Abdullah Hakim Quick – The Context Minarets And Thrones Class #1
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The speakers discuss the context and potential threat of global warming, including the rise in temperature, droughts, and floods, and the potential for climate chaos. They emphasize the importance of protecting against these events and finding one's own spirituality. The segment also touches on the importance of honoring Islam's values and showing compassion and compassion on one's family. The speakers provide examples of people speaking and emphasize the importance of the optimization of the umara and the title of the umara.
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We we we Know I'm saying that we
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may not hear a man or a heme
and Humber laughs a lot of mean Well,
we'll suddenly we'll sell them a la Sayyid
awaleen wal akhireen Nabiyana muhammadan wala alihi wa
sahbihi wabarak wasalam All praise are due to
Allah Lord of the worlds and peace and
blessings be constantly showered upon our beloved Prophet
Muhammad the master of the first and the
last and on his family as companions and
all those who call to his way and
establish his Sunnah to the day of judgment
As to what follows my beloved brothers and
sisters to our friends To our viewers and
listeners.
I begin with the greeting words of the
righteous.
Asalaamu alaikum warahmatullah Alhamdulillah Another opportunity has come
to us to Bask in the knowledge of
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to reflect upon what
is happening in the world through the lens
of the last revelation and so in that
light We have developed the idea of dealing
with an issue that we call minarets and
thrones The minaret, of course represents the masjid
the leadership of the community and the throne
represents the Kings the emirs So it's sort
of like the scholars and the kings scholars
and the Sultans and That relationship and how
it has developed over the years we have
to realize that knowledge for knowledge sake Is
something which is not of the most benefit
ilmun naafia Beneficial knowledge is that which we
take in and we learn and we implement
it So it's something that is relevant To
the time period that we're living in and
it is said that Prophet Muhammad peace and
blessings be upon him When he used to
deliver his Friday sermon He would speak sometimes
he would lower his voice sometimes raise his
voice his eyes even got red sometimes And
on some occasions he spoke as though there
was an army just in back of the
mountains Close now you can imagine the emotion
and the fervor of a person who is
Speaking to his people motivating his people because
there's an army about to attack them so
that is relevancy and so our teachings also
need to be relevant and When we look
at Islamic studies When we look at the
present situation with knowledge The context is critical
We learned before that even study in the
Quran itself if you want to understand a
Verse if you want to understand a chapter
in the book of Allah One of the
elements that you need is what is called
as Baba Nuzul and that is the reasons
why It was revealed What are the reasons?
When you understand the reason why the verse
was revealed, this is like the context Then
you get the full benefit out of the
Subject itself because the Quran was revealed over
a period of 23 years for living situations
Okay, so that's the context so similarly Any
course that we are doing especially we're focusing
on Islamic history and Islamic experiences, you know
of the people That is that is something
that really requires a type of context so
when we have the context Then we are
able to understand the subject even more and
so I I would be amiss not to
look at what is happening in the world
and the fact that we have chosen this
subject of scholars and Sultans the minarets and
the thrones is critical for us in the
sense of where we're at If we look
at the world today There are many different
threats, but there are three existential threats that
really Threaten organized human existence.
That's the rest of the sentence Okay, so
human beings as an organized group on this
earth Right now there are three issues amongst
the many which are existential and So this
sort of sets a background For what we
want to look at Historically and and when
you do that you benefit more from history
because history is human experience History is not
supposed to be just facts and figures that
you learn in order to feel that you
know something And so in terms of these
threats The obvious elephant in the room in
a sense Is the climate catastrophe?
And no doubt although It's not put necessarily
on the front page But it's something that
is getting stronger and stronger and stronger by
the moment and If it is not dealt
with It actually is is threatening our existence
global warming right now Has gone past the
point that they considered 1.5, you know
degrees Celsius.
It's gone past this Warming level for over
a year.
We've been past the point of danger In
terms of global warming.
So what is it done?
It has created the hottest year in history
Since records have been taken There's never been
a year that has been harder and now
we are facing in terms of August September
They actually the hottest months.
I have a family member.
My daughter is living in Saudi Arabia and
Jubail and Just the other day You know,
she showed us the temperature that came, you
know on their screens and it was 47
Celsius 47 and this is Jubail so if
you if you factor in Humidity because it's
right on the water very humid It would
be in the 50s literally in the 50s
and In even in India itself and if
you go to Djibouti and and the deserts
of East Africa and even to America, you
know to the Salt Lake You're going to
see some temperatures That are hard to come
to grips with and if it continues going
like this There will be large sections of
the world.
