Ighsaan Taliep – Sectarianism Lecture
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Eh,
respected Imam, Shay
Abdul, Rahman den
and unrespected ulama and elders, our respected fathers, our beloved
mothers, brothers and sisters in our innocent Children As salamu,
alaykum, warahmatullahi, wabarakatuh,
I know I haven't been here in a long time, Sheik, but when Sheik
says, senior ulama, then I must be getting old.
All thanks and praises be Unto Allah. Subhana, wa taala,
we tend Unto Allah and eternal gratitude and praise for lo Suba,
Hanu at all is limitless bounties and favors which He bestows upon
us every single living moment of our lives. And we pray that Allah
subhana wa Taala open our hearts, open our minds and our
understanding.
We're able to be cognizant and appreciate and understand the
extent of ALLAH SubhanA wa taala's favors, even though Allah says in
the Holy Quran. And if you should attempt to enumerate Allah's
favors on you, you shall not be able to do so. And so the favors
of ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala upon us are great. Allah subhana wa Taala
makers of the Shaykh arim Follow that illustrious example of
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alasallam, in his retort to his beloved wife,
say that inshaAllah, who and her, when he said unto her, when she
commented on his intensity of his devotion and servitude Unto Allah,
Akuna, Abdul, shaqura, she will not be a thankful and a
appreciative slave of Allahu, subhanaw, taala,
Sala words and our love and salams upon him, upon his noble families,
companions and friends and all those who follow His Divinely
despised Tariqah and Sunnah path until the final Hour, Allah make
us all from among them, our
beloved brothers and sisters in Islam,
every Muslim
should be following the events that are taking place in the Ummah
throughout the world on a daily basis
for indeed, this is
of The essential characteristics of a
Muslim, male bi omur Al muslime says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
that if your concern
is not with the affairs of the Muslims or the believers, then you
are not one of them.
And It is needless to say
that the extent and the enormity
of the challenges that we as an ummah face in the world today,
perhaps it's
not an exaggeration to say that it is unprecedented,
and so when of Our friends who are non Muslims, sometimes people of a
people that do not have faith,
people of atheistic backgrounds,
if they in our close circles or in our circles of association, begin
to ask questions, why is it that they see in the world that The
Muslims are killing one another as they are,
then it becomes imperative for us to become reflective
and to understanding how we feature and how we relate to those
realities that are playing itself out in the Muslim world.
And how is it that in our own personal capacities, we play a
role towards
the solution of the problems of the Ummah, the NABI Muhammad
Sallallahu Sama,
for indeed being a passive bystander
is being part of the problem.
If any of us think that we have the luxury of
not concerning ourselves or focusing away from the state of
the Ummah, then we are part of the problem too,
because it Is that extent of khatla,
that lack of consciousness, that heedlessness,
it is precisely that state of mind that has brought the Ummah into
the morass that we find ourselves in in this time age.
So ALLAH SubhanA wa taala, in the Holy Quran, speaks so.
Is very explicitly
Allah. Subhana wa Taala says on the regime,
alter your Allah. Ata Nazar Oh fatif Shalu with that Habari,
hakum was Beru in Allah. Ha Mar sabereen In obey Allah and His
Messenger, obey Allah and obey the messenger,
and do not fall into dispute and wrangling among one another.
For if you do that,
if you fall into wrangling, if you fall into factionalism,
if you fall into dispute and sectarianism among one another.
Tenazaru, fataf sharu,
it is Allah's law.
It is the law of Allah. It
doesn't apply to believers, to non believers, exclusively or
discriminately. No. It is Allah's universal law, which applies to
human endeavor on this earth that you, when you as people, as
communities, as human societies, fall into factionalism among one
another. Fataf, shalom. You will fail.
You will decline,
and
your strength will depart.
It's clear. It's a law.
Sunnat, Allah
will enter. Lahita, hawila. You will never, ever find, in the most
minute way, divergence in the application of Allah sunnah on
this earth, never
that the
power will depart, says Allah was bureau. But be patient. Have
patience with one another.
Persevere in your
attempts
to remain united,
not to fall into wrangling.
For indeed, says Allah. Allah, over those who so persevere, who
so work hard,
who so patiently strive for
probably
the biggest challenge that face human society is to maintain
unity. Probably it's the hardest thing.
It's hard work.
It requires consistent,
individual, collective
exertion
and striving for us to achieve that.
