Suhaib Webb – Why Christian Zionists Enjoy Inflicting Pain on Palestine A Look At Islamic Theology’s Humanity
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Praise Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We send, peace
and blessings upon
our beloved Messenger, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
upon his companions, his family and those who
follow them until the end of time.
To everybody.
My apologies for yesterday. Some people thought we're
going to actually have this program yesterday. That's
my fault.
But
we wanted to talk about some things that
are very important from time to time, especially
that are impacting,
the Muslim community,
in many ways.
And what really brought about this sort of
idea is years ago, I think around 1990,
2019, excuse me,
Then going into 2020, when COVID started, I
started to see memes and
small clips that were
being
produced.
And people were
making some outrageous claims about the hereafter
and saying things about the hereafter that were
like unbelievable
And using hadith of the message of Allah
to sort of make these points.
So that,
as
as someone trained in theology, you know,
sort of sparked my interest.
But then that kind of turned to horror
as
I saw it continue to happen over and
over and over again. Specifically using text
related to the hereafter
and contextualizing
those texts to given moments that were happening,
especially in the backdrop of COVID, which you
can understand maybe why people did that.
And
of late,
especially,
on social media,
I've noticed evangelical Christians in particular, and I'm
aware of this idea of dispensational millennialism within
their theology.
I've seen some things that are actually
inhumane,
illogical,
unacceptable,
and extremely concerning. And we saw this also
the groups like ISIS. Actually, ISIS and some
of the pseudo Jihadist movements tend to align
actually
interpretively with evangelical Christians more than they do
with Islam.
To be honest with you,
so what I thought I would do is
in the face of the genocide that's happening
in Gaza
and we're seeing now, we saw it posted
it,
this Christian minister saying, you know, that we
have to do certain things to make certain
things happen.
This will be an opportunity for you to
see the depth and beauty of Islam.
And also to equip yourself
that will help you in 2 ways. Number
1 is, when Muslims are doing this, right?
Putting out memes, putting out TikToks
and claiming certain things, as we'll talk about
in a second. And that means now the
doomsday is here.
You'll be able to push back on it.
The other other side of it is specifically
Christian
or evangelical
Zionists
who believe in something called
dispensational millennialism.
You you
you have to be able to
understand how beautiful Ardeen is, and why Allah
calls him Abdaleen.
Like why they're astray.
Like why in Fatiha we ask not to
be like that.
And I'll give a few examples. There's a
great book you should read called stranger strangers
are in their own land.
And strangers in their own land is written
by a brilliant UC Berkeley professor, a sociologist
who went
before the Trump
victory in 2016
and lived with people like in the Bayou
area of Louisiana,
people that have been traditionally like Democrats
and had switched to Republican.
She was interested into know into understanding why.
And and one of the things that she
uncovered
was that,
big oil, especially in the in the eighties,
began to sponsor,
religious teachers
and and evangelicals
in particular
because evangelicalism
believes that for in order for Jesus to
come back,
a number of things have to happen.
And I'll give some examples to show you
how serious this is. So
now if you're familiar with the bayou in
Louisiana, it's famous for its seafood.
Now it's it's not allowed to eat seafood
from the bayou anymore. The people have traditionally
lived in the area of the bayou
are having experiencing high rates of cancer,
serious comorbidities.
Like, you name it, right, because of the
poison that's in their water from these corporations.
But these corporations actually sponsored
certain evangelicals
because in the last chapter of the Bible,
the book of Revelation,
listen to this carefully.
It says that Jesus will not return
until the sea becomes fire.
That Jesus will not return
until the sea becomes fire. And because evangelicals
are hyperlittilists,
many of them, not all of them, interpret
this to mean that they should be actively
engaging in polluting the earth.
Because in order for Jesus to return,
the
sort of environmental
system has to go into chaos.
This is called
dispensational
monillialism.
You should look it up. Read about it.
It's crazy.
As for the,
the
the the text that I read, there's 2
texts. One is Strangers in the Old Land.
There's another text. I'll post it on my
story. I don't have it with me now.
I just came back from 2 classes, so
forgive me.
That talks about the secret funding
under Lyndon b Johnson. This starts, but it
continues. It gets worse and worse
in the early eighties. How big oil pushes
in and begins to fund
the evangelical movement
to fund the far right in order to
remove any of the environmental restrictions that you
find enforced by the federal government.