There will be almost impossible to live in
so no matter what we Try to appease
ourself with Reality is it is unbelievably hot
secondly what's happening?
Not only heat it is rain water So
floods are now happening unbelievable level Of course
in Bangladesh the youths flood you see it
on your screens All right Nigeria recently in
the northeast section of Nigeria may do goody
and in poor new area Unbelievable floods you're
talking millions of people displaced even in Europe
itself right now The floods are pouring and
it's all over the world that this is
happening.
So water is now pouring down and the
dams that human beings Set up in order
to collect the water and produce electricity dams
are breaking So what that means is also
sea level is rising So there'll be many
different states countries who have borders on you
know the oceans That are in serious trouble
right now, and it's going to get worse
and worse by the day It's also producing
tropical storms and so the hurricanes and the
typhoons And and the storms the monsoon Seasons
unbelievable what is happening now?
So not only too much rain, but too
little So this climate catastrophe is also creating
droughts droughts on an unbelievable level and these
droughts heat waves are happening Forest fires the
fires are breaking out even in Canada.
We're suffering from fires.
And this is just the tip of the
iceberg You know for what is happening in
a lot of places.
So really this climate catastrophe This is becoming
existential Secondly in terms of the context of
Why we're studying what we are studying now
is The issue of the destruction of the
international rules based order and what I mean
by that is that human beings Developed especially
after the great world wars Human beings tried
to develop United Nations, and there were different
conventions and different You know context or different
rules that were set up rules of engagement
Not only for peace, but even for war.
How do you fight war?
What are the limits of war?
And We are at the point where this
rules based order is falling apart The situation
in Palestine right now It has gone beyond
description The level of suffering that the people
are going through The the genocide that is
happening the starvation being used as a weapon
disease that is breaking out amongst the people
out and out murder that is happening and
United Nations is against it.
The International Courts of Justice are against it
The majority of the world 99% of
the world of the countries of the world
are against it But yet it continues.
So what does that mean?
That means that the present rules based order
That we set up in order to deal
with extreme circumstances of violence and Genocide are
becoming ineffective They're not working anymore and That
would take us back to what they would
say in Arabic Qanun al Ghaba and that
means the law of the jungle You're going
back to what some would say medieval times
When the Mongols were there When the Crusades
were there When it was just might makes
right completely No conventions, no rules and That
is going to be catastrophic In the world
that we are living in today, especially because
of the third issue of the existential threats
Again which is an elephant in the room
people know it's there But don't want to
think about it and that is the nuclear
threat Now after the nuclear bombs were dropped
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki And this is just
give you a picture of Japan, you know
in Hiroshima what it looked like after they
dropped the atomic bomb on this city They
were forced to try to deal with Certain
conventions, how are we going to control this
thing?
The Americans really did not have to drop
the bomb But by dropping the bomb They
were literally showing to the world.
We are now the leader We are the
biggest dog on the block Okay, we are
the world's superpower So it was a power
move that was made But the information Was
not confined to America because there were scientists
from other countries that actually helped to develop
these weapons and so They had to develop
what is called a doomsday clock And this
is where Because of the proliferation of these
nuclear weapons now, it started to spread and
they became a weapons race In this area
because of this they developed this doomsday clock,
which is saying like how close are we?
To the point where the nuclear weapons are
going to be fired How close are we
to this?
And the latest Information is saying that we're
90 seconds before midnight That's what they're saying
right now.
We're 90 seconds Before midnight.
Midnight is nuclear holocaust Nuclear destruction and when
it happens, it's going to make a good
part of the world uninhabitable the nuclear fallout
Hitting the atmosphere What is going to happen?
It could take us back to primitive life
if this happens and if you look at
the country with Nuclear weapons now, number one
These are approximations because you don't know what
people do in private.
Number one, the United States has approximately 5
,044 nuclear weapons Okay, the Russians have 5
,580 They have more than the Americans UK
has got 225 nuclear weapons France has got
290 China has got 500 This is what's
reported now.
You don't know what they have in secret.
India has 172 be surprised Pakistan has 170
and the North Koreans They have 50 But
quiet as it's kept Israel They claim what
what is reported or so-called reported is
90, but they estimate they have somewhere between
75 and 400 nuclear warheads Okay, but they
will not announce their weapons publicly So we
are at the doorstep of a nuclear catastrophe
90 seconds away according to the doomsday clock.
And so this is the context Which is
in back of us now Why we are
looking at this particular subject and of course,
we are looking at the Muslim world itself
and There is a hadith reported in Abu
Dawood and Ibn Majah and Imam Ahmed It's
a it's a tough one.
