tell me between I love you
  1091. and I love me
  1092. you know people when they say touch
  1093. anything I love me
  1094. and then I love the way you make me feel
  1095. people approaching marriage like this
  1096. they have their life perfect
  1097. it's just missing the picture of a
  1098. picture of the husband they go and find
  1099. someone and then they put you in the
  1100. picture
  1101. it's a two-way and you just have to come
  1102. and fix it perfectly without the
  1103. managers that is established on looks
  1104. stunning
  1105. handsome beautiful people getting
  1106. married
  1107. because it was all about I wanted to
  1108. show my friends
  1109. that I was able to get
  1110. you you got the girl now he's not
  1111. talking to her
  1112. the world is telling me
  1113. and when we're talking to a highly
  1114. educated people
  1115. only guys
  1116. okay can we have time together
  1117. it didn't last a year and you're talking
  1118. about
  1119. highly highly Highly Educated people
  1120. information so that I don't know
  1121. literally so when it's about
  1122. right evaluate the generosity and the
  1123. ability to sacrifice
  1124. there is the love of giving
  1125. people get confused between the love of
  1126. taking the least
  1127. whatever you make me feel the love of
  1128. giving
  1129. pick someone that you will still
  1130. evaluation yeah that's great do they
  1131. pray
  1132. do the gift challenge
  1133. do you know when someone cares about
  1134. someone else other than themselves
  1135. that's it
  1136. good check mark
  1137. because if he cares about others and he
  1138. has that in him they're gonna do that
  1139. for you because they have that muscle
  1140. they have that muscle of killing white
  1141. mothers
  1142. and their education
  1143. nothing for their friends nothing this
  1144. you run away from that because that
  1145. person is
  1146. self-centered selfish
  1147. and you're gonna suffer
  1148. because love
  1149. is two types the love of taking
  1150. the husband is sacrificed
  1151. my wife
  1152. at the same time you're getting the
  1153. other person is giving he's giving and
  1154. taking and she's giving it
  1155. so that's the Dynamics
  1156. velocity by the way do you know
  1157. the word
  1158. um
  1159. foreign
  1160. do you know what's the meaning
  1161. the number one name meaning the number
  1162. two meaning
  1163. the generous
  1164. in the Arabic you can't even smell if
  1165. you're not generous
  1166. you're not even in the same universe
  1167. same universe
  1168. With Honor if you cannot read
  1169. it and you cannot be giving and you
  1170. cannot be saved someone who cares about
  1171. others you see hearing what this problem
  1172. is
  1173. [Music]
  1174. right now
  1175. so he's gonna quit
  1176. don't marry someone's good attention
  1177. you understand what they're gonna do in
  1178. their future
  1179. but if someone has a lot of learning
  1180. sound to make your judgment on now
  1181. without their potential
  1182. many mistakes young people make is
  1183. potential or he's gonna change
  1184. whatever they are right now whatever you
  1185. see what you need is what you got so
  1186. this is just um another fun consistency
  1187. to change
  1188. per month then they cannot handle it
  1189. they have to go back to being true that
  1190. means this is not someone does not have
  1191. the ability to text
  1192. and change
  1193. like this in links Allah
  1194. Allah
  1195. to purify them
  1196. to teach them the book to teach them the
  1197. wisdom what's the world recite and learn
  1198. the book
  1199. Escape
  1200. we only have two steps imagine you have
  1201. a ladder
  1202. you have like spectral step number four
  1203. that you can't even find the level
  1204. because you're missing two out of four
  1205. this idea of being able to take big
  1206. advice
  1207. and they cannot take advice and
  1208. criticism
  1209. right time
  1210. right case
  1211. intentions before
  1212. right intention right word right time
  1213. not only this and right taste don't
  1214. advise people in front of other people
  1215. if I advise one person in front of all
  1216. of you who's calling the game I am
  1217. exposing him I am destroying him that's
  1218. not an advice
  1219. consistency and ability to change
  1220. you have to ask yourself and that's what
  1221. coming to Allah for like five years
  1222. inspired me for a name and finally the
  1223. name is
  1224. awesome
  1225. it's a verb so a group of people
  1226. advising one another
  1227. to be consistent
  1228. to also be happy with them
  1229. that they if they find you find another
  1230. person
  1231. is not words
  1232. so what have they learned
  1233. [Music]
