Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Book Launch Islam and Politics Mufti Taqi Usmani HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
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The transcript discusses the historical and character of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, including his military career and importance of the Bible and "IT" in introducing "IT." The "monster" of Islam is emphasized as a marketplace for ideas among elements, and it must decide among them to serve the main fields of Islam. The importance of understanding the depth of the Quran and Sunless, the holistic system in one place, and navigating the large scale of media affects individual and community finances. The title "The Greatest Showman in history" is also discussed, along with challenges in understanding the nation state and political ideas.
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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.