Suhaib Webb – Steps To Reveal True
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The time of the prophet, peace be upon
him, 2 people saw the actual call to
prayer in their dreams. 1 of them was
Omar. May Allah be pleased with him. And
he actually told the prophet what he saw.
But what's interesting is that Omar never made
the call to prayer because he didn't have
a good voice. We see here the administrative
genius of the prophet, peace be upon him,
that you put the right person in the
right
place for the right job. This continues throughout
our tradition.
The great imam
even though he was an accomplished scholar when
it came to certain hadith, he would consult
to imam Ahmed because imam Ahmed knew more
than him in the subject.
Why am I saying this? Because at this
juncture, complex juncture, what makes it critical and
complex is that there's no more dilemma.
The problem is the occupation, and we see
former allies now,
who we thought were allies with quotation marks,
engaging
in actions and behaviors, dismissing
this genocide,
dismissing
the destruction
of gods in society and gods in life,
children, old people, you name it, innocent civilians
being massacred,
and they're silent.
And so what's gonna happen is we're gonna
pull away from those allies. And, oh, for
me personally, that is a breach that can
never be healed.
It's done. It's broken. The curtain is torn
as they say.
So what they're going to do is they're
going to pivot and try to find people
in the community
who don't know or don't
know the most
and employ them to talk about issues for
which they are ill informed of or not
completely informed of. And they're gonna bypass the
the experts is what I'm saying.
They're gonna bypass the ones who could make
the Adnan better than Omar.
And that shows you that they're not really
your allies. So the first thing that we
wanna think about in this moment is when
we are asked by people who act like
they are friends to talk about things we
don't know
or that we know others know more than
us,
we defer.
And that's the second strategy. Not only do
we defer,
we recommend.
You know what? Years ago, I was asked
to talk about what is life like for
a black American Muslim.
How on earth am I going to speak
to that issue? But I know who can,
Sheikha Ayesha Prime,
Sheikh Hared Ola Evans, Imam Mark Manley. There's
a host of people that can talk about
that. Not me.
So not only do I say I can't,
but also here's who can, and that will
tell you if they're really your allies because
they're going to take your recommendations
as seriously as they would have
taken your participation. So when people ask you
to talk about Islamophobia
or Palestine,
if you don't know about those things or
you know people who know more than you,
refer them to those people.