Suhaib Webb – The Impact of Yusuf alQaradawi

This idea of Tajdeed

is not something new, it's not like something

modernists

are making up.

Imam Sayyidina Asiyuti Rahim Muhullah, he has a

poem about who he considered to be up

until his time. Imam Masiyyuti dies 9/11 after

Hijri.

So he wrote a poem

about the different Mujaddids

throughout the history of Islam.

Of Al Alam al Mouduri

in Pakistan in Lahore SubhanAllah.

In his book The Revivers of Islam, you

should read it. It's like 4 volumes if

you speak English. It's called,

Revivers of Islam by Maududi. He mentions in

there also this idea of Tajdeed and the

Mujaddid.

Sheikh Qaradawi,

the reason that we say he's a Mujaddid

is that he, Rahim Ohola

Wa laauzakih alalaiyahani.

Everybody, of course,

has their shortcomings,

but that's that's not the place to talk

about so much shortcomings now.

Sheikh Yusuf

Rahim Muhullah,

you will not find one dariyah

except some way or another he or she

has been influenced by the work of a

doctor Yusuf Baradawi. He wrote more than 180

books.

Mashallah.

The second is, and I don't want to

make it too complicated,

but Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi,

he did what a Mujaddid does because we

have to differentiate between Tajdid and Tabbid.

Tabbid is to destroy.

So sometimes we see people with the name

of revival actually,

They say like, Tajdeed, Tajdeed, I wanna revive

Islam but then there's no Islam left

as I shout to be, Muwafakati

mentioned. So Sayyidina Imam,

Qaradawi,

how do we know that he is a

Mujaddid?

Sheikh Ahmad Zarook

said

Imam, Sidi Ahmad Zaluk Manqo Aitasawaf, he

teaches this idea of how do you

do what's called tasiyim, How do you root

your ideas in Sharia?

And then you

you establish them with their evidences. This is

something that doctor Yousef Khaledawi,

very rarely you see him say,

Aqalala,

kalosullah,

kalosullan.

The second thing is that doctor Yousuf Qaradawi

introduced ideas and terminologies

even though they had their

origins

in the academic

tradition of Islam,

he brought words

that no one ever heard before. MostalaHatal

Jadeedah.

Like for example,

Khaledawi,

based on the idea of

a famous idea in the books of Usulofirk

and Fatwa, that a Fatwa can change according

to time and place.

So Sheikh Yusuf Qara Dawi and Shaqta Hajar

Allahayarhamu.

I used to read the Muafakat shakta Hajar

al Awani in Egypt, Allahayarhamu.

They

together

presented this idea of Fiqh for Muslims that

are in their numbers are minority.

Shuka Aqaliyat.

Later on, Sheikh Taha Jibra told me, I

wish we didn't call it Fuka Aqaliyat

because Aqaliyat,

first of all the Mushtaq is wrong. If

you know Tastri Fil Efaal,

you see the problem. This is not the

time to talk about that now. The second

thing he told me is the word Aqaliat,

it doesn't have Izzah.

Right? It doesn't have like a sense of

of pride and honor and Islam,

Alhamdulillah.

So always even those people when you meet

them, they're in their nineties,

they're still

interrogating their ideas, Masha'Allah.

The other is that doctor Youssef Karabawi,

even though he's coming at the end of

sort of an era of Sheikh Abdulazir Sheikh

Mohammed

Abdulazir,

like some of the great scholars

before

who revived

the idea of Al Maqasid

Maqasid I Sharia.

But Yusuf Qaradawi

is perhaps the first person to write about

the Maqasid for the masses,

to teach the masses,

to care about the the masses of the

Muslims,

not just the scholars.

So we say, Arrahimohullah.

Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi put himself in difficult positions

because

anytime you take a position between Efrat and

Tafrid,

you're gonna have enemies.

Anytime you try to be in the middle,

the most difficult thing is to balance the

structure.

You are naturally going to acquire a large

number of enemies, Rahimullah Sheikh.

So he presented the idea of Al Wasatiya,

the role of the Islamic academic tradition to

be an inspiration

not simply blindly followed,

The importance of Ijtihad

in the modern era.

The Shia he created

with a number of other luminary scholars,

the Majes of Fatul Urupi,

right,

the European Fatul Council, and now, alhamdulillah, I'm

lucky to be part of the International Union

of Muslim Scholars.

Sheikh

is behind a lot of these great works,

Alhamdulillah.

And he paid the price his children were

put in prison. SubhanAllah.

His some of his family still are in

prison for no reason, no charges. SubhanAllah.

People suffered.

So ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

to

grant him

his Ajer

in an amplified way and to bless him,

Insha'Allah,

and to unite him with the prophet Sallallahu

Alaihi Wasallam.

The most important book any American Muslim can

read

after the Quran and Sunnah

is the book of doctor Youssef Kharadawi, Islam

Between Rejection and Extremism.

You should read that book before you join

join any group.

Take Beata in Ishaikh.

Go anywhere to study.

You should read that book. It should be

taught in Muslim high schools in this country.

Islam between

extremism and rejection.

It's one of the most important books written,

subhanallah, in the last few years.

So we say, Raheem Mohullah,

in books of Yusuf Qara Dawi,

ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

to illuminate his grave, insha Allah.

Even though we can say that one of

the heads of the revival of Islam

has passed,

his metaphoric children

are still around Alhamdulillah

carrying this revival, this idea of awakening and

Ummah and bringing dignity and unity to the

Ummah

of the Prophet Sallallahu

Alaihi

Wasallam.