The speakers emphasize the challenges faced by Muslims during the recent attacks on the West Bank and the importance of finding a positive attitude and responsibility. They stress the importance of acknowledging one's faith and reexamining it, moderation and resisting radicalization, and sharing responsibility and commitment to serve Allah. The guidance provided by the prophet's guidance for Muslims is crucial, as it provides timeless guidance for behavior and behavior. The importance of faith and providing scholarships for those who pursue it is also emphasized. The recent attacks on the US market and the need for individuals to have a clear mindset to avoid confusion is also emphasized. The speakers emphasize the importance of having a clear mindset and faith in religion to avoid confusion and make decisions based on the opinions of others.
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It's real
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pleasure to, be with you,
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in this 3 consecutive,
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days
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in which we are going to talk about
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the issue of the day
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or the issue of the hour
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about
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the nature
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of our faith
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and the challenge
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of
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radicalization
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or
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violent extremism
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or
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so many names were given to
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describe this phenomenon.
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East and West,
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Last month
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alone,
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I was in Australia
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and then India
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and then
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Brussels.
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The same day
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of the attack,
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the grand Mufti and myself were
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80
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800 meters away
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from the second blast in the, subway station,
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800 meters away
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in the heart of the European Parliament.
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So
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everybody knows we are living at difficult times.
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And, I'm sure,
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yesterday,
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when candidate
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Trump was around, everybody felt that
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difficult times are ahead of us.
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And as Muslims, we should not
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get
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so surprised
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because of these difficult times. We are in
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the Quran have been promised
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over and over again that we will be
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visited with hardships and difficulties.
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As a matter of fact, the Koran beautifully
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sums up
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life as
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an abode of testing.
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It is a testing ground.
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And man
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was created in toil.
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Man has to
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work hard
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and work at
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odds and difficult circumstances,
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so that
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when he or she tries to please God
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on earth,
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he is promised
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eternal happiness.
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So we should not get surprised
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by these difficult
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occurrences
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and difficult happenings and difficult events,
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but we should maintain an attitude.
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This is
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what defines a Muslim.
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It's that even though
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we are living
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at difficult times, but we should maintain an
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attitude,
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an attitude of positive
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attitude, an attitude of hope,
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and attitude of responsibility.
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We should own the situation and we should
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try
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to discuss it among ourselves and see what
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we can do together.
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Can we do something
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in the face of
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so many challenges we are
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encountering?
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And the answer is always yes, we can
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definitely
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do something about these difficult
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circumstances.
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I believe that the first step that we
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should do
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is that we should
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honestly
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discuss among ourselves
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what went wrong,
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how we can
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get back to the genuine,
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correct,
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authoritative
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understanding
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of our faith,
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how we can address this phenomenon of radicalization
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and extremism,
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which
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by way of honesty also, we have to
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face it,
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that a
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large
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part of the Muslim population,
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unfortunately,
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fell prey
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to this disease of radicalization,
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how we can immune
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or immunize ourselves from falling prey to radicalization,
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how can we win our children back
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to the genuine understanding
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of the faith.
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There are so many
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misconceptions
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about our face,
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misconceptions
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from within, and misconceptions
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from
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without, from the external
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factors.
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And there is no end for misconception, because
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if you misunderstand
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a certain part of the faith, you will
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make it a misconception.
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And unfortunately,
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at
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this
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fast
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pace
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of the social media outlets,
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Internet,
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communications,
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misconceptions
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are on the rise,
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especially
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about our faith.
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So what we are trying to do in
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these 3 consecutive
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nights, inshallah,
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1 hour each night,
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we're going to openly
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discuss
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these questions
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and hopefully I will try to be very
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brief and try to give some
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time for interaction.
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And I would really
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hope that each and every one of you
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opens up to this
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sensitive important issue.
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If you have any questions,
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of course there will be
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no time to answer each and every question
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about this important presentation,
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but I
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am committed
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to take your questions and feedback
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because
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eventually
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what we hope to do is we would
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like to transform
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this
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compact
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presentation
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into a full fledged program
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where we can
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share it, it is replicated in other
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mosques,
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about
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the the true nature of our faith and
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the peril
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or the threat of radicalization.
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So I hope,
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Insha'Allah,
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that you also share this commitment
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by
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coming
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to
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to other sessions and also
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interact and engage and discuss
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it with your children
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or with your friends
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because as I said, this is the issue
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of the time. We need
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to own
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to have this ownership of the situation,
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honestly and transparently
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discuss
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what went wrong,
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get to the bottom or the genuine
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understanding
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of our faith,
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and immunize ourselves
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and our
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children
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from the threat of radicalization.
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So
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let us start the the breakdown of of
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the sessions will be
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certain
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bullet points.
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Okay, so hopefully
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tonight inshallah, this evening, we are going to
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cover
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5 points
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that
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essentially
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lead
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to
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a genuine understanding
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of our faith,
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an authoritative
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understanding of Islam.
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And after we finish, there are 10 points,
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10 bullet points. We'll
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have 5 points
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this evening, 5 points
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tomorrow's evening, inshallah.
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And the last
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part
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will be dedicated to dismantling
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radical ideas.
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Before
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we
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elaborate on
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the 5 points,
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this evening,
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I just want to remind myself and to
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you,
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my brothers and sisters,
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with 2 verses
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from the Quran
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which
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define us as,
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Muslim community.
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This
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is the,
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the first
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verse
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chapter
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3 verse 1
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110
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that says, you, meaning
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the Muslim community, are the best community
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brought
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forth for the man.
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And here, the Quran reminds us
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that
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there is essentially
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goodness
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This carries
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some
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thank you.
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General
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application. So Muslim community
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shall be good.
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There is goodness
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in Muslim community.
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This was true at the time of the
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prophet, is true right now, and will be
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true in the future. Even though
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there are
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imminent
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problems,
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stereotypes,
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difficulties,
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but still this there is goodness
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in the Muslim community.
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And this is supported again by one of
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the Prophet's
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teachings.
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He said,
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there is goodness in me and my community
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till the end of time.
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This goodness
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is stipulated
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by doing some homework.
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We are
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we are going to be good as long
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as
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we do certain things.
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So the completion of the verse
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says,
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you are the best community
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that was
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raised in humankind
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because you believe in God,
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you enjoying what is good, and you forbid
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what is evil.
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So these are the criteria of goodness.
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And part of enjoying what is good and
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forbidding what is evil is that we have
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to apply to ourselves first.
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We have to see, and
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honestly see
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what has gone wrong.
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So that
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when we try
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to
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better ourselves and better our communities and better
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our families,
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we
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become
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true
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to the criteria set by this verse.
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We are
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good as long as
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we do some positive work,
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as long as we rely on God.
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Because regardless
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of the difficulties and dangers
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and problems we are having,
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we have to be assured
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that
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God or Allah is still in control.
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God is in control.
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Regardless of the chaotic situations
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in many parts of the world,
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God is in control.
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You believe in God. You believe in Allah.
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That's the first step.
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And the second step
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is that we correct
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what went wrong. We try if we slip,
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if we run into
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obstacles
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and problems,
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we
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try to correct ourselves.
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The second verse,
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this is again a very important verse
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regarding the theme
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that I choose
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upholding
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moderation
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and resisting
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radicalization,
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where Allah says in chapter 2
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verse 100143,
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thus we have made you
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a justly, balanced community.
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In Arabic.
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So this moderation is not an option.
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It is not something that,
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all of a sudden we decided to
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adopt.
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This is a divine mandate
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for Muslims, that you are a community of
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moderation.
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Who
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is declaring this statement?
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Who?
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It's you.
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Allah is declaring it. You
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are a community of moderation.
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So this moderation is not
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a matter of choice.
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It is actually an imperative. It is a
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mandate from
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that you are a community of moderation,
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that you never resort to extremes
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as a community.
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But it doesn't mean that each and everybody
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will resort to this
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way of moderation.
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Indeed,
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few
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fringes, few radicals
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will resort to extremes.
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So we have a global we have a
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collective mandate.
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For those who
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go to extremes,
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we have a mandate to bring them
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back to the middle way,
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to the path of moderation.
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This is the mission statement for Muslims,
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that the majority of the Muslim community
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naturally
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is on the middle path.
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Few of them
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go to extremes,
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we should not let them
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on the extremes, rather we have a mandate,
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we have a homework
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as a community
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to win them over, to
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win them back to the middle path.
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With this,
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we are we are going to start
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our 5 points
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for,
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this evening,
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and
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they are bullet points. Of course, they will
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require further
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explanation,
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but we are going to try, as I
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have said, we are going to try to
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highlight these bullet points and leave
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the,
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the discussion and the interaction
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to the question and answer session.
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So the first point, if you have this
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write up,
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I wrote
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as Muslims I'm sorry. As
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Muslims. It says a Muslims. As Muslims
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as Muslims,
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we should not lose
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sight of the lofty goals of all religions
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and faith traditions.
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Okay?
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And I'm going to explain what
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are the lofty goals of all religions and
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faith traditions
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as mentioned
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in the Quran,
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and as well as the higher purposes of
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Islamic law.
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What are
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the lofty goals
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or the higher goals of religions as perceived
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in the Quran?
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There are
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about 12 verses
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which were
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read over and over.
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You'll find them in the Quran. Over and
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over, they'll talk about
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3
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higher goals
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of
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Islam
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as a faith
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tradition, as well
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as all religions.
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Three higher goals.
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The first is worshiping God.
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So all religions
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came to assert
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the importance
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of worshiping God.
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As a matter of fact,
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this is the
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purpose
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why Allah put us on this earth,
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is to worship.
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Okay?
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And,
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of course, we can talk about worship and
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its meaning, and it is very inclusive,
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it is not just about prayer or fasting
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or making pilgrimage, it is actually each and
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every movement
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that you do
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to please
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God, that is the first condition,
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and that is done in accordance
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with faith,
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what Islam is all about, what faith is
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all about.
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These are the 2 conditions. If you do
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them, in each and every movement,
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you are getting reward
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because you are actually executing
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and implementing
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worship,
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Ibadan.
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So, as a matter of fact,
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we are here
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to
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discuss things about our faith.
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If we are here
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sincerely for this purpose
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and we are doing it in a manner
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that is pleasing God, we are going to,
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you
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know, execute
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the very meaning of our battle.
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Okay?
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So
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number 1 is our battle.
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This is something that we all know.
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But look at the other 2.
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Okay? The other 2
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lofty goals of all religions
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is
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Tasgia, and Tasgia means to purify yourself,
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purification
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of the Self.
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This is a higher goal of all religions.
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So we are not just talking about
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formalities,
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we are talking about
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inner purification,
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that each and everyone
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need to work
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with his or herself.
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Because
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if you cleanse what is inside,
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the other job is going to be easier.
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Okay?
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So you have to fight your own ego.
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You have to cleanse yourself
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from all bad feelings.
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You have to fill
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because this process of tazkir,
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and again, this is something that we can
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talk about for days days,
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it involves
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2 things, taking out bad
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stuff
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and putting good stuff in your heart.
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Okay?
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So
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this process
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is very integral
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to all faith traditions,
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particularly
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Islam. And unfortunately,
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because we are
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talking about the theme of moderation and
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extremism,
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unfortunately, part of the reasons why
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extremism
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is on the rise because of the neglect
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of this important factor,
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of working
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hard on yourself.
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And this, as a matter of fact,
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if you if you look at one of
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the
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most important
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hadith,
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prophetic teachings of the Prophet, that was
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given to us.
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Okay?
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You know the famous Hadith of Jibril.
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He came and asked the Prophet
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4 questions.
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The first question is,
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what is
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Islam?
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1st is, what is Islam?
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Okay. And he answered by saying the 5
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pillars.
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Islam is to testify that there is no
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God
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but Allah,
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and that Muhammad
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is one of the messengers
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of God,
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is to pray 5 times a day,
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is to
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to give alms,
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number 4, to fast
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during the month of Ramadan,
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and number 5, to go to pilgrimage if
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you are capable of making the journey.
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That is the outward expression of Islam.
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But there is a higher level.
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So the second question was about,
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what is
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imam? What is belief?
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So he started
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telling
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the person,
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Sayyidina Jibril, that belief is to believe in,
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first
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Yes. Number 2, the angels and the last
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day
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on the books, messengers, and the Kaaba, the
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predestination
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that everything is predestined by God.
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These are the 6 pillars of faith.
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And yet, there is a another higher level.
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And this is mind me,
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this is a level that we
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do not talk about much. And this level
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of,
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the Arabic word is ghasan.
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To feel the presence of God.
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To feel that Allah is watching over us.
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That's the level
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that is meant by purification.
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To have the consciousness
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of Allah.
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That he is monitoring you all the time,
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that you ought to develop
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awe
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and fear of him all the time.
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This is purification.
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And the third aspect that is also less
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talked about,
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the third goal is Umran.
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And I prefer to
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retain the Arabic word because
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there is not one single
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equivalent
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for this word in English. What does Umran
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means?
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Umran.
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Umran
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means
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development,
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construction,
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positiveness.
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It means
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responsibility,
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vice guarantee.
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It means
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contribution.
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It means
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building.
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It means
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bettering
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the life,
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making the life better,
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habitable.
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This
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all these meanings are contained in the Arabic
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word,
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Umrah.
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In other words,
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one of the higher goals
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of faith of Islam,
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and all, as I said, we're talking about
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faith traditions,
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is that a human being, when Allah puts
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him on
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earth, he is obliged,
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he is commanded
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to contribute
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positively
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to make this life
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better,
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to develop
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the life,
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to do some
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work, to make it a better,
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a bold
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for human being.
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The
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single
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objective of the person that he is here
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just to worship God,
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so he goes to prayer all the time,
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to fast, and he every other month, he
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goes to make Umrah, and that's it.
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That is a crooked understanding
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of what faith is all about.
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Okay? So
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1 third
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1 third of this faith
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is this
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shared responsibility
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to constructively
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develop the Earth.
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Okay?
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To do some positive work
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so that you can make
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life on this earth
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better
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in the sight of God.
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Okay?
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These
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3 higher goals,
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unfortunately,
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were neglected in the minds of Muslims.
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And this has caused
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these phenomena
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of
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extremist ideologies and extremist talk, rhetoric.
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Okay?
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In our engagement and in our effort
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to come to the middle path, in our
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effort to rediscover the genuine Islam,
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we should remember these higher goals.
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Worship
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and then
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work on yourself, purify
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yourself.
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And what are you going
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or what
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are you doing
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to make this life better?
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What kind of positive work you are putting?
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Each one according to his or her ability.
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Okay? Physicians, they are trying to do some
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positive work
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to respond to the ailment of people.
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Engineers, they are building
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and expanding.
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Religious
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scholars, they are teaching and imparting knowledge
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to the people, and so on and so
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forth.
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And we cannot ridicule
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or belittle any kind of work.
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Each and every
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each and every one of us needs
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each other, some way or another.
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So
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someone who devotes his entire life
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to worship alone
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is a crooked
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understanding of what faith is all about.
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So
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these are the 2 the 3
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higher goals
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and, of course, each and every one
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of these higher goals is supported by verses
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from the Quran.
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There is another aspect also.
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It's called Maqas of the Sharia,
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the higher purposes of Islamic law.
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And the scholars have talked about 5 higher
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purposes of Islamic
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law.
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Preservation of life.
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Life is so sacred.
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Life of a human being, we're not talking
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about
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Muslim
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blood or non Muslim
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blood. Human life.
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It's it's in Arabic, nafs, human soul,
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is sacred.
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And the highest
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objective of Islamic law, of Sharia law,
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is the preservation
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of this human life.
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To such an extent,
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I will share with you just one prophetic
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teaching.
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Maybe it will be surprising
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for some of you,
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but this is how Islam
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asserts
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the sacredness and sanctity
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of the human life.
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So one time, the Prophet
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was
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going around
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the Kaaba.
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00:29:52
Okay?
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00:29:55
And all of a sudden, he stopped.
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00:29:59
He was walking, so he stopped, and he
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00:30:00
looked at
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00:30:02
the Sacred House.
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00:30:06
And looking at the sacred house is a
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00:30:07
form of worship.
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00:30:08
Okay?
00:30:09 -->
00:30:11
So he looked at it
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00:30:12
and said,
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00:30:15
by Allah,
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00:30:16
I know
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that you are Okay.
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00:30:26
So
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Okay.
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00:30:37
So this is the most sacred place.
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00:30:39
Yeah. And our hearts,
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00:30:42
whenever we talk about Kaaba,
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00:30:44
you know,
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00:30:47
it tries to jump out of yearness and
00:30:47 -->
00:30:48
longness
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00:30:49
to go there.
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00:30:52
And now the Prophet is saying that that
00:30:52 -->
00:30:53
human blood
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00:30:56
is more sacred in the sight of God
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00:30:57
than
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00:30:58
this
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00:31:00
sacred place.
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00:31:03
Okay? So all
00:31:04 -->
00:31:04
rulings
00:31:05 -->
00:31:06
of shari'an came primarily
00:31:07 -->
00:31:08
to preserve
00:31:09 -->
00:31:11
the human life.
00:31:12 -->
00:31:13
So
00:31:14 -->
00:31:18
all these ridiculous actions and barbaric actions of
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00:31:20
killing people and and,
00:31:20 -->
00:31:22
suicide bombing,
00:31:22 -->
00:31:23
it is,
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00:31:23
again,
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00:31:26
a crooked understanding
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00:31:27
of
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00:31:30
the shari'a and Deen.
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00:31:32
Because because
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00:31:35
even in terms of priority,
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00:31:37
okay,
00:31:38 -->
00:31:39
scholars discuss
00:31:40 -->
00:31:41
these 5
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00:31:45
higher purposes of Islamic law, and they prioritize
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00:31:46
them.
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00:31:49
Number 1 is the preservation of the human
00:31:49 -->
00:31:50
life.
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00:31:51
It comes
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00:31:53
before each and everything.
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00:31:55
The sacredness
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00:31:57
of the human life.
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00:31:59
Preservation
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00:32:00
of the human intellect.
00:32:01 -->
00:32:03
Intellect is very important
00:32:04 -->
00:32:06
because when we pray, when we do each
00:32:06 -->
00:32:09
and everything, we need the intellect. We need
00:32:09 -->
00:32:11
to preserve the intellect.
00:32:13 -->
00:32:15
And then preservation of freedom of religion.
00:32:17 -->
00:32:20
And then the preservation of family relations. Family
00:32:20 -->
00:32:21
is so important
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00:32:22
in Islam.
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00:32:25
And then the preservation of private property.
00:32:29 -->
00:32:31
Each and every action of Muslims,
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00:32:32
individuals,
00:32:33 -->
00:32:34
groups, communities,
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00:32:36
each and everything
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00:32:37
has to bear in mind
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00:32:41
these 5 higher purposes.
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00:32:43
Are we complying
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00:32:45
with these 5 higher purposes?
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00:32:49
Are we abiding by these 5 higher purposes?
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00:32:51
Or are we negating
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00:32:54
them
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00:32:56
by one way or another?
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00:33:00
So as Muslims,
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00:33:02
we need
00:33:02 -->
00:33:03
to measure
00:33:04 -->
00:33:04
our
00:33:06 -->
00:33:07
actions
00:33:07 -->
00:33:08
with
00:33:08 -->
00:33:10
the three goals of religions
00:33:11 -->
00:33:14
and the 5 higher purposes of Islamic law.
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00:33:17
So to have this
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00:33:20
sort of
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00:33:21
vision and mission,
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00:33:25
it will keep us on the track.
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00:33:27
So
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00:33:31
any actions that we do, individually or collectively,
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00:33:34
we have to bring
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00:33:36
this mental
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00:33:37
vision
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00:33:41
in front of us.
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00:33:43
Are we true
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00:33:47
to these 3 higher goals
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00:33:48
and these 3
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00:33:50
5 principles or not?
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00:33:52
That is number
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00:33:56
1.
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00:34:03
I mentioned here anything
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00:34:07
that goes against these principles is antithetical
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00:34:10
to the spirit of Islamic law. And this,
00:34:10 -->
00:34:12
by the way, is not my wording.
00:34:13 -->
00:34:15
These are the wording
00:34:16 -->
00:34:17
of eminent scholars,
00:34:17 -->
00:34:19
one generation after another.
00:34:20 -->
00:34:21
They said
00:34:21 -->
00:34:24
that each and everything that goes against
00:34:25 -->
00:34:29
these three goals and 5 higher principles
00:34:29 -->
00:34:30
or purposes
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00:34:33
of Islam law is not part
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00:34:37
of Sharia even though some people would argue
00:34:37 -->
00:34:37
this,
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00:34:39
but it is not.
00:34:40 -->
00:34:40
Anything
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00:34:42
that
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00:34:43
sheds the blood
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00:34:46
of a human being is not part of
00:34:46 -->
00:34:46
Sharia.
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00:34:49
Even though you will find a lot of
00:34:49 -->
00:34:51
people arguing for this,
00:34:52 -->
00:34:55
there are certain systems and rules
00:34:56 -->
00:34:57
within
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00:34:58
the governments,
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00:34:59
within
00:35:00 -->
00:35:00
shari'ah,
00:35:02 -->
00:35:04
like the court system, for example,
00:35:05 -->
00:35:05
that
00:35:07 -->
00:35:09
in case somebody kills someone,
00:35:11 -->
00:35:14
these are the proper channels. But individuals cannot
00:35:15 -->
00:35:16
do it themselves.
