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And you go over the various positions of the scholars regarding the fill of praying while traveling I typically go every few weekends for work and I want to know traveling for work and I want to know when am I allowed to do pastor of the Salah so the question is about when to do pusle and because it is such a long topic most likely we will do this next week as well part two of this and I want to do this question actually for two reasons number one so that we.
Will insha'Allah know what constitutes suffer and all of us will inshallah also be able to take advantage of one can we shorten our prayers during suffer but there is also another reason and this is a much more nuanced and academic one the reason that I also want to discuss this is that this issue of what constitutes suffer or travel is a very good case study that will make us realize and appreciate the efforts of our ulema in trying to make the sharia easy for us that most of our ulema held.
A position as we're gonna explain a particular number 48 miles let's say and today inshallah we will demonstrate how did they get to this number and their attempt in getting to this number was to make life easy if you're going 48 miles for example they would say it suffered and if it's less than this it's not but in the process of getting 48 miles we will demonstrate they followed a multi-step process each one of which is very much a human HT hadi effort and each one of which has grey areas.
That they kind of just smooth over to get to Stage two than stage 3 and stage 4 than stage 5 and therefore if this is a human effort should we not go back and see in light of our circumstances what might be another number or another mechanism of deducing suffer in other words my goal today is twofold number one to give you an answer insha'Allah that is a goal don't worry but number two in the process to open up a very awkward door and this door I've been skirting it for.
The last seven eight months you've been hearing me all the time saying this how much of our 50 positions do we hold fast to and how much do we say hold on a sec that's not a las revelation that is a human effort maybe we can find - and the actual answer to this question we'll leave it to their own amount but I wanted to present to you a case study that perhaps you can begin to appreciate you know what just because a scholar said something a thousand years ago doesn't.
Make it the religion of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala now obviously this opens the Pandora's Box the Pandora's Box we all know what it is what is it - what level are we gonna change are you gonna change everything and understandably understandably those that are practicing Islam those that are very passionate they're comfortable with their understanding and others come along and they say hold on let's find - let's change and the like what are you gonna do change everything the Haram is gonna become hala they're gonna allow everything so they want.
To stick to their tradition and the problem comes today's issue the distance of travel really it's not that big of a deal whether you want to stick with 48 or we're gonna go somewhere else is not going to be cataclysmic but I wanted to use an innocent innocuous example to illustrate sometimes actually changing 50 positions as a matter of Iman and Kaufer sometimes fine-tuning will actually make Islam incredibly easier to follow within goals of the Sharia Allah does not want to intentionally make Islam difficult Allah does not want to intentionally.
Make Islam difficult la magia de la confident Maharaj you do allah become a loser allow us to make things easy so where the Sharia allows for ease we should go towards ease and where the Shariah has a red line we should stick with that red line so today is a case study not only of a very important issue that is relevant to all of us but more important than that to illustrate that just because 99% of the Ummah said something doesn't mean it is the religion of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and.
We can fine-tune so let us begin Allah says in the Quran surah an-nisa verse 101 when a salia come and talk sooner salat in his tomb and you have to know community in a careless an akuna I'm sorry that there is no sin on you that you perform a thorough in your sauna if you are scared that some one may harm you now the verse seems to suggest that Assad is only performed when you're scared of an enemy attacking however by unanimous consensus this is not a condition or middle kabab.
Hadith is in vihari said that I asked the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom about this verse that must we be in fear and the prophets also said I'm said this is a Rosa this is a charity a sadhaka that Allah has given you so accept his charity anytime you are traveling you can do possible this is all scholars agree there's not enough on this issue posture means you can pray for account as to the forefront are prayed as to record so there is unanimous consensus that you don't have to be.
Under threat of attack you may do a sir any time you travel and you may perform your Lord and your answer and your Isha instead of for you may pray - there is unanimous consent all the scholars now the air tariffs obviously comes over what constitutes a suffer number one and number two how long can you remain in suffer once you've come to a temporary destination in the sufferer itself you can spend months if you were to go from Morocco to Mecca it would take three months in those days you.
Are constantly in suffer as you're walking on camel on foot no problem once you get to Makkah for how long can you remain in Makkah before you say okay now I have to pray full that's the second controversy which we're not going to discuss today today we will discuss the distance of suffer next week in shala we'll come back and we'll discuss how long can we remain and suffer than other issues pertaining to that so today's issue when do you become a masaf it is that clear when do you become.
