Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – A Muslim’s Approach in Times of Fitna (ISIS)
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We've dealt with a number of issues throughout our life.
And which, unfortunately, where
we've come into this world with obviously no choice of our own,
at a time when
there's a dip in terms of the glory of Islam, apparently,
compared to some of the historical times in which we used to live.
So the Khilafah, etcetera, etcetera, was abolished in 1924.
And we're living today without a Khilafah.
So what happens is, Muslims have this utopian ideal in their mind
that they want a state, which is run by Muslims, and run more
importantly, according to Islamic law, because there are many
countries in the world that are run by Muslims, their Muslim
majority countries, even if not all Muslim. But unfortunately, in
many of those countries, there is no Islam is not the way of ruling.
So for example, if we wanted to take two countries, just two
countries as examples, which are very close to most of us here,
which is the Indian subcontinent, or other India today, and Pakistan
today, and then if you want, you can add Bangladesh is very similar
to Pakistan. So you have Muslims in India, who don't expect to
become rulers. Again, that's a dream, of course, but they don't
see that as a very close possibility, because they are a
minority, despite being
many, many millions. There are many, many millions of Muslims in
India, currently today, but they are still a minority among all the
other religions that exist in India. Pakistan, on the other
hand, was supposed to have been created and made as a country for
Muslims to be ruled
under the banner of Islam with the Islamic rule, etc. So Pakistan is
a very utopian idea. And there are people who are living in Pakistan
who are trained to deal psychologically, with what the
ideal should be and what the reality on the ground is. Because
unfortunately, Pakistan is as secular as probably any other
country. In the sense of the rule. There may be some rules which are
more conducive for Muslims as they are definitely. But otherwise, in
general, things are allowed that
shouldn't be allowed in a Muslim, you know, for Muslims. And
globalization is as much rampant as in Pakistan as it is anywhere
else. So there are many Muslims living in Pakistan, who have this
idea, and likewise, Bangladesh, same thing, and likewise, Indians
and people from other countries, Egyptians, and Jordanians, and
Algerians and Moroccans, and etc, they have this frustration, that
we want to see Islamic rule.
We want to see Islamic rule. Now, to have that as an idea in your
mind that it's a, it's an ultimate dream, and an ambition and so on.
And that's understandable, it's praiseworthy, because you'd like
to see the hokum of Allah on the Earth. However, there are ways to
go about it. Well, number one, number two,
the other most important thing is that that is not a break it or
make it factor in the sense that we are all responsible for Islam,
for our own selves, more importantly, than we are for the
whole country as a whole. Because regardless of where we live, under
what rule we have either chosen to live or we found ourselves to be
living because of our birth or whatever. Whatever the case is. We
are responsible for establishing Islam within our own lives and
behavior and conduct and interaction and our dealings and,
and our ourselves that's more important than anything else. So
that cannot be discounted because of not having an Islamic state.
That's why the Allama have resolved the conflict.
So of how you establish Joomla ours, because generally in the
books what's written is that the Joomla should be led by the Imam.
And the Imam here refers to the leader of the muslimeen or anybody
then he designates as his name, generally in a Muslim city in of
old, there used to be one Joomla, one German, in the in the whole
area, and they were masalas otherwise, so they'd be one major
Juma prayer in the German. And there were not many German, German
means the place where everybody gathers for Friday, of course,
that would be impossible in London, you'd never make it with
Jamar unless you unless it was a holiday. And it was like a prayer.
Even our eat prayers are more than one, there is no way you can have
just one Eat Pray in the whole city. It's just too difficult now,
just because of the geography and the way things are laid out now.
But we've dealt with that aspects. So, of course, there are many
things which are much easier in an Islamic system, there's no doubt
about that. So first and foremost, there is this idea in the mind,
which we have, which we all have that we'd like to be in a Muslim
rule, and the Muslim rule, and so on and so forth. There's many
people who think like that. And there are obviously also Muslims
who would not like it, because there's been a big profit
propaganda, a deadly propaganda against Sharia in general. And
most people outside, they will think that as soon as you say
Sharia, which actually means sacred law that governs everything
from financial dealings to marital, marital relationships,
they will equate it immediately, as soon as they hear Sharia, they
think it is speaking about cutting of hands, because that's the
propaganda that has been
put out there, that that's what it means. Whereas that's not what it
means Sharia is broad, it's the law of Islam throughout. Yet when
it comes to selling, making money from Islamic finance, then even
the Prime Minister is willing to go up and, and declare that for
himself that we are one of the first countries, you know, in the
West, etc, who are investing in this scheme and in this system,
because they know that this is going to bring in huge amounts of
money as investment. So when it comes to Islamic finance, and
Sharia, then it's clear cut, even the the prime minister will speak
about it positively, that this is a very good thing that we're
catering for this. When it comes to anything else, then, of course,
it's the other way around. But it's the thing is that this may be
very clear, but for some people they can see through this. The
problem is that many many people, they have a utopian idea in their
mind, they have this dream, they have this goal. And they think
that when they see certain manifestations around the world of
people calling themselves the Hanif, or people saying that we
have an Islamic system, and we are going by the Islamic way, and we
have a Khalifa and we have the beta and the pledge and so on,
then, of course, if that's the only manifestation that you see,
then there's going to be people who are going to be very confused
in that situation. They've been waiting for that ideal. They seem
to now see it, and thus they will run towards it. So this is kind of
the mindset that will take even a 16 year old girl, you know from
one of the cities of England who's not been very religious, suddenly
has become somewhat religious, wants to dive in probably has a
guilty conscious of wasting 15 years of her life or 16 or 17
years of her life. Because this is it a lot of people they've,
they've had a long time just having a good time in indulging
themselves indulging their desires and going after the pleasures of
this world and what it has to offer. And then suddenly when they
become a bit religious, then this is another of shaytans ploys to
get them into the wrong hands so that they do the wrong thing
sometimes. So they're looking for an ideal a Quick Fit a quick way
to gender maybe a quick way to please Allah subhana wa Tada. So,
I am not saying that these people are insincere. There's lots of
sincerity here. But the problem is that it's sometimes misplaced,
it's misguided. It is not the correct way of dealing with
things. Just because somebody claims to be on the Islamic rule
or that people should pledge it doesn't make it so there's a
procedure in Islam that we follow to do this. The other man has the
aroma have mentioned this Allah subhanaw taala is encouraged the
idea that you should ask the people of knowledge as Allah says
in the Quran, Allah Vickery In Kuntum letter at the moon ask the
people of knowledge if you don't know and the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said in many occasions he gave an idea that this OMA
especially the amount of this ummah will not gather together
will never will never unite together on deviance will never
unite together on a misguidance and that's very olam are very,
very important for us to see what the Roma are doing in any case,
because they have the knowledge they have the tools to be able to
work it out. We're not saying just look at one or two aroma we're
saying look at the majority of aroma from around the world from
different from different backgrounds, ethnicities,
different manner age, different
and methods of understanding thick different schools of thought and
see what they are doing. And then you will notice that when there's
something not according to Islam, then they will not they will not
support this cause that's generally been the case, for
example is lots of people that will come up. And I don't want to
make this a big issue. But it's just as an example, people will
come every time there's an election in this country, and
they'll argue that voting is haram. So you ask them well, how
do you prove It's haram? So they have a few evidences that you are
contributing? You are you are taking part in a tougher process.
