fridays

alhamdulillah, fridays have so much barakah. Alhamdulillah.

This brother's a super-me

mashAllah

Mufti Mudassir said that Hazrat ibn Abaas (ra) said that...

Mufti Mudassir said that Hazrat ibn Abaas (ra) SWEARS that...

"'lahwal hadith' means to play music!!!"

'lahwal hadith' is mentioned is surah luqman, ayah 5 i think.... also in other places I think.

Mufti Mudassir says that he can't believe how muslims consider it permissible to listen to music now!! even the person who prays says it's permissible!?!?!

Mufti Mudassir says that the evidence they give for it is OUTRAGEOUS!! They say that when the Prophet (pbuh) entered medinah young girls sang a nasheed. He says, HOW CAN THEY USE THIS AS QIYAAS (analogical proof in islamic law)?!?!? Those girls were singing such beautiful words welcoming the propehet!! And you are going to compare them with the "loose women" that are singers today?!?!!?

How Mufti Mudassir and in the urdu lang you refer to the Prophet

It's amazing how Mufti Mudassir (and I'm pretty sure I've heard it by others in urdu) often refer to the Prophet pbuh as "aap".

"aap" is a second person respectful "you". So "thou". So like he'll be talking to us, and then he'll use a second person "you" referring to the prophet pbuh.

I can't explain why it's so amazing, it just is.

It's like as if the narrator of the hadith entered into the presense of the prophet pbuh.

mashAllah, Mufti Mudassir is the gem of fremont, i'm going to so-cal this weekend, but iA next weekend i'll get to see him on sunday.

Mufti Mudassir's quote HAHAHAHA

"bas woh kharay ho kar pishaab kar ne vala hamara naam lay le, to bas!"

HAHAAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAH

I saw the CEO, Bruce in our office a couple weeks ago, next time i'll remember this. HAHAHAAH






Allah says in the Quran,
"fadh kuruni adh kur kum"
"remember me and I will remember you"

Mufti mudassir on the Eyes

Allah says in the Quran, "Qul lil mu'mineena ya ghudu min absaarihim" , "(O Prophet) tell the believers to lower their gazes" (and "check out" guys and girls u may see walking around on the street).

Mufti Mudassir said notice that this injunction isn't "Oh you who believe lower your gazes!" rather Allah tells the prophet to tell the believers to do so. He says it is just like if a father sees his son "checkin out" girls or something like that, he will be shy to approach his son directly, instead he will tell his friend, "please talk some sense into my son not to do this"... in the same way Allah tells his friend, the prophet pbuh, to tell us to lower our gazes.

Allahumah sallih 'ala sayyidina muhammad!!

MM says, these are the eyes we will use to see Allah!! (and I would interpret that as "we will be using this same sense to see Allah, since iA we'll get more enhanced eyes in the hereafter iA, whatever those "eyes" may exactly be).

The importance of prayer (salaat, not dua (supplication))

I'll try to translate to the best of my ability, all (as far as I know) of mufti mudassir's lectures are in urdu:

Mufti Mudassir (abbrev heretofore as "MM")
Prayer is the primary means (urdu: "zarya") to get to a state of ihsan (def by the prophet pbuh: "to worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot get to this level, then at least know that He sees you."). MM says about this, notice the primary objective is "to worship Allah as if you see Him" a 'plan b' be the rest, and he says notice that there is NO third option.

MM said huge awliya (common def: major scholars, primary expertise in tasawwuf) used to say "what's the point of Jannah if there's no prayer ('salat', 'namaz') in it"

MM said that a major wali (singular of "awliya") said "jannah won't have salaat??? awww"

MM said that hazrat haqi indaaz-ullah muhajir said, "if on the day of judgement Allah asks me 'what would you like', i would say 'Oh Allah, give me permission to pray".

And it's very interesting, because the greatest reward we will get in jannah inshAllah will be to see Allah, MM said that the Prophet pbuh said that we will get to see Allah the way people see the moon, MM explained that people will get to see Allah altogether and not have to fight over "get out of the way! let me see!".... and the interesting thing is that prayer, the primary means for us to reach a state of iHsan, a state where it is AS IF we see Allah, is a microcosm for when we ACTUALLY see Allah, which is the climax. subHanAllah!

subHanAllah! shaykh hamza said that a salaf (i think) said that if the corrupt rich people had ANY idea about what a pleasure islamic knowledge is, then they would literally fight us for it.

shaykh hamza said that imam ghazzali (ra) said that the highest amount of pleasure our physical bodies could feel in the world is in having relations with our spouse. And that in the Quran where Allah talks about "hoor ul ayn", we will get hoor ul ayn inshAllah, but it also is like super-duper spousal-relations. Like a physical pleasure far beyond what we can experience in this world.

... So "seeing" Allah is just like that except instead of our bodies experiencing this "rush" it is our souls.

pretty amazing eh?

my recent mass email, mufti mudassir's lecture on "namaz key ehmiat"

Assalamu Alaikum,

This is an AMAZING lecture, straight up mujaddidi. OMG, what a scholar.

put it on ur MP3 player and listen to it while walking around/etc.... AMAZING...

Give it 5 mins before saying... "drrrr... nvm, i'll listen to it later (ie never)"

http://www.bayaans.org/miscfiles/namazkeyehmiat.mp3

which I got from:
http://www.bayaans.org/misc.html

which I got from:
http://www.bayaans.org/


..... i'll be posting notes later iA

Mufti Mudassir from Fremont, CA

OMG!!! mashAllah!!! what a scholar!! I'm listening to the tafsir of surah baqarah right now, and it's just amazing. The thing is that the whole tafsir is in urdu so there is some difficulty in understanding it, but his urdu is fairly understandable (for an ABCD like me), especially since a lot of the hardcore-urdu words he uses are from Quranic Arabic, of which's vocab i'm somewhat familiar with.

There's HOURS of lectures on that website ( http://www.bayaans.org ), I think it has all of juzz amma, surah baqarah, imran, maidah and he's almost done with surah nisa. It gets updated regularly week-by-week, or so it seems. I could catch his tafsir live, i think thursday night. They even post shaykh yusuf islahi (AMAAAZING scholar), mufti saeed.

He's got seerah, commentary on aqeedah tahawiyya, AND commentary on the mishkaat collection of hadith.

I've listened to like 5 hours of his lecturing (all commentary on surah baqarah so far), and it's just amazing mashAllah. I HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAND it appeals to my memon-ness cuz it's free. MashAllah, what a gem, i've gotta meet him in person one of these days, the masjid where he gives tafsir (islamic center of fremont) is only 35 miles away.