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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the company of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon him and his companions.
Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon him and his companions.
And I will continue.
My brothers and sisters,
One of the most fundamental factors and features of this life, this earth,
I would like to say this time, but I think it’s not just this time, it’s all times,
is the fact of uncertainty.
And that is the reason why one of the most critical skills and abilities to develop in life
is the ability to deal with ambiguity,
the ability to remain with equanimity,
the ability to still steer a course to your destination,
despite whatever is happening around you in the world.
Uncertainty and ambiguity is the only certainty in the world, in life.
The one thing about which you can be absolutely certain is
that I do not know what will happen tomorrow.
Right?
And as I said, I would like to say that
this is a principle,
I would like to say that this is a peculiarity,
this is a peculiarity to this time,
but that’s not true.
This has been the situation as long as humanity has lived on the face of the earth.
Tomorrow is always uncertain.
Take the time,
I’m just going to give you one example.
Take the time of the best of the best,
of Rasulallah .
If you read his seerah,
and you should read his seerah,
you study the seerah,
not just read his seerah,
if you study the seerah,
what comes across?
What is it that comes across?
Stability,
absolute predictability,
total certainty,
or total instability.
Completely unpredictable.
We don’t know what will happen tomorrow.
Which one?
Is it an hints怪 .
Is it deflectibility ?
What’s the praising ?
Is it conclusion ?
What is it?
There’s one clear question
that depends on the situation of humanity.
What’s theajobal universe?
It’s going up and going down,
it’s going up and going down,
and it’s making discoveries.
Let’s be honest to make an excuses wherever sums backdrop a poem.
This realise these minimal things-
this change in enjoyable things,
BC or whether you are talking about 4000 AD, whether you are talking about a bird flying
through the air or a mosquito or a bee or a locust or whether you are talking about
stealth bombers or A380 twin deck aircraft or a Cessna single seater, single propeller,
anything that is in the air is affected by the law of gravity.
Yes or no?
So if I come to you and I say, you know what, this was true, we don’t deny that, but today
we live in America and this is 2025, the law of gravity does not apply.
What will you say to me?
You will say, no.
You will say, no.
You will say to me, your brother-in-law is a neurologist, why don’t you ask him to prescribe
a brain scan for you?
Because something is, first of all, we have to see whether you have a brain itself and
then we see if that brain is functioning or…
And I can give you many examples, I don’t want to waste your time.
You have enough intelligence to figure out more examples.
Take any fundamental law.
What is fundamental about a fundamental law?
That it does not change with time and place.
Yes?
If it changed with time and place, it would not be a fundamental law, as simple as that.
And that is why the importance of Al-Quran Al-Kareem.
Because the same one,
Jalla Jalaluhu Amma Nawaluhu Al-Hayyul Qayyum Malikoo Samawati Wal Ardh
Khaliqoo Kulli Ashyaa Wal Ahwal
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala Jalla Jalaluhu
The same one who created the law of gravity,
the same one who created the law of thermodynamics,
the same one who created every fundamental law,
created laws of life,
which are also fundamental.
Which we know today as, in the Shari’i Stira, in the Islamic terminology, we call them
Halal and Haram.
What is Halal and Haram?
They are fundamental laws.
They don’t change with time.
They do not change with time.
Pork.
I’m going to ask you a question.
Give me answers.
Pork.
Halal or Haram?
Haram.
You sure?
Yes.
Thousand years ago, was it Halal or Haram?
Thousand years.
So now it will be Halal or Haram.
What about alcohol and all intoxicants?
Alcohol and marijuana and you name it.
Any drug, anything which alters the mind,
no matter how it is taken,
whether you drink it or you smoke it or you inject it in your blood or whatever.
Halal or Haram?
Haram.
Today, tomorrow, day after.
In America, is it Halal or Haram?
Haram.
Right?
It is Haram.
I’m talking about Islamic law.
I’m not talking about somebody who changes the law.
No.
No.
In Morocco, in Syria, in Pakistan, in India.
Haram.
Zina.