A democracy is a call for progress process, voting is haram, etc,
they establish this through using certain Hadith and certain
incidents, etc. But then the question that I asked him
generally, is that that's understandable, this is your way
of thinking, this may be the way of thinking of some aroma that are
part of your methodology. But give me the names of some more
recognized reputable orlimar give me the names of at least three
scholars from anywhere around the world that are known by people
outside your group, for example, that are known by people outside
your group that also say voting is haram. I don't care which group
he's from, they should just be from outside your group, because
your group has this manifesto that voting is haram. So there's a bias
there. Let's talk about other alumni as well. You know, maybe
they they may be they open the Barelvi. They could be Salafi,
whiny, Jamaat e Islami, they could be from other countries that, you
know, we don't know the different schools that give me anybody
that's recognizable on an international level, who has some
respect, right among their groups, and they couldn't bring me the
name of even a single item, forget three acronym, three, three
scholars. They couldn't bring me even one scholar who, who was
recognizable that said that, I mean, if you look at in this
country, whether you look at the deobandis, the Braille reseller
fees, equality, Jamaat e Islami, you've got scholars from all of
these methods, and all of the schools that
that say voting is fine. And again, I don't want to make this
about voting. This is just an example, that when there is an
issue of difference of opinion, when there's an issue of
confusion, rather, when you don't know the right from the wrong,
there's darkness and you need the light at the end of it, then you
need to ask their own amount of that time. That's very important
that you have to see what the other ma are saying, yes, they may
be some other ma who are scared, who are frightened. They may be
some who are sold out, as people like to say, but they can't all be
like that. Because if all the other ma have been sold out, then
what does that make the rest of us? Because if there are other ma
who are supposed to be the flag bearers of our Sharia, the bearers
of the Sharia, the carriers of the Sharia, those who are supposed to
be our teachers, those who are supposed to be taking from the
predecessors and passing on to the next generation, then if they have
become corrupt, then we don't stand a chance. The rest of us
don't even stand the chance. So that logic is just totally faulty
that all minima are corrupt. But fitna has this ability fitna, this
is one of the negative consequences of fitna that it will
make you disregard or ill man or Allah ma. And this is what I want
to speak about today. In a bit, there is a huge amount of
guidance, both from Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam directly and
then from the sahaba. Then the Thurber Enon from numerous great
scholars of the past that have tried to guide people during fitna
This is not the first time that we are apprehending something of this
nature where people are confused as to whether we should pack our
bags and go over whether we should stay here or whether we should
give allegiance or whether we should oppose or whether we should
remain silent. People don't know what to do, because although a
part of you may be telling you to do one thing. There's another part
of you telling you to do another thing because of something else
you hear this is what you call this is the perfect example of a
fitna, a Fitna means a source of darkness in which you can't tell
the right from the wrong and things are pulling you in
different directions and you don't know which way to go. That is that
is what you call it. fitna is that which will tear families apart,
which will take friends from each other and brothers and sisters
apart. Because one will think this way. Another thing will think that
way. We are living in a time of individualism as opposed to
tribalism. When one person of the tribe in the time Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, one leader of the House or the
husband's becomes a Muslim, the entire tribe blindly follows and
then they become sincere in their faith. Today, people think
differently from their father or father things differently from his
son. A daughter has her own ideas as his son has his own ideas. The
father wants something the son doesn't necessarily have the same
goals, ambitions, inclinations for that matter. This is we live in a
different type of mentality is different. So today the fitna
becomes even more intense.
Since because you don't even have your own group to follow, although
that's another fitna where your group is on the wrong and you
still have to follow them. That was a different type of fitna.
That's the nature of this world. Whenever we come in this world,
regardless of when we come in this world, there are challenges that
we're going to face because that is the nature of this dunya. This
is not Jana, if you want a life of just calmness and tranquility,
it's not going to happen. The prophets Allah Psalm said that
Allah says in the Quran, we're going to test you with a bit of
your wealth with the loss of some loss of your wealth, your crops,
your your your children, and of different things to see how you
are because this world is a place of test, it's a place of
distinguishing the good from the bad, the pure from the corrupted,
this is the hug from the bottle. This is what this world and dunya
is all about. Now, what is the guidance, then in this regard?
First and foremost, we have to proceed cautiously. This is one of
the biggest lessons that we can learn is to take it easy, be
extremely considerate, deliberate, a bit, do a lot of deliberation
and be extremely prudent as to what is the end of this. Don't
jump into the foray straight away. We have to be we have to have a
lot of deliberation, a group of scholars. This is
one of incident from history that really underscores one of the
greatest or the AMA that we've had to such a degree that people have
said or the Mavs other Obama have said that there are two people who
saved Islam at the most critical of its moments. There were two
times when they thought Islam would have been changed forever,
would have been corrupted away from its pure basis. And these
were two times in history that this happened few 100 years apart,
of course, and there were two individuals that stood up in each
of these times and they defended the faith. One was Abu Bakr Siddiq
are the Allahu Anhu. During the time after sort of Lhasa Lhasa
departed this world and people from different parts of Arabia
started to personalize their faith. Or some said, we're not
going to please the gods will accept everything else. Some said
we give up faith altogether. Other said we take on another prophet.
They were claims to prophecy, men and women who claim to be prophets
and profit Tessa's and so on Abu Bakr Siddiq are the Alon had to
stand up despite his calm, calm demeanor throughout the course of
Rasulullah sallallahu son's life, he is the one who used to always
say, Give give the option of letting people go, where's Amara?
The Allahu Anhu was the one who say I'll take the head off. In
this case when Abu Bakr Siddiq Sadiq or the Allahu and decided
that I'm going to fight to these people, I am going to fight. I'm
going to fight to subdue anybody who makes who who withholds from
me anything that needs to pay to Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
today, they want to change that, that law, even if it's a string
that they want to withhold or a small stick, I will fight with
them. I'm gonna do what the legal do you have for that? What is your
basis for that? And can you see it's totally the other way around.
But the position of philosophy that Obama said earlier had been
put into it gave him this wisdom and this understanding that this
is the way he act to act and honor the Allah who then was convinced,
and then they took care of it. It was much later some, some decades,
some centuries later, when you had the influence of
* Hellenistic philosophy from the Neo platonic Aristotelian etc.
philosophy comes into Muslim lands and begins to influence people
people are influenced by this. They are ultra rationalist. They
want to try to combine that philosophy with aspects of Islam.
And then suddenly they came up with this idea of the Hulk called
Quran. They come up with this idea that God's words are created.
They're not eternal. This is a long discussion. I don't want to
get into it. I'll just frame it for you. You can of course go and
study if you want to understand the detail of it. We we have
another lecture on Mr. Muhammad Muhammad on zamzam Academy, which
details it in more detail, you can look at it there, but the point is
that the URL of sunnah will Jamara the majority we believe that
Muslims in general believe that the Quran is an eternal word of
Allah and it's not created the leader of the time Munna Rashid
said it is created, and he started persecuting the Allama around his
realm around the great Muslim lands through and that was one of
the times of the peaks of our civilization we're talking about
just after Harun Rashid Stein, I busted caliphate. So you're you're
talking about the Muslims spread throughout the world. You've got
another mile from, you know, from one corner to the next. And he
sends these royal edicts that the Obama have to be persecuted. If
they don't agree. First, he discouraged them. Then he said,
You must believe this. This is the this is the way that he debated he
had people debate them. And then eventually he said you must follow
this concept of the creativeness of the Quran. And
what happened then, is that a group of people came
to Imam Ahmed before his own in his own Inquisition is very
famous, where eventually he stood up to them. He never fought
against them. But he was called to say what his opinion was, and
rather hide his opinion and conceal it just to save himself as
a number of other Allama had done and it's permissible to save your
life to because you can say I'm not even a believer, as long as
belief is in your heart when you're going to be killed for
that's permitted as Allah, as Allah subhanaw taala mentions, but
his he, he, he stood up to mortal sin Billa when, when it was when
he was when he was when the Inquisition took it brought him
in, and he refused to hide the true faith because had he refused,
and many other Obama had concealed then the Islam could have been
changed. This could have become the dominant belief because when
there are other major change in opinion, and they concede to an
opinion or acquiesce to a particular position, the people
how are they going to argue about it? Because if the Obama have
agreed to something, then why would you and I disagree? They are
our leaders, but he stood up and for that he was persecuted He was
whipped, like a horse's whipped, he fell totally unconscious, he
was trampled upon, but later he was the victor, because Allah
subhanaw taala took care of it, and he saved the Muslim ummah.
