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

As we were talking about earlier that oftentimes

the problem is not daleel. Everyone can have

a daleel. Everyone can have an evidence.

Anyone can open the Quran or books of

hadith and bring something.

But the bigger issue and what celebrates scholarship

from laymanship

is knowing how to use evidences. That science

is called Usulafik.

And we're talking about this hadith, which is

often used by anti Muslim bigots, right, and

irrational heterodoxal jihadists

to justify the notion that Muslims are in

a state of perennial jihad,

forcing everyone in the world to accept Islam

or die. We said that that obviously runs

contrary to the first obligation, right, to think

and to learn. People have their freedom to

think and learn and accept or reject.

And one of the hadith which they use

is this hadith, umirtu anuqatielan

nas right I was ordered to fight the

people until they testify

and that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah

and his servant. We noted that this word

people

is a word which is considered

a universal. And we said that there's a

very important principle in usolofiq,

which actually is an obligation,

right,

upon a researcher and upon a faqih and

upon someone who's trying to go with an

opinion that says

Right? You have to go and research and

make sure that the universal terms are not

restricted

because universals

are not easy to are not easy to

apply. And secondly, they could lead to really

serious problems.

So we gave one example of how this

is muhasas,

how this is restricted

by the language. We gave three examples from

the Quran where oftentimes

the word people is used, but the meaning

is specific. Right? The meaning is specific.

Another way in which a text is restricted

is if there is another text

which interprets

it differently. Imam al Nasai

relates the same hadith,

but with a slightly different wording. And that

means that the companions of the Prophet

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

are not quoting this Hadith verbatim,

but they are quoting it based on meaning.

And we'll talk about when that's allowable,

of course, from a Sahabi, it always is,

when we study ulumu hadith in sha Allahu

ta'ala, one of

the 11 odom.

But this narration says, umurtu al oqatielal

mushrikeen.

I was ordered to fight who?

The pagans.

The

pagans is very different than people because pagans

would imply obviously

the pagans that were fighting the Prophet

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam while he was in Medina.

We'll talk about how we know that in

a in a minute.

So here's an issue. We have 2 texts.

Right?

12.

This one is universal,

says people.

This one

is specific,

says the pagans.

Now when we're faced with this kind of

dilemma,

the scholars gave us a principle to go

by.

And that is that if we have a

universal

and a specific,

we get rid of the universal and what's

left

is the specific.

In fact, they say it's not allowed to

extract a ruling

from the universal.

So people who are using the other narration

of this hadith

to justify

perennial jihad against all humanity

are going against the system of Islam,

against mainstream Islam,

against orthodoxy.

And this is why you see scholars and

activists who are not sellouts.

Right? Extremely upset and aggravated,

especially if they understand the interpretive principles

at the danger, the irresponsibility,

the irrationality

of groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda,

jihadist groups, as well as the Islamophobes.

Because those people, their problem is not with

the evidences.

Their problem is understanding how to interpret the

evidences correctly.

Now, that's that's the second means. Right? When

we have another text,

which clarifies or yufasir

a nasul akhar. Right? Explains the other text,

then we go with

it. Now, that's why Imam ibn Hajar,

he says the meaning of people in the

hadith recorded earlier

is a general statement, but its meaning is

specific.

And he cites this hadith right here, And

he says, meaning I was ordered to fight

the pagans. And he says, in the sunun

of imam an assai,

there is what proves that. Imam Ibn Taymiyyah,

and the reason I'm quoting Ibn Taymiyyah here

is because usually the jihadists,

they like to quote Ibn Taymiyyah

He says that this Hadith,

I was ordered to fight the people means

those who are fighting you,

not those you have a trust with or

those that you have an agreement with. And

our scholars said that citizenship,

right? And a passport means that you've entered

into an agreement with the people you live

with, is not allowed to harm them. And

the prophet said

whoever fights someone that they have achieved their

trust and agreement with Lam yarah will never

spell riha, aljannah will never spell paradise.

So

here we've shown based on the idea of

wujub al ma'arifah,

the necessity to learn that the idea that

Muslims are encouraged to go around and kill

people until they become Muslim based on the

hadith we mentioned earlier.

We've shown how the interpretive process of people

using is wrong and out outside of it

being irrationally and unethically and ethically wrong.

Right? That the system people are using to

interpret

is wrong.

We ask Allah to give us Tawfiq.

So we believe that people have the right

to learn and choose for themselves.

We do not have the right to kill

and harm people and force Islam down their

throat. Now we'll talk about the other issues

jizya and all of those things insha Allah

on our course on jihad in the future