Mohammad Elshinawy – The Modern Bedouins Mindset

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alayhi wa sallam was a servant than His messenger. And after reminding myself I knew with the Taqwa
		

			of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, and welcome my brothers and sisters to the house of Allah azza wa
jal, and
		

			it is very common, as many scholars point out that shaytaan
		

			ataques, the Muslim and the audience of the Quran, even if they are not yet Muslim,
		

			by trying hard to convince them that this Quran does not relate to you. It is about a different age,
a different time, a different place, a different group of people.
		

			And it has proved effective over the ages when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam brought the
people of his time the Quran, what was their response? So hopefully it'll work in these are
fairytales. These are myths and legends for the people of old you still believe this stuff.
		

			And likewise, until today, people some of them brazenly openly say this is just that old stuff. And
some people struggle within the faith to say how does this relate to me? Exactly. So there are
different levels, but it is the common strategy, the common point of attack for Shaitan to move
people away from benefiting from the Quran. by convincing them it doesn't relate to you.
		

			And so I wanted to reflect on this concept through a very specific example that we frequently find
in the Quran. And that is the example of the Bedouin Arabs, the Arab
		

			they are talked about all over the Quran in a great deal of detail what if the Quran is for all
times in all places? Yes, Arabic and its message in its words, but universal and its message then
why why so much of this?
		

			So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, for example, Al Arambula, Shad Dooku. From when he fell on what
Ajay Daro Allah Allah Moo hoo do them Anzahl Allah, that the Arab, the Bedouin Arabs, meaning the
desert dwellers who move away and choose not to live in the big cities or in the cities and towns,
but just with their herds with their animals in the middle of the desert. These people are more
intense in their rejection of faith in their culture, and more to faced than others have more
hypocrisy and effed up what Ajay Daro and are more likely to not to know to not understand or be
aware of the boundaries that Allah has sent down clearly upon His Messenger, God's laws.
		

			Well, why is that because they are not in the city. They are not with the centers of civilization
centers of education. In the context of Medina, they chose not to come live a little closer to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, so that the ayat and a hadith would be a daily conversation
would be within earshot, that's part of it. But there is another part of it as well, and that the
Aarav are a product of their environment like all of us are. So the difficulty of the life of the
desert, the arid, dry, sweltering heat of the desert, has an effect on their psychology has an
effect on their personality. And this is a lesson for us that all of us are products of our
		

			environment, and our different, you know, preferences. Our different cultures are different
personalities are not just all fine and dandy. Yes, diversity is beautiful, but there are elements
in each of our upbringings that could hinder us from our faith. We need to realize this, the Arab
needed to understand that men better Jaffa
		

			Whoever spends more time in the desert will become more coarse, more harsh, more rebellious, and so
that when their religion is centered on submission that makes it a bigger challenge. Likewise for
us, we need to realize what are our challenges that affect our mindset so that we don't fall into
the modern Bedouins mindset, the Bedouins of today. People that are hindered from their faith and
not aware of this.
		

			And they really were not aware of it. Doesn't the Quran say elsewhere? Allah till arabo men, the
Bedouin Arab said we have believed call, say to them on Hamid Lim to me No, you have not really
believed you haven't fully believed. Well, I can hold you a Salam now, but instead say we have
submitted we've entered the door of faith. That's it. Well, I'm mad Khalid Eman, Ophir Hello become
and faith true faith full faith has not yet completely settled in your heart. Tell them that help
them realize Oh, Muhammad, that they don't just have it like everybody else. No, you're deluded, if
you think so, you've entered the door, a door that you could walk right back out of you could doubt
		

			your faith, you're like baseline right now. You haven't yet entered the house, and sat at God's
table and enjoyed the banquet he has served for us as believers, the sweetness of faith, the fruits
of the Quran, you haven't sat there yet. And you don't have a reason to feel as comfortable in your
faith as others because of your dynamics because of your lifestyle. And then next, it goes on to
spell that out for them completely, and says enamel minnows, the believers are nothing less than
those. And then it will be lucky or are solely that believe in Allah and His Messenger, Phil MALAMI
are terrible. And then don't doubt about that.
		