00:35:19 -->
00:35:21
Okay? And I I know that,
00:35:22 -->
00:35:24
some of you might have a lot of
00:35:24 -->
00:35:25
questions, but
00:35:25 -->
00:35:26
hold on.
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00:35:30
We'll go to the second point. If you
00:35:30 -->
00:35:33
have this, I'm going just to read it.
00:35:34 -->
00:35:35
Quran
00:35:35 -->
00:35:36
represents
00:35:36 -->
00:35:39
the living miracle for Muslims.
00:35:41 -->
00:35:43
The living miracle for Muslims.
00:35:44 -->
00:35:47
Muslims. Living miracle. So it is not a
00:35:47 -->
00:35:51
book about antiquity. It is not an archaic
00:35:51 -->
00:35:51
book.
00:35:52 -->
00:35:53
It is a book
00:35:53 -->
00:35:56
that was given to prophet Muhammad, peace be
00:35:56 -->
00:35:57
upon him,
00:35:57 -->
00:36:00
to be a guide manual
00:36:01 -->
00:36:04
for Muslims until the end of time.
00:36:07 -->
00:36:08
Now,
00:36:08 -->
00:36:10
this is a very important document
00:36:22 -->
00:36:23
If it
00:36:24 -->
00:36:26
If it is a book of guidance, I
00:36:26 -->
00:36:27
need to approach
00:36:29 -->
00:36:29
Quran
00:36:30 -->
00:36:33
in a proper way so that I can
00:36:33 -->
00:36:34
take it
00:36:34 -->
00:36:35
as a guidance manual
00:36:36 -->
00:36:39
for myself and my family and my community
00:36:50 -->
00:36:50
prophet,
00:36:50 -->
00:36:51
peace be upon him,
00:36:52 -->
00:36:55
and the subsequent generations of Muslims.
00:36:56 -->
00:36:58
They did a lot of homework
00:36:59 -->
00:37:00
in developing
00:37:00 -->
00:37:02
disciplines and sciences
00:37:03 -->
00:37:04
to
00:37:05 -->
00:37:05
maximize
00:37:06 -->
00:37:07
the benefit
00:37:09 -->
00:37:10
from the Quran.
00:37:13 -->
00:37:14
Some
00:37:14 -->
00:37:15
scholars
00:37:15 -->
00:37:15
counted
00:37:17 -->
00:37:19
these disciplines and these sciences
00:37:19 -->
00:37:21
to be 32 sciences
00:37:22 -->
00:37:23
that were developed
00:37:24 -->
00:37:25
to
00:37:26 -->
00:37:28
benefit the Muslim communities
00:37:28 -->
00:37:30
on how best
00:37:31 -->
00:37:32
to get the guidance
00:37:33 -->
00:37:33
from the Quran.
00:37:36 -->
00:37:37
K?
00:37:37 -->
00:37:39
Now I'm talking about
00:37:41 -->
00:37:42
a very
00:37:43 -->
00:37:44
tricky problem here.
00:37:48 -->
00:37:48
Okay?
00:37:51 -->
00:37:51
What happened,
00:37:53 -->
00:37:55
with the self acclaimed
00:37:55 -->
00:37:57
Islamic State and other
00:37:58 -->
00:37:59
groups, extremist
00:38:00 -->
00:38:00
groups,
00:38:02 -->
00:38:03
is that they
00:38:04 -->
00:38:04
directly
00:38:05 -->
00:38:06
went to
00:38:07 -->
00:38:08
isolated
00:38:08 -->
00:38:10
individual verses from the Quran.
00:38:11 -->
00:38:12
They opened the Quran,
00:38:14 -->
00:38:15
and
00:38:15 -->
00:38:18
they go to a certain verse,
00:38:19 -->
00:38:22
taking it out from its contexts.
00:38:24 -->
00:38:26
They do not have any knowledge
00:38:28 -->
00:38:29
of these
00:38:29 -->
00:38:31
many disciplines and many sciences
00:38:32 -->
00:38:33
that were developed
00:38:34 -->
00:38:34
to help
00:38:35 -->
00:38:35
Muslims
00:38:36 -->
00:38:37
understand the Quran
00:38:38 -->
00:38:38
effectively
00:38:39 -->
00:38:40
and properly.
00:38:41 -->
00:38:42
And he said,
00:38:43 -->
00:38:43
well,
00:38:44 -->
00:38:44
Allah
00:38:44 -->
00:38:45
said in the Quran
00:38:47 -->
00:38:48
to kill
00:38:49 -->
00:38:50
non Muslims.
00:38:51 -->
00:38:54
Because in chapter so and so, God says
00:38:54 -->
00:38:54
so and
00:38:56 -->
00:38:57
so. Okay.
00:38:58 -->
00:38:59
This is
00:39:00 -->
00:39:01
a crime.
00:39:02 -->
00:39:02
This is
00:39:03 -->
00:39:04
a crime
00:39:05 -->
00:39:07
that is done to the Quran.
00:39:08 -->
00:39:08
A crime
00:39:09 -->
00:39:10
that is done to the Quran.
00:39:13 -->
00:39:14
Because
00:39:15 -->
00:39:16
they have neglected
00:39:18 -->
00:39:20
all of the efforts that were done,
00:39:21 -->
00:39:23
even with the Prophet himself.
00:39:23 -->
00:39:25
Because one of the mandates of the prophets
00:39:28 -->
00:39:30
that was given to him by God is
00:39:30 -->
00:39:32
to explain the Quran.
00:39:40 -->
00:39:42
We have revealed onto you this Quran so
00:39:42 -->
00:39:44
that you explain
00:39:45 -->
00:39:45
explain
00:39:46 -->
00:39:47
the Quran
00:39:47 -->
00:39:48
to the people.
00:39:48 -->
00:39:50
Explain the Quran.
00:39:51 -->
00:39:52
And
00:39:52 -->
00:39:55
the scholars said that the best interpreter
00:39:56 -->
00:39:57
of the Quran
00:39:58 -->
00:39:58
is
00:39:59 -->
00:40:00
the Prophet himself.
00:40:02 -->
00:40:03
The best interpreter.
00:40:05 -->
00:40:06
He did not give
00:40:07 -->
00:40:08
the linguistic
00:40:08 -->
00:40:10
meanings of each and every verse,
00:40:11 -->
00:40:12
but his life pattern,
00:40:13 -->
00:40:13
his guidance,
00:40:15 -->
00:40:16
is the best
00:40:17 -->
00:40:17
interpretation
00:40:18 -->
00:40:18
of the Quran.
00:40:20 -->
00:40:21
Okay?
00:40:21 -->
00:40:23
So if you want to see
00:40:25 -->
00:40:26
the best
00:40:27 -->
00:40:27
translation
00:40:27 -->
00:40:30
of the Quran, look at the Prophet himself
00:40:31 -->
00:40:33
and see. Did the prophet kill
00:40:34 -->
00:40:36
non Muslims or not?
00:40:37 -->
00:40:38
When he went
00:40:38 -->
00:40:41
to his hometown, Mecca,
00:40:42 -->
00:40:43
victoriously,
00:40:44 -->
00:40:45
what did he do?
00:40:47 -->
00:40:50
Forgive. He forgave? Yes, he did. He could
00:40:50 -->
00:40:50
have
00:40:50 -->
00:40:52
killed them all,
00:40:53 -->
00:40:54
but he forgave.
00:40:57 -->
00:40:57
So
00:40:58 -->
00:40:59
what I am saying is that
00:41:00 -->
00:41:02
we need to benefit. If we want to
00:41:02 -->
00:41:04
go to the Quran and understand
00:41:06 -->
00:41:08
the Quran, we need to benefit from the
00:41:08 -->
00:41:09
so many sciences,
00:41:10 -->
00:41:11
so many disciplines,
00:41:11 -->
00:41:13
Muslim scholars have developed
00:41:14 -->
00:41:15
over the centuries,
00:41:15 -->
00:41:16
and they become
00:41:17 -->
00:41:18
standard words
00:41:19 -->
00:41:22
for approaching the Quran in a better way,
00:41:22 -->
00:41:23
in an effective way.
00:41:24 -->
00:41:25
Okay?
00:41:36 -->
00:41:37
Examples of these sciences?
00:41:39 -->
00:41:40
As Bab al Nuzoor.
00:41:41 -->
00:41:44
The causes of the revelation of certain verses.
00:41:44 -->
00:41:46
So there is a historical background.
00:41:47 -->
00:41:50
In order to understand the implications
00:41:50 -->
00:41:53
of this verse, or the who
00:41:53 -->
00:41:55
were the audience
00:41:55 -->
00:41:57
of this verse, you need to
00:41:58 -->
00:41:59
look into
00:41:59 -->
00:42:00
the causes of revelation.
00:42:02 -->
00:42:02
Okay?
00:42:03 -->
00:42:05
When the Prophet, peace be upon him, said,
00:42:05 -->
00:42:08
and this is a legitimate statement, this is
00:42:08 -->
00:42:09
an authentic
00:42:09 -->
00:42:10
statement,
00:42:11 -->
00:42:12
I was ordered
00:42:13 -->
00:42:14
to fight
00:42:15 -->
00:42:16
with the people.
00:42:16 -->
00:42:19
Umerto and oqatil al naz. I was ordered
00:42:19 -->
00:42:20
to fight with the people.
00:42:21 -->
00:42:22
Now these
00:42:22 -->
00:42:24
lunatics and these extremists,
00:42:25 -->
00:42:27
they say, I was ordered to fight with
00:42:27 -->
00:42:28
the people,
00:42:28 -->
00:42:30
so this is a license to fight and
00:42:30 -->
00:42:31
kill everybody.
00:42:32 -->
00:42:33
But if you
00:42:33 -->
00:42:34
look at
00:42:34 -->
00:42:38
this Hezbollah nazul, the head the causes of
00:42:38 -->
00:42:38
revelation,
00:42:39 -->
00:42:40
you will find
00:42:41 -->
00:42:44
that the people here meant the hostile
00:42:45 -->
00:42:45
people
00:42:46 -->
00:42:48
who lived at the time of the prophet
00:42:48 -->
00:42:49
in Mecca.
00:42:51 -->
00:42:53
So this is an important
00:42:55 -->
00:42:55
concession
00:42:56 -->
00:42:57
that will clarify
00:42:58 -->
00:42:59
the whole statement.
00:42:59 -->
00:43:01
So the Prophet, peace be upon him, was
00:43:01 -->
00:43:04
not talking about their people in general.
00:43:05 -->
00:43:06
This was a historical
00:43:06 -->
00:43:09
reference to certain group of people
00:43:10 -->
00:43:13
who were very hostile to his message, who
00:43:14 -->
00:43:16
persecuted him and persecuted
00:43:16 -->
00:43:17
his companions.
00:43:18 -->
00:43:20
But even though
00:43:20 -->
00:43:21
he said this,
00:43:21 -->
00:43:22
he never
00:43:23 -->
00:43:24
was an aggressor.
00:43:25 -->
00:43:25
Rather,
00:43:26 -->
00:43:27
all of his his
00:43:29 -->
00:43:29
fights
00:43:29 -->
00:43:31
were in defense
00:43:32 -->
00:43:32
of
00:43:33 -->
00:43:33
Medina.
00:43:34 -->
00:43:35
So all of these
00:43:37 -->
00:43:40
fighting occurred at his hometown.
00:43:41 -->
00:43:44
Okay? So the causes of revelation is extremely
00:43:44 -->
00:43:45
important.
00:43:45 -->
00:43:47
Katayi and Damni.
00:43:48 -->
00:43:49
Katayi means definitive.
00:43:50 -->
00:43:51
Definitive,
00:43:51 -->
00:43:52
conclusive.
00:43:54 -->
00:43:55
Amzani
00:43:56 -->
00:43:57
means probable.
00:43:57 -->
00:43:59
So, for example,
00:43:59 -->
00:44:02
when the Quran says, kulu washrabu walatusrifu.
00:44:03 -->
00:44:04
Kulu washrabu,
00:44:04 -->
00:44:05
eat and drink
00:44:06 -->
00:44:07
and do not
00:44:08 -->
00:44:09
be extravagant.
00:44:10 -->
00:44:12
What is the meaning? Is the command here
00:44:12 -->
00:44:13
is for
00:44:15 -->
00:44:15
imperative?
00:44:18 -->
00:44:19
Or it is
00:44:19 -->
00:44:22
just a general command that we may or
00:44:22 -->
00:44:23
may not take it.
00:44:24 -->
00:44:27
Certain orders in the Quran are definitive and
00:44:27 -->
00:44:28
conclusive.
00:44:29 -->
00:44:31
Certain others are not definitive and conclusive.
00:44:32 -->
00:44:33
Which is which?
00:44:33 -->
00:44:35
Who determines it?
00:44:37 -->
00:44:37
The extremists?
00:44:38 -->
00:44:40
I doubt. They don't have any
00:44:40 -->
00:44:42
background in this
00:44:42 -->
00:44:44
special subject. And so many
00:44:45 -->
00:44:46
other aspects,
00:44:47 -->
00:44:49
I will not deal with into.
00:44:51 -->
00:44:53
I wrote here, while most of the Quran
00:44:53 -->
00:44:55
are geared towards general readership,
00:44:56 -->
00:44:57
indeed many verses
00:44:58 -->
00:45:00
need to be understood by making use
00:45:01 -->
00:45:02
of these many sciences.
00:45:05 -->
00:45:05
The Quran
00:45:06 -->
00:45:08
also should be understood holistically.
00:45:09 -->
00:45:11
I cannot just single out one verse and
00:45:11 -->
00:45:14
say, the Quran says so and so.
00:45:14 -->
00:45:16
Look at other
00:45:16 -->
00:45:18
verses about the same subject
00:45:18 -->
00:45:19
in order to
00:45:20 -->
00:45:21
be able
00:45:21 -->
00:45:24
to say this is the Qur'anic guidance regarding
00:45:24 -->
00:45:25
this.
00:45:27 -->
00:45:29
The best interpreter of the Quran is the
00:45:29 -->
00:45:32
example of our prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
00:45:32 -->
00:45:32
her.
00:45:33 -->
00:45:34
This is very important.
00:45:36 -->
00:45:37
Look at the example
00:45:38 -->
00:45:40
and the pattern and the life of the
00:45:40 -->
00:45:42
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
00:45:43 -->
00:45:45
And this is the best translation
00:45:46 -->
00:45:47
of the Qur'an.
00:45:49 -->
00:45:50
3rd point.
00:45:51 -->
00:45:53
Sunnah, which is the example of our Prophet,
00:45:54 -->
00:45:55
explains the Qur'an.
00:45:56 -->
00:45:57
Sunnah
00:45:58 -->
00:45:59
explains the Qur'an.
00:46:00 -->
00:46:01
You have to
00:46:01 -->
00:46:03
also put this in your mind.
00:46:04 -->
00:46:05
Sunnah cannot
00:46:05 -->
00:46:07
go against the Qur'an.
00:46:09 -->
00:46:11
The role of the sunnah, it explains
00:46:12 -->
00:46:13
the Qur'an.
00:46:16 -->
00:46:18
Sunnah, in terms of authority
00:46:19 -->
00:46:21
and in terms of authenticity.
00:46:22 -->
00:46:22
Each
00:46:23 -->
00:46:24
prophetic
00:46:25 -->
00:46:26
statement,
00:46:28 -->
00:46:30
when we look at each hadith,
00:46:31 -->
00:46:32
we should look
00:46:32 -->
00:46:34
at it from 2 perspectives.
00:46:36 -->
00:46:38
Does this hadith
00:46:39 -->
00:46:40
hold authority?
00:46:42 -->
00:46:43
Which means I am obliged
00:46:44 -->
00:46:45
or I am commanded
00:46:45 -->
00:46:46
to do
00:46:47 -->
00:46:48
what is included
00:46:48 -->
00:46:49
in this hadith,
00:46:50 -->
00:46:52
and the other question,
00:46:52 -->
00:46:53
is this statement authentic or not? These are
00:46:53 -->
00:46:54
the
00:47:07 -->
00:47:07
statement.
00:47:09 -->
00:47:10
I will just give you,
00:47:11 -->
00:47:12
a taste
00:47:13 -->
00:47:14
of the discussion.
00:47:15 -->
00:47:17
Of course, we will not be able to
00:47:17 -->
00:47:18
exhaust
00:47:18 -->
00:47:19
talking about this.
00:47:20 -->
00:47:21
In terms of authority,
00:47:24 -->
00:47:25
in terms of authority,
00:47:26 -->
00:47:26
am I bound
00:47:27 -->
00:47:28
to do
00:47:28 -->
00:47:31
what is included in each and every hadith
00:47:31 -->
00:47:32
or not?
00:47:34 -->
00:47:35
I will tell you simply,
00:47:36 -->
00:47:37
this is a vast
00:47:38 -->
00:47:40
topic, a vast theme
00:47:41 -->
00:47:44
that you need to grapple with many issues
00:47:46 -->
00:47:47
because
00:47:48 -->
00:47:49
the prophet, peace be upon
00:47:50 -->
00:47:51
him, when he said
00:47:52 -->
00:47:53
or did
00:47:54 -->
00:47:55
or approved
00:47:55 -->
00:47:56
certain things,
00:47:58 -->
00:47:59
you need to distinguish
00:48:00 -->
00:48:01
and please mind me.
00:48:01 -->
00:48:02
Okay?
00:48:03 -->
00:48:05
I know it's a working
00:48:05 -->
00:48:06
day, but,
00:48:07 -->
00:48:09
this is very important.
00:48:10 -->
00:48:12
We need to distinguish
00:48:13 -->
00:48:14
whether the Prophet,
00:48:14 -->
00:48:16
peace be upon him, uttered
00:48:17 -->
00:48:19
or did or approved such
00:48:20 -->
00:48:23
teaching is imparting to his community.
00:48:24 -->
00:48:25
In terms of
00:48:26 -->
00:48:26
legislative
00:48:27 -->
00:48:28
authority
00:48:30 -->
00:48:31
or non legislative
00:48:31 -->
00:48:33
authority, I hope I'm
00:48:34 -->
00:48:34
not,
00:48:34 -->
00:48:35
complicating
00:48:35 -->
00:48:36
the discussion.
00:48:37 -->
00:48:38
But very simply,
00:48:38 -->
00:48:40
I will just give you examples.
00:48:42 -->
00:48:43
When
00:48:44 -->
00:48:45
we learned
00:48:45 -->
00:48:46
that the Prophet
00:48:48 -->
00:48:50
loved certain type of food,
00:48:54 -->
00:48:55
or
00:48:55 -->
00:48:57
certain type of perfume,
00:49:00 -->
00:49:03
Or, he walked in a certain manner. Or,
00:49:03 -->
00:49:05
he ate in a certain manner.
00:49:05 -->
00:49:08
Or, he slept in a certain manner.
00:49:09 -->
00:49:10
Okay?
00:49:12 -->
00:49:14
We need to see whether the prophet
00:49:15 -->
00:49:15
was uttering
00:49:16 -->
00:49:17
these statements
00:49:21 -->
00:49:21
in terms
00:49:22 -->
00:49:22
of
00:49:23 -->
00:49:23
setting
00:49:24 -->
00:49:24
guidelines
00:49:25 -->
00:49:26
to his community,
00:49:26 -->
00:49:30
or was he talking about certain things
00:49:31 -->
00:49:32
as a human being?
00:49:34 -->
00:49:35
And who is going to determine
00:49:36 -->
00:49:37
which is which?
00:49:39 -->
00:49:40
Okay.
00:49:41 -->
00:49:43
In terms of the clothes
00:49:43 -->
00:49:46
that the prophet used to wear, for example,
00:49:48 -->
00:49:50
okay, certain colors, certain
00:49:51 -->
00:49:52
Style. Style,
00:49:53 -->
00:49:55
are we bound to
00:49:57 -->
00:49:58
to do the same?
00:49:59 -->
00:50:00
Okay.
00:50:02 -->
00:50:05
In terms of the things that were peculiar
00:50:05 -->
00:50:06
to him,
00:50:08 -->
00:50:09
you know,
00:50:09 -->
00:50:10
the manner
00:50:11 -->
00:50:14
how the Prophet kept Roza, kept the fast?
00:50:16 -->
00:50:17
You know, usually,
00:50:18 -->
00:50:20
especially in the long hours of the summer,
00:50:22 -->
00:50:23
when the time comes,
00:50:24 -->
00:50:25
we eat.
00:50:25 -->
00:50:26
Okay?
00:50:28 -->
00:50:31
We start with dates and milk and water
00:50:31 -->
00:50:33
and stuff like that, and then we have
00:50:33 -->
00:50:34
our dinner.
00:50:34 -->
00:50:37
Okay? And then maybe after that we have
00:50:37 -->
00:50:40
snack, and then after that we have suhoor.
00:50:41 -->
00:50:42
You know the prophet
00:50:44 -->
00:50:45
used to keep continuous
00:50:46 -->
00:50:46
fasts.
00:50:48 -->
00:50:50
He never ate
00:50:50 -->
00:50:51
or drank.
00:50:52 -->
00:50:53
I'm talking about, of course,
00:50:54 -->
00:50:57
his normal way of doing things.
00:50:57 -->
00:50:59
His normal way of doing
00:50:59 -->
00:51:03
things. He did not do this. Some other
00:51:03 -->
00:51:04
instances
00:51:04 -->
00:51:07
Yeah, he drank and he and we learn
00:51:07 -->
00:51:09
from his Sunnah about dates and everything,
00:51:10 -->
00:51:12
from the way he did. But
00:51:12 -->
00:51:13
in other circumstances,
00:51:13 -->
00:51:16
he never had any food or drink
00:51:16 -->
00:51:17
at all.
