Hamza Yusuf – Sacred Text Messages S01 E01 – Transcending Tribe: The Race to Humanity

			I was going to show up on the regimes menorah, Rahim, will slot was set on mojado See, what have you
noticed when he left? He was happy he won Wada hamdulillah saramonic mirandola This is the first
inshallah of a series of
		

			podcast that we're planning on doing inshallah, from sand Allah. And I'm going to be looking
inshallah at some
		

			Hadeeth and also some verses in the Quran. One of the things that we note of late is that a lot of
Muslims have seemed to have really removed themselves from using the Quran and the Hadith as a
foundation for their actions. And it's very important for Muslims to always maintain not only a
connection with the book of Allah and the Sunnah of is prophesized them but also
		

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			constant reference referencing and substantiating their actions, based upon the deen of Islam, which
is primarily from the book and the Sunnah, as it was understood by the great scholars of our
tradition, and if you deviate from that path,
		

			the prophets Allah said him said, ma been Bowman, who then cannot lay in the auto Jagga that no
people go astray after the guidance they were given, except that guidance is replaced with
disputation and argumentation. And so one of the reasons why you see some Sunday problems in the
Muslim community is because
		

			we have abandoned this guidance that we were given, and it's very important to to restore it. One of
the things that broke my heart,
		

			I was actually speaking with one of the heads, in fact, a major news network, he was the head of the
religious desk in that news network. And and I had
		

			a meeting with him, because he had done something on the Muslim community. And we, in conversation,
he mentioned to me that of all the religious communities that he has studied over the years, as a
journalist, he said that the one whose leadership was most vicious with one another was the Muslim
community. And he asked me about that. And it actually, it really felt like a corkscrew to the heart
because I
		

			I was just saddened that here's a non Muslim, who this is his experience of the Muslim community. So
I wanted to test his hypotheses. So I called up an evangelical, that I know. And I asked him about
another evangelical, that I knew that they had very different philosophies of their tradition. And
so I just asked him, What do you think about Joel olsteen? And so this evangelical said,
		

			well, Joel, and I come from different schools. But I think Joel does, he provides, uh, you know,
service to the community helps a lot of people navigate the world and, and so I think, I think he's,
he's doing good work. That's what he said, instead of saying, oh, he's from prosperity gospel, and I
totally disagree with that. And he's, he's astray. He didn't do that he, he tended to look at the
good of the person. And we have a wonderful tradition of the use of and medium where the prophets a
lot he was sending him said that he was with his companions, Jesus. And I'm moving from
evangelicals, to our tradition of Jesus, which is a little different.
		

			But he's, he said, in the Hadith, that Jesus passed by a carcass with his disciples, and they said,
My antenna who, you know, how foul is this carcass? And inside, they sent him said, one of your
snana, you know, and how wide are its teeth. And in the commentaries, they say that he chose to look
at the beauty that was within the foulness, like he chose to look at the good, as opposed to looking
at the at the negative, and that's a hallmark of the quality of believers is that they, they tend to
look
		

			at the good as opposed to just looking at the name because the negative is there. Always we all fall
short of the glory of God. So the first study that I want to look at is very interesting Hadeeth.
		

			It's a hadith that's related by email Academy d, and e mom abou download. And these are two great
scholars from the persianate area of the early Muslim
		

			period.
		

			And they both have very important books. Mr. McDowell within an email, I will go down in the six
canonical collections of the Hades tradition.
		

			But the Hadeeth is from a boyhood era, or the lion who's one of the great Hades transmitters. He was
from the tribe of dos. And one of the inside Bahati, there's a wonderful Hadith where the prophets
Allah sent him sent
		

			his companions to call the tribe of dose to Islam. So when they when they came back, the companion
said to the prophets, I said that those has refused Islam, so implicate against him, you're sort of
like, make a prayer against them, because they rejected Islam. So the prophets I said turn towards
Qibla and he raised his hands and they thought that he was going to make a prayer against the tribe
and he said, a llama had the dose and what to be him Oh Allah guide dose and bring them to me. And
from dose came up over out.
		