  1234. is them bearer of the believer does it
  1235. give you the image that you like to be
  1236. or the image
  1237. the mirror doesn't like
  1238. now
  1239. Five Points on love right from the
  1240. original emotion and could be strongest
  1241. spiritual
  1242. experience the strongest thing we can do
  1243. with our
  1244. s and I want you to know what has been
  1245. done to the word love in America and
  1246. today
  1247. it has been changed from describing the
  1248. highest emotion
  1249. the highest document is about not money
  1250. love the highest a person can put
  1251. towards you can give God money but you
  1252. can live in love
  1253. foreign
  1254. is not limited by time and space he
  1255. doesn't sleep he doesn't eat if even
  1256. angels or he can he gets remove Allah
  1257. said I receive takawa from you Lord
  1258. what we did the Lord Love Today the word
  1259. love is used in America to describe the
  1260. city
  1261. you can come out
  1262. to what to describe the physical action
  1263. s
  1264. what's the most famous argument is why
  1265. shall I think
  1266. you know how it's turned the word
  1267. because you changed
  1268. anything of the word start thinking oh
  1269. that's true
  1270. absolutely
  1271. never be judged for who you love I love
  1272. my cat I love
  1273. my dad
  1274. I love my brothers my sisters my
  1275. what is that have to do with the
  1276. physical action
  1277. what is the physical relationship we
  1278. what should the word love made it in the
  1279. physical action
  1280. should I make a very nice message no
  1281. actually there is no religion that
  1282. promotes the love between men and men
  1283. and women and women like Islam
  1284. embarrassing
  1285. I'm sorry
  1286. a man came to the prophet sallallahu
  1287. Allah
  1288. did you tell him
  1289. he went to him he said I love you
  1290. established on the love of Brotherhood
  1291. but that has nothing to do
  1292. hello
  1293. love is an emotions
  1294. we don't make decisions based on emotion
  1295. you want to take an advice today and
  1296. walk away with it
  1297. very fine the person in front of you
  1298. love them
  1299. because when you love someone the
  1300. emotion that is true the emotions and
  1301. then you are right to your brain your
  1302. mind everything it overrides fear
  1303. is number one it all provides everything
  1304. politics and number two love
  1305. itself
  1306. the capital
  1307. because we love that person
  1308. and because we are afraid of you and
  1309. because we hate so many great decisions
  1310. based on the prophet saws
  1311. so how do you go about meditative
  1312. always like a person before you
  1313. completely open yourself for a lot
  1314. very specific questions that we asked
  1315. before
  1316. their past their friends their family
  1317. their sisters their ability to change
  1318. their sacrifice
  1319. their generosity and all this in the
  1320. person then allow yourself to fall in
  1321. love and go on with the marriage
  1322. if you come with the emotions first then
  1323. try to reverse and say no no he's good
  1324. that's one of the things that I advise
  1325. rise in the north this is none of them
  1326. no no no no he's good
  1327. because what is the love was not enough
  1328. is two types the love of taking and the
  1329. level of giving right
  1330. what are what we are attracted to the
  1331. prophet saws
  1332. we're attracted to physical attraction
  1333. Express we're attracted to families and
  1334. then we're attracted to fail the prophet
  1335. salallahu make sure that you choose
  1336. based on faith first and then truth
  1337. whatever you like after that like you
  1338. take this there now look at the physical
  1339. attraction if the faith is there
  1340. look at that
  1341. okay
  1342. so the idea here is
  1343. function status finally status and faith
  1344. blood is the prophet saying please don't
  1345. love it no no that's not
  1346. saying make sure
  1347. it's it's up to you what do you want to
  1348. marry after that that's up to you it's
  1349. based on
  1350. issues
  1351. foreign
  1352. the foundation your hands
  1353. um steps of getting married
  1354. these are the three
  1355. go back two people are talking to each
  1356. other they didn't say no but when two
  1357. people are talking to each other
  1358. you know that she's already in the
  1359. process of talking to another
  1360. um
  1361. oh
  1362. okay
  1363. and people for years
  1364. right so
  1365. or not
  1366. said
  1367. do not have boyfriends
  1368. because the prophet saws
  1369. relationship one of the teachings of the
  1370. Quran do not
  1371. have
  1372. which is
  1373. friends and girlfriends
  1374. your choice
  1375. it's a sign it's a miracle it's a Marvel