And so peace,
as is so cherished in Islam, it's not the absence of conflict. Peace
is striving hard to maintain it, persevere to maintain
it. And so if ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is so explicit to us in
terms here of and if you look again and reflect where we have
arrived at this phase of the Ummah, the nabiu, Muhammad,
sallAllahu, sallam's history, and we find that it's because of the
prevalence of these very realities that Allah subhanho wa Taala warns
us about.
And so we are preoccupied with this. We are fixated on it.
We have become obsessed with it,
and we just asking for more, and we forget
that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala explains yet again, explicitly
that this system of divide and rule is what the tyrants of the
world Use
in NA Allah
wa jaala Shia,
indeed, sirahan was a tyrant to arrogated himself in this earth,
and
his strategy was to keep the people on the ground divided. WA
jaala Hala divided into different sects. Shia are different
factions.
That was his strategy, and that's the strategy, as Allah says, of
tyrants, of dictators, of totalitarian regimes. That's what
they do. They keep the people divided.
And we are asking for more.
We ask for more.
We ask for more. We lap it up.
We lap it up
as we can't get enough
of the sectarianism of Sunnis and shiris. We can't get enough
of Sufis and.
Salafis, we can't get enough
of bare Elvis and Dio bandis, we cannot get enough,
you name it.
It seems we are some other people other than that illustrious
example of SallAllahu, alaihi wasallam.
It seems we cannot understand
that he had to contend with the same things in Al Madinah.
But how did he respond? Like us, lapping up conflict, controversy,
lapping up
the type of
conditions that, of course,
cause these things to to spread and spread and spread
the other realities that are facing the Muslim world.
Those are some of the realities
now, Saba, Komi, musi, but in fabima, Kasa, but a Deku, a
whatever flex your calamity is what we have brought about with
your own handiwork.
So they are those issues, and we must not. We must not. We must
bring this dimension in, because as an ummah, we need to bring in
the dimension of how the tyrants they feed on, this psychosis of
ours. They feed on it,
the phenomenon that the Ulama are attains internationally
to denounce that it can be a movement that portrays itself in
the name of Islam, namely ISIS.
It's instructive to me that
this movement just pays no attention
to the cause of all of these things in the Muslim world, the
existence of the State of Israel and the International and the
multinational, global
agenda that plays itself out in the protection of the State of
Israel, and we are in the international Israeli Apartheid
week as we as we are standing but that movement is just not bothered
about that. It kills Muslims indiscriminately, Sunnis too.
Don't be fooled by the calls that want to make you and me understand
that that is a body that supposedly represents Sunni Islam.
They kill Sunni Muslims too,
and people, this is not what you get from websites and podcasts,
and this is not what we get from
WhatsApp messages. No, it's not. It's information that we get from
the ground. I
and so we need to bring in that dimension all the time and make
ourselves far more conscious of also the forces that are at play
and that
exert every exert every opportunity to keep the Muslims
divided, so that they can sit back and allow the Muslim ummah
to cause their own decline.
And so I will never,
we know so beautifully. We learn in the seerah
how Medina society comprised of three social structures,
social societal components.
They were the believers The Minun.
They were the ahluwal Kitab,
and the other sector of the Srinath was the munafiqul.
We learned. We learned this in the seerah. This is how we learn it.
This is how we learn it.
The believers,
the aloo Kitab
and the munafiqul.
What does nifaq mean?
Nifaq means,
again, the very common definition is to conceal your kufr and to
express ISNA outwardly, express ISNA outwardly, and to conceal
kufr. That's what the manafar, the
prophet Salla Salim, recipient of what he knew exactly who they all
were,
Abdullah, Abu.
Sadhu,
not only the Prophet. Seemingly, this was common knowledge in
Madinah society, that he was rats munafiqun,
beheda, munafiqun, what
was the attitude of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, for lack of time. If you look
at how the Prophet sallallahu Salla, saw them and remember
people, you know our la sometimes
in our enthusiasm, we bring out the worst
issues, the worst things,
of how
the matters of the believers are insulted, deemed as prostitutes,
to what end to create
these emotions
of hatred.
That doesn't mean we cannot educate.
Doesn't mean we cannot educate. We have the obligation to educate,
but educate can never be spreading of hatred.
Never.
Education can never be the spread of hatred. Never.
Abdul Abu asmaault was the author
of The if
he was the author, the original author of the if of the slender
and the company against our mother, of the believers say that
in Arash,
how did the Prophet interact with him?
As we said for time,
Abu Asmaa on his deathbed, went to his deathbed and made dua Fay.
So now Ahmad Alain came very uncomfortable, Jihad rasulallah.