It's really tough And every time I read
it, you know, I shiver You know for
what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam actually
knew and what he actually gave to us
because we're seeing this played out Right in
front of us, but he said on the
authority of Abu Huraira radhiAllahu an Ummati hadihi
ummatun marhumah laisa alaiha athabun fil akhira athabuha
fid dunya al fitn wa zalazal wal qatal
ruwahu ahmed The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said this my ummah is a nation that
has mercy on it Its punishment will not
be in the hereafter but in this life
that being fitna earthquakes and murder or genocide
so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
saying that this ummah We are blessed with
the kalima and if a person has the
kalima of la ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasool Allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that person if that
was a real belief that they had They
will eventually enter paradise There are some people
who go directly to paradise There are others
who will because of the sins and the
wrongs that they have done They will enter
into hellfire and according to our traditions there
is a group They are called Jahannamiyoon These
are the people of Jahannam of * Muslims
But because of the wrongs that they have
done they will suffer in the in the
fire for a period of time When they
have suffered enough to equal the wrongs that
they have done because of the kalima They
will enter paradise and That might sound like
okay, so we can do wrong.
No take a fire and put it on
your hand literally feel the pain So Jahannam
is real and and the hereafter is real
But what what is happening here is that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying
Okay, but what is our punishment?
It's not in the next life Okay, the
punishment is in this life and you could
say that this punishment is like pain right
and Pain is not always a negative thing
In some cases pain is actually good if
you are stabbed or if you are cut
There's more pain in the healing process Generally
there it is when you get the wound
why?
That pain is serving a purpose The body
is healing itself.
And of course if you have pain in
your hand, you're not going to dip it
in water You're going to protect it.
You're going to cover it You're going to
try to keep it away from contact if
you didn't have the pain you'd be doing
a lot of things So that pain is
actually a blessing To the person who is
receiving the pain Okay, so this you could
say is like a wake-up call What
is the wake-up call and this is
a shocking thing about this hadith that he
said is fitna Right fitna is like trials
tribulations gray areas temptations That is coming down
upon us and we are surrounded by this
fitna this gray area this confusion the second
is earthquakes or natural catastrophes I Was checking
on some of the climate issues and the
people who study the climate catastrophes they said
two of the greatest catastrophes that happens earthquakes
that hit Turkey and also North Africa This
is like Muslim world right tsunamis hitting Muslim
world and You're gonna see it's like a
wake-up call So it's getting stronger and
stronger and stronger that we're being jolted out
of our sleep and last is genocide and
This is being clearly displayed With the genocide
happening in Philistine in Palestine.
You could also see a man-made Genocide
in the sense, although the term is not
being used but what's happening in the Sudan,
you know is a catastrophe And it's man
-made Because there are groups that are supporting
two factions causing confusion So this is a
wake-up call to the Muslim world That
is happening in the last days and because
of this wake-up call What is it
that we are waking up from and Where
can we possibly go?
This is where we are looking at the
important verse Because we're crying for change We're
making to our one of the imams is
actually saying, you know, he is it's amazing
He said, you know, there's about a million
Juma khutbahs being made On Friday, it's like
millions of them, right?
But you're not really getting an answer So
We're going to take a break right now
because Maghrib Salat has come in and shortly
inshallah We will continue for the orientation class
the context Of our class on minarets and
king and thrones.
So I leave you with this was salamu
alaykum Bismillah
rahman rahim alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen Sallallahu ta'ala
ala Sayyidina Musaleen wa alihi wa sahbihi wa
barak wa salam Alhamdulillah When we look at
the extent of the Muslim world the amount
of people and Even the amount of masjids
and Jumas, it's amazing and people are making
their dua People are crying for change People
are asking Allah subhana wa ta'ala to
bring about a political change So there are
many who are trying to develop an Islamic
state There are others who are trying to
develop Islamic economy Some want social change People
need movement People need the help of Allah
But Allah said in surah Torah verse 11
Inna allaha la yughayiru ma bi qawmin hatta
yughayiru ma bi anfusihim Allah will not change
the condition of a people until they change
that which is in themselves So this is
critical It's a critical understanding That we have
to do something on the inside.
Who are we as a Muslim world?
Who are we?
Are we just people who eat halal food?
Who wear certain clothes?
Who make pilgrimage, who have certain names?
What is the Muslim world?
