Questions for DOJ – 4.2

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Faith in the and Gentleness of Allah, and the cognizance of Allah. to have dinner. And you say, well, your hotel has a bar. That bar doesn't affect you because you are eating dinner in another room. The bar is in another room. The fact that there is a bar doesn't affect you as long as you're not drinking the alcohol. But in a club, because you're not a shareholder of the hotel, the shareholders of the hotel will be affected by the bar. So if you look at a hotel, there are two kinds of people. One are people who are shareholders. Now, they are affected. If that hotel has a bar, then they are answerable to Allah. Now, many people try to find loopholes. They think they are loopholes. They are not loopholes. They are holes taking you into Jahannam. They say, well, no, no, I'm not. My hotel has a bar, but I don't own the bar. I have, I have leased out that space to somebody. And that person has the bar, they own the bar, they run the bar, and so on. And you might even say, well, you know, even the lease amount, the rental I'm taking from them, I give it away in charity. So I do not benefit. But that's a lie. Because if you do not benefit, why do you have the bar at all? You have the bar because you do benefit. And the benefit you have is that you have allowed Shaytan to fool you and you fooled yourself to say that unless there is a bar, nobody will come to my hotel. And so therefore, you are effectively running a bar. You are running a hotel which is based on the bar. Because you have told yourself that unless I have a bar, people will not come to the hotel. So therefore, I need to have a bar to attract customers. So this bar is that magnet. It is that bait on the side. It is that bait on the end of the hook. And you are the fish on that hook. Because you fooled yourself to say that just because the bar is owned by somebody else, it is halal. It's not halal. It is haram. It is haram. Because the hotel, you own the hotel. But if you go to the hotel as a customer, as I told you, two kinds of people as far as hotels are concerned, shareholders and customers, owners and customers. If you're an owner, all of this, as I mentioned before, if you're a customer, you go to the hotel, bar, no bar, you don't care. You go to the hotel. You go to the hotel. You go to the hotel. You go to the hotel. You go to the dining place, restaurant. You have your food. You go home. You go to the hotel, the gym. You go exercise. You go home. Alhamdulillah, no problem. Because this doesn't affect you. But instead of that, if you had... So if you're not an owner, that's a different thing. Now, a club is different. We're talking about spending in the path of Allah SWT. So the spending has to be... In places, as I mentioned, earning halal, haram and spending, it doesn't help you. The spending has to be wealth, which is halal wealth. Number one. Number two, spending has to be in places which are permissible, which Allah SWT has allowed us to spend it. So the... Very important to keep that in mind. So we earn halal and we spend halal. Now again, I don't want to make a long list of halal places where we can spend. Whatever is halal is halal. I mean, I'm sure we know this. You don't need a list from me to tell you what is halal. May Allah SWT grant us the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. The key thing, the bottom line, for all of this is very simple. The bottom line is, ask yourself only one...