Suhaib Webb – The Power of Engagement in Religious Education Unlocking Your Utility in Islam
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The speaker discusses the unique balance between divinity, unassailable ideas, and the sacred in religion. They explain that the Quran encourages people to push their own utility and not engage in questions or getting involved in religion. Islam finds this unique balance between divinity, unassailable ideas, and the sacred, but it must be done with devotion and not with questions.
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So is asking the prophet, peace be upon
him, specifically
directed to the prophet, have you not seen
the one who denies a deen?
And the prophet has.
He's he's witnessing it around him. And, again,
this goes back to what we talked about
in our very first session, how
theology and sociology
are intrinsically married to one another for religion
to really function.
So how the Quran encourages us to engage
our own utility and to push in with
our own agency and oftentimes,
we experience in religious education ID that you
have to, like, surrender your utility and just
kind of go with the flow and
don't ask questions and don't get involved and
don't engage too much and god forbid you,
you know, you start to quote the Quran
and hadith.
Whereas
in begins.
Right? We said it's an incomplete sentence.
The only way it becomes complete is when
you put the verb there. So therefore, you
see without you,
it's not gonna work.
And also without the rest of it, it's
not gonna work. So Islam
finds this very
unique sort of balance
between
divinity,
unassailable
ideas, and the sacred, but I have to
push it.