It's been over a hundred years since we've
even had a Khalifa A person to lead
the whole Muslim world and it's like rumbling
But the potential is there and if you
look at the potential of the Muslim world,
it's amazing We have over 26% of
the earth's population You'll see Muslims all over
the place.
There's millions even in China Indonesia even in
Europe We have we are rich in natural
resources Much of the mineral wealth of the
world lies under our countries we have strategic
positions And you can see the strategic positions
in terms of the the movement of resources
in the world Just areas like the Red
Sea areas like the coastlines in Southeast Asia
The trade routes going from China what they
call the Silk Road so many strategic positions
that Muslims are actually in as a nation
okay, we have a huge standing armies and
Because of the online media now you're getting
pictures of the Muslims marching there and that
the deal to the Chechen soldiers and you
know the Arab world and you know Pakistan,
you know with their feet raised in the
air and so many brilliant brave soldiers That
are there standing at arms Literally armies that
are standing at arms We also have youth
we have one of the youngest nations in
the world 60% of Muslims are under
25 So we have a lot of young
people.
We have this great potential of the future
and We have resources quiet as it's kept
We still have our basic teachings intact We
have much of our history still that we
can go to to see what happened in
the past Being able to carry it out.
What's our potential?
We have literally the richest families in the
world and You will see even Europe Even
right here in Toronto you go down to
the lakeshore and you will see you know
building one time somebody was talking about the
huge condominiums and Buildings being built in the
Toronto waterfront and many of them are owned
by people in the Gulf not Canadians So
we have wealth We have history of respect
So, you know, we've done so much even
with all the calamities in the world people
are accepting Islam still It's the fastest growing
religion in the world.
Most people are leaving religion, but there's a
contradiction And that really is part of what
we're trying to unwind in this course This
contradiction How to come out of the contradiction
that you have all this wealth, but yet
you have poverty How can you how can
we as a nation come out of this?
You have huge armies But yet you're being
defeated.
You're being humiliated Even though you have huge
armies strong warriors some of the greatest MMA
UFC fighters of the world Muslims But yet
humiliation on the ground We have intellectuals we
have poets so much, but many of our
debates go online and you will see many
of the scholars and Communities, they're debating over
minor issues When there are major issues facing
our nation You'll find scholars sometimes, you know
arguing over the names and descriptions of allah
subhana wa ta'ala like how do you
Interpret these what is the importance of that?
It's irrelevant in Terms of what is going
on on the ground and it's something that
scholars in the past would work out amongst
themselves Okay, but on the ground it causes
a type of Frustration because with all this
potential power that we have Right.
There's a feeling of frustration and this is
all over the place That that people are
saying with all this possible strength that where
are we going?
How are we going to come out of
this?
And this leads us really to The essence
of what we are talking about.
There's something with Muslims themselves Who are we?
What really is the religion and How can
we be sincere to allah subhana wa ta
'ala in order that allah would help us?
Inshallah to come out of this confusion that
we're presently in Okay, so one of the
theme Hadiths in this is a famous tradition
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
This is considered to be one of the
Jamia Hadiths There's certain ones that are you
can build a whole religion off of like
the famous Hadith Jibreel Where the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is talking about Islam, Iman
and Ihsan So there's certain Hadith like this.
This is one of the important ones It
has different riwayahs or different versions and this
one in Report in Sahih Muslim the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will say ad-dinu
nasiha That the essence of religion is sincerity
Qulna li man ya Rasool Allah So he
said O Messenger of Allah, who is this
sincerity for and he said lillahi wa li
rasoolihi wa li kitabihi wa li amatil muslimina
wa khasatihim Okay, so this is what our
sincerity is supposed to be and some people
might look at the word nasiha, right?
Because you know, we use Arabic words in
English Okay, so people who don't speak Arabic
use Arabic words But and or even in
their own languages You say fitna it means
a lot of things in a lot of
languages.
Sometimes it just means, you know magic or
something Or you're causing a confusion So nasiha
generally how we use this in the West
nasiha generally means advice So if you were
to say that to somebody give me nasiha,
okay, so that generally means advice, okay, but
Nasiha, you know that the verb itself also
means to Purify something.
So when you have metals and you want
to purify the metal then you put it
to the fire And the fire then takes
out impurities in it the same like you
have leather and hide You purify it.
So that purification process that's where nasiha, that's
a form of nasiha too and Also, it
means support That you support somebody as well
So if you look at the hadith Then
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying
that you know, the essence of religion is
to be sincere to Allah Can you give
Allah nasiha?
No No Can you give Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam nasiha?
No So that word does not apply to
this you see or that shade of the
meaning Okay, can you give the Quran nasiha?
