Abdullah Hakim Quick – Minarets And Thrones #03 Fusion Of Scholars And Leaders

Abdullah Hakim Quick
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The importance of sharia and the importance of forgiveness and mercy in protecting the rights of individuals and the society is emphasized in the Qmedid Qios, which is the responsibility of the optimization of the system. The importance of learning the message of Islam and the use of the Zayid system to gain control over the region is emphasized, as well as the challenges faced by the Islamic military and the indigenous people. The importance of the leaders and the morality of society is emphasized, as well as the need for female leaders to fight the enemy and gain control over the region. The history and actions of the Islamic military, including the collapse of the city and the use of Z---- and Z----, are discussed, along with resources for learning about the history of Islam and the use of the Zayid system to defend the city and fight the bigger numbers.
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Islam, through it, he is among the truthful

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ones, Siddiqeen.

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So this is a high level, there is

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Nabiyeen, and Siddiqeen, and Shuhada, and Saliheen.

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So the Qur'an ranks higher stages.

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And after the Prophets, the Siddiqeen, these are

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the truthful ones, like Abu Bakr Siddiq.

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The Prophet ﷺ, as we have learned, has

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already said, the scholars are the inheritance of

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the Prophets.

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Inna al-'ulamā waratat al-anbiyā.

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And then he said, they do not leave

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behind dīnās and dirhams, but only knowledge.

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But another tradition, he said, inna al-'ulamā ḥulafā

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al-anbiyā.

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That the scholars are the successors, the khalīfahs,

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of the Prophets.

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And so they are in a really serious

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position.

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But with that positive aspect of knowledge, there

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is also responsibility.

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And Allah ﷻ, in speaking about people who

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have knowledge of the revelation, in Surah al

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-Baqarah, verse 159, has told us, inna ladhīna

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yaktumūna mā anzalnā min al-bayyināti wa-l

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-hudā min bā'di mā bayyannāhu lin-nāsi fi

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-l-kitābū lā'ikā yal'anuhumu l-lā

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'inūn.

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So Allah said, indeed, those who conceal what

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we have sent down of clear proofs and

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guidance, after we have made it clear for

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people in the scriptures, those are cursed by

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Allah.

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And they are cursed by those who curse.

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So it's a cursed position to have knowledge

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and to not impart the knowledge.

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Not to live by the knowledge.

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And the Prophet ﷺ even said in one

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authentic hadith in the Sunan of Ibn Majah,

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man su'ila an'ilmin fa-katamahu uljima

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yawma al-qiyamah bil-lijamin min-nār.

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Whoever asks about knowledge and conceals it, will

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be bridled with a bridle of fire on

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the day of resurrection.

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So this is a serious thing when it's

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dealing with the responsibility of the ulama.

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And we need to know what the scholars

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are supposed to be.

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Because this is something that we want to

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aim for with our children, with our society.

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But it's also something that we need to

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know relative to our disease.

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Because the Muslim world right now is sick.

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And so what is the sickness?

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In the same way we learn about the

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sickness of the body.

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This is the sickness of the Muslim ummah.

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And the ulama, one of their prime tasks

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is to guard sharia.

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So they are the guardians of Islamic law.

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And this is important because you will look,

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I mean they've reduced it sometimes to like

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the Salat police or to the Matawas who

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go in the marketplace and chase women around.

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They've reduced it to that.

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That's why people think it is not that.

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It's literally who protect the law.

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Even in Western societies, you will see even

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in America, as corrupt as it is, they

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have what is called the Supreme Court.

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So they have scholars, they have legislators, judges

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who are supposed to protect the law of

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the land.

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And so the Supreme Court, even in a

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Western society, is supposed to be a balance

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for the leaders.

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And it's Islamic society which taught the Western

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society.

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The ulama, they have to interpret sharia.

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So they have to understand the revelation, understand

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the laws that come out of the revelation,

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the legal, the ethical frameworks, what is derived

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from the Quran and the Sunnah, and then

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the rulings that will come out, the fatwas,

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how to maintain justice.

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This is what they have to do.

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So somebody has to deal with the law.

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And when you look at an Islamic university,

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one of the important sections of an Islamic

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university is Qaliyah al-Shariah.

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That is the college of sharia.

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This is where people are trained to be

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scholars of the law, those who understand how

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Islam is supposed to be maintained.

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And sharia affects us personally.

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If you want to know how to make

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your salat, how to make wudu, there's certain

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rules.

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That's our sharia too.

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So somebody has to understand this.

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Somebody has to deal with it.

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And so for that, we have set up

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mahkama, there are courts that are literally set

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up.

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And in these courts, when people have disputes,

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then the scholars will come to help deal

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with the disputes in the courts, to deal

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with the social matters, to bring about equality

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and justice in the society.

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So also, again to show you the importance

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of the scholars, they are really defenders of

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human dignity.

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They protect the rights of individuals.

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And especially the vulnerable and the oppressed reminding

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the society of justice.

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And this is what is missing in many

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so-called Muslim societies.

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People went there and they found that they

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didn't really have rights.

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And if something went wrong, who do you

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complain to?

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Where do you take it to?

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That's what the ulama, that's part of their

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job.

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They also deal with issues of poverty, inequality,

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injustice, because they are the ones who deal

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with zakat.

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And this is a really important thing.

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The concept, when people are given their zakat,

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that's the basis of the economy of Islamic

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society.

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And also waqf, which is the endowments.

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So the ulama will be the ones dealing

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with that.

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So what they provide for the society is

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guidance for personal level, for your ethics, your

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morality, your principles that deal with your truthfulness,

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your justice.

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All of that is coming out of the

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role and work of the ulama.

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And they are supposed to also prevent moral

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decay.

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So this is what happened in some so

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-called Islamic societies.

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Morality started changing.

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So if the morality is changing, who's going

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to stop it?

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If the internet, for instance, now is bringing

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in things, strange ideas coming in the internet,

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changing the morality of the young, who is

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supposed to stop that?