Fornication.
Adultery.
Halal or Haram?
Huh?
Why so weak?
Halal, right?
So if I come to you and I say, you know, I agree it’s Haram.
But I’ve got a peculiar situation.
My situation, nobody wants to marry me.
Nobody will give me.
His daughter, nobody wants to marry me.
I am desperate.
I need sex.
It’s a, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a drive like hunger.
I didn’t imagine it.
Go talk to anybody you want.
So allow me to have sex with somebody without getting married.
I’m trying.
Nobody wants to.
Nobody wants to give me his daughter to marry.
What can I do?
There are women who are available who I can pay money for one night.
I can have sex with them.
So let me allow.
Allow me.
Please permit me.
I may not even give money.
I take somebody out on a date.
No problem.
Halal, whatever.
But I’m not married to that person.
Please allow.
Because I have nobody else.
What to do?
I need sex.
Halal or Haram?
So now I come to you.
And I say, I do not own my house.
I need to own my house.
For which I can only own a house if I borrow on interest.
Interest based mortgage.
Please allow me.
Halal or Haram?
Hey?
You know where I’m coming from, right?
My brothers and sisters.
The whole world.
Please let me make this very, very clear.
The whole world.
And every single living Alim on the face of the earth.
Because one of the ones who are dead can’t talk.
So we talk about the living one.
Every single one.
American or Lama.
Saudi Arabian or Lama.
Indian or Lama.
Pakistani or Lama.
Syrian or Lama.
Iraqi or Lama.
You name it.
All the items.
If they come together and they say that interest based borrowing for student loans
or interest based borrowing for housing or interest based borrowing to start a business
or any kind of interest based borrowing is halal in America or Syria or Lebanon or somewhere.
If they all come together and give you one joint fatwa, does it become halal?
No.
Why?
Why not?
What is Haram?
Why?
Allah says.
Allah says.
Allah said so.
Allah said so.
Who made interest haram?
Me.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala not only made it haram.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala said the one who does not want to follow this.
The one who does who still wants to borrow an interest then take a declaration of war on behalf of from Allah and his Rasul alaihi salatu was salam.
So ask yourself a very simple question.
Is it more important for you to own a house or a home so called home?
Is it only in America you buy homes and homes are homes are made.
They are not bought.
You don’t buy a home.
You buy a house.
You’re buying.
If you’re buying that concrete structure, it’s not a home.
It’s a house.
I can convert that into a dog kennel.
Tomorrow.
No.
I can buy a house and keep dogs in it.
I don’t need to live in that.
I can convert it, convert that into a warehouse.
How is it a home?
It’s a house.
Home is what it becomes when you have a beautiful life in it.
So my point is choose.
Is it more important for you to have a house?
That you own so called in this life and no matter whether you own that for five minutes.
Over they own that for 500 years.
You’re going to leave it.
And then you go and stand before Allah.
As who?
Azu.
What do you call the one who declare who accepts a declaration of war?
What do you call him?
Huh?