A Mousavi now as I said this position or this question the vast majority of our scholars all four main hubs they followed a methodology to get to a specific answer I will go over briefly their methodology and give you exact numbers about their methodology but I want to point out that in reality this topic has been the subject of many PhD dissertations in the Muslim world more than one person has spent four or five years of his or her life compiling all of the opinions and demonstrating who said what and.
Why did they say it this is one of those opinions where no exaggeration there are over 20 opinions narrated from our classical field over twenty one of them has become dominant but we know over 20 in these few minutes I have I cannot do justice to all of them I want to give you the methodology and I want to explain the human element of deriving this methodology now let us begin Allah says in the Quran the Prophet system basically said if you are traveling you can do pusle this we derived.
From the text clearer if you are traveling you can do cosa the problem the Quran and the Sunnah or the issue comes as you say the Quran and the Sunnah does not define when you are a traveler the Quran and the Sunnah does not have a revelation or a hadith that specifies when a person becomes a Musafir therefore the scholars of fik tried to get to a number and they followed methodologies the first thing that they did the first thing that they did they went through the whole Quran and all.
Of the hadith to try to find any usage of the term travel suffer linked to any timeframe or distance anything so that they can derive is there even secondary or indirect or insinuating evidence of what a travel is in the Quran and Sunnah okay this is the first step that they did any phrase found in the prophetic hadith that mentions suffer and mentions a distance or a time even if it's not in the context of pusle because there is no hadith in the context of a sir what constitutes suffer is.
That clear a sense of you know what it means now so they look at other hadith once they find that hadith step number two they translate this phrasing into an equivalent measurement that the Sahaba would have known step number three by the time they are writing books of fifth it's no longer times that the Sahaba this is four hundred five hundred six on Hydra so they're gonna convert the measurement that they have derived from an indirect reference into a measurement that they are accustomed to that's step number three by five.
Hundred Hydra six hundred Hydra they're no longer using the measurements of the Sahaba so whatever number they derived is step number two must be converted in step number three to something that they are accustomed to because realize Islam came and with it civilization came the prophetic era is very different than the Abbasid era the prophetic era is simple dis innocent there are no two-story three-story buildings there's no library the Arabic script is not developed there's no paper there's very different by the time the Foca are writing you have a civilization.
You have paper you have volumes being written you have totally different codification is being done so this generation of folk AHA needs to convert from units of measurements the Bedouins use the pre-islamic Arabs used to UNICEF measurements they are using in the 5th 6th 7th century then of course modern scholars come along and they look at the books written in the 5th 6th century and what must they do convert once again from what medieval units to contemporary units these are four stages each one of them is full of ambiguities assumptions.
Vague references and a whole spectrum of opinion each one of these ones ok and to give you one simple example where do you get this 48 number from so as I said by the way I banal Munda and others they list over 20 opinions and by the way even within one med hub modern scholars putting all of these four steps together you get different outputs when I wanted to answer the question for you guys I literally googled literally googled I don't get my answers from Google but this answer I got.
From Google I literally googled hanafi madhhab distance of travel just to see what modern Hanafi websites are saying and within two minutes I found three numbers 48 miles 51 miles and 64 miles all from reputable English websites two minutes these are modern Hanafy authorities across the globe some in South Africa some in America some in other places and I found three numbers within one man hub why and how because of these four different processes that they have done so to give you one example of these four processes and this is.
The most common example the first thing was to scour the hadith and see if the the Prophet ﷺ said the word travel suffer and he has anything in there that we can latch on to and say aha we have a number okay and they found three or four had a problem is every one of them had a different number yeah what did they find they found a narration which is in Mojave and Muslim narrated by Abu Huraira and others that our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said it is not allowed for a.
Woman to travel the distance of more than three days without a Muharram now this hadith is it about Co so yes or no no has nothing to do with bustle what does have to do with Muharram travel right but whatever I say step number one find anything that has the word travel and has some distance check found it is not allowed for a woman to travel the distance of three days without a Muharram the hanafis jumped on this and they said the distance of suffer is a three day journey they.
