Yasir Qadhi – The Dangers of Religious Fanaticism

Yasir Qadhi
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The segment discusses the history and characteristics of Islam, including the use of "has" in the title of religion and the danger of "overze" attack. The rise of anti- Islam groups and the potential for false accusations are also discussed. The danger of "field fanaticism" is also addressed, along with the use of multiple language tests and the importance of following rules of Islam. The segment emphasizes the importance of avoiding confusion and fear in the culture and avoiding "has been around for a long time."
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But the Quran will not leave their throats

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meaning the Quran will not be acted on

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by them The Quran will not be acted

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on it's just a show.

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It's a shallow shell It's an outer form

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We praise him and we seek his help

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and we seek refuge in Allah from the

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evil of our souls and the consequences of

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our actions Indeed whomever Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala

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guides none can misguide and whoever is misguided

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cannot be guided except through him I bear

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witness and I testify that there is no

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deity worthy of worship other than Allah subhanahu

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wa'ta'ala And I bear witness and I

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testify that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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is his final prophet and most perfect worshipper

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in the incident of Hajj in one occasion

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our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told his

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nephew Ibn Abbas Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam told his cousin Ibn Abbas To collect

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stones for the Jamarat to throw on the

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pebbles So Ibn Abbas brought a whole bunch

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of stones and he showed them to the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam looked at this Group of

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pebbles and he picked from them all of

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the large ones and he threw them away

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and he said no I want the small

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ones and he picked up the smallest pebble

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and he said like these Then he said

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to the people Ya ayyuhan nas oh people

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beware of fanaticism in the religion Iyakum wal

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ghuluf ad-deen Because the people before you

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were destroyed because of their fanaticism in the

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matters of religion this anecdote Demonstrates that our

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is warning us

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about one of the many problems that the

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ummah will face and it is Currently facing

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and that is a type of fanaticism that

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is motivated by piety It's not motivated by

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evil.

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It's not motivated by trying to displease Allah

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The motivation is good But it is not

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done based upon knowledge in the time of

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Hajj when everybody Spiritually high in the time

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of Hajj with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam can you imagine what the sentiment was

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and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says

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go pick some pebbles and Ibn Abbas wants

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to pick the biggest the largest and the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said be careful

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be careful Because even in these small issues

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even in the issue of throwing the jamarat

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if you're gonna pick large pebbles You think

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this is more pious to Allah what's gonna

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happen?

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If the crowd is throwing these big stones

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rather than small pebbles and then he said

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based upon this small analogy He said the

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people before you were destroyed because of religious

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fanaticism Because they went too far in matters

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of this deem and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala

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Reminds us in the Quran when he talks

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about other previous nations who went to extremes

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Allah says Oh people of the book la

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taghlu fi dinikum do not go to extremes

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in your own religion Do not exaggerate your

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own religion and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam warned us continuously He said la tashaddudu

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ala anfusikum don't make matters more strict on

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yourself for you shed that alaikum Otherwise if

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you do so you yourselves will make strictness

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upon you and he said in another hadith

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in Bukhari and Muslim He said helical mutanattinun

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helical mutanattinun helical mutanattinun three times He repeated

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this those who go to extremes are destroyed

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Those who go to extremes are destroyed those

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who go to extremes are destroyed our scholars

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commented on this hadith of them is Ibn

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Rajab one of the great icons of Islam

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and Ibn Rajab said the not door is

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of categories and of the categories is to

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go to the minutiae of the Dean and

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to ask what you don't need to ask

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and to get involved in issues that you

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don't need to get Involved in to really

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keep on pestering and asking and teasing out

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when you don't need to do so when

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Allah says something do it and don't ask

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more questions that are going to make the

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issues difficult for you and the Example that

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is given is one that we're all familiar

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with in the Quran when Allah said to

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the bunny Israel go Sacrifice a cow go

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sacrifice a cow the bunny Israel began to

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say what cow what type of cow?

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What color cow what size of the cow?

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What are the conditions of the cow?

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What are the characteristics of the cow and

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they kept on making matters worse for themselves

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until they only ended up ruining themselves When

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Allah says something do it with the appropriate

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spirit and ask what needs to be asked

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But do not go to extremes in this

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matter Realize Oh Muslims that we have a

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beautiful religion a blessed religion an easy religion

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And this is not my statement.

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This is in the Quran and in the

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Sunnah Allah says in the Quran Who a

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jet a vacuum one maja ala alaikum fit

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Deenim in Haraj He has chosen you and

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has not made the religion difficult for you

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One maja ala alaikum fit Deenim in Haraj.

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The religion is not meant to be made

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difficult Allah says in the Quran you read

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a law who become a user.

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Ah, well, I you need to become a

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loser Allah wants ease for you.

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He does not want difficulty for you Allah

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says in the Quran describing the Prophet Sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam that the Prophet is the one

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y'all are on home It's wrong.

