Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 10 Interpretive Tools & False Claims

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The speaker discusses the issue of the universal hadith and how it is restricted by the language. They give examples of how this has been used in the Quran and how it is a requirement upon research and evidence. The speaker also discusses issues with the use of the word "people" and how it is seen as a general statement, not specific. They mention issues with the interpretive process of people using and the potential consequences of actions taken against Muslims.

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			As we were talking about earlier that oftentimes
		
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			the problem is not daleel. Everyone can have
		
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			a daleel. Everyone can have an evidence.
		
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			Anyone can open the Quran or books of
		
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			hadith and bring something.
		
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			But the bigger issue and what celebrates scholarship
		
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			from laymanship
		
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			is knowing how to use evidences. That science
		
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			is called Usulafik.
		
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			And we're talking about this hadith, which is
		
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			often used by anti Muslim bigots, right, and
		
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			irrational heterodoxal jihadists
		
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			to justify the notion that Muslims are in
		
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			a state of perennial jihad,
		
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			forcing everyone in the world to accept Islam
		
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			or die. We said that that obviously runs
		
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			contrary to the first obligation, right, to think
		
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			and to learn. People have their freedom to
		
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			think and learn and accept or reject.
		
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			And one of the hadith which they use
		
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			is this hadith, umirtu anuqatielan
		
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			nas right I was ordered to fight the
		
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			people until they testify
		
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			and that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah
		
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			and his servant. We noted that this word
		
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			people
		
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			is a word which is considered
		
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			a universal. And we said that there's a
		
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			very important principle in usolofiq,
		
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			which actually is an obligation,
		
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			right,
		
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			upon a researcher and upon a faqih and
		
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			upon someone who's trying to go with an
		
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			opinion that says
		
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			Right? You have to go and research and
		
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			make sure that the universal terms are not
		
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			restricted
		
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			because universals
		
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			are not easy to are not easy to
		
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			apply. And secondly, they could lead to really
		
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			serious problems.
		
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			So we gave one example of how this
		
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			is muhasas,
		
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			how this is restricted
		
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			by the language. We gave three examples from
		
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			the Quran where oftentimes
		
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			the word people is used, but the meaning
		
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			is specific. Right? The meaning is specific.
		
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			Another way in which a text is restricted
		
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			is if there is another text
		
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			which interprets
		
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			it differently. Imam al Nasai
		
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			relates the same hadith,
		
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			but with a slightly different wording. And that
		
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			means that the companions of the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			are not quoting this Hadith verbatim,
		
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			but they are quoting it based on meaning.
		
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			And we'll talk about when that's allowable,
		
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			of course, from a Sahabi, it always is,
		
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			when we study ulumu hadith in sha Allahu
		
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			ta'ala, one of
		
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			the 11 odom.
		
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			But this narration says, umurtu al oqatielal
		
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			mushrikeen.
		
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			I was ordered to fight who?
		
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			The pagans.
		
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			The
		
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			pagans is very different than people because pagans
		
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			would imply obviously
		
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			the pagans that were fighting the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam while he was in Medina.
		
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			We'll talk about how we know that in
		
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			a in a minute.
		
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			So here's an issue. We have 2 texts.
		
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			Right?
		
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			12.
		
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			This one is universal,
		
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			says people.
		
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			This one
		
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			is specific,
		
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			says the pagans.
		
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			Now when we're faced with this kind of
		
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			dilemma,
		
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			the scholars gave us a principle to go
		
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			by.
		
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			And that is that if we have a
		
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			universal
		
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			and a specific,
		
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			we get rid of the universal and what's
		
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			left
		
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			is the specific.
		
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			In fact, they say it's not allowed to
		
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			extract a ruling
		
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			from the universal.
		
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			So people who are using the other narration
		
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			of this hadith
		
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			to justify
		
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			perennial jihad against all humanity
		
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			are going against the system of Islam,
		
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			against mainstream Islam,
		
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			against orthodoxy.
		
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			And this is why you see scholars and
		
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			activists who are not sellouts.
		
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			Right? Extremely upset and aggravated,
		
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			especially if they understand the interpretive principles
		
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			at the danger, the irresponsibility,
		
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			the irrationality
		
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			of groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda,
		
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			jihadist groups, as well as the Islamophobes.
		
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			Because those people, their problem is not with
		
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			the evidences.
		
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			Their problem is understanding how to interpret the
		
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			evidences correctly.
		
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			Now, that's that's the second means. Right? When
		
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			we have another text,
		
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			which clarifies or yufasir
		
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			a nasul akhar. Right? Explains the other text,
		
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			then we go with
		
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			it. Now, that's why Imam ibn Hajar,
		
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			he says the meaning of people in the
		
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			hadith recorded earlier
		
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			is a general statement, but its meaning is
		
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			specific.
		
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			And he cites this hadith right here, And
		
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			he says, meaning I was ordered to fight
		
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			the pagans. And he says, in the sunun
		
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			of imam an assai,
		
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			there is what proves that. Imam Ibn Taymiyyah,
		
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			and the reason I'm quoting Ibn Taymiyyah here
		
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			is because usually the jihadists,
		
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			they like to quote Ibn Taymiyyah
		
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			He says that this Hadith,
		
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			I was ordered to fight the people means
		
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			those who are fighting you,
		
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			not those you have a trust with or
		
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			those that you have an agreement with. And
		
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			our scholars said that citizenship,
		
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			right? And a passport means that you've entered
		
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			into an agreement with the people you live
		
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			with, is not allowed to harm them. And
		
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			the prophet said
		
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			whoever fights someone that they have achieved their
		
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			trust and agreement with Lam yarah will never
		
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			spell riha, aljannah will never spell paradise.
		
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			So
		
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			here we've shown based on the idea of
		
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			wujub al ma'arifah,
		
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			the necessity to learn that the idea that
		
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			Muslims are encouraged to go around and kill
		
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			people until they become Muslim based on the
		
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			hadith we mentioned earlier.
		
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			We've shown how the interpretive process of people
		
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			using is wrong and out outside of it
		
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			being irrationally and unethically and ethically wrong.
		
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			Right? That the system people are using to
		
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			interpret
		
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			is wrong.
		
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			We ask Allah to give us Tawfiq.
		
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			So we believe that people have the right
		
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			to learn and choose for themselves.
		
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			We do not have the right to kill
		
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			and harm people and force Islam down their
		
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			throat. Now we'll talk about the other issues
		
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			jizya and all of those things insha Allah
		
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			on our course on jihad in the future