  1376. right we take it just based on emotions
  1377. let's talk about the differences that
  1378. you know different cultures Islam spirit
  1379. because of marriage many times
  1380. you have you know we don't discriminate
  1381. based on ethnicity based on this
  1382. the prophet gave us a category Faith
  1383. character and
  1384. and then truth if someone comes and he
  1385. has a good fake but you don't like that
  1386. you don't have to learn always make sure
  1387. that that's the foundation you get what
  1388. I'm talking about
  1389. foreign
  1390. you know across hate
  1391. maybe perhaps with this thing
  1392. and Allah
  1393. don't make a choice to marry someone
  1394. based on emotions you don't make a
  1395. choice to divorce someone might hate the
  1396. gut of your wife
  1397. Allah
  1398. Allah will put in her there's so much
  1399. goodness
  1400. incredible
  1401. uh
  1402. this is you know
  1403. this is the end of the lecture because
  1404. we want to create a shot I'm Gonna Leave
  1405. This we're trying to trying to reach
  1406. I try to my best
  1407. advice one another that's why after
  1408. every lecture we have the lecture but we
  1409. have especially when it comes something
  1410. one-on-one
  1411. if you didn't sign up
  1412. if you have a question and you don't
  1413. want to ask in front of others
  1414. many students talking about relationship
  1415. with their parents they're talking about
  1416. like they like a person and they want to
  1417. get married sincere advice
  1418. works
  1419. and subhanallah every time we follow
  1420. it's amazing and beautiful
  1421. the results are amazing and beautiful
  1422. 15 years ago or even medical student
  1423. students
  1424. they came to me and I said get married
  1425. now they both doctors and they together
  1426. that would change that America is in the
  1427. uh
  1428. you know
  1429. so what is the founder what is the CEO
  1430. beautiful couple of months at least
  1431. so it's all happening I talked to both
  1432. of their families there is a will there
  1433. is a way
  1434. and hello
  1435. but you have to take advisory
  1436. so that we're looking for people like
  1437. maybe if you
  1438. get in writing English
  1439. students
  1440. you can help us if you if you are
  1441. awesome and you know and good writing
  1442. skills that's also good
  1443. um what about the person it's not about
  1444. not everything is solved with a lecture
  1445. listen
  1446. with the people that we're working with
  1447. other teachers
  1448. organization not a lecture based
  1449. organization not everything is sometimes
  1450. you just need to talk about problem you
  1451. don't need a life right and then uh
  1452. questions try to read you can send it on
  1453. an email address in your email I'll
  1454. check my email there
  1455. to implement
  1456. bring more teachers to be available for
  1457. the students
  1458. because talk to the person of knowledge
  1459. if you can't talk to them you you can
  1460. attend all the lectures in the world
  1461. lived right next to his Masjid
  1462. to be ready
  1463. that's the best of mankind
  1464. he was available 24 7.
  1465. to be available for people
  1466. bring
  1467. that model we want to bring that follows
  1468. learning together you know teaching you
  1469. know and then
  1470. we don't have we don't bring all
  1471. teachers
  1472. and we had 600 kids
  1473. that they did not go to Halloween had a
  1474. mind-blowing
  1475. program for them we made it about
  1476. learning about angels the whole topic
  1477. about angels 600 kids had so much fun
  1478. learns who was running the show not me
  1479. obviously but
  1480. upper high school and college and kids
  1481. walked away until now there's kids we
  1482. give them the names of the angels and
  1483. their jobs
  1484. so they hang it on their lanyards the
  1485. kids to understand holding the lanyards
  1486. and walking around the MCA with it
  1487. they're eating can go and they got so
  1488. attacked to the whole idea
  1489. so we're looking for Innovation how can
  1490. we in the original way if I use the
  1491. modern means so we want a newsletter how
  1492. to reach here please come it's an open
  1493. platform it's not about one person or
  1494. one child us all together you know
  1495. what's your friend's name
  1496. you can bring our programs we need to
  1497. talk about someone advised me someone
  1498. your MSA leaders they say talk about
  1499. this obviously this is not a one-time
  1500. you know after ratio again
  1501. I think there's a rule upstairs where
  1502. did you choose the room for that we will
  1503. talk about that inshallah I'll go and
  1504. then we can talk to Zachary
  1505. [Applause]