			And many people nowadays may believe in Allah and His messenger and not realize how fragile their
faith is because how little exposure they have to Allah and his messenger how far they are from the
data and the Hadith, so many parallels to draw what gehad will be I'm watching him one footsy him
FISA beat Allah and they don't doubt and they struggle, they strive they sacrifice with their lives
and their wealth for the sake of Allah, that's another benchmark for them. If you're not sacrificing
for this faith, if you're not taking it seriously, then you should ask yourself, Do I really believe
in it, because if you believe there's a fire in the building, you'll get out. If you believe there's
		

			a treasure to be to be one here, you're going to chase it. So if you're not chasing, if you're not
moved by the faith, then maybe your faith is not where you think it is. So that was the conversation
that was addressed by the Quran to the Bedouins and to all of us through them, how relevant is it?
		

			And then because they thought they were fully faithful, they felt like they've done all their
responsibilities. They fell into another problem that is endemic in this psychology and this
mindset, whoever has it, which is that they shifted from their responsibilities to their rights.
They became people of entitlement people that felt like we deserve more Islam and the prophet should
be giving us more. And that brings us to the third idea where Allah azza wa jal says, These people,
in order to Rado only when they're given, they're given like their share of the spoils. They're
given some generous offerings from the profit whenever money goes his way he distributes, when they
		

			are given they are content. When in LEM, your oppo either home uses cartoon, and when they are not
given, they become so resentful so fast, they start objecting to the messenger himself. They object
to the dean basically. Why? Because their deluded mind made them feel like they fulfilled their
responsibilities. And so they're supposed to now get the other end of the transaction, where are my
rights?
		

			And so let us all be that person. ask myself why do I think I am where I tell myself I am in my
faith, you know, even coming out of Ramadan. You tell yourself I've done Ramadan? Well, Hamdulillah
I am hamdulillah like renewed 110% I'm good now. Even if we did our best and Ramadan. Why are you
assuming that brought you to 100% that you're in full health in terms of your faith? Why couldn't
Ramadan represent the ICU that rehabbed you and now you're in another part of the hospital now you
need to build on, you're no longer critical, but there's a whole process now to restore your health
or bring it where it needs to be. So we should be careful about this and benefit from the Bedouin
		

			mindset in that we should not be these people.
		

			And then the sense of entitlement also.
		

			It is interesting for us from another angle, and that is this assumption that God has to do anything
for you in the first place. Right. You know, we rob believed in God this
		

			same way everyone nowadays believes in God. Even after a century and a half of drilling atheism down
people's throats. People still believe in God, God is alive and well in everybody's hearts and mind.
But a basic God, there is a God. That's it. But they don't know enough about God nowadays, because
they have no access to true revelation, we need to do a better job at sharing it that that God is a
blurry concept, not strong enough to be an almighty in their life, that God is irrelevant. And that
is exactly how the Bedouins were like, Have you ever thought about why the Quran describes God? It's
such detail, because they believed in a god, but that God was irrelevant. Like, yeah, there's a God,
		

			some sort of God, right, but he's not, you know, worthy of our attention. It's not like it's a God
that has certain expectations of us and certain power against us, and will bring us back to ask us
on the Day of Judgment. That's why the Quran speaks a lot about the fact that many of the Arabs
refuse to believe in a day of judgment. That was part of their blurriness about God, that He is
Almighty, He is all just, it's gonna happen. And so when that was their concept of God, it had no
effect on their life. It was irrelevant. And likewise, today, people act like they have this
entitlement. Yes, there's a God, but we are God's pets. It's all about us. God has to treat us with
		

			luxury. You know, God is something to make us feel good to write a quote about, and upload it on
social media. That's it. But God is not worthy enough relevant enough to instate boundaries in our
life, worthy enough to be regarded in public and in private, worthy enough to dictate how we should
be living our lives. That is not they're not in the Bedouin mind, nor in the modern Bedouins mind.
We cannot disbelieve in God, it's entrenched inside us, it's ingrained in us. But when God is not
great enough to be recognized, this is what happens.
		

			And since he is not great enough, you want to put greatness in something. So what do you do? Look at
us nowadays, you know, one of the biggest writers in our age on like secularism, the secular mind,
the mind that has had religion sectioned off to a corner somewhere. His name is Charles Taylor,
Charles Taylor talks about what he calls
		

			the anthropocentric term, forget the big word, it basically means that human being became the center
of the universe, after we removed God from our understanding of the universe. So it's all about me,
me, me, me, me, my quality of life, what I want to do how I choose to see myself how I want to
define human beings, right? So we became our own gods. And then we started creating false gods,
right? My nation, my race, my ideas on humanity, gender, politics, money, whatever it is. This is
exactly what the Bedouins did. When God got removed from their life, and being questioned by God
became blurry as well. They doubted the hereafter said, Okay, well, we need something worth fighting
		

			for something worth living for something bigger than us, but still validates us, selfish, us, self
centered us. So what did they do? That is where the tribalism came from. That is where he said my
tribe. You see, that is why every tribe had its own idol. Because it wasn't about the idle. It was
about my tribes idle is bigger than your tribes idle, it was about the tribe.
		