However, before all of this happened, in the beginning of this
whole Quran, a group a group of people came
to Imam Muhammad, Imam Muhammad no humble in Baghdad
to his house, and they started to speak about the leader and this
emphasis he has on this creativeness of the Quran, and we
should do something about it. So he said to them from a 2d dune,
what do you want to do? What is it that what is it that you plan? So
they said that that is what we've come to consult with you about
because we're totally not satisfied with his leadership.
Essentially, they're insinuating that we need to rise against the
belief.
So we need to rise against the Hadith. So there's a group of
people here, you know, humble he discussed with them for for an
hour or so that look these other possibilities is what's going to
happen. It is discouraging them eventually, essentially, that this
is not something that you're going to be able to pull off. It's going
to cause a bigger fitna, etc. But afterwards, this is what he said
to them as a conclusion. He says it can be nohcra Kulu Beckham,
it's necessary for you to hate this with your heart. Meaning in
this position, I'm giving you the fatwa that you are a combi nohcra
Because you will become
you need to dislike this with your heart. What are the Halawa mentor
Arjun but you cannot pull your hand away from obedience to the
leader. Remember, this is a bait a system we're talking about, right?
Where they've pledged allegiance to the leader, he is the belief so
you cannot put your pull your hand away which means that you have to
be obedient in everything else. Yet in your heart, you dislike
this idea and what he doing what he's doing. And then he said, do
not
do not break the Arsenal Muslimeen do not break the staff are the
pillar of the believers which means that they are at present,
they all on one belief they all together there's a unity. Once you
start creating this discord against the belief, it will break
the unity of the believers. And then he said well tesfa Who Dima
Dima al Muslimeen American, do not spill your own blood and the blood
of the Muslims with you. So don't spill your own blood and don't
become the cause of spinning other people's blood. And then he said
on the roof ERP but he Enrico ponder over the consequences of
this matter what's going to happen. Don't look at what you
want to do right now in the heat of the moment. You have a lot of
zeal, you have a lot of aspiration. You have a lot of heat
within you right now to go and do something. This is your courage,
but think about what's going to happen after five years after two
years, or what happens if you were to lose Do you really have the
ability so although Rofi activity Americom were absolute * hotter
yesterday hotter yesterday, her Barone Oh, you start off in
Virginia him and then he said What's Biru was Viru actually said
was Bureau he says do suburb Be patient. This will be dealt with
be patient until the obedient one will eventually find tranquility
and relaxation from this will be relieved from this problem and or
from this the transgressor we will be relieved Allah subhanaw taala
will bring about a change and that is exactly what happened
afterwards. After Munna Rashid. It was Martha Cymbala he led the
Inquisition against Imam Ahmed, because of Munna Rashid be
questing him to do that on his deathbed. Then after more it does
seem that was worth it Mila he did the same thing, but all of these
died very soon. They were very old. It's like you know, King
of Prince Charles is waiting, right? So they were all very old.
So they were just going one after the other. And then it was mutawa
kill Billa. Now he was totally against against his previous three
predecessors, his three predecessors, he loved him and
Muhammad him no humble. So now everything changed. And now this
whole idea of martyrs have dissolved and the martyr zealots
who had brought up this issue of the whole Quran, the creativeness
of the Quran, it was totally subdued. Afterwards, they you
never heard about it again. So that's what somebody gave you. And
what happened is these people, they didn't want to listen to him.
So though they spoke to him for a long time, and this is what he
advised them at the end, they left him then they tried to persuade a
nephew of his to join their cause. But his Mr. Muhammad's brother,
who was in his nephews, Father, he discouraged his son, he said, your
your uncle, Mr. Muhammad, he's obviously said no to them and
discourage them, because he has a reason he can see the reason. So I
don't want you so even his nephew desisted from this. But those
people they continued. And they they tried to do something, many
of them were killed, others were imprisoned. And they did not
further their cause at all, they didn't make a dent in the system.
So they were just totally past either killed or imprison, they
didn't get anywhere. So this was just a totally non Prudential
thing to do, non prudent thing to do, because it was just the wrong
thing. So you could you could have anger, and we all have lots of
anger because of the injustice is and aggression that's caused
around the world. But we have to be very careful that we don't make
a greater, we don't make a greater problem. We don't just lose our
life for nothing. Because at the end of the day, shahada is a very
high aspiration and is a noble aspiration. It is a noble
aspiration. And you know that we have two hours for the fact that
Allah grant the shahada visa Vidic in your path is no doubt about
that jihad is to continue until the day of judgment. And anybody
who says that jihad is abolished, then that's just that's a that's a
very, very absurd remark within Islam, because the promise the
Lawson said in numerous Hadees, that jihad is to continue until
the Day of Judgment, however, there's a way and a method of it.
And that's what needs to be understood. Because the fitna
aspect here is what will tell you jihad is necessary. It's the it's
the shortest way to Jannah Hamdulillah. It is, but which is
the jihad, what is the jihad, what's going on in Iraq, there are
some there is some in especially in Syria, there's a lot of jihad
going on there. But not every group is probably doing the right
thing. Again, the other might have to study this and and discuss
which group is doing the right thing and which is not doing the
right thing. Every country has to have the right to defend itself.
Every ideology has its within its its defense system. And its
protection system, which is part of the military, we have that the
RAF is part of this, this is what we have. And Islam has the same
thing. The Muslims in these countries have the same thing. But
one has to be careful just every declaration of jihad out there is
not necessarily jihad, every declaration of Khilafah out there
is not necessarily a philosopher, and that's what needs to be
understood. But you can see parallels here in in what Imam
Muhammad is saying to them and how the people react, people become
blinded in the heat. And in their passion for this. They become
blinded. And they only want to listen to people who will speak on
their level. Sorry, who will speak and give them the same fatwa
anything that goes against this, they won't want and this is not
the only time this this, this is a human generic function. This is
the way we are when you're hyped up about something, then you will
take only that which is favorable for you and you will dismiss
everything else. This is what passion does to you. That's why
one needs to be very careful about this. So they didn't listen to him
and this is what happened. So extreme calmness and deliberation
is necessary. You're putting your life and other people's lives at
risk. So that's why life is extremely precious. It's not
something to waste away. There's a way to deal with your life. So a
person has to be extremely careful and that deliberation is
necessary. That's why everyone Masuda the Allahu Anhu says in the
Hadith from him, which I read at the beginning, he says in the
hospital, Khun omoton Mustafa hurts that there will come a time
where there will be matters of great confusion and ambiguity,
doubt and they will not be certain there will be many many confusions
about it. But what did he say? This is what he said. He said
Faraday can be it's necessary for you to be prudent and dill and
calm in your deliberation. Think carefully over these matters.
