Hamza Yusuf – Vision Of Islam CD1 #05

			In terms of tradition, we have three types of tradition. The first is Koran, which is we believe is
what a revelation from God spoken through the prophets of it, Sam from Gabriel or gibreel. And then
the second type is also revelation, but it is spoken through the prophet Mohammed so lies to them.
And it is called Hadith. And this means that the prophets Allah Islam is speaking inspired, he is
inspired by God, my entrepreneur, Annette, how're they enterpreneur how, in who in the why you you
have that the Prophet does not speak from his own passion, this is revelation coming to him. So even
his Hadith is revelation. We believe that and that is why you won't find any Table Talk. You won't
		

			find any tribe conversation. You won't find any vulgarities. In the Hadith. All of the studies have
meaning and implication for the lives of Muslims. Now, the Hadith are divided into three basic
essential types are had, which are narrated by solitary transmitters 1234, those have less strength.
And then there is mutawatir, which is multiple narrated transmissions. If it is mutawatir, and there
are only a few 100 of them, then those have the same status as the haoran in terms of absolute
belief that they are from the prophets, Allah said and you should not reject them. An example of
that is the house would realize a lottery system and apartheid in the south it was to be an for
		

			profit prohibited the killing of children and women in war that is multiplied transmitted. There are
so many narrations that it is impossible for that to be a mistake. And that is why that is agreed
upon by the scholars that is prohibited to kill women and children in any type of martial conflict.
And then the final is called a Heidi footsy, which is revelation from God, but the province lies and
transmits it as a hadith. And this is Hadith kotze, it does not have the same status of Quran in
that we cannot recite it in the prayer. But we believe that it's also directly from God. And an
example of that is LCM o Li, Zb, kulula aminated, even the Adam industry and God says, according to
		

			the prophets, Elijah, every action is for the son of Adam except for fasting, it is mine alone,
because I was the only one that does not eat and drink in reality. So when you fast you're doing an
action. That is really, it's a way of, in a sense, it's the closest thing that we do that has a
divine quality, because only God does not eat and drink we all need to eat and drink.
		

			That's one interpretation. There are many others. We also believe that the Quran is eternal and
uncreated. And that means the meanings of the Quran. In other words, it's not the literal words on
in the book. But we only say that when we teach, we still say the Quran is uncreated. And that
includes this book, we believe that the Koran, what's between these two covers, is the uncreated
Word of God. So we can say that, but we have an understanding that when we say that, it doesn't
literally mean the letters and the ink. It's the meanings that those words convey. On page 24. They
mentioned about, say, Nadia or Delano not giving up his claim, they're giving a Shia perspective,
		

			that is not a Sunni perspective. We believe that the mom Addy or the lion, in fact, today, I would
advocate what she says there, and she admit that but we believe that he took it believing that
aboubaker was the right guided Khalifa, and that our Barker was better than Addy. And there's a
hadith in Sahih Bahati in which say, now it says clearly that I will walk it it was better than him
and so was Omar. Another important thing which I mentioned here is that generally the Muslims lived
with many different religions. They did not persecute religions. There are a few instances that does
occur, but they were always rejected by the scholars and they were also clearly done by rulers that
		

			were manipulating situations for their own political advantage, short sightedness that led to a lot
of problems. But Muslims generally treated other religions very well kept their churches, synagogues
and temples intact, including the Zoroastrians, and the Hindus, and the Buddhists, Afghanistan,
which was a very, very profoundly Buddhist country before the Muslims got there. The Afghan is
converted from Buddhism, and some of the greatest Muslims came out of that Buddhist tradition. In
fact, Bell was a center for Buddhist logic, and those logicians became Muslim an introduced
interestingly enough into Islamic theology, some Buddhist logical form.
		

			ones that don't exist in Greek logic. The Greek logic doesn't have a neither a nor B type scenario.
Whereas Nagarjuna in logic, which is Buddhist logic does in traditional Islamic theology, you have
situations where they do have that neither a nor B. and that definitely, I would say, I can't say
definitely, but I really believe that it does come out of the influence that the Buddhists logicians
had on Islam. He wrote a paper called how the Buddhists saved Islam, which was about that, but I
never I sent it into post it. Somebody said, No, you'll get too much flack.
		

			Another thing which is important is generally the Muslim rulers did not want people to become
Muslim. And the reason they didn't want them to become Muslim is because they lost tax revenue. And
they also had to deal with the egalitarian nature of Islam. So that's a fact. If you don't believe
that, if you have some kind of romantic utopian version of Islam, it's a fantasy. All you have to do
is read history. The Muslims were very honest in their history, you actually had to join an Arab
tribe to become a Muslim.
		