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Well, I got a little at the Canada

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I lay him the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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Frees them from their chains and their shackles

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that used to bind them freeing them making

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them more free and more Noble or Muslims

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realize one of the many problems that we

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have and we've always had it throughout our

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history is the problem of religious fanaticism The

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problem of overzealousness within the Dean itself and

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our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Understood this one

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of the core teachings of Islam is to

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warn us to not become overzealous to not

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become over Fanatical to not become overtly fundamentalist.

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This is a common thread throughout the Quran

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and throughout the Sunnah In fact in Sahih

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Bukhari We learn the first batch of students

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that came to study with the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam when the Muslims began When when

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the people began embracing Islam When the people

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began embracing Islam in the year of the

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food the year of the conquest the year

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of the delegations Excuse me in the ninth

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year of the hijra Thousands of people embraced

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Islam the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam held what

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we would call a summer camp He held

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what we would call a summer camp come

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and study with me because you have to

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teach the people the religion the first Batch

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of graduates that studied with him the first

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batch when he sent them back.

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What did he say?

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This isn't Sahih Bukhari.

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He said Oh people when you go back

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to your home when you go back to

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your tribe Yes, sir.

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Oh, well, I do I see do but

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sure oh well I don't know if it'll

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make things easy for your people don't make

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things difficult Give them glad tidings cheer them

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up.

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Don't make them feel deflated and hopeless Cheer

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them up give them good spirit and don't

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make them turn away from the religion Waqoonu

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Ibad Allahi Ikhwana and do all that you

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can to unite amongst yourselves Kono Ibad Allahi

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Ikhwana the first batch of preachers the first

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batch of clerics the first batch of doodh

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He is giving the message to all of

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us preachers.

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Our messages should be uplifting our messages should

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be Optimistic our messages should be cheerful.

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They shouldn't turn people away from the religion

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They should not turn people away from the

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beauty of this Dean and yet Unfortunately, what

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we see today is that some people who

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claim to preach in the name of religion

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their version of religion their understanding of religion

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Actually turns people away from the religion rather

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than calls people towards it and we've always

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had this version of fundamentalism in fact in

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the lifetime of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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He warned against overzealousness and fanaticism and he

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told us of a group We now call

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them the Khadijites But he told us of

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a group that would come that are the

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fanatics of this ummah that are the literalists

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of the ummah And he warned us that

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these people are more dangerous than the ummah

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than even the Dajjal in one hadith He

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said that these people are more dangerous because

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the Dajjal you will recognize him the Dajjal

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you will see him You know, he's the

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Dajjal but this group the Khadijites He was

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talking about the this group this group.

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You won't know they're the Dajjal You won't

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know they're a part of you and yet

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they're going to harm you He warned us

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about this this ultra fanaticism in a manner

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that every one of us should pay heed

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to and so dear brothers and sisters I

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want to summarize five of the dangers of

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fanaticism of extremism of literalism of simplistic fundamentalism

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and I want to give five points to

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understand how we know something is fanatical and

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And beyond the pale and also some guidelines

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of how we can avoid this reality Because

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the fact of the matter is we are

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all seeing especially those that are of the

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next generation We are seeing the rise of

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yet again another wave another iteration of fanaticism

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Sectarianism blind minded bigotry in the name of

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the religion those of us who are older

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We've seen this time and time again 20

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years ago We had to deal with Isis

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before that we had other crazy groups out

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there but every few decades a new generation

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comes and they haven't seen the past and

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they think that the religion is meant to

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be the Harshest and the strictest and the

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most harsh fatwa and anybody who doesn't live

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up to their understanding of the religion They

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are immediately labeled immediately become the enemy so

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much So all Muslims you are all aware

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of the sectarian violence taking place around the

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globe Muslims killing other Muslims Muslims bombing the

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masjids of other Muslims Muslims saying every other

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group is misguided other than our group so

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there are many dangers of fanaticism of fundamentalism

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of extremism and overzealousness and of them number

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one of the biggest dangers of Fundamentalism is

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that these movements?

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They ignore the beauty of Islam and they

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choose and pick things that demolish the beauty

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of Islam Nobody looks at such people and

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recognizes prophetic beauty Nobody sees the religion of

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Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala amongst these fanatics Look

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ten years ago when Isis was there what

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bad image they gave of the whole religion

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of Islam Don't we understand that even though

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there are movements that are not killing other

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people, but they have characteristics of those They

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have the same fanaticism Nobody is attracted to

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that level of fanaticism and this leads me

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to my second point It actually turns people

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away from the religion rather than calling people

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to the religion Oh Muslims one of the

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main reasons why fellow Muslims who want to

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come closer to Allah deep down inside They

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love Allah one of the reasons why they

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don't come close.