Big Oil wants to do it to make
profits with an f.
Evangelicals,
some of them think they do this to
earn
p h.
This marriage.
This marriage. Very similar to some of the
jihadist cults that existed in the Muslim world
over the last,
50 years that were funded and supported
by very problematic sources
to achieve
political
economic gains,
making those jihadists think they were achieving religious
gains.
This is important for you and me, and
this is contextually appropriate for where we are
now because one of the fundamental beliefs of
dispensational Christian,
millennialism
as held by the evangelicals,
is that in order for Jesus to come,
the area of Palestine has to be reoccupied
by Jews
so that Jesus can return
and they can fight the Jews.
You can't make this stuff up.
You can't make it up. And there's a
number of, like, theological
problems with this.
The first is it's shirk.
Like, to think that
God is contingent
on something,
that that God can be manipulated,
is something that completely
is foreign to our understanding of Tawhid.
We say out of the 20 attributes, one
of them
Allah is the only One Who Wills.
Allah created us and what we do.
So this idea of dispensational
millennialism, the idea that they can somehow
set things in motion
to make Jesus return to control
God,
is insane.
It shook.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is the sole
creator of all actions.
That's why, Sheikh Ahmed al Dardir, he says
in Al Kharida,
This poem that we teach at, our my
school Swiss called Al Khareelah
basic text in Islamic theology that anyone can
learn. He says
the only one who can cause anything to
happen is Allah.
In fact, he says the next line, whoever
says that nature controls itself
or that things happen because they they're contingencies
beyond Allah's power, this is kufr.
So here we see why they are called
a Baalim.
Why they are astray? Because they actually think
they can manipulate
God to do something,
and although we may dismiss
this as being ridiculous,
it has had serious
consequences
on political policy
and in the world we live in today.
1 being the issue of environmental justice.
Being committed to the instability of the environment,
as mentioned according to them in the book
of Revelation,
that when Jesus returns,
the seas will be fire.
And then secondly,
their support for repopulating
and the ethnic cleansing
of Gaza
and Palestine
because they believe it has to be purified
from
all of the Gentiles
and repopulated
by the Jews
before Jesus will return.
So, like,
you may have seen that sermon
that that preacher gave on my Instagram page.
But this is having serious repercussions.
If you turn on the television late at
night in America,
you're going to find advertisements
for certain evangelical churches that are sponsoring Ethiopian
and,
Russian Jews to resettle the West Bank.
This is inhumane.
And when people are using theology,
people are
using God
to inflict such incredible pain and suffering on
people, they should ask themselves, like, what kind
of religion do you have?
So I want you to think about what
I just said. You should wiki it if
you can.
Dispensational
millennialism.
Read about, I believe it's like 7 phases.
And they believe the last phase here at
this point is Jesus' return.
And they actually believe
that they can rush
the signs of the hour
so that they can rush God
sending
Jesus
back
at the cost of Palestinian
lives.
And ironically,
Palestinian Christian lives. And even Palestinian
Jewish lives.
Because there's a difference between Zionism, which is
a secular ideology,
right,
and Judaism that we know.
So
I wanted to share with you
because Islam is a beautiful
religion,
and
a beautiful deen,
that our scholars were very concerned about eschatology.
I don't like to use big words. Eschatology
is
the texts
that deal with the hereafter. From this point
on, I'll just say hereafter texts.
Because they realize that people can use
ideas about the hereafter
to motivate people
to do
highly irresponsible
stuff.
Also people could use the hereafter to cause
people to give up hope.
That's why Imam Al Razi says wal Asr.
You know Surat Asr? Allah swears by time
to say your entire life is an opportunity
for you to return to Allah. Never despair.
So I wanted to share with you some
of the principles of
are the principles used to help us
navigate
and understand
text correctly,
related
to the hereafter. And this actually isn't a
book that I'll be publishing hopefully in the
next year at my school.
It's an explanation of a poem called, and
I added this section to the book when
I saw the evangelicals
and what they were saying and encouraging.
So when it comes to text about Al
Fitin,
There are around 9 principles
that scholars of interpretation,
ancient Islamic scholars and contemporary,
Alhamdulillah,
scholars,
use
as
compliancy
measures
for employing these texts.
Okay.
The first axiom is restricting oneself
to the text of Revelation.
That anything related to the hereafter, anything related
to the signs of the hour
has to come from the Quran and Sunnah.