Don't run into them. Don't jump into them. He says for in Nikka
intercooler Turabian and as a general rule, this is what he
said. He says as a general rule, that you be a follower of somebody
else who is doing something good is superior to you, superior for
you. Then you be a leader that is a leader of evil. A leader
Who is producing evil, rather than you be a leader of evil is better
for you to be a follower in somebody who's doing good, which
is the general idea that you find a good cause and you work for your
dean. There are many, many good causes. There are many, many good
causes, is rated by Abi Shaybah. And you know, the Allahu Anhu says
in this very complex Lee worded Hadith, because earlier, the
Allahu Anhu was, as you know, a highly eloquent individual. Here
he is Arabic was of a very high level. And for those who
understand Arabic, they're going to have trouble with this, with
this narration from him. This is his advice, he said, Loretta Kuno
regionalen muda ye Buuren. He says, What do you say? He says
Lata Kulu Jalan muda E or Busan for Inami whare Yquem Bella Han
mobile Rehan o McClenaghan. What a moron mohtarma Hillington Rodin.
And what does that mean? He says, Do not be late Hakuna Magellan, do
not be hasty. Do not rush things. Don't just jump into things
without thinking. And then Muda, Yi or Buuren. What that means is
don't be like a propaganda machine. Muda he made via media, a
radio is called a media because it broadcasts information from one
place to the other. So don't be one of those that spread ideas of
this nature Buuren. And don't be one of those that goes and sow
seeds of corruption. So don't spread fitna. And don't, don't sow
the seeds of the fitna. Because behind you, if you're a person of
this nature, if you're a person of this nature, already a time is to
come behind you where there's going to be extreme and difficult
trials and tribulations. This is the Sahaba who are saying this
already. And he really alone himself, unfortunately had to deal
with this in his own time, his last four years, probably the
worst ones of his life in that sense in what he had to deal with.
So he's saying that behind you will come a time like this. We'll
move on with Mr. Hilton, Ruda done, and these are the difficult
times that will come. And that's why there's a Hadith from
Rasulullah sallallahu is related by Imam Bukhari and Muslim this
narration of it under the Allah one it's related by Imam Bukhari,
edible Mouffetard, which is another one of his works, but Imam
Bukhari Muslim in the main so he collections there's another Hadith
from Missoula, Salah lorrison directly with the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, set a coup fita unknown. They will come fitna
they will come trials and tribulation is confusing matters.
The general guidance here is L ka e Doofy. Ha ha You ruminal mushy
the person sitting down, deliberating calmly thinking the
process isn't just said sitting down is superior to the one who's
walking in this regard. Walking means you're going you're being
active in this regard. physically active, you know, you have to be
active but not necessarily just jump into physically. And then he
said well, Mercy Hiram in a surgery, but the one who's walking
is better than the one who's running in there. So essentially
what this is saying is that don't is not saying here that be laid
back and forget about it, ignore it, just indulge in the dunya is
not saying that. What he's saying is just be considerate in what you
do. Don't rush into these things. Because the nature of these fitna
is that the word fitna itself is that that's what the word fitna
itself means it confusing matter of that nature.
So don't be so don't be a cause or root to spread fitna rather seek
refuge from Allah subhanaw taala from doing that, because that is
what we're taught. In the Hadith. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said as rated by Zaid immunotherapy to the Allahu and
Sahih Muslim, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he
said that I will do bIllahi min and fitten
seek refuge in Allah from fitna from trials and tribulations
Malzahar Amina Omar button that fitna which is clear cut, and that
which is not so clear cut, because sometimes it's a fitna you don't
need even though it's a filter, because it's not, if seemingly
effecting you in a physical violent way. So we have fitness
that are physically effecting us is bloodshed within that. But then
there are other fitness that we don't see and we become parts of
because there's no bloodshed. It's ideological fitness, where we are
taking on ideas that are antithesis to Islam. That's my
baton, my button that is that which is concealed of the fitna.
We're not even worried about those we've accepted them full,
wholesale, including those people who have who seemed to have wanted
to take a major step when it comes to the first type of fitna.
So, the Sahaba they said now the Billahi immediately they do ours,
oh Allah we seek your refuge from fitna mother haram in Hama button
that which is apparent that which is hidden. So the giver of refuge
is Allah. The one who will give us refuge is Allah subhanahu wa Tada
and at times of fitna, we have to ask for refuge and most people
don't know
How many times have we asked for refuge from fitna? We just deal
with it we think inflammation is what's going to help. I remember I
was in a community where the way to deal with fitna for them in
their countries back home was to continue to watch Al Jazeera.
The news channel 24 hours a day Al Jazeera is on capitalizing
capitalizing on uh you know, capitalizing with because of that
fitna. So the only way is the constantly meeting together.
They're discussing the politics, I used to get sick out of this,
because what you've got is you've got a group of people who are
pretending to be they want to be political analysts, you know,
armchair analysts, they're sitting back and saying, This is going to
happen, then this is going to happen, then they just keep
watching. You don't see them praying, you don't see them doing
atoms, you don't see them reading the Quran, you just see them
watching because information is power. That's what they think. And
that that is that is what I've observed. And that just really put
me off on anytime somebody comes to me and they start giving their
ideas about what is going to happen next. I'm like, I'm not
interested. Because you never know. Is he a Mossad agent or not?
You will never know that.
You know, you're never going to know whether it is sincerity or
insincerity. But we've been told how to deal with it. That's not
for us to know. They've even got a name for him something I forget
what is he called something James Elliot or John Elliott or
something like that, that he's a Mossad agent whose name is
something Elliot. That's what they've said. These are certain
analysts, you know, within the Muslim world, who've pinpointed
him down to his original name. He speaks very good Arabic. Right. So
I said to somebody who speaks very good Arabic is yeah, you know,
there are people from these other groups who speak very good Arabic.
You know, non Muslims who speak very good Arabic. So you're never
gonna know though.
Why do we sit and think he is or he's not what differences that
make for us. That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said that
a salaried woman will either be laid, the fortunate one is always
going to be the one who takes advice from others, from people
who you can take advice from, not just other people like you who
have not much more information than you and just conjecture,
speculation. This is not about speculation. We have a way to deal
with this, as the professor Lawson gave us guidance. So number one,
he says that I will do which means seek refuge in Allah. Ask Allah
for protection from these fitna, and from going the wrong way about
it, number one, number two, ask the people of knowledge if you
don't know and that's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
that the best one, the most fortunate one is the one who takes
advice from others. So consult the LMR consult their own AMA,
otherwise, we have a fear, a danger other of us becoming a
cause of fitna in there if we don't go the right way that our
own Omar mentioned. And if if you have any doubt, don't just ask one
of them. Ask numerous other ma about this just to make sure that
you're on the right track. Because you may have an acronym, you may
have a so a certain scholar, a scholar who is in a position
unfortunately, in a disadvantaged position, we're in a position
where he can't give you the right answers. It may be a possibility.
That's absolutely a we're not discounting that fact. Don't just
go to one LM and finish it off, but look around to get an idea if
you're really confused. And symptomatic or the Allahu Anhu
relates in this hadith writes about YBNL merger and human Bihac
in a sharable Iman understood in America, the Allah and said that
the prophets Allah lorrison said in the MENA Nursey in the MENA
Nursey nurse and my 30 Helene Hyde, Maha equally sharp that
among the people there are certain groups of people who are the keys
of virtue and goodness and they are the closers. They are the
closers, the preventers and the blockers of evil, meaning they are
agents for positive change. And they are agents for stopping evil.
They stop evil and they bring about good virtue. We're in the
middle Nancy Nason, my 30 Holy shop methodical in height and
there are also people who are as opposed to that the with the keys
to the evil and they still try to prevent and stop
the goodness and the virtue. Then he said for tuba, he says this is
the two categories of people that you will find at any given time.
You will find that in in your extended circle of family and
friends you will see that there are certain people who like to do
mischief. Right and there are certain people who like to call
towards good for tuba Lehmann. Jarrell Allah live in Jad Allahu
miftah. Hello Heidi Allah de glad tidings for the one who Allah has
given the key, the key of Virtue on his hand in his hand. If you've
been given a key of virtue in your hand, then glad tidings for you.
