The Meaning of Purification and Cultivation.

The Shaykh : Here, you must think, and we have been thinking about this for decades. It has become clear to us that the matter which all sincere Muslim scholars and students of knowledge should focus on is what you may have heard us refer to as purification and cultivation. Have you heard of this?

The questioner : Purification.

The Shaykh : And cultivation.

The questioner : And cultivation.

The Shaykh : Yes, have you heard of this and do you understand what is meant by it?

The questioner : I understand what is meant, but I have not heard of it.

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : I mean purification and cultivation.

The Shaykh : is it

The questioner : From your words, I now understand what is meant, but I have not heard of it or it has not reached me...

The Shaykh : You have not heard of it? Well, I will say that by purification, I think you know that, as Allah the Exalted said: But you know well that this Islam described in the Qur'an in this verse and others, such as His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He: You know for certain that this Islam mentioned in the Qur'an is today, in our reality, something else. Do you know this?

The questioner : Yes, I know.

The Shaykh : With certainty.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Well, now, this man who is to be pledged allegiance to, with which Islam does he rule? Is it this Islam that rules today?

The questioner : No, he does not rule with the Islam of the select few among the people.

The Shaykh : Yes, he rules with the Islam that Allah mentioned in the Qur'an.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Yes, this Islam mentioned in the Qur'an today is far from many Muslim scholars in the lands of the world, completely far. Do you know this fact?

The questioner : Certainly, this is certain.

The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. So, those who want to pledge allegiance to this imam will be a small group.

The questioner : Certainly, just as Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) began.

The Shaykh : Be patient, be patient. Yes, but this group now cannot say that this is...The Shaykh : Our leader is not pledged to and is not the caliph of the general Muslims. They cannot say that this is...The Shaykh : Our leader. Why? Because we live under a purely jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic age of ignorance) rule.

The questioner : Well, my master, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : Do not rush me. I want to explain to you.

The questioner : Please.

The Shaykh : What does it mean? Do not forget that I am in the process of explaining the meaning of purification and cultivation.

The questioner : Yes, please go ahead.

The Shaykh : So, purification is the undertaking of efforts by many Muslim scholars to bring forth the Islam that Allah the Mighty and Majestic mentioned in the Qur'an. Over the years and days, many strange matters have entered into this Islam. This purification requires decades. Without a doubt, your mind is free of this; your mind is free of the efforts that the elite of Muslim scholars must devote to purifying this Islam from what has entered it and presenting it as purified Islam to the general Muslims.

The questioner : Well, my master, why does it require decades if the Qur'an and the Sunnah are preserved?

The Shaykh : That is the problem.

The questioner: Yes

The Shaykh : That is the problem, my brother. The Qur'an and the Sunnah are preserved, but they are preserved by a few individuals among the scholars. And although they are preserved, they are interpreted with a ta'wil (figurative interpretation) that is understood, and that understanding is wrong. Therefore, you know the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him):

The questioner : (Peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh Seventy-two sects. These are Muslims. Where are you? You say the Qur'an and the Sunnah are in our hands. Yes, but this Qur'an and the Sunnah in our hands, their understanding over the... their understanding is wrong. Do you want to imagine it as a buried treasure? With every month, year, or two years that passes, dust and trees and so on accumulate over it. To uncover this treasure and reveal it in its true form requires tremendous efforts. This is an approximate example, and the reality is far more dangerous, as known by the people of knowledge. For us to reveal this Qur'an and this Sunnah in the original Islamic meaning, this requires hundreds of scholars, not tens, and decades, not ten years. I am now bringing closer to you what you find hard to believe. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), whom no woman will bear like him because he is the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers...

The questioner : (Peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : How long did he remain in his people calling them to tawhid (the oneness of Allah)? Thirteen years. Well, how many years do you think we must call among the people who first claim to be Muslims, and second claim to have understood tawhid, when in reality they have not understood tawhid, but in the name of tawhid they are enemies of tawhid? How long will the Muslim callers remain to make the Muslims understand this good word: If the Messenger, to whom revelation was sent from the sky every moment and minute, remained in his people for thirteen years, and there was no Messenger after him and no Prophet after him, if we imagine that the burden placed on the shoulders of scholars in this time is a heavy and very heavy burden, and we cannot imagine that it will be accomplished in the period in which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was able to gather around him a few individuals in thirteen years. And I say to our brothers on such an occasion, our brother Abu Malik, do you know him well?

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : And I do not know. Do you pray with him on Friday?

The questioner : No, I pray with him a little, like this.

The Shaykh : A little.

The questioner : is it

The Shaykh : Did you pray on a Friday with him?

The questioner : No

The Shaykh : No, so those who pray with him hear him every Friday before he says the takbir (saying Allahu akbar) for the Friday prayer. He reminds the worshippers: "Do not precede me with 'Ameen,' do not precede me with 'Ameen.'" And yet...

The questioner : They precede him.

The Shaykh : They precede him with 'Ameen.' What does this mean? It means that cultivating the people is one of the most difficult things. He has been in this mosque for years, and barely have the individuals who are constant with him and pay attention to his reminders been able to respond to him only in correcting what?

The questioner : Amen.

The Shaykh : 'Ameen.' So what about correcting the 'aqidah (creed) and correcting behavior, correcting...

The questioner : The general people, when they hear the word , they consider that they are responding to him with 'Ameen,' meaning, they are responding. No, they mean, no, they do not believe... addressing Allah, "O Allah, respond." Even if they mean to make the people understand, as you said and you were kind enough to mention, it requires tremendous effort. It requires...

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : You understood, so be upright. We are giving you an example with 'Ameen...