No Now the last two Muslims common you
can give advice to Muslims you can give
advice to leaders.
Okay, but when you really look at it
it's more like Support Sincerity so we translate
that as being you know, the complete advice
in sincerity It's really sincerity.
The essence is sincerity and support Okay, so
how can we?
Be sincere to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and in this and it's a whole study
in itself But was one great scholar Sidi
Ahmed Zarouk, you know of what is now
Morocco and Libya and He did a book
Where he wrote about al nasiha til kafiya
li man khasahullahu bil afiya So this is
the complete advice for those who Allah has
blessed with well-being and He used this
hadith as the base and this scholar was
one of those Encyclopedic scholars Who would take
a small meeting and give you a whole?
long explanation Okay, so just to give you
you know, a look at this This hadith
breaks it into five areas Okay advice to
Allah his messenger his book the Muslims and
the leaders of the Muslims.
Okay, so how are we?
sincere to Allah number one follow his commands
and And number two aid his religion Right.
You want to be sincere to Allah then
come to the aid of Islam when you
see Muslims.
It's not just talk right, you have to
come to the aid and Submit to Allah's
judgment at taslim li hukmihi.
This is what our scholar said at taslim
li hukmihi You have to submit to the
judgment of Allah So if somebody dies You
have to submit inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi
raji'un You have to submit to it
Okay, but there are some things which is
in our control There's some things that we're
doing Right, and that's where Toba comes in
repentance and there's a long discussion about this
Which is not a you know, the basis
of you know What our class is tonight,
but just give you a taste of this
the second part Sincerity to the messenger of
Allah And this is a big thing now
You see it on the internet and all
around because we are in Rabi al-awwal
and we are going into the birthday of
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So this is a big issue now Do
you celebrate the Mawlid?
Okay, and this is not the essence of
our discussion tonight, but basically How are you
sincere to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam?
Sayyidi Ahmed Zarrouk broke it down You really
want to be sincere to the messenger of
Allah.
It's not just having a celebration a birthday
party Follow his Sunnah you've got to follow
the Sunnah and Second, al-shafaqa ala ummati.
You have to have compassion on The Muslims.
You've got to have this emotional compassion.
You see Muslims suffering.
You've got to feel it, right?
You really want to be sincere to the
messenger have compassion on his ummah and honor
his family So you honor his family?
And his memory.
This is the crucial thing In terms of
the Mawlid and question might come up.
I'm not a mufti but to be honest
with you It was never celebrated in his
time nor in the Sahaba's time nor in
the Tabi'een It was only like a
thousand years after his death That they started
it in Egypt to actually have a celebration
because in terms of the actual date of
His birth this difference opinion It's not fixed
as to which actual day in Rabi al
-awwal it was Okay, so it was never
celebrated in the early times later.
It was so the balanced scholars will say
that if during this time period you want
to get together and you know Remember the
life of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and you know, give advice do good things
give sadaqa fine But don't make an Eid
out of it Do not make a holiday,
which is equal to Eid al-Fitr and
Eid al-Adha Because then you're following in
the area of bid'ah.
That's the area of innovations Right, but to
remember the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to
encourage people to talk about his sunnah to
gather people together Nothing wrong with that As
long as it's not considered to be you
know, an Eid or part of a religion.
So this is a side topic the next
one sincerity to the book of Allah How
can we be sincere to the book of
Allah one to perfect its recitation the tajweed
But that's not all you have to Contemplate
on its verses and then follow its commands
Okay, if you do that now you're sincere
that's the complete our sincerity To the book
of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
So it's not just words, right?
it's a complete sincerity and How are you
sincere to Muslims Not just by making dua
for them and that's important But we need
to defend the honor of the Muslims Defend
their honor and if somebody's talking about another
Muslim, we're innocent until proven guilty If Muslims
in a part of the way, they say
these terrorists or these this or that don't
accept it we have an honor, you know
about us and we have to defend that
and Secondly, we need to establish the rights
of the Muslims and that will come in
an area Even if you call the Adhan
in a place where there's no Adhan you
establish salat That's the rights if somebody dies
Somebody's got to do janazah And if nobody
does janazah It's considered fard kifaya So that
somebody has to do it the whole community
is living in sin Okay, so and third
Come to their assistance you really want to
be sincere to Muslims come to their assistance
and And that is our naseeha now the
key point in our discussion is the one
on leadership and Sidi Ahmed Zarrouk He broke
the leadership into three parts he said there
is the umara and There is the fukara
and there is the ulama so the umara
Are your amirs?
so that's like your Kings and amirs and
leaders they have political power.