And that has to have 4 conditions.
And forgive me if this is overly academic,
but I believe also
we need to raise the discourse.
We can't just sit around and laugh at
ourselves all the time.
Because if you laugh at yourself all the
time, know that other people are laughing at
you. And if other people laughing at you,
one day you're going to cry over yourself.
But there are 4 conditions for Dalil.
Four conditions for daleel.
The first, It
has to be authentic, and now we're talking
about hadith because the Quran is motorwattier. It's
authentic.
The hadith has to be Sahih.
So you should ask, someone brings
a narration about the end of times or
something related to the end of times.
Those evangelicals don't even have this one principle.
Is it authentic? They don't care.
It's just about them thinking they can manipulate
God.
Allah cannot be manipulated.
And
they are using this now to justify
the destruction, death, and chaos we find
in Palestine,
as well as the rest of the Muslim
world in general, and all all other parts
of the world.
So it says
It has to be authentic.
There are 4 conditions of Dalim. Number 1,
it should be Sahih. Remember this. Remember this.
Number 2.
It has to be there has to be
a clear relationship between the evidence and the
point you're trying to make.
I'll give some examples of this in a
second.
Number 3,
that evidence
has to be,
is not abrogated. It's not Mansukha.
It hasn't been abrogated.
And the 4th,
that
there's no other evidences to say it's wrong.
This is mentioned by Sharif Sharif Til Masani
and Metahrusu.
So when people talk about dalit, dalit, dalit,
dalit, you should ask them what are the
conditions of dalit. If they don't know the
conditions of dalil, how they use them dalit?
We learned this is a basic sort of
thing we learned when we are trained,
the four conditions of evidence. The first, it
should be authentic. But when we're talking about
anything related to the unseen,
anything related to the unseen can only come
from Quran and Sunnah. Not a shaykh.
Not a wali.
Not not not anybody, but Allah and his
Messenger because this is from the ghaybiat and
the ghaybiat is only to Allah and his
Messenger. So here we see something beautiful about
this principle. It protects us from spiritual abuse.
It protects us from charlatans.
It protects us from people who try to
say they have some spooky knowledge about this,
that, and whatnot,
and they manipulate you. Anyone that claims to
know the unseen,
the only thing they're making seen is their
ignorance in the deen.
Be careful of these people.
Anything related to the hereafter, the signs of
the hour or the hereafter has to come
from Quran and sunnah, not how I feel,
not a dream, not the sheikh, not this,
not suhayb.
That's
it.
Number 2,
This is the part that I want you
to remember.
And you have to make sure that its
meaning, the way it's being used
is correct.
And I will give you an example.
Right after COVID started,
I started seeing memes
because the Hajj that year was gravely impacted.
And people were saying,
well the Hajj this year has been abandoned.
And they were making a meme that's saying
the hour will not start until the Hajj
the Hajj is abandoned.
This meme spread like crazy.
People were talking about it everywhere I went,
But this is wrong.
The hadith of Sahih
but the meaning is wrong.
Why?
Because this hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
that says, there
will be no day of judgment
until the Hajj is abandoned,
is talking about a time that hasn't happened
yet.
It's talking about after Sayidina Isa alaihi salatu
wa salam dies.
As mentioned in the in the narration of
Abu Dawood and Imam Muslim and others,
that after Sayidina Isa, after Jesus passes away,
a short time later all of the righteous
people will die.
And the numbers of the righteous people will
be so few
that there'll be no Hajj.
Then the hour will start.
It's not talking about 2020
with COVID.
So people saw the Hadith and said, Oh
my gosh, it's the end of times.
But if they used this axiom
that's used by our scholars, it would have
saved them a lot of trouble.
Another example
was during the the battles in Syria
and the Battle of Ruqah.
We know that the prophet said, Al malhamah.
What is malhamah? We'll talk about it in
a minute. It's apocalyptic
battle. What happened in a place called ghutbaah.
They took the authentic part of the hadith
and they took another hadith which was weak.
They married them together and said, look. It's
the end of times because this battle is
gonna happen in the Khutta. This battle is
happening now. It's over. But it says the
malhamah. The malhamah is gonna happen
during the time of Sayidina Imam Mehdi and
the time of Sayidina Isa alayhi salatu salam.
The application of the Hadith is wrong.
Even if the wording is Sahih,
the application is incorrect.