Well, why you don't live on Jarrell Allahu miftah.
shot the other day, but destruction and will be upon those
whom Allah subhanaw taala has given the key to evil in his hand.
And Allah protect us from having from having those keys or for
being one of those. Now, just to give us some idea of how to
proceed in here, and how to recognize a fitna and to see the
symptoms of when a fitna is a fitna and what happens in a fitna.
There are a number of effects that are fitna will bring about in the
Muslim community. And when you recognize that you will see this
as a fitna no doubt about it. So for example, the first of them is
that a fitna it will remove our attention to worship.
I have already told you that people will spend huge number of
hours discussing speculating conjecturing and not praying, not
even doing the hedging, not even doing two extra cards after any
normal prayer, right. But they will just watch be informed and
discuss. This is what they will do. It takes you away from
worship, because it's part of shaytans ploy to take people away
from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So Allah has created us for worship.
This is taking us from our essential purpose in this life,
which is worship. So people won't do vicar, they won't remember
Allah subhanaw taala in all of this, it always be the factors of
the world that they'll be discussing. Never that, well.
That's what Allah wants. This is what's going on, let's make sober.
There's never any discussion of virtue and patience and things of
that nature. It's mostly just about information and what's going
on and data and detail. So it's all about conspiracy, propaganda.
This is all the discussion that goes on. People love to do this
because it's on, there's a turbulent turbulence within
people's mind. And because of that turbulence in your mind, you don't
feel like doing worship. You don't you don't feel like you're doing
the right worship, you don't feel like doing it. There's an
imbalance. So you become occupied in your time away from the ibadah.
And then what happens is,
as
what the Prophet saw the last time he said something else, which is
related by Imam Toblerone in his ullmark Jamal Kabir, and a number
of others have related this, he said a bad turn Phil horridge. I
bother to and Phil Harajuku. Hey, Jonathan Illya worship during
confusing times, times of mass murder and killing worship in that
time is like migrating to me.
Right? That's the reason is that when all of this going on, people
get involved in the propaganda of it. They get involved in the
confusion of it. And it's very difficult for people then to go
and pray your Iraq and your Doha and your died during your Quran,
reading and your vicar. That's why the prophets Allah some said, That
is such a time that if you're able to do worship in this time, then
you are really close to Allah subhanho wa Taala you have been
given tofield you've been divinely enabled by Allah subhanaw taala to
do worship. So it is a time to turn to worship because it is so
valuable. And this is a this is a sahih Hadith. And that's why
another narration in Abu Dhabi, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
in the set either lemon Joon nibble fitten side fortunate is
the one who has been protected, diverted away and kept away from
fitna that he didn't have to deal with it. He has been kept away
from it. That's why we ask Allah for protection from different
types of fitna in our life.
So there are numerous articles about numerous Hadith about this
almost Salah Mara the Allahu anha relates that once the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam suddenly got up at night,
a stakeholder Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam Laylat
and fizzy and he suddenly got up and he was in a
state a startle state. When he got up he was he was startled. He said
Subhan Allah, He says Subhanallah mother unzila Allahu Minahasa in
Mother Anzahl Allahu Meenal, Fitton, you know what treasures
has Allah subhanaw taala revealed and has given to this earth has
given to the people here, and but how many fitna and how many trials
and tribulations of as he calls to descend, so he's really concerned
about this, that he sees this huge amounts of rewards out there. But
at the same time, there's a lot of fitna out there as well. And then,
and then he says, this is what he's saying. He says, me you can
Salah hibel, who gerat, who's going to wake up, who's going to
wake up the wives, meaning who's going to wake up his wives who is
there, because he's obviously staying with Musella Mara the
Allahu anha that night, he's saying who's going to go and wake
up all the other ways to get off at 100 and pray to Allah subhanaw
taala. So he's concerned about his family, that prayer is necessary
because there's lots of fitna that will come. So he wants his wives
to wake up. So he's saying while I'm here, who's gonna go and wake
them up?
So, so that they can
pray they can make some dua This is in mumble he relates his
Hadith. So encourage of worship in these times of fitna is a must.
This is what the prophets Allah told us to do. So this is the
first thing that we need to do focus on our worship during this
time. It's not a time to become lacks in our worship and waste
time thinking about this, right? This is not a defeatist attitude.
It's just we're going to do what we have to do in even more
importantly, because there's fitna because the only person successful
in a fitna is the one who's connected to Allah. Otherwise he
won't have the bizarro and understanding of what's going on.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam, another Hadith,
which you've probably heard many times, but there will be an early
Phaeton capita I label Muslim Hadith a Muslim that
hurry up and hasten your actions, meaning do a lot of good deeds
quickly, before these fitna come, that are like the dark portions of
the night. Because Knights have the dark portion, they have the
bright portions that are really dark portions of night, which we
generally don't experience because we have a lot of artificial light
pollution. We don't understand this concept because we're never
been envelopes in darkness. Totally. Even when you switch your
lights off at home in your room. There is still a light from your
phones. You know, your phone later, you're charging later, some
something or the other. There's never total darkness. Right? But
that total darkness is what seemed, you know, what he's saying
is you don't know where you're going. You can't see your hand
even from from where you're standing.
So the person who is more folk who has been divinely enabled is the
one who Allah subhanho wa Taala has given a Tofik for worship,
especially at this time, this worship is very precious at this
time. Then,
another example, among the Tabea in those people who came off the
Sahaba, one of the greatest of these debates meanwhile, Hassan Al
bossy Rahim Allah, for me, I hold him in such high regard, because
not only is he a he's a tabby, he was a professor he is. He is
Fatih, he is. He is a Sufi, you know, he's everything.
He is everything because when you study tafsir, you will find his
opinions mentioned there, when you study Hadith, hustle and bustle,
you will have a quote there, when you study fic he will have a quote
there. So he is like all well grounded scholar in all of these.
And yet he had a heart and he had eloquence, once a group
came to him. Now, what happened is, during the time of this during
the time of the debate in he stayed away from the fitness of
his time, because his whole thing was to try to encourage people to
get closer to Allah. He said, Yeah, you had NUS the fitna, they
were dealing with that time was none other than her judges fitnah
her judge had judge was the fitna of their time now, you know, there
is no had judge today. Her judge was, you know, several 100 several
100,000 people he had killed including Sahaba the best of
people. Can you imagine what kind of
what kind of a mindset the Sahaba had in dealing with him? What's
going through their minds, their perspective on him? So this is
Hassanal basally, who's I would say one of the leaders of the
terrain because he was brought up by one of the wives of Rasulullah
sallallahu Minahasa he saw the terminal Sahaba and then he saw
after they left what happened so yeah, a Yohannes beautiful
statement he says oh people in the who Allah He masala Allah who had
jajah on a Camilla Roku button.
And look at that. Mas Allah Tala hula Hijjah Alikum Illa ruku
button further too early do ruku but Allah He be safe
What can I do you can be sneaky you know what Todorova in Allah Hi
yah Cool. Well I've got a hudna whom Bill either be from a stalker
and only Rob be him wanna yet adore rune
even aside, relates this in October cut, but he says that
hasn't boss reset. Oh people so this is his hotbar to the people
oh people. Allah subhanahu wa Tada has only sent this Hajaj upon you
as a punishment. He is Allah's punishment on the earth against
you, because of your sins or whatever it may be. Don't
counter and fight the punishment of Allah with your swords. How can
you fight the punishment of Allah with your swords? It's a totally
different way of looking at it. But don't try to fight and thwart
the fitna the punishment of Allah with your sword, but what is
necessary for you is Sakina is to gain tranquility. Through its
means what thorough and humbly and treat Allah subhanaw taala humbly
invoke ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. That's what you need to do. Think
carefully, turn to your worship, and invoke ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
With your fear and your reverence, because Allah subhanaw taala says
in the Quran he said, Well, I've got a husband who will either we
seize them with the punishment from us can only Rob be him, but
they still did not submit to the Lord, though we were our
punishment was on them, they are so hard hearted. They so without
basura that they did not submit to the Lord wama yet are our own and
neither did they humbly and treat Allah and invoke ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tala.