Derive from this other issues okay now sounds interesting problem comes an imam well Buhari has this chapter and then he says those who say the distance have suffered as three days he quotes this hadith then he says those who say the distance suffer is two days and he brings another hadith then he says those who say the distance suffered is one day and he brings a third hadith all three in Bukhari all three fully authentic the same hadith narrated by other chains it is not allowed for a woman who believes.
In Allah and His Messenger to travel two days without a Muharram so some might have said two days and the same hadith with other narrations it is not allowed for a believing woman to travel one day and so the shaft ferries and humbly stook the one day and some of the Shaffers talked the today and the hanafis took the three day so we said all of them are trying to get a number anywhere that has the word travel in it okay now this is step number one by and large most.
Malik is in charge said one day some humbly said two day the Hanafi said three day distance okay now great excellent that's stage one stage two two day one day three day what does that mean we have to now convert this quantity to a quantity that the Sahaba would have understood because the language is their language let's say how much would the Sahaba have traveled or what is the distance the Sahaba would understand one day or two day or three day and so the unit of measurement of pre-islamic Arabia is.
Something that was called a buried buried Arabs in the audience when I say buried what do you think of postal office the mailman why is this because when the Abbasids instituted what what is a buried a buried is the distance that a horse and a rider could travel before they would have to take a break this is actually what buried means the average distance that a rider and an average horse would travel before they'd have to take a break that was called a that eat now they're a Bassets were the.
First to institute a postal service.
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The postal service wasn't for me and you we couldn't write letters to our fiancees and loved ones know it was meant for government officials so they made stations of fresh riders and horses and the bag would come stop at the first buddied they handed to the fresh rider and horse go to the next buddy and so they had an efficient the largest postal service in the world was instituted by the Abbasids and that time frame and eventually the term buried was dropped for the distance and it was applied to the.
Parcel and package hence modern Arabs have no clue that buried is a distance all modern out of they are certain they will swear to you awesome that buried is mail and it has nothing to do with mail in classical Islam modern Arabs don't speak classical Arabic they speak motor Standard Arabic so buried is now what mil but in pre Islam and in earliest but I'd meant the distance okay now the question is one day travel to day travel three day travel how many buds is it we get 15 different opinions.
How many buddies is that day of travel some said 4 days travel buddy sir sorry some said four buddy some said five buddies we're gonna skip over all of these controversies because here we see this ambiguity you've already started with a number three day travel you have to somehow convert that to a unit of measurement they understood and the only measurements at that time was buddied and so they try to figure that out now what helps them hear some of the sahaba and tabby rune they actually did have positions about.
Buddies there's not an Eddie but some of the tab their own they said suffered is for buddy it suffered his five buddies and so they do have opinions but these opinions are not from Alana's messenger they are from the second generation maybe some might say first generation of the Sahaba but definitely second generation we have the first Foca ha coming along and saying how many buddies is suffer so we have this point over here so we have this issue of mureeds by and large four buddies five buddies eight buddies we.
Have these opinions of suffer jr. by the time the books of Phil are being written nobody is using mureeds they're using other measurements the next measurement that came into the time frame was fossa fossa and I think in order to still the they're still the term fossa and in ancient English in Charles Dickens English the father stuff is a league league not a League of Nations a league this has a unit of measurement called a fossa so they needed to convert the bodies into fossa because they were using for sauce.
And again you have this ambiguity by and large they agreed that one buried equals four forces okay by the way again there's five opinions I'm giving you the majority one to show you how much ambiguity how much gray areas is being done to get to this final number and every step has ten opinions on it nonetheless so one buddy it has four forces the first generation of and Farah stuff has a Persian term so this is now adopted by early Islam when they've conquered Iraq they're now using forces now by.
The time later scholars come even farsta has gone they moved to another unit of measurement this unit of measurement is now called meal meal and mean is of course we will jump at the word meal because for us a meal is what a mile but hold on hold on hold on a mile a thousand years ago is not a mile today and meal was a unit of measurement adopted from the Romans far suffers from the Persians meal was a unit of measurement adopted from the Romans and meal comes from Melia.
And meal in Latin in Roman means a thousand as you should know and a meal a meal for the Romans Emilia was one thousand steps of the Roman soldiers that's what they called a meal a thousand steps of the Roman soldiers was one mille miglia they call it Melia by the way a step for them was what we call two steps the same foot goes where it was that's like two steps that's one step so two thousand steps but they counted as one thousand you get you get the product they.
