Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Book Launch Islam and Politics Mufti Taqi Usmani HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad

For those of us who don't know, Prince, His Royal Highness Prince

Vaziri Mohammed, I just like to add a few words to what our

brother Hanif said I won't take much of time. Prince, as even

Mohammed was born on 15th October 1996 Is the Jordanian Prince,

professor of philosophy and he the sacred, sacred beans David

descendent of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So we

are privileged to have him among us and sadati Iran have a special

status in the eyes of Allah subhanaw taala especially when a

seed has emerged and the number is solid, then I will share yunusov

Who's to say he shoots up like a rocket. His Royal Highness

completed his studies over here like mentioned Princeton US

university in 1984 until 88, and then even attended alasa

University College of Zulu Dean from 2007 to 2010. And we received

the second PhD in academia in Islamic philosophy awarded highest

honors on the 16th of January 2010. With this thesis and Hubble

field, angle Kelly, love in the Holy Quran. He has also authored

many books like for example, just a few to name 100 books on Islam

in English and the end of Orientalism. What is Islam and why

is mortal Muslimeen Iranian was a heavy Diem and a thinking person's

going to Islam we moved into like mine was mentioned a very nice

book and two rocks application as the author towards May Allah

reward you hereby again for bringing this very nice, you know,

book at a very critical time when we are in need of all these

guidances and finally, the book which is in front of us a

tentative guide to the themes on the sutras in the Quran, you know,

along with what material that man was saying. We do get objections

from people that Quran is just a compilation of different things

here and there. There is no rock and connection between the iron

and the sewer. So His Royal Highness has you endeavor to get

rid of this objection? And to see that it is more booth everything

is connected. So 100 As we learn from activity romanza and this

book will inshallah increase your love for the Quran as well. It

will portray the miraculous nature of the Holy Quran in its

immutability in its compilation and inshallah you will love for

the Quran will increase. And finally, his royal highnesses

humility, hereby he was telling me that we asked him to talk about

his his own work. And he said no, as a red Mufti that Lisa is

myostatin is like my teacher, I can't speak in front of enlighten

my book. So this is how it you know, this military is portrayed

in this one sentence that moved to service like my teacher, and I

don't want to speak in front of you on my own go. Leave that to

someone else. Now, we will request His Royal Highness to talk about

as a book disciples book, which is in front of us and share some

beautiful words of wisdom with us just

thinking oh, no, no, thank you all for coming. Thanks to so thanks to

brother Yeah, for organizing this and for getting the books out in

time. Like thank my brother moved to have the command for his really

beautiful words. How do you think he knows much more about flying

than I do. And so it's really in Congress for him to have

introduced my

my book, but that's the barcode. Yeah, he press ganged

into introducing it. So I thank them both for that. I just want to

say one thing, if you have time I do this myself. If you have time.

Look at them Academy. This is the on demand channel and to our

channel. There's a lot of bark, I listened to it all the time when I

have someone I'm multitasking when I'm working, have it in the

background is really you can pick up a lot of knowledge and you

know, knock out a lot of books. There's really a lot of back and

it's really my favorite channel to listen to an English. And I

encourage you very much to do that.

I'll just say one thing. It was Mufti Taqi, I'm by training

philosopher. I'm not and

I'm sitting with two items. And I hope in the back here, I will sit

with two items. But but so I'm a philosopher by training and I,

even as my PhD was in philosophy, and I know literature, and so I

saw this thing, but I would never dare to write the book. Had I not

the event in America, from after Ducky, I was telling them this is

my idea. And this is what I see. They said no, no, you write it you

write. So I wrote it sort of gingerly. But it was really the

Barker move to talk it and he said write it in your mind on and so I

was reading last one about and I got to the end of seducing and I

became so ill. And about halfway through I couldn't move. I just I

was so sick. I couldn't move back to the finish. So I said okay,

I'll stop.

