Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Superiority Complex

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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.