			So in the province, I Sam saw him.
		

			He said,
		

			he said he was surprised that he was from dos. And our became somebody who just constantly sought
out the Hadees of the Prophet. So I said him, and some people have said, Oh, how did he get all of
these Hadees when they calculated them, and said he would have had to hurt so many Heidi's every day
and so there's people that attack him, but many of the Hadees that he relates are simply on and it'd
be so nice and he didn't say I heard from the Prophet because he collected them from other Sahaba as
well, so he doesn't have to mention the Sahaba that he collected them from. He can simply say on
interview because in our tradition, the Sahaba are considered overdue or upright witnesses so in the
		

			Hadith, he says that lanta has been acquired when you have tough your own
		

			human Ludhiana motto
		

			that
		

			people better stop boasting about their fathers that have died in number one famine in Johanna these
are
		

			the truly charcoal in the in the Hellfire, so boasting about Gehenna exploits of their
		

			of their disbelieving parents. Although coonan Juana Allah, Allah He manager Li led you there, the
whole here are a bit unfair, or they will become more insignificant with God than a dung beetle. The
jaw is also called
		

			in the Arabic language, it's also called at home for
		

			a bead or a dung beetle. You hit the hole in other words, you daddy Joe, are you they roll the dung,
you know, the feces with their nose. And when I lived in the Sahara, they're all over the place
these dung beetles and you can watch them they were fascinating creatures to watch. So it's not
surprising that the proper size and would use them as an analogy because they really are. And the
Arabs they I don't know, I didn't ever try this with Arab say that if you put perfume
		

			near them, they die from the smell. So allow them but anyway, so this
		

			to be more insignificant with God than a dung beetle, if you're boasting about the jahad exploits
the X the on Islamic exploits of your ancestors, in Allah but of her bancomer obeah turns your head
Yeti. Allah has removed from you the pride of janelia the pride of God and God is a word that's
mentioned four times in the Quran as janelia in one of the mentions, and they're very interesting,
each one of them, but I'm not going to go into that maybe in another one. I will. But he talks about
your idea to order which could could mean the jelly literally it means the first idea and in Arabic,
it could mean the only janelia because some of the commentators do say that that the Arabs use that
		

			as an idiom. But bass was asked about and he said, Is there an EU law without a Fannia? Can you have
a first without a
		

			second? And so he indicated that towards the end of time people would go back to janelia behavior.
And so the province of Assam said that Allah has removed this pride of Jehovah will fahara Harbin
Abadi and the boasting about one's the exploits of one's parents in NEMA, who Amina and Tachyon have
fed your own shop
		

			There are only a pious believer
		

			and a profligate wretch. So the prophesize has this is the binary of creation, there are only Allah
created everything in pairs. So there are righteous believers. And then there are
		

			probably get wretches, and then the prophets, Allah, Sam said, a natural kulambu, add humanity, all
of humanity are from the tribe of Adam. So this literally erases this whole idea that we have these
distinct races out there, we're all of the same tribe, we're just from different branches of the
same tribe. And just like you have in a family you can have, you can have a light skin member and a
dark skin based on their genetics. So you see, in some families, like if you have a mixed family,
you'll see one child comes out very light skinned, and another shot comes out dark skin. And so Adam
and Howard, which are the original, two people that we all come from, and this is our material
		

			sciences, have also indicated this, Adam and however, the word Adam, is
		

			most likely, I mean, the Hebrew derivation is different from ours, but most likely is from Edmonton.
org, which is the topsoil of the earth. And the province like Sam said that Adam was created from
all the topsoil of the earth, the white soil, the black soil, the brown soil, the yellow soil, the
red soil. So you see all of these soils come out in the children of Adam, and according to sorta
Rome, this is a sign that, that Allah subhanaw taala has made in your complexions and your, in your
tongues and in your complexions. These are Signs for people who know, so Allah has diversified
creation, as signs of his power. And, and so we celebrate these differences, but we recognize that
		

