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.