The questioner : But I read that Allah, Glorified and Exalted, said:
Another questioner:

The questioner : Yes,

The Shaykh : Well...

The questioner I mean, this Qur'an does not remind us that we do not say decades and so on, and we do not consider the matter too great. The one who brought Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) out of Makkah was Allah, Glorified and Exalted, and He supported Muhammad with His victory, and He is the one who illuminated the light of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). I mean, is it not capable that Allah, Glorified and Exalted, can raise us up in the same way?

The Shaykh : You have deviated from the topic, and this is one of the problems. We are talking about us, the deviants, not about the capability of the Lord of the Worlds, whether He is capable or not. You are asking a question. Do you think anyone would disagree with you in the answer? Do you think anyone would say, "No, Allah is incapable"?

The questioner : No, far be it and absolutely not.

The Shaykh : So you are asking about something as if you asked whether the sun is rising or setting. No, the sun is rising. But we are asking what we do under this sun. What should we do? So we are talking about us, our capability, our energy, and our circumstances, not about the capability of our Lord, who is capable of everything, and He is as He said: But, Glorified is Allah, why do you ask a question whose answer you know you will agree with and not disagree with, from any Muslim, however ignorant and far from the religion? And do not ask what is the meaning of His saying, the Exalted: What is the meaning of "If you support Allah, He will support you"?

The questioner : I mean, if you adhere to the commands of Allah and His obedience.

The Shaykh: Okay

The questioner : He will support you.

The Shaykh : Have the Muslims today adhered to the obedience of Allah?

The questioner : We are questioning the society that is trying to...

The Shaykh : Do not limit, do not limit...

The questioner : What do we have to do with the general people? We have to do with the people around us.

The Shaykh : O Shaykh, may Allah guide you. To whom is the address? What is wrong with you that you do not speak?

The questioner The address is to the believers.

The Shaykh : Well, and I say, do you see that the believers are fulfilling this condition? Say no.

The questioner : They must be fulfilling it.

The Shaykh : This is also a question. There must be disagreement that it is obligatory? Is there disagreement? There is no disagreement. There is disagreement that Allah is capable of everything? There is no disagreement. But the disagreement now seems to be between you and me. I am asking you, the address is to the believers.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Did the believers support Allah? The answer is yes or no? And you do not answer.

The questioner : The believers supported Allah.

The Shaykh : Where are they?

Another questioner : Now, now, now, are they supporting Allah in themselves?

The questioner : Of course, the believer supports Allah because...

Another questioner : The ummah (the Muslim community), as an ummah.

The Shaykh: O Shaykh, may Allah guide you.

The questioner : Amen.

The Shaykh : These addressed ones these addressed ones, did they support Allah?
May Allah forgive you, meaning as it is said, "Whoever knows himself, he has known his Lord." We will mark it and then lose the marks later, so let the grade be on ... .

Another questioner : No, Karim Abu Ahmad.

The Shaykh : Yes, but not on the ground, on the mouth, in the name of Allah ... the condition of its answer is its reward You must answer my question immediately: Did the believing Muslims addressed by this verse support Allah? You must answer immediately "No," you do not say "Yes" as I said earlier, because the objection that you cannot refute will come to you from you, and that is: if they supported Allah, why does our Lord not support them? Do you understand now?

Another questioner : And this will say ...

The Shaykh : So does that mean that Allah broke His promise?

The questioner : Far from it, absolutely not.

The Shaykh : The answer is no, ah, so reverse it and you will be correct, say: they did not support Allah, therefore Allah did not support them, do not say "Yes, the believers supported Allah," if that were the case, Allah would have supported them.

Another questioner : As He supported Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions.

The Shaykh : That is it.

Another questioner : They supported Allah, so He supported them.

The Shaykh : is it

Another questioner : ... the whole world is corruption, the corruption of people.

The Shaykh : And that is why I told you it is as if you are not living in ... the atmosphere, and I said that you are living with the sheep, meaning the goats and so on.

Another questioner : Affirmation.

The Shaykh : As if you, yes?

The questioner : You are a winner here.

The Shaykh : You are a winner.
Another questioner: ... .

The Shaykh : As if you do not know the society you are living in, and take it briefly: they did not support Allah.

Another questioner : Rather, they are fighting Allah.

The Shaykh : Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.

Another questioner : They did not support, rather they fought.

Another questioner : The money in the banks, whose is it?

The Shaykh : Therefore, my advice to you, O brother in Islam, and what is your kunya on this occasion?

The questioner : Abu Muhammad.

The Shaykh : is it

The questioner : Abu Muhammad.

The Shaykh : Abu Muhammad.

The questioner : (Peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : (peace and blessings be upon him), so you, O Abu Muhammad, my advice to you is that you do not hold onto this ladder casually and walk, but rather try first of all to learn beneficial knowledge and combine this beneficial knowledge with righteous deeds and walk together on a straight path, and do not worry about this world, it is ruined, it is built up, the important thing is you, and here my previous research returns regarding the saying of the Exalted with the addition of the hadith of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, and it is obligatory for you to master the reading of the Qur'an and memorize it, and if you have not memorized it, do not speak of the Qur'an and distort it from what Allah the Mighty and Majestic revealed, and then proceed to increase in knowledge every day and act within the limits of what you are able to do with what you have learned, and as it is said in some weakly chained hadiths whose meaning we hope is correct This is a correct meaning but the narration is not correct, may Allah reward you.
Abu Layla : Health and wellness, Shaykh.

Another questioner : To the one who has sheep and has ... .

Another questioner : As long as he has sheep, he says he does not have cheese and milk that is not adulterated.

The questioner : O Shaykh, may Allah bless you, I have four goats to feed the children with.

The Shaykh : But