Abu Huraira or the Allahu Anhu relates that this hadith of his
which is related by Abi Shaybah
this hadith of his this advice of his rather, is one that tells you
the level of door so you're saying that I make dua after every
prayer, I do my doors I make my salad. He's telling you what level
of dua needs to be made. He is saying that the Kunal fitna tune a
fitna will occur, a trial will come upon you, la Yun Ji minha
Illa Dora,
Dora il Herrick,
the only type of dua The only thing that will help you and give
you delivery and safety from it is the dua of a drowning person. How
much do are with a drowning person make what kind of a dua what's a
frame of mind? Imagine you're drowning? What's your dog going to
be like? Because essentially, this is what it is. We're drowning in
fitna. We don't know which way to go. Because if we go in the right
direction, we have been destroyed, we perish. So that's the kind of
dua the Muslim ummah needs to be making. And we're not, we're still
indulgent, we're still after the World Cups. in Muslim countries.
We're paying huge amounts of money for entertainment. We're spending
time wasting our time in redundancy, futile activity in
absolute times of jeston and mockery, that's what we're doing.
There's no da that any of us are making that state that Allah
subhanaw taala helped us. No wonder nothing happens. So what
does the dua of a drowning person sound like? Let us try to muster
that up, then that's the first thing. So the first thing is that
we turn back to worship and do Allah to Allah subhanho wa taala.
This is regardless, everybody needs to do this. Whether they're
on a battlefield or they're lying down, and they're Beto doesn't
make a difference.
Number two,
is really critical. Because the second effect of it is that this
is a time where fitna does is that it causes people to ignore the MA
and turn away from learning their Deen properly. Because one aspect
of their Deen suddenly becomes more important than everything
else. And then what shaytan does is that he uses that idea and that
passion in your mind, to blind you from everything else that is
important. So people don't end up with a good rounded knowledge. If
you look at a lot of people that are involved in these fitness in
in the thick of things, they seem to be people who had a miserable
upbringing in the sense that they were not really into it. They were
just having a good time of this world. Suddenly, something's come
above them. They found what they see a light as they as a light at
the end of the tunnel. And I'm not, I'm not speaking for
everybody. I'm sure there must be other people there as well. I'm
just speaking for the few that we've heard about. And these are
just examples. But fitna has a propensity to do that. So
what's happening is you stay away from the aroma to study anything
serious. You have no firm base of your deen. So then you can be
manipulated, because of the fiery zeal that you have to go and
target yourself. Killing becomes easy. And that's what one of the
one of the statements on some of the self is a boo Herrera, I
believe is that or one of the others is that
inner fitna
you will not think that killing is serious. Killing suddenly murderer
suddenly becomes insignificant in your eyes spilling blood. So it's
so easy for you to spill the blood of others, other Muslims and
believers because of methodology, not even for faith anymore. And
that's what we're seeing happening.
You go and then suddenly you voice a fatwa that you follow that maybe
they don't follow you will be killed for that.
How can that be an all inclusive system even to start with?
Because you're being like the coverage a group of people get
together. This has been throughout the century, starting from the
early coverage, you get a group of people that will go away from the
other Ma, they will have no aroma with them to explain. They'll have
obscure people who will just come out of nowhere. Nobody knows them.
Nobody knows their background, and thus leaving open room
for speculation as to who they are, whether they are really even
Muslim or not to start with, whether they're agents and so on.
And suddenly, how does how would you find an obscure individual?
Give? Give him a give him your beat? Or how does that happen? One
is a person was known. Aren't there any scholars in Iraq? On the
any scholars in Syria, existing scholars? Where did they all go?
Suddenly? How come they're not part of this system? How come
they're not the belief? Someone we knew somebody who's got
accomplishments when it comes to the different sciences in the
different room? How come you've gotten a person who you hardly
ever even see, you see, once you don't see you never knew where
he's from? And again, I'm this these are just questions. This is
part of the fitna. It could be totally genuine, Allahu Allah,
Allah knows best. But this is very, very confusing for people.
Where other are the amount of Syria in this part of the
movement? Why aren't they up there? Why aren't they taking beta
don't they have more right? Established people who knew what
they were doing?
Where they were gone, in fact, they've been killed
by the same group they've killed some of their Allama of Iraq and
others some of the Sunni or anima of Iraq etc because there's a
difference in manage.
So these are things that really need to be really need to be
thought about. So what this the second big effect of fitna is that
it will take people away from seriously studying their deen and
it will cause them to denigrate the Allah ma to critic criticize
them, humiliate them and consider them to be nothing. Once you've
done that, then there is no hope. Because if it's not for Obama,
then what is it? Who who are you going to respect for your dean?
So they will have because they've got this internal fire raging
inside and their passion is so built up and they become tunnel
visioned. They have no time for Deen anymore. There is only one
aspect of the deen that they have. And this is this is a human
failing if it if it happens to anybody in any aspect. So
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said and most of you
must have heard the first part of this hadith but not the last last
part of this hadith. This hadith is related by Imam Muhammad Dima
Imam hakim from rabada iblue Sameera the Allahu Anhu and it is
a Hassane sound narration
Rasul allah sallallahu sallam said Lisa mean or Marti manlam Your
Hamza Lee Rana
what a while you work your cubby Irana.
Most of us know the Hadith up to here that there is another version
that is only up to there, which is the person who doesn't have mercy
on our young and who does not respect our old our elders. They
are not they are not from my alma. But then he said one other thing
where I deftly eliminate alcohol and who recognizes the rights of
the of our orlimar
right, that is Rasulullah sallallahu. I'm saying the aroma
is so important you need to respect their rights and if a
person cannot respect Okay, one is you denigrate one particular
Ireland was known to give because we have we have so called Imams
around the world that you know that permit even sexual deviant
deviancy. We've got so called RollerMouse Imams, they're not
Allah ma they just Imams read a few things. They be like they
became an imam. You know, it's very easy to become an imam
nowadays. We're talking about serious or the MA is speaking
about here. So this is from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, this is what he said. It's related. That there was a there
was a massive fitna that took place during Hassane bursaries
time.
This was the this was the trial of Abdurrahman, YBNL, Ashworth. And
it's a long story, we're not going to go into the story. But of
course, you can go and look in the history books bit albida on the
higher or tabular is 30. And you can look at his whole story. This
other one was a commander of a contingent for hydrogen and the
use of now as you know, hydrogen user was not the Khalifa. He was a
governor, one of the most powerful governors, and probably even more
well known in a certain sense then, because most of us know, had
judgeship news, but we probably don't know the relief of the time,
who knows who the Khalifa of the time was, who he was a governor
of.
As I said, you know, had judge but you don't know the Khalifa of the
time. That's why he was more famous. He Abdul Malik number one,
right, Abdul Malik, number one. So her judge was, you know, whatever.
