Mirza Yawar Baig – Advice of Nekmettin Erbakan
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The importance of faith in Islam is discussed, rather than just belief. It is crucial to not devout and not believing in politics. The speaker emphasizes the need for active engagement to fight against division based on race and ethnicity, leading to suffering and negative consequences. The division was due to fear of unity, and the speaker suggests that everyone needs to take action to avoid further division.AI: Transcript ©
I want to share with you, my brothers
and sisters, some sayings of the great Muslim
thinker,
Turkish
thinker and and
and and scholar.
He said, you want me to worship in
the mosque and deep politics while you teach
my son to hate Islam in school so
that my son returns and demolishes the mosque
over my head?
Now think about this.
We constantly have this debate,
and we say some people say, I'm not
interested in politics.
And the answer is you may not be
interested in politics, but politics is interested in
you.
So if you will not participate
in
decision making in society,
then you are going to have to face
the consequences of decisions
made by others about you.
2nd report, he said the strength of in
of this Ummah is not in cannons, tanks,
or rifles, but in its devout
believing youth.
Very beautiful quote. And I would say I
would add to that, and I would say,
devout believing
youth
who are competent
in a worldly sense also,
and that is extremely important. It's not sufficient
to be devout and believing.
It is a boundary condition. If you are
competent in a worldly sense
and you are not devout and you have
no and you are not believing, you don't
have iman, then you are no good to
the to
the But if you are just
a worshiper, if you are just a and
if you are just somebody who prays the
everyday and reads Quran everyday and goes to
the mosque to pray 5 times a a
day.
But you have no competence, you have no
influence, you have no
skills
to,
to to motivate and mobilize people or do
any of those things, then believe me, you
are also not particularly useful
to the Ummah. So we need both of
these together.
And then he said, life is faith, and
jihad and victory belongs to those who embody
them.
Now
the
whole point
of
faith in Islam is based on
practicing that faith
and demonstrating that faith in our actions.
Islam is the name of actions. It is
not
a faith by itself as in
just,
you know,
as as in just,
believing something,
but it is faith as demonstrated
by
actions.
Islam is the name of a practice.
Islam is the name of a practice. It's
a practice meaning something which is
like for example, I always give the example
of martial
art, like judo, karate, and so on. If
you want to be good at that,
yes, you have to read up some stuff,
but you have to go and practice in
the dojo,
and you have to fall 10,000 times, and
you have to learn how to fall before
you learn how to throw others
and you have to go through all of
that training,
only then will you be competent as a
judo or
or aikido,
expert.
Without that, you might know about
the,
the practice,
but you are not but you don't know
the practice, and you have never practiced.
And so it will not help you if
if if somebody
accosts you on the street, if a thug,
if somebody tries to,
mug you, then you will not be able
to defend yourself
because
you don't know the practice. You don't know
that art. You know about the art. The
same thing in Islam.
It is to practice Islam,
not just know about Islam, not just learn
about Islam.
Then he says, the Quran is a map,
the intellect is a compass,
and faith is a lighthouse
illuminating
our path.
It's a very nice connection that he makes
between the Quran,
the intellect,
and the and our faith.
Because at the end of the day,
it is
when we say faith here, I'm interpreting this
as
not just simply as belief.
But as in being concerned
for the,
purpose of Allah's
for the pleasure of Allah
Because without that without that concern for the
pleasure of Allah,
then you will just be left with the
words of the Quran. It will the the
noor of the Quran, the noor of the
kalam of Allah,
the light of guidance will not enter your
heart because your heart is is not ready
for that. And,
your heart is not,
you know,
ready to accept
the guidance of the Quran because there is
no faith in the heart. There is no
taqwa in the heart.
That very important one. He says if you
divide, this one is Turkish
and this one is Arab, then there remains
neither Turkish nor Arab. But if you
ally, like your alliance in the battle of
Gallipoli,
there remains neither England, neither English nor French.
He's talking about the
the famous battle of Gallipoli, where England and
France together attacked
by the Ottoman Empire
and were thoroughly defeated, completely
routed from the place
because the the Ottoman Empire, the the troop
the people fought,
as one. They didn't divide into Turkish and
Arab. And he said that
if you divide, then you will you will
have neither.
Sadly, that is exactly what happened later
where,
among others,
Lawrence of Arabia, who's famous for this, was
able to sow the seeds of,
of discord,
between the Arabs and the Turks.
And you had
prince Faisal,
who was the leader of the Arabs, who
Lawrence was able to
who Lawrence was able to,
you know, somehow
get him to
was able to get him to,
fight the Turks
and everything fell and everything fell apart.
And that is what he's talking about in
terms of division. Now if you think about
it, this is the biggest
of our problems. The biggest problem that we
have is this division
on the basis of race, on the basis
of,
on the basis of, ethnicity,
on the basis of nationality
between the Muslims.
Whereas
Allah very clearly said,
Allah said, hold together
to the rope of Allah
and do not differentiate, do not form groups,
do not form divisions.
Be concerned for my
pleasure meaning be a Muftaki.
Somewhere we forgot this
and that is why we are suffering.
If you think about this,
Rasoolullah
Salaam,
emphasized this, and this is the basis on
which
the Ummah,
was formed.
The basis of the Ummah or the of
the basis of the formation of the Ummah
was on the bay was on,
on on the,
on the basis of the brotherhood of faith
as different from the brotherhood
of tribalism
and the brotherhood of nationalism
and so on.
Very
sadly,
we seem to have gone back to the
age of age of,
the age of ignorance. And today, we talk
about nationalism,
and, we talk about,
all kinds of tribal
alliances. We don't call them tribal, but that's
what they are.
We need to get back. We need to
get back to
the position
where Rasool Allah
left us, which is as one people.
I remind myself anew. This is a huge
weakness that we have. Right? We talk about
these are Arabs and these are
Asians and these are Desis and these are,
African Americans and these are whoever else and
Somalis and Sudani.
We have to
get together
as one people
under one
umbrella
because that is the
means of
of drawing people together.
Very, very important for us to
understand that.
Brothers and sisters, really, let us
actively fight against all forces of division. It
has to be done actively. You can't just,
you know,
passively
hope that it will go away. No. It
will not go away.
We have to fight against it
Tooth and nail, literally, as a matter of
survival, which it which is what it is.
It is a matter of survival, and we
need to fight against it and say I
will not allow the world to, I will
not allow people to divide us, to come
between us. We ask Allah
to
help us to follow these beautiful,
words of advice
from Aravakan, and we ask Allah
to
grant him generous for those and we ask
Allah to help us to benefit from this
beautiful advice,
and
to enable us to practice it in our
lives.
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