Suhaib Webb – An Explanation of AlAkhdari (Part One)
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning to understand and interpret the text of the Bible, as it is used to teach a process of learning. They also mention a book called "AbdrGeneration," which is a classical text and will be taught in English. The speaker discusses the meaning of the text and gives some examples, including a sign of knowledge and a difficult term. They also mention a book called "AbdrGeneration," which is a contemporary text and will be discussed in English.
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Welcome now
to the second leg of this important journey
as we continue to
expose ourselves
to the science of worship,
filk.
Unfortunately, filk is associated with arguments and differences,
but that's not the purpose of filk. The
purpose of learning filk is to learn what
I should be doing,
how I should be living my life,
what is obligatory, what is recommended, what is
repugnant, what is impermissible,
and what is permissible.
And we're going to be going through a
very important book called,
written by Abdrahman
who was a great scholar
from West Africa who wrote a large number
of texts. If you're interested in learning more
about him,
watch the first lesson
on this book here on Swiss that's done
live with SinnerDC.
You can find like
a tremendous
amount of information about him, about medhebs,
about the Madiki medheb.
So I encourage you actually to watch that
first and then come back here and, and
join us for this journey. At Swiss, we
believe in a process,
method of learning. So it's kind of like
a slow drip, like a pour over, if
you will. And that is that that
scaffolding and scaling knowledge,
is done through a deliberate process,
so the text that we are choosing are
following sort of a classical system. I will
also teach more contemporary
text in the future as well.
And I also plan to teach this completely
in English,
for new Muslims and for young Muslims who
want to learn
how to worship
and improve their worship as that is our
purpose.
As Allah
says in the Quran, after
I did not create jinn in men except
to worship me,
jinn and human beings.
And in that vein, it's important that you
start with Al Akhdarri.
And before Al Akhdarri you have an 'ashmaawiya',
which I've already explained, I believe, 30 lessons.
And then Al Akhdarri,
and after Al Akhdarri, you move on to
another text, Ibn Ashir,
which is,
a poem. And then from there, you move
on to the Risada of Ibn Abi Zayl
Qairawani.
And after that, you're going to be great.
You know, after that, you're done with us
at Swiss, right? There is an ultimate ending
to all this here as far as fiqh.
And there's a great poem. I heard this
one time from, Sheikh Mahmoud,
a Libyan
brother who I used to read to in
Egypt.
This poem says
a sign of ignorance in this era.
Is to avoid taking the risala of Ibn
Abi Zaid, which is the 3rd book in
our series,
and instead going to the khalil,
Muqtasul Khaliyah, which is really, really difficult, subhanAllah,
specifically because of how the Muqtas Surat are
written.
And then to avoid taking
and go to even Ashir,
they
nearly reset,
or
ignoring both of those, al Akhdarri
and ibn Ashir and going straight to, the
Risara of ibn Abizaid. That's a sign of
someone who's negligent or or someone ignorant. Now
some of you may not necessarily like this
class because
it is ancient.
Right? In the sense, it's it's it's a
classical style.
I do plan to put on courses that
are more in a contemporary language,
that I think people enjoy, but but give
this an opportunity. This is coming from our
ancestors. This is something which is very important.
And if you're interested in religious vocation,
then definitely you want to be taking these
kind of classes with me. What I'm going
to be doing is reading the text and
then discussing the meaning of the text and
giving you some of the evidences,
of the medhab, as well as maybe explaining
some of the words,
which you may find difficult to understand,
Insha'Allah.
So we begin,
we're going to start now with the introduction.
He says, Alhamdu
Lillah. Why do you think the writer of
this book would start with Alhamdu?
Of course, he's he's emulating the Quran,
and also recognizing that everything is is by
Allah's permission.
Even people who enter Jannah, what are they
going to say?
Even they will say Alhamdulillah.
And the prophet
said that any important affair which doesn't begin
with
is is like aibiani,
it's aqta, it's it's deficient.
So he begins,
The word rub, I don't like the translation
Lord.
The word rub is the one that brings
things from nothing and causes them to grow.
So Allah
means Allah is the creator of all things.
So he says,
is from the word 'alam' which is a
flag,
and also used to describe everything in the
universe except Allah, because everything is an indicator
of Allah's existence. And
this is different. We talk about this in
our courses on theology.
Contemporary
atheism
has framed
the mere,
right,
idea
of belief as being something impossible to prove.
Islam says, no, the mere idea of disbelief
is impossible to prove because everything around us
is a sign
of our creator,
So he says,
Then he says, and salah and salam. The
word salah, the scholars differ over what it
means, the salah of God to the Prophet.
Wallahu 'alam.
You find that many people say it means
mercy, but that doesn't make sense if we
look at, for example, the second chapter of
the Quran, verse 100 57, Allah
says,
They they it is they who upon them
is the salah of their lord and the
mercy of their lord. Why would Allah say
salah and rahma if salahamirahma?
So Allahu Alam,
there are numerous
interpretations
of salatulahi
alaasidin
Rasulillah
and
perhaps the strongest opinion is the blessings of
Allah, the khayr which Allah is going to
give to the Prophet
in the hereafter, Insha'Allah.
Warrahma
and mercy. So peace
and blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad
the seal of the prophets.
Imam
al Mursaleen
and the imam of the messengers.
So alhamdulillah,
that is
the brief introduction to the text.