00:51:18 -->
00:51:21
And he forbid his community
00:51:21 -->
00:51:23
from following him,
00:51:23 -->
00:51:27
and told them, do not follow me in
00:51:27 -->
00:51:30
this because Allah gives me food and drink.
00:51:32 -->
00:51:32
Okay?
00:51:33 -->
00:51:36
So there are certain things that were done
00:51:36 -->
00:51:36
peculiar
00:51:38 -->
00:51:40
to the prophet that we cannot
00:51:42 -->
00:51:44
Copy. Follow him, we cannot copy him.
00:51:45 -->
00:51:47
There are certain things that were done
00:51:48 -->
00:51:51
from the prophet as a human being,
00:51:52 -->
00:51:53
a human being.
00:51:54 -->
00:51:56
He likes certain food,
00:51:58 -->
00:52:00
okay, in a certain way.
00:52:01 -->
00:52:01
He
00:52:02 -->
00:52:04
likes to do certain things
00:52:04 -->
00:52:06
as a human being.
00:52:06 -->
00:52:08
And then, other
00:52:09 -->
00:52:09
circumstances,
00:52:10 -->
00:52:11
he was setting guidelines.
00:52:12 -->
00:52:14
He was guiding his community.
00:52:15 -->
00:52:17
Which is which?
00:52:18 -->
00:52:19
This is a very technical
00:52:21 -->
00:52:24
discussion. And as I said about the Quran,
00:52:25 -->
00:52:26
I say again
00:52:26 -->
00:52:29
that Muslim scholars have developed
00:52:29 -->
00:52:30
sciences and disciplines
00:52:31 -->
00:52:32
for Muslims
00:52:32 -->
00:52:34
to be able to understand
00:52:35 -->
00:52:38
these prophetic teachings in a better way.
00:52:39 -->
00:52:40
In terms of authenticity,
00:52:41 -->
00:52:41
many
00:52:42 -->
00:52:44
disciplines and sciences were developed
00:52:45 -->
00:52:46
to make sure
00:52:46 -->
00:52:47
that
00:52:48 -->
00:52:50
what is attributed to the Prophet, peace be
00:52:50 -->
00:52:54
upon him, actually he uttered, or he did,
00:52:54 -->
00:52:55
or he approved
00:52:56 -->
00:52:57
these things.
00:52:57 -->
00:53:00
You can trace it back to the prophet.
00:53:02 -->
00:53:02
We need
00:53:03 -->
00:53:04
to make use
00:53:05 -->
00:53:07
of these sciences in order
00:53:08 -->
00:53:08
to
00:53:10 -->
00:53:11
understand our Prophet
00:53:12 -->
00:53:13
better. Otherwise,
00:53:13 -->
00:53:15
we will be misquoting him.
00:53:17 -->
00:53:20
We will be misquoting him, as
00:53:21 -->
00:53:21
the other
00:53:22 -->
00:53:23
radicals and extremists
00:53:24 -->
00:53:26
are actually doing.
00:53:30 -->
00:53:31
There are calls
00:53:31 -->
00:53:34
to do a way to trash sunnah.
00:53:35 -->
00:53:37
There are people now, and they are very
00:53:37 -->
00:53:39
active by the way,
00:53:39 -->
00:53:42
to say the problems came from the sunnah,
00:53:42 -->
00:53:44
so we are better off
00:53:44 -->
00:53:45
trashing it
00:53:47 -->
00:53:50
and we don't we just need the Quran.
00:53:50 -->
00:53:52
This is a very, again, very crooked,
00:53:54 -->
00:53:55
extreme understanding
00:53:55 -->
00:53:57
of our faith. We cannot do away
00:53:58 -->
00:54:00
with our sunnah. The issue is,
00:54:01 -->
00:54:02
we need to approach
00:54:03 -->
00:54:05
the sunnah and hadith
00:54:05 -->
00:54:08
in a proper way, so that we can
00:54:08 -->
00:54:09
get the benefit
00:54:10 -->
00:54:11
from them.
00:54:14 -->
00:54:14
Now,
00:54:14 -->
00:54:17
this is something that will be surprising
00:54:17 -->
00:54:18
for you also,
00:54:19 -->
00:54:19
this point.
00:54:21 -->
00:54:23
Okay. Let me quiz you.
00:54:23 -->
00:54:24
Okay?
00:54:25 -->
00:54:27
How many Hagis
00:54:29 -->
00:54:31
are in the Sunni collection?
00:54:33 -->
00:54:34
How many?
00:54:35 -->
00:54:36
Of 60,000.
00:54:37 -->
00:54:38
60,000.
00:54:39 -->
00:54:41
That's the answer. About 60,000
00:54:42 -->
00:54:43
if we drop.
00:54:47 -->
00:54:49
You mean I reckon? Yes.
00:54:54 -->
00:54:55
There are 60,000
00:54:56 -->
00:54:57
if we drop
00:54:57 -->
00:54:58
the repetitions.
00:54:59 -->
00:54:59
Okay?
00:55:00 -->
00:55:01
We have 60,000
00:55:02 -->
00:55:04
hadith in the Sunni collection.
00:55:06 -->
00:55:06
Okay?
00:55:08 -->
00:55:09
Out of these
00:55:10 -->
00:55:11
60,000
00:55:11 -->
00:55:13
Hagiz, we have only
00:55:14 -->
00:55:15
2,000
00:55:15 -->
00:55:19
that talk about do's and don'ts, about legal
00:55:19 -->
00:55:21
issues, about matters of law.
00:55:23 -->
00:55:23
Okay?
00:55:24 -->
00:55:24
And
00:55:26 -->
00:55:26
58
00:55:27 -->
00:55:28
talk about ethics,
00:55:30 -->
00:55:31
ahlag,
00:55:31 -->
00:55:32
etiquettes,
00:55:33 -->
00:55:33
interactions.
00:55:36 -->
00:55:36
Okay?
00:55:37 -->
00:55:38
Now,
00:55:39 -->
00:55:40
percentage wise,
00:55:41 -->
00:55:43
it's about we are talking about
00:55:43 -->
00:55:43
5%
00:55:44 -->
00:55:46
that talk about legal issues,
00:55:47 -->
00:55:50
about how to pray, how to fast, how
00:55:50 -->
00:55:51
to do this, how to do that,
00:55:52 -->
00:55:52
those and those.
00:55:53 -->
00:55:54
And
00:55:54 -->
00:55:55
95%
00:55:56 -->
00:55:57
of hadith
00:55:57 -->
00:55:58
talk about
00:56:00 -->
00:56:01
ethics, moral ethics,
00:56:04 -->
00:56:05
how to be a good
00:56:06 -->
00:56:07
human being?
00:56:08 -->
00:56:08
Okay?
00:56:10 -->
00:56:12
This is extremely important.
00:56:13 -->
00:56:14
Extremely important
00:56:16 -->
00:56:18
as we are battling with these
00:56:19 -->
00:56:21
phenomena of radicalism
00:56:22 -->
00:56:24
and formalism and literalism,
00:56:25 -->
00:56:26
to
00:56:26 -->
00:56:29
bring this point to such people and tell
00:56:29 -->
00:56:30
them 95%
00:56:32 -->
00:56:34
of the teachings of the prophet
00:56:34 -->
00:56:35
revolved around
00:56:35 -->
00:56:36
being ethical,
00:56:37 -->
00:56:38
being honest,
00:56:40 -->
00:56:41
having good manners,
00:56:43 -->
00:56:44
having good hearts,
00:56:45 -->
00:56:45
sharing,
00:56:46 -->
00:56:47
caring, all these beautiful
00:56:48 -->
00:56:49
aspects.
00:56:50 -->
00:56:52
And also, a similar
00:56:53 -->
00:56:55
percentage is with the Quran.
00:56:56 -->
00:56:58
If you look at the Quran, how many
00:56:58 -->
00:56:59
verses? 6000
00:57:01 -->
00:57:02
233 verses.
00:57:04 -->
00:57:06
Out of which, only 300 verses
00:57:06 -->
00:57:09
talk about 'those and don'ts' legal issues.
00:57:09 -->
00:57:10
And then,
00:57:11 -->
00:57:14
the other remaining verses talk about ethics.
00:57:16 -->
00:57:19
That is infused with correct understanding.
00:57:21 -->
00:57:24
This is what the Quran is all about.
00:57:24 -->
00:57:25
This is what the hadith
00:57:26 -->
00:57:29
is all about. It's not about formalism, it
00:57:29 -->
00:57:30
is not about literalism.
00:57:31 -->
00:57:33
Essentially, it's about core values,
00:57:34 -->
00:57:35
core ethics
00:57:35 -->
00:57:37
that we need to inculcate,
00:57:37 -->
00:57:38
without which
00:57:40 -->
00:57:42
Islam would be just restricted to a number
00:57:42 -->
00:57:43
of formalities.
00:57:49 -->
00:57:51
I will skip examples
00:57:51 -->
00:57:53
of how people
00:57:54 -->
00:57:54
miscode
00:57:54 -->
00:57:55
our Prophet
00:57:58 -->
00:57:59
but I will just jump.
00:58:01 -->
00:58:03
How are we doing with the time?
00:58:04 -->
00:58:05
It is We have It is 10 to
00:58:06 -->
00:58:09
9. Okay. We have about 10 minutes. 7
00:58:09 -->
00:58:09
minutes. Okay.
00:58:10 -->
00:58:12
Quickly, the 4th point
00:58:13 -->
00:58:14
says and
00:58:14 -->
00:58:15
this is again,
00:58:15 -->
00:58:16
reinforces
00:58:16 -->
00:58:17
the other
00:58:18 -->
00:58:18
three points.
00:58:20 -->
00:58:22
I will just read it and comment,
00:58:25 -->
00:58:25
on it.
00:58:26 -->
00:58:27
Muslim scholars
00:58:28 -->
00:58:32
have developed very rich legacy of classical works
00:58:32 -->
00:58:35
in many fields of Islamic knowledge,
00:58:35 -->
00:58:40
works on Hafsir, Hadith, Aqeeda, Sharia, faq, comparative
00:58:40 -->
00:58:41
religions,
00:58:41 -->
00:58:42
and many, many others.
00:58:44 -->
00:58:44
Okay?
00:58:47 -->
00:58:50
What should we do with this rich legacy
00:58:50 -->
00:58:53
as Muslims living in this time and age?
00:58:54 -->
00:58:54
This is
00:58:56 -->
00:58:59
a very critical question. And, again, this question,
00:58:59 -->
00:59:00
we can,
00:59:03 -->
00:59:04
delve into it,
00:59:05 -->
00:59:07
and we can talk about it for days
00:59:07 -->
00:59:08
days.
00:59:09 -->
00:59:11
Because we have to admit
00:59:11 -->
00:59:13
the fact that
00:59:14 -->
00:59:18
most of what the terror groups are saying
00:59:18 -->
00:59:19
about certain
00:59:20 -->
00:59:20
incidents
00:59:21 -->
00:59:21
in
00:59:22 -->
00:59:23
Islamic history,
00:59:24 -->
00:59:26
okay, are found in books
00:59:27 -->
00:59:29
that were written centuries ago.
00:59:30 -->
00:59:32
They called certain
00:59:32 -->
00:59:34
demands and certain
00:59:34 -->
00:59:35
leaders
00:59:35 -->
00:59:38
that they did this, they did that,
00:59:38 -->
00:59:41
and, indeed, they are found in these works.
00:59:43 -->
00:59:44
So some
00:59:45 -->
00:59:46
reformers,
00:59:48 -->
00:59:49
they
00:59:49 -->
00:59:52
are advancing the claim that, again, with the
00:59:52 -->
00:59:53
sunnah, we need
00:59:54 -->
00:59:56
to trash each and everything, and we start
00:59:56 -->
00:59:57
from the scratch.
00:59:59 -->
01:00:00
So what is the best way
01:00:01 -->
01:00:02
to deal with
01:00:02 -->
01:00:03
this legacy
01:00:04 -->
01:00:05
of 100
01:00:05 -->
01:00:07
of 1000 works?
01:00:09 -->
01:00:09
Okay?
01:00:10 -->
01:00:14
One of the richest legacies in the human
01:00:14 -->
01:00:14
civilizations.
01:00:16 -->
01:00:18
Look at, for example, how Muslims interacted
01:00:19 -->
01:00:20
with the Book of Allah,
01:00:21 -->
01:00:24
and they came up with these many, many
01:00:24 -->
01:00:24
volumes
01:00:25 -->
01:00:26
and many, many
01:00:26 -->
01:00:26
books
01:00:27 -->
01:00:27
about
01:00:28 -->
01:00:30
how to understand the Quran.
01:00:31 -->
01:00:32
Similar works were done
01:00:33 -->
01:00:34
to
01:00:35 -->
01:00:35
sunnah,
01:00:36 -->
01:00:37
Islamic history,
01:00:38 -->
01:00:38
theology,
01:00:40 -->
01:00:41
and name it.
01:00:41 -->
01:00:44
What is the best way to deal with
01:00:44 -->
01:00:45
this rich legacy?
01:00:49 -->
01:00:50
First of all,
01:00:51 -->
01:00:52
here are some
01:00:53 -->
01:00:54
bullet points.
01:00:55 -->
01:00:58
First of all, we should we should not
01:00:58 -->
01:00:58
regard
01:00:59 -->
01:01:01
this legacy as sacred.
01:01:02 -->
01:01:04
We should not regard it as sacred.
01:01:05 -->
01:01:07
This is a human product.
01:01:08 -->
01:01:09
Okay?
01:01:10 -->
01:01:12
This is a human product and
01:01:13 -->
01:01:14
not sacred.
01:01:16 -->
01:01:17
We also
01:01:18 -->
01:01:21
should say thank you to
01:01:22 -->
01:01:25
the many scholars that they have written
01:01:26 -->
01:01:27
such elaborate
01:01:27 -->
01:01:28
elaborative
01:01:29 -->
01:01:29
works
01:01:30 -->
01:01:30
about
01:01:31 -->
01:01:33
Islam and about Quran and about Hadith.
01:01:34 -->
01:01:35
They did their homework.
01:01:36 -->
01:01:37
They did
01:01:38 -->
01:01:39
their homework.
01:01:40 -->
01:01:42
They did not do
01:01:42 -->
01:01:45
our homework. They did their homework because they
01:01:45 -->
01:01:45
were living
01:01:46 -->
01:01:48
at such times and circumstances
01:01:48 -->
01:01:49
and contexts
01:01:50 -->
01:01:54
and social, political, name it. They did their
01:01:54 -->
01:01:55
homework, and they did
01:01:56 -->
01:01:57
fairly a good job.
01:01:58 -->
01:02:01
So Muslim scholars did their homework to relate
01:02:01 -->
01:02:01
Islam
01:02:02 -->
01:02:03
to the lived reality
01:02:04 -->
01:02:05
at their time.
01:02:05 -->
01:02:07
They produced solutions
01:02:07 -->
01:02:10
and alternatives for their congregations,
01:02:11 -->
01:02:11
their
01:02:12 -->
01:02:12
their,
01:02:13 -->
01:02:14
not ours.
01:02:16 -->
01:02:19
The third point here, we should engage in
01:02:19 -->
01:02:20
a similar process.
01:02:22 -->
01:02:25
We, meaning Muslims of this time and age,
01:02:26 -->
01:02:28
we should engage in a similar process to
01:02:28 -->
01:02:31
relate Islam to our lived reality,
01:02:32 -->
01:02:33
to our lived reality.
01:02:34 -->
01:02:36
We can make use
01:02:36 -->
01:02:39
now, this is again a very important point.
01:02:39 -->
01:02:42
Now what can we do with these massive
01:02:42 -->
01:02:42
works
01:02:44 -->
01:02:48
of tafsir and hadith and dhik and aqid
01:02:48 -->
01:02:48
and
01:02:49 -->
01:02:52
we can make use of the methodologies
01:02:54 -->
01:02:55
within the methodologies.
01:02:56 -->
01:02:57
Earlier,
01:02:57 -->
01:02:58
scholars have applied
01:02:59 -->
01:03:02
and not sink into their issues,
01:03:02 -->
01:03:06
which were shaped by their contexts at the
01:03:06 -->
01:03:06
time.
01:03:07 -->
01:03:08
Methodology
01:03:08 -->
01:03:09
the keyword is
01:03:10 -->
01:03:10
apply
01:03:11 -->
01:03:13
or make use of
01:03:14 -->
01:03:14
the methodology
01:03:16 -->
01:03:17
they have applied,
01:03:18 -->
01:03:20
but not sink into
01:03:22 -->
01:03:23
the little issues
01:03:24 -->
01:03:27
of their time, because these issues
01:03:27 -->
01:03:29
do not relate to us anymore.
01:03:30 -->
01:03:32
I will just give you a funny
01:03:33 -->
01:03:34
example of what I'm
01:03:36 -->
01:03:37
saying here.
01:03:38 -->
01:03:38
Now,
01:03:41 -->
01:03:44
do you know the Arabic word for coffee?
01:03:45 -->
01:03:45
Coffee?
01:03:47 -->
01:03:47
Kawwa.
01:03:49 -->
01:03:52
The Arabic word for coffee is kawwa.
01:03:53 -->
01:03:54
Now,
01:03:55 -->
01:03:57
I'll ask you to do a little bit
01:03:57 -->
01:03:57
of homework.
01:03:58 -->
01:03:59
Go and search
01:04:00 -->
01:04:01
the linguistic meaning
01:04:02 -->
01:04:04
of the word the Ka'wah in Arabic.
01:04:05 -->
01:04:06
You know,
01:04:07 -->
01:04:09
one of the meanings of coffee
01:04:10 -->
01:04:11
is liquor.
01:04:14 -->
01:04:15
One of the meanings
01:04:15 -->
01:04:17
of Ka'wah is liquor,
01:04:17 -->
01:04:19
And liquor is
01:04:19 -->
01:04:20
forbidden in Islam.
01:04:22 -->
01:04:22
It's white.
01:04:23 -->
01:04:23
Okay?
01:04:24 -->
01:04:25
So this is one of the meanings.
01:04:27 -->
01:04:30
Now, if you and you know, if you'll
01:04:31 -->
01:04:33
read about books of fiqh,
01:04:34 -->
01:04:37
you will find a statement that coffee is
01:04:37 -->
01:04:37
prohibited
01:04:38 -->
01:04:39
in Islam.
01:04:40 -->
01:04:41
Why it is prohibited?
01:04:42 -->
01:04:44
Because it is one of the names of
01:04:45 -->
01:04:46
liquor,
01:04:46 -->
01:04:47
which is prohibited.
01:04:49 -->
01:04:49
Nobody
01:04:50 -->
01:04:51
had the audacity
01:04:51 -->
01:04:53
to taste it and see
01:04:54 -->
01:04:56
the the content of
01:04:57 -->
01:04:57
coffee.
01:04:58 -->
01:05:00
Except 300 years later,
01:05:01 -->
01:05:03
they actually discovered
01:05:04 -->
01:05:05
that instead of
01:05:06 -->
01:05:07
putting the mind to sleep,
01:05:08 -->
01:05:09
it actually alerts
01:05:10 -->
01:05:10
the mind.
01:05:11 -->
01:05:13
And this was actually it is I'm I'm
01:05:13 -->
01:05:15
I'm not making it up. This is a
01:05:15 -->
01:05:16
true story
01:05:17 -->
01:05:18
that happened in Al Azhar.
01:05:19 -->
01:05:21
The students, when they drink coffee, they become
01:05:21 -->
01:05:22
more alert.
01:05:23 -->
01:05:25
And that's why they changed the rulings.
01:05:26 -->
01:05:28
So what I'm telling you,
01:05:28 -->
01:05:31
this legacy is full of odds and full
01:05:31 -->
01:05:34
of things that do not relate to us.
01:05:34 -->
01:05:37
We cannot just go buy books,
01:05:37 -->
01:05:37
but,
01:05:38 -->
01:05:40
again, we should not trash
01:05:40 -->
01:05:43
this legacy. This legacy is very important
01:05:44 -->
01:05:45
for Muslims.
01:05:46 -->
01:05:48
We need to adopt the methodology.
01:05:50 -->
01:05:53
The fact that they did their homework, they
01:05:53 -->
01:05:54
tried to find solutions,
01:05:55 -->
01:05:57
and similarly, we need to engage in a
01:05:57 -->
01:05:58
similar process.
01:05:59 -->
01:06:02
We are bombarded with many moral issues nowadays,
01:06:03 -->
01:06:05
with many legal issues nowadays.
01:06:05 -->
01:06:07
We need to
01:06:08 -->
01:06:11
bring up a cadre of the scholars to
01:06:11 -->
01:06:12
probe these issues
01:06:14 -->
01:06:14
with
01:06:15 -->
01:06:16
the three goals
01:06:17 -->
01:06:20
of religion and the five goals of of
01:06:20 -->
01:06:21
Islamic law in mind,
01:06:22 -->
01:06:24
to make religion relevant
01:06:24 -->
01:06:25
to the reality
01:06:26 -->
01:06:26
of people.
01:06:28 -->
01:06:29
And the last statement,
01:06:30 -->
01:06:32
this is a specialized
01:06:32 -->
01:06:35
project. It is not just the work of
01:06:35 -->
01:06:35
laymen
01:06:36 -->
01:06:37
or laywomen.