And it's really for the Ummah to decide if this is there or not

there. And by the time I mean, the community of anima, it's the

animal must decide if this is true if it's not true, and if it's a

benefit, and if it's not a benefit. That's what I see. I put

it up. In essence, intellectual history of Islam is a marketplace

of ideas amongst the element, and it's the element that must decide

collectively, if someone like me who is specialized in the field

that is, that serves the main fields, which are folk and tafsir.

And heavy

states something defendant definitively, then you can

actually wind up in *. So, I've just said, you know, when the back

of multitarget I said, this is what I've seen. Please have a look

at it. I found it useful. This what I said maybe right, maybe

wrong. Let the OMA decide.

Alright, just that's this book by Bismillah. Now, let me speak about

this book. First of all, it's a great honor to be sitting next to

Mufti Taqi. And I'm, it's very awkward to say what I really think

and feel when he's sitting right next to me because you're not

supposed to praise people in their presence. But there's some

objective things I have to say.

And I just tell you one story

that happened to me over the years, I just, I'll just give a

story. And this has to do with economics.

For years I really couldn't understand and I don't know I've

never studied economics i i never particularly great interest in it.

And I really couldn't understand why Allah subhanaw taala wages

war. Heaven is profit is very drastic. It's very drastic in the

Quran. There will be Harbin mean Allah Hora sunnah, by its very

drastic on interest, I just didn't get it. I don't know. Probably

won't more obvious to you. But then I read just a small booklet

which I put up from the talk and I talked to him about it. And it hit

me like a thunderbolt. Why? Because interest is a war. It's a

war on the poor in general, and it's a war on on the person you're

giving a loan to. It's a war because it's relentless, and

you're taking away his wealth. And then it's a war and everyone

because everyone who isn't

lending their money, their money is getting less. So therefore you

get a war in general that's the word from Allah. And one

particular that's the war from the Prophet ASUSTOR. This thing hit me

like a fundable. And you'll find throughout Mufti talkies works,

that there is Subhanallah like these bull's eyes, that he does.

He, he gets and you won't find anywhere else. And I can tell you

now, just with this book in particular, you won't find I

challenge you to find a book in English or even a book in Arabic

that has summed up and this is one of the the senior characteristics

of Mufti turkeys writings and thinking, and I think it comes

from learner Ashraf TinyMe because there's, you know, this, it all

comes back from there, there's a kind of Silsila of Baraka, where

he's getting things, right. It's just the panel that I'm always

astounded by this. But anyway, so the many issues in this first of

all, you won't find any book that does the top see from the Quran,

and the Sunnah of politics. I spoken to many of my life and you

know, it kind of my day job. I spoke many sort of Islamists, and

they'll tell you, Oh, there's five verses in the Quran for five years

or however that refer to politics? No, you just you haven't done the

proper top seed, there are only a few Hadees. Now, the first thing

that moves the talk is done. He's got all of the all of the verses

in one place. And all of that hadith, Masha, Allah says, I'm in

one place. And more than that, in a holistic system, that you can

see the wood for the trees, you can see the big picture, and you

can see the small details in one coherent system. Now, why is this

important? It's important because we as an ummah, had been

floundering on politics, since the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire,

because we've been hit by the nation state, and we don't even

know what it is, we haven't understood it. So first of all,

we've got the toxin and that seed without, you know, everybody who

writes about this, they have a thing. They have a vested

interest, and I don't I got into into the introduction, they have

invested interest, and they want politics to be this to justify

either their views or their Muslims or whatever it is, they

want to justify this, and they have Islam fitting into politics,

rather than seeing objectively what Islam has said. So what we

have is an objective assessment of the thought seed of the Quran and

Sunnah, on politics on that and that alone, if it will, just that

it will be worth reading the book. But there's much more to the book

than that. So we have all of it and we have it in a whole holistic

system in one place with all the Quran or the Hadith also, that

alone is amazing. And we have it from a soul. And we have it

benefiting from the largest experiment in politics, which is

The Ottoman Hanafi experiment for 700 years, dealing with minorities

dealing with empires dealing with changing situations, dealing with

the Industrial Revolution, and moving on, and looking to

summarize all of that there. But on top of that, just as the first

thing, on the top of that we have a practical experience, which

moved to Turkey has had with politics, and he's bought all of

that into into the book. Alright, that's fair enough. But now we

have something and you know, in my day job, I see a lot of great

unimat. And here's what they don't do. They don't read things outside

of our tradition. So they haven't read the philosophical texts that

you need to read to understand what went behind the nation state.

