Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hayat alSahabah so it can be manifest over all other ways 20150226.mp4

Allah most high says in his book in

Surat October

that he is the one

he is the one who sent his Rasul

with guidance

and with the way of truth so that

it can

be manifest over all other ways.

The idhar is what? So that it can

be manifest, not just manifest in the sense

that everyone can see it, but manifest in

the sense that everyone can see its superiority

over all other ways.

Many people

have trouble dealing with Islam in the sense

that Islam is not like other religions.

For those of you who remember Sesame Street,

3 of these things belong together. 1 of

these things do not. Same, same, same, different.

Islam is going to be different than any

other religion,

at all times.

Why? Because you see with Islam,

a spiritual code.

You see with Islam a worldly code, a

political code. You see with Islam

every different thing that other people have, Islam

has something different. Its holidays are different. Its

customs are different. It will be different than

every other thing. And this is possibly nowhere

more,

easy to see than when a person goes

to an interfaith dialogue.

If the representative of the Muslims is honest,

you'll see that that they will not have

a whole lot to agree about with other

people.

There will be one thing here and one

thing there, but it's not going to be

a consistent pattern.

Rather, Islam is different than everything that comes,

before it and everything that comes after it.

And that's part of the reality of the

meaning of the idhar of Islam, that Allah

Tass sent to Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

because Allah is la sharika lahu. There's no

partner unto him and his deen also.

It borrows from these sifaats. Why? Because it's

deen al hap, and al hapt is one

of the sifaats of Allah ta'ala. It's one

of the divine attributes eternal and uncreated of

Allah most high. And the haft the truth,

one of the sifaat one of the the

the the attributes of the truth is that

it's one truth as opposed to a multitude

of falsehoods.

And so Islam will always be different than

what comes before. In fact, the Messenger of

Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he embraced this uniqueness

of Islam, and he taught the Sahaba radiAllahu

ta'ala and whom how to embrace it and

how to give it to the world.

Examples. Examples. So many examples. What's an example?

When the Sahaba

whom were sitting with the Messenger of Allah

and they were discussing how can we call

the people to the prayer in the Masjid,

Someone said you can blow a horn like

that, like the the yahoo do. Some of

them said you can make a bell, and

you can

make a bell or

a percussive bell made out of wood and

knock it like the Christians do in order

to call the people to the prayer. And

you see that what happens, Allah

through Ilham, he gave to a vision to

a number of Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, not

just one, not just Sayna Umar radiAllahu Anhu,

to a number of Sahaba radiAllahu

akbar, Allahu Akbar, they came and told the

Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and

then someone else would say, yes, I saw

this in a dream too. Someone else will

say, yes, I saw this in a dream

too. And you see, we have a very

unique way of calling people to the prayer.

Every single aspect of Islam is like that.

There's a uniqueness to it and a freshness

to it, and that comes from the the

genius of Nabuwa, the genius of prophethood that

Allah, his messenger, taught to his, Sahaba radiAllahu

ta'ala, anhum, to the point where everything you

see that the Muslims did in their history,

they they gave it some sort of uniqueness,

some sort of added value, some sort of

benefit. You know, the Chinese, for example, they

figured out how to they figured out magnetism.

They figured you can take a needle and

you can magnetize it and put it in

a,

in a pool of water, and it will

always orient toward north. What did they use

it for? Feng Shui, just for

basically,

sorcery and magic, you know, for for, seeing

is this auspicious, is that auspicious,

which is a completely, according to us, a

completely bottle of science.

What did the the the Muslims do? They

took that technology and they made it useful.

Why? They showed how can you they're the

first people. The Chinese invented the compass. The

Muslims are the first ones to use it

actually for navigation and going around. Why? So

that they could use it in order to

make it face the pibla. One of the

greatest tragedies of Islam that I see nowadays

is

the the lack of embracing of this creativity,

the idea that Islam should have a solution

and should have unique,

things in all matters of life, in science

and math and culture

and politics and all sorts of things that

should be giving solutions to the world

like it used to be giving solutions to

the world. And it is in some ways

still doing so,

But,

you know, people have not

understood and embraced this path that they should

let the values of Islam guide them in

order to make something unique and make some

unique contribution to the world

so that it can be manifest over all

other ways. Rather, people have embraced the ways

of the people who know neither Allah nor

his Rasool

Simple things, they they're they're very frustrating. For

example,

Muslim knows how to use the bathroom. They're

taught how to do that from a very

young age, aren't they?

Which air airplane in the world can you

make a stanza on properly?

There's not one. Why? Because it's something that

we have come even though we have Muslim

airlines, some of the Muslim airlines are actually

the best airlines in the world and the

most

competitive. We have stopped

embracing our path and have started taking the

paths of other people. Yes?

Actually,

one interjection. Jazeera Airways actually does have,

onboard Istinja in their lab. Oh, the Jazeera

Airways has onboard Istinja,

But, like, you understand this is this is

these are some frustrations we deal with. Why?

Because we don't,

you know, we don't take this this heritage

that the messenger of Allah gave

us and embrace it completely.

Masha'Allah. That's really good to know, Masha'Allah. I

hope more airlines do that. But the point

is, there's so many issues that we have

in our our life. If we look to

guidance from the kitab and sunnah, we would

have seen unique ways of how to deal

with those types of things.

Sahaba when they conquered the area, they didn't

just do what the Romans did or what

the Persians did. If there was nothing wrong

with what they were doing, sometimes they embrace

their ways and made them better. If there

was something wrong, they would reject them wholeheartedly.

Things like the feudal system and things like,

you know, that we talked about yesterday,

things like,

different types of repression and taxation, etcetera, etcetera.

If it didn't conform to our values, they

used to reject them. How can you do

that if you don't know where you're coming

from? What, like, basis you have to accept

or reject something?

So Allah gave us tawfiq as a ummah

that we preserve the sunnah of the prophet

The Sahaba themselves

came out of the desert, and they impressed

the world,

you know, and Allah gave them that because

of their sincerity and because of their hard

work. Allah give us a naseebah of their

sincerity

as well and give us an opportunity to

also participate in this, prophetic task.