Sadullah Khan – Developing a Qur’anic Personality To be and What not to be. #15
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The speaker discusses the importance of freedom, which is the capacity to make a choice and avoid violating human rights and freedom. They stress the need for individuals to have a choice in thought, behavior, or speech, and for individuals to be able to make choices based on their own actions. The speaker also discusses the concept of freedom, which is to live a happy, healthy life without limits, and the importance of protecting people's rights and obligations to live a happy, prosperous life.
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The liberation of our country and its people
from a long period of colonialism
and racist minority rule.
And the concept of freedom in itself
is a distinguishing quality of humanity.
Each and every human being has the right
to be free.
And freedom,
when you speak about freedom,
it refers to a situation in which an
individual is able to make a choice
in thought,
in behavior or speech,
or he or she chooses
to avoid doing so,
but without violating
the right or the freedom of others in
the process.
From this, we can deduce 3 important points.
1,
freedom has both the dimension of action
or in action. The choice of action or
in action. In other words, the freedom to
do something
as well as the free choice not to
do something.
Secondly,
there are limits and restraints
to individual freedoms,
such that your freedom
cannot impinge upon the rights and the freedom
of other people.
And thirdly,
because freedom is a choice, the whole notion
of choice. In the absence of choice, there's
no freedom.
Because there's a choice, the individual is then
held accountable
for his or her actions
and for the consequence deriving from their choice
of action or inaction.
Now in Arabic,
the word
freedom,
the word is but whole doesn't only mean
free. It also means noble. It implies nobility.
Also a sense of integrity and dignity
and Freedom does not exist ever in a
vacuum. It never exists in a vacuum
and it can never function without limits. Some
people have the idea freedom is to do
what you want, say what you want, wear
what you want, do what you want, wherever
you want, and there's no limits to it.
No. Freedom does not exist in a vacuum,
and it does not function without limits.
Islam promotes a type of responsible
and dignified freedom,
a type of freedom that respects the other.
For example,
in freedom of expression,
it's not the license to utter falsehood
or to slander or to lie
or to be demeaning or to be rude
Or economic freedom as an example
allows you, allows people to earn and to
own
without indulging in fraud, in deception, and in
cheating.
Islam wants freedom from something
and freedom for something.
Islam wants freedom
for living a happy, a healthy, and prosperous
life, a moral and a dignified life. Islam
wants people to be free to worship, to
express themselves, to earn, to have a family,
and to have a just government of their
choice.
Islam wants people to be free from
economic, political,
and social exploitation
and oppression.
Hence, in the Quran, you'll find particular terms
indicating
the dislike
and the abhorrence of certain categories of people.
For example, the Mutliffin.
Those who are economically excessive.
The Walimin, the oppressors. Tahu,
the exploiters of political and social authority and
power.
Remember that we as people of faith should
always be a voice of conscience
and
always be activists for freedom wherever we find
ourselves
and the call for justice. After all, this
is part of the mission of prophets.
Allah says in Surah Hadid, he send prophets
with clarification and clear guidelines
in order that humanity at large may live
with justice.
So at a personal level,
at the spiritual level,
many people are enslaved
either by wants, by emotions,
by authority,
by position, by possessions. So they're enslaved to
it, enslaved by it. Their lives are dictated
to buy these
things. Their emotions, their wants, their authority, their
position, their possessions.
Possessions. Never satisfied
and never free from wanting more of what
they want.
To free us from such kind of personal,
spiritual, and moral enslavement,
the great spiritual luminary,
Ibrahim bin Shaiban,
he said,
and I'll leave you with this.
Dignity of a human being lies in his
or her humility.
Honor of a person lies
in righteousness
and freedom lies
in being free from want and desire.
Freedom comes from being content, and it comes
from contentment.