We cannot. How is this possible? I
You see Omar
khayyarabhi,
Allah
gave me a choice.
Allah says, In the Quran is still filled.
Make dua for them. Istiq far for them, or don't, make istiqa for
them.
In Tesla in Amarah, Laya Allahu. Alam
Allah says, if you should ask dua, make istiqar for them, 70 times.
Allah, never forgive them. Abu Salam says, yeah,
yeah. Omar, maybe if I make dua and istiqar for him more than 70
times, perhaps
further than that he died.
When he died then Abu Salah made the SWAT Janas on him.
It was only after that, and this is one of the incidences,
obviously, that the ulama of tafsir and the ulama of history
record as of the part of the muaf Akata said na Omar, where the
revelation finally, then eventually came down in conformity
with the vision or the opinion of say NA Omar, and then after that,
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tah says, Let us Ali ala Hadi, men who met
after this, no Muhammad, don't make salatul janazah and any one
of them.
But look at the attitude of the beloved Rasul sallallahu alayhi
said, can this be comparable to the spreading of hatred among
people? A
and so the examples abound,
we need to reflect inwardly if we are going to be able to you know,
we once attended in Doha an international ulama gathering. And
in this gathering, we were being addressed by Khalid Mishra.
And the one thing this was in April last year
that he chose to address the Ulama on
was the question of
Idaho to Sir, are
I dare to sir? The question of conflict management. How do we
manage conflict? Conflict is a natural, natural part of life.
Differences of opinion is a natural part of life. Allah
SWT,
the
natural phenomenon of the Sunnah, of Allah, of life on this earth.
Had it been? His words, is Allah.
And it's not the will of Allah, then Allah would have made you all
one people,
but they will continue to have differences among one another
telephone.
So the requirement for us to have it hard and have wahdah, have
unity with one another, is that we should be able to work hard
despite our differences,
so Allah AJ says in the Hadith In conclusion, narrated by
Muslim on the authority of Abu Huraira, which are the essence of
this ummah and its woes for us to be able to really cling together
and keep and work together. It's the basic things in life we want
this. It had in unity to be in the Muslim world. It will not be there
if we don't work on it here
salah. Salah says that has to do.
Don't be mutually jealous of one another. Well, at a nice issue,
don't be suspicious of one another. Well, let the bargain and
do not spread the hatred among one another.
Well, let the debarru and do not conspire against one another.
Well, to come Alaba and do not one another betray, betray your
business dealings with one another. Don't betray your Muslim
brother in his business dealings,
like in kunu ibad, Allah, but be slaves of Allah as one brethren.
Al Muslim, akul Muslim, the one Muslim is the brethren as the
Muslim lie of lemu. He does not do injustice to him. Wala yak guru,
he does not look down on him. Wala yahu, and he does not humiliate
his brother. Bihar bimri, Muslim, behaz birimbri. I mean Ashar, it
is sufficient for a human being, for any person of wickedness.
A yah ki Abu, Muslim and
he looks down on his Muslim brother.
And then sallallahu
alayhi salam
says,
this is taqwa. Taqwa is in the hearts.
Says Allahu, alas, Muslim haram.
One Muslim is haram in another Muslim, demo wamalu, where do
His blood is haram.
His possessions are haram, and
his dignity and his honor is haram.
I've also been asked to reflect on this Israeli Apartheid week.
But if Allah and
the beloved Rasul Asmaa informs that Allah
deems it deems it far more grave in Allah sight
that you raise the Kaaba to the ground
than to trample on the dignity of a believer. A
in these issues. That is the Kaaba,
that is Maju Aqsa,
and that is Maju Nabu, and
we're talking about the dignity of believers, the dignity of the
Muslim ummah in the world today,
and where must our
we pray that Allah subhana wa Taala open our hearts and our
minds.
We pray that Allah subhana wa Taala bring this ummah to the
realization of the importance of spreading the love among
themselves, spreading ahh among themselves, not hatred. If you're
spreader of hatred, you're going to claim in your mind and maybe in
your Hawa and in your nafs that you're doing this in the name of
Islam. You are not doing it in the name of Islam.
We must educate. We
must continue to educate. Education empowers education
erudite.
Education does not raise a generation of hate mongers.
Education does not generate a generation or raise a generation
of people that only think, that only what we are and who we are,
we are the only ones of those will be going to Jannah. The rest of
you are going to be rotting in the fire of jahannam. That's not what
education does.
Allah subhanahu
wa.