Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 4 The Prophets Family Companions & Innovation
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Let's pick up the 4th line now of
the incredible poem that we're reading,
Akilu Ta'awem, and I want you to understand
something that up until this point,
all the sheikh is doing is going through
the introduction. The actual book hasn't started, and
this is the last line of the introduction.
And he says,
and what he says is and this this
wow right here, you see it? And And
over here, I translate it as and,
is actually called
and that means a conjunction.
And
and what that means is that it is
related, of course, to the sentence that came
before it. So peace and blessings upon the
prophet
and peace and blessings be upon the family
of Sayedina Muhammad
sallallahu
alaihi wasalam,
or Sahabihi,
his companions,
and whoever follows the truth. Now the family
of the prophet are his wives, his children,
Bani,
Abdul Muttalib, and Bani Hashim according to the
majority of their ulama.
And to love them and to honor them
and to respect them
is from one of the pillars of iman.
That's why it's mentioned in the books of
mainstream theology.
Right? Well, Sahibihi
are the companions of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and the word Sahib actually means
to rub together, like, to the point that
we we our dirt touches each other. Like,
we mix dirt. We used to say in
the nineties, yo, that's my dirty.
Right? Kind of the same way. Right? So
sahabihi,
are companions, and it's whoever saw the prophet
and believed in the prophet when they saw
him, meaning they were Muslim, and died as
a Muslim.
And that's why Imam Suyuti
says that the greatest Sahabi is Sayid Nai'isah
because on the night of Islam i'raj,
he saw the prophet, he believed in the
prophet, sayid Nai'isah was alive,
and Jesus will come back and die as
a Muslim. SubhanAllah.
And
whoever follows.
Right?
The way of the true religion,
and let's talk about that word
for a minute. It's right here. You can
see it, the big controversy
because the word
is from the word,
and that word, of course, is the word
which leads to.
Right? And we see that there are a
lot of people out there claiming
that everything is,
and there are other people out there that
say nothing is,
and we need to be balanced. Right? But
the reason the sheikh put
in this line is if to say that
bidah
can only happen
in the fundamentals,
the usul
of the religion.
And not only the that agreed upon like
prayer,
right, like Hajj,
like Tawhid.
Those are fundamental things. Right? The Quran being
sacred.
But where Akhida,
where Bida doesn't happen and where most Muslims
tend to,
misappropriate
its usage
are in issues of.
Right? Because when we hear the word,
the word means
and
means that the mind was involved, that scholarship
was involved. There was an engagement
in a text or the absence of a
text, and that's why imam Al Haramain says
that fiqh is synonymous with differences.
When we entered Al Azhar, we were told
meaning that fiqh is going to to really
engage a lot of different opinions and ideas,
But, unfortunately, we see the untrained,
and perhaps the the immature, you know, turning
everything under the sun into bida, which is
not bida. For example,
they will say that, you know,
can you put your hands on your chest
or not? Well, that's a bidah. It's not
bida. Can you pray 20 or 8 rakat
tarawee? That doesn't fall under bida. Right? What
falls under bida are issues related to the
fundamentals
of religion,
not the issues of legitimate
scholarly
discourse. It's very important for you when you
engage your community
to be someone who brings about unity,
not disunity.
The second thing is that for someone to
be a muftareh means they have to do
it on purpose, and that's why he uses
that form because that form
in Arabic, mubtareh, is from Ifta
Allah.
Ifta Allah,
And and that form actually implies that the
person knowingly
and purposefully
did something. But if someone falls into bida
on accident, we don't go around and label
them innovators.
So let's quickly
go over bidah. The word bidah is from
the word bada',
and
means
to do something that has no precedent,
to bring something from nothing.
So we Allah, for example, his name is
Al Badia.
That's an I n at the end over
there. You can't see it. Right? Because Allah
brings things from nothing. He creates from nothing.
So when something is a bidah in religion,
that means
it has no text
or no action of the
to support it or the.
That's the first thing.
Number 2 is
it means that it fell
in the issues of the fundamentals that I
talked about earlier, not in the issues of.
In the issues
of, not to do.
All of those things fall under legitimate
scholarly
discussion.
Right? The third thing is that the scholars
differed over their conceptualization
of.
Some said every innovation in the religion is
forbidden,
and that is the minority of scholars.
The majority who followed Imam al Shafi'i
said that bidah is divided into madmoomah
and mahmura,
commendable in this light. We'll talk about that
in in the future, but what I want
you to remember now is that issues of
legitimate
scholarly difference
do not fall under the term
bidah.
Now let's repeat this last line a few
times in the introduction before we start the
text. The sheikh,
he says.
There's something else I want you to pay
attention to
really quickly,
and that is the word.
We have
in Islam.
Oh, this pen is giving me the blues.
We have tuck lead.
And the word tuck lead means to follow
someone without knowing why.
Right? And there's times when that's an obligation.
We'll talk about that in the future.
The other word we have is is is
really important.
Is.
And the word that's 9 right there. The
word it's about means to follow someone with
evidences, to know why you're following them. So
the sheikh is saying that the most honorable
person is the one who knows why they
follow the prophet, knows why they follow his
family, know why knows why they follow his
companions, right, knows why they do what they
do as if to say the importance
of knowledge.
Right? Allah says.
Allah says. Allah will raise the people of
knowledge. So in this last line, we took
importance of sending peace and blessings upon the
prophet's family, his companions,
learning and acquiring religious literacy, and we also
talked about briefly the idea of biddah
being careful of people who misuse the concept
barakalawfiqum.
This completes the introduction of the poem.
The next chapter, Insha'Allah, that will start will
begin a discussion about God,
the intellect,
and how the intellect and the sacred work
together.