Mufti Menk – Uniformaty vs Unity
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The speaker discusses the perception of unity as a term that is not uniformity and that everyone is dressing the same way. They argue that unity is a combination of individual political beliefs and group acceptance, and that the lack of clarity in political thinking is a result of the political crisis between certain countries. The speaker also discusses the difference between unity and uniformity, stating that everyone is dressing the same way and everyone is doing the same thing, even if they may not be part of a political agenda.
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The reason why they are saying different things
is their perception of the term unity is
different.
According to me, unity
is not uniformity.
There is no uniformity without tawhid. I believe
that.
No uniformity.
What is uniformity? We're all wearing the same
uniform. That's uniformity.
Unity
is to get together tolerating each other's differences
with respect of the disagreement.
That's unity.
Today, we are sitting here. We are united
in what? In our sitting here, but he's
wearing different clothing. He's this some of us
might be belonging to different sects. It could
be. Some of us might be belonging to
a different ideology. Some of us might have
harsher thinking. Some of us have a calmer
thinking. We are sitting here, We love each
other in the sense that we are human.
We also utter the shahada. This is one
thing that I when I studied, we were
not taught. But later on we learned it
rasbanana.
We went back to the original
Predecessors
to see how they treated each other with
their differences.
They were not as wild as we are
today today I firmly believe and I'm sorry
to say this the political crisis between certain
countries has resulted
in us students of knowledge becoming more firebrand
about and what we are teaching.
Mainly because somehow it serves some political agenda,
and I'm sorry to say that.
How because they've made you hate
People who you really supposed to be talking
to in order to discuss the difference in
a beautiful manner And even if it took
you 5 years or 10 or 20 and
even if you did not achieve at the
end of it, but the fact that you
did it you did it
But the amount of it, that's why I
say unity and uniformity there are people who
say exactly as you say I believe we
Uniformity is impossible
in this dunya
Uniformity Allah didn't create us. Yeah, so when
someone says unity, what is unity? Like someone
says brother. We have 1 Quran. We have
1 qibla. We have 1 Nabi. We have
1 child
all of those matters
They will not create uniformity
For example
Uniformity is when you go to the mataf
in Makkah, you watch everybody in Haram
Everybody going to ruku together. Everybody going to
sujood together. That is uniformity. It's not unity
but the hearts
Could be far apart of the same people
who are dressed in the same way doing
the same thing
Guys are are doing the same omer or
the same Hajj right next to each other.
They hate each other.
That's not unity. That's uniformity.
You see the difference? But I believe that
respect of one another we are lacking it.