Mustafa Khattab – AdabulKhilaf Etiquittes of Disagreement in Islam 1
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The importance of Islam is highlighted in highlighting differences between different cultures, citing verses from the Quran and respecting the Prophet's teachings. Vis breadth and diversity in cultural presentations and language are emphasized, along with the importance of respect and respect in the Muslim community. The sunGeneration of the Prophet is a blessing for those with sound understanding, and praying to make certain events happen is also discussed.
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In the name of Allah, the most gracious,
most merciful.
All praise is due to Allah
We praise him, and we seek his forgiveness
and assistance.
And we take refuge in him from the
evils of ourselves
and our shortcomings.
Whomever Allah guides, there is none to misguide
him. And whomever Allah leaves to go astray,
there is none to guide him.
We bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah
the creator,
the sustainer, and the cherisher of this universe.
And we bear witness that Muhammad
is the seal of the prophets
and the final messenger to all humanity.
I greet you with the greeting of Islam.
Assalamu alaikum.
I'm honored and pleased to be here in
the city of Durham.
I like to be here. I like your
masjid. I like your sound system.
There's a lot of Islamic heritage and Arabic
heritage in this, city.
On the way I say, I I saw
the city of Salem, and Salem is an
Arabic word, which means safe,
and secure.
The word Durham,
some say, is taken from the Arabic word
dirham.
Dinar and dirham.
The word
is the plural of the word deek in
Arabic which is rooster.
So it's an Arabic word.
So the list can go on and on.
Why do we talk about
the concept of khilaf or disagreement
or difference in Islam?
In less than 2 weeks, we will have
the month of Ramadan. And Alhamdulillah, this is
the month of blessings and favors and grace
of of
Allah The month of the Quran, the month
of forgiveness, and so on and so forth.
But it is also the month
of disunity
amongst the Muslims.
You see some brothers in some masajid, and
I've heard about this. 1 One of the
brothers was visiting a masjid in Texas.
He's a member of our community. When he
came back, he said,
you know, brother, he went to bread to
pray tarawih and one of the masajid in
the first night of Ramadan.
But there was literally
a fight between the people and the Masjid.
Some say, Brother, we pray 20 rakats. Some
say, No. No. We pray 11. Brother, bitter
bitter, bitter. 20 is bit They had a
big
fight. They agreed to pray live in rakas.
No problem.
Then, they had another disagreement.
Some say, we need to finish the Quran
in Ramadan. Some say, no. No. No. No.
No. We just need to pray for rakas.
Aqaas, go home and call it a day,
take it easy.
There are differences.
In this situation,
the imam the only thing the imam, you
know, can do is to ask the people
by their love for our love,
their love for the Prophet,
their respect for the Masjid,
not to to bleed on the carpet of
the masjid, when they fight.
Because the imam can't do anything.
He will keep citing verses from the Quran,
Hadith from the Prophet, to respect the masjid,
and so on and so forth. Nobody is
listening.
Linguistically,
the word ishtilaf and khilaf are related. They
mean difference,
disagreement,
variation, and diversity.
We will not be talking about the difference
between what is right and what is wrong,
what is halal and what is haram, because
this is very clear to sound minds.
People of understanding would know this very easily.
So we'll not be talking, for example, if
Allah exists or doesn't exist.
Allah is 1 or Allah is 3.
We don't want to talk about this because
it is very clear.
We will be talking about,
you know, diversity
or variation in opinion,
and both opinions are acceptable in Islam.
We would not talk
for long about differences among scholars because this
needs a different, you know, lecture.
We will be basically be talking about, you
know, differences, like, everyday, you know, life differences.
Like, differences between a husband and wife, a
friend and his friend,
differences within the community
regarding different different issues.
But first, we start by citing a verse
from the Quran that talks
about variation
and diversity as being a blessing
from Allah.
In the variation,
the diversity of your tongues
and the diversity of your colors
is a sign from God. Indeed, in this,
there is a sign. This is a blessing
for the people who have sound understanding.
This is a blessing.
Imagine
if the whole world was uniform.
The people have the same color,
the people eat the same food every day,
the people have the same culture, they speak
the same language, and so on and so
forth. So there's no white, there's no black,
there is no
lovely Indian Pakistani food. You know, nothing. It's
only one culture.
Don't you think it will be a boring
world?
Alhamdulillah, it's a blessing that we have differences,
variations, diversity.
And Allah says in the Quran that the
differences of colors you have, the differences in
tongues, that you speak English, Arabic, German, French,
This is a blessing from Allah. We have
to cherish. We have to respect.
And also,
if you have one color, one food, one
language, you know, people eat, you know, Dunkin
Donuts every day, One culture.
Some businesses will run out of business, like
tourism, for example.
Translation,
money exchange,
and of course, tourism, go where, see what.
There's nothing to say, there's only one kashr.
So again, variation is something,
good. It's a blessing from Allah
We read in the books of Fird, for
example, if you read the introduction to, the
book of fiqh sunnah by Sheikh Saeed Saba.
He will say, for example, that at some
point in the Muslim history,
some scholars,
you know, used to focus
on fine details of fiqh, and they used
to have a lot of differences. All the
way
I mean, it got so ugly. At some
point,
some of the scholars say that it is
not allowed
for someone who follows the Shafi'i Mazha
to marry a sister who follows the Hanafi
Madha.
Allah, it's in the in the book of
Sayed Saba. They say because the it is
acceptable in the Madha of Imam Shafi'i to
say,
ana muminun insha'allah. Whereas,
in the opinion of Abu Hanifa, you know,
Shafi'i, you know, in the Shafi'i opinion, he
can say, I will be a believer insha'allah.
Whereas, this is not acceptable in the Hanafi
school, so they should not get married.
This is nonsense.
So people should not be, you know, stooping
to this level of thinking and understanding.
Of course, we see brothers, you know, bro
this brother who's sitting next to me in
the salaat
is, you know, is making me lose my
focus in the salaat. Why? He is moving
his finger too much in the the shahood.
I can't focus.
He will have to do something about his
finger.
Okay.
Don't move your finger too much.
Brother, you know,
I I ain't gonna I'm not gonna pray
in this message again. Why? You know, the
brother, when after the salah, he raises his
hand in the dua'a like this. I can't
focus with people's hands raised up like this
in Dua'a.
What do you want him to do? To
put down his hands and pray, you know,
to make Dua'a in his heart?
Okay.
SubhanAllah.
When we read the sunnah of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we see
that some of the Sahaba had different opinions,
you know, from one another. There was an
opinion, one Sahabi would say something different, and
both of them were acceptable.
And And even the prophet
himself
would have an opinion,
and one of the sahaba would come with
a different opinion,
and the prophet
would leave his own opinion and take the
opinion of the sahaba.