enemy
enemy
you want to stand before Allah
as his enemy
don’t get fooled by people who give fatwas
a fatwa is an opinion of a scholar
that’s it
period
that’s all it is
it’s an opinion
does it have validity
no
what has validity
the hukam
the ruling
the law
so if there is a law
and somebody gives a fatwa
for example right now in America
there is a big force on
legally being in this country
anyone who does not have legal documents
there is a self-deport
meaning
go on your own
otherwise
the immigration
enforcement will be on you
ICE will be on you
and you will be iced
right
big force
so now if somebody
for example
you don’t have documentation
and you come to
you go to an attorney
immigration attorney
and the attorney says
don’t worry about that
it’s okay
doesn’t apply to you
go enjoy yourself
what do you think will happen
does it make you legal
if the ICE agents catch you
what do you want to say
oh no no hold on a second
my attorney said it’s fine
the ICE agent will say
think about that
when you are sitting in my car
your attorney
who is your attorney
this country has a law man
your attorney
your attorney is a goon
I mean
what is your attorney
what is your attorney
what is your attorney
what is your attorney
what is your attorney
please
I have seen fatwas to say
interest based student loans are halal
interest based mortgages are halal
marrying a woman
for one night is halal
so called marrying
paying zakat
is wajib
once in your lifetime
ah
right
paying zakat in America
is not necessary
because your income tax is zakat
I’m telling you fatwas
I’m not exaggerating
I am
these are fatwas given by so-called alims
times have changed
times have changed
that is why we have fundamental laws
that is why we have fundamental laws
you don’t say times have changed
therefore gravity is no longer applicable
do you say that
if you say that what will happen
you will find out when you hit the earth
jump from the blade at 20,000 feet and say
I’m jumping over Washington DC
this is American airspace
gravity does not function here
gravity is invalid
there’s no gravity
it’s 2025
say chef please pull your phone that parachute
no no no forget it
all right
I’m not exaggerating
I’m not exaggerating
I’m not exaggerating
you will find out
you will find out
you go bow
you go bow
khalas
khalas
yeah
brothers and sisters please do not allow people to fool you
brothers and sisters please do not allow people to fool you
because the day will come
when you will stand before Allah
I know a case and I’ll end with this
this is a friend of mine
may Allah give him janatul firdaus
he passed away recently
he was a builder
so I’m not exaggerating
I’m not exaggerating
I’m not exaggerating
so I was in Hyderabad in my city
I was in Hyderabad and one day for some reason I needed to meet him
so I called him
he said I am at the building site
I am supposed to give this house over to the owner in the next two days
so you want to come
just why don’t come here
so I went there
and I see this house
fantastic house
all Italian marble and this and that and crystal and you name it
fabulous mansion
so this friend of mine said you come and show the house
so we are walking in the house
and all getting furnished so fabulous furniture and so on
he takes me into the basement there’s a huge swimming pool
it’s heated
in the basement
right in the multiple car garage you name it
and he tells me you know the interesting thing is
he said this guy whose house this is
he has never stepped into the house
he said he told me
my wife will come and she will tell you whatever needs to be done
I will come only when the house is completed
and you hand me the key
then I want to come to the house
before that I don’t want to see the house
I said okay
now house got completed
my friend went over
gave him the keys
he said okay
and he said please come
he said I’ll come tomorrow morning
he took the keys
thank you very much
and that night
he died
he never saw the house
he never saw the house that he built
hmm
my brother and sisters please
have mercy on yourself first
people say you should be kind to others and so on no
I submit you be kind to yourself
be kind to others of course but be kind to yourself
have mercy on yourself
do not accept a declaration of war from Allah
please
you don’t need that
we want to meet Allah SWT and
Allah SWT as His obedient slaves
who tried to do our best
I know we can’t do what we should do
but at least we can say
Ya Allah I never deliberately disobeyed you
I did not go against you
I did not deliberately disobey or break some of your
you know your rules
I tried my best
maybe I slipped maybe I fell down
maybe I forgot something and so on
please forgive me
this is how we want to meet Allah right
we want to meet Rasool Allah
suddenly we say Ya Rasool Allah
I am your Ummati
I am from your Ummah
please make Shafaaat for me
please intercede for me with Allah SWT
Prophet said
the ones who deal in interest
on the day of judgement the Malaika will come
and they will give them swords
and they will say go fight
that is the one
that is the one
the one on his throne on the arsh
that is the one you accepted the declaration of war from
go fight
please don’t do this to yourself
and anyone tells you any of this stuff
get up and walk away
Allah gave you two legs for some reason right
use them
just get up and walk out
don’t even argue
don’t waste your time arguing with them
no no no that’s a waste of time because
people who are saying all this stuff
they won’t listen to you
don’t waste your time
just get up and walk away
and never go again near those people
Right
Allah said for you is
only to convey
I have conveyed
Allah is my witness
and all of you are witness
that I conveyed the message of the Qur’an
as it is supposed to be conveyed
and may Allah have mercy on the noble Prophet
and his family and his followers
may Allah have mercy on them