01:06:38 -->
01:06:40
This is the work of scholars.
01:06:42 -->
01:06:44
And also in terms of honesty,
01:06:44 -->
01:06:45
we have
01:06:45 -->
01:06:46
been miserably
01:06:47 -->
01:06:47
failing,
01:06:49 -->
01:06:50
miserably failing
01:06:52 -->
01:06:55
in bringing up this category of scholars
01:06:56 -->
01:06:57
who will bring back
01:06:58 -->
01:06:58
Islam
01:06:59 -->
01:07:01
to the left reality.
01:07:01 -->
01:07:03
So we'll conclude here, and
01:10:08 -->
01:10:10
My dear beloved brothers and sisters,
01:10:14 -->
01:10:15
first of all,
01:10:17 -->
01:10:19
let us congratulate each other
01:10:20 -->
01:10:21
for
01:10:22 -->
01:10:24
the coming of a blessed month,
01:10:25 -->
01:10:26
the month of Rajab.
01:10:28 -->
01:10:30
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
01:10:31 -->
01:10:33
when he used to spot
01:10:34 -->
01:10:35
the crescent,
01:10:37 -->
01:10:40
heralding the beginning of the month of Rajab,
01:10:41 -->
01:10:42
he used to raise
01:10:43 -->
01:10:44
his hand
01:10:45 -->
01:10:47
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
01:10:49 -->
01:10:52
with a prayer that we should also
01:10:53 -->
01:10:53
say.
01:10:55 -->
01:10:58
He used to say, Allahumma bariklana fiyrajabal
01:11:01 -->
01:11:01
Ramadan.
01:11:03 -->
01:11:04
You Allah,
01:11:04 -->
01:11:05
bless
01:11:05 -->
01:11:07
the month of Rajab for us,
01:11:09 -->
01:11:12
bless the month of Sha'aban for us,
01:11:12 -->
01:11:13
and
01:11:14 -->
01:11:15
make us live
01:11:16 -->
01:11:16
through
01:11:17 -->
01:11:18
the month of Ramadan.
01:11:20 -->
01:11:21
So in this
01:11:22 -->
01:11:22
prayer,
01:11:24 -->
01:11:27
we know that the month of Rajab is
01:11:27 -->
01:11:28
a blessed month.
01:11:29 -->
01:11:31
And with the coming of the month of
01:11:31 -->
01:11:32
Rajab,
01:11:32 -->
01:11:34
we anticipate
01:11:36 -->
01:11:37
the coming of
01:11:38 -->
01:11:40
the blessed month of Ramadan.
01:11:42 -->
01:11:43
So just make
01:11:44 -->
01:11:44
this
01:11:45 -->
01:11:46
dua, this is the 1st day
01:11:47 -->
01:11:48
of the month of Rajab,
01:11:49 -->
01:11:52
and ask Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to extend
01:11:52 -->
01:11:54
your life so that you could witness
01:11:55 -->
01:11:56
another Ramadan,
01:11:56 -->
01:11:57
another
01:11:57 -->
01:11:58
blessed guest
01:11:59 -->
01:12:01
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And no matter
01:12:01 -->
01:12:03
how many Ramadans
01:12:03 -->
01:12:05
we have in our lifetime,
01:12:06 -->
01:12:08
we will not have enough of Ramadans.
01:12:09 -->
01:12:11
So just yearn,
01:12:11 -->
01:12:13
long for, ask
01:12:14 -->
01:12:16
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to extend your life
01:12:16 -->
01:12:18
so you could witness
01:12:19 -->
01:12:21
the blessed months of Ramadan.
01:12:21 -->
01:12:23
Say, Ameen. Ameen.
01:12:23 -->
01:12:25
My dear brothers and sisters,
01:12:26 -->
01:12:28
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught us
01:12:29 -->
01:12:30
that the purpose
01:12:32 -->
01:12:32
of
01:12:33 -->
01:12:35
the Khutbah or the sermon
01:12:36 -->
01:12:37
of Jumu'ah
01:12:39 -->
01:12:40
is to discuss
01:12:42 -->
01:12:43
community affairs,
01:12:45 -->
01:12:45
to
01:12:46 -->
01:12:47
instruct
01:12:47 -->
01:12:48
Muslims
01:12:49 -->
01:12:49
how
01:12:50 -->
01:12:51
best
01:12:51 -->
01:12:52
to apply
01:12:52 -->
01:12:53
their faith,
01:12:55 -->
01:12:56
to
01:12:58 -->
01:12:58
discuss
01:12:59 -->
01:13:00
ways how to
01:13:01 -->
01:13:04
get closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
01:13:06 -->
01:13:07
And indeed,
01:13:09 -->
01:13:10
we are
01:13:11 -->
01:13:13
facing as an Ummah,
01:13:14 -->
01:13:17
whether we're talking about this part of the
01:13:17 -->
01:13:18
world or globally,
01:13:19 -->
01:13:20
we are facing
01:13:21 -->
01:13:22
imminent
01:13:22 -->
01:13:23
challenges
01:13:24 -->
01:13:25
as Muslims.
01:13:27 -->
01:13:28
So naturally,
01:13:28 -->
01:13:29
the forum
01:13:31 -->
01:13:32
in which we should
01:13:33 -->
01:13:33
discuss
01:13:34 -->
01:13:35
these challenges
01:13:35 -->
01:13:37
and discuss ways
01:13:37 -->
01:13:38
of
01:13:39 -->
01:13:40
overcoming these challenges
01:13:42 -->
01:13:43
from the perspective
01:13:43 -->
01:13:44
of our faith,
01:13:45 -->
01:13:46
from the perspective
01:13:47 -->
01:13:49
of of the Quran and
01:13:49 -->
01:13:51
the the beloved
01:13:51 -->
01:13:54
guide, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
01:13:56 -->
01:13:59
Hence, I'm going to share with you
01:14:00 -->
01:14:03
few points how to effectively,
01:14:04 -->
01:14:06
number 1, and adequately,
01:14:06 -->
01:14:07
number 2,
01:14:08 -->
01:14:10
respond to the many challenges
01:14:10 -->
01:14:12
that we have as an Ummah in
01:14:14 -->
01:14:15
America and also
01:14:16 -->
01:14:16
globally
01:14:17 -->
01:14:18
are facing.
01:14:21 -->
01:14:22
Of course,
01:14:22 -->
01:14:24
each and every one of you, brothers and
01:14:24 -->
01:14:25
sisters,
01:14:26 -->
01:14:27
know
01:14:28 -->
01:14:29
the magnanimity
01:14:29 -->
01:14:31
of what we are going through.
01:14:35 -->
01:14:37
And also, we know
01:14:37 -->
01:14:40
that as Muslims, as good practicing Muslims,
01:14:42 -->
01:14:45
we should not bury our heads in the
01:14:45 -->
01:14:45
sand.
01:14:46 -->
01:14:47
This is
01:14:48 -->
01:14:49
a passive
01:14:50 -->
01:14:51
response
01:14:52 -->
01:14:54
and this is not an Islamic response.
01:14:55 -->
01:14:57
Rather, we should rise
01:14:58 -->
01:15:00
to meet the different challenges
01:15:02 -->
01:15:03
we are experiencing
01:15:05 -->
01:15:08
and to tap into
01:15:09 -->
01:15:09
our
01:15:10 -->
01:15:11
guidance
01:15:11 -->
01:15:12
to see
01:15:13 -->
01:15:14
what we can do together
01:15:15 -->
01:15:15
as individuals
01:15:16 -->
01:15:16
and as
01:15:17 -->
01:15:17
community
01:15:18 -->
01:15:20
to respond effectively
01:15:21 -->
01:15:22
to the many challenges
01:15:23 -->
01:15:23
we are having.
01:15:24 -->
01:15:27
And you agree with me my brothers and
01:15:27 -->
01:15:27
sisters,
01:15:28 -->
01:15:29
that Muslims,
01:15:30 -->
01:15:32
again whether we're talking about
01:15:32 -->
01:15:34
America or globally,
01:15:34 -->
01:15:36
have the lion's shares
01:15:37 -->
01:15:37
of
01:15:38 -->
01:15:39
the current
01:15:39 -->
01:15:41
problems and difficulties
01:15:42 -->
01:15:43
and challenges
01:15:44 -->
01:15:45
that we have
01:15:46 -->
01:15:47
right now.
01:15:50 -->
01:15:51
And I'm proposing,
01:15:51 -->
01:15:53
my dear brothers and sisters,
01:15:54 -->
01:15:54
5
01:15:55 -->
01:15:55
points
01:15:57 -->
01:15:58
that will help us
01:15:59 -->
01:15:59
meet
01:16:00 -->
01:16:01
what we are experiencing
01:16:02 -->
01:16:03
in a positive,
01:16:04 -->
01:16:04
proactive,
01:16:05 -->
01:16:06
effective,
01:16:06 -->
01:16:07
adequate
01:16:07 -->
01:16:08
manner.
01:16:11 -->
01:16:12
The first point
01:16:14 -->
01:16:14
relates
01:16:16 -->
01:16:18
to the fact that as Muslims,
01:16:19 -->
01:16:21
we should not be
01:16:22 -->
01:16:22
surprised
01:16:24 -->
01:16:25
of
01:16:25 -->
01:16:28
having tough times and difficulties and trials and
01:16:28 -->
01:16:29
tribulations.
01:16:31 -->
01:16:34
All of these difficulties and tough times should
01:16:34 -->
01:16:36
not come as a surprise for us.
01:16:37 -->
01:16:38
Why?
01:16:38 -->
01:16:40
Because we have been promised
01:16:41 -->
01:16:42
over and over
01:16:42 -->
01:16:45
in the Quran and in the prophetic teaching
01:16:46 -->
01:16:48
that Muslims,
01:16:49 -->
01:16:50
indeed human beings,
01:16:51 -->
01:16:53
shall experiencing shall experience
01:16:54 -->
01:16:55
tough times and difficulties,
01:16:56 -->
01:16:58
trials and tribulations and tests.
01:17:00 -->
01:17:02
We have been promised in the Quran
01:17:02 -->
01:17:03
that will
01:17:03 -->
01:17:05
we shall be visited
01:17:06 -->
01:17:08
with trials and tribulations.
01:17:09 -->
01:17:10
This is a fact of life.
01:17:11 -->
01:17:12
And when Allah
01:17:13 -->
01:17:16
summed up the very purpose
01:17:16 -->
01:17:18
of our existence
01:17:19 -->
01:17:21
on this planet Earth.
01:17:22 -->
01:17:22
He said
01:17:23 -->
01:17:24
in Surah Tabarak
01:17:31 -->
01:17:32
So that
01:17:32 -->
01:17:34
He, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
01:17:34 -->
01:17:35
test you.
01:17:37 -->
01:17:37
This is
01:17:38 -->
01:17:39
the purpose
01:17:40 -->
01:17:41
for which Allah
01:17:42 -->
01:17:44
has put us on this planet Earth,
01:17:45 -->
01:17:46
to test us.
01:17:48 -->
01:17:49
So life
01:17:49 -->
01:17:52
on this planet Earth is a testing ground.
01:17:53 -->
01:17:55
And each and every one of us
01:17:56 -->
01:17:58
shall have his or her
01:17:58 -->
01:18:00
shares of tests,
01:18:01 -->
01:18:02
trials, and tribulations.
01:18:04 -->
01:18:07
Even prophets? Yes, even prophets, as a matter
01:18:07 -->
01:18:08
of fact,
01:18:09 -->
01:18:11
they carry
01:18:12 -->
01:18:13
the biggest
01:18:14 -->
01:18:14
burden of
01:18:15 -->
01:18:17
or shares of trials and tests,
01:18:18 -->
01:18:19
even though
01:18:20 -->
01:18:22
they are regarded as the chosen people
01:18:23 -->
01:18:24
of Allah
01:18:25 -->
01:18:26
Allah,
01:18:26 -->
01:18:27
but
01:18:27 -->
01:18:28
the prophet
01:18:29 -->
01:18:30
had had
01:18:30 -->
01:18:32
his shares
01:18:32 -->
01:18:35
of trials and tribulations and tests.
01:18:37 -->
01:18:39
It is a fact of life,
01:18:40 -->
01:18:42
my dear brothers and sisters,
01:18:43 -->
01:18:44
that we experience
01:18:45 -->
01:18:48
difficulties and hardships and tough times.
01:18:51 -->
01:18:54
And it depends on our response.
01:18:58 -->
01:18:59
Our response
01:18:59 -->
01:19:00
as Muslims,
01:19:01 -->
01:19:04
which moves me to the second point,
01:19:05 -->
01:19:07
is that we should take ownership
01:19:08 -->
01:19:11
of the situations we are experiencing
01:19:12 -->
01:19:13
and see
01:19:13 -->
01:19:15
what we can do.
01:19:17 -->
01:19:20
Now my dear brothers and sisters, I just
01:19:20 -->
01:19:20
want you
01:19:21 -->
01:19:23
to reflect and reflect deeply
01:19:25 -->
01:19:26
about
01:19:27 -->
01:19:29
what I'm going to share with you from
01:19:29 -->
01:19:30
the Quran.
01:19:33 -->
01:19:34
I'm referring
01:19:35 -->
01:19:38
to how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
01:19:38 -->
01:19:41
and please pay attention with me, my dear
01:19:41 -->
01:19:42
brothers and sisters,
01:19:42 -->
01:19:44
because this is a focal point in the
01:19:44 -->
01:19:45
Khutba.
01:19:47 -->
01:19:48
Allah
01:19:49 -->
01:19:50
in Surah Maryam,
01:19:52 -->
01:19:52
he
01:19:53 -->
01:19:53
recounted
01:19:56 -->
01:19:56
the story
01:19:57 -->
01:19:58
of Maryam
01:20:00 -->
01:20:01
giving birth
01:20:01 -->
01:20:03
to Sayyid Naias
01:20:03 -->
01:20:03
salam.
01:20:08 -->
01:20:08
And
01:20:09 -->
01:20:09
when
01:20:10 -->
01:20:11
Lady Mary,
01:20:12 -->
01:20:14
Sayyidah Maryam alaihi salam,
01:20:14 -->
01:20:15
was experiencing
01:20:16 -->
01:20:16
the childbirth,
01:20:20 -->
01:20:21
Allah instructed
01:20:21 -->
01:20:22
her.
01:20:23 -->
01:20:24
She was hungry, she
01:20:25 -->
01:20:26
was at a fragile
01:20:27 -->
01:20:28
situation.
01:20:31 -->
01:20:32
Sisters would relate
01:20:33 -->
01:20:34
to this state
01:20:35 -->
01:20:36
after giving birth
01:20:38 -->
01:20:39
to a child.
01:20:40 -->
01:20:41
She would be very
01:20:42 -->
01:20:42
fragile.
01:20:44 -->
01:20:45
But nonetheless,
01:20:47 -->
01:20:50
if she is looking for food, for nourishment,
01:20:51 -->
01:20:53
she got to do something
01:20:53 -->
01:20:54
about this situation.
01:20:58 -->
01:20:59
Was Allah incapable
01:20:59 -->
01:21:00
of providing
01:21:00 -->
01:21:03
her food and drink?
01:21:03 -->
01:21:07
He was He is capable of doing this,
01:21:07 -->
01:21:08
but nonetheless,
01:21:09 -->
01:21:10
Allah instructed
01:21:10 -->
01:21:11
her:
01:21:22 -->
01:21:25
Allah is instructing her at this fragile,
01:21:26 -->
01:21:27
fragile state
01:21:29 -->
01:21:30
to shake,
01:21:31 -->
01:21:31
and
01:21:32 -->
01:21:34
now pay attention to the words,
01:21:34 -->
01:21:36
to shake the trunk
01:21:37 -->
01:21:38
of the palm tree.
01:21:41 -->
01:21:43
Now mind me, my dear brothers and sisters,
01:21:43 -->
01:21:45
if I pick 10
01:21:45 -->
01:21:47
strong young people
01:21:48 -->
01:21:50
to shake the trunk
01:21:50 -->
01:21:51
of the palm tree,
01:21:53 -->
01:21:55
it is very likely that they will not
01:21:55 -->
01:21:56
be able to do it.
01:21:59 -->
01:22:01
But Allah is instructing
01:22:01 -->
01:22:02
her to do this.
01:22:04 -->
01:22:05
Why?
01:22:06 -->
01:22:06
Because
01:22:07 -->
01:22:08
she got to do
01:22:09 -->
01:22:10
her homework
01:22:12 -->
01:22:13
to resolve this situation.
01:22:15 -->
01:22:15
When she
01:22:16 -->
01:22:18
put her blessed hand
01:22:19 -->
01:22:21
on the trunk of the palm tree,
01:22:22 -->
01:22:23
it shook
01:22:24 -->
01:22:25
and
01:22:26 -->
01:22:28
fresh dates came to her.
01:22:30 -->
01:22:31
That is the moral
01:22:32 -->
01:22:34
lesson, my dear brothers and sisters.
01:22:36 -->
01:22:39
It is not enough just to sit on
01:22:39 -->
01:22:40
the janamaz
01:22:40 -->
01:22:42
and pray that
01:22:42 -->
01:22:45
you Allah help Muslims, you Allah help us,
01:22:45 -->
01:22:46
you Allah.
01:22:46 -->
01:22:47
Of course,
01:22:47 -->
01:22:49
dua is a powerful tool,
01:22:50 -->
01:22:52
but Allah is asking
01:22:52 -->
01:22:54
us to do
01:22:55 -->
01:22:56
the extra step,
01:22:58 -->
01:23:00
which is based on our
01:23:00 -->
01:23:01
limited
01:23:04 -->
01:23:04
capacities,
01:23:05 -->
01:23:07
we are required to do something.
01:23:09 -->
01:23:10
And if you sincerely,
01:23:11 -->
01:23:12
like Lady Mary
01:23:16 -->
01:23:17
if you sincerely
01:23:17 -->
01:23:19
try to do one step,
01:23:19 -->
01:23:22
Allah will take 10 steps to you.
01:23:24 -->
01:23:25
That is
01:23:29 -->
01:23:30
the the shared
01:23:30 -->
01:23:31
collective
01:23:32 -->
01:23:33
responsibility
01:23:33 -->
01:23:34
and accountability
01:23:34 -->
01:23:37
that our beloved Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
01:23:38 -->
01:23:41
instructed us in the famous hadith
01:23:41 -->
01:23:43
called hadith as safina,
01:23:44 -->
01:23:45
the hadith of the ship,
01:23:46 -->
01:23:48
the hadith of the boat.
01:23:49 -->
01:23:51
And for those of you who know the
01:23:51 -->
01:23:52
hadith,
01:23:52 -->
01:23:53
which is authentic
01:23:54 -->
01:23:55
Hadith
01:23:55 -->
01:23:57
in the collection of Imam Bukhari,
01:23:58 -->
01:23:59
that you will find
01:24:01 -->
01:24:04
the example that our beloved Prophet sallallahu alaihi
01:24:04 -->
01:24:05
wa sallam
01:24:07 -->
01:24:08
drew for us
01:24:08 -->
01:24:12
is very relevant to our lived reality as
01:24:12 -->
01:24:13
Muslim Ummah,
01:24:15 -->
01:24:15
which is
01:24:16 -->
01:24:17
we are collectively
01:24:18 -->
01:24:19
accountable
01:24:19 -->
01:24:20
and responsible
01:24:20 -->
01:24:22
for our affairs.
01:24:22 -->
01:24:25
We have to look after each other, we
01:24:25 -->
01:24:28
have to protect each other, we should not
01:24:28 -->
01:24:28
let
01:24:29 -->
01:24:30
people
01:24:30 -->
01:24:31
to draw
01:24:31 -->
01:24:34
or to dig a hole in the ship,
01:24:35 -->
01:24:37
because if we let them do this,
01:24:38 -->
01:24:40
we will all drown,
01:24:40 -->
01:24:42
we will all sink.
01:24:43 -->
01:24:44
That is the moral
01:24:45 -->
01:24:46
of the hadith.
01:24:47 -->
01:24:49
We need to look after each other, we
01:24:49 -->
01:24:51
need to protect each other,
01:24:51 -->
01:24:53
we need to work together.
01:24:54 -->
01:24:55
Whether we
01:24:55 -->
01:24:58
like each other or don't like each other,
01:25:00 -->
01:25:02
the fact is that we are in one
01:25:02 -->
01:25:03
ship,
01:25:03 -->
01:25:05
we are in one boat.
01:25:07 -->
01:25:08
We have
01:25:08 -->
01:25:10
to work together
01:25:11 -->
01:25:13
in order to reach to the shore of
01:25:13 -->
01:25:14
safety.
01:25:15 -->
01:25:17
If we picker and fight
01:25:18 -->
01:25:19
with each other,
01:25:21 -->
01:25:23
the thing is that we will all drown.
01:25:27 -->
01:25:28
My third point,
01:25:28 -->
01:25:30
my beloved brothers and sisters,
01:25:33 -->
01:25:33
relates
01:25:34 -->
01:25:34
to
01:25:36 -->
01:25:37
how the Prophet
01:25:38 -->
01:25:39
was handling
01:25:40 -->
01:25:41
persecution
01:25:44 -->
01:25:45
and tough times
01:25:46 -->
01:25:48
in his early days in Mecca.
01:25:50 -->
01:25:51
He maintained,
01:25:53 -->
01:25:55
and here is the keyword,
01:25:56 -->
01:25:57
hope and optimism.