Right started from Plato and Aristotle, right down, it's

Montesquieu.

So if I'm going if I'm going on too long monopolies,

right, you know, right down to Montesquieu, to,

to Rousseau to the social contract, moved to Turkey, there's

another part of the book where he's gone through all of them, and

summarized, and so you have to understand

all of our great anima understand, or did understand what Islam says

about politics. But how to understand the nation state, you

don't get until you've done all of that philosophical reading. And

then you've compared it to,

to our tradition, compare that to the scale, the things are

compatible, what's compatible, what's not compatible, and then

you have to be able to pass judgment to say, this is

compatible, this is not compatible. And multitrack has

done all of that. And it's a really, it's an amazing, amazing

work with objectivity. I'll just give you one small example of how

this works. Now, I'm always I'm always bewildered when I see

politicians run running elections. I mean, of course, we have, you

know, Parliament and Jordan, and they run for elections. But what's

going on elections is, most people you see these debates, when you

run for elections, if you see these debates on TV, and it's

getting worse now because the internet, but even 2030 years ago,

before the internet, basically, when you're running for elections,

you're seeing how great you are mad and so can dab and how bad the

opponent is, and then you're slandering. And then this is the

person that you want to run your affairs. But even before he gets

to the post, he's a liar. And he's a slander. So, so this is one of

the inherent, this is one of the

structural problems that we haven't got our head around. And

some of the talking like, just one point he's proposed, no, he

should, the community should decide, you have to run and then

he doesn't have a choice. It shouldn't be me, me, me, me, me, I

want to be on the stage. I wonder this. So then many, many points

that we haven't understood that multitasking is summed it all up

in one book, and you can just digest it. And I remember when I

was a student, looking for books like this, and there's lots of

classical works on Islam, you know, you're getting my word and

all these books, and we read them, but they have nothing to do with

our situation. Now, it's not just a simply a question of

understanding sound politics, it's an unquestioned of understanding

and Walker, and then bring that theory down into practice, which

Mr. Tucker has done in a brilliant way. And there's, there's many

other you know, for the title of this book, and I was really

excited about, I was very honored to write it, write the foreword to

it.

And

I do recommend you get it, I think this would be the Costco, I pay

homage to yeah, he just zipping the books on a 10 books. And it's

not even a real job. He's, and he's getting these books. And

they're very, very important. There is only one thing I would

say, no more to talk, I think this started writing this, I think,

about 40 years ago, and the situation has changed and is

changing every day. And so even this, although it's a benchmark

for that, see, and it's a benchmark for the nation state,

we're now faced as an ummah. And as individuals with changes that

are so rapid that we need to take into consideration when thinking

about politics, we're faced, I'll just give you some small things.

We're faced with the breakdown of society, we're faced with the

breakdown of community, we're faced with the breakdown of

gender, we're faced with the breakdown of sexuality. That's the

next one coming. I don't want to talk too much about that. But

there is all of these things change. And then we're faced with

big data and micro analysis, where you get personalized messages,

then you can be manipulated by a computer, every single one of us

who's I mean, I'm not on Facebook, and I don't like stop and most

people who are, can be manipulated few the big data so that they're

no longer free. They've been complete. They've been pegged by

some computer somewhere and they've been paid. And they're

going to be in the military to social media, that these are, this

is a this is a benchmark. But the next question is, and I hope some

of the animals will take these, you know, who know more about

technology than us. We'll take these and then relate them to the

top. See that's, that's in this book. I think that's the next

stage.