The meaning of His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He): “And he does not speak from [his own] desire. It is not but a revelation that is revealed,” and that the Messenger forbids?
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The Shaykh: His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He): [An-Najm 53:1-4], does it have an interpretation in your view of this text: [An-Najm 53:3-4]?
Another questioner: Abu 'Abdullah, he is asking about you.The Shaykh .
The questioner: By Allah... the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: The meaning of the speech, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
The Shaykh:[An-Najm 53:2], who is your companion? We don't even get the answer?
The questioner: I want to understand from you.
The Shaykh: How do you want to understand from me? A questioner and a respondent do not meet.
The questioner: You are the one who recited the verse and we need to understand from you, the meaning of the verse, what is intended by the verse, and why the verse was revealed.
The Shaykh: And what is the benefit if I understood from you, and you were understanding the opposite of me?
The questioner: No - may Allah forbid - we are not understanding better than you.
The Shaykh: I am saying the opposite of me, not better than me.
Another questioner: What does the opposite mean?
The Shaykh: The opposite of me.
The questioner: Ah, the opposite of you, we understand from you [everyone laughs!].
The Shaykh: Okay; why didn't you understand the previous issues from me?
The questioner : Why?
The Shaykh: Why didn't you understand the previous issues from me?
The questioner: By Allah, I like to discuss.
The Shaykh: What do you like?
The questioner: I like to discuss.
Another questioner : He likes to discuss.
The Shaykh: If you like to discuss, we like to discuss and discuss, and I believe this whole session is that we like to discuss and discuss?
The questioner: Of course.
The Shaykh: If you like to discuss, did you hear in your time the saying of the Messenger (peace be upon him):Sunan Ibn Majah 3390Hasan (Darussalam)?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Do you believe in this hadith?
The questioner: Of course.
The Shaykh: This contradicts your previous statement; because you said: Only Allah forbids.
The questioner: The interpretation of this hadith is clear, and cursing intoxicants is in it...
The Shaykh: I am not asking you if it is clear, my brother, the meaning, may Allah guide us and you, the hadith is clear as the sun in the fourth hour of the day, but this hadith is not in the Qur'an, and you said the one who forbids is Allah only, and here now the hadith tells you:Sunan Ibn Majah 3390Hasan (Darussalam).
The questioner: Yes, and this is not the prohibition that came in the Qur'an; intoxicants came as confirmation of what came in the original creed, which is the Noble Qur'an.
The Shaykh: Where did the Qur'an forbid intoxicants?
The questioner : In many verses.
The Shaykh: Do not tire yourself because the earth is inhabited, do not tire yourself, there is no prohibition of intoxicants in the Qur'an as stated in the hadith.
The questioner: But - O Shaykh - this is what specifies that:.
The Shaykh: Of course, but this does not mean that it is forbidden.
The questioner: I believe there are other verses, so the Muslims avoided the...
The Shaykh: Correct, I like discussion, but there is something I like more than discussion. We ask you:Sunan Ibn Majah 3390Hasan (Darussalam), this is the wording of the Messenger, not Allah in the Qur'an, and you just now said Allah is the one who forbids, and if you are truly wanting to learn from me, and I am a slave - of all slaves - I tell you something: Allah is the one who forbids and He is the one who permits, but Allah grants to His Prophet to convey to people prohibition and permission on the tongue of the Lord of the Worlds, sometimes in the Qur'an and sometimes in the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So when he tells you: Sunan Ibn Majah 3390Hasan (Darussalam), this is not from himself. And therefore I asked you just now: What do you understand for us from His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He): [An-Najm 53:1-4]? So his saying: is not from himself, it is from the Lord of the Worlds. But when you say that prohibition is from Allah, you may be making people understand something you do not intend; why? Because these two hadiths come to you, you say: This hadith is correct, yes, how is this correct and you just now said: Prohibition is only from Allah?! And you are trying now to find a verse in the Qur'an that explicitly forbids intoxicants, [Al-Isra 17:78], these details are not there, where did these details come from?