Said that is a mean okay and this is called the Roman mile now the Arabs took the name from the Romans but they didn't take the same measurement they didn't take the same measurement the Arab mile was shorter than the Roman mile and I'm not joking don't think I'm making funny this is the reality they say because the out-of-step was smaller than the Roman step this is the reality I'm not saying and the same would go anywhere and so the Arabs adopted a mile and it became known as the Hashemite.
Mile and the Russians adopted the Mount it was called the Russian mile the Danish ma the Portuguese while the German mile in one timeframe around 700 years ago there were at least 15 different miles to this day we have something called what other mile do we use kilometers not a mile what other mile do we use come on you know this very good nautical mile we still have something called the nautical mile which is different than the land mile so the mile was not defined how can it be because there.
Is no international body that's gonna define a unit of measurement how can there be every civilization had a different understanding of what a mile is nonetheless our scholars now so Luca rakaat from from three days two birds too far sucks two miles each one of these conversion factors is a big gray area there is no uniformity there is no conformity there is give and take nonetheless we get now to the eighth century of Islam seven eighth century of Islam and now we have scholars debating what is a meal some classical.
Scholars say a meal is twelve thousand out of steps not ten thousand Roman steps I'm not joking this is I'm literally telling you twelve thousand steps others say that a meal is as far as the eye can see others say a meal is when you see a figure in the distance you know it's a human it's not a gazelle or a deer but you don't know if it's male or female this is the definition of a mile now what is common in all of these definitions they are not precise they.
Are not scientific this is just an approximation as far as the eye can see when you see that that is the meal or we will see a figure you don't know if it's male or female but you know it's a human all of this is approximation and of course it's approximation because there were no bodies that all societies agreed upon to define distances so point being that finally in the sixteenth century to be more precise 1593 Queen Elizabeth the first came along and decided in a post-newtonian world her you know.
More scientific world going on let now define all of these terms and so she enacted an act that was adopted by Parliament in 1593 called the weights and measures Acts of Parliament this is Queen Elizabeth the first the weights and measurement Act of Parliament in which the 1-mile was defined to be 5,280 feet and the feet was also defined and the inches were defined and so there is now a precise actual unit of measurement eventually this converts to 1. 6 kilometers and of course they define everything else as well now.
Let's go back and plug and chug plug and chug all of these four so some ulema said one day journey translates into four birds four Birds translates into sixteen for sauce that was the one buried is four for sauce and an assumption was made one for sock is three meals so sixteen for self is 48 the magic 48 number this is where it comes from three different conversions based upon ambiguous hadith that has to do with women traveling this is where we get the magical 48 from and of course 48.
Miles transfers into 78 kilometers okay and this now became the standard position of many of the meth labs and this is the fatwa that is given to this day and again I say this with utmost respect I don't mean are we the bailout with the Billa to cause doubt and all of our Falcon this is the conundrum because I understand when people like me began talking and analyzing others get worried oh my god are you gonna change everything but no chocolate is not the goal the goal is where the Sharia.
Allows for change and it makes Islam easier for us we should take it under the protection of rule Emma I'm not saying we go all haywire and whatnot there are remember always forward thinking I'm gonna be very simplistic here and I don't mean to come off as crude if anybody actually believes that driving the car outside of Dallas and crossing 48 miles on your car Adamo tur converts you from opium to Musa Phil then you actually believe that Queen Elizabeth the first played a role in the Sharia of allah subhanahu.
Wa'ta'ala that's as blunt as I can be think about what I'm saying if you actually believe that 48 miles on your car's odometer when you leave the city makes you from MO came to Mustafa one of the seven steps that got you there one of them is what Queen Elizabeth's precision of one mile being 5,280 feet and defining this okay that's just one there's other steps each one of which is vague and a big question mark none of this is coming from allah azza wajal and the messenger now do I.
Blame the scholars our villa no not of course not they're trying to make Islam easy we respect them but we acknowledge the humanity of their efforts we separate the divine Sharia from the human fik that's what I'm trying to do here we separate what a law says when you do suffer perform pusle versus what our ulema as much as we love and respect them have derive from that now all four men thugs have a number the number is different based on which steps they follow and conversion factors but the overall.
