Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Superiority Complex

			All
		

			right, the next hadith is from
Abuja, Radi Allahu anhu, Which
		

			Imam Ahmed relates. He says that
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam said to him, in Nikolas the
behind him in Amara as well that
		

			Allah and Abdullah who Bataclan.
Now this is dealing with
		

			a sense of superiority of another
kind. It's not got to do with
		

			wealth necessarily, but it's got
to do with racism, it's got to do
		

			with color, it's got to do with
perspective, you know, perspective
		

			of superiority, that I have some
elements that makes me superior to
		

			somebody else. So the Prophet
salallahu alayhi salam said that
		

			you are not better or superior,
because you are red skinned, or
		

			because you are black skinned.
		

			Or black head, you know, you can
take this in whatever whether it's
		

			about hair color, that you're
worried that the blondes think
		

			they're better than everybody
else, or the blackheads think
		

			they're better than the blondes
and they think that eases blonde
		

			moments and all the rest of it
that people come up with this, you
		

			can apply this how you like,
right? You can apply this how like
		

			generally what they say is that
when you look in the Arab
		

			countries at that time, because
most of the slaves were brought
		

			from abbacy, near from Africa. So
generally this was kind of the
		

			class system, you know, the
reddish complexion and the darkish
		

			complexion. However, it could be
the other way round in some
		

			places. And either way you can
apply this however you want. None
		

			of this. None of this makes you a
better person except taqwa and
		

			Taqwa means God fearing oneness.
And that means consciousness of
		

			Allah subhanaw taala. So the
consciousness of Allah subhanaw
		

			taala is what makes you superior
in the sight of Allah subhanho wa
		

			taala.
		

			So in those days, it was the molar
and the CEO, sorry, the CEO then
		

			the molar or the CEO, then the
ABD. That means the master and the
		

			slave, right? It was that kind of
dichotomy. So although that
		

			dichotomy is not around, because
we don't have official slaves
		

			anymore, but there is still that
kind of concept that remains
		

			because of racism that people
have.
		

			So no, for Lila, based on your
outward appearance of any sort,
		

			it's all based on your taqwa.