Hamza Yusuf – Vision Of Islam CD3 #05

			That's the real warrior. And that's ancient Chinese. The Chinese said the true warrior is one that
Congress himself. This is an ancient tradition. Now the second type of Mujahid that is the
Mujahideen of Chopin and chiffon in the Islamic tradition is a force that exists within the world.
There's an obsessive element within the soul, a whispering that comes into the soul, and also
outside of oneself. And it has two forms, it has human, what are called Shelton ins, and then shale
theano, Jim shale, Dino Jin, are the demons that work in another realm. And just as we are here and
can see each other and there are other creatures that live alongside of us that have impact on our
		

			life, and we have impact on their life, but we cannot see them and they can see us, every culture
and every civilization has reference to them. There's no culture that you can find. I don't care
whether it's Japanese, if it's Indian, if it's Russian, Irish, no culture, except that it has
reference to this round German, the Poltergeist mischievous spirits and things like this Japanese
culture is filled with a Chinese culture is filled with it. And they're real, and they do have an
impact. And the way that one struggles against them is by cleanliness, maintaining vigilance, and
cleanliness, urine, feces, will do ritual washing, things like this. And that's why most cultures
		

			have some traditions that they ward off these elements, some of the Native American tribes would
burn Sage in the southwestern parts of the country to remove these elements. And incense
traditionally was one of the things because the idea is that they don't like good smells. And that's
why incense is almost a universal. And you find incense in the Christian tradition, and Shinto and
Buddhist and in the Islamic tradition, decided the Prophet said, Rama says, fumigate your masks with
incense. And that's part of why that is there. And also wearing perfume was also a good thing. So
and not listening to these impulses in the self, because everybody has and whether you call them
		

			obsessive compulsive thoughts, whatever people want to call them, psychiatrists have words for them.
When they become out and get out of hand, people start having auditory hallucinations. This is what
they're called auditory hallucinations. Muslims believe that they're real, and you can't deny their
reality because there are people that experienced them, they can hear them. So to say it's all in
your head, well, it might be all in your head, it's still there. So these guys walking around, you
can see them going someplace, and they're talking and shouting, and they're having these battles
going on. And that's called Ms. noon, somebody who's measuring now the third type of jihad is the
		

			jihad, which demands that you defend what is right. And that is the Jihad of the sword. There are
many verses in the Koran, which indicate this, it did not come down all at once. It came down for 13
years, the Muslims were not allowed to fight in Mecca, they were given no permission whatsoever. And
that is why they simply suffered silently. They did not fight, they did not oppose what was
happening to them. And that was very difficult for these Arab men. It was incredibly difficult
people like Abu Bakar on the line. I mean, these were men who were raised in a tradition of Moodle,
shujaa Shahada, these virtues of the Arabs of strength and bravery and magnanimity. And so for them,
		

			to watch people being persecuted in the way that they were watching and not able to do anything
about it was incredibly difficult. So that in itself was a test, not being able to fight was a big
test. It's not the other way around. But when the the verses came down after 13 years, the Sahaba
migrated to Medina. Now at that point, what the difference now is that there is a state authority
and I'm using the word state loosely. In other words, I don't want to use state, like it's
understood in the modern concept of a state because that's not really what Medina was, but they did
have power that was centralized, and it was a city state in that way. So at that point, they were
		

			permitted to fight this is the first verse that comes down permitting them to fight is una Latina.
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			that permission has been granted for those who have been fought to fight because they are oppressed.
Now, remember that this is 13 years later. In other words, they were persecuted right from the
start, but permission came when they start
		

			Circumstances changed. So the idea of fighting where you do not have legitimate state authority is
not permissible. It never has been. The Muslims have never viewed that permission to fight comes
when you have state authority, that does not mean an individual has the right to defend himself from
being killed. But if you look at the Sahaba, and the situations that they were in, some of them were
tortured, some of them were killed. sumio was stabbed with a spear, the first shahida the first
martyr in Islam. This was the first verse that came down and Allah subhana wa tada said, a Latino
Khadija woman dare him really happen. millennial guru or a boon Allah, those who were chased out of
		

			their homes without right for no other reason than saying our Lord is Allah. Now this is really
important because these are the two reasons that permission is granted to fight people who oppose
your religion, and people who steal your land. This is why Allah subhana wa tada says in the Quran,
they and how come Aloha and Alina Lim yo partido COVID-19 welcome you to come in dare come and Roma
tokoto la occitanie. Allah does not prevent you from showing kindness to people who have not opposed
you in your religion, or chased you out of your homes, to show them kindness, righteousness to share
your wealth with them. And Allah loves those who are upright and just and fair. Allah does not
		

			prevent Muslims from being kind to non Muslims. But if they are fighting you in your right to
worship your Lord and stealing your land or chasing you out of your homes, then you have a right to
fight them. That is the permission that is granted by our last panel to Anna in the Quran. And the
second period was to fight the machete keen will partido vcv de la isla de new party to come fight a
feasibility let those who continue to come who fight you what to do, and do not be aggressive in
Allah Allah.
		