			And the person that ended that was all about open up that Aziz during Benny omega, before that you
literally had to join an Arab tribe, you have to be calm. And you were Imola, which was an inferior
position. And there is a movement in Iraq called the short obeah, which means the people's movement
or the popular movement, and these were all non Arabs that finally got fed up, and actually went
into this revolt against it. So there was problems early on, there was ethnic problems, tribal
problems, human condition. The beauty of Islam is that it was always redressing and the onomah. Were
always redressing these problems. That's what I love about Islam. You have in this country 100 years
		

			ago, rabbis and priests writing treatises, that black slavery was biblically sanctioned. And you can
find that I guarantee you, you can look it up in books on slavery in this country. Muslims have
never had that we don't we don't have a history ever of our own Ummah, justifying oppression.
textually just doesn't exist. On the contrary, I mean, they really wrote vehemently against those
things. And a Jahan wrote a book about the preference of blacks over whites, because he was a black
man. And it wasn't the premise of it. It was more that if you really look historically, there's a
lot more great black people than there are white people. And he's got a whole book to prove it. And
		

			there's a beautiful book by even Josie called 10 wheeled rubbish unfolded in Sudan would have been
removing any darkness concerning the virtues of black people and Ethiopians. And this was an Iraqi
mom that wrote an entire book, showing all the virtues of black people. And one of the things that
he says in that book, is it anybody that narrates the Israeli view that blacks were the occurs
descendants of ham, there is no textual basis for that. And the Quran rejects that. And then he
says, The reason blacks are dark skinned, is because they've been living so long in the southern
hemisphere that they have developed protective skin from the rays of the sun. He actually says that
		

			excuse the scientific analysis, which is generally what people believe now, is there any questions
or comments?
		

			We are not supposed to interpret the Quran, but we are supposed to reflect upon its meanings please
clarify.
		

			A great deal of the Quran is about reflection. fra on Luna EDID edk for hoodia caught will either
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			Haven't they looked at the camel how it was created? Have they looked at the heavens, how they've
been raised up? Haven't they looked at the mountains, how they've been placed? standing firm,
haven't they looked at the earth and how we have stretched it out? So remind them those those are
things to think about? Anybody, you don't need to interpret those verses they're very clear, much of
the Quran is very clear. However, when the Quran says something like, if you fear disobedience, or
in Calcutta sins from your spouse, then warn her abandon the bed and then strike her. You're not
allowed to interpret that it is hot. I'm for you to interpret that nor can you apply that ruling in
		

			your house. Because it's in the Koran it is hard for you to do that Muslims have always believed
that you need to ask
		

			Scholars interpretation of that verse and then you're surprised to find out it actually doesn't mean
what you probably thought it meant. And that's what I mean by not interpreting the Quran. Those are
the verses that deal with actual behavior. In those verses, you must go to scholars, because you
might completely misunderstand it for instance, Heba the Quran says the day after Babu come Baba,
don't let some of you backbite about others, you have to understand there's a ruling, there's seven
situations in which that law does not apply, then you have to know the definition of backbiting you
might think it means speaking about things that aren't true. On the contrary, it means things that
		

			are true. So you have to understand and that comes from scholars it comes from people that
understand the Quran. So that's what I mean. But verses in the Quran that Allah subhana wa tada
says, In the fie smls you would have stayed up late or not, I think we will embed that in the
creation of a heavens and the earth. Alternating of the night and the day are Signs for people who
have deep reflection. People innermost core can reflect on that. Protons filled with things so you
can read it for that. Don't try to derive rulings from it. That's all. That's all it means. Don't
derive rulings is very important. Anything normative is what the religion says about itself. It's
		

			not telling you how Muslims behave. It's it's telling you how they're supposed to behave. And that
is a much fairer way of looking at a religion is to look at the ideal and not the reality. So said
Jose Nussle wrote a book called Islam ideals and realities. In every tradition, you have ideals, and
you have realities. America has an ideal freedom, liberty and justice for all. That's a beautiful
idea. We can all agree with that. Unfortunately, that has not been the reality of America.
Intelligent Americans are the first to admit that. But there does seem to be an attempt. And
certainly the Civil War is an example of that the freeing of the slaves in this country, the civil
		

			rights, it's taken a long time to get to things that Islam arrived at 1400 years ago. But there's an
effort so ideals and realities are very different. The Geneva Convention is beautiful ideals about
how to treat prisoners of war. The reality is, prisoners of war are treated like animals and worse
than animals all the time. And sensory deprivation is torture. It's called passive torture and it
actually drives people insane. In some Christian text, it says descends of Isaac were great people
in the sense of Ishmael caused great havoc on the earth. Not true. There's good in both the sons and
there's there's some bad offspring that came out of there, but you can't blame the parents for what
		

			you can sometimes blame him for what their children do. They were neglectful, but you can't blame
them for what their grandchildren do. It's not their fault.