The questioner: He... (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: Where did these details come from?
The questioner: From the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : So then?
Another questioner: And this is from the mass-transmitted reports.
The questioner: The authentic from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: No, it is not mass-transmitted, and this has another discussion; meaning, if it is not mass-transmitted, do we not accept it?
Another questioner: What - Shaykh - do you mean it is not mass-transmitted?
The Shaykh: No, no problem, we need to see, if it is not mass-transmitted, do we not accept it?
The questioner: The prayer that we pray, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray it; because it was transmitted generation after generation after generation after generation, so the prayer reached us as we pray it today.
The Shaykh: A question comes to you: This prayer that all Muslims are praying, are they praying like each other or is there a difference?
The questioner: There is some... once in Kuwait.
The Shaykh: You did not answer me!! Meaning, this is your habit, that you do not answer until we stop asking?!... These Muslims, for whom the prayer was mass-transmitted, is their prayer all one or does each one pray differently?
The questioner: All of them have one prayer.
The Shaykh: What do I want in Kuwait?!
The questioner: All of them have one prayer.
The Shaykh: All of them one? Do you not know people who pray like this, and people who pray like this, and people who pray like this, and people who sit cross-legged, and people who sit on their mats, and so on, how is it one?
The questioner: But the number of rak'ahs... all of them are the same, for example, the hands, some people put their hands like this shape, some people let them hang down.
The Shaykh: You will repeat my words back to me!! This is our merchandise returned to us, what do you want from us, my brother, this is our merchandise?! But we are asking you, is it mass-transmitted? Okay, the hadith we asked you about, is it mass-transmittedSunan Ibn Majah 3390Hasan (Darussalam)? Meaning, you - O Abu 'Abdullah - your problem is a problem, you open gaps and then you cannot close them, you are in the east and you jump like that...
The questioner: ... I am convinced by the answer.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: I am convinced by the answer because I know the position and I know what will happen; meaning, it is not a story I do not know; I know, but I am convinced and I know where this talk will lead, I prefer to stay in my place and not make a mistake, and not say anything.
The Shaykh: But is this fair?
The questioner: By Allah, I am comfortable like this.
The Shaykh: You are comfortable like this, what is this called, selfishness or love or affection or?
The questioner : Allah knows best.
Another questioner: The fundamentals and branches in religion, the fundamentals, among the Muslim brothers around the same topic; meaning, there are no fundamentals that Muslims care about, they are branch matters.
The Shaykh: What is the benefit? Abu 'Abdullah is determined that he will not move from his place an inch, what is the benefit?
Another questioner: Our Shaykh, the hadith... regarding the temporary marriage - for example - ... the Messenger is direct.
The questioner: We turn a page, meaning.
The Shaykh: This is your position, O Abu 'Abdullah, but in the branches or in the creed too?
The questioner: By Allah, in the creed I believe, but in the branches, the creed has no room, meaning, one...
The Shaykh: Meaning, do you feel now that you answered me? Did you answer my question?
The questioner: By Allah, I answered you to the extent of what I know.
The Shaykh: Okay; what do you know, what was my question?
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh: What do you know, what was my question?
The questioner: Your question, you asked me about the creed and the branches, is that not so?
The Shaykh: Are you asking me again or am I asking you?
The questioner: I am repeating your question.
The Shaykh: That this position you expressed, that you are comfortable with it; meaning, that you do not answer.
The questioner: Do you want the correct one or not?
The Shaykh: Be patient, my question was that this position is only in the rulings or also in the creed? Is my question understood?
The questioner : Understood, understood.
The Shaykh: Perhaps I understand your answer.
The questioner: By Allah, in everything.
The Shaykh: In everything, meaning, let it be, be comfortable.
The questioner: I almost prefer listening more than discussion.
The Shaykh: I wish it were so!
The questioner: I like to listen more.
The Shaykh: I wish, O Abu 'Abdullah, it were so!!