01:25:59 -->
01:26:01
And he asked
01:26:02 -->
01:26:02
his companions
01:26:04 -->
01:26:06
to maintain this positive
01:26:06 -->
01:26:07
attitude.
01:26:11 -->
01:26:14
I hear, especially a lot of young people
01:26:15 -->
01:26:16
from my country,
01:26:19 -->
01:26:22
they say now, you know, we're giving up.
01:26:23 -->
01:26:24
There's no
01:26:25 -->
01:26:25
hope
01:26:26 -->
01:26:27
about doing anything.
01:26:31 -->
01:26:33
And this is, my dear brothers and sisters,
01:26:33 -->
01:26:34
this is the worst
01:26:35 -->
01:26:36
feeling
01:26:37 -->
01:26:38
that we could ever
01:26:39 -->
01:26:39
have.
01:26:40 -->
01:26:41
Feeling of despair.
01:26:43 -->
01:26:44
And Allah
01:26:45 -->
01:26:46
in the Quran liked
01:26:47 -->
01:26:48
likened
01:26:49 -->
01:26:49
despair
01:26:50 -->
01:26:51
to disbelief.
01:26:52 -->
01:26:52
Very powerful.
01:27:02 -->
01:27:02
Surely,
01:27:03 -->
01:27:03
the people
01:27:04 -->
01:27:05
who despair
01:27:09 -->
01:27:11
from the mercy of Allah
01:27:12 -->
01:27:14
are the ones who are disbelievers.
01:27:16 -->
01:27:17
This is very powerful.
01:27:18 -->
01:27:20
My dear brothers and sisters,
01:27:21 -->
01:27:22
never ever
01:27:23 -->
01:27:24
resort to despair.
01:27:26 -->
01:27:29
Know for sure, my dear brothers and sisters,
01:27:29 -->
01:27:30
that Allah
01:27:31 -->
01:27:33
has put you on this planet Earth
01:27:33 -->
01:27:34
for a purpose.
01:27:36 -->
01:27:38
You cannot individually change the world.
01:27:39 -->
01:27:40
You're asked
01:27:40 -->
01:27:42
to do what you can do
01:27:43 -->
01:27:44
in your ability.
01:27:46 -->
01:27:47
You cannot
01:27:48 -->
01:27:49
pass the buck.
01:27:50 -->
01:27:52
We cannot pass the buck anymore.
01:27:54 -->
01:27:55
We have
01:27:55 -->
01:27:56
to take ownership,
01:27:58 -->
01:28:00
and while we are trying to do
01:28:01 -->
01:28:02
our homework,
01:28:04 -->
01:28:05
we should be hopeful.
01:28:06 -->
01:28:09
We should have this positive attitude
01:28:10 -->
01:28:13
that Allah will never put to waste
01:28:13 -->
01:28:15
the good deeds of the righteous.
01:28:17 -->
01:28:18
This is what Allah
01:28:22 -->
01:28:24
has re emphasized over and over in the
01:28:24 -->
01:28:25
Quran.
01:28:29 -->
01:28:31
Allah will not put to waste
01:28:32 -->
01:28:34
the good deeds of the righteous people.
01:28:35 -->
01:28:36
Just hammer
01:28:36 -->
01:28:38
this in your mind
01:28:38 -->
01:28:40
as you walk through
01:28:40 -->
01:28:42
these tough difficult times.
01:28:43 -->
01:28:46
The the little good that you do
01:28:47 -->
01:28:50
will never ever put to waste.
01:28:50 -->
01:28:53
It shall bear fruits, my dear brothers and
01:28:53 -->
01:28:53
sisters,
01:28:54 -->
01:28:57
whether we are around to see the fruits
01:28:58 -->
01:28:58
or
01:28:59 -->
01:29:00
we are no more.
01:29:01 -->
01:29:03
The promise of Allah is
01:29:04 -->
01:29:05
that He will
01:29:06 -->
01:29:07
make
01:29:07 -->
01:29:10
even little good deeds bear the fruits.
01:29:12 -->
01:29:13
And he,
01:29:14 -->
01:29:16
in in in a hadith
01:29:16 -->
01:29:17
likened
01:29:18 -->
01:29:18
just
01:29:19 -->
01:29:22
one small charity that we give.
01:29:23 -->
01:29:25
The hadith says half a date.
01:29:25 -->
01:29:28
It is nothing. It is a penny.
01:29:30 -->
01:29:32
You will see this half a date
01:29:33 -->
01:29:35
on the day of judgment, a day in
01:29:35 -->
01:29:38
which each and every one of us will
01:29:38 -->
01:29:41
be looking even for half a good deed.
01:29:42 -->
01:29:44
You will see it as in the hadith
01:29:45 -->
01:29:47
like the mountain Uhud.
01:29:49 -->
01:29:51
Allah will take care of it.
01:29:52 -->
01:29:53
We are just responsible
01:29:54 -->
01:29:55
for doing the homework,
01:29:56 -->
01:29:58
but the question is: are we doing our
01:29:58 -->
01:29:59
homework
01:30:00 -->
01:30:02
or we are just passing the buck?
01:30:03 -->
01:30:06
You know, we this is the leadership is
01:30:06 -->
01:30:09
responsible, the Imam is responsible, I I don't
01:30:09 -->
01:30:10
have to do anything.
01:30:11 -->
01:30:12
Now with the
01:30:12 -->
01:30:13
unfolding
01:30:14 -->
01:30:16
drama of Islamophobic
01:30:16 -->
01:30:17
rhetoric,
01:30:17 -->
01:30:19
with the rise of extremism,
01:30:20 -->
01:30:21
with tensions and conflicts,
01:30:22 -->
01:30:24
we have to take ownership and do
01:30:25 -->
01:30:26
what we can do
01:30:27 -->
01:30:28
as human beings.
01:30:30 -->
01:30:31
My
01:30:32 -->
01:30:34
last point, my dear brothers and sisters,
01:30:36 -->
01:30:37
again,
01:30:38 -->
01:30:40
if you don't get anything from this Khutba,
01:30:40 -->
01:30:42
listen to this point.
01:30:45 -->
01:30:46
Allah
01:30:47 -->
01:30:50
is instructing our beloved Prophet in the Quran
01:30:50 -->
01:30:50
now.
01:30:54 -->
01:30:56
Allah is instructing our Prophet
01:30:57 -->
01:30:58
And therefore,
01:30:58 -->
01:31:01
because this is a living guidance for humanity,
01:31:01 -->
01:31:03
Allah is talking to us also.
01:31:07 -->
01:31:08
In the verse,
01:31:09 -->
01:31:11
for those of you who would like to
01:31:12 -->
01:31:13
go and look
01:31:14 -->
01:31:16
up these verses,
01:31:17 -->
01:31:20
it's the last two verses of Surah Al
01:31:20 -->
01:31:20
Hajj.
01:31:21 -->
01:31:23
Surah Al Hajj, last two verses
01:31:24 -->
01:31:27
where Allah is instructing our beloved Prophet sallallahu
01:31:27 -->
01:31:29
alaihi wa sallam. And those of you who
01:31:29 -->
01:31:31
don't know, Surah Al Hajj is one of
01:31:31 -->
01:31:32
the last
01:31:33 -->
01:31:34
revelations
01:31:34 -->
01:31:37
in Mecca times in which
01:31:38 -->
01:31:39
the the persecution
01:31:40 -->
01:31:41
got intensified.
01:31:43 -->
01:31:46
So Allah is instructing our beloved prophet sallallahu
01:31:46 -->
01:31:47
alaihi wa sallam.
01:31:59 -->
01:32:00
We know
01:32:00 -->
01:32:04
that what they say, what the polytheists
01:32:04 -->
01:32:05
say
01:32:05 -->
01:32:07
hurt your feelings.
01:32:11 -->
01:32:13
So, glorify your Lord
01:32:14 -->
01:32:19
and be from among the sajideen who prostrate
01:32:19 -->
01:32:20
to Allah a lot
01:32:21 -->
01:32:23
and worship Allah
01:32:23 -->
01:32:26
till that which is certain comes to you.
01:32:28 -->
01:32:31
And that which is certain meaning death comes
01:32:31 -->
01:32:32
to you.
01:32:32 -->
01:32:36
So there are 3 moral lessons in these
01:32:36 -->
01:32:36
two verses.
01:32:37 -->
01:32:38
The first one,
01:32:39 -->
01:32:40
it is very human
01:32:40 -->
01:32:41
to feel
01:32:41 -->
01:32:42
upset,
01:32:45 -->
01:32:46
to feel morally down,
01:32:47 -->
01:32:48
to feel heartbroken,
01:32:50 -->
01:32:52
because of these so many
01:32:53 -->
01:32:55
tough times we are going through.
01:32:58 -->
01:32:59
We are paying
01:33:00 -->
01:33:02
for the loss of lives, we are paying
01:33:02 -->
01:33:03
for
01:33:03 -->
01:33:04
injustices,
01:33:04 -->
01:33:05
and grievances,
01:33:05 -->
01:33:06
and tensions,
01:33:07 -->
01:33:08
and problems, and islamophobic
01:33:09 -->
01:33:09
rhetoric.
01:33:10 -->
01:33:12
So many things are so tough
01:33:13 -->
01:33:15
and it hurts our feelings. It's very human.
01:33:17 -->
01:33:19
It's very human and Allah is talking to
01:33:19 -->
01:33:20
our beloved Prophet
01:33:21 -->
01:33:23
So it is very human to feel
01:33:24 -->
01:33:24
the agony
01:33:25 -->
01:33:26
of these challenges.
01:33:26 -->
01:33:30
Number 1. And then Allah is instructing Prophet,
01:33:30 -->
01:33:33
Allah is instructing our beloved Prophet Muhammad
01:33:35 -->
01:33:36
and therefore all of us
01:33:36 -->
01:33:37
to
01:33:38 -->
01:33:39
go back to the spiritual
01:33:40 -->
01:33:40
reserve
01:33:41 -->
01:33:42
that we have.
01:33:43 -->
01:33:45
And the spiritual reserve that we have is
01:33:45 -->
01:33:46
Allah.
01:33:49 -->
01:33:50
Rely on Allah.
01:33:51 -->
01:33:52
Ask Allah.
01:33:54 -->
01:33:55
Ask Allah for help.
01:33:57 -->
01:33:59
Better your relationship with Allah.
01:34:00 -->
01:34:02
That's a very powerful tool.
01:34:04 -->
01:34:04
And then
01:34:05 -->
01:34:05
commitment.
01:34:09 -->
01:34:10
Serve Allah.
01:34:12 -->
01:34:14
Allah is your number one priority
01:34:15 -->
01:34:17
until that which is certain comes to you.
01:34:17 -->
01:34:18
Commitment.
01:34:19 -->
01:34:20
Commitment
01:34:20 -->
01:34:22
to serve Allah,
01:34:23 -->
01:34:24
to be on the right path, to do
01:34:24 -->
01:34:25
what you can do
01:34:27 -->
01:34:28
as human beings
01:34:29 -->
01:34:32
for Islam and for what we are going
01:34:32 -->
01:34:32
through,
01:34:33 -->
01:34:36
till that which is certain comes to you.
01:34:37 -->
01:34:39
So rely on the spiritual reserve,
01:34:40 -->
01:34:44
and the spiritual reserve that does not end
01:34:44 -->
01:34:46
is Allah
01:34:48 -->
01:34:49
This is my message to you, my dear
01:34:49 -->
01:34:51
brothers and sisters.
01:34:52 -->
01:34:53
Don't get despair.
01:34:54 -->
01:34:55
Don't get
01:34:56 -->
01:34:56
overwhelmed,
01:34:57 -->
01:35:00
but what by what we are going through.
01:35:00 -->
01:35:01
Rather,
01:35:02 -->
01:35:04
take ownership of this situation.
01:35:04 -->
01:35:06
Try as human beings,
01:35:07 -->
01:35:09
and I'm saying as human beings,
01:35:10 -->
01:35:12
to do what you can do
01:35:12 -->
01:35:12
for
01:35:13 -->
01:35:16
these problems and for the sake of Islam.
01:35:17 -->
01:35:19
And if there is a practical suggestion, my
01:35:19 -->
01:35:20
dear brothers and sisters,
01:35:21 -->
01:35:22
that let us
01:35:22 -->
01:35:24
help this community.
01:35:25 -->
01:35:27
We have this is the last stretch,
01:35:28 -->
01:35:28
and
01:35:28 -->
01:35:30
I, and Mashallah,
01:35:31 -->
01:35:32
my heart
01:35:33 -->
01:35:34
was overjoyed
01:35:34 -->
01:35:36
when I saw the development
01:35:37 -->
01:35:39
in this beautiful masjid. So I ask each
01:35:39 -->
01:35:42
and every one of you to complete this
01:35:42 -->
01:35:43
project inshallah before
01:35:44 -->
01:35:46
the month of Ramadan. May Allah reward
01:35:47 -->
01:35:48
all of you. May Allah
01:35:49 -->
01:35:49
forgive us
01:35:57 -->
01:35:57
all.
01:37:49 -->
01:37:50
My dear brothers and sisters,
01:37:52 -->
01:37:54
welcome to round 2 of,
01:37:55 -->
01:37:57
the presentation about
01:37:58 -->
01:37:59
upholding moderation,
01:38:00 -->
01:38:00
resisting
01:38:00 -->
01:38:01
radicalization,
01:38:03 -->
01:38:05
which we started last night
01:38:06 -->
01:38:08
with this blessed gathering,
01:38:10 -->
01:38:11
and welcome for
01:38:12 -->
01:38:13
the newcomers.
01:38:16 -->
01:38:16
Basically,
01:38:17 -->
01:38:17
I
01:38:18 -->
01:38:20
wrote a detailed presentation
01:38:21 -->
01:38:22
for these
01:38:23 -->
01:38:24
3 consecutive
01:38:25 -->
01:38:26
evenings.
01:38:28 -->
01:38:31
They revolve around the issue of moderation.
01:38:33 -->
01:38:34
And
01:38:35 -->
01:38:38
tomorrow evening we are going to delve into
01:38:39 -->
01:38:43
the danger of extremism and radicalization.
01:38:45 -->
01:38:46
And we said that
01:38:47 -->
01:38:47
this
01:38:49 -->
01:38:50
series
01:38:50 -->
01:38:51
of
01:38:52 -->
01:38:54
engagement and discussion
01:38:55 -->
01:38:56
is very important
01:38:57 -->
01:38:58
as effectively
01:39:00 -->
01:39:00
engaging
01:39:03 -->
01:39:04
among ourselves
01:39:04 -->
01:39:04
about,
01:39:05 -->
01:39:07
our deen, our faith
01:39:09 -->
01:39:12
which as you all know is facing a
01:39:12 -->
01:39:13
lot of,
01:39:14 -->
01:39:15
challenges.
01:39:16 -->
01:39:19
We discussed in the Khutbah for those of
01:39:19 -->
01:39:20
you who were,
01:39:22 -->
01:39:22
who had
01:39:23 -->
01:39:25
attended the Khutbah today. We talked about,
01:39:26 -->
01:39:28
these issues.
01:39:29 -->
01:39:31
And we said that what we
01:39:31 -->
01:39:33
are going to do is that to break
01:39:33 -->
01:39:36
down the discussion into points,
01:39:36 -->
01:39:37
bullet points.
01:39:38 -->
01:39:39
We briefly touched on,
01:39:40 -->
01:39:41
4 points,
01:39:42 -->
01:39:42
yesterday
01:39:43 -->
01:39:44
evening.
01:39:44 -->
01:39:46
And we are going to
01:39:46 -->
01:39:48
talk about 6 points
01:39:50 -->
01:39:51
this evening.
01:39:51 -->
01:39:53
I'm aware that,
01:39:53 -->
01:39:56
there was not sufficient time for
01:39:57 -->
01:40:00
interaction and engagement and questions and answers.
01:40:01 -->
01:40:02
So basically,
01:40:03 -->
01:40:04
we have,
01:40:05 -->
01:40:05
2 options.
01:40:06 -->
01:40:07
We can
01:40:08 -->
01:40:09
start right now
01:40:10 -->
01:40:13
by opening the floor for questions and answers
01:40:13 -->
01:40:13
and
01:40:14 -->
01:40:15
reflections and comments
01:40:17 -->
01:40:18
to make up
01:40:18 -->
01:40:20
for what we have missed yesterday
01:40:21 -->
01:40:21
evening.
01:40:22 -->
01:40:25
Or we go about the presentation
01:40:26 -->
01:40:27
for about,
01:40:28 -->
01:40:29
35 minutes
01:40:30 -->
01:40:31
and
01:40:31 -->
01:40:34
devote the last half an hour segment
01:40:35 -->
01:40:38
for questions and answers. I I do understand
01:40:38 -->
01:40:38
that
01:40:39 -->
01:40:42
some of you have many questions and comments,
01:40:43 -->
01:40:45
so the choice is yours.
01:40:47 -->
01:40:48
Okay, so we'll
01:40:49 -->
01:40:50
go with
01:40:50 -->
01:40:51
the presentation
01:40:52 -->
01:40:53
for about 35 minutes.
01:40:55 -->
01:40:56
Now
01:40:57 -->
01:40:58
we, can I ask
01:40:58 -->
01:41:02
to raise your hand somehow after 5 minutes,
01:41:02 -->
01:41:03
after 35 minutes,
01:41:04 -->
01:41:04
so we
01:41:05 -->
01:41:07
become conscious of the time?
01:41:09 -->
01:41:11
So we will talk about the 5th point
01:41:12 -->
01:41:13
and very very briefly
01:41:14 -->
01:41:16
we talked about the,
01:41:17 -->
01:41:18
lofty goals of,
01:41:20 -->
01:41:21
all religions.
01:41:21 -->
01:41:22
We talked about
01:41:23 -->
01:41:24
the 5
01:41:24 -->
01:41:26
higher purposes of Islamic law.
01:41:27 -->
01:41:29
We talked about the best way to engage
01:41:30 -->
01:41:30
the Quran,
01:41:31 -->
01:41:33
the best way to engage hadith,
01:41:34 -->
01:41:36
the best way to engage
01:41:36 -->
01:41:39
Islamic heritage and Islamic legacy.
01:41:40 -->
01:41:40
And
01:41:41 -->
01:41:43
now the 5th point for those of you
01:41:43 -->
01:41:44
who have this presentation,
01:41:47 -->
01:41:49
here it is written, I'm going to read
01:41:49 -->
01:41:50
and then
01:41:50 -->
01:41:50
elaborate
01:41:51 -->
01:41:51
further.
01:41:52 -->
01:41:54
It is written, reform
01:41:55 -->
01:41:55
and renewal
01:41:57 -->
01:41:57
is religiously
01:41:59 -->
01:41:59
mandated
01:41:59 -->
01:42:01
in our faith.
01:42:02 -->
01:42:03
Reform and renewal
01:42:04 -->
01:42:05
is religiously mandated.
01:42:06 -->
01:42:08
It is not an option.
01:42:08 -->
01:42:11
It is an imperative. It is an obligation
01:42:12 -->
01:42:12
to
01:42:13 -->
01:42:14
come up
01:42:14 -->
01:42:15
with solutions
01:42:16 -->
01:42:16
that
01:42:17 -->
01:42:17
basically
01:42:19 -->
01:42:22
relate to our concerns and our issues
01:42:22 -->
01:42:23
living
01:42:25 -->
01:42:27
in this time and age.
01:42:32 -->
01:42:35
The problem is that, my brothers and sisters,
01:42:35 -->
01:42:35
is that
01:42:36 -->
01:42:37
with the issue of
01:42:39 -->
01:42:39
reforming
01:42:40 -->
01:42:41
or reformation
01:42:41 -->
01:42:42
or
01:42:42 -->
01:42:43
renewal,
01:42:44 -->
01:42:44
we
01:42:46 -->
01:42:46
unfortunately,
01:42:47 -->
01:42:48
some of us
01:42:48 -->
01:42:50
feel a little bit
01:42:50 -->
01:42:52
reserved or conservative
01:42:53 -->
01:42:54
not to engage
01:42:55 -->
01:42:56
in this
01:42:57 -->
01:42:57
imperative
01:42:58 -->
01:42:59
of renewing the faith,
01:43:00 -->
01:43:01
of reforming
01:43:01 -->
01:43:02
our situations.
01:43:04 -->
01:43:06
And there is a word
01:43:07 -->
01:43:08
that is often
01:43:10 -->
01:43:11
put on our face
01:43:13 -->
01:43:16
if we try to renew the face
01:43:16 -->
01:43:18
or reform the face,
01:43:19 -->
01:43:22
they easily brand each and everything as
01:43:23 -->
01:43:24
bida.
01:43:24 -->
01:43:26
Oh, this is bida.
01:43:27 -->
01:43:29
This is innovation in the faith.
01:43:31 -->
01:43:32
While
01:43:32 -->
01:43:33
they
01:43:34 -->
01:43:35
unfortunately misunderstand
01:43:37 -->
01:43:38
the word bidah,
01:43:39 -->
01:43:39
okay,
01:43:41 -->
01:43:42
The word bidah
01:43:43 -->
01:43:44
to be
01:43:46 -->
01:43:46
understood
01:43:47 -->
01:43:47
clearly,
01:43:48 -->
01:43:49
clearly
01:43:50 -->
01:43:51
means
01:43:53 -->
01:43:54
something
01:43:55 -->
01:43:55
that
01:43:56 -->
01:43:58
is in sharp conflict
01:43:58 -->
01:44:00
with the basics of Islam.