			Allah does not love aggressors, the owner say the fact that a lot is not love aggressors, you cannot
change that. In other words, the muhabba of Allah the love of Allah is not fickle love. If Allah
doesn't love aggression, he doesn't love aggression in any time replace. And so aggression is always
wrong. And that is why when Allah says that fight those who fight you and do not aggress do not show
aggression. Now, the next level, Allah subhana wa tada said, What are you doing machete kena Kapha
kameoka chinookan Katha fight the policy is completely just as they fight you completely. Now this
came because these people broke treaties with the province allied Islam. And this is something very
		

			important to remember about the nature of war. That war occurs generally between two states. This is
the nature of war, you can have what's called a civil war, but in Islam that's called fitna what
occurred between the Muslims and the machete. Cain was in a sense of type of fitna, and the reason
for that is because they were one tribe. They're actually related by a shared father, Polish was the
father of all of the people in Mecca of the tribe of Quraysh. And so in a sense, it was a type of
fitna and for that reason, Allah subhana wa Tada. When they fought in the sacred months, the machete
concept you said, Oh, come on. shahrul haram peterlin fee, they'll ask you about the sacred months
		

			because the Arabs had four months that they never fought in. These were called the assura forum. And
these were months the Arabs would never fight in. They asked about the sacred months fighting in it
because they'd never heard of this. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says on petofi Kabir that fighting in
the sacred month, it's an enormity it's a grave thing, while Sedona and CBD law will cover on v one
machine that haraam with a heavy that preventing people from following their religion that
disbelieving in what was given to them, rejecting it completely, preventing them from the sacred
sanctuary Mecca, and then chasing the people out is worse. A criminal Kataria is worse than that,
		

			and the law and the lie It's worse than that will fit in into a bottle minim capacity and this type
of social division and dissension is worse than killing itself. In other words that there are times
the actual engaging and Marshal conflict is better than allowing certain situations to emerge. And
that is why when Allah subhana wa tada says in the Quran within an illenium Cardinal obiano badimo
Allah says when Allah de facto nasci Baba
		

			bar. The huitema salami will be almost underwater on Saturday with Korea is more like an era that
you would have seen churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques wearing our last name is recited,
often destroyed, because of predations of aggressive and bellicose people fighting each other. And
so Allah is saying how to learn not use one group of people to stop another group of people. And in
another verse, it says, one owner of our line ness Baba and be bound by the visitors, and there
would be nothing but corruption in the earth. This is an admittance or rather a teaching in the
Quran, that the root of human nature is aggressive. The Founding Fathers when they were arguing
		

			whether you had a confederation, I mean, this was the first big debate when they were ratifying the
Articles of Confederation. Hamilton wrote a piece saying that we didn't want Confederation because
if you have a confederated group of states, each one of them an individual state, you are setting
yourselves up for war. And that's why he said there should be a centralized government. And this is
what monarchy means one source of authority. It's what it means in Greek war occurs when people do
not accept the same sources of authority. This is at the root of war. And that is why the idea of
international law is only valid in an international community that accepts the law if you have rogue
		

			states that do not accept the law. Now, part of the trickery of modern
		

			state theory is that the international community itself, there are rogue states, and this is part of
the problem. So for instance, the real calamity right now even on those but it's not in Palestine.
It's in Chechnya, right now. They're just massacre ingestions is not in the newspapers. Why? Because
the Russians struck a deal with the Americans War on Terrorism will let you do whatever you want to
to change the ends go wipe them out. That's what's happening. David Elliot, now in Newsweek, at the
end of the article, pity about Chechnya, I mean, that's how he ends his article. And the whole
article is just about real politic, that this is the nature of the world we're living in. It's just
		

			all that moral high ground is lip service for the masses. And so what happens in a world where you
have people that all they have in mind is their interests, they don't have higher concepts in mind,
because at the root of higher concepts is the idea of accountability. And to whom are you
accountable to if you're not accountable to your Lord, because if you are the state, and you're not
accountable to your citizens, because the citizens are no longer willing to challenge the rights and
wrongs of the state, you had people in this country 200 years ago, if you look at the reasons that
they rebelled against King George are nowhere near as significant as the type of oppression that
		

			exists in most parts of the world today, things were not that bad in the United States when the
British were running, and that's why a lot of Americans didn't want to fight the British. They
didn't have problems they were doing fine.