Shadee Elmasry – How Islam REFORMED The Arab World Forever
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What was the social socio societal, cultural and political
revolution that Islam brought to pre Islamic Arabia, I'll give you
just one in each. As for the social, it re organized the
identity of the people from number one, loyalty being the tribe, to
your number one loyalty being your religion. In them, me noona Aqua.
Verily, the believers, our brotherhood, and hence the tribal
lines that broke up the people's identity remained, but superseded
by your relationship as brothers and sisters and faith. That's
number one thing, what is the cultural revolution that it
brought, it brought a lot of cultural revolutions and number
one, cleanliness, the light had to have been wherever Matata hidden.
So religion is tied to the hip to cleanliness, the cleanliness of
the body, the cleanliness of the diet that we eat, and the profit
when he arrived at Medina, he underwent you can say, a campaign
to refine people's hygiene. Even in things you never imagined such
as cover you food at night, lock your doors at night, close your
windows at night. I don't know if they had windows back then. But
close your doors at night. fill in holes remove puddles. There is a
concept of net Jessa Naja says something ritually impure, that
you're obligated to remove completely, you can't see it
anywhere except you must remove it urine, feces, blood, acid reflux,
vomit,
anything that's from the gut that came out of your mouth, or came
out of your rear or your front. These things are not just alcohol.
That is a massive cultural reform the returns of alcohol completely
from the land, the returns of fornication from the lens, the
economic revolution of a bit of abolishing usury, from the lens.
The establishment of court judgments on fines.
Finding people cannot be based on their worth. Such that today in
today's world if you accidentally killed the son of a seat that the
son of a CEO and another person
killed the son of a janitor. Do you think they're gonna be the
same?
Not in this court, or vice versa? You killed a CEO.
The son will sue you for how much money he would have earned.
You killed the the janitor his son, what will he sue you for?
What will the janitor have earned that a similar thing to that that
exists today used to exist back then. And the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam came and he banned this, all human bodies, the
body has the same value.
And he established that as 1000 gold coins. 4250 grams of gold is
the value of the whole human body and then each body part. So
lawsuits were reformed.
Suing the rich and suing the poor is wondering the same. So that is
an economic reformation, inheritance was reformed, so there
is no more fighting over inheritance. And there's no more
controlling, keeping the family super rich by taking all of my
inheritance and giving it to my first son. And then he grows the
wealth, then all of it retains to his first son and he grows the
wealth to the point that after five generations, one family's
wealth is this high, the next one can't compete. No, he broke up all
inheritance upon every death, all of your wealth is broken up. So
what you have is the super rich produce a middle class.
And you don't have the super rich class, the House of Lords in the
House of Commons anymore. This is a massive social, economic,
cultural reformation. How about rights of children, children used
to be able to be killed in Arabia. If you could not afford to feed a
daughter, it was socially understood that you killed her. A
man may have multiple daughters, and no sons, a daughter in that
day and age. Can she defend? No. Can she go hunt? No. Can she even
go out to the well and get us a big jug of water partly. So she's
a liability. She's viewed that way as a liability. And she offers
very little back. That's how they viewed it. Just purely
materialistic. They don't view as a soul or whatnot and whatnot.
They used to do what, which is just killed this daughter because
I can't do it anymore. Likewise, today we have abortions that are
like this one comedian. He said don't tell me what to do with my
body. Fine. I won't tell you. But also don't tell me you didn't kill
a baby. Right? Abortion has only few principles when it's allowed.
One common sensical principle is that the mother is going to die.
And if a will if a girl was raped Allah Tada gives her a period of
time, well before the pregnancy is entering into its advanced period
that you would know that you're pregnant and you can abort that
baby. In certain circumstances. There was a great revolution
surrounding women to namely, marriages were adjusted, that a
man can marry for not more, they used to marry more, it was limited
to four months I was banned. Mukhtar was considered
a valid type of honorable marriage. That was temporary. That
means we'll be met, I'm here for business for three months, I'll
marry and I'll have a wife for three months, that was bent. Also
women were given portions of the inheritance. Also women were given
the role of a man towards his woman was established such that
she has a caretaker for her entire life. In other words, someone to
protect her from harm, and to provide her with food and
clothing. Furthermore, in the history of Islam, women played a
great role such that they would be honored they'll move forward in
the future. The first person to prostrate after the Prophet
Muhammad sigh send them was a deja, the first martyr was a to
Somalia. So there are many firsts
in the entire Ummah, the lead for that was a woman, and they were
given far more honor than this than that.
Then they were given before, and they were given positions in
Islam, that they filled those positions by virtue of that
they'll be honored forever thereafter, say to Khadija say
just to Mejia and many others. If we think about it, how about say
Dasha Rajala Juan, the Prophet peace be upon when he is who is
your most beloved. So that caused a man to not be ashamed to say my
most beloved is my wife. And for that, it would be, you'd be
ashamed to say that. These are some of the cultural, social and
political revolutions that Islam brought to the pre Islamic Arabia,
a lot of non Muslim to ask questions like this. What's the
political philosophy of Islam today?