Mufti Menk – Uniformaty vs Unity

Mufti Menk
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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

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is their perception of the term unity is

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different.

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According to me, unity

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is not uniformity.

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There is no uniformity without tawhid. I believe

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that.

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No uniformity.

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What is uniformity? We're all wearing the same

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uniform. That's uniformity.

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Unity

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is to get together tolerating each other's differences

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with respect of the disagreement.

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That's unity.

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Today, we are sitting here. We are united

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in what? In our sitting here, but he's

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wearing different clothing. He's this some of us

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might be belonging to different sects. It could

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be. Some of us might be belonging to

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a different ideology. Some of us might have

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harsher thinking. Some of us have a calmer

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thinking. We are sitting here, We love each

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other in the sense that we are human.

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We also utter the shahada. This is one

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thing that I when I studied, we were

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not taught. But later on we learned it

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rasbanana.

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We went back to the original

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Predecessors

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to see how they treated each other with

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their differences.

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They were not as wild as we are

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today today I firmly believe and I'm sorry

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to say this the political crisis between certain

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countries has resulted

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in us students of knowledge becoming more firebrand

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about and what we are teaching.

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Mainly because somehow it serves some political agenda,

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and I'm sorry to say that.

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How because they've made you hate

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People who you really supposed to be talking

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to in order to discuss the difference in

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a beautiful manner And even if it took

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you 5 years or 10 or 20 and

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even if you did not achieve at the

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end of it, but the fact that you

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did it you did it

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But the amount of it, that's why I

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say unity and uniformity there are people who

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say exactly as you say I believe we

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Uniformity is impossible

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in this dunya

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Uniformity Allah didn't create us. Yeah, so when

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someone says unity, what is unity? Like someone

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says brother. We have 1 Quran. We have

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1 qibla. We have 1 Nabi. We have

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1 child

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all of those matters

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They will not create uniformity

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For example

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Uniformity is when you go to the mataf

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in Makkah, you watch everybody in Haram

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Everybody going to ruku together. Everybody going to

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sujood together. That is uniformity. It's not unity

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but the hearts

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Could be far apart of the same people

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who are dressed in the same way doing

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the same thing

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Guys are are doing the same omer or

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the same Hajj right next to each other.

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They hate each other.

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That's not unity. That's uniformity.

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You see the difference? But I believe that

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respect of one another we are lacking it.

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