Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 2 How to Study

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.