The American judge had his own initiatives and ideas as well
anyway. So this Abdurrahman, Russia, was one of his commanders
for one of his forces, and he'd been told to go to in a particular
direction, and to fight a particular people. And after a
while, I knew that I just didn't like him. So there was some
rivalry or something in between them. So something happened where
he abdur-rahim just didn't feel like it was the right time to
attack
But had judge kept riding him. Royal edicts 123 Like over and
over again, you need to find them and he was taunting him that Oh,
you're you're coward, you're a coward. You know, you're like
this, you're like that you can't fight. So he was trying to do
that. So now what happens is
Abdurrahman lash a lot of people didn't like hydrogen use? Of
course, there's no doubt about it. No, not, not a lot of people liked
him to start with. So after a while, a chef, he stood up, and he
said, Look, these are the letters I'm getting from hydrogen news.
These are the messages I'm getting from him. This is our situation.
What do you think we should do? The first person I think, was his
own father who stood up and he said, You know what we should, we
should, we should give up and break the pledge to hegemony use
of data. I've done Medicare number one was not even in the picture
right now for them. They were just talking about her judge. But of
course, if you break to your main governor, then that means you've
broken the pledge with with the with the, with the belief, but
right now, they were just thinking of that. And then they said, We
should just pledge to you. So
and we're not going to fight. So they started going back and this
is long story afterwards. But basically, eventually, they all
gave him the pledge of drama on a shirt. And they decided, well, if
we've broken the pledge with hydrogen, what about Abdulmalik
number one? Now, since they've already fired up with that
passion? They said, Yeah, forget him as well. We broken the pledge
there. And now they've totally out that's totally wrong for anybody
to do, right. And then, of course, Abdul Malik, number one found out
he sends another force to go and help her judges force and huge
amount of people got killed in that they did not succeed. They,
they did not succeed at all. Anyway.
That's what's happened with the group. They're in the thick of
things. They're doing the movement, they are in the
movement. However, there's going to be people around who hear about
this. They also hate Hajaj. Remember that people hate Bashar
Al Asad, right? They hate Nuri al Maliki, for example. Now, you've
got this confusion here. So they hate hegemony, Yusuf probably
worse than any naughty Maliki, you know, probably in that sense. So
what should we do? Should we join this initiative or not? Or should
we just stay back and relax? This is a way so people who who have
some who have this fire and some passion they might want to join
in? So a group of people came to Hassanal bacillary Rahim Allah and
they're saying to him matter cool. We have the heat out here. Yeah.
And you had judge what are you saying about this tyrant? What is
your view about this tyrant? I love the Suffolk Demel haram. What
are the Merle haram who is spread who's violated and spilled all of
this sanctified blood that shouldn't be shouldn't be spilt.
And who's taken this wealth that is totally unlawful for him to
take what Tanaka saw Salah to a far lower ferula and they all have
these accusations against him. He did this and he's done that and so
on and so forth.
Well, the Corolla who minified it had judge mentioned numerous
things about him hustle and bustle he said very calmly. He agreed you
know that this is a problem but are allowed to call it you know,
my opinion is that you don't fight against him. My opinion is that
you don't fight against him. Why? Because this is very similar to
his previous answer but slightly different. He said for in the
intercooler or Kuba min Allah. Sama Antoon Bureau bureaux de
Berardi Roku, but Allah He bsci Fico.
He explained what he meant in the in the previous message that he
gave, and advice that he gave, he said, Look, if he is a punishment
from Allah to you, because of your sins and your state, because at
the end of the day, the professor lost him said, as you are, that's
the type of leader that will be designated over you,
a nurse and then that's basically ground up. So the way you are,
that's your leader is going to be like you then top down approach.
You are on you people are on the on the Dean of their leaders.
Right, leaders have a lot of influence. So this is a it's like,
what can't what is worse Subhanallah that's why it's so
important that we get our own self in good shape.
Not just talking about unhealth but I'm talking about any human
ways, because that is very important.
So he said, if he is a punishment from Allah for you, then you're
not going to be able to repel the punishment of Allah with your
swords. Don't even think about it. But we're in your couldn't Bella.
But if he is a biller, if he is a trial for you to test you what
you're going to do, then for Spirou Have patience because the
province allows him himself said had have patients in these times.
He himself said so
had Diane Kumala who will help you mean
now, the prophets of Allah Islam said Have patience. Many Sahaba
have said Have patience and somebody asked
that there's many a hadith to this effect that what happens if we
don't even have a leader then what do we do, or a certain person is
designated as a leader.
So he says that unless you see Cofer clearly coming from them,
then you must obey. And there are numerous hadith of this nature. So
it's not very clear cut, that you must go and fight. Do you
understand, in fact, a lot of the push from a supervisor or some is
a patience, because that's what's generally going to work. Because
it's a temporary thing, if you have patience, and you turn to
Allah subhanaw taala, Allah will change it for you. Right? Now, I'm
not judging what's happened in Syria and other countries, some
have been successful, some have become worse, I'm not judging
that, because sometimes you may be in a case where your persecution
is so much, and they may be covered. That's, you know, that's
expressed, and life for 30 years under that situation. See, in the
time, in the earlier time, or in the time of Debian Things were
moving quite fast, in the sense that there will be many changes
that will take place, you'll have several years of this and then
several years of something else, they'd be good than positives. But
if you had for 3040 years, you've had persecution, I've lived in
Syria, right? It's not a nice place to live in where you are
gagged, you can't speak your mind. That's one of the great things
about living in this country. Believe me, you go to many Arab,
many Muslim countries, and there are a huge number and I know many
of them, number of aroma that are there. Great Ottawa, great Ottawa
than greater Ottawa, sometimes, what we may have in our countries,
but they can't say a thing. They can't teach Hadith, they can't
teach anything, the only thing that they can do is to give a
state Courtois, the hotbar, that is distributed to them from the
state from the OIC off. And I'm not saying it's a bad quarter,
right? They can only talk about these neutral subjects, yet they
have so much to offer. They can't even hold classes, because they
can't have more than you know, several people attend a group.
Right? We have huge amount, this kind of gathering here speaking
about this so freely would never happen in those countries. In some
of those countries. They're all different. Everybody has different
rules. And when I when I just felt that, yes, we have a lot of fitna
here. We don't hear that often unless you're in White Chapel or
somewhere, right. And there are lots of other fitna that you have
to deal with. But you know, one thing we do have is that we have
access to our Alma if you want it, and they can teach you what they
want. And there is you can speak your mind to a certain degree, no
doubt. You can speak your mind to us and you know, there's going to
be cubs everyone has an agenda. Right? So don't get me wrong.
Don't tell me that I'm a deluded, I may be deluded but you know, not
that deluded, right? Because there's people who say this guy
doesn't know what he's all about, right? At the end of the day, this
this is what matters. This. There's a lot of things that you
can speak your conscious at least you can say things you can educate
people. But we have another fitna, which is the physical fitna around
us which is so difficult for us to deal with, and positions we need
to hold, but Alhamdulillah for the for what Allah has given us
Alhamdulillah for what Allah has given us. So
he said that, if he is a fitna from Allah subhanho wa taala, then
have patience and till Allah subhanho wa taala, judges will who
will hire you, it will hurt him in and he is the best of judges. So
he's giving them some hope here that don't think Allah is
oblivious to this, he's gonna leave you out in the cold. As long
as you do the right thing, Allah will take care of things, there
are matters that we can take care of.
That's why that promise allows him himself said, if you see some
wrong and you can't deal with it with your physical self, your
hands, then say something about it. And if you can't even say
that, then at least think about it in your heart. So he's given us
and I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to induce cowardice, and a
laid back nature and a careless attitude. That's not what I'm
trying to do. I'm just trying to justify for those people who think
that this is totally wrong to think in this way.
