Moutasem al-Hameedy – Is Islam Based on Justice
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The speaker discusses the issue of Islam, stating that it is a complex issue that falls under the scope of Islam. There are multiple factors that contribute to criticized messages, including the use of verbiage and false accusations. The speaker uses the examples of the Khawarij and Sun- Messala to explain the importance of justice in Islam.AI: Transcript ©
Allah says we have sent our messengers with
the clear signs, clear proofs,
and we sent with them
the book
Revelation. All messengers received revelation from Allah
Right?
And we talked about Al Mizaan
and what it means, right?
Justice,
the concept of justice, the concept of balance.
Right? Which really, like the whole world runs
on this principle.
Principle of justice. And it's
a big problem when people try to implement
Islam which is based
on justice.
One of the names of Allah is Al
Adl.
So some sometimes people
hold on to some instructions,
right, or some kind of apparent meaning to
the negligence
of how this
instruction fits within an ecology
of other instructions of the whole Islamic system.
And you can't apply you can't that that
would be an act of contradiction.
Islam with injustice,
that's contradiction in terms.
That is contradiction in terms. And
all of the
in the history of Islam,
their problem main problem
was that they broke al mizan,
justice.
So the Khawarij,
when you listen to their arguments they seem
to be powerful.
Why? Because all the arguments what was the
arguments of the Khawarij?
Quran. All of it, Quran.
And sometimes Hadith.
And they used it against the companions
That puzzles you.
A lot of the Muftedi are off today
as well. A lot of their arguments,
a lot of their discussions
is what? Quran
and Hadith.
So you'd say how come? Yes.
You can take
what is true and apply it in a
way that breaks justice.
And that would be injustice.
That would be
injustice and that would be against Islam. That
would be an abuse
of Islam.
So you would apply a verse and neglect
another verse.
Right?
You don't see how a verse functions
within, as we said, a system or an
ecology of other verses and a hadith. This
is how fiqh is made.
This is how fiqh is derived from the
principles. Many people
have this naive idea that fiqh is what?
Oh, one hadith,
take the ruling, that's the ruling.
Period. No, that's not how fiqh works.
Actually, some of the scholars, they said it's
a bidah that people started to take a
text or the apparent meaning of a text
and arrive at a ruling. That's not how
fiqh is is derived.
The companions didn't do this. And you actually
sometimes
and I
you come across this many times but,
even recently I heard something like this that
someone would say
like, the companions radhiallahu anhu. There's a hadith
from the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
and then there's you find the companions and
many of the companions
in public
don't seem to have done what's what the
hadith says.
So there are hadith that have an imperative
command,
do this.
So this is Amr. Amr in the Arabic
language in
imperative,
do.' Right? It means obligation unless there is
what?
There is another indication
that removes it from
command
to recommendation.
Right?
And there are the principle on Surah Al
Fakk,
Okay. So the command is for means obligation,
means obligation
unless there is another indication
that removes it from obligation either to recommendation
or something else. So there would be hadith
from the prophet
and then someone would
see, 'Okay, so that's the ruling. You have
to do this.'
But when you check, you find that the
companions,
some of
them abided by the
apparent meaning of the hadith, some of them
didn't,
then you would find someone who just started
studying Islam. When I said just started studying
Islam, I mean a few years.
That could be up to 10 years.
And if that person is not studying well,
it could be up to 30 years. They're
still a beginner. Right? And they would say,
who do you follow? The companions or the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam?
That's not a question to be asked. Who
do you think the companions followed? Oh, you
think you're
more eager to follow the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam than the companions?
But it's what? The lack of knowledge.
The lack of knowledge. When the companions
when there is a hadith and the actions
of the companions don't seem some of many
of the companions don't seem to abide by
it. And this action
is known among the companions to be practiced
and there's no one who says oh you
you have to abide by this hadith. Like
the companions did not give advice
about that. What does that mean? That means
the understanding of the companions that this is
not an obligation. Because that this in itself
is
understanding of
the companions, the early generations.
That's what it means.
This is what it means. Otherwise
we'd end up being like the Khawarij. We'll
use our own mindset which is again we
said problematic in many ways. We'll use it
to interpret the Quran, the Sunnah, we would
arrive at conclusions that are far from
what the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam his companions
radiAllahu anhu been practiced.
Okay. So
this is a Adil. This is Al Mizan.
So people establish
justice and everything in Islam is justice.
Every ruling in Islam, every instruction in Islam
is justice. The moment it departs from justice,
it's not from Islam.
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