They have the gun.
They're the sultan Okay, your amirs to You
have the fukara and these are people who
Fukara generally means like poor people, but in
this case he was talking about spiritual people
some would say the Sufis Or the ones
who are practicing to Suf which means ihsan
So now the higher level of Islam the
spirituality of Islam Okay, people who claim to
have ihsan or who are teaching ihsan Okay,
and and that's a very heavy topic because
somebody might ask.
How do you pray?
But then the other question comes.
How do I improve my salat?
Okay, how do I really you know get
the feelings of the salat itself Okay, so
that is sincerity to that group and the
third group in the leadership The third level
of the leadership is ulama Okay, and these
are the people who have the knowledge of
Islam in terms of the knowledge of the
revelation Right that is for the Quran, the
hadith, the tafsir, the fiqh, right?
This is what we're using when we talk
about ulama itself although The reality is that
in some cases In most cases the real
ulama were also had ihsan So those two
levels can actually be combined in one But
see the Ahmad Zaruk this particular scholar He
was considered muhtasib ulama wal awliya He was
the quality control manager of the scholars and
the Sufis who claim spirituality It's rare you
find somebody like that.
He was in North Africa.
So he was he was the highest faqih
in Maliki fiqh So that's the Maliki school
of thought.
He was like the highest level So any
judgment you had in jurisprudence Right.
He was like the hujjah.
He was like on the top of the
people who understood the Maliki fiqh in his
time At the same time in terms of
what the people of the Suf call the
tariqa Right those who are moving in an
organized way for ihsan.
He was the highest level Like they say
the qutub So he was the highest level
But what he used to do he used
to correct both sides So if the ulama
are going wrong He would correct the ulama
If the people of the Suf are going
wrong He correct them and they even asked
him one time What about are there any
major scholars in to Suf now?
Where are the scholars of the Suf and
he said good see that cemetery over there.
They're in there Like that's how critical he
was of what was going on okay, so
He gives his judgment now and this is
sort of like the basis of Where we're
going with this understanding and he said and
this is highly controversial now what he's saying,
but it's so straightforward He said your political
leaders your amirs Your sultans your kings he
said you obey them as long as they
obey Allah If they don't obey Allah There's
no ta'a, no obedience That's a deep
statement You get hung in some parts of
the Muslim world if you publicly came out
But the hadith is there la ta'a
lil makhluq fee ma'siyatil khalaq There's no obeying
the creation when the creation disobeys Allah So
he said follow the leaders Follow the ulama
the umara as long as they obey Allah,
but if they don't you don't have to
follow Okay, the the the fuqara if a
person claims spirituality Then and any and he's
got good qualifications Then he said you can
accept these people as long as they stay
within the limits of Sharia If they go
outside of Islamic law don't follow them You
ask for advice on something and they say
go in the room and stand on your
head You know for ten hours and say
Allah Allah Allah Okay, that's not in Sharia.
That's not in the Sunnah.
So you don't have to follow them in
that but if they have qualifications and it
Teach taking you to a level of Ihsan
That can help you then you can accept
what they say and for the ulama And
this is going deeply into the area We're
going to be talking about it in more
details as we go along for the ulama
He said you acknowledge the scholars as long
as they have authentic proof dalil As long
as the scholars have proof You can accept
you can acknowledge them you should because that's
what they're trained to do Everybody can't spend
10 20 30 years of their life studying
It's like a like it's like it's like
a brain surgeon You might know first aid
Right, but if somebody has a problem with
their brain You don't use first aid from
the scouting group To help somebody in with
their brain you bring in a surgeon Who's
trained so similarly there are ulama as well
who are trained on the higher levels of
Islamic knowledge Then they will come in, you
know for the special areas of Islam So
this is what Sidi Ahmed Zarouk, you know
broke down and it is this area.
You see these two areas.
You have the emirs and You have the
other two areas.
You can say fuqara and ulama.
We're going to see it.
It's really the same thing Okay, because if
somebody's in the fuqara and they're not within
sharia, that's irrelevant to us That's irrelevant If
they are within sharia, then in a sense
they are amongst the ulama So these are
the two areas we're talking about when we
say minarets and thrones Right.
What is the relationship between these groups and
we might say, okay, what is the purpose
of this?
Okay, what's the value in this?
We're trying to understand what is wrong with
us What is wrong with the Muslim world?
Why do you have so many people who
are making dua?
Who are crying in the night?
And you don't see any change coming about
in front of you.
