Suhaib Webb – Transforming Emotion into Action- A Call for Change
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We want to think about from protest to
process as being rooted ideally in some type
of emotion, some type of moral, if you
will, instability that then compels us to move.
The Prophet ﷺ linked this to movement in
the famous hadith where he says if you
see an evil, obviously if someone recognizes evil,
that's a moral judgment as well as a
sharia judgment, that now is compelling them to
one of three things, right?
If man ra'a minkum munkaran, whoever from
amongst you sees munkar, something which is detestable
and evil, fa liyaghayyiru biyadi, they let them
change it with their hand, and if not
with their hand, then with their speech, and
if not with their speech, with their heart,
wa dhariqa adhaafu liman.
But the point is that there was a
movement in that person, a moral, if you
will, fault line was broken that compelled them
to act.
So this idea that feeling upset, feeling angry,
feeling sad is somehow a sign of weak
iman does not align with Sunni theology.