01:44:02 -->
01:44:02
Okay.
01:44:03 -->
01:44:05
Something that is not religiously
01:44:05 -->
01:44:05
founded.
01:44:08 -->
01:44:09
Something that is against
01:44:10 -->
01:44:10
the spirit
01:44:11 -->
01:44:12
of Islam.
01:44:13 -->
01:44:15
This is what Bidah is.
01:44:18 -->
01:44:19
Now with customs,
01:44:22 -->
01:44:23
with norms,
01:44:26 -->
01:44:27
with worldly
01:44:27 -->
01:44:28
things,
01:44:31 -->
01:44:33
okay, bena does not exist.
01:44:35 -->
01:44:36
Even in terms of
01:44:37 -->
01:44:38
worship,
01:44:40 -->
01:44:41
there is a good
01:44:43 -->
01:44:45
bidah and there is a bad bidah.
01:44:46 -->
01:44:48
Do you know, my brothers and sisters,
01:44:50 -->
01:44:50
in
01:44:51 -->
01:44:52
the call to prayer?
01:44:53 -->
01:44:55
We have a call to prayer. Before we
01:44:55 -->
01:44:56
start
01:44:56 -->
01:44:58
praying, there is a call to prayer.
01:45:00 -->
01:45:01
Do you know
01:45:03 -->
01:45:04
that in fajr
01:45:04 -->
01:45:07
call to prayer, as in fajr,
01:45:08 -->
01:45:11
it is different from the other calls of
01:45:11 -->
01:45:11
prayer.
01:45:12 -->
01:45:13
What is the difference?
01:45:16 -->
01:45:17
Which
01:45:17 -->
01:45:18
means prayer
01:45:19 -->
01:45:20
is better than
01:45:20 -->
01:45:21
sleep.
01:45:22 -->
01:45:24
This was an innovation.
01:45:24 -->
01:45:25
This was a bidah.
01:45:27 -->
01:45:28
This addition
01:45:30 -->
01:45:31
to the wording
01:45:32 -->
01:45:32
of
01:45:33 -->
01:45:34
the adhan
01:45:34 -->
01:45:36
was actually introduced by
01:45:37 -->
01:45:38
Sayyid Nabila.
01:45:39 -->
01:45:40
And the prophet
01:45:41 -->
01:45:43
thought it is better to include it
01:45:44 -->
01:45:44
in
01:45:45 -->
01:45:45
the
01:45:46 -->
01:45:48
call to prayer to the adhan, so it
01:45:48 -->
01:45:50
is it was introduced.
01:45:51 -->
01:45:54
Do you know that also tarawih prayer,
01:45:56 -->
01:45:57
is a biddah?
01:45:58 -->
01:46:00
Okay, but it is a good one.
01:46:01 -->
01:46:04
Okay. Do you know that usually when a
01:46:04 -->
01:46:05
Muslim
01:46:06 -->
01:46:07
makes ablution
01:46:08 -->
01:46:09
ready for the prayer,
01:46:11 -->
01:46:12
It is
01:46:14 -->
01:46:16
recommended that once
01:46:17 -->
01:46:18
you make the ablution,
01:46:18 -->
01:46:19
you pray
01:46:21 -->
01:46:22
2 raka,
01:46:22 -->
01:46:24
2 units of prayer.
01:46:24 -->
01:46:25
This is also
01:46:26 -->
01:46:27
a bidah.
01:46:28 -->
01:46:29
It is actually
01:46:29 -->
01:46:31
was done by
01:46:32 -->
01:46:33
Sayyidna
01:46:33 -->
01:46:33
Saad,
01:46:34 -->
01:46:35
ibn Obadah,
01:46:36 -->
01:46:37
and
01:46:37 -->
01:46:38
he
01:46:39 -->
01:46:40
did this
01:46:41 -->
01:46:43
and the prophet told him, I
01:46:43 -->
01:46:44
saw you in
01:46:45 -->
01:46:48
the highest ranks in paradise. What is it
01:46:48 -->
01:46:50
that you do? He told him
01:46:51 -->
01:46:53
that once I make udu,
01:46:53 -->
01:46:57
I make the ablution, I stand up in
01:46:57 -->
01:46:59
prayer for 2 units of prayer and
01:47:00 -->
01:47:02
the prophet approved this.
01:47:03 -->
01:47:04
Okay?
01:47:05 -->
01:47:07
Now just think about it.
01:47:07 -->
01:47:09
If the prophet, peace be upon him, was
01:47:09 -->
01:47:10
born
01:47:11 -->
01:47:12
in Buffalo,
01:47:13 -->
01:47:15
what kind of clothing he would wear?
01:47:17 -->
01:47:18
Exactly.
01:47:18 -->
01:47:19
Okay.
01:47:20 -->
01:47:20
So
01:47:22 -->
01:47:24
this has nothing to do with,
01:47:24 -->
01:47:25
with bida
01:47:25 -->
01:47:26
as
01:47:26 -->
01:47:27
religiously
01:47:28 -->
01:47:29
disliked act.
01:47:30 -->
01:47:34
Now bidah again should be defined as something
01:47:34 -->
01:47:35
that is going
01:47:35 -->
01:47:36
against
01:47:36 -->
01:47:37
the religion.
01:47:38 -->
01:47:41
Like for example, introducing a 6th prayer.
01:47:42 -->
01:47:43
This is bidah,
01:47:43 -->
01:47:44
okay?
01:47:46 -->
01:47:47
Like for example,
01:47:47 -->
01:47:49
instead of 4
01:47:49 -->
01:47:51
units of prayer, I will say 3.
01:47:52 -->
01:47:54
That's something that goes against
01:47:55 -->
01:47:57
the principles of the faith.
01:47:59 -->
01:48:02
Now think about even collecting the Quran in
01:48:02 -->
01:48:02
1
01:48:03 -->
01:48:05
book, in a book form.
01:48:06 -->
01:48:08
This was an innovation. The pro the prophet
01:48:08 -->
01:48:10
himself did not do it.
01:48:10 -->
01:48:14
But the community after his death thought that
01:48:14 -->
01:48:15
this is something good
01:48:16 -->
01:48:17
to collect
01:48:17 -->
01:48:19
the Quran in 1 book form.
01:48:20 -->
01:48:23
But it turned out to be the best
01:48:23 -->
01:48:24
option
01:48:24 -->
01:48:26
that could have been made
01:48:26 -->
01:48:28
and we are thankful
01:48:28 -->
01:48:31
for the companions who thought about this.
01:48:31 -->
01:48:32
Okay.
01:48:34 -->
01:48:37
So bidah is defined as something that goes
01:48:37 -->
01:48:40
against the principles of Islam. Other than that,
01:48:42 -->
01:48:45
we can see. If it is good, we
01:48:45 -->
01:48:47
say it is good. Bad, we say it
01:48:47 -->
01:48:47
is bad.
01:48:48 -->
01:48:48
Okay.
01:48:49 -->
01:48:51
You know or you relate
01:48:52 -->
01:48:54
to some of us unfortunately
01:48:55 -->
01:48:56
who even forbid
01:48:56 -->
01:48:57
eating with the spoon.
01:48:58 -->
01:49:00
You say you eat and you eat with
01:49:00 -->
01:49:01
the 3 fingers
01:49:02 -->
01:49:03
and that's the only
01:49:04 -->
01:49:05
option you have.
01:49:06 -->
01:49:06
Okay?
01:49:07 -->
01:49:08
There are people who
01:49:09 -->
01:49:09
forbid,
01:49:10 -->
01:49:13
you know, wearing pants and wearing this and
01:49:13 -->
01:49:14
saying
01:49:15 -->
01:49:16
salaam to,
01:49:17 -->
01:49:19
non Muslims. They say it is bidah.
01:49:20 -->
01:49:22
Okay? So we have to look at bidah
01:49:22 -->
01:49:24
as something that goes against
01:49:25 -->
01:49:25
Islam.
01:49:26 -->
01:49:28
Now about renewing the faith,
01:49:29 -->
01:49:30
this is as I said religiously
01:49:31 -->
01:49:31
mandated
01:49:32 -->
01:49:33
that each generation
01:49:34 -->
01:49:35
has to interact
01:49:36 -->
01:49:37
with the sources
01:49:38 -->
01:49:38
of religion
01:49:39 -->
01:49:40
and
01:49:40 -->
01:49:42
they are obliged
01:49:43 -->
01:49:43
to renew
01:49:44 -->
01:49:45
the understanding,
01:49:46 -->
01:49:48
not renew the tenets of the faith,
01:49:48 -->
01:49:49
renew the understanding
01:49:50 -->
01:49:51
and the application
01:49:52 -->
01:49:53
of the faith
01:49:54 -->
01:49:54
to
01:49:55 -->
01:49:56
the living community.
01:49:57 -->
01:49:58
This is,
01:49:58 -->
01:50:00
as I said, religiously mandated.
01:50:01 -->
01:50:02
Okay?
01:50:04 -->
01:50:05
If you look at the Quran, you will
01:50:05 -->
01:50:08
find ample references to the word islah.
01:50:10 -->
01:50:12
As a matter of fact, each and every
01:50:12 -->
01:50:14
prophet that came to
01:50:15 -->
01:50:15
his
01:50:16 -->
01:50:16
community,
01:50:17 -->
01:50:21
it was a renewal movement or a reform
01:50:21 -->
01:50:22
movement.
01:50:22 -->
01:50:22
In
01:50:25 -->
01:50:28
I desire to bring about reform and renewal
01:50:29 -->
01:50:30
to you.
01:50:31 -->
01:50:31
So
01:50:32 -->
01:50:34
the call of each and every prophet was
01:50:34 -->
01:50:36
indeed a reform movement
01:50:37 -->
01:50:40
because what happens each and every generation,
01:50:42 -->
01:50:43
there is
01:50:44 -->
01:50:46
different levels of understanding
01:50:46 -->
01:50:48
and commitment even
01:50:49 -->
01:50:50
with the religious principles.
01:50:52 -->
01:50:52
So
01:50:53 -->
01:50:56
the call of renewal and reform is religiously
01:50:57 -->
01:50:58
mandated because
01:50:59 -->
01:51:00
to freshen up
01:51:00 -->
01:51:01
the message
01:51:03 -->
01:51:03
to
01:51:04 -->
01:51:06
the current lived reality of the people.
01:51:07 -->
01:51:09
The message has to be fresh.
01:51:10 -->
01:51:12
The message has to be relevant
01:51:12 -->
01:51:14
to the changing
01:51:14 -->
01:51:15
conditions
01:51:16 -->
01:51:17
of the different communities.
01:51:19 -->
01:51:21
The prophet himself
01:51:22 -->
01:51:23
has said in one of the authentic
01:51:24 -->
01:51:25
statements
01:51:26 -->
01:51:26
that
01:51:27 -->
01:51:28
God would raise
01:51:31 -->
01:51:32
someone
01:51:33 -->
01:51:34
or some group
01:51:35 -->
01:51:37
who would renew the faith
01:51:37 -->
01:51:38
for the community
01:51:39 -->
01:51:41
at the tip of every 100 years.
01:51:43 -->
01:51:43
Okay?
01:51:45 -->
01:51:46
There was consensus
01:51:46 -->
01:51:47
about
01:51:48 -->
01:51:49
the first 2 centuries,
01:51:49 -->
01:51:52
the 1st century and the 2nd century,
01:51:53 -->
01:51:54
about who
01:51:54 -->
01:51:55
were
01:51:55 -->
01:51:56
the reformers
01:51:56 -->
01:51:57
and the renewers
01:51:58 -->
01:51:59
of the faith.
01:52:00 -->
01:52:02
One in the political realm in the 1st
01:52:02 -->
01:52:03
century
01:52:03 -->
01:52:05
and one in the religious realm
01:52:06 -->
01:52:08
for the 2nd century. After that, there is
01:52:08 -->
01:52:13
no consensus. Indeed, many reformers and many people
01:52:13 -->
01:52:14
have been
01:52:14 -->
01:52:18
raised in the annals of Islamic history who
01:52:18 -->
01:52:19
did this magnificent
01:52:19 -->
01:52:20
work.
01:52:22 -->
01:52:23
The first
01:52:23 -->
01:52:23
reformer
01:52:24 -->
01:52:26
in the 1st century
01:52:26 -->
01:52:27
was
01:52:29 -->
01:52:32
Omar ibn Abd el Aziz. Omar ibn Abd
01:52:32 -->
01:52:33
el Aziz,
01:52:33 -->
01:52:34
the 6th caliph
01:52:35 -->
01:52:38
in the political realm. In the 2nd century,
01:52:38 -->
01:52:39
in the religious realm
01:52:40 -->
01:52:41
anybody knows?
01:52:44 -->
01:52:44
No.
01:52:47 -->
01:52:48
No. There was a consensus.
01:52:50 -->
01:52:51
Imam Shafir.
01:52:53 -->
01:52:55
Yes. There was a consensus
01:52:55 -->
01:52:57
that he was the
01:52:58 -->
01:53:00
second reformer in the 2nd
01:53:00 -->
01:53:02
century A. H.
01:53:03 -->
01:53:04
After that
01:53:04 -->
01:53:05
many, many reformers
01:53:06 -->
01:53:07
came
01:53:08 -->
01:53:09
and re renewed
01:53:09 -->
01:53:10
the faith
01:53:11 -->
01:53:13
to the community. Indeed
01:53:14 -->
01:53:15
if you look at the wording of the
01:53:15 -->
01:53:16
prophet
01:53:17 -->
01:53:18
you cannot just
01:53:19 -->
01:53:20
restrict it to individual
01:53:21 -->
01:53:23
because man in Arabic, man
01:53:24 -->
01:53:24
in Arabic
01:53:25 -->
01:53:27
can, can mean individuals
01:53:28 -->
01:53:29
or communities
01:53:29 -->
01:53:31
or groups
01:53:31 -->
01:53:32
or movements
01:53:33 -->
01:53:37
who can renew and reform the faith.
01:53:38 -->
01:53:40
Now mind me,
01:53:40 -->
01:53:43
and I think I have noted this,
01:53:46 -->
01:53:46
for
01:53:46 -->
01:53:48
the proper definition
01:53:49 -->
01:53:52
for the term tajdeed, which means renewal,
01:53:53 -->
01:53:55
and islah, which means reform.
01:53:56 -->
01:53:56
Okay?
01:53:59 -->
01:54:01
As you are aware and please now,
01:54:03 -->
01:54:06
listen up carefully to this point because
01:54:08 -->
01:54:10
we have been hearing calls
01:54:12 -->
01:54:12
from
01:54:13 -->
01:54:13
some
01:54:14 -->
01:54:14
Muslims
01:54:16 -->
01:54:19
who have been, yeah, fed up with what
01:54:19 -->
01:54:20
has gone on
01:54:20 -->
01:54:21
with
01:54:21 -->
01:54:22
violent extremism
01:54:23 -->
01:54:23
and terrorism
01:54:25 -->
01:54:28
and strict application of Islamic law,
01:54:29 -->
01:54:32
these things and of course,
01:54:33 -->
01:54:36
injustices being done to women,
01:54:36 -->
01:54:38
They are fed up and
01:54:39 -->
01:54:40
they are advancing
01:54:41 -->
01:54:42
certain
01:54:42 -->
01:54:43
calls
01:54:44 -->
01:54:48
that Islam needs to go through a similar
01:54:48 -->
01:54:48
process
01:54:49 -->
01:54:50
of reformation
01:54:51 -->
01:54:52
like what Christianity
01:54:54 -->
01:54:55
has gone through.
01:54:56 -->
01:54:56
Okay?
01:54:58 -->
01:54:59
And here
01:55:01 -->
01:55:05
I'm just proposing my point of view
01:55:05 -->
01:55:06
that Islam
01:55:07 -->
01:55:09
does not need to go to a similar
01:55:10 -->
01:55:11
process of reformation
01:55:11 -->
01:55:14
with a capital R, uppercase R,
01:55:15 -->
01:55:15
okay,
01:55:16 -->
01:55:18
because we are talking about a different context.
01:55:19 -->
01:55:21
We are talking about
01:55:21 -->
01:55:22
when it comes
01:55:23 -->
01:55:26
to our faith that there is there are
01:55:26 -->
01:55:26
certain
01:55:27 -->
01:55:31
dynamics in our faith that makes our faith
01:55:32 -->
01:55:33
cope with
01:55:35 -->
01:55:37
the changing circumstances,
01:55:38 -->
01:55:39
cope with the
01:55:40 -->
01:55:41
different contexts.
01:55:42 -->
01:55:45
There are certain elements within our faith that
01:55:45 -->
01:55:48
give rise to these type of things.
01:55:49 -->
01:55:50
We do not need to go to a
01:55:50 -->
01:55:53
similar process because we are talking about
01:55:54 -->
01:55:56
totally different concept concept. And
01:55:57 -->
01:55:58
I can give you,
01:55:58 -->
01:56:01
you know, the, the podium to
01:56:02 -->
01:56:04
to interact with this point,
01:56:05 -->
01:56:07
to give your own perspective,
01:56:08 -->
01:56:08
if you wish.
01:56:09 -->
01:56:09
Okay.
01:56:13 -->
01:56:14
So
01:56:14 -->
01:56:15
in my opinion,
01:56:16 -->
01:56:16
okay,
01:56:17 -->
01:56:18
yeah, these calls
01:56:21 -->
01:56:22
of reformation
01:56:22 -->
01:56:24
with an uppercase R
01:56:25 -->
01:56:26
does not relate
01:56:27 -->
01:56:30
to us Muslims living
01:56:30 -->
01:56:32
in this time and age.
01:56:33 -->
01:56:33
However,
01:56:35 -->
01:56:36
all of these grievances,
01:56:38 -->
01:56:40
all of these legitimate concerns
01:56:41 -->
01:56:43
are valid. We are not negating them.
01:56:44 -->
01:56:47
We are not negating that there are injustices.
01:56:47 -->
01:56:49
We are not negating that there are
01:56:50 -->
01:56:51
a lot of,
01:56:52 -->
01:56:53
especially
01:56:53 -->
01:56:54
to our sisters
01:56:55 -->
01:56:56
and unfortunately,
01:56:57 -->
01:56:58
and this has not
01:56:59 -->
01:57:01
been proven from our
01:57:01 -->
01:57:04
sources unfortunately, but from
01:57:04 -->
01:57:05
mainly certain
01:57:06 -->
01:57:06
traditional,
01:57:07 -->
01:57:08
misconceptions
01:57:09 -->
01:57:09
unfortunately
01:57:10 -->
01:57:11
which have been
01:57:12 -->
01:57:12
built up
01:57:13 -->
01:57:14
across many centuries,
01:57:15 -->
01:57:16
in inadequacies,
01:57:17 -->
01:57:17
injustices
01:57:18 -->
01:57:19
being done to our
01:57:20 -->
01:57:22
sisters, for example, just a case in point.
01:57:22 -->
01:57:23
So
01:57:23 -->
01:57:24
we are
01:57:25 -->
01:57:26
receiving these legitimate
01:57:27 -->
01:57:28
concerns and calls
01:57:30 -->
01:57:31
as valid.
01:57:31 -->
01:57:34
We have to do something about them.
01:57:35 -->
01:57:38
Why is it, for example, that
01:57:38 -->
01:57:40
Muslim communities in terms
01:57:40 -->
01:57:42
of corruption index,
01:57:44 -->
01:57:47
Muslim countries in terms of corruption index, you
01:57:47 -->
01:57:48
will see
01:57:50 -->
01:57:51
Muslims are in the
01:57:52 -->
01:57:53
top. Why?
01:57:53 -->
01:57:54
Okay.
01:57:57 -->
01:57:57
Why
01:57:59 -->
01:58:00
you see,
01:58:01 -->
01:58:02
as I'm going to talk about
01:58:03 -->
01:58:03
that,
01:58:05 -->
01:58:08
and this relates to Doctor. Farida's
01:58:08 -->
01:58:10
concern, that
01:58:10 -->
01:58:11
unfortunately
01:58:12 -->
01:58:12
somehow
01:58:13 -->
01:58:16
in terms of, how to make your prayer
01:58:16 -->
01:58:17
or how to,
01:58:18 -->
01:58:19
make wudu,
01:58:19 -->
01:58:22
you have very expansive elaborations
01:58:22 -->
01:58:24
about these types of things
01:58:25 -->
01:58:27
while in issues that
01:58:28 -->
01:58:29
are of relevance to
01:58:30 -->
01:58:31
everyday
01:58:32 -->
01:58:34
issues and concerns,
01:58:35 -->
01:58:38
and we have little or no guidance.
01:58:39 -->
01:58:40
Okay. Why we have
01:58:41 -->
01:58:41
many
01:58:42 -->
01:58:43
volumes
01:58:43 -->
01:58:44
talking about
01:58:45 -->
01:58:46
ritual purification
01:58:49 -->
01:58:49
and
01:58:49 -->
01:58:51
very little or no
01:58:52 -->
01:58:53
guidance about
01:58:54 -->
01:58:54
vital
01:58:55 -->
01:58:58
issues that are confronting us
01:58:58 -->
01:58:59
day in and day out.
01:59:00 -->
01:59:01
Why there is poor governance
01:59:02 -->
01:59:04
in Muslim countries,
01:59:04 -->
01:59:05
okay,
01:59:05 -->
01:59:07
while in non Muslim countries
01:59:08 -->
01:59:10
they are actually applying the principles
01:59:11 -->
01:59:12
of true faith.