			This was their God.
		

			And this is exactly what happens today. And so we should be very attentive to this.
		

			You know, I once had a conversation and I'll sit down now with people that the Quran told us also
created out of their tribes gods which were bent we saw, right there tribalism, they're also via to
their tribes, their bloodlines.
		

			She was the leader of a very large,
		

			actually Zionist group on our campus. And so I sat with her once. And I said to her, Listen, this
whole politic stuff is not very important to me. Because whatever we decide in this small room is
not going to have much of an effect on the world. Right? But let me ask you about Islam. Have you
ever looked into Islam? And if Islam were true, would you be willing to accept it? She said,
Absolutely not. Because I am a Jew. I was born Jewish to Jewish parents from a Jewish clan, and I
would never betray my people. And then she said to me, I'll help you understand. If I had a
boyfriend that I wanted to marry. And he was not Jewish, and I was in love with him. I will still
		

			commit to my tribe and he'll have to take a hike. And I'll have to get over it. Because I cannot
betray my
		

			Parents I cannot betray my tribe. So I said to her, hold on, I'm not talking about the boy here. I'm
talking about God who created your parents and made their hugs so warm and gave them a new life.
		

			She said, Well, God is going to have to understand that was her answer to me that this is number
one, and God is number two. That is how it happens.
		

			And this is what the Quran said. The Quran said that they say Len Thomason and narrow Illa Yama,
Mara Duda, the Fire will only touch us if we have to go through it. It's going to be a few days.
Where did all that come from that mindset, that superficial course shallow mindset that all it
understands is the simple crude nature of this life, which is not very different, all of it to the
desert life of the Bedouin. Aquila, we have our stuff for Allah Allah Emily welcome.
		

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eyeshadow and Muhammad Abdul who whenever you who are pseudo.
		

			Finally there is a Hadith an authentic hadith narrated by the Muhammad Rahim Allah is very
fascinating for us one final parallel between the modern, you know, mindset and the Bedouin, the
psychology of the Bedouin. He said Alayhi Salatu was Salam Hala Koo Mati Phil Kitab you 11
		

			The destruction of my OMA like major damage will happen to parts of my Alma points in my OMA don't
know will never die, but major damage will happen. The OMA will become corrupted at the hands of the
Scripture and at the hands of milk.
		

			So just like you're thinking, Now, the Sahaba said the same thing when Al Kitab will live and what
is the Scripture in the milk it's going to destroy the OMA. He said people will come you have Corona
al Kitab, feta away Luna who Allah lady Manziel Allah, people will come that recite this scripture
the Quran and interpreted according to other than what Allah intended, everybody is going to be so
self centered, that they're going to go commit to their arbitrary convenient selective understanding
of the Quran. They're going to ignore the other eye and ignore the a hadith ignore the OMA the
community ignore that the tradition of 1400 All of that is wrong What I know is right.
		

			He said Well, you should burn a lemon and they will fall in love with milk. Basically what that
means is they will become dairy farmers. And you know if you want to be a dairy farmer you can't be
inside of Medina because you need space to herd them the animals the cows the mill the camels right
and so there's more real estate in the desert basically, he says so they will fall in love with the
profit margin basically on milk, fed their own and Gemma it while Jumari wherever doing and so they
will forsake the congregational prayers, and the Friday prayers wherever dune and become Bedouins,
they will head to the deserts they will gravitate away from the community. And so that Islam, which
		

			has to be a lived experience, can just be theory in books and in otherwise the theory itself gets so
misconstrued. The understanding and greatness of God gets so blurry, once they gravitate away. This
is what will cause the destruction of the OMA. He said Allah He salatu salam, whatever definition of
the Quran, whatever distraction will chase them away. May Allah azza wa jal did not make us of those
people and help us better appreciate the Quran and realize its relevance every verse of it Allah
Huma Amin, may Allah azza wa jal Give victory to this ummah against his oppressors. And may Allah
bring peace to every corner of the world and cure those that are sick and have mercy on those that
		

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