Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #157 – Components of Prophetic Methodology

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			one thing that Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran and he says it at various points is about the
prophetic method of teaching, right? He sends us prophets, and we'll talk about why that's
important. But these prophets, they have a certain method with how they're supposed to teach people
and what they're supposed to teach people. And so he says, for example, and salts of Bukhara yet to
Alikum at Tina, we use a key como Lima, common kita? Well, hikmah. So there's three or four
depending on how you want to split it up very, very essential components or ingredients to this
methodology. The first is that the prophets are sent to recite Allah's verses right? The revelation,
		

			they are supposed to remind the people and steeped the people in this sort of guidance that comes
directly from Allah subhanaw taala, it's supposed to be the main thing that is informing them
constituting them making them up and their decisions and the things that they have to draw off of,
right. And the second thing is really interesting, Lisa key come like he says that and purifying
you. And that is a nod to something that is a very, very central teaching in our faith that you
cannot separate knowledge from ethics, right, you have to be purified, you can have all the
knowledge of the Koran, but if you're not purified on the inside, it's not only not going to help
		

			you, it's actually going to harm you, you're going to be tempted to use that knowledge and evil ways
to serve yourself to serve the ego. And there's the Hadith of the Prophet saw a sentiment about the
first three people that will be judged on the day of judgment. And when one of those people is this
kind of type of person who they they learned about a snap, and they studied the Koran and they
recited the Quran. And then they're called in front of Allah found data and I lost found out to ask
them about basically you know, what they've done, and they say, Well, I did this and I did that I
learned Islam, I studied the Quran, I recited the Quran, and I did it for you. Then last fall data
		

			says collect, uh, you're lying, you did not do it for me. In fact, you did it so that other people
would say that you're some scholar or some item or some reciter. And then that person is going to be
drug on their face and cast into *. So knowledge is not enough, right? You can have all the
knowledge in the world. But if you're not purifying yourself at the same time, then it's not only
going to not help you, it's actually going to harm you. So that's right there within the prophetic
method of teaching. The first is the act of Allah, the verses of Allah, the guidance of Allah and
then also along with that purification, right? And then the teaching of the keytab what hokhmah and
		

			even cathedra he says enough stuff. So yeah, this is the Quran and the Sunnah, right? You have not
just the guidance from Allah sound data, but you have, how to implement it, how to understand how to
apply it how to produce or let's say embody it right, how to make it real. And this is why last
panel data sent the Koran and other sorts of books of Revelation through prophets, right? If we were
only meant to follow the book of Revelation by itself, then Allah subhanaw taala could have just
sent us a book, he didn't have to send us a prophet, but he sent us a prophet as a living example,
pedagogically, that's the most closest thing to us that we can look at this human example and follow
		

			it and see how in real time the concerns and the principles and the rules they all fit together as
an organic holistic whole. Right. So these are the components of the prophetic methodology steeping
us in the Koran, steeping us in the Revelation, purifying ourselves at the same time and making us
understand not just the the letter of the law, but also how to apply it the Sunnah of the
messengers.