Process is the same these four steps I said all the med hubs follow them all format hubs follow them now is this the only opinion on hamdulillah in this case there is not unanimous consensus if their word that would actually be another issue because unanimous consensus is an evidence and we take it if all their scholars agree on something then Hollis Samir Narayana but when our scholars do not agree and the laughs of the scholars is a mercy from Allah as many of the self set ft deformity Rama this isn't.
Rama from Allah just because 99% of the scholars had 48 miles or 52 miles or 72 miles we respect them it's not a large area is there other opinions yes let's go back we said there's more than 20 opinions one of those opinions is that and by the way I mean again before I get there so I want to be very clear here and I've said this many times when I open this discussion of rethinking through the Med hubs and Phil I am NOT saying a free-for-all are doable ah I.
Am a vocal critic of what I call progressive Islam I am a vocal critic because I think they are intellectually bankrupt they have rejected the tradition completely they don't care what the Sharia says the Halal is what is politically correct the Halal is the flavor of the month and the classic example which were having the conference on is the LGBT issue that they don't care what the Chettiar says they're gonna make it permissible in hell because it is what is politically correct and we have lines that we draw we are.
Very clear and differentiate between what allah azza wajal has said what the president said versus what later scholars say and again there are so many examples of forward thinking and whatnot I mean 70 years ago when microphones were first introduced speakers were introduced in the Muslim world there were fat our across the globe in Arabia in India that it is haram for the hot Abe and the Imam to use a speaker and the Salah behind somebody who uses the microphone is Bartle the salah is invalid the our fete was like.
This because they said you must hear the voice of the of the haughty and of the imam directly and if you heard the voice of the mechanic the mechanical amplification the salah is belted what happened eventually you just have to move on just this is human nature any when first imams came to america in the 70s and 80s understandably they did not speak english all the husbands were in arabic and it became somewhat of the norm i grew up in that time from one of the reasons i chose to go.
Study Islam was because I didn't understand the hopeless believe it or not it actually turned out positively for me that I don't know what my religion is Michael Thebes are always even those that tried to speak English I couldn't understand things another point altogether so it was one of the motivations for me to go out I don't know what what the religion says obviously as there are still some massager to this day in America you cannot give the hood but except in Arabic and subhanAllah Yanni common sense says people are.
Coming to the message to do once a week you have them for 25 minutes is the only time they hear something but a lot is messenger and you're gonna give it up just because once upon a time the majority I mean no Quran no hadith says you must give it in Arabic nothing like this in fact the Quran says Vasari navicular come to what reminds you of Allah Allah calls the Hopa what reminds you of Allah the purpose of the whole ba is to remind you of Allah what language should.
It be in the language of the people yes we don't change the language of the Quran because the Quran is Karim Allah we don't change language of the earth car of Salah because that is explicit but the halt of my lectures right now is anybody gonna say I must be speaking in Arabic to teach you Islam of course not once upon a time they did the language of Islam must have been Arabic slowly but surely I mean even to this day by the way when I began the whole bus sometimes.
I begin with English phrases sometimes.
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In with Arabic phrases I have had one brother come to me why don't you stick with Arabic phrases when I begin the whole but they say this to me and I respect it but this is tradition I have 70 80 % of people they have no clue what I'm saying when I stand on the member if I began all praise is due to Allah subhana wa ta'ala who revealed the quran and sent us a profit in that praising of allah there's something they understand and they benefit from and if I.
Began in Arabic I am seeing 80 percent of them are watching their iPhone not paying attention they don't understand what I'm saying again the goal is to teach the goal is not so my point is all of these things this tension between changing for the benefit versus sticking with tradition we are going to grapple with this throughout our lifetimes there will always be a spectrum the purpose of this lecture right now is to make you understand what is going on and to make you understand there's always going to be people.
In that spectrum anyway back to the point of the issue of the format hubs and whatnot we said the format hubs have a specific number there has always been a dissenting voice from the beginning of time certain ulama have said that the Sharia did not come with a number so we do not make a number this has been the position of many ridhima even hasn't even Kodama IBN taymiyah wrote many pages defending this if not I am a son honey Ashok Ani from amongst the Sahaba one can derive this IBN.
Masud eben syrian is very explicit on this point as well and we always have a small group of they're all independent thinkers if you look at these names here they're always like they don't want to just follow the majority they're independent thinkers they're always saying that they have always said that listen to this now this is the correct way to finish Allah suffer is not defined by a number suffer is not defined by a number suffer is defined by a frame of mind by a state you don't need to check.