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Who knows that it's wrong?

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Who's going to warn people about their behavior,

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about dishonesty in society, immorality?

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And that's what you see happening in the

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western countries today.

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With a new wave of immorality which is

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destroying people's concept of gender and destroying family,

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there's nobody to stop it.

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Because the people who used to deal with

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the law who dealt with morality in society,

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their power has been taken away from them.

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So therefore immorality goes wild.

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And we see the impact within the society

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we are living in.

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And so the ulama then, they stabilize a

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society.

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And you'll see many societies out of control.

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So it is the ulama and again, they

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have to be empowered.

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So the ulama working with the scholars, working

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with the leaders, they're empowered.

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And so therefore that will stabilize society.

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So if there is a major dispute, two

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companies fighting each other, two individuals fighting each

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other, two politicians fighting each other, who is

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supposed to step in to deal with these

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two politicians or these two powerful people fighting

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each other?

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Okay?

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The direction comes from the ulama.

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So this is a heavy weight.

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And this is what you could call one

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of the important issues which Muslims are suffering

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from on all levels.

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I'll take it even down to family level,

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to masjid level, communities, it's conflict resolution.

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So when you have a conflict between two

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individuals, how do you resolve the conflict?

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So what happened, even in some of our

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communities, there was a struggle between individuals in

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the masjid and nobody to resolve the conflict.

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So the masjid became two masjids.

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Then the two became four.

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And suddenly you have masjids all over the

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place.

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Sometimes the masjids are duplicating each other.

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And there's no reason except they couldn't resolve

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conflict.

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And that's where the ulama come in when

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they are in sync with power.

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So if they are in sync with power,

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you've got something happening.

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If the ulama are just there and they're

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sincere, but there's no power, or if the

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rulers are against them, you see, then nothing's

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going to happen.

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No voice.

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If they have no voice, how do you

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know what's wrong?

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That's what's happening in society.

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The man comes one day and he says,

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you know, I'm a woman.

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He said anything.

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I'm a cat.

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Where's morality?

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Who's going to make it straight?

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That's where the ulama are there, because they

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are the ones who interpret the Qur'an

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itself, the revelation, and the sayings and way

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of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon

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him.

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So the Qur'an is saying the believers

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are but a single brotherhood, so make peace

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and reconciliation between your two contending brothers.

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Make this islah.

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That's the role of the ulama.

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So you see how key and important this

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position is.

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And the essence of the Islamic ulama, because

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one of the propagandas, and we need this

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as a foundation when we start to go

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into practical examples of the scholars.

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One of the propagandas is that the scholars

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are the mean mullahs, the ones who just

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chop off heads and hands.

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They have no, the basis of our teaching

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is forgiveness and mercy.

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That is the basis of it.

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And you'll be surprised to know that even

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in a society where there's punishments for, for

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instance, stealing, there is punishments for fornication and

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adultery.

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You'll see in many of these societies that

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the law is there, but it's not carried

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out.

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Because the person does something wrong, they're allowed

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to repent.

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Okay, the person, even the person steals, and

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you know, that's not enough to be punished

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immediately.

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They have to be repeat.

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So when they repeat, and they refuse to

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repent, then a punishment comes.

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So the basis of looking at somebody is

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innocent until proven guilty.

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See, that's how the scholars would look at

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it.

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That the individual is innocent until proven guilty.

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And this is important, the forgiveness, because one

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of the faults of tribal society, which many

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countries, many peoples in the Muslim world come

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from, is intiqam, vengeance.

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If you do me, I will do you.

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You see, fighting.

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Somebody gets hurt, and they take revenge, and

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they start fighting each other for 50 years.

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They're fighting each other.

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Vengeance.

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They even have strange concepts.

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One nation of people, I don't want to

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say which one it is, but you see

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it in their writings and even in their

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movies.

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If the person is killed unjustly, they say,

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the family says, until we get revenge, the

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person's soul in the barzakh can't rest.

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I don't know where they get that from.

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But they say the soul, which has left

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the body, it's in the barzakh, it's going

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to fly around, it's going to be confused,

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until you get revenge.

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Once you get revenge, then it relaxes.

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This is jahiliyya, this is ignorance.

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It's ignorance, and it probably comes from the

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ancient societies.

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It's like an ancient cultural tradition.

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So the ulama then would ensure justice, justice

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for the whole society, and they play a

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critical role.

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So they will protect those who are in

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need.

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It's justice for all.

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If women are oppressed, they are the ones

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who are supposed to stand.

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If the orphans, if any vulnerable group is

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oppressed, they are the ones who lead the

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charge to establish justice within the society.

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So that's a very critical, crucial role that

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the scholars play.

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Another one, and this is a very hot

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topic amongst Islamic scholars, but it is the

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issue of ijtihad.

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And ijtihad is to derive a ruling based

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on Islamic principle for an issue which is

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contemporary now.

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So for instance, a person comes with something

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new, they come with a drug, and they

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say, is this drug part of intoxication?

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So the scholars would look at it, and

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they would make an ijtihad.

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So that's a religious decision.

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It's not in our books, but they look

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at what's in it, they look at how

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it affects people, and they say, it is.

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That's ijtihad.

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Okay, and as long as we have ijtihad,

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then our societies evolve.

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Okay, our societies evolve.

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If you don't have ijtihad, you don't go

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anywhere.

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When the television came into the Muslim world,

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and we're just talking about the 20th century,

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right?

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I mean, for our generations now, they don't

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even know what it's like not to have

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a cell phone.

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But there was a time when people had

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no cell phones, they had no TV, radio,

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and they introduced the TV.

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Now, what is it?

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It's a picture coming out of a box.

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And there was a story of in Saudi

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Arabia, some of the ulema who do not

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have ijtihad.

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They're like frozen minds.

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So they saw the television and had a

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picture moving around, they said, they said, that's

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jinni.

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They said, that's a jinni talking out the

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box, right?

