Suhaib Webb – Maturity & Responsibility In The Age of Arguments

In a time of hyperpolarization,

I wanna share with you a gem, something

that I learned years ago when I was

in Egypt studying in the College of Islamic

Law.

The Hanbali Medheb

in Egypt is, from a point of numbers

and resources, a minority.

Still taught in Egypt, but its numbers especially

begin to wane,

some years ago.

So scholars in El Azhar from the other

schools,

other Islamic legal schools and theological

schools, came up with a plan to actually

pay a student

£60

a month

to study the hambari medheb in order to

keep that medheb alive and functioning

within Eshar.

That's incredible.

Right? You pay those that you don't necessarily

agree with on a number of issues

to maintain

their important contribution

to Islam, to Islamic law, to Islamic history,

to so many things,

that's remarkable.

Nowadays, we see people destroying each other, learning

by watching people argue about things that those

who are watching don't even understand

in an attempt to, like, eradicate each other

from the face of the earth intellectually.

So a lot to be said about Elsar

and that approach of actually paying students

to learn the opinions

and preserve

the opinions

of those you don't agree with.