Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 9 Faith, War, & Freedom of Thought
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning and being prepared before pursuing one's mission. They also talk about the use of the word "order" in the Bible and the context of the current interpretive discussions around the topic of acceptance of Islam. The speaker also discusses the restricted meaning of "order" in Arabic and the importance of being prepared for one's mission.
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We continue now discussing,
the incredible poem
line where he says something really, really important.
He says,
We said that what the Sheikh means
is that learning is the first obligation learning
comes before
What's the evidence for that? Well, the verse
right there in front of you, the 47
chapter of the Quran
verse number 19 Allah says
this word right here is really important because
it's an order and order is called emir
and we have another axiom you want to
remember this and I'm gonna teach you these
axioms insha'Allah
under usullufak insha'Allah
What that means is that generally,
an order leads to an obligation. So it's
not just saying learn like learn, it's saying
you have to learn
that As if to say learning
really is the condition
that has to be in place before someone
can properly
say And we've talked about how that learning
is a general learning, not a specific learning.
And we said that the idea that the
first obligation of any human being is to
think they cannot be coerced or forced,
into embracing faith, but it's something that has
to come from their own, because there's no
taqid in the usul, as you recall from
the last lecture.
There's no blind following in the fundamentals brings
about 4 questions. Number 1, how do you
and I interact with scholarship and knowledge?
Number 2 is
constant jihad are, like, Muslims
ordered by God to, like, force people by
enemies necessary
to accept Islam by the sword or with
the gun?
Number 3 is who is responsible? Number 4,
what do we say about those people who,
have never ever been exposed to Islam? Now
what we're gonna talk about today because we
already talked about the first one, how do
we interact
with scholarship and knowledge is, does Islam encourage
constant jihad?
Meaning, are we forced to go around and
make people become Muslim with a sword, with
terror? What we're seeing these
heterodoxical
irresponsible
idiots,
right, killing people in cold blood in the
name of Islam, Allahu Akbar,
or what the Islamophobes are telling people that
we as Muslims here
are out to conquer people until they become
Muslim.
Now there's a problematic text
that unfortunately people misuse a lot. And I
want you to remember something
that everyone has access to Dalil evidences,
but not everyone
understands
how to use daily.
That process of understanding is found in the
science called
philosophy of Islamic law. We'll talk about that
in the future. But I want you to
remember that first point, a dalil is not
enough. So when someone says says to you,
I have a dalil,
you know, are they qualified to use that
Dalil? Have they used it in the right
way? Today, we're gonna talk about that in
light of this hadith.
The hadith is related and imam al Bukharim
imam muslims
authentic collections
where the Prophet is reported to have said
had to yash had to Allah ilaha illallah
wa ana Muhammad and abduhu wahrasuluahu.
I was ordered to fight the people until
they testify that there's no God but Allah
and that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam
is the messenger of Allah. Now let's quickly
walk through some interpretive discussions around that text
so that perhaps we can
help, you know, kind of remedy
this irrational interpretation, this wrong interpretation of some
within the Muslim community,
as well as the the madness of anti
Muslim bigots
and the Islamophobes.
There's 2 things I want you to think
about. Number 1 is
this word, Anas, is a general word, meaning
it's not restricted. It applies to everybody.
And and and number 3 is the context
of this text. There's a 4th thing.
Are there other texts
that explain it
That may restrict
this word people. Because there's no way that
you can understand this text to be literal.
Because if that was the case,
that means all people, then that would have
meant Abu Bakr, Aisha, or even the Muslims.
Right? So, obviously, this text has to be
restricted,
has to be interpreted. Let's talk about how
based on the principles of Islam. Number 1
is I was ordered to fight people,
right? That is, as I said, a universal.
Now,
oftentimes in Arabic, right? Universal terms are used
and I'll teach you those universal terms when
we study
but the meaning is not universal, the meaning
is specific. We say
The word for a universal text in Arabic
is
am. And in fact, there's a principle
in interpretive,
sciences
that
says,
meaning that a a a universal text
is restricted.
Right? A universal text is restricted. And Imam
Imu Wazir, a great scholar of says that
it is actually an obligation upon you when
you come across a universal text to make
sure that its application
is not restricted. For example,
let's say you take the 3rd verse of
the Quran, the 46th verse and try to
understand the word
people literally. You would completely misunderstand that verse
and misinterpret it. Allah says about
that he will speak to people from his
crib. Does it mean all people and NASA
or a certain group of people?
Allah says
in the 12th chapter of the Quran,
verse 46, wrote to Yusuf,
which says,
perhaps I will go back to Anessa,
to people,
and and and they will learn. Right? Does
it mean all humanity did that person in
prison was saying that Yusuf
come and speak to you and I, all
human beings, Or does it mean a specific
group of people?
What
and Allah says in Suratul Hajj, the 22nd
chapter, the 27th verse, then call
people to Hajj means every single human being
or does it mean a specific group of
people? So the same thing here in this
hadith of the prophet salaamah
that it is
I was ordered to fight people, but just
like in these verses here, people is not
a universal,
It is what the scholar said,
it is a universal term
that has a specific meaning. Now I want
you to pay attention to this golden rule
right here. And that is that anti Muslim
bigots and irrational jihadists interpret Islam
the same.
There's no restrictions.
Everything is
right?
And remember that because they have evidences, they
have Dalil,
but they do not have the rules of
interpretation.
Inshallah, the next
session together, we're gonna continue discussing this hadith
of the prophet
and some of the means to interpret and
make sure we interpret this text properly.