(1) By the star when it descends, (2) Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred, (3) Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination. (4) It is not but a revelation revealed,
وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَى * مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَى * وَمَا يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى * إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى(3) Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination. (4) It is not but a revelation revealed,
وَمَا يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى * إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَىAnother questioner: Abu 'Abdullah, he is asking about you.The Shaykh .
The questioner: By Allah... the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: The meaning of the speech, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
The Shaykh:
Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed
مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْThe questioner: I want to understand from you.
The Shaykh: How do you want to understand from me? A questioner and a respondent do not meet.
The questioner: You are the one who recited the verse and we need to understand from you, the meaning of the verse, what is intended by the verse, and why the verse was revealed.
The Shaykh: And what is the benefit if I understood from you, and you were understanding the opposite of me?
The questioner: No - may Allah forbid - we are not understanding better than you.
The Shaykh: I am saying the opposite of me, not better than me.
Another questioner: What does the opposite mean?
The Shaykh: The opposite of me.
The questioner: Ah, the opposite of you, we understand from you [everyone laughs!].
The Shaykh: Okay; why didn't you understand the previous issues from me?
The questioner : Why?
The Shaykh: Why didn't you understand the previous issues from me?
The questioner: By Allah, I like to discuss.
The Shaykh: What do you like?
The questioner: I like to discuss.
Another questioner : He likes to discuss.
The Shaykh: If you like to discuss, we like to discuss and discuss, and I believe this whole session is that we like to discuss and discuss?
The questioner: Of course.
The Shaykh: If you like to discuss, did you hear in your time the saying of the Messenger (peace be upon him):
Every intoxicant is Khamr (wine) and every Khamr is unlawful.
كلُّ مسكرٍ خمرٌ ، وكلُّ خمرٍ حرامٌThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Do you believe in this hadith?
The questioner: Of course.
The Shaykh: This contradicts your previous statement; because you said: Only Allah forbids.
The questioner: The interpretation of this hadith is clear, and cursing intoxicants is in it...
The Shaykh: I am not asking you if it is clear, my brother, the meaning, may Allah guide us and you, the hadith is clear as the sun in the fourth hour of the day, but this hadith is not in the Qur'an, and you said the one who forbids is Allah only, and here now the hadith tells you:
Every intoxicant is Khamr (wine) and every Khamr is unlawful.
كلُّ مسكرٍ خمرٌ ، وكلُّ خمرٍ حرامٌThe questioner: Yes, and this is not the prohibition that came in the Qur'an; intoxicants came as confirmation of what came in the original creed, which is the Noble Qur'an.
The Shaykh: Where did the Qur'an forbid intoxicants?
The questioner : In many verses.
The Shaykh: Do not tire yourself because the earth is inhabited, do not tire yourself, there is no prohibition of intoxicants in the Qur'an as stated in the hadith.
The questioner: But - O Shaykh - this is what specifies that:
do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated
لا تَقْرَبُوا الصَّلاةَ وَأَنْتُمْ سُكَارَىThe Shaykh: Of course, but this does not mean that it is forbidden.
The questioner: I believe there are other verses
So avoid it.
فَاجْتَنِبُوهُThe Shaykh: Correct, I like discussion, but there is something I like more than discussion. We ask you:
Every intoxicant is Khamr (wine) and every Khamr is unlawful.
كلُّ مسكرٍ خمرٌ ، وكلُّ خمرٍ حرامٌEvery intoxicant is Khamr (wine) and every Khamr is unlawful.
كلُّ مسكرٍ خمرٌ ، وكلُّ خمرٍ حرامٌ(1) By the star when it descends, (2) Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred, (3) Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination. (4) It is not but a revelation revealed,
وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَى * مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَى * وَمَا يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى * إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَىAnd every intoxicant is forbidden
وكلُّ خمرٍ حرامIndeed, the recitation of dawn is ever witnessed.