Your odometer you don't need to ask a you don't need to get a fatwa from a share you know when you're traveling by what you do to prepare for the journey that is travel it is irrelevant the odometer meter it is your frame of mind it is what you do it is the preparations that you take Adam in Tamiya mentions many points that prove this of them he says the Prophet system did not specify any distance so how can we specify a distance he never said this is one suffer begins.
And the hadith of the women traveling has nothing to do with kisara it has to it protecting the honor of women has nothing to it awesome says he a woman should not be alone protect her if she's going a distance because in those days you have banned is this or not she should not be alone there should be a Muharram with her that's the goal of those hadith to read in Essaouira Salah hustlin that's not what the hadith is meant for number two he says that the Sahaba did not measure.
The distance the way that we do in our times by inventing me as time the distance was measured the Sahaba did not have signposts 100 miles 70 miles 50 miles know if there are no signposts how are they gonna measure number 3 he says that even within these a hadith of women you have differences one day two day three day it's clear that the the Prophet ﷺ is not intending to define suffer anyway he's trying to protect women so to go with this as an evidence of suffer Auslan it doesn't make.
Sense number four he says that the and this is something I'm mentioning throughout the conversion rates the conversions there is no agreed upon conversion how many beads in a day's journey big question work how many first socks in a buried another question mark how many meals in a photocell another question mark I went over one example to get you 48 in reality every one of them has different examples as well the Sharia cannot be based on so much ambiguity too many question marks the Shetty I cannot be based upon this.
Even Tamiya also points out to put a precise measurement on travel defeats the wisdom of allowing Custer during travel the purpose of cosa is to make life easy if you are engrossed in how many is 48 miles and you're driving looking at 48 miles you've defeated the purpose cassette is not meant to make life difficult it's meant to make life easy especially in the days where you didn't have a car or domitor how would you calculate 48 miles you would be in more attention to calculate the miles you'd rather like.
I'm not gonna do hustle let me just pray for raka that's not the goal of the Sharia to make life so difficult even Tamiya says and this is so prescient of even Tamiya that distances vary from culture to culture and what 48 miles is in one city might not be in another city I adhere cultures and technology is very 48 miles on a camel is 25 minutes in a car or less depending on if you drive like him then you're gonna be in ten minutes or something you know it depends.
Amid 48 miles is nothing in a car if you really wanted to get technical a day's journey in car is not a day's journey in camel if you really wanted to go down that route it would be totally unfair to take 48 camel miles and apply them to 48 car miles but nobody's going down that route why because they want to stick with tradition the book says it it's gotta be right and that's what I'm say Jessica look at no the book says it who wrote the book great scholars Allah.
And may Allah give him agenda it's not the Sharia 48 miles is not Allah Shetty yeah it is an opinion that became popular and it became cut and paste cut and paste cut and paste until it becomes the norm but I just explained to you where it came from too many ambiguities and I been Tamiya himself says this 48 miles from one civilization would be a small distance for another would be a a large distance and I add over here as well that if you really think about it and I.
Say I taught a class in San Jose you know Silicon Valley and I mentioned this example that imagine somebody has a plane and they live outside the city and they have a private jet and they come into the city every day and they come back and because it's San Jose Aero or maybe LA or whatever you want to do they get to and from work in 10 15 minutes whereas the guy who lives outside the city takes 2 hours by car ok and the guy who lives 150 miles away takes.
15 minutes does it make sense any 48 miles so somebody reason is a share my boss has a private jet he lives 150 miles away the CEO and he flies his private you know Cessna every day to work and every day back it's a real-life example he processes are very very affordable you know I'm sure you'll be able to buy one soon inshallah one should become a medical student one hundred fifty thousand dollars you get a Cessna right you can have your plane and ever you want to this guy has.
His own Cessna he goes and comes back do you think in his case he is commuting to work he's literally flying in 8 a. m. flying back 5 p. m. this is his daily routine do you think he thinks it is suffer it's faster for him to get to work than all of his employees even though technically he lives the distance outside this is why this whole notion of 48 miles really and I have to be blunt here does not make a shred of sense especially in modern times suffer is.
