Shadee Elmasry – UNITING the Ummah Starts with This One Thing
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The importance of unity among political ranks is discussed, with some speakers suggesting it is a common quality. The conversation also touches on the struggles faced by a Muslim group with hate and racism, and the need for clarity and acceptance in their messages. The segment ends with a discussion of the meaning of unity and civil living, with some speakers suggesting it is commonly used to describe something everyone wants to achieve.
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And nobody will stop this group except a
unified ummah.
A unified ummah.
Nothing will, and I'm not saying unified, just
a political, a fake political, just a superficial
political entity, you know, hearts unified.
And there's one unifying factor.
That's Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
Allah and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Where's our priority of the ummah right now?
It's this.
Now, the groups within us, they're not going
anywhere.
Not a single one of the madhabs, of
the groups that you like or dislike is
going anywhere.
Especially United States.
There's no official espoused religion that will dominate
over everybody else and at least will have
unity by force, right?
Through the hakim.
No.
And you don't want to unify, don't unify.
But we have to have some civility amongst
our ranks.
Be practical about this.
No one's going anywhere.
Why are you gonna hit your head against
the wall, try to change somebody, or try
to fight another existence of another group that
you don't agree with?
Just be civil with one another, khalas.
And stop adding difficulty.
And if I, if there's something being taught,
and we have Shiite groups here, right?
I don't go there, they don't come to
us.
And we live together in the sense that
we live in the same town.
I see them, I say hi.
Sometimes I use their services, sometimes they use
ours.
There's no confusion on what I believe, what
you believe.
On certain matters, there's a line between this.
There's not going to be, we're not going
to make this uncomfortable.
Simultaneously, I'm not going to go in and
try to cause fitna in your place, and
you're not going to come to my place.
If that's the case, with things far less
than that, far less than that, khilafat that
are less than that, relations that are closer
than them, has to be the same way.
Have a manhaj, have whatever manhaj you like
to have.
Interaction has to be, interaction has to be
with some civility, because otherwise, waste of time.
You're just wasting your time.
Make your corrections to your people.
Say, listen guys, this is what we do
here.
This is, this is our belief, this is
our aqeedah, this is our this, that, and
the other.
Those guys, yeah, they don't believe that, but
yeah, we're not going to cause masyakat here.
We're going to bump into them all the
time.
I put out, by the way, for, you
know, Sheikh Amin, many times people say, oh
Sheikh Amin, he's so tough, he's so rough.
I'm telling you, he's as soft as a
lamb.
He just, his beliefs, which are the same
beliefs as any Azhari, any Syrian scholar, no,
he's not so rough and so hard.
He is the softest person you're going to
talk to.
He just, it's his expression is that way.
Some people think I'm rough, right?
His expression, that's all it is.
But you want to talk to him?
You're not going to find him on any
extreme at all.
And he's dealing with some very tough fitin,
by the way.
When you see someone like Hablos, I love
Hablos, I went to Australia, I wanted to
meet Hablos, right?
I couldn't meet Hablos when I went to
Australia.
But he's such a sincere preacher.
And when he gets heated, the brothers there
told me, he's dealing with like people who
were in jail, ex-gangsters, Lebanese mafia is
big over there, right?
That's all Lebanese community.
And he is trying to help rehab if
we can say that some of these people
and that's the language they understand.
But we don't need to have a drama.
Let's all just talk and that's this is
what I did here.
Let's try to have brotherly discussions.
Maybe we clarify misunderstandings, maybe we don't.
We very quickly reach a level, agree to
disagree on some matter, and we move on,
right?
It doesn't have to be this D-Day,
dropping atomic bombs on one another and trying
to take a few everybody else.
Oh, by the way, on that subject, how
was that?
How was that a miss?
How was that clip a misunderstanding?
How was that clip of not praying behind
a Mujassim?
No, that was I actually took it to
something everyone agrees on.
So for the sake of this same theme
of, of being of having some civility, the
point was simply, if someone says, would say
physically, said in the clip, right?
Physically, explicitly, not I'll allow it to be
that he never said that.
No, he said, physically, everyone, every one of
us would agree with that.
So there is no tech fear of any
specific Muslim or a group in that explicitly
and physically, someone says, Well, who says that's
not my business is what we're reading from
literally, you know where I got it from?
Hashi it to the Sookie second line on
Baba Ridda.
Okay.
Baboon for Reddit.
Yeah.
Okay.
And the commentary is there you can go
read it yourself.
Volume four, page 300.
Right.
So God, he allowed who just went to
hi is on.
So that's what it is.
It's not a tech fear of any group.
Right?
In specific, it's that cold.
That's it.
So just so that for the record, because
some brothers were saying this video is going
out there saying you to me to feed
fabric, go read again, physically, and explicitly, if
someone was to say that.
Saying that attack on Sheikh Ameen here, we
can resolve this.
Let's just have a talk.
Come on to the stream.
Anybody who wants to talk to me?
I know.
And my talk is going to be on
this basis.
What I put in this post right here.
Clarify misunderstandings, if possible, we may not reach
any clarity, and maybe we don't come to
an agreement.