إِنَّ قُرْآنَ الْفَجْرِ كَانَ مَشْهُودًاThe questioner: He... (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: Where did these details come from?
The questioner: From the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : So then?
Another questioner: And this is from the mass-transmitted reports.
The questioner: The authentic from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: No, it is not mass-transmitted, and this has another discussion; meaning, if it is not mass-transmitted, do we not accept it?
Another questioner: What - Shaykh - do you mean it is not mass-transmitted?
The Shaykh: No, no problem, we need to see, if it is not mass-transmitted, do we not accept it?
The questioner: The prayer that we pray, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray it; because it was transmitted generation after generation after generation after generation, so the prayer reached us as we pray it today.
The Shaykh: A question comes to you: This prayer that all Muslims are praying, are they praying like each other or is there a difference?
The questioner: There is some... once in Kuwait.
The Shaykh: You did not answer me!! Meaning, this is your habit, that you do not answer until we stop asking?!... These Muslims, for whom the prayer was mass-transmitted, is their prayer all one or does each one pray differently?
The questioner: All of them have one prayer.
The Shaykh: What do I want in Kuwait?!
The questioner: All of them have one prayer.
The Shaykh: All of them one? Do you not know people who pray like this, and people who pray like this, and people who pray like this, and people who sit cross-legged, and people who sit on their mats, and so on, how is it one?
The questioner: But the number of rak'ahs... all of them are the same, for example, the hands, some people put their hands like this shape, some people let them hang down.
The Shaykh: You will repeat my words back to me!! This is our merchandise returned to us, what do you want from us, my brother, this is our merchandise?! But we are asking you, is it mass-transmitted? Okay, the hadith we asked you about, is it mass-transmitted
Every intoxicant is Khamr (wine) and every Khamr is unlawful.
كلُّ مسكرٍ خمرٌ ، وكلُّ خمرٍ حرامٌThe questioner: ... I am convinced by the answer.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: I am convinced by the answer because I know the position and I know what will happen; meaning, it is not a story I do not know; I know, but I am convinced and I know where this talk will lead, I prefer to stay in my place and not make a mistake, and not say anything.
The Shaykh: But is this fair?
The questioner: By Allah, I am comfortable like this.
The Shaykh: You are comfortable like this, what is this called, selfishness or love or affection or?
The questioner : Allah knows best.
Another questioner: The fundamentals and branches in religion, the fundamentals, among the Muslim brothers around the same topic; meaning, there are no fundamentals that Muslims care about, they are branch matters.
The Shaykh: What is the benefit? Abu 'Abdullah is determined that he will not move from his place an inch, what is the benefit?
Another questioner: Our Shaykh, the hadith... regarding the temporary marriage - for example - ... the Messenger is direct.
The questioner: We turn a page, meaning.
The Shaykh: This is your position, O Abu 'Abdullah, but in the branches or in the creed too?
The questioner: By Allah, in the creed I believe, but in the branches, the creed has no room, meaning, one...
The Shaykh: Meaning, do you feel now that you answered me? Did you answer my question?
The questioner: By Allah, I answered you to the extent of what I know.
The Shaykh: Okay; what do you know, what was my question?
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh: What do you know, what was my question?
The questioner: Your question, you asked me about the creed and the branches, is that not so?
The Shaykh: Are you asking me again or am I asking you?
The questioner: I am repeating your question.
The Shaykh: That this position you expressed, that you are comfortable with it; meaning, that you do not answer.
The questioner: Do you want the correct one or not?
The Shaykh: Be patient, my question was that this position is only in the rulings or also in the creed? Is my question understood?
The questioner : Understood, understood.
The Shaykh: Perhaps I understand your answer.
The questioner: By Allah, in everything.
The Shaykh: In everything, meaning, let it be, be comfortable.
The questioner: I almost prefer listening more than discussion.
The Shaykh: I wish it were so!
The questioner: I like to listen more.
The Shaykh: I wish, O Abu 'Abdullah, it were so!!
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