Suhaib Webb – On The Art of Service & Answering Questions
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We're studying the 40 hadith of Imam Manawi
a while back with one of my students
at Swiss.
And we came across the Hadith of the
prophet
Alayhi Salatu Salaam. It's the second Hadith in
the 40 Hadith of Anawi.
When Jibreel tells him the signs of the
hour.
And he says,
That you're gonna see the better ones competing
to build large buildings,
skyscrapers.
So my student, he said
he started to go after the Arabs who
are building big buildings.
And he said, you know, we shouldn't be
building tall buildings. That's what the hadith means.
And I said, hold on a minute now.
Slow, slow up.
It's very important that we study
text, not with people who can quote the
text,
but what makes someone learned
is that they studied the foundations of understanding
and interpreting the text.
And I would argue that we are in
an age now
where the ignorance of the art of interpretation
is such
that the one that has that ability
is seen as wrong.
And the one who can just literally quote
text
is seen as right.
Allahu Akbar. That's one of the signs of
like, a very serious problem in the community.
So I said to him, actually, we have
an axiom in Islamic law
that says any of the hadith
that talk about the signs of the hour,
we are not allowed to extract hokum from
them,
rulings from
them. That's very important because that protects us
from falling into cults.
Look at American Christianity as it is practiced
by the evangelical community who believes that they
have to rid
Philistine of the Palestinian people
for Jesus to come back.
That means that they believe that they have
the power that really we believe only rest
with God.
So I said to him, this is not
what that means.
This just means that this is gonna be
one of the signs.
The prophet didn't say don't build tall buildings.
He didn't say stop them. He just said
that is gonna be one of the potential
signs.
Axiom says it's not allowed to extract rulings
from hadith
that talk about the signs of the