01:59:12 -->
01:59:13
There are certain
01:59:14 -->
01:59:15
issues
01:59:16 -->
01:59:17
that we really need
01:59:18 -->
01:59:19
to probe into
01:59:20 -->
01:59:21
in an innovative
01:59:22 -->
01:59:23
legitimate ways.
01:59:25 -->
01:59:26
And
01:59:26 -->
01:59:28
I always, as I said yesterday,
01:59:29 -->
01:59:32
that Islamic law, there is a built in
01:59:32 -->
01:59:32
mechanism
01:59:34 -->
01:59:36
of relevance, of engagement.
01:59:37 -->
01:59:37
Okay.
01:59:38 -->
01:59:41
Islam came to make life easy on people.
01:59:43 -->
01:59:46
It did not come to drive people crazy
01:59:46 -->
01:59:48
or make their life miserable.
01:59:48 -->
01:59:50
This is what the Quran said.
01:59:58 -->
01:59:59
Allah God is addressing
01:59:59 -->
02:00:00
our Prophet
02:00:02 -->
02:00:05
And it's telling him that we did not
02:00:06 -->
02:00:09
reveal this Quran to you to make you
02:00:09 -->
02:00:10
miserable.
02:00:11 -->
02:00:13
We revealed it to make you happy,
02:00:14 -->
02:00:16
to make your community happy.
02:00:16 -->
02:00:18
This is the purpose. But unfortunately
02:00:19 -->
02:00:19
because
02:00:19 -->
02:00:22
of the lack of understanding of these vital
02:00:22 -->
02:00:23
issues
02:00:23 -->
02:00:26
and the lack of understanding that renewing the
02:00:26 -->
02:00:28
faith and making it relevant
02:00:28 -->
02:00:29
to the conditions
02:00:30 -->
02:00:32
of the people is religiously
02:00:33 -->
02:00:34
mandated. Unfortunately
02:00:35 -->
02:00:36
there is a lack
02:00:37 -->
02:00:41
of understanding about this vital issue that we
02:00:41 -->
02:00:42
have
02:00:42 -->
02:00:43
somehow
02:00:44 -->
02:00:45
have taken
02:00:46 -->
02:00:47
renewal
02:00:47 -->
02:00:50
and reform as something bad
02:00:50 -->
02:00:52
and as something that relates
02:00:53 -->
02:00:53
to Bida.
02:00:54 -->
02:00:56
This is innovation in religion, so you are
02:00:56 -->
02:00:57
better off
02:00:58 -->
02:00:58
not
02:00:59 -->
02:01:00
engaging in any
02:01:01 -->
02:01:01
real
02:01:02 -->
02:01:02
research.
02:01:03 -->
02:01:04
And as I said
02:01:05 -->
02:01:06
yesterday evening
02:01:07 -->
02:01:09
that we really have to be thankful
02:01:10 -->
02:01:14
to the imams and to the religious scholars
02:01:15 -->
02:01:16
who have really done
02:01:17 -->
02:01:18
their homework
02:01:19 -->
02:01:20
by
02:01:21 -->
02:01:22
providing solutions
02:01:23 -->
02:01:24
to the issues,
02:01:24 -->
02:01:25
to the concerns
02:01:26 -->
02:01:27
of their communities.
02:01:28 -->
02:01:29
They provided solutions.
02:01:32 -->
02:01:32
But
02:01:33 -->
02:01:33
unfortunately,
02:01:34 -->
02:01:35
somehow again,
02:01:35 -->
02:01:37
we have lost this spirit
02:01:37 -->
02:01:38
and we relied
02:01:40 -->
02:01:42
on very, very old
02:01:42 -->
02:01:43
opinions
02:01:44 -->
02:01:46
and we are when we are trying to
02:01:46 -->
02:01:48
relate them to our situations
02:01:50 -->
02:01:52
here in this country, for example,
02:01:53 -->
02:01:53
oftentimes
02:01:54 -->
02:01:56
do not work. So what we need
02:01:57 -->
02:01:58
is basically produce
02:01:59 -->
02:02:00
this cadre of religious
02:02:01 -->
02:02:01
leadership
02:02:02 -->
02:02:03
who both understand
02:02:03 -->
02:02:04
well
02:02:05 -->
02:02:08
the foundations and sources of Islamic law
02:02:09 -->
02:02:10
and the lived reality.
02:02:11 -->
02:02:12
The lived reality.
02:02:14 -->
02:02:15
We need homegrown
02:02:18 -->
02:02:19
Scholars
02:02:19 -->
02:02:20
homegrown,
02:02:21 -->
02:02:21
okay,
02:02:22 -->
02:02:25
with 2 legs. One leg
02:02:27 -->
02:02:30
is grounding in religious sciences and Islamic sciences,
02:02:30 -->
02:02:32
and the other leg
02:02:34 -->
02:02:36
is on the lived reality,
02:02:36 -->
02:02:37
the changing
02:02:38 -->
02:02:39
conditions,
02:02:40 -->
02:02:41
the context,
02:02:44 -->
02:02:47
where and when and how we are living
02:02:47 -->
02:02:48
or how we can
02:02:49 -->
02:02:50
make Islam relevant
02:02:51 -->
02:02:52
to
02:02:52 -->
02:02:52
our
02:02:53 -->
02:02:54
day to day concerns.
02:02:56 -->
02:02:57
And mind me,
02:02:58 -->
02:03:00
this is probably the last point about this
02:03:01 -->
02:03:01
aspect,
02:03:03 -->
02:03:04
when we are talking about
02:03:05 -->
02:03:08
this cadre of religious leadership, we are talking
02:03:08 -->
02:03:09
about a very
02:03:10 -->
02:03:10
specialized
02:03:10 -->
02:03:11
group.
02:03:12 -->
02:03:13
It is not amateurs.
02:03:14 -->
02:03:16
It is not someone who has read a
02:03:16 -->
02:03:19
couple of books or listened to a couple
02:03:19 -->
02:03:19
of lectures
02:03:20 -->
02:03:22
or have gone to a couple of,
02:03:22 -->
02:03:23
conventions,
02:03:23 -->
02:03:24
Islamic conventions
02:03:25 -->
02:03:27
or have picked up few
02:03:27 -->
02:03:31
things and, you know, on the way, but,
02:03:31 -->
02:03:33
you know, back and forth from work, you
02:03:33 -->
02:03:35
are listening or you are reading.
02:03:36 -->
02:03:38
We are talking about people
02:03:38 -->
02:03:41
who can spend their entire life and dedicate
02:03:42 -->
02:03:43
their entire life
02:03:43 -->
02:03:45
to seeking religious sciences.
02:03:46 -->
02:03:48
Unfortunately, we are lacking in this.
02:03:49 -->
02:03:50
We are lacking in this.
02:03:51 -->
02:03:54
And I have suggested before that we really
02:03:54 -->
02:03:57
need to encourage our young people and provide
02:03:57 -->
02:03:58
them with a scholarship.
02:04:00 -->
02:04:01
Scholarship funds
02:04:01 -->
02:04:02
to pursue
02:04:02 -->
02:04:03
religious sciences
02:04:04 -->
02:04:05
in an accredited
02:04:07 -->
02:04:08
academic environment
02:04:09 -->
02:04:10
while we
02:04:10 -->
02:04:14
keep polishing their skills and brushing their skills
02:04:14 -->
02:04:14
up
02:04:15 -->
02:04:16
to be able to
02:04:17 -->
02:04:18
fully understand
02:04:19 -->
02:04:20
the
02:04:21 -->
02:04:22
lived reality
02:04:23 -->
02:04:24
that we are facing
02:04:25 -->
02:04:27
in this time and age. There are
02:04:27 -->
02:04:30
several issues that we need to grapple with
02:04:31 -->
02:04:33
that affect us,
02:04:33 -->
02:04:35
but unfortunately we do not have
02:04:36 -->
02:04:38
solutions that
02:04:39 -->
02:04:40
can
02:04:40 -->
02:04:41
be
02:04:41 -->
02:04:42
a foundation
02:04:43 -->
02:04:43
for
02:04:44 -->
02:04:45
solid research.
02:04:47 -->
02:04:47
So
02:04:48 -->
02:04:51
this is something that we need to think
02:04:53 -->
02:04:54
about
02:04:55 -->
02:04:56
as we are
02:04:58 -->
02:05:01
talking about this important issue of moderation
02:05:02 -->
02:05:03
and resisting radicalization.
02:05:07 -->
02:05:08
My goodness, time is
02:05:12 -->
02:05:13
6th point,
02:05:19 -->
02:05:19
here I'm
02:05:20 -->
02:05:23
talking about the 4 paradigms of the Sira.
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Sira means the biography of the prophet.
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The 4 paradigms of the biography of the
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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
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that represent timeless guidance for Muslims
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now.
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This is very important.
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In order to understand this point,
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let me just
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tell you
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something about
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a concept in Islamic law called abrogation.
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Abrogation.
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Can anybody
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explain to me what abrogation means?
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In linguistic way, abrogation means what?
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Okay, something that is canceling
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either one thing,
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one another thing or a set of things,
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the concept of cancellation.
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This is something
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okay, and bear with me because this is
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a bit complex
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subject.
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This is something in Islamic law
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that a person
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who would like to explain the Quran or
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would like to explain hadith
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has to fully understand.
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Okay. There are certain verses
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that are canceling
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the ruling of certain
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other verses.
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And in terms of the prophetic teaching, certain
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prophetic
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statements are canceling
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another
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set of prophetic statements
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in terms of ruling, not just the verses
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or the hadith, in terms of ruling.
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So for example,
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the prophet
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forbid
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us from visiting the graves.
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You will find a hadith like that.
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But then there is another hadith that says,
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I forbid you from visiting the graves,
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but now
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visit them because it reminds you of the
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hereafter.
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And this is, by the way, for both
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men and women.
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Okay?
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So this is what the concept is about.
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Now
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what is the problem now and what what
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I'm trying to do?
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The problem lies
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when certain scholars
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expanded the concept of abrogation
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to mean
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each and everything
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that was done before,
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like the prophet for example,
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they only take his last statement
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and the other statements that he said
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in Mecca
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or when he ordered Muslims to migrate to
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Abyssinia.
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All of these statements
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and guidance
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is canceled.
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They also applied and this is very
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dangerous,
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very dangerous, and we are going to explain
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tomorrow why.
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They came to the Quran and they said
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that all verses
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talking about good relationship
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with Christians, for example,
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is, are canceled.
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And
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what we hold to be true
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are verses talking about warfare and conflict.
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So essentially to them
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that the relationship between a Muslim and a
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non Muslim
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is a relationship of conflict and warfare
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and the struggle and fighting.
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They have canceled all
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verses talking about
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good relationship
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that we should keep even with non Muslims.
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This is again very dangerous and this is
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actually the mindset
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of the terror groups.
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This is their mindset.
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They think
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that
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all verses talking about
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relations
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to maintain good relations with the other
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are canceled by verses talking about warfare
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and even verses talking about warfare
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are canceling verses
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that talking about war as a defensive measure.
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So to them,
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war is an offensive.
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It's an offensive.
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So you declare war
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on each and everybody.
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That is their
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danger.
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That's their
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pitfall,
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their error.
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Now what I am advancing and proposing
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is that
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the life of the prophet, peace be upon
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him,
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presents to us timeless
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guidance,
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timeless guidance.
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So if we find ourselves
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in situations
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like the prophet was in Mecca for example,
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very hostile
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environment.
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So we should take guidance from the prophet
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how he dealt
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with his community in a hostile environment.
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So for example,
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in 13 years of Makkah,
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people were rude to him, very hostile, persecuted
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him, stopped his message,
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harassed him, his family, his companions,
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but he never raised
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the sword against them.
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And he was very socially active
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in defending
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the rights of poor and needy.
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He participated
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in what came to be known as the
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alliance
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of the good people.
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So there were alliances and he was part
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of the community
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And people interacted with him. They entrusted him
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with money and with
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important stuff,
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you know, as a safe box,
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even with non Muslims,
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Okay? So
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this set of guidelines
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presents
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a timeless guidance for us. If we happen
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to find ourselves in such an environment,
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indeed there are lessons
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from the prophet's
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guidance
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to guide us
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how to behave
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in such an environment.
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Now similarly,
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when the prophet ordered Muslims to go to
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Abyssinia
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under a Christian king,
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a non Muslim rule,
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so to speak.
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This is again presents a timeless guidance.
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Why I'm saying this?
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Because there are
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few
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lunatics who are saying that
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Muslims in America or in the West or
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in Australia,
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they ought to migrate
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to
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to Muslim countries
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because they are not supposed to live there
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under a non Muslim rule.
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This is ridiculous
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because the prophet
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ordered the companions
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to go
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to Abyssinia
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under a Christian king.
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And now the companions, when they went there,
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they understood
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what the prophet meant. So they engaged
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in the community over there.
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They,
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according to authentic narrations,
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they
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even enrolled into army
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over there.
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They
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some of them settled there,
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so it was not just a temporary
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stay.
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Even when the prophet
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migrated to Medina and made it his hometown,
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some of them settled over there, settled over
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there.
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Okay.
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So this is again a timeless guidance for
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us.
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And this explains
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that
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regardless
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of the claims
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of the few radicals,
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Muslims
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across the history, across the history, they have
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gone to places.
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They
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settled there.
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They
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were socially
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and politically
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and religiously,
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you
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know, related to
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the conditions and contexts of these countries
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and they became
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citizens,
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practically,
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of these countries
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and contributed positively
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about,
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the well-being and welfare
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of these communities.
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So
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the point about number 6 again is that
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if you read the Sira, do not just
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focus on the last days of the prophet
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and cancel
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all the other guidance.
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You have to read it
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in such a way
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that it presents
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eternal guidance for Muslims.
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And our homework is to see which era,
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which
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time frame
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we are in as far as
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the guidance of the prophet.
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Are we in Mecca?
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Are we in Abyssinia?
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Are we in Medina
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1
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and Medina 2? The difference is that
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in Medina 1, there were a number of
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religious,
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diverse
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groups.
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Okay. And in Medina 2,
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even though
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Christians and Jews lived there but
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predominantly it was the Muslim community.
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Where are we in terms of this
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guidance?
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And you can agree with me we are
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in a Abyssinia era.
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So
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calls, why I'm saying this, why this is
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important,
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because we see also among us
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some
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people are advancing the call that okay now
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we are in in
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in in America,
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so
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let us apply Sharia law here.
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Let us
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bring about a caliphate here.
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All of these
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at this time and age
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and considering the circumstances
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of
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this country and the respect of the,
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the state laws and the constitution
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are
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irrelevant calls.
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It will
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make us go through,
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real trouble if we make these calls.
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The best that we can do is to
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look at
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this era
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that the prophet
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instructed
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his community to migrate, what the community, the
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Muslim community, did at this time,
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and what they did not do. We need
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to look at
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this guidance from this perspective.
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Let me just conclude,
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and, I touched upon it. I will just
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read, the 7th point,
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which basically,
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sums up what I have
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said.
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Relations
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with the other, we
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said that
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in in the understanding of our faith,
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this is the divine will. We are created
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differently.
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We live
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in a pluralistic
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02:17:54
world, and this is the will of Allah.
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The will of Allah.
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And Allah explains why we were created
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differently.
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The answer came from God
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to know each other, not to kill each
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other, not to despise each other. It is
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to know each other.
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I Jawad,
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raised his hand.
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Let me just read these lines.
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Islam established
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a moral and humanistic
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civilization
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that encompassed
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a plurality of religions,
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philosophies, and civilizations
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which contributed
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immensely to Muslim society.
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We see ourselves, we Muslims, see ourselves
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as
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people who have absorbed
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02:18:51
a multiplicity of civilizations.
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We have been exposed to and absorbed the
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great civilizations
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of the Persians, Indians,
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Chinese,
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and Greeks into our culture
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and intellectual life. And we benefited from all
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of them,
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as well
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as contributed
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to them.
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And the last thing, Egypt as a historical
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example, I will just
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share with you an important finding in half
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a minute.
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Egypt.
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We know historically
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that
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Islam went to Egypt
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right after
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the prophet died in the era of caliph
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Umar, the second caliph.
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Okay.
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Historically speaking, and this
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was so amazing to me to find
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because we are under the impression that when
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Islam goes to a country
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in matters of a few years,
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02:19:52
the entire population
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02:19:55
is converted to Islam. As if Yani, our
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mission is to
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02:19:59
bring people and convert them to Islam.
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02:20:01
Do you know
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02:20:03
after 250
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02:20:04
years,
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250
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years,
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the ratio of Muslims
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in Egypt was only 5%.
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This was a shocking
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02:20:17
finding for me.
02:20:18 -->
02:20:19
After 250
02:20:20 -->
02:20:20
years,
02:20:22 -->
02:20:23
the ratio of Muslims
02:20:23 -->
02:20:24
were only
02:20:25 -->
02:20:26
5%.
02:20:27 -->
02:20:28
So this tells you what?
02:20:30 -->
02:20:32
It tells you a lot of good things.
02:20:33 -->
02:20:35
That first of all, we are not just
02:20:36 -->
02:20:38
Muslims when they go to convert
02:20:40 -->
02:20:41
other people,
02:20:41 -->
02:20:43
it means that they
02:20:45 -->
02:20:45
went,
02:20:45 -->
02:20:46
they they
02:20:47 -->
02:20:48
were not having
02:20:49 -->
02:20:52
this mindset to convert people but to live
02:20:53 -->
02:20:54
peacefully, to
02:20:54 -->
02:20:56
exist, to have good relationships,
02:20:57 -->
02:20:58
to establish businesses,
02:20:59 -->
02:21:00
to intermarry.
02:21:01 -->
02:21:02
And this was the key
02:21:05 -->
02:21:05
factor.
02:21:07 -->
02:21:07
After
02:21:09 -->
02:21:10
700 years
02:21:10 -->
02:21:11
it was 50%.
02:21:12 -->
02:21:12
700
02:21:13 -->
02:21:14
years.
02:21:15 -->
02:21:16
Okay,
02:21:16 -->
02:21:18
so this tells you
02:21:19 -->
02:21:19
a lot.
02:21:20 -->
02:21:23
So I will just stop here because I
02:21:23 -->
02:21:24
promised and,
02:21:25 -->
02:21:26
let us open the floor for,
02:21:27 -->
02:21:27
discussion.
02:21:29 -->
02:21:30
Yes, brother.
02:21:30 -->
02:21:32
So we'll start.
02:21:52 -->
02:21:53
Yes, it was
02:21:54 -->
02:21:55
such a very
02:21:55 -->
02:21:56
tough time.
02:21:57 -->
02:21:59
Actually we flew in midnight
02:22:00 -->
02:22:01
the night before
02:22:02 -->
02:22:03
from Brussels,
02:22:03 -->
02:22:05
from Egypt to Brussels
02:22:06 -->
02:22:06
airport.
02:22:07 -->
02:22:08
We were transferred
02:22:08 -->
02:22:09
to the
02:22:10 -->
02:22:11
airport, to the hotel.
02:22:12 -->
02:22:14
So it was almost 3 in the
02:22:15 -->
02:22:15
morning.
02:22:16 -->
02:22:18
We just took a couple of hours of
02:22:18 -->
02:22:18
sleep,
02:22:20 -->
02:22:20
and then
02:22:21 -->
02:22:23
we went for breakfast. And this is when
02:22:24 -->
02:22:26
we heard the news
02:22:26 -->
02:22:29
about the blast in the airport.
02:22:31 -->
02:22:33
I immediately called
02:22:33 -->
02:22:35
the ambassador because we were supposed to be
02:22:35 -->
02:22:38
in the European Parliament at 9 AM.
02:22:39 -->
02:22:39
Okay.
02:22:40 -->
02:22:42
And the attack was 8:0:5,
02:22:42 -->
02:22:43
something like that.
02:22:44 -->
02:22:45
So,
02:22:45 -->
02:22:48
I called. So they said that everything is
02:22:48 -->
02:22:49
still on.
02:22:51 -->
02:22:52
And we demanded,
02:22:53 -->
02:22:54
you know, higher security
02:22:54 -->
02:22:56
and petrol and,
02:22:56 -->
02:22:58
so they came. We went.
02:22:59 -->
02:23:01
And this is on the way we
02:23:02 -->
02:23:02
heard
02:23:03 -->
02:23:03
the other
02:23:04 -->
02:23:04
blast,
02:23:06 -->
02:23:07
in the subway
02:23:07 -->
02:23:11
station, which was about 800 meters away from
02:23:11 -->
02:23:12
the European Parliament,
02:23:13 -->
02:23:14
we, we heard actually.
02:23:15 -->
02:23:18
And soon after we got into the, the
02:23:18 -->
02:23:19
parliament
02:23:20 -->
02:23:23
and they closed the roads after that. Okay.
02:23:23 -->
02:23:25
So basically it was
02:23:28 -->
02:23:28
good
02:23:29 -->
02:23:31
in a way that the one of the
02:23:31 -->
02:23:32
highest
02:23:32 -->
02:23:35
religious clerics in the Sunni Muslim world
02:23:36 -->
02:23:39
was at the European Parliament to condemn and
02:23:39 -->
02:23:41
to explain what Islam
02:23:41 -->
02:23:44
has to say about these types
02:23:45 -->
02:23:46
of acts.
02:23:46 -->
02:23:47
Okay.