Not defined by a mile it is a frame of mind you don't ask any share for atom you know when you are traveling you know when you're traveling you turn the thermostat down your male is gonna be put on hold you pack bags you know when you're traveling that's a frame of mind it's not a distance it is possible for and also what this means now the focal how were uncomfortable at this but that's not you have to give and take the photo ha wanted precise 48 because when you open.
This door you get the following scenario two people can do the same journey for one of them it's suffer for the other it's not give me an example let's say one of you has his full-time job in Detroit let's say ok and your family is in Plano because you love East Plano much just so much at hamdulillah you have to live here as much although so many of you do and have the Lama bless you all but your work is in Detroit ok so you fly to Detroit you fly to.
Detroit you have a house in Detroit you psychologically this is your weekly routine you are totally comfortable doing this some people I know do this on a daily basis they would fly to DC when I was in another city I found of a person that he had a government job plenty of perks and whatnot and he would fly to DC on the 8:00 a. m. flight Landon Washington Airport sorry Reagan Airport right take a cab 10 minutes to his work he works in the you know the complex a pentagon area.
Type not and then he takes the plane 4 p. m. and he's back home every single day he gets a commercial not a private the commercial flight he goes the government's paying for it why not family somewhere else he's doing this now for this guy going to DC every day and coming back it's like an hour flight so rather than take the car and live in Virginia which is gonna be an hour drive I'd rather find cheaper housing for my family the government's premium and he told me he does this.
He asked me is this suffer I said do you feel like you're traveling goes no it's a routine I just let go is my daily routine it's not suffer for him whereas if I went to DC for a day I can assure you that would be a travel for me so bottom line even Tamiya writes demarcating a specific distance for safar does not have any basis in the Sharia does not have any basis in the Arabic language does not have any basis in common sense this event a mere writing to.
Make a number is neither from the Sharia nor from Arabic language nor from common sense most people don't even know the distance of the earth so it is not allowed to link Russell with something you don't even know no one measured the earth in the time of the Prophet system nor did the process and say how many meals or far sucks and he says a beautiful point a person might leave his village to go hunting just a short distance but he's camping two three days and he considers his suffering and.
Another person will go the same distance to collect wood and come back and he doesn't consider it suffer you see it's a beautiful point here somebody has to go hunt a deer they're gonna take there packing whatnot and they're gonna be in a tent and for them this is suffer the same distance inhibit Amyas time you might have to go collect firewood and you're gonna come back and it's not suffer his point was suffer is defined by who by who guys yourself mindset if you have to ask somebody you've lost.
The plot you don't need to ask because suffer is not a distance it is your psychological understanding however he did say iemon tamiya did say that what a regular person a normal human being not a not a crazy person would consider suffer right we don't want some extreme person to say oh my house - across the street so no average intelligent human being of that society and that timeframe would consider to be suffer and emit a may gave an example that he lives in Damascus he mentioned the village on the.
Outskirts which is within 48 miles and he said for some people going to that village is a sufferer because there's gonna take them a day to get there and for other people who do it regularly there's something that they don't consider to be a sufferer so the bottom line and with this we conclude part one we're gonna come back to the travelled question again next week in Charlotte ala the bottom line what distance defines suffer there is no particular distance you and your mindset you have to answer to Allah in.
Good consciousness oh Allah I was doing suffer so I did a Sarah Salah if you feel that you're doing suffer and you know when you're doing suffer you pack bags you pack something you whatever you know there are things that you do that you don't do when you go to work and you come back that's not suffer even if you had a private jet that comes and takes you 100 miles it's not suffer like the CEO it's not gonna stop his mail or pack a suitcase or something not that the.
Only issue is packing a suitcase but that's one of the things that you do when you travel right there's a psychological frame of mind that comes bottom line all formid hubs have a specific number we saw how they got there there has been a dissenting opinion from the beginning of time that dissenting opinion has been a minority but it is clearly in my humble opinion obviously the correct answer and that is that suffer is not a technical term it is a term that you know a psychological term a term that.
Is based on culture and custom and your own frame of mind you have to answer to allah o allah i was on suffer and I know this has suffered and I'm gonna perform puzzle because you allow me to porno Castle we'll come back next week and we'll talk about how long can you remain in that destination and continue to pray until then jacquimo O'Hare ceremony commercial lawyer