Yasir Qadhi – Is It Mandatory To Re-Establish A Caliphate
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The speaker discusses the importance of global leadership and political leadership for Muslims. They also mention a quote from the prophet that leads to a war of faith. The speaker believes that the world is waiting for a global leadership and that it is likely to not materialize until the end of the century. They also mention a book called the Manar al Munif Yeah, which is considered a false statement.AI: Transcript ©
The technical term would be it is
for you?
I'm asking you. Okay.
It it would be,
what is it exactly that is far? Establishing
an imam in different areas,
is, of course, a far. The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
said,
Whoever dies without having pledged an allegiance to
an imam, he will die in a state
of jahiliyah,
which means that
you should not basically be
promoting anarchy
or rebelling against the legitimate authority
or, Muslims should not ignore the importance of,
order,
you know, and and hierarchy, political hierarchy.
Now
is it a
must to have
a singular global
leadership
for Muslims?
I think that
it is a fard
to work towards unity
and to actualize
of that unity,
whatever it is that can be actualized
given the sociopolitical
realities
of the different times.
I let me let me be clear with
you here. I would not have any faith
crisis
if we never had a Khalifa
until the day of judgment.
It would not cause me any faith crisis.
It would not cause me any this, like,
discomfort
about my faith.
There is a particular hadith that people quote
often.
I grew up quoting this hadith. I grew
up believing in this wholeheartedly.
The known hadith is reported by Ahmed from
an Omani Brebashir
in which Khudaifa
conveyed from the prophet
that he said
so the prophet
said that that you will have the prophet
with among you for as long as Allah
wills and Allah
will then raise it or remove it when
he wills. And then there will be a
akhilafa
on the prophetic method.
For as long as allah wills and then
allah will raise it when he wills and
then there will
be a kingship a reign of oppressive kingship.
For as long as Allah wills and and
Allah will raise it and then there will
be a reign of compulsive kingship.
Mhmm. And then in Mulkil Jabri.
Mhmm. And then there will be Khalafah Alamin
Hajjil Abouwah.
Then there will be Khalafah,
on the prophetic message. Mhmm. On the prophetic
message.
We
were certain
and that is basically the problem of,
the problem of lack of knowledge.
We were certain that this meant that we
are waiting for
on the prophetic method. Growing up I was
like
when I was 17 I had given my
first jummah when I was 17 and it
was about the Hakimai.
No that was your first jummah. Yes definitely
you
know
like overconfidence
that I
have regretted afterwards.
But anyway,
so so I was certain that this is
this would be this is we are expecting
this. Mhmm. And it would have caused me
faith crisis then,
to have been told that,
no this may never
materialize.
You know a singular global leadership, political leadership
for all Muslims
may never materialize
because
this hadith
meant to me and and other end end
times hadith or traditions
meant to me that this is what we're
waiting for
and and we were also certain that it
would not be the first Khalifa. Sometimes we
thought that it may be. Sometimes we thought,
the the the then we came to learn
that no. It's likely not going he's not
going to be the first Khalifa.
And,
our understanding of the end of times,
traditions also was was pretty
strict and, to a great deal, literalist.
And I am a scripturalist.
You know? So some people that would be
unkind to me would say literalist, but I
believe I'm a scripturalist.
So I don't, be that the importance of
of,
those reports, but I have,
like, a a little bit more flexible understanding
of them. That is not,
say, in metaphorical,
but, I am someone who subscribes to contextual
language theory,
and I I have a little bit more
flexible understanding of those reports. Now this particular
hadith this particular hadith,
this is how I would look at this
particular hadith that that would be basically,
presented to Muslim youth to tell them
that you must believe
in this,
as you believe in,
you know,
Allah being,
for instance,
above his throne, or you must believe in
this as you believe in
the day of judgment
being true,
you know, and,
and the angels and and and all of
that stuff. I don't believe so anymore
for several reasons. One of them,
to begin with,
being a scripturalist,
I believe
in what Imam Shatabir Rahimahullah said that
which means that the rank of the sunnah
is subsequent to the Quran, is not equal
to the Quran. It's subsequent to the Quran
in consideration.
The the of Nuna.
The the sunnah of Noonah. Sunnah is speculative,
mostly speculative,
and certainty is with the Quran, not the
sunnah. And this is. It's nothing. It's just
not your Shahu Tabi. This is the default
of those who live here. But
certainty is not with the Sunnah. Shahu Tabi
himself says that certainty applies to the Sunnah
to the collective body of the sunnah, not
individual hadith, not individual hadith.
So you may say that you belong to
a Hanbali tradition, and I do.
That does not mean at all that we
don't have basically the concept of textual textual
critique
or the the concept of critiquing the mutton
of the Hadith,
not only the Isnad. So we recognize
that the, you know, is not needs to
be critiqued but the also needs to be
critiqued.
There is there is a particular book by
called the Manar al Munif Yeah.
Which would translate to
the lofty
lighthouse
concerning the authentic and the weak.
In in which he says
that,
there is a report from the prophet,
you know, in which the prophet was reported
to have said reported to have said,
it's a sign on his truthfulness.
So Rebav Nukayim
says despite the fact that
some have authenticated the chain of narration
this the observable
reality
contradicts the hadith. The observable reality contradicts the
hadith.
It's a very sensitive topic, Sheikh. And of
course, we this this quotation,
it causes consternation amongst many who don't even
know this is from our own usul. Many
even salafis or ahadith.
The the the notion of using aql
and common sense to look at an isnaad.
And Ibn Al Qayyah mentions this for multiple
examples, and this is not the only one.
That when something is observably,
patently false, right, then if you find some
solitary chain that it it even if some
people might think that the chain is authentic,
observed reality is going to be more important
than a one knee chain. Right? And this
is something that, again, I also brought up
a number of my lectures,
with regards to especially eschatology. Because this is
another issue I wanted to mention. And that
is it's understandable
that especially at a young age, we all
went through that. Eschatology
and and and,
science that the day of judgment, they they
they occupy or preoccupy
a type of obsession
that actually perhaps even is not as useful
as other sciences and disciplines. And we've been
all been through that phase here.
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