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And then the Egyptians said, okay, we're going

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to solve this.

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So they brought Qari Abdul Basit, one of

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the greatest Quran readers in Egyptian history.

00:28:02 --> 00:28:04

And they put him on the TV, sat

00:28:04 --> 00:28:07

down these scholars, and then he said, and

00:28:07 --> 00:28:11

he started to read, and they said, what?

00:28:12 --> 00:28:13

That's not a jinni.

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Okay, so that TV is halal.

00:28:18 --> 00:28:18

Right?

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It's okay.

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You see?

00:28:20 --> 00:28:25

So you need wisdom to deal with new

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issues.

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On a higher level, we got different forms

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of technology, economy, you know, how are we

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going to deal with AI?

00:28:36 --> 00:28:37

How are we going to deal with artificial

00:28:37 --> 00:28:38

intelligence?

00:28:40 --> 00:28:41

There's going to have to be some fatwas

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made.

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How far does artificial intelligence go?

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All of that is the ulema.

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Okay, so this is the important issue that

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we're dealing with when we deal with scholars.

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And they themselves have to be role models

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for the whole society itself.

00:29:04 --> 00:29:05

They are the role models.

00:29:06 --> 00:29:08

So if you want to see Islam in

00:29:08 --> 00:29:10

practice, you can look to them.

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And that's an issue sometimes when the society

00:29:14 --> 00:29:17

is not practicing with so long, 1,400

00:29:17 --> 00:29:19

years from the prophet's time.

00:29:20 --> 00:29:21

How can you see Islam?

00:29:22 --> 00:29:25

If the ulema are really living up to

00:29:25 --> 00:29:28

what they've been taught, then you can actually

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see somebody who's practicing Islam.

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So that's the difference between night and day.

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Okay, and that is the role of the

00:29:39 --> 00:29:39

great scholars.

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So the final reminder is that the scholars

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are not only repositories of knowledge.

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They're not banks, just knowledge banks.

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But they guide people.

00:29:53 --> 00:29:54

They guide society.

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They bring justice, morality, and peace.

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And their role is crucial in bringing peace,

00:30:03 --> 00:30:05

justice, and truth to Islamic society.

00:30:06 --> 00:30:10

So that's a reminder to us about who

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we're dealing with with the ulema.

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I want to open up the floor for

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any questions anybody may have concerning these definitions

00:30:20 --> 00:30:22

of the ulema.

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The floor is open for any questions.

00:30:31 --> 00:30:33

Anything online?

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So now the issue is minarets and thrones.

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That in all societies you have the leaders.

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The chief, the sultan, the president, the emir,

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whatever you want to call that leader.

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That leader has got political power.

00:31:02 --> 00:31:07

That leader has the police, the military, they

00:31:07 --> 00:31:09

have the gun, they have the sword.

00:31:10 --> 00:31:12

So this is the power base.

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But that base needs to have a reason

00:31:16 --> 00:31:17

to be.

00:31:18 --> 00:31:20

What is the base, the morality of their

00:31:20 --> 00:31:20

society?

00:31:22 --> 00:31:22

Who are they?

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That's where the scholars are there.

00:31:26 --> 00:31:27

So the scholars are the ones who have

00:31:27 --> 00:31:30

the minds, the intellects.

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They give direction.

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Here in the West they will say democracy.

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The rules-based order.

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Okay, so who brings the rules-based order?

00:31:42 --> 00:31:44

Where does the democracy come from?

00:31:44 --> 00:31:46

Where is your morality coming from?

00:31:47 --> 00:31:51

So that's the scholars and the rulers.

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When they're in sync, that's when the highest

00:31:56 --> 00:31:57

level of Islamic society.

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Now, the highest level that our society has

00:32:03 --> 00:32:07

ever gone to is in the time of

00:32:07 --> 00:32:08

the Khulafa al-Rashidi.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:12

These are the rightly guided caliphs.

00:32:12 --> 00:32:16

Four rightly guided caliphs after the death of

00:32:16 --> 00:32:17

the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:21

That is the highest level of the implementation

00:32:21 --> 00:32:21

of Islam.

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And so what was different here is that

00:32:27 --> 00:32:29

you know you have somebody with power and

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

you have somebody with knowledge.

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Okay, in this case there was a fusion.

00:32:36 --> 00:32:40

Meaning that the leader themself had the knowledge.

00:32:41 --> 00:32:42

You see?

00:32:42 --> 00:32:45

So if the leader's got the knowledge, then

00:32:45 --> 00:32:47

you don't have to have scholars on the

00:32:47 --> 00:32:50

side to stand up to the leader to

00:32:50 --> 00:32:50

tell them.

00:32:51 --> 00:32:54

You have counselors, but the leader would be

00:32:54 --> 00:32:58

knowledgeable enough to actually implement Islam.

00:32:59 --> 00:33:02

So this was a rare time.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:06

It happened in different places in Islamic history

00:33:06 --> 00:33:08

and we hope to study maybe a few

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

of these to show you when it did

00:33:10 --> 00:33:11

happen.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:16

But as a base of ideal society, ideal

00:33:16 --> 00:33:20

leadership, we want to look at this amalgamation

00:33:20 --> 00:33:24

of the knowledge and the leaders.

00:33:25 --> 00:33:27

And people say okay, what is the value

00:33:27 --> 00:33:28

of this?

00:33:28 --> 00:33:30

Look at the Muslim world today.

00:33:30 --> 00:33:31

Look at Jordan.

00:33:31 --> 00:33:32

Look at Egypt.

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Okay, you have leaders there.

00:33:36 --> 00:33:36

They're ignorant people.

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

Most of the Muslim countries, look at the

00:33:39 --> 00:33:40

leaders.

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They're ignorant people, ignorant of Islam.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:45

Who's going to tell them?

00:33:45 --> 00:33:49

If there's no scholars to tell them, okay,

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

to stand up to them to tell them,

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

they go out of control.