And you learn that from this axiom.
Because a scholar is not only worried about
it being Sahih, a scholar is worried about
it being used correctly.
How do you ensure you use a text
correctly?
You learn the axioms
for interpretation.
You learn usulufak.
I hope this makes sense if it's too
complicated.
My apologies.
But this stuff is very important, especially when
we see
people using, especially
evangelicals who believe in Dispensational Millennialism,
This attempt to try to force
things
to happen,
that's impossible.
The second principle,
and this is very important,
we are not commanded by Allah to force
the occurrence
of
the signs of the hour
or to stop them.
Look at the mercy of sharia.
Because imagine, like, if we if we thought
we were actually forced or commanded by Allah
to do things that cause the day of
judgment to come about,
That would be impossible.
Like that's not rahma, but the Sharia is
rahma.
Look at these evangelicals.
Now they're so insane
that they are massacring. They are actually engaged
financially
in the public
ethnic cleansing
ethnic cleansing
and public,
of, you know, damn
of the people of Palestine because they actually
think
they can cause the day of judgment. They
think they are commanded to do this. Look
at the beauty of Islam.
We are not
burden.
We are not commanded. It's not from the
sharia. It's not in the books of fiqh
that we have to do things
to make the day of judgment happen or
that we should not do things to keep
the day of judgment from happening.
Why? This is the business of Allah.
It ain't our business.
I'll give an example.
I remember I was traveling one time and
people in the area that I was traveling,
they were building tall buildings.
And someone told me,
It's not that's haram.
I said, Why? He said, Because the hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
said,
that the hour will not happen until you
see these Bedouins building tall buildings.
We're not commanded to stop that. We're not
commanded to do that because that is beyond
our control
and we have no ability to influence
anything Allah decrees.
Alhamdulillah, that's Aurahma.
Actually, it's Aurahma.
So I remember,
you know,
some years ago there were people saying if
we do this Mehdi will come in the
Sunni community. If we do this, Isa will
come. This is Baqwas, man. This is a
shaitan. This is people
divorced from the proper
interpretive
principles and they end up harming a lot
of people, man.
The third principle,
as we compare our theology
to the theology of the colonizers,
We compare our theology
to these genocidal maniac murderers who are driven,
who have the audacity,
who have the audacity to call us
lunatics,
bent on destruction.
Have you seen any Muslims
ever in history
do what you're seeing in Gaza?
At a at a public level
With us,
the majority of Muslims disagreed with ISIS.
The polls show this over and over again.
The majority of Muslims disagreed with the actions
of those people who claimed to represent Islam,
but here we find that preacher
on my Instagram page,
sanctioning
blowing up Masjid Aqsa
and quote
mowing down the population there.
And they have the audacity
to call us
maniacs.
But look at the beauty of our deen.
Look at the responsibility.
Look at these
look at these principles of usu,
that
guard our understanding
of the end of times.
And I want you to appreciate the fact
that a colonized mind is a defeated mind.
A colonized mind is the one that assumes,
yeah man, we're crazy. Our religion is backwards.
When Muslims actually take the opportunity to properly
learn their religion,
you find so much joy and happiness in
them. Because
deep down inside, they know this is the
Haqq.
Deep down inside, they know it's beautiful. But
the furnishings of the world, empire tells the
story, man.
Empire tells the story. That's how it works.
But we just went through 3 out of
the 9 principles and look how much responsibility
is there. Look how much mediating power is
there.
How much beauty is there to protect people,
to protect society,
and to keep us stabilized.
The third principle is that the default for
applying the hadith
about the trials and fitan at the end
of times
to specific times and individuals
is rejection.
The default
is rejection.
So when someone comes and says, yeah, man,
this happened. Day of judgment is tomorrow.
This happened. The world's over.
This happened, it's gonna be Al Muqiyama.
If they're
not scholars and theologians,
Al Aslufihi
arrad.
Rejection.
And that takes us to the 4th axiom.
For those of you who joined late, we're
talking about
dispensational millennialism,
a philosophy used by some evangelicals
to justify
the wanton destruction,
genocide,
and ethnic cleansing and mass murdering, and public
execution
of Palestinians
in the name of their theology.
And we're comparing how they have 0 interpretive
tools
to help them understand text of the end
of times, and that's why Allah calls them
Abdalin. They are astray.
And as we work to decolonize ourselves, the
best way to decolonize yourself is to learn
Arabic.
The best way to decolonize yourself is to
learn your deen because colonality wants you to
hate Islam, and colonality wants to distance you
from Islam, and colonality wants to tell you
your are backwards, and this deen is backwards.
It's held you back. It held you back
in a colonial system because a colonial system
is evil. Absolutely.
Because light can't function in darkness.
It can only get brighter and brighter, but
it can't function against the system of darkness.
So therefore, of course, it's gonna threaten your
utility.
But if you understand what it means to
be a Muslim,
you're not living for this world, you're living
for the next.
What's the 4th principle?
This is super important.
Verifying the nature of the event
and ensuring it matches the description of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in 3 areas,
100%.
What are the areas that it has to
match up? The time. So when I said
earlier, people were saying the battle of Khutbah
is the end of time. Doesn't doesn't doesn't
fall into the context
of all the hadith about the fitan. The
battle of Ghupa is going to happen during
the time of Sayed Nai Isa alaihis salatu
salam.
The other example I gave was when people
are saying, oh, there's no Hajj this year.
It means it's the day of judgment. It
doesn't align with the context of the hadith
when all of the hadith are brought together.
It becomes very clear that the that the
Hajj is going to be abandoned in a
time after Satan Isa has died,
and very few believers
are left on the face of the earth
until, in fact, the prophet said in another
hadith, even Allah's name is not mentioned,
then the Hajj will be abandoned. It's not
talking about 2020 and covid bro. Relax man.
Stop eating so many hot cheetos and drinking
strawberry pop. That caffeine got you lit. So
you have to be very careful.
You have to make sure contextually it's correct.
In that it applies to the right
description.
So for example,
read a hadith
in Sahih Muslim. The prophet said the hour
will not start until you fight the Turks.
Is that now? You're You're gonna go fight
the Turks now? The Turks are Muslims.
So obviously,
it is not contextually appropriate
nor does it apply to those Atraq.
As Imam Anawi said, that battle happened before
the time of Imam Anawi, Rahimohullah,
before the Turks accepted Islam.
So therefore, using that hadith now
does not fall under this 4th principle, that
you have to verify the nature of the
event
and ensure that it matches
in its time, its place,
and its people before you say this means
the day of judgment is now. Look at
our deen, man.
Look at these axioms.
And then you look at this idiot
who claims to be a representative
of religion
using his theology which has no interpretive also
to justify
the mass murder
of Palestinian people the same way they used
it to justify
what they did to the people in this
country,
the Native Americans.
The 5th principle is very important.
That anyone trying to use a text about
the end of times
to manipulate
actions amongst people,
that action
should not
be
a burden.
This is very important because, oftentimes,
cults, whether Muslim or otherwise,
they use end of times texts to encourage
people to give all their money away, to
distribute their wealth,
to do things that harm themselves and their
family.
Here's this axiom
from our books of theology, in our books
of Islamic law, that says any application of
hereafter text
has to be distant
from
irrational
burden that harms people
in their persons, their wealth,
their family,
and their community. Look at the Dean, man.
And I remember in 1999 there was a
Sufi Sheikh. I'm not saying all Sufis are
like this, so I I I have
my love for Sufis. I roll with that
that crew. I'm down with it. But we
know there's some Sufis that are goofy Sufis.
Not all of them are on Quran and
Sunnah. Some of them, who knows what they're
doing?
And I remember in 1999, there was a
sheikh
who took his followers to Lebanon,
and he's not a famous sheikh,
and he said we have to climb this
mountain in Lebanon
and wait for the Mehdi to come
on,
you know, January 1, 2000.
So you had followers from the Bay Area,
I remember at that time, who sold their
homes,
got rid of, you know, their their their
their,
you know, their
their possessions
and ran off to Lebanon.
And on January 1, 2000,
they was up there
on top of that mountain
waiting for nothing but the sun to rise,
bro.
They were just up there waiting.
And these people
were burdened by this interpretation.
They were exploited and used by this interpretation,
But here we see the axiom.
The axiom says that any application
of hadith related to the end of times
have to be free from
irrational,
illogical
burden.
I remember Orville,
his name was,
in Oklahoma, there was a preacher in the
late eighties. He said, if you don't give
me $20,000,000
I'm gonna die or $10,000,000 I'm gonna die.
People gave him $10,000,000.
Why?
Like, why would you do that? What was
this burden? That's a sign of a cult.
That's a sign that people
are are not on haqq.
You read Allah.
Allah wants to ease for you, not hard
for you, hardship for you. So be careful.
If you're around anybody, even in the Muslim
community, that's making things overly difficult for you
and exploiting you and using you,
hey. That's a bad sign, man. That's a
bad sign.
The 6th principle, I alluded to it in
the very beginning,
That a person has to know all of
the hadith in the correct chronological order.
So like I said earlier about Hajj, the
Bab the the the the Battle of Ruqpa,
the people using that were chronologically
completely off. I'll give you another
one. A very famous one is people say,
I'm the strangers.
The hadith in Sahih Muslim.
Give glad news to the strangers. So you
find some Muslims they call themselves
where the strangers were and this is used
to sort of create a cult, you know,
all the other Muslims are astray, everyone is
wrong, it's just me and my homies and
my friends
on on, you know, hanging out together,
and they would say we're the Khuruba. The
hadith of the Horoba,
again, is talking about a time after Saydna
Isa,
when the numbers of believers are so few,
that those who believe will truly be
It's talking about
way down the line, not now.
That's why the long narration says,
The hadith says, they are those who will
do good when all of the people are
corrupt.
So a person has to make sure that
the context
of the narration
is correct.
The 8th principle and I'm sorry for taking
too much of your time.
Whatever we find difficult to understand
about the hereafter, whatever we find hardship and
understanding
about certain things of the hereafter,
we leave it to the experts.
The 9th
is, and this is very important,
that the default for interpreting
text
related
to the signs of the hour in the
end of times
is the literal meaning,
not a figurative meaning.
A literal meaning, Al Haqqiqa,
not the majaz meaning. I will give an
example that is really problematic because it sort
of reinforces
the false American
universal.
The special American Muslim. You're so special to
be a Muslim in America. Why?
Because of America?
You're not special because where you are.
You're special because who you are
and what you're about.
And in many ways, that that narrative
gives in to this, like,
a marital superiority.
For all we know,
Allah knows who is most beloved to him
from his servants.
Allah knows who he loves. Allah knows who's
close to him. It's not about the US.
It's not about the West. It's But
I'll give an example. I remember
some years ago, people came to me and
they said, Masha'Allah,
Masha'Allah.
We're seeing now
Islam
coming from America. That means the day of
judgment is near.
I said,
how?
They said because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said that the hour will not start
until the sun rises from the west.
Wow.
Wow.
So the hour will not start
until the sun rises from the west,
and they were trying to say that the
West is America and the sun rising from
the West are new Muslims.
This is a completely
successful
bad interpretation.
Why?
Because the hadith is literal. It's not figurative.
Secondly,
what continent
was west of what the Prophet was talking
about?
If you want to go with their interpretation,
what continent
is west
of the Hijaz is Africa.
Not America. America didn't exist.
So you can see this is a chaos.
That's why I like to tell people, don't
bring the -isms into Islam.
Bring Islam into the -isms. When you bring
the -isms into Islam, it leads to schisms,
But bring Islam into the -isms. Let Islam
clean those -isms up.
But that's a very problematic,
weird interpretation
that the sun rising from the West, the
West is America.
That's strange. And then it's the people who
embrace Islam in America are suns?
What?
This is insanity.
So we say
related to the end of times
is literal not figurative.
Do you see now one of the things
I see is a lot of people here,
alhamdulillah.
I hope one of the things you can
appreciate,
how much care is into our deen
to protect us from these texts that are
very evocative
and can cause people to, you know, act
a little crazy.
So the scholars laid out these axioms
to keep us calm, man. To keep us
on the haqq. To keep us on the
sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and to protect people from harm. Look at
these evangelicals
supporting
the devastation that's happening in the world.
Even as I mentioned in the very beginning,
destroying the environment.
The 9th principle, and we'll finish here,
is that we do not neglect our responsibilities
under the pretext
of waiting for
the signs of the hour to occur or
to stop.
We do not say, oh, well, now's the
the signs of the hour so I don't
have to pray. It was the signs of
the hour I don't have to fast.
When Satan and Esau returns, he will return
at the time of Asr. Imam Mehdi will
be leading the people in Asr, and they
will pray Asr.
So we do not use
the signs of the hour or waiting for
the signs of the hour to be removed
as an
an alibi
not to be good people,
not to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and not to spread the Haqq.
In other words,
chaos is never
an alibi
to act chaotic.
Difficult times are never an alibi
to harm or mistreat others
or to forego our Islamic
obligations.
SubhanAllah.
We have to be good in all moments
as best we can.
So these were 10 axioms
that I wanted to share with you. Alhamdulillah,
I'm gonna try to come on more often
and reflect on some of the current events
that are happening because I think it's important.
But when I saw these evangelical
preachers talking about bombing Masjid Al Aqsa
and Masjid Al Umar
and
mowing down
the population.
You know,
that's a problem.
And doing so because they think they can
manipulate
God
to bring Jesus back.
And then I remember
Muslims that were sharing texts, they do it
all the time, you know, that are out
of context,
weak, the meaning is weak, the understanding is
wrong.
So I thought in this text that I'm
writing on now for my school at Swiss,
that we that we actually teach at our
school,
to add this section on some of the
axioms
for understanding
principles
and,
rules
for understanding
texts related to the end of times,
that will also protect us from Muslim, unfortunately
I hate to use this word like cults
within the Muslim community.
What was the first axiom? Restricting oneself to
authentic texts from Revelation
and ensuring that the meaning is correct.
The meaning is correct.
I gave some examples. The second is that
we are not commanded by Allah
to bring about the end of times or
to stop the end of times.
There's a great axiom.
You know Surah Firta says, it is not
allowed to extract rulings
from those texts that talk about the end
of times.
Because it can lead to a cult. So
we're not coming out of a rahma.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is so merciful.
Alhamdulillahi
rabbil-'Aalameen that he's not commanded us to do
that.
To stop
or to bring about the end. We can't.
Allah sure
can.
The third principle that
That the default for trying to apply
these hadith about the end of times to
any person or any situation,
if it's happening by people who are not
scholars,
is rejection.
And I actually believe now, this should happen
with a council of scholars, not just one.
Like it should be a council of a
large number of people.
The 4th principle,
verifying the nature
of the event,
ensuring its context is correct
and its descriptions are correct.
The 5th, it should not overly burden a
person.
The 6th, it has to be in the
proper order.
The 7th,
that waiting on the signs of the hour
or experiencing the end of times is not
used as an excuse not to be an
obedient adherent Muslim to yield to Allah. The
8th, anything that comes to us as difficult,
we leave it to the experts.
The 9th, that the asl, the foundation of
hadith about the end of times,
is
literal. Because we want to affirm what the
Prophet said and not give anyone else the
ability to interpret. Because that person can be
dangerous.
Can be dangerous.
And I gave the example of people saying
Islam coming from the West are Muslims in
America who've embraced Islam. That's crazy, man. The
word West in that way is is a
relatively new word.
So this is insanity, and then it's like
filled with this toxic
kind of cocktail of America, false American universality.
The 9th principle, as I said earlier, we
do not respect, we do not neglect our
responsibilities,
in the name of the end of time
and so on and so forth.
I
hope
that this was helpful for you. I've recorded
this as well and I'll post it on
my YouTube page.
But noticing
certain Christian theologians
using
certain texts from their book
to justify
and to encourage
genocide,
ethnic cleansing, and the destruction of Palestine. I
thought it would be important. Okay. If we're
such crazy people, if we're the ones who
are wrong, let's compare our
to your non existent
Let's compare our interpretive mechanisms and principles to
the fact that you have 0.
And most of the time your churches are
filled with people who don't even have a
doctorate in divinity
or some kind of
real academic background. That's why oftentimes Christian theologians
complain to me and say, our people don't
listen to us.
And then for those of us who are
Muslims,
I hope by hearing these principles,
you can say like,
subhanAllah man, this is a beautiful deen. SubhanAllah,
our scholarship is on point. SubhanAllah, we're a
dignified honest people. We have fidelity. We have
akhlaq.
We're careful.
And so you can compare and contrast and
see who's a daleen
and who's.
We ask Allah
to accept
from us and ask you a favor after
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May Allah
bless all of you
and increase you in goodness. May Allah protect
us. We ask Allah to help the people
of Sudan.
We ask Allah to bless the people of
Congo.
We ask Allah to accept those people who
died in Hajj.
We ask Allah to help the Muslims come
back to our rightful place,
as prophetic leadership for the world.
And we pray for our brothers and sisters,
the children of Gaza,
the people there.