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