00:33:53 --> 00:33:56

So this is how crucial this topic is.

00:33:56 --> 00:33:59

And it should be studied in all of

00:33:59 --> 00:34:03

the Islamic universities, by all the Islamic movements,

00:34:03 --> 00:34:06

because if we bring about change we have

00:34:06 --> 00:34:07

to have the balance.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:12

If we have the balance, then inshallah we

00:34:12 --> 00:34:13

could develop an Islamic society.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:19

So this fusion that came about with the

00:34:19 --> 00:34:21

Islamic leadership happened at this time.

00:34:22 --> 00:34:27

Okay, and the four rightly guided caliphs Abu

00:34:27 --> 00:34:30

Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Ya

00:34:30 --> 00:34:34

'fan Ali ibn Abi Talib, Razi Allahu Anhum

00:34:34 --> 00:34:37

they were the best examples.

00:34:38 --> 00:34:39

They are the examples of the fusion.

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

And we need to look at what they

00:34:42 --> 00:34:46

did and how they maneuvered with knowledge.

00:34:46 --> 00:34:49

Because right now in the Muslim world, the

00:34:49 --> 00:34:52

leaders are in hot water because they have

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

to make some decisions right now.

00:34:55 --> 00:34:56

Okay, serious decisions.

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

So what they do is going to impact

00:34:59 --> 00:35:00

their society.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

They're being attacked.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

Our countries are being attacked, are being destroyed

00:35:04 --> 00:35:04

now.

00:35:05 --> 00:35:05

Do you fight back?

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

Do you not fight back?

00:35:09 --> 00:35:10

Like what's your decision?

00:35:10 --> 00:35:11

What are you going to do?

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

So this is crucial.

00:35:14 --> 00:35:16

So this is serious now in terms of

00:35:16 --> 00:35:17

the leaders.

00:35:17 --> 00:35:22

Okay, now we were blessed in the beginning

00:35:22 --> 00:35:25

and that's the reason probably after Allah's mercy

00:35:25 --> 00:35:26

why we're still here.

00:35:27 --> 00:35:31

We were blessed with a strong foundation.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:36

And that was the Khilafat.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said that the Khilafat

00:35:39 --> 00:35:43

after me in my Ummah, it will be

00:35:43 --> 00:35:44

30 years.

00:35:44 --> 00:35:47

It will be 30 years.

00:35:48 --> 00:35:50

Okay, so the Prophet ﷺ said the Khilafat,

00:35:51 --> 00:35:55

meaning the rule according to Islam, will be

00:35:55 --> 00:35:56

30 years.

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After that there will be a kingdom, mulk.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

So this is a hadith, right?

00:36:03 --> 00:36:04

And this is one of the miracles of

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

the Prophet ﷺ.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:05

Why?

00:36:06 --> 00:36:10

Because when you look at these four caliphs,

00:36:10 --> 00:36:14

Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he ruled for two

00:36:14 --> 00:36:19

years, three months and ten days, approximately.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:25

Umar ibn al-Khattab, ten years he ruled.

00:36:26 --> 00:36:29

Six months and eight days, approximately.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:35

Uthman ibn Afan, eleven years eleven months and

00:36:35 --> 00:36:36

nine days.

00:36:37 --> 00:36:40

Ali, yeah?

00:36:43 --> 00:36:44

This is Uthman.

00:36:46 --> 00:36:49

Ali, four years, nine months and seven days.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:54

Okay, now, people add al-Hasan on because

00:36:54 --> 00:36:59

when Ali was assassinated they chose al-Hasan

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

because they asked Ali, do you want your

00:37:02 --> 00:37:02

son?

00:37:02 --> 00:37:03

And he said, I don't say yes and

00:37:03 --> 00:37:04

I don't say no.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

See, if he said yes, he turned it

00:37:07 --> 00:37:07

into a kingdom.

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

Because the king has a prince, right?

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

His son.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

He didn't do that.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

Because the Prophet said let it be a

00:37:16 --> 00:37:16

khilafat.

00:37:17 --> 00:37:20

That's the one who deserves to be the

00:37:20 --> 00:37:20

leader.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:24

So they chose al-Hasan and so some

00:37:24 --> 00:37:27

people will put that in the list also

00:37:27 --> 00:37:28

of the Khulafa al-Rashideen.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

So al-Hasan was in power for six

00:37:31 --> 00:37:32

or seven months.

00:37:33 --> 00:37:34

Okay, and then he gave it over to

00:37:34 --> 00:37:37

Muawiyah who was struggling against him.

00:37:37 --> 00:37:38

That's when it turned into a kingdom.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:45

Now, the miracle is if you do get

00:37:45 --> 00:37:47

a computer, add it up.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:52

Two years, three months and ten days.

00:37:53 --> 00:37:54

Add this up.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

Ten years, eleven years, four years.

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

Add it all up and it comes to

00:37:58 --> 00:38:01

thirty years to the day.

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

This is heavy.

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

It comes to thirty years almost to the

00:38:07 --> 00:38:12

day how these people ruled.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

So this was part of the miracle of

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

the Prophethood.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:22

So the first of these rulers was Abu

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

Bakr al-Siddiq and you look back, his

00:38:24 --> 00:38:25

rule was not that long.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:29

It was two years, three months and ten

00:38:29 --> 00:38:29

days.

00:38:29 --> 00:38:32

That is the rule of Abu Bakr.

00:38:34 --> 00:38:39

He was the first of the Khulafa and

00:38:39 --> 00:38:41

of course he was the great companion of

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

the Prophet ﷺ.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:45

He was the first adult male to embrace

00:38:45 --> 00:38:51

Islam and he all the way through was

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

right next to the Prophet.

00:38:52 --> 00:38:54

He even made hijrah with him.

00:38:55 --> 00:38:58

So he was the one that migrated personally

00:38:58 --> 00:39:01

with the Prophet from Mecca to Medina.

