Suhaib Webb – Guidance On Boycotts
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The speaker discusses the importance of acknowledging the obligations of the creator to remove harm and establish justice for Muslims. They explain that boycotts are a means to establish the obligation to remove harm and establish justice, and that it is an obligation based on one's ability. The speaker also provides examples of actions taken by the creator, including boycotts and the Hayid-ratty community.
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I was asked about the ruling on boycotts,
and then I was asked based on what
someone saw a TikTok provider share,
the
idea that a boycott can only happen through
the permission
of the Hakim, the Muslim ruler. So I'll
divide this answer into 5 or 6 parts.
Pay attention. And I want to also
remind people who are giving fatwa that haven't
been trained in fatwa
that Allah
commands us clearly in the Quran not to
speak about what we don't know. Well, we
ask Allah
Ta'ala. 1st and foremost,
Allah
in the Quran and through the sunnah of
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam has layered so
many different texts and ideas and acts of
worship
with the idea of removing harm. Imam al
Shaltabi and al Muwaffakat
begins his discussion
noting that that kind of inference actually leads
to Tawatul Ma'anawi,
that it's so apparent in the Quran that
it's Tawatul from the Quran and Tawatul from
the Sunnah
that we have to remove anything that causes
harm. That's why Siri Abdi Laha says
that anything that comes causes harm should be
removed.
Secondly, because removing harm is an obligation upon
Muslims,
we know that obligations are based on ability,
based on the hadith of Abu Hurayrah
What I commanded you to do, do it
to the best of your ability. Therefore,
for the weak, the downtrodden,
those who have been abandoned, those who have
very little power, the only way that they
contribute to removing harm and establishing just establishing
justice are through their means that they have
control over. And one of those means is
a boycott. So
boycotting, say, Israel, boycotting American goods that are
contributing
to the genocide in Gaza is a means
to establish the obligation to remove harm and
also the obligation to establish justice so therefore
we see whatever
allows us to to complete an obligation becomes
an obligation. Therefore, the boycott, its ruling is
that it is obligatory
based on ability. In fact, some scholars say,
Aqal,
the the the lowest wajib we can do
is something like a boycott.
The third is the idea that
boycotts never happened in the time of the
prophet,
but we find through qiyas and inference a
number of texts that illustrate that. And I
may talk about that on a YouTube post
in the future because of time but for
example, Thumama when he embraced al Islam, Sayyidina
Thumama when
he embraced Islam
after he accepted Islam he he went to
Mecca to observe,
the rights of worship and then he said,
I'm going to cut off all of the
goods
coming to Mecca, even like a seed will
not come to Mecca.
He did this on his own without asking
the Messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wasalam. So
what we understand from that is that it
is allowed to boycott or engage in an
economic boycott without seeking permission of the hakim
because Sayyidina Thummama he would have asked the
Messenger of Allah SAW before he did it
and when the Messenger of Allah found out
that he did that he did not rebuke
him for it. And we have a very
important principle when the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
stays silent in front of something and when
the Quran stays silent in front of something,
it stays permissible and that permissibility can become
obligatory
as I explained earlier.
Also, what he did is a form of
boycott. So,
a form of analogy as Al Baidji says
that you have this relationship between what he
did in the idea of an economic boycott
to punish those who are harming and trying
to create
a death and destruction for the Muslim Ummah.
So here I think were 4 points,
that I wanted to make on this issue.
Number 1, the establishment of justice and removing
harm is an obligation upon Muslims.
As is commanded in the Quran.
Allah says be just as closer to Taqwa
and the only means for the weak and
downtrodden and abandoned to establish justice
according to their ability. One of those means
is a boycott.
Number 3, we took the hadith of Sayyidina
Thul Ma'am, which is related by al Bukhari
and ima, Muslim radhiallahu anhuuma.
That shows that he did 2 things. Number
1, he boycotted
goods to Mecca as a means of descent.
And then secondly, he did not seek the
permission of the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi
sallam and the messenger of Allah alayhi sallam
did not rebuke him for doing so. So
therefore, we see the evidences for the boycott
being a person's individual choice. I personally believe
it's an obligation based on one's ability. I
hope that helps.
And
my apologies for taking too much of your
time. We ask Allah to bless the people
of Waza. We ask Allah to help the
people in Palestine. We ask Allah to help
those in Sudan and Kashmir and all over
the world where the oppression is happening. And
may Allah make us allies of the Haqq
and on the right side of history. Assalamu
alaikum.