Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 2 How to Study
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The speaker discusses the use of words in the Bible to describe attributes, including the term "naive" and the term "naive" to describe qualities. They explain that the Bible uses different words to describe these attributes, including "naive" and "naught" to describe them. The speaker hopes that people can digest the concept and become catalyst for unity in the Muslim community.
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Everybody.
We now pick up where we left off
reading from the book
of Imam Al Marzuki,
and right here he starts
the second line. And he says,
He says, then all praise is due to
Allah
Right? And, again, the idea of emulating the
Quran. Right? So the first line begins
by, you know, invoking Bismillahi,
right, like Bismillahir Rahmanirhim.
And then here,
saying, Alhamdulillahi,
right, is like sort of Fatiha. So So
it's really cool. Our scholars actually embody the
Quran in words and deeds, and, of course,
we know that praising Allah, Alhamdulillahi,
is really
is one of the keys to opening,
great relationships with our Lord and bringing out
blessings and barakah.
Allah says in the Quran, if you thank
me, I increase you. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But
he says,
I want you to pay attention to
these words,
and.
They're actually synonyms.
And those these 2 that I just underlined,
al akhir and albafi, are also synonyms. But
something's going on here. The sheikh
is alluding
to something very important, and we talked about
it in our last,
brief time together. And that is that
al Kadhim actually
is the terminology
of the scholars of Kalam.
Right? The scholars of theology.
And al Awal and al Akhir and al
Baqi are, of course, found in the Quran
and used in Hadith of the prophet
and used by scholars of Hadith. But what
he's trying to show here is that sometimes
scholars may
use different words to describe
these attributes,
right, and and use qualities to describe them,
and that is not something that we should
be arguing over
or fighting over. Hence,
remember that axiom I talked about last time?
I really want you to learn this axiom,
man. There's no disputing
or no disputes over terms.
And he starts this way as if to
say, listen.
My approach is going to be the approach
of the majority,
which was the scholars of Kalem. The reason
that it was called Kalem is because Kalem
means to talk a lot. Right? Kalem actually
means speech.
So the idea was that people talk about
God so much. It's called the.
And that's really cool. Right? It it it
it runs contrary to the notion that, like,
Islam or even modern religion people, the assumptions
about religion is, like, religion doesn't ask us
to talk about God or encourage us to
ask questions. Man, the name of our theology
is because
people talk about it so much and people
are encouraged to talk about it,
subhanAllah, just an FYI. But the point is
he begins by praising Allah
then recognizing
these names of
Allah
and then he alludes right here to the
fact that he's going to be teaching those
qualities
of Allah
And then at the end, he mentions
Allah's transcendence
that Allah
does not change. Right? His his beginning, his
ending,
is transcendent. His existence is transcendent.
He's not affected by getting tired. He doesn't
take a day off. Gonna talk about that
more in the future.
So what do you wanna take from this
line? You wanna take the vocabulary,
hawal, and then you wanna take away this
axiom that there's.
We don't argue and fight over terms. I
really, really hope that people can digest that,
live it, and become really,
catalyst for unity in in
the
Muslim
community.