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

When the Prophet ﷺ was very sick at

00:39:04 --> 00:39:07

the end of his life and then he

00:39:07 --> 00:39:09

came out and he couldn't really pray standing

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

so he had to sit.

00:39:11 --> 00:39:14

So he called Abu Bakr and Abu Bakr

00:39:14 --> 00:39:15

stood next to him.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:18

And then the Prophet made the movements and

00:39:18 --> 00:39:21

Abu Bakr then made the moves so people

00:39:21 --> 00:39:21

could see.

00:39:24 --> 00:39:29

When the pilgrimage the first pilgrimage before the

00:39:29 --> 00:39:32

Prophet's last one he asked Abu Bakr to

00:39:32 --> 00:39:32

lead it.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:37

So many things and when the Prophet became

00:39:37 --> 00:39:40

so sick he couldn't make Salat he said

00:39:40 --> 00:39:42

Abu Bakr lead Salat.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:48

Now Abu Bakr's daughter who was married to

00:39:48 --> 00:39:51

the Prophet ﷺ Anybody know the name of

00:39:51 --> 00:39:51

his daughter?

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

Right Aisha.

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

Aisha said to the Prophet and she was

00:39:57 --> 00:40:01

allowed to disagree she said don't let my

00:40:01 --> 00:40:02

father lead Salat.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:04

Why?

00:40:04 --> 00:40:05

Because he cries.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

As soon as he starts reading Qur'an

00:40:07 --> 00:40:08

he starts crying.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:12

So he was crying so much he probably

00:40:12 --> 00:40:13

couldn't even finish the verse.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:17

That's how emotional he was when the Qur

00:40:17 --> 00:40:18

'an is being read.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:22

But the Prophet ﷺ said no Abu Bakr

00:40:22 --> 00:40:25

must lead he'll stand to the task.

00:40:26 --> 00:40:28

So that means and everybody was there.

00:40:29 --> 00:40:33

Umar was there, Uthman, Ali, Abu Ubaidah all

00:40:33 --> 00:40:36

these people they're right there but Abu Bakr

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

you lead Salat.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:41

So he now becomes the leader.

00:40:43 --> 00:40:46

And we think about knowledge you got to

00:40:46 --> 00:40:48

go to an Islamic school, you got to

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

memorize Qur'an you got to memorize Hadith,

00:40:51 --> 00:40:52

you know you got to learn Tafsir you

00:40:52 --> 00:40:54

got to learn Fiqh, you got to learn

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

all these subjects.

00:40:56 --> 00:41:00

Abu Bakr was right there when the revelation

00:41:00 --> 00:41:01

came.

00:41:02 --> 00:41:05

The Hadiths, he was hearing the Hadiths.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:06

Think about this.

00:41:07 --> 00:41:09

When the Prophet ﷺ was making decisions how

00:41:09 --> 00:41:11

to do things, he was there.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:13

So he was a scholar.

00:41:14 --> 00:41:18

He was a complete scholar and he had

00:41:18 --> 00:41:21

very high level knowledge of the Qur'an

00:41:21 --> 00:41:21

itself.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:23

Right?

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

High level knowledge.

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

And he was strong Sunnah.

00:41:28 --> 00:41:29

Heavily into the Sunnah.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:35

Okay so this now he's the leader and

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

he is one of the most knowledgeable people

00:41:37 --> 00:41:38

in the Qur'an itself.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

That's your ideal situation.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:41

See the fusion?

00:41:42 --> 00:41:44

That's the amalgamation.

00:41:45 --> 00:41:48

Now what did Abu Bakr do?

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

What's some of his qualities?

00:41:51 --> 00:41:53

Right from the beginning Abu Bakr said to

00:41:53 --> 00:41:57

the people obey me as long as I

00:41:57 --> 00:41:59

obey Allah and His Messenger.

00:41:59 --> 00:42:04

If I disobey Allah and His Messenger then

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

you owe me no obedience.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:07

Think of this.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:10

When you think of rulers in the so

00:42:10 --> 00:42:13

-called Muslim world, if you disagree with him,

00:42:15 --> 00:42:18

they'll put you in jail or they'll execute

00:42:18 --> 00:42:21

you, they'll destroy your family even if you

00:42:21 --> 00:42:22

say anything.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

What is Abu Bakr saying?

00:42:26 --> 00:42:29

If I go against Allah, don't obey me.

00:42:30 --> 00:42:31

That's a real leader.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:33

You see?

00:42:33 --> 00:42:37

That's the fusion of power with knowledge.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

So in other words, he didn't see power

00:42:40 --> 00:42:42

like a king does.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:45

The king is right whether he's wrong or

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

right.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:47

He's always right.

00:42:48 --> 00:42:50

And if you say something you're his enemy.

00:42:51 --> 00:42:51

No.

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

This is Islamic leadership.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

And that's the ideal situation.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:59

Now Abu Bakr was faced with a number

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

of serious challenges.

00:43:00 --> 00:43:02

Very serious.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:07

Because the people had embraced Islam but they

00:43:07 --> 00:43:09

did not, in some cases especially the Arab

00:43:09 --> 00:43:12

tribes, because Arab tribes were coming to Medina

00:43:12 --> 00:43:15

near the end of the Prophet's life and

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

they would swear the oath.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

They would accept Islam learn how to pray,

00:43:23 --> 00:43:26

basic things get a teacher sent with them

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

to their tribe and then they leave.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:32

So they're not around the Sahaba all the

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

time.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:37

So they have a lot of different opinions

00:43:37 --> 00:43:38

a lot of confusions.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:41

And so what happened was a number of

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

the tribes made a rebellion.

00:43:45 --> 00:43:46

They said, no, we're not sure we want

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

to be Muslims.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:51

So they started doing things against Islam.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:56

And when the Prophet died, they said, okay,

00:43:56 --> 00:43:58

now there's nobody.

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

Who's Abu Bakr?