02:23:48 -->
02:23:50
We were of course bombarded
02:23:51 -->
02:23:52
with questions about
02:23:53 -->
02:23:56
why is this happening, why it is Islam,
02:23:56 -->
02:23:57
you know,
02:23:57 -->
02:23:59
what you are going to do with these
02:23:59 -->
02:24:00
kind of,
02:24:01 -->
02:24:01
few radicals,
02:24:02 -->
02:24:04
what kind of programs for,
02:24:04 -->
02:24:05
you know,
02:24:05 -->
02:24:08
engaging them or correcting the misconceptions
02:24:09 -->
02:24:09
that they have.
02:24:10 -->
02:24:11
It was very stormy,
02:24:13 -->
02:24:14
2 hours
02:24:14 -->
02:24:15
thing.
02:24:16 -->
02:24:17
But to me,
02:24:18 -->
02:24:20
I think it was very vital
02:24:21 -->
02:24:21
that we
02:24:22 -->
02:24:25
talk about these types of issues.
02:24:27 -->
02:24:29
And right after we departed,
02:24:30 -->
02:24:31
the king,
02:24:32 -->
02:24:34
the king of Belgium
02:24:35 -->
02:24:35
called us
02:24:36 -->
02:24:39
and he was informed about what we have
02:24:39 -->
02:24:42
said. So it was good in a way
02:24:42 -->
02:24:42
to,
02:24:44 -->
02:24:44
address
02:24:45 -->
02:24:46
these issues.
02:24:46 -->
02:24:48
But of course, you know,
02:24:48 -->
02:24:51
we were going with mixed feelings. Of course
02:24:51 -->
02:24:52
we feel the responsibility
02:24:53 -->
02:24:54
because now,
02:24:54 -->
02:24:56
you know, you can talk about,
02:24:57 -->
02:25:00
a 100 hours about Islam and Islam is
02:25:00 -->
02:25:02
the religion of peace and
02:25:03 -->
02:25:05
this and that. And one act of terror,
02:25:07 -->
02:25:08
you know, drives you
02:25:09 -->
02:25:11
maybe 500 years back.
02:25:12 -->
02:25:13
This is a collective responsibility.
02:25:14 -->
02:25:17
We talked to them and we are actually
02:25:17 -->
02:25:19
one of the positive things. I'm glad that
02:25:19 -->
02:25:22
you brought this. One of the positive things
02:25:22 -->
02:25:23
that we
02:25:24 -->
02:25:26
talked to the king about
02:25:27 -->
02:25:29
was that he should suggest a number of
02:25:29 -->
02:25:31
imams, religious clerics,
02:25:31 -->
02:25:33
to come to our office.
02:25:33 -->
02:25:36
And then we reeducate them and we
02:25:36 -->
02:25:40
engage them about these issues of radicalization
02:25:40 -->
02:25:43
and how best to address them. We are
02:25:43 -->
02:25:45
receiving the 1st batch in May.
02:25:46 -->
02:25:47
So that's a very positive,
02:25:48 -->
02:25:49
development.
02:26:13 -->
02:26:14
Yes. It is.
02:26:20 -->
02:26:22
I I totally agree with you. I'm just
02:26:22 -->
02:26:23
going to refer
02:26:24 -->
02:26:26
to the wording of the grand Mufti. He
02:26:26 -->
02:26:29
said it is a two way street. This
02:26:29 -->
02:26:31
is how he framed it.
02:26:32 -->
02:26:33
We share
02:26:33 -->
02:26:34
responsibility,
02:26:34 -->
02:26:35
but you also
02:26:35 -->
02:26:36
carry,
02:26:37 -->
02:26:39
you know, a big burden of the responsibility.
02:26:40 -->
02:26:41
And we talked about
02:26:41 -->
02:26:42
integration and,
02:26:44 -->
02:26:44
different programs
02:26:45 -->
02:26:47
to, help integrate
02:26:47 -->
02:26:48
these communities.
02:27:10 -->
02:27:10
In principle
02:27:12 -->
02:27:13
freedom of expression
02:27:13 -->
02:27:14
is sacred.
02:27:16 -->
02:27:17
In principle
02:27:17 -->
02:27:19
it is sacred,
02:27:19 -->
02:27:20
right?
02:27:20 -->
02:27:24
That Islam also came to guarantee and ensure.
02:27:25 -->
02:27:27
If you look at the Quran from an
02:27:27 -->
02:27:28
objective view,
02:27:29 -->
02:27:31
why Allah would
02:27:33 -->
02:27:34
include
02:27:34 -->
02:27:35
the arguments
02:27:36 -->
02:27:37
of disbelievers,
02:27:37 -->
02:27:39
for example, about him?
02:27:40 -->
02:27:41
Allah recorded
02:27:43 -->
02:27:44
these arguments
02:27:45 -->
02:27:46
even though
02:27:47 -->
02:27:50
they were talking about God in
02:27:51 -->
02:27:52
an improper way.
02:27:54 -->
02:27:57
Why Allah talked about the importance
02:27:57 -->
02:27:58
of the intellect
02:27:59 -->
02:28:00
and the mind
02:28:01 -->
02:28:01
as
02:28:02 -->
02:28:03
a tool
02:28:03 -->
02:28:04
for reaching
02:28:05 -->
02:28:05
God.
02:28:08 -->
02:28:11
Why the prophet, peace be upon him, in
02:28:11 -->
02:28:11
his
02:28:12 -->
02:28:12
model
02:28:14 -->
02:28:15
he
02:28:15 -->
02:28:16
did
02:28:16 -->
02:28:17
not kill
02:28:19 -->
02:28:21
the people who harassed him and
02:28:21 -->
02:28:23
verbally abused him
02:28:24 -->
02:28:26
and have done horrendous things to him.
02:28:27 -->
02:28:28
Okay?
02:28:29 -->
02:28:32
But of course you agree with me that
02:28:33 -->
02:28:34
this right
02:28:37 -->
02:28:38
of freedom of expression
02:28:41 -->
02:28:42
has to be
02:28:43 -->
02:28:43
within
02:28:44 -->
02:28:45
a certain framework.
02:28:46 -->
02:28:46
Okay?
02:28:46 -->
02:28:49
And we're not talking about Islam, we're talking
02:28:49 -->
02:28:51
about all legal systems.
02:28:52 -->
02:28:53
They,
02:28:54 -->
02:28:55
they they say
02:28:58 -->
02:28:58
absolute
02:28:59 -->
02:29:01
freedom means absolute chaos.
02:29:02 -->
02:29:03
Okay? So
02:29:04 -->
02:29:06
there have to be
02:29:06 -->
02:29:07
certain
02:29:07 -->
02:29:07
boundaries
02:29:08 -->
02:29:09
for
02:29:10 -->
02:29:10
this right.
02:29:11 -->
02:29:13
Now how we can interpret
02:29:14 -->
02:29:15
these boundaries,
02:29:16 -->
02:29:17
legal systems do.
02:29:18 -->
02:29:20
Legal systems do.
02:29:20 -->
02:29:23
In the case of Pakistan, I'm not aware
02:29:24 -->
02:29:25
of what
02:29:25 -->
02:29:26
the laws
02:29:27 -->
02:29:30
are in terms of blasphemy law.
02:29:34 -->
02:29:36
Okay. And what what constitutes
02:29:37 -->
02:29:39
I personally, personally don't agree
02:29:40 -->
02:29:41
with this type
02:29:43 -->
02:29:45
of law. This is my personal
02:29:45 -->
02:29:46
opinion
02:29:46 -->
02:29:47
because
02:29:48 -->
02:29:50
in one way, how to interpret
02:29:52 -->
02:29:54
that something is blasphemous
02:29:54 -->
02:29:56
and something that is not blasphemous.
02:29:56 -->
02:29:58
There has to be a due process
02:29:59 -->
02:30:00
to assess
02:30:01 -->
02:30:02
this
02:30:02 -->
02:30:04
and also about the impact
02:30:06 -->
02:30:07
of certain
02:30:08 -->
02:30:09
blasphemous statements
02:30:10 -->
02:30:11
on the community.
02:30:12 -->
02:30:15
How to assess that, you know, because basically
02:30:18 -->
02:30:21
religious symbols and icons and the Quran and
02:30:22 -->
02:30:23
the prophet's
02:30:23 -->
02:30:24
personal
02:30:25 -->
02:30:26
example ought to be
02:30:27 -->
02:30:28
respected in Muslim countries.
02:30:29 -->
02:30:33
These are the symbols, the identity for us
02:30:33 -->
02:30:35
and nobody can just
02:30:36 -->
02:30:39
say certain things that will eventually bring about
02:30:39 -->
02:30:40
chaos
02:30:41 -->
02:30:42
in the community.
02:30:42 -->
02:30:43
We need to
02:30:44 -->
02:30:44
see
02:30:45 -->
02:30:46
which is which.
02:30:47 -->
02:30:50
So a statement that can be interpreted
02:30:50 -->
02:30:54
as blasphemous ought to be investigated properly. So
02:30:55 -->
02:30:56
the person has to have
02:30:58 -->
02:31:00
the due process of the law,
02:31:00 -->
02:31:03
as to have the chance to defend himself.
02:31:04 -->
02:31:06
If he negates what he said,
02:31:06 -->
02:31:08
if he repents,
02:31:08 -->
02:31:11
if he said I don't mean this, you
02:31:11 -->
02:31:12
know,
02:31:13 -->
02:31:14
he has to be acquitted
02:31:15 -->
02:31:16
from
02:31:16 -->
02:31:17
these
02:31:18 -->
02:31:19
type
02:31:19 -->
02:31:21
of statements and allegations.
02:31:22 -->
02:31:24
I understand that as you mentioned it is
02:31:24 -->
02:31:25
taking a political
02:31:26 -->
02:31:28
twist and this is very dangerous
02:31:28 -->
02:31:29
to include
02:31:30 -->
02:31:31
such
02:31:32 -->
02:31:33
religious
02:31:33 -->
02:31:34
principles
02:31:34 -->
02:31:36
and symbols and icons
02:31:36 -->
02:31:37
into the
02:31:40 -->
02:31:41
dirty game of politics
02:31:42 -->
02:31:45
will eventually lead to chaos.
02:31:46 -->
02:31:47
But as I mentioned,
02:31:47 -->
02:31:49
you know, if you look objectively
02:31:50 -->
02:31:53
in the Koran you will see ample references
02:31:53 -->
02:31:56
to the protection of the freedom of expression.
02:32:25 -->
02:32:25
See,
02:32:27 -->
02:32:30
there is a difference between inviting
02:32:31 -->
02:32:32
and converting.
02:32:34 -->
02:32:35
In any religion,
02:32:37 -->
02:32:38
you ought to be a witness.
02:32:40 -->
02:32:42
Okay, and you talk about your faith.
02:32:44 -->
02:32:45
This is your homework,
02:32:46 -->
02:32:47
but the result
02:32:48 -->
02:32:50
is not in your hand. Whether the person
02:32:50 -->
02:32:52
is going to convert or not is not
02:32:52 -->
02:32:53
in your hand.
02:32:53 -->
02:32:55
Also in terms of priority,
02:32:55 -->
02:32:57
you can talk about
02:32:57 -->
02:32:58
your faith,
02:32:59 -->
02:32:59
okay,
02:33:00 -->
02:33:01
in a reasonable way
02:33:02 -->
02:33:05
and a forceful way. So I'm sure that
02:33:05 -->
02:33:06
they had other priorities.
02:33:07 -->
02:33:08
They were sharing
02:33:10 -->
02:33:11
their faith
02:33:11 -->
02:33:14
as talking about different
02:33:14 -->
02:33:16
cultures and different ways
02:33:17 -->
02:33:20
of living and their concern is to mingle
02:33:20 -->
02:33:21
and settle and
02:33:22 -->
02:33:23
make a living
02:33:23 -->
02:33:25
and establish relationship.
02:33:25 -->
02:33:27
And that's why the intermarriage
02:33:30 -->
02:33:31
was a key factor.
02:33:32 -->
02:33:35
And this is our role model, a model
02:33:35 -->
02:33:37
that I personally prefer
02:33:38 -->
02:33:38
to accentuate
02:33:39 -->
02:33:41
social relationships
02:33:43 -->
02:33:45
and religious relationship
02:33:45 -->
02:33:46
should
02:33:46 -->
02:33:50
be should not be accentuated in the first
02:33:52 -->
02:33:53
priority.
02:33:53 -->
02:33:55
So when you engage, yes, you talk about
02:33:55 -->
02:33:58
your faith but not in a forceful way.
02:34:01 -->
02:34:03
So we'll take one from the sisters and
02:34:03 -->
02:34:04
come back.
02:34:20 -->
02:34:22
What I say to everyone that that comes
02:34:22 -->
02:34:24
to me to speak about this issue,
02:34:25 -->
02:34:27
I said, you know, when the KKK
02:34:27 -->
02:34:30
was lynching blocks in the south, they did
02:34:30 -->
02:34:31
it in the name of Jesus Christ.
02:34:32 -->
02:34:34
These people who say they're
02:34:50 -->
02:34:51
the south with the blocks, they did in
02:34:51 -->
02:34:53
the name of Jesus Christ. And they consider
02:34:53 -->
02:34:56
themselves good Christians. Exactly. So I said it's
02:34:56 -->
02:34:57
the same thing for anyone because they said
02:34:57 -->
02:34:59
in the holy Quran, it says it's for
02:34:59 -->
02:35:01
good to kill innocent men. Exactly.
02:35:01 -->
02:35:03
So if they do this, they're in error.
02:35:03 -->
02:35:03
So
02:36:16 -->
02:36:18
no. No. No. No. You are a physician.
02:36:18 -->
02:36:20
You know your job. I am a religious
02:36:20 -->
02:36:22
scholar. I know my job. So you have
02:36:22 -->
02:36:23
to believe me and just to
02:36:27 -->
02:36:29
Yes. Yes. I I
02:36:29 -->
02:36:31
totally relate
02:36:32 -->
02:36:32
to
02:36:33 -->
02:36:36
this agony. I put it, it is a
02:36:36 -->
02:36:37
big dilemma,
02:36:37 -->
02:36:38
okay,
02:36:39 -->
02:36:41
which if you look at the genuine
02:36:42 -->
02:36:42
scholars,
02:36:43 -->
02:36:44
of
02:36:44 -->
02:36:45
the past,
02:36:46 -->
02:36:48
first of all, this dichotomy
02:36:48 -->
02:36:52
between religious sciences and secular sciences did not
02:36:52 -->
02:36:52
exist.
02:36:53 -->
02:36:56
So they were physicians, good physicians and good
02:36:56 -->
02:36:59
mufassirin and good scholars and good faqid.
02:37:01 -->
02:37:03
They have, they had well rounded,
02:37:05 -->
02:37:05
specializations.
02:37:07 -->
02:37:08
That's number 1.
02:37:09 -->
02:37:10
Number 2,
02:37:12 -->
02:37:15
which is what is miserably lacking
02:37:15 -->
02:37:16
nowadays,
02:37:17 -->
02:37:19
that when they engaged with
02:37:20 -->
02:37:21
the so called laymen,
02:37:25 -->
02:37:25
they
02:37:29 -->
02:37:30
interacted
02:37:31 -->
02:37:31
and
02:37:33 -->
02:37:35
engaged this layman
02:37:37 -->
02:37:38
with
02:37:38 -->
02:37:39
a number
02:37:41 -->
02:37:42
of
02:37:43 -->
02:37:44
concerns. So the layman,
02:37:45 -->
02:37:47
even though he's not a specialized
02:37:47 -->
02:37:48
scholar in
02:37:49 -->
02:37:50
religious sciences,
02:37:51 -->
02:37:54
but they took seriously
02:37:54 -->
02:37:56
his or her concerns.
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So if you have if a layman
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has certain issues,
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okay,
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02:38:07
so
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it is the role of the scholars to
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02:38:12
seriously consider
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02:38:15
these set of concerns,
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02:38:16
set of issues,
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02:38:19
set of
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02:38:20
problems.
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And then their responsibility
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02:38:26
is that they have to come up
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02:38:28
with solutions,
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02:38:29
with answers,
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02:38:31
with responses
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02:38:33
to these concerns
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02:38:35
and issues.
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02:38:38
This is, as I said, this is miserably
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02:38:39
lacking.
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02:38:41
They
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02:38:44
are in their, ivory castle.
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02:38:46
They think that
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02:38:49
I'm not generalizing, of course.
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02:38:52
Okay. They think that they've got it all.
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02:38:53
Okay.
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02:38:56
And who are you to talk to me
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02:38:58
about these type of things?
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02:39:01
You know, you are in your profession and
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02:39:03
I am this and that. Okay.
02:39:03 -->
02:39:05
So there is a disconnect
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02:39:07
between
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02:39:09
the two worlds,
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02:39:11
the two sets of
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02:39:13
sciences and disciplines.
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02:39:15
So
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02:39:19
in the Islamic tradition,
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02:39:25
for a scholar to be called as such,
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02:39:26
three conditions
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02:39:28
have to be met
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02:39:32
for him to be eligible
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02:39:36
to talk to the people and teach the
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02:39:39
people. Three conditions, not 1, not 2, 3.
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02:39:43
The first, that he has to be well
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02:39:43
grounded
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02:39:45
in religious sciences.
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02:39:47
That's the first.
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02:39:48
The second,
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02:39:51
he has to be well grounded in the
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02:39:53
lived reality surrounding him.
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02:39:56
He has to be part of this lived
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02:39:56
reality.
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02:39:58
He knows
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02:39:59
issues
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02:40:01
that his community
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02:40:04
are grappling with.
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02:40:06
And number 3,
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02:40:10
he has to possess certain skills
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02:40:13
to relate the religious sciences
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02:40:15
to the lived reality.
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02:40:18
Other than that, he is not regarded as
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02:40:21
a scholar. He is regarded as a worshiper,
02:40:21 -->
02:40:22
a moola,
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02:40:25
or someone who has,
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02:40:27
you know, it's crooked
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02:40:31
as if someone is just limping in one
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02:40:31
lick.
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02:40:32
Okay.
02:40:33 -->
02:40:33
But 3,
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02:40:38
the skills, there are set of skills. You
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02:40:40
have the religious sciences,
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02:40:42
the sources,
02:40:43 -->
02:40:45
and you have the changing reality,
02:40:45 -->
02:40:46
lived reality.
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02:40:48
Say for example,
02:40:51 -->
02:40:54
talk about the issue of life insurance.
02:40:56 -->
02:40:59
Okay, so you have certain sources
02:41:01 -->
02:41:03
and then you have this issue
02:41:04 -->
02:41:07
and now you want to have a ruling
02:41:07 -->
02:41:10
about this particular issue which is contemporary issue,
02:41:11 -->
02:41:12
never existed before,
02:41:14 -->
02:41:18
to be able to understand these sources
02:41:19 -->
02:41:22
and apply them to these changing
02:41:22 -->
02:41:23
situations.
02:41:24 -->
02:41:25
This is a craft.
02:41:26 -->
02:41:27
This is a specialty.
02:41:29 -->
02:41:30
Okay,
02:41:30 -->
02:41:32
that requires not only
02:41:33 -->
02:41:33
information,
02:41:35 -->
02:41:36
that requires
02:41:37 -->
02:41:37
engagement
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02:41:40
with the community, that requires
02:41:41 -->
02:41:42
intelligence,
02:41:43 -->
02:41:44
that requires methodology.
02:41:46 -->
02:41:47
Okay? So
02:41:48 -->
02:41:50
this is the time of the scholars we
02:41:50 -->
02:41:53
are looking for. And once we have these
02:41:53 -->
02:41:53
scholars,
02:41:54 -->
02:41:56
it is going to be very easy to
02:41:56 -->
02:41:56
engage and to bring about these words that
02:41:56 -->
02:41:57
we are like to do.
02:42:03 -->
02:42:04
If we start,
02:42:05 -->
02:42:06
I bet you,
02:42:08 -->
02:42:10
no, it would not take generations.
02:42:10 -->
02:42:13
But it is has to start from here
02:42:14 -->
02:42:15
with raising
02:42:16 -->
02:42:17
few kids
02:42:18 -->
02:42:20
and preparing them for this,
02:42:21 -->
02:42:21
job,
02:42:23 -->
02:42:24
mentoring them,
02:42:26 -->
02:42:27
giving them the support
02:42:44 -->
02:42:46
In reference to, Vita Yes. Is there consensus
02:42:46 -->
02:42:48
on the what is your basic principles
02:42:49 -->
02:42:50
about the or
02:42:51 -->
02:42:51
is there a
02:42:52 -->
02:42:54
You will find opinions
02:42:55 -->
02:42:57
each group of people
02:42:57 -->
02:42:58
would
02:44:24 -->
02:44:24
not,
02:44:26 -->
02:44:27
a bad thing.
02:44:28 -->
02:44:30
It is actually a commendable thing. But it
02:44:30 -->
02:44:31
depends on
02:44:31 -->
02:44:33
the way you channel
02:44:33 -->
02:44:35
your innovative skills.
02:44:48 -->
02:44:51
They just flash it in your face. Now,
02:44:51 -->
02:44:52
let's just Bilal.
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02:44:53
Okay?
02:44:54 -->
02:44:56
If you shake hand with the brother after
02:44:56 -->
02:44:58
the prayer, it's Bilal.
02:44:58 -->
02:45:00
If you make dua, it is Bilal. So
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02:45:04
I am against this type of mindset
