this meal alhamdulillah assalamu alaikum
peace be unto you today we're going to
be talking with our teacher our ship
who's here to help us understand Islam
the way of all the prophets that way of
submission and surrender not to your
desires not to a man not to one with the
one who created man and woman the
creator of the heavens and earth we're
going to be trying to distinguish Islam
from back home cultures it's kind of got
intertwined you got some things some
confusion so we want to make sure that
we have the blueprint because we want to
do things right we want to do things
according to how the crater wants us to
do things we don't want to follow our
desires and get even more confused so to
help unravel the confusion when we come
back shake tofique chaudhary here on the
Dean shall be right back love there's
only one Mohammed is His Messenger of la
la
o Allah there's only one way Jesus was
his messenger Allah no I did that maybe
it maybe it's just to break the ice
assalamu alaikum share what's a laughing
ah how are you how are you very good
thank you thank you very much for being
with us that's great no problem have you
been very good thank you I'm very
excited that you're back with us here on
the Dean show I'm sure looking very busy
traveling educating the people i tried
to be thank you is like a dedicated your
life to this beautiful way of life Islam
well I you know I'm actually in Devon
debited to a la sala to my family's to
my parents were actually being able to
do it no and you were last time as we
spoke you were also pursuing your
doctorate degrees a current yeah in
medicine yes so I can call you dr.
children out I prefer you not to just
call me brother that's right okay so
it's like I'm I shake our teacher tell
us now we need to understand a little
better because people know that Islam is
that way of life the way of life of all
the messengers that way of submitting
yourself entirely to the crater that
happens on earth yes but now we have
some things that are cultural practices
so there might be some confusion to some
of the lay people because now there are
some things that might have developed
over the years and have gotten mixed up
with Islam so we want to talk about a
basic blueprint so we don't get to
mixing things up like a buffet so what
is culture and what is accepted with the
normal cultures of society and what is
clear Islam and what can mix and what
can't makes let's talk about this for a
second right it's I think a really
really good question because
unfortunately what's happened these days
is that people have obviously been born
into Muslim families and because of the
the ultimate the total lack of Islamic
education and the fact that people don't
even know the basics of the religion
sometimes if people have forgotten the
the difference between what is culture
and what is Islam so we find for example
in Muslim countries these days people
pray not because they really want to
pray or because it's in their heart to
pray but really it's because its culture
you know it's time to pray that our
dance coming you know what do people
generally do they just go to the mosque
impress we might as well do that yeah
for people for example wear the hijab
not because it's a it's at the actually
doing it because do they really want to
protect themselves from others or to all
to really be covered for the sake of
Allah sanatana yeah but they're doing it
simply because it's part of the culture
and hijab has just become a convenient
way of dressing to to cover up your you
know yourself and so in reality we need
to break that barrier and to break that
barrier a lot of education needs to
happen a lot of Dawa needs to happen to
people who do know the truth need to go
out and actually say that to people and
a lot of a clarity needs to come into
the whole picture of exactly what basic
amount of knowledge needs to be there in
the minds of people so that you can
break the difference so that really
depends upon the society that we're
talking about we know that in Islam a
certain amount of basic knowledge is
obligatory upon every single person so
what is that basic amount of knowledge
that is obligatory and every person well
we know that we need to know the basics
of our belief we need to know the basics
of our actions the things that we need
to do we need to know the basics of any
action that the community or the people
do that that they involved in like for
example before they do business they
need to know what the ruins of business
before the deal in marriage and divorce
nor the rulings of marriage and divorce
yeah so ultimately every believer is
required to know a certain set basic
amount of belief knowledge in a certain
basic amount of knowledge in belief and
a certain basic mount knowledge in
action and when this is clear in
people's minds then the delineation
between what is religion what is culture
will become far more clearer because the
problem is happening in that the most
basic things people are mixing up with
their culture
so we know for example these days you
know female circumcision is it let me
give you that example your female
circumcision which is practiced in the
African countries in a way in which the
whole clitoris and the whole female
genital external genitals actually
removed this is something which is
totally against the principles of Islam
because the goal they say is to not let
women have excessive desire right that's
the understanding that is usually given
yeah although in Islam there is no basis
for total removal of the two of the
genitalia at all there is something
culture that is cultural that is a
practice and African practice that has
come into Islam yeah not to come into
Muslims and the practice right the same
way like for example you might say in
India the example is that in India we
know the Hindus when they's to marry
their daughters off they had to give
money to the husbands whereas an
Islamist other way around in Islam the
the men have to give a dowry or a
marriage gift to the to the women it's
not the absolute nothing opposite not
that was it and I know for example even
my own parents they're Muslims right
yeah and when they got married it was
almost like my parents my mom had to
give a gift to my dad although my dad
didn't accept it but the point was it
was almost expected as a cultural
practice and we have many many similar
cultural practices in many things where
there'd be times of death times of
marriage types of divorce times of you
know prayer and worship you know whether
it be in our in our Hajj and Umrah we
have so many things which actually
cultural practices that really need to
be rooted out and the best way to do
that is through education