Moutasem al-Hameedy – Mounting Big Challenges

			autosource foothold barrier that makes it very difficult for any army to break into into the city,
and also to gain an advantage against a bigger army.
		

			This was completely technical knowledge.
		

			It was not based on Revelation.
		

			And it would be completely impractical.
		

			And we from common sense for someone to say no, this should come from Revelation otherwise we don't
take it. In life, we're faced with similar situations.
		

			Not all the situations we deal in we deal with require a solution from Revelation is Islam. The way
Islam guides us, is not always at the direct level. So we have guidance for example, with regards to
inheritance laws of inheritance, there is specific guidance that we are supposed to follow. But
there are so many areas in life because there is countless numbers of scenarios that we could deal
with conditions could be rearranged or could show up in an in an infinite number of clusters.
		

			And Revelation is not about telling us about the technicalities of each and every situation. Why
because Islam is based on the assumption that humans are given reason, intellect. There are people
who sort of
		

			reprove themselves in the sense that they would not accept any practical advice. Why? Because it's
not from the Quran.
		

			Somebody would say I would not do this thing in that specific way because it did not come from the
Quran.
		

			So why didn't the prophets or some other companions for that matter? Respond to Sandman and Pharisee
ins in a similar way? No, this is from personally I wouldn't take it right. We follow the Quran and
the Sunnah.
		

			That goes to show the absurdity of some times how we Muslims could go to extremes in
narrowmindedness when we require everything even about matters of this life. Technical issues that
we deal with, require them to come from the Quran otherwise, we're not we don't we won't accept
them.
		

			The Prophet SAW Selim saw the companions the way they grew or the way they grew their harvest with
regard or their produce of beets, they trees.
		

			The prophets are seldom recommended that they deal with the palm trees in some way.
		

			Especially with regards to pollination.
		

			So some of the companions tried the advice of the prophets of salaam it didn't work out that year,
their trees did not bear dates. So they came and said to the Prophet SAW Selim, our trees, our palm
tree, or our palm trees did not produce dates. The Prophet SAW Selim told them something he said
unto him, Allah will be Ohmori dunya come, you are more acquainted, you have more knowledge than I
do about matters technical matters of your life of how to grow your trees, or how to get this
produce of beasts. Islam is not about how you grow trees, mangoes and oranges, right?
		

			Because these things, you can learn these things from experience in life from education. The same
thing Islam doesn't tell you how to invest your money, but Islam has guidelines general guidelines
as to how to handle finances
		

			so that it remains within the ethical realm of dealings.
		

			So sometimes our insistence on something that has to be stated in the Quran and the Sunnah, when
it's a worldly matter, is actually an abuse of the Quran and the Sunnah. Now, this is not my topic,
but this is something that will help me get into the topic.
		

			As a Muslim living in the West, it's not an easy thing.
		

			And it's difficult in ways most of us can't even imagine.
		

			Yes, maybe financially, it's easier.
		

			In many aspects, there are facilities, there are systems. There are this infrastructure that makes
things way easier
		

			than where we come from. So this we assume, that everything in this in the West is just easy and is
forthcoming, and you can utilize it even religious matters. Yes, there is a great level of religious
freedom.
		

			You can practice your religion you can come to them as to you can dress up the way you want. You can
see the things you want understood, as long as you don't break the law.
		

			But that's not what the practice of Islam that's not all what the practice of Islam requires. There
is much more.
		

			There was subtle threats.
		

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			ideological issues. There are complex problems that if we keep responding to them in the same way we
respond to problems that we are accustomed to, we will miss the point.
		

			And these challenges could actually bring about on the long haul, great consequences, grave
consequences. And we see that the challenges the youth face today are not the challenges, the youth
in the 70s and the 80s. And the 90s faced, they are categorically different.
		

			Simply sometimes a father or a mother think that the children are going through the same challenges
and thus they respond the way they they responded
		

			in their own youth. But the reality is, the challenges are way more pernicious, or more difficult or
very subtle. So we don't want to keep responding to a reality that is non existent.
		