00:44:00 --> 00:44:03

So they started to break away and in

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

some cases they were even fighting for power.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:08

This is not Mecca, this is not Medina

00:44:08 --> 00:44:10

this is not Hejaz.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:14

But out in some of the far distances,

00:44:15 --> 00:44:20

middle of Arabia southern parts of Arabia you

00:44:20 --> 00:44:22

had these people who were making rebellion.

00:44:23 --> 00:44:24

That was his first challenge.

00:44:24 --> 00:44:28

And one of the things, the most dangerous

00:44:28 --> 00:44:31

thing that they were doing is they said

00:44:31 --> 00:44:37

five pillars of Islam, Shahada I believe in

00:44:37 --> 00:44:38

Allah and I believe in the Prophet.

00:44:39 --> 00:44:42

Salat I'll make Salat.

00:44:43 --> 00:44:47

Fast in Ramadan, I'll fast in Ramadan.

00:44:48 --> 00:44:49

Hajj, I'll make Hajj.

00:44:50 --> 00:44:53

Zakat Taking my money and giving it?

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

No.

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They said, we'll do four but we're not

00:44:59 --> 00:45:00

going to do five.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:03

Think about this now, right?

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

Now you've got a problem on your hand,

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

you're a leader, what are you going to

00:45:06 --> 00:45:06

do?

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

They refused to pay Zakat.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:11

This is called a Ridda.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

They were apostates.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

Abu Bakr said, you are apostates.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:17

Okay?

00:45:17 --> 00:45:21

And the last section of the three big

00:45:21 --> 00:45:25

challenges was that there were people from the

00:45:25 --> 00:45:29

Prophet's time and after who claimed to be

00:45:29 --> 00:45:30

Prophets themselves.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

Think about this.

00:45:33 --> 00:45:33

Not our time.

00:45:34 --> 00:45:38

One was Musaylimah and he was from the

00:45:38 --> 00:45:41

central part of Arabia.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:45

Shaitan came to him whatever and his group

00:45:45 --> 00:45:48

came to Medina and when he left he

00:45:48 --> 00:45:50

felt that he was really strong and he

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

said, I am a Prophet too.

00:45:53 --> 00:45:56

So he wrote a letter to the Prophet

00:45:56 --> 00:46:01

and it said to Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, Messenger

00:46:01 --> 00:46:05

of Allah from Musaylimah, Messenger of Allah.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:08

Think about this letter, right?

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

And he said in words, you take half

00:46:12 --> 00:46:16

of Arabia, I'll take the other half, okay?

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

I'll be a Prophet just give me half

00:46:19 --> 00:46:21

and you take the other half.

00:46:22 --> 00:46:24

The Prophet ﷺ wrote back to him and

00:46:24 --> 00:46:27

he said from Muhammad the Messenger of Allah

00:46:27 --> 00:46:31

to Musaylimah the liar.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:42

And he said, This earth belongs to Allah.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

He will give it to whom he pleases

00:46:46 --> 00:46:49

from his worshippers and the best reward is

00:46:49 --> 00:46:52

for those who have Taqwa, the consciousness of

00:46:52 --> 00:46:52

Allah.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:58

So this Musaylimah now, another one in southern

00:46:58 --> 00:47:03

Arabia, Tulayha, he declared he's a Prophet too.

00:47:05 --> 00:47:09

Now to make it worse, a woman in

00:47:09 --> 00:47:14

the area of Musaylimah, Shaitan came to her

00:47:14 --> 00:47:16

and she said no, maybe she's fighting for

00:47:16 --> 00:47:20

female rights or whatever, women liberation, so she

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

said we need a female Prophet.

00:47:23 --> 00:47:25

So she said, I'm a Prophetess.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:28

I'm a female Prophet.

00:47:29 --> 00:47:30

Imagine this.

00:47:31 --> 00:47:33

And to make it worse, she went to

00:47:33 --> 00:47:36

Najd area and she saw Musaylimah in his

00:47:36 --> 00:47:37

evil thing.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:41

She fell in love with Musaylimah and the

00:47:41 --> 00:47:44

false Prophet married the false Prophetess.

00:47:46 --> 00:47:49

So look at the evil Shaitanic thing that

00:47:49 --> 00:47:52

was going on in the society itself.

00:47:52 --> 00:47:57

So this here, you could say this is

00:47:57 --> 00:47:58

a serious rebellion.

00:47:59 --> 00:48:03

And some of the companions, they didn't want

00:48:03 --> 00:48:05

to fight the Arab tribe Let these people

00:48:05 --> 00:48:07

take it easy.

00:48:08 --> 00:48:12

They're going to do four pillars, so they'll

00:48:12 --> 00:48:15

learn about the fifth, because we don't have

00:48:15 --> 00:48:17

the strength right now to fight them.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:18

See the leaders today?

00:48:19 --> 00:48:21

Some people are saying do we have the

00:48:21 --> 00:48:22

strength to fight or not?

00:48:23 --> 00:48:24

You say, what should we do?

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

Should we stand up for women and children

00:48:27 --> 00:48:28

being bombed and killed?

00:48:28 --> 00:48:29

What should we do?

00:48:30 --> 00:48:34

Awawaka said, even Umar himself, who's really strong,

00:48:34 --> 00:48:36

he said, let's talk about this.

00:48:37 --> 00:48:39

We don't know if this is the right

00:48:39 --> 00:48:39

strategy.

00:48:41 --> 00:48:44

Abu Bakr said, by Allah, I will fight

00:48:44 --> 00:48:47

those who differentiate between prayer and Zakat.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:50

By Allah, if they withhold even a rope

00:48:51 --> 00:48:53

that they're supposed to pay, right?

00:48:53 --> 00:48:57

Used for hobbling a camel that they used

00:48:57 --> 00:48:59

to pay during the time of the Prophet,

00:48:59 --> 00:49:00

I will fight them.

00:49:02 --> 00:49:03

So even if they don't, it's an Iqal.