You don't see people moving, right?
Marshal Aqsa under attack.
You don't see the armies moving Okay, so
something's wrong and there's a lot of different
areas But one of the areas is amongst
the ulama.
It's amongst the scholars and the relationship with
those who are in authority in the Muslim
world and And The Prophet ﷺ on one
authentic hadith was reported to have said Inna
fi ummati ma akhwafu alayhi minad dajjal Wa
karraha an-nabiyya ﷺ talatha marrat Fa su
'ila an dhalika fa qala al-a'immatul
daalun The Prophet ﷺ said, there is something
that I fear for my ummah more than
dajjal Who is dajjal, the antichrist?
We have discussed this before.
Dajjal is considered to be the greatest fitna
that will ever come in Islamic history, in
the life of this ummah, is dajjal But
he said I fear something even more than
a dajjal Okay, and he said it three
times So when he said three times It's
serious, right?
And then he said misguided and astray leaders
And another riwayah, he said wa innama akhwafu
ala ummati al-a'immatul muddillin So one
time he's saying the scholars are daalin and
a second al-muddillin So a daalin is
somebody who has gone astray Like even we
say in Fatiha, ghayru mardubi alayhim walad daalin
So we say we don't want to be,
guide us to the straight path, not those
who you're angry with or those who have
gone astray Right, that's daalin.
So these leaders They are daalin Okay, but
there's also the leaders and this word al
-immah is imam, right?
It's the plural of imam So it's these
imams and these leaders are muddillin So muddillin
is worse than daalin because muddillin is not
just somebody who's gone astray, but it's somebody
who will take you astray That's worse, right?
Okay, so this is what he's talking about
So this is something really serious So this
issue is a crucial issue Because the Muslim
world and especially those countries surrounding Philistine Even
the Muslim world Outside, where are they?
Why are they not moving?
And the people will say it's the leaders
It's not the masses of the people Because
the masses of the Muslims for the most
part are crying and feeling what is happening
to the Palestinian people They're crying on the
inside But the leaders for whatever the reason
is There are some who are trying in
their own way.
They might be caught in a fitnah confusion.
Everybody's not the same But something's holding up
the leadership So this giant who's sleeping get
waking up that's the Muslim world It can't
move So, why can't it move?
that is what we want to look at
and If we look at Islamic history, we
will go back and try to see at
different points in our history We will try
to see The relationship between, remember those two
areas that Ahmed Zarouk said, Umara and Ulama
So these are the two areas We want
to look at the relationship and when the
relationship is in sync Right when they are
moving together victory Islam rising When the Ulama
Submit to tyrants When they become hypocrites To
their own teachings then the tyrants are out
of control and you see that Muslims go
down That's what Ibn Khaldun spoke about the
cyclical nature of Islamic Societies itself sometimes we're
up and sometimes we are down.
So this cyclical nature right that has something
to do with the relationship of The leaders
to the followers or the leaders to the
scholars Okay, so this is the context this
is the context of Our class that we
will be going into in detail to show
you some living examples of the relationship We
want to first learn who are the Ulama
who are the true scholars what it actually
isn't Because some people claim it but they're
not Okay, what does it actually mean how
serious it is because one of the keys
to our future Right then the relationship between
the scholars and the leaders So I want
to open up the floor for any questions
that anybody may have in our context This
is the context of where we are coming
from For our class on minarets and thrones.
We have people online as well Sometimes last
classes we had 200 people online.
So that's why I'm sort of looking like
this sometime, right?
So the floor is open for any questions
that anybody may have Concerning this thing floor
is open.
Yeah Yeah, so I mean Ahmed Zarouk, you
know really to be honest in the early
stage of Islam In the Sunnah, there's no
difference between the two Because remember the Hadith
of Jibreel where the angel asked the Prophet
what is Islam what is Iman and what
is Ihsan Okay.
So what is Islam?
That's the five pillars of Islam The Prophet's
answer what is Iman?
That's the five pillars of Iman to believe
in Allah and his angels and his books
and what is Ihsan That is righteousness.
That's your spirituality to worship Allah as though
he sees you or you see him It's
the higher level of Islam like your taqwa
your Ihsan Okay in the beginning.
It's all the same There's no separation but
as time went by and as Islam began
to spread and People began started to specialize
in certain areas Okay, you would see that
there were some people who were more geared
towards spiritual things Right and there were others
who were more geared towards book knowledge and
institutions start to develop and even subjects like
tafsir To explain the Quran that was never
there in the Prophet's time You just get
the explanation.
