Tom Facchine – Beware They Claim To Have Hidden Knowledge

Surah is another very, very amazing. Surah talks a lot about

the things that are going to happen in, you know, the end of

the world and things like that. But there's one particular ayah

that strikes me as significant, or Allah says woman who don't need is

that he's talking about the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,

sallam, and that he is not going to withhold information about the

raib, 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

Muhammad SAW, 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 was in there somewhere, and all these sorts of

conspiracy theories, right? And it relies on this 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. And 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, but the real information is just for the few.

This is not Islamic. This idea is not Islamic. And Allah says right

here that the Prophet saw them. Did not withhold he did not

withhold teachings. He did not keep something secret. He did not

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. No

Islam is I hesitate to use the word populist, but it is populist

in some sort of sense of the word, and that it's for the every man.

It's for everybody. It's clear what's expected of you. The

prophet Ali Sadam said that there is nothing more beloved to Allah

than the Farah ID, than the things that Allah, subhanaw taala have

obligated upon you, the pillars of Islam, the Salah, the Zakat, the

Ramadan, all these sorts of things, right? And then after

you've taken care of them, then you continue to draw closer to

Allah's pawn, to ADA 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 sort of taquier reminds us of. So.