00:49:04 --> 00:49:07

Now that the Arabs, they wear the black

00:49:07 --> 00:49:10

thing on their Ghutra it's a fashion statement

00:49:10 --> 00:49:10

now.

00:49:11 --> 00:49:13

But that used to be a riding whip.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:16

You're riding your horse or your camel, so

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

you take it off and you whip it,

00:49:17 --> 00:49:17

right?

00:49:17 --> 00:49:18

So you can go fast.

00:49:19 --> 00:49:21

And then you put it on to hold

00:49:21 --> 00:49:22

your Ghutra in place.

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

He said even if they didn't pay one

00:49:26 --> 00:49:27

Iqal, I will fight them.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:31

And he said, I'm going to get on

00:49:31 --> 00:49:34

my horse I will ride alone.

00:49:36 --> 00:49:37

None of you ready to fight?

00:49:37 --> 00:49:38

I'll fight myself.

00:49:39 --> 00:49:41

And he went forward.

00:49:42 --> 00:49:45

And even Umar recognized how strong he was.

00:49:46 --> 00:49:48

He said Abu Bakr saved the Ummah.

00:49:49 --> 00:49:51

He saved the Ummah by taking the stance.

00:49:52 --> 00:49:52

See?

00:49:52 --> 00:49:54

That's what people need to learn today, right?

00:49:54 --> 00:49:57

That's what our leaders are supposed to learn

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

today when they're afraid to do something.

00:50:01 --> 00:50:06

What did he do?

00:50:07 --> 00:50:09

You got these Arab tribes out there fighting

00:50:09 --> 00:50:09

you?

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

He consolidated Medina.

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

So he consolidated the power of the city,

00:50:15 --> 00:50:18

actually developing fortifications and stuff.

00:50:18 --> 00:50:19

He's thinking, right?

00:50:20 --> 00:50:23

So he's using his Zakat and what not.

00:50:23 --> 00:50:27

He's using it in order to defend the

00:50:27 --> 00:50:27

city.

00:50:28 --> 00:50:31

To bring the companions, rallying everybody together.

00:50:31 --> 00:50:35

And he also maintained the loyalty of the

00:50:35 --> 00:50:35

military.

00:50:36 --> 00:50:39

And he put, the military was fighting already.

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

There was some struggle with the Romans.

00:50:41 --> 00:50:42

There was a struggle with the Persians.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

Now you have internal struggle.

00:50:47 --> 00:50:50

So he put the Ulama underneath, Usama ibn

00:50:50 --> 00:50:52

Zayd the great companion.

00:50:53 --> 00:50:56

He became the leader of the main military.

00:50:57 --> 00:50:59

So he secured the military.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:04

So this is now wisdom of a leader.

00:51:05 --> 00:51:06

Secure yourself.

00:51:07 --> 00:51:11

Then they decided on swift military campaigns.

00:51:13 --> 00:51:16

So instead of holding back, go straight for

00:51:16 --> 00:51:16

them.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

You see?

00:51:18 --> 00:51:19

This is Islamic way of doing things.

00:51:20 --> 00:51:21

Don't say defensive, defensive.

00:51:22 --> 00:51:23

I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

Go right at them.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:28

So they went right forward against them.

00:51:29 --> 00:51:31

And the leader, his main leader in this

00:51:31 --> 00:51:35

was Sahabi al-Jalil Khalid ibn al-Walid.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:39

And Khalid was, from before he was a

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

Muslim, one of the greatest leaders.

00:51:41 --> 00:51:45

Khalid is such a great military leader that

00:51:45 --> 00:51:48

they study his tactics in the military universities

00:51:48 --> 00:51:49

all around the world.

00:51:51 --> 00:51:52

That's how great he was of a leader.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:55

And Abu Bakr was the one who empowered

00:51:55 --> 00:51:55

him.

00:51:57 --> 00:52:01

That's using your wisdom and your power.

00:52:02 --> 00:52:06

So they went forward and they went out

00:52:06 --> 00:52:07

and they fought Musaylima.

00:52:08 --> 00:52:09

It's a story in itself.

00:52:10 --> 00:52:13

They finally defeated Musaylima in the battle of

00:52:13 --> 00:52:14

Yamama.

00:52:15 --> 00:52:16

Terrible battle.

00:52:17 --> 00:52:22

Hundreds of Qur'an memorizers died or fath.

00:52:23 --> 00:52:24

Terrible battle.

00:52:25 --> 00:52:26

But Khalid was swift.

00:52:27 --> 00:52:27

Sajjah.

00:52:27 --> 00:52:28

They came to Sajjah.

00:52:29 --> 00:52:31

And they said, do you repent?

00:52:31 --> 00:52:32

She said, I repent.

00:52:33 --> 00:52:33

I'm sorry.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:34

Tawbah.

00:52:35 --> 00:52:38

So she repented and they let her go.

00:52:39 --> 00:52:40

Because Muslims don't just kill everybody.

00:52:40 --> 00:52:44

They let her go and she died as

00:52:44 --> 00:52:44

a Muslim.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:49

So swift direct action.

00:52:50 --> 00:52:51

That's Abu Bakr al-Siddiq.

00:52:54 --> 00:52:57

So he restored unity.

00:52:58 --> 00:52:59

The Ridda people.

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

Swift action against those who refused to pay

00:53:02 --> 00:53:03

zakat.

00:53:05 --> 00:53:08

And this rebellion, it was put down fast.

00:53:09 --> 00:53:11

And the ummah was saved.

00:53:11 --> 00:53:12

But what did he do?

00:53:13 --> 00:53:14

He didn't just fight them.

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

It's just the ones who were resisting and

00:53:17 --> 00:53:17

doing wrong.

00:53:18 --> 00:53:22

What Abu Bakr did was he used mercy

00:53:22 --> 00:53:24

and rehabilitation.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

Today what they call it is truth and

00:53:27 --> 00:53:28

reconciliation.