			The prophets of Allah when he was sent them, if you look at how he handled these affairs, the
Companions how they handle their affairs, there were very attendant their particular circumstances.
		

			At the time, specifically, at the time of Oman, Qatar, the Muslim ummah expanded exponentially,
because there were new challenges, new issues appeared that were non existent at the time of the
prophets of Allah when he was sitting down. You did not find the Companions going around, aimlessly
searching for answers in the Quran and the Sunnah, they must have the Quran and the Sunnah. And they
looked into the they lived according to the guidance, and they have they absorbed that guidance. But
when you issues emerge, emerge, they recognize that these are technical issues, and we need to use
our minds. Simple as that it's not haram to use your mind in Islam. Some people approach Islam as if
		

			it's haram to use your mind and why they read some texts or some advice from the scholars that
anyone who follows an Afghan or a writing opinion and intellect, they will go with three.
		

			But the problem is those individuals don't realize that these words were sent in a context and the
context was people who oppose revelation and oppose the religious legislation with their intellect.
So that's a specific area. And this is why you find sometimes people dumbing themselves down,
claiming they want to follow the Quran and the Sunnah, forgetting that the Quran and the Sunnah are
based on the assumption that you are a sane human being. Because if someone is dealing with a
situation, and they refuse to understand the situation and figure it out, and then respond to it,
naturally, this is not a sane human being, they have an issue with their mind.
		

			And unfortunately, sometimes this seeps into the Islamic circles presenting itself this is really
just city. So we create a dichotomy.
		

			The unnecessary, arbitrary conflict between
		

			us understanding between being a normal human being who's able to respond to their reality
		

			and then practicing Muslim whereas they go hand in hand at the time of Umrah hottub. The Muslims
were extremely innovative, not innovative, in religious like they started introducing things to the
religion, but they were innovative in governance. They were innovative in industry, in building
infrastructure, in public relationships, and diplomatic relationships in so many areas. The Muslim
kind of contribution to the to the global civilization grew to amazing heights.
		

			Some things even were seemingly changed like unbearable, hubbub changed many of the rules over data
until Hurghada
		

			change some of the rules in Islam, in Islam that pertain to
		

			that any kind of natural resources that were founded the ground, any kind of mining, there was a
certain distribution on how to change that.
		

			And in the new lands that were conquered, there was a certain kind of distributing new pieces of
land. Something special was given to the early companions to the manager in the Ansel Amana hardtop
change that some companions have posed it, objected to it. But he sat down with him, he discussed it
with them. And he showed them that he was going in line with the principles of the Quran and the
Sunnah. And the instructions of the prophets, Allah so and because the conditions changed. He wasn't
changing Islam, but he was being responsive. And this requires a high level of knowledge is not for
everyone. But the point here is, if we want to survive in the West as a Muslim community, we have to
		

			open our eyes. We have to understand what we're dealing with. We can't carry the reality from from
our home countries and deal with it but
		

			We are dealing with a completely different situation there is, you can't get a better definition of
insanity than this.
		

			And then some people have the audacity to call this religion, religiosity, Islam and traditionalism.
		

			This is clear insanity.
		

			And what you find today, and that's going to be my emphasis is that Muslims are going we through
through so many challenges, we, most of us, actually, probably all of us, we don't realize how
overwhelming it is to live in the world that we live in today.
		

			There are many challenges, social challenges, ideological challenges, emotional challenges, social
challenges, and they are challenging us in ways we've never experienced. And then look at how we
must learn to respond. There are great things we're doing, by the way, as Muslim communities in the
West, there are great achievements, we have not to acknowledge them, but he were trying to pinpoint
where things could bring us to our demise.
		