Fiqh.
What is Islamic jurisprudence?
It was basically Quran and Sunnah But later
on people are accepting Islam and they need
a system to know how to purify themselves
how to pray how to fast How to
give zakat that's fiqh So people specialize in
fiqh Okay, so now but some people have
spiritual problems.
So there were individuals who would spirit who
were known for this like Like al-hassan
al-basri.
This is tabi'een.
This is like very close, but he's known
for this spiritual Although he's a scholar as
well It starts to separate.
So by the time Ahmed Zaruk is coming
along, which is like, you know, 600 years
ago They're in groups There's some people who
actually go into the spirituality Heavily and focus
on it and there are others who go
into the fiqh heavily, but there are some
who combine both And that's what Ahmed Zaruk
was trying to do Okay, so that's why
he looked at the two but for us
really, like I said the area of fuqara
of somebody who's dealing with spirituality and Goes
outside of sharia is irrelevant to us and
there are some people who are influenced by
Hinduism by Buddhism and They brought it into
Islam They're influenced by magic and they brought
it into Islam So you actually see people
doing magical formulas in Arabic language and you
see people fortune-tellers and You see casting
spells and you're doing all types of strange
things, you know in the name of scholarship
Which has nothing to do with the scholarship
Okay, so so so this really is what
we're talking about You know that the fuqara
would be irrelevant for us.
So it basically becomes the two groups the
umara and the ulama Okay Like that, okay,
any any questions online that anybody has or
comments of anything online?
Right, okay, just um, can you can you
close that door for a second?
Somebody's reading I don't think it's bothering anybody
but but it is a recitation being done
As far as you know put in the
you know on your on your like this
thing like that or in some in some
Muslim Cultures they even go like this so,
you know, whatever It's not actually something recorded
from the Sunnah It's not actually recorded from
the Sunnah but if people are doing it
in the sense of out of trying to
show respect Not claiming that it's Sunnah.
There's nothing actually wrong with it, right?
It's just it's a problem is where bid
'ah comes in is when people Say that
these acts these cultural things that they do
are actually Sunnah and you must do it
Okay, that this is where the problem is.
I Know that there's some you'll see Turkish
movies and things like that That when the
name of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
mentioned they will put their hand on their
hearts.
Okay, and So there's nothing wrong with that
as long as the person doesn't think that
it's actually originally Sunnah.
Now another question Abu
Hanifa took his sword to the leadership three
times I don't know.
I've never heard of that before and about
Abu Hanifa was not a person who's using
the sword He's a knowledgeable person a teacher
So it doesn't sound right I'll check it
out, but it does not sound right Allah
knows best Yes,
so this is really looking at different times
in history to look at the relationship between
the scholars and the leaders Okay, whether it's
positive ones or negative ones You know when
they were in sync and Islam was up
when it was down in order to make
a way for today Or in order to
understand what's going on today because you have
a lot of scholars who are claiming to
be scholars they have giant hats and giant
beards and they have all types of things
but like What are they doing right to
try to answer this and you'll see historically
you can see what's going on If you
look at the history, so we're using history
to understand today Okay, and also to chart
a way inshallah for the future for the
coming generations to come now question Okay, that's
a little bit off topic the coming back
to Khalifa, but basically It's not feared by
Muslims It is the prayer of the Muslims
that our leaders ultimately come back because after
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam These were
the successes we need have Muslim world needs
to be united Okay, but it is feared
by the colonial powers By those who are
trying to crush Islam Because the Crusaders it's
feared by them because they don't want Muslims
to have central leadership To be able to
stand up as a world power It's not
a hundred percent necessary to make these debates
about this That every single section of the
Muslim world is all under one leader.
That's going to be maybe difficult But central
leadership to a great extent Majlis Ashura For
the Muslim world is necessary at this point
in time and it is our prayer You
know that a Khalifa can come back inshallah
for the future of the Muslim world Okay,
any other questions are anybody has on here
So we've come to an end to this
particular class.
This is the orientation, you know section You
know for that so we will be looking
at this relationship of the Umara and the
Ulama You know looking at the relationship.
It is crucial to understand what is going
on today So we want to understand who
are the scholars The importance of the scholars
what is their relationship to the leaders and
inshallah?
This will answer some of the questions that
we have today and maybe give us guidance
as to where we go in the future
So I leave these thoughts With you and
I ask Allah to have mercy on me
and you wasallahu alayhi ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa
alihi wa sahbihi wa barak wa sallam wa
akhira da'wana alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wasalamu alaykum
wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh