Ayah Series #47 – Surah At-Takwir

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sorts of queries another very, very amazing Surah talks a lot about the things that are going to happen, you know, the end of the world and things like that. But there's one particular idea that strikes me as significant or less fun with us as women who are allies of IB Madani is that he's talking about the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, and that he is not going to withhold information about the vibe about the unseen. And this is an important doctrinal point when it comes to Islam is that it's not esoteric, right? You see some people sometimes in some movements, and they say, you know, it's like, well, this is the hidden teaching of the Prophet Mohammed sites, or the

hidden teaching of Ali, or the secret the secrets of the Masters, you know, nobody knew about right and it was passed down, you know, to this person and that person, and that person either was in there somewhere and all these sorts of conspiracy theories, right. And it relies on the sort of idea of secrecy and exclusivity. And there's this kind of mystique, this allure this idea that oh, it's like, well, the real understanding is just for the few elect. There's an there's an elitism that's going on here, too, whereas the masses, they're just playing around with these five times praying a day and all these sorts of things with the real information is just for the few This is not Islamic.

This idea is not a snob. And Allah's founder says right here that the prophesy Saddam did not withhold, he did not withhold teachings, he did not keep something secret, he did not, you know, select certain postures or exercises or acts of worship and not tell them to anybody except through a secret back channel that we're only just discovering now or within the last 200 years now Islam is I hesitate to use the word populace but it is populist in some sort of sense of the word and that it's for the everyman, it's for everybody it's clear what's expected of you the Prophet it so that's some said that there is nothing more beloved to Allah subhanaw taala than the Fatah it then the

things that are lost primadonna have obligated upon you the pillars of Islam, the Salah, there's a car Ramadan, the all these sorts of things, right? And then after you've taken care of them, then you continue to draw closer to the last final data with extra right but you don't substitute you don't put the cart before the horse. You don't substitute the mandatory for the permissible or for the recommended right. Islam is about taking care of the basics, right. It's not about hidden knowledge, secret knowledge, secret things. And so that's something that sorts of tech we it reminds us of