00:53:29 --> 00:53:31

You know Canada this week had a truth

00:53:31 --> 00:53:34

and reconciliation for the indigenous people.

00:53:34 --> 00:53:37

It's about 200 years late by the way.

00:53:39 --> 00:53:40

But they're having it anyway so they can

00:53:40 --> 00:53:43

symbolically say they were doing something for the

00:53:43 --> 00:53:43

indigenous.

00:53:44 --> 00:53:46

But Abu Bakr right there at that point

00:53:46 --> 00:53:49

the people said okay we made a mistake

00:53:49 --> 00:53:52

and so they had justice.

00:53:53 --> 00:53:54

They forgave them.

00:53:55 --> 00:53:57

And they balanced it.

00:53:58 --> 00:53:59

No vengeance.

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

If there was a murderer or if there's

00:54:02 --> 00:54:03

somebody deserved to be punished they would be

00:54:03 --> 00:54:03

punished.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:09

But overall they basically they gave the people

00:54:09 --> 00:54:10

what they needed.

00:54:11 --> 00:54:13

Mercy and rehabilitation.

00:54:14 --> 00:54:19

Abu Bakr Siddiq he saved the ummah when

00:54:19 --> 00:54:21

the ummah was in its crisis.

00:54:22 --> 00:54:26

Because that is the aim of the Islamic

00:54:26 --> 00:54:26

society.

00:54:27 --> 00:54:30

It is mercy and rehabilitation.

00:54:31 --> 00:54:34

So within those two years plus he did

00:54:34 --> 00:54:34

a lot.

00:54:35 --> 00:54:40

And he was a beautiful example of fusion.

00:54:41 --> 00:54:46

This is the amalgamation of your scholarship and

00:54:46 --> 00:54:46

leadership.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:48

It's in one individual.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:50

That is rare.

00:54:50 --> 00:54:52

But that is something we need to pray

00:54:52 --> 00:54:52

for.

00:54:53 --> 00:54:55

To have that kind of a leader to

00:54:55 --> 00:54:58

come forward that could combine you know the

00:54:58 --> 00:54:58

both.

00:54:59 --> 00:55:00

So I want to open up the floor

00:55:00 --> 00:55:04

for any general questions that anybody has concerning

00:55:04 --> 00:55:05

Abu Bakr Siddiq.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:18

I have a question about Abu Bakr.

00:55:19 --> 00:55:19

Yeah.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:21

How is wita?

00:55:25 --> 00:55:28

Okay this is the wrong class for wita

00:55:28 --> 00:55:28

prayer.

00:55:28 --> 00:55:30

This is the wrong class.

00:55:32 --> 00:55:34

You need to go to another class that

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

is dealing with the salats and what not.

00:55:38 --> 00:55:39

But this is the wrong class.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:45

There is a website newmuslimacademy.org You could

00:55:45 --> 00:55:48

go there and they will give you all

00:55:48 --> 00:55:51

the basic things for the performance of salat.

00:55:52 --> 00:55:53

Questions?

00:55:58 --> 00:55:58

Yes.

00:56:00 --> 00:56:01

He is one of the ten.

00:56:07 --> 00:56:09

So this is the thing.

00:56:09 --> 00:56:11

There is a nickname.

00:56:13 --> 00:56:15

So Abu Bakr's name is Atik.

00:56:18 --> 00:56:21

But Abu Bakr is the father of Bakr.

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

It's like a nickname.

00:56:24 --> 00:56:29

So many times the nickname is known but

00:56:29 --> 00:56:31

his name was Atik.

00:56:32 --> 00:56:36

And he was the first male individual adult

00:56:36 --> 00:56:37

male to accept.

00:56:38 --> 00:56:41

Ali was a young man around nine years

00:56:41 --> 00:56:41

old or so.

00:56:41 --> 00:56:42

He had embraced before.

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

But the first fully mature adult to embrace

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

Islam was Abu Bakr Siddiq.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:48

And then he gave the dawah.

00:56:48 --> 00:56:53

And he was a beautiful example of the

00:56:53 --> 00:56:56

coming together of scholarship and power.

00:56:57 --> 00:56:58

Beautiful example.

00:56:59 --> 00:57:01

Any other questions?

00:57:01 --> 00:57:07

So this is an important example of the

00:57:07 --> 00:57:10

fusion and it's something really for the Muslim

00:57:10 --> 00:57:11

leaders today.

00:57:12 --> 00:57:14

When they are making their decisions.

00:57:14 --> 00:57:17

And we will see that if the person

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

if the leader is not strong enough and

00:57:19 --> 00:57:21

this is a question somebody might ask.

00:57:21 --> 00:57:24

But if they are not strong enough or

00:57:24 --> 00:57:28

they don't know enough about Islam then have

00:57:28 --> 00:57:30

a scholar on your side.

00:57:32 --> 00:57:35

Or have a council around you of scholars.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:38

So when you make your decision you refer

00:57:38 --> 00:57:39

to the council.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:41

You don't make it by yourself.

00:57:42 --> 00:57:44

In case that's a question somebody might ask.

00:57:45 --> 00:57:47

And we're going to show you how that

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

actually has happened in Islamic history.

00:57:50 --> 00:57:51

So we're going to show you how the

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

balance came and how it still can be

00:57:53 --> 00:57:54

done inshallah.

00:57:55 --> 00:57:56

So we pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:57:56 --> 00:57:58

'ala would help the Muslims in this very

00:57:58 --> 00:58:02

critical time with what's happening in the Middle

00:58:02 --> 00:58:02

East.

00:58:02 --> 00:58:05

We pray that Allah would liberate our lands

00:58:05 --> 00:58:08

and help the innocent and the poor and

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

the weak throughout the Muslim world.

00:58:10 --> 00:58:12

And raise up that leadership to take us

00:58:12 --> 00:58:13

from darkness into light.

00:58:14 --> 00:58:19

Have a safe journey home.

00:58:22 --> 00:58:25

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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