			all you have to do is cut the skin and you get red blood, that we all bleed red. And so we're
essentially the same people, we're from the same tribe. And this is the universality of Islam. What
at the moment to rob and then he said, Adam is from Toronto. In other words, the materiality of Adam
is from taarab. So his his, his physical body, the physical makeup that we all share is earth. And
that should make us humble, but the spiritual nature is what distinguishes us. So it we're not
distinguished by our materiality, we're distinguished by our spirituality. And that's why Allah
subhana wa Santa says, In the economical Mandalay at Capcom, that the most honored and noble of you
		

			in God's eyes, not in people's eyes, in God's eyes are the most pious, the most beautiful, the most
conscientious, the people that strive to perfect their souls. Those are the people and that's called
momentum Tachyon. That's the believer. So the province is M is saying that in terms of your
materiality, you're all just going to add them you're from the same tribe. There's no differences
and Islam and this is why Arnold Toynbee recognized that Islam was the religion that could prevent a
race war in the world, that Ana Toynbee mentioned that in his in his, in his Islam in the West, he
said that Islam can prevent a race war. Because one of the things that
		

			one of the things that Aristotle says in book five in the politics, which is the book on revelations
on revolutions, Aristotle says that there he gives 11 causes for revolutions. And the primary cause
is one, the 99% are fed up with the 1%. So he wrote that 2500 years ago, so not much has changed.
But but but he says one of the reasons for civil wars is heterogeneity when you have multiple races
in a society, and that's only when you perceive them as multiple races, but what Islam does is it
says no, you are all Bennu Adam, you're the same race. It's called the human race. And one of the
things that he believes is trying to do now is make everybody think that they're different races,
		

			because that will create this animosity. And that's why Islam of all the religions it is unique, in
that the Prophet slicin him in his final speech, on on, on the day of out of he summed up the human
problems, which are essentially three problems. race, gender, and class. That's what that's what
everything is about. It's all these human conflicts are about the the battle of the sexes,
		

			the rich versus the poor, the poor versus the rich, and then about
		

			black versus white or
		

			This drive versus that tribe and the prophesize. Sam, he completely clarified these three things
that the whole foundation of, of wealth disparity is usury. And so he had he went to the root
problem, usury. The whole problem with the male problem is not treating the women well, because
women will will love and be good partners to men, if they treat them well. If they don't, then
you're going to have Martians and Venetians, you know, just two different types of of warlike, you
know, that was going on. And finally, he identified the race problem because he said, Love for the
rally, rb and Alhaji mean, well, rally attributes are being well as early as what? Well, early As
		

			for the other absorbe. In w topra. He said, there's no difference. And it's really important to look
at this hadith because he said in the Hadith, there's no difference between an air of man or woman
out of the he took it to the singular. He didn't say that level, but a
		

			little out of other Agim. He didn't say it can you didn't collectivise he took it to where the
problem resides, it resides in the individual. And he and so he said there's, there's no preference
of an individual Arab over an individual non Arab, or an individual black over an individual white
or an individual white over an individual black. He took them both ways. So he showed that it can go
both ways. So this idea, this modern idea that you can't have, that racism is essentially, power and
privilege directed towards the powerless and the underprivileged, that you can't have somebody who's
powerless, feeling racialist feelings towards somebody that's in power that's completely anti
		

			muslim.
		

			any sense of superiority, or belittlement of another human being, is from arrogance. And that's the
essence of racism. And that's why this Hadeeth is such an extraordinary Hadeeth because it reminds
us of the universal nature of our of our species, that we are all human beings. And this is what Dr.
King when he said that he wanted people to judge by the content of their character. In other words,
their spirituality, not the color of their skin, in other words, their materiality. And this is
exactly what the prophesies and we're saying. So that message is completely in concordance with the
teaching of Islam, that people should be judged by the content of their character, in other words,
		

			by their top law, by their conscientiousness, by their goodness, by their virtue by their ethics,
and not by anything that is of material nature. kulu Coleman, Adam admin tore up all of you from
Adam and Adams on top of that,