If there's a real jihad, it's a real jihad, there's no doubt about
that. Right? If there's a clear cut, there's gonna it's going to
be there. But here we're talking about a fitna that is taking so
many people and a lot of people are on guilt trips as to whether
they're doing the right thing or not. So that's what hasn't basally
said to them. I remember Hudson basally is one of the greatest
scholars of the time. This group of people, just a random group of
people who had come to him not random, but you know, some
knowledgeable, some, you know, etc. They've come to him devising
this advice. Now, what do you think they did after he said that
to them?
They did exactly what a lot of people do today. You know what
they said? They went out of the house. And they were saying no, to
her the ledge.
They were saying, are we going to obey this lout? It'll just like
this like charlatan this kind of lowly person like foreigner. Right
Lout, like despicable person. He doesn't know what he's on about.
He sold
He's a government scholar, that kind of an attitude, right. And a
lot of times, there's a lot of people who get fired up if you
don't give them a fatwa according to what they want. And they'll
call you a government scholar, and you've actually never had any
contact with the government.
You understand? It's just a release mechanism. You know, if
you want to, if you want to cycle analyze their, their psyche, then
it's just a kind of a release mechanism, you know, like, it's
just a way out.
They will blame you because they you're not justifying what they're
going to do. It seems like a defense mechanism here. Anyway. So
this is what they said about Hasan Basri, the how are we going to
listen to him? Are we going to do what we're going to do, they did
not listen to him, as related by liberal Saturday in its totality,
and it's embedded the mosque as well, this whole whole incident,
and they rejected it. So what then happened is, they many of them
were killed, and many of them, then they didn't achieve anything,
even a shot didn't achieve anything at the end of it. Right.
And many people who had taken part in this, unfortunately, they felt
sorry, afterwards, they were extremely remorseful, and so on
and so forth. There's a number of other things. And I think, you
know, we've spent a lot of time maybe in another session
somewhere, I'll discuss some of the some of the other things, but
there's a number of other effects that fitna will have on you. And
it's you know, it helps to it helps to know because what one of
the scholars he said, is that
kafer yet ducky Mala de Maya Taki. How can somebody avoid something
when he doesn't even know what to avoid? So we have to be very clear
cut about these things. And that's why my conclusion after all of
this, my conclusion, after all of this
is that you stay with the order Ma, because
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in a hadith isolated
by ignore Hibben and top Iranian Hakim, and it's a sahih Hadith,
even according to the hubby confirms that it's a sahih Hadith,
he says, Al baraka to maraca berekum. Al baraka to maraca
berekum. The blessing is with your elders.
Right, the blessing is with your eldest scholars, you stick your
stick with them, you stay with them, that is very important that
you stay with them. So the way to judge any anything, as I told you,
like in the voting issue, this was for me, because I had some doubts.
I mean, I was quite clear, but then I had to when people bring
this issue up, then you start thinking that Is there really an
argument or not? So then my question is, okay, just give me
three great scholars of the world that are reputable, even if
they're not from my school of thought, I don't mind you know,
they could be Hanafi, Shafi, Salafi, I don't care doesn't make
a difference to me, as long as they've got some repute, who
understand what's going on. They're not stuck in a box
somewhere. Right? And I'll agree with you the person and he's a
friend of mine, this person, right? You know, it's unreal on
friendly terms. It's not there was wasn't an argument, this was a
friendly discussion, right? told me they weren't able to bring me a
single thing. So now when you look around the world, I had some
confusion to be honest about ISIS. Right? I had some confusion, where
are they? You know, but when you think about it, they've come out
of nowhere.
Where are the other ma gone? That were already existent in those
areas? How come they're not a leader? Why have you got an
obscure leader? Again, I'm not judging them, but these are my
questions. Right? So forget the conspiracy theories. Where are the
which are the most of the world have agreed with this? Right? Be
they I mean, from everybody from the seller, fear Allah ma to the
pure Sufi, or the amount of Sham? They they say no to this group? We
don't know who this group were, there it is. And you might think
that what how did they just suddenly come about and do what
they did? Well, think about it Allah Who wants to go back to that
time earlier, the Allah one was time, he's got a massive issue
with my God, Allah one with the people of Sham to, to stabilize
the Khilafah to get everything back on track. And you know, what
happens suddenly, after they've had the arbitration? It's a long
story, which I don't want to go into. Right. It's the whole
detail. There's a detailed coverage of it on some of the
mechanics if you if you want to listen to it, but basically, when
they finally decided on the arbitration between the two
groups, a group of people who are not Sahaba, right, they were not
Sahaba they were not known as to be greater Allah ma. They just
looked at this with their fiery attitude, misplaced zeal, and they
said what has happened here is not just haram, it's gopher.
And both of these great people on both sides, the Sahaba on both
sides, they have IRD in this regard, so we need to fight
against them because they said woman lamb Yeah, convener and Sal
Allah Allah eco Homolka hearin those people who does who do not
rule according to the book of Allah, they are
Before so they felt that what had happened here was against the book
of Allah. Hence, they will go for. So there was initially a
delegation that went to them earlier the unsent ignore Abbas
the who is who is the greatest or the greatest of the other ma when
it comes to the Tafseer of the Quran he sent them. He managed to
convince many of them, but not all of them. So some retreated, but
the other state, they then went and got more people to come in.
And finally, it really on how to fight them. He nearly exterminated
all of them. They had a massive loss here, most of them were
killed, a few were left, they went, they escaped. And they went
and made up another group, and they kept popping up like irritans
all over the place. And the tortelli wore out the army, and he
totally, totally wore out the army of idea to the Allahu Anhu until
finally what happened is, when it came time to go and deal with the
people in Sham, the army of value, the Allahu Anhu said, we're really
sorry, we are too tired now. We are totally, totally wasted. We
can't do anything now. And finally, what happened is, it was
the last moment of it and he must have prayed to Allah subhanho wa
Taala as is also related, please, hello adage. What they did was
they sent three assassins, they said let's just finish. All three
of the major parties of will finish the valley or the Allahu
Anhu. I'm going to Lhasa the Allahu Anhu. And why are we really
alone? Now all three of these were in different cities. So they sent
three assessments. The one who went to Amber Blosser the Allahu
Anhu that morning um, Lhasa the Allah one was sick, he didn't come
for Fajr prayer. Somebody else was leading the prayer the person that
assessing wasn't very real and being shown pictures, you know, a
valley of Amritsar, the Allah when he had no phone, Facebook,
whatever, right? So whoever was the Imam he thought that was
amorous he killed him. So I'm gonna master the alone saved the
one who attacked Margarita the Allahu Anhu it wasn't a fatal blow
Margarita was mashallah very well endowed, in terms of physical
body. They did stab him, but it was a non fatal blow.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, however, you want to look at this
because it really is a release from the miseries the last four
and a half years of misery from all of the skirmishes that he had
to deal with. He was assassinated by this individual, and he went to
Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah took him back. Radi Allahu anhu,
Karim Allah which, but the main thing is that this is the nature
of knowledge. This is the nature of coverage, they pop up nowhere.
They don't have any other leadership, any reputable aroma,
this is the sign wherever you see this. So you have to think about
it that way. May Allah subhanaw taala assist us and help us and
the conclusion from today's talk is at the times of fitna, it is a
move from the shaytaan to take us away from worship and from
learning turn to worship, turn to learning and humbly and treat
Allah subhanho wa Taala as has been told to us in the Hadith and
by the side of a number to
stick with you a copy of the Prophet sallallahu sallam said Al
Baraka, Tamara Kirby decom as related by Hakeem, stay with your
Allah Man, look around and look at this, but focus on your deen don't
become cowards. Jihad still continues, we don't negate jihad.
Jihad still continues, and may Allah subhanaw taala help us and
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