I know.
So we don't agree.
Fine.
Bring the hearts together.
Yes, my heart can be with another Muslim.
It doesn't mean I have to agree with
everything he says.
Right?
And he doesn't have to agree with me.
All right, all goodwilled, pure intentions.
Why have hate when we can either be
united, or we could be united, physically, we
fully agree on everything.
Oh, okay.
What if we don't?
We can cordially agree to disagree with no
malice in the hearts.
Save the malice for the Zionists.
Hatred of oppressors is good for self and
society.
You know that some hatred is good.
The hatred of for example, the concept of
losing your family, the hatred of divorce, this
is good.
The hatred of alcohol.
Some people grow up with alcoholic families, parents,
they grow up despising alcohol, you know, they
help so many people.
Certain hatreds are good.
Hatred of a Muslim on a matter of
right.
Or let's say you believe it's an error.
Okay, that hatred is not good for you
or the Ummah.
Got secondly, hatred of the oppressor is good.
Anger towards Muslim in your heart, raging in
your heart is bad.
It's bad for your heart.
It's bad for the also casting a vast
judgment on people, all these people are trying
to do this.
It doesn't even make sense.
It's not something that you could actually rationally
even prove, or physically even proof.
It's a statement that is useless.
So don't make these, you know, some people
say, you know, the guys who are on
make memes, they're all just terrible people want
to make fun of the guys who are
do podcasts, they just want to just steal
your money and dumb you down.
The guys who are doing this, that and
the other.
It's like, hold on a second.
How what about hosting a bun?
Why can't we have a good opinion?
I think you should we should have a
good opinion even of our people disagree vehemently
with us, call us names, say terrible things.
Well, have I ever gotten out of hand?
So who am I to say that they're
bad?
Yeah, they may have gotten out of hand
in my judgment.
They're probably trying to defend the religion and
as much as I love to, they probably
maybe misunderstood them.
And I may misunderstood me and maybe I
misunderstood them.
By the way, you never have to say
what I said, everything that we teach at
Safina Society, nothing but facts live stream, go
back to the Azhar curriculum, it's published.
Go back to books like this key to
the garden by Sayyidina Imam al-Haddad.
Go back to al-Iqtisad fil-I'tiqad by
Imam al-Ghazali.
Don't argue with me.
I'm just transmitting them.
And my error would ever be if I
transmitted it wrong.
Okay.
If I or if I didn't include something
in it, which I later included.
Right?
Like niqab, which I included Qadi Ayyad saying
in it, in the paper on niqab, that
is mandub.
I included it.
And I included the extra part of it
that in front of a kafir it's fard
on a Muslim woman.
I had already included the two other parts,
which are there in the method.
Karahiya for no reason, discouragement to wear it
in front of a Muslim for no reason.
And if there is a fitna, then she
can even in front of a Muslim, maybe
it be there between permissibility, recommendation, even possibly
obligation in front of a Muslim, but in
front of a kafir obligatory.
Now, if there's a hardship between her and
her and to wear that niqab in a
non Muslim society, she has a choice to
choose between the two hardships, which is less.
Right?
So what I transmitted was two parts.
Brother said, Oh, you have to add this
and this.
I added them.
Right?
I got to do this.
You know, here's our shaykh right here.
This is our shaykh.
In Yemen.
He's from Tareem.
He lived in Jeddah.
This is our shaykh.
Habib Ahmed Mashour Al Haddad.
And he is distant like a relative of
Habib Ahmed.
They're all relatives.
They're all relatives.
One of the principles he had that but
he lived his life by that we are
committed to and we have to.
Salamatul sadri li kulli muslim.
Salamatul sadri li kulli muslim.
And some people like myself to have expressions,
you either love it or you hate it.
Right?
There's like very few middle.
People either despise what's being said, or they
love what's being said.
And it's not said in a mellow tone.
It's just usually sharp.
Doesn't mean that any harm is intended to
another Muslim.
Salamatul sadri li kulli muslim.
You cannot sleep, you should not be able
to, to accept for yourself some kind of
acid inside yourself to another Muslim.
Don't sleep unless you figure out what it
is, what's the problem, and try to get
it out of your heart.
So this is what it says.
All goodwill and pure intentions.
Okay?
Anger towards most of the bad for a
result.
And let's just face the facts.
None of these groups are going anywhere.
No group is going anywhere.
So save yourself the heartache.
Live nicely with one another.
And if your Aqeedah says that you are
of such a group that we should not
live nicely with you, we should hate you,
we should speak out against you.
We have to have sabr with you.
What else can we do?
This is a bala Allah has put upon
us.
And we think you're wrong.
In any event, that's the summary on the
mas'ala of the difference between unity and
civil living.
Some people, they're allergic to this concept of
unity.
No, no, no.
Unity has too many implications.
It means that we agree on everything.
And that I agree.
No, it doesn't necessarily.
It could be civil living.
Right?
And that's not a term that's shari'a,
of course.
It's not a shari'a term, but we
could say adab.
There's adab to ikhtilaf.