Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #084 – Allah Made Us A Middle Nation

			You know, lost pounds on the Koran described us Muslims as a median community or a middle path. And
we've found in so many of the videos that we've done that that's true when it comes to the
conception of who God is when it comes to esotericism versus esotericism. Right, the ritualistic
nature, but yet the spirituality, all these sorts of things, Islam is a good middle, right? Not a
contrived, middle, but a good middle way. And when it comes to individualism versus collectivism,
and this is also true. So we live in an extremely individualistic time and place in North America
2022. And a lot of the sort of wisdom of the Koran or the wisdom of the last panel data is lost on
		

			that individualistic mindset. I'll give a couple examples. People raise a fuss about inheritance
law, right? Why do women get less than men? Well, first of all, that's wrong. Because it's not a
blanket. Women get less than men. There are situations where women get more than men, if you have
three or more daughters, they inherit two thirds is the largest fixed portion that you can receive.
So daughters versus fathers or daughters versus uncles, there's lots of situations in which women
inherit more than men. But what is the actual technical truth is that if there are brothers and
sisters, they're all siblings, then the male siblings, right, the boys, the sons are going to
		

			receive more than the daughters or the girls, their sisters. And so the individualist raises a fuss
like this is not fair, right? We imagine we imagine this sort of situation where the son flies in
from New York and the daughter flies in from California and they meet their parents have just passed
away, and you give somebody cut someone a check over here and cut someone a check over there, and
they go live their separate lives, if that's the relationship that we're imagining between the
brother and sister, then it would seem to make sense that they should both get an equal share that
they should be treated as individuals. But Allah subhanaw taala doesn't just treat us as individuals
		

			and the shitty I was formed, not just treating us as individuals treating us as families, treating
us as brothers and sisters, as parents as guardians, people with responsibilities, people with
duties and so you wonder why somebody gets more than somebody else? That's because within the same
system, guess what the brothers responsible for his sister financially, if something were to happen
to her, God forbid health? Or she gets divorced? Or, you know, widowed, maybe her husband passes
away? Who's going to take care of her if her parents aren't around? Is she supposed to just live as
a single mom alone scraping by Allah subhanaw taala says, No, he has a responsibility. And so
		

			because he has a responsibility, that responsibility is offset by a privilege. Yes, there are
privileges and responsibilities. A lot of people within our individualistic time, they envy other
people's privileges, and they don't envy other people's responsibilities. And the two have to go
together, right? You don't get the privilege without the responsibility in a snap. Okay, so there's
a lot of sort of things like this inheritance law is just one example where we look to things and we
say, well, that doesn't make sense. But really, why doesn't it make sense is because our
sensibilities have been skewed by individualism, and we think too much of ourselves as individuals,
		

			as opposed to something that's more collective. Is there an extreme on the collectivist side? Yes,
but we'll hold off on comment there until we live in a time where that's actually relevant.