			And the reason I'm mentioning this,
		

			is that social media has exacerbated the differences among the Muslims. And I'm not talking about
differences that have to be spoken about, but I'm just talking about, you go on social media. And
I'm feel really bad for our youth who go on social media, and they search for some guidance. And all
they find when it comes about Islamic education, debates,
		

			and oftentimes, debates among Muslims, yes, because Muslims are dealing with a new reality, there
will be mistakes, there will be opinions, there will be weighed opinions. And we have to deal with
that in an organic way as until we grow, that's a natural, that's a normal part of growth as a
community. But the problem is a lot of the individuals who are speaking out and calling out some of
the issues, they are present there, they are drama queens, and they want to dramatize every
difference, they want to put down everyone who doesn't agree with them. And that's what our youth
when they go online, or they see, you know, people putting others down people attacking one another.
		

			And, and people, oftentimes, a lot of these people they make maybe they have mastered one science,
or two sciences, or some kind of skill. But they are speaking about complex issues when they have
not mastered other relevant issues. They speak without knowledge. They speak without maturity, they
speak without reason. And the polarizing the Muslim youth, some of the youth away the response that
I don't want this, I don't want, I want nothing to do with this. And some of them take sides.
		

			And for them, the practice of Islam becomes about opposition, bringing people down, calling people
out common people names, and so on and so forth. And you won't learn Islam, if that's how you how
you approach it. We weren't, we weren't proper educators, proper, Robbie's people who can cultivate,
who can ultimately help them, really fix their relationship with Allah subhanaw taala, improve and
increase their knowledge of vocal arm of the Hadith of the prophets of Salaam, and how to apply it
in their daily life. And
		

			then people who decide to choose to be politically active, socially active, etc, these people should
go about acquire the skills and slowly, slowly, gradually grow into these areas and only speak with
so much wisdom and knowledge and awareness of long term consequences for only our stuff, nobody
will.
		

			Notice at the end, he was hardly any more than I do. So these times are challenging, just like all
times, by the way, and if generally, the irony is that Subhanallah every generation, as they speak,
they see our our our times are the most challenging. So this just tells us this is how life is this
how life goes life is challenges. Oh, I'm going to be challenging. And the thing is not to get
everything right, I think is to be really sincere and do our due diligence and trying to get the
right things. But if we are so Jose
		

			if we act as perfectionist, who trying to get everything, right, anyone who makes a mistake in their
attempt to me something right? We create a fuss about this. We draw a whole drama on that, and make
a scene online and get everyone involved with our egos because I'm right, these people are wrong.
I'm I'm going to save the younger generation, I'm going to fix the problems etc. We need a culture
and we need a culture of selflessness, where we serve the Dean instead of using the dean to serve us
where we serve our youth than trying to get get them to serve us by becoming our fans and our
supporters and to be on our side.
		

			The challenges we're facing are far bigger than you and me or me being right and you being grown
gets
		

			So on and so forth, is very sad when we come through. And this just brings a lot of detriment to our
nation, to our people, to our youth, to our future generations.
		

			And in the name of what, in the name of what we refer to us speak in joining the good forbidding
evil, we should not use the religion to service we should be at its service.
		

			Anyway, other than that, it's just going to bring about more harm than good.
		

			We need to learn how to be as selfless as possible, take ourselves out of the equation. And let
Allah be number one. Let the religion of Allah be number one, and not impose our own resentments,
our own psychological issues. Don't force them on the religion. Don't force our own demeanor. Yeah.
And then call it Islam, we have to figure out this is a weakness within ourselves. And if I'm going
to do something, contribute something, I should make sure I'm not using Islam in response to this
deficiency that I have. That's the way you stem control. Other than that, we're just going to create
more drama, more drama, and more people will be lost more people will be disenchanted with Islam and
		

			the practice of Islam. And then we're just going to our community is going to implode, it's going to
kill itself.
		

			And that's something we don't want for our future generations. So may Allah subhanaw taala help us
do the things that he's pleased with and handle our situations and challenges with maturity and
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almost an hour long. That's about end now.
		

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