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There are many I'm not saying it's the

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only one but one of them is they

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see the bad Akhlaq and the arrogance and

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the fanaticism of a group of people who

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presume they are the spokespeople of the ummah

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They presume they are the arbiters of who

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is good and who is bad and the

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average Muslim who genuinely wants to be a

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good person Deep down inside.

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They know that the Quran is true.

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They want to pray They want to fast

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but they come across this group and this

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group their judgmental attitude their arrogance Their constant

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demeaning their disconnectedness from reality It rubs these

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people in such a bad way that Shaitan

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comes and says to them if this is

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what religiosity is I don't want to be

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like these people not because they don't want

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to be religious, but because those who claimed

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to be religious Misrepresented religion and you can't

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blame innocent people.

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It's not their fault They don't know any

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better when they see the religious folks preaching

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a version of Islam full of hatred full

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of anger Full of absolutely bizarre fatwas against

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other people against non-muslims against other groups

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against other genders And they're mistreating people in

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such a manner in the name of Islam.

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What do you expect then?

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What is gonna happen to the average person

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he or she will say you know What

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if that is what religiosity is something doesn't

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make sense leave me to myself and my

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lord And so the problem is this group

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has made themselves the spokespeople.

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Nobody appointed them Nobody put them to be

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the guardians, but they are the ones who

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say you must follow us and our interpretation

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So the second point fanaticism Fanaticism it actually

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turns people away from the beauty of Islam

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the third problem and danger of fanaticism is

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that fanaticism is impossible to maintain for more

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than a few years and wallahi brothers and

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sisters take it from me and take it

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from others older than You who have seen

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this reality you cannot remain overzealous for more

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than a few years It's a phase you

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go through in your early 20s, and that's

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it It's just a phase then you burn

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out you fizzle out and when you burn

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out you lose religion I cannot even begin

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to tell you how many people have I

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seen in my own life in my own

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Iterations that I've gone through they've gone through

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the hardcore phase you would think that these

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people think they're walking Angels on earth and

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within five years because they were so hardcore

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so fanatical so overzealous within five years They've

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lost all religiosity.

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They don't come to the masjid They might

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have left doing Salah some of them might

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even have left the religion And I have

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seen people with my own eyes people who

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used to be hardcore fanatics who now no

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longer even Identify as Muslims you cannot maintain

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this level of overzealousness in a beautiful hadith

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in Sahih Bukhari Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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in the last ten nights of tahajjud of

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Ramadan He entered the masjid, and he saw

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his own wives our mothers.

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He saw them in their tents and They

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had a rope connected to the roof They

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had a rope connected to the roof that

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when they would fall asleep They would hold

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on to that rope and force themselves to

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pray force themselves extra and our Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi Wasallam commanded Bilal cut off all of

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these ropes get rid of all of these

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ropes And then he's head to his own

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wives Worship Allah as much as you have

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the energy then when you don't have energy

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go to sleep This is our religion.

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You're not going to do more than a

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normal human being can do it's gonna harm

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you He said in an authentic hadith one

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and you shudder how the dina hadu illa

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Nobody will make this religion more difficult except

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that that will end up destroying him Well,

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then you shudder how the dina hadu illa

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Gala bahu you're not going to outwit Allah

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and his messenger that doesn't work that way

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in another beautiful hadith our Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam heard of the story of three people

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who came to the mothers our mother's households

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and they asked about the routine of the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam when they heard his

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routine that he would fast and go to

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sleep and he would Pray and do this

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and whatnot.

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They said this is he's a prophet of

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Allah.

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He's forgiven I'm gonna do more than this

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and one of them said I will pray

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the whole night to had you'd never go

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to sleep The other one said I will

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fast every single day and I will never

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ever eat during the day and the third

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one said I Will leave getting married to

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women I'm gonna become a hermit a monk

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and constantly worship Allah the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam heard of this and he called all

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of the Sahaba and he said The way

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to worship Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala you pray

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tahajjud and you go to sleep and you

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fast and you don't fast and as For

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me, I marry women as well.

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Whoever leaves my sunnah has nothing to do

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with me You are not going to come

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closer to Allah by making the religion more

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difficult Who told you that the stricter opinion

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is the better one who told you that

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the harsher version of Islam is always the

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more correct?

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One this is an incorrect Understanding our mother

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Aisha But the allahu anha said never was

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam given two choices

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that were both permissible Except that he chose

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the easier of them.

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He chose the a Saru Huma this is

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a part of our tradition and our and

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our methodology the fourth problem of fanaticism the

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fourth problem of religious overzealousness is that the

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religious fanatic thinks he is acting on behalf

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of God and Therefore no matter what you

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say to him will fall on deaf ears

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Because he thinks he is upon the truth

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and he's acting in the name of God

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Unlike the sinner who's drinking who's womanizing taking

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drugs you go to the sinner Yeah, if

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you fear Allah the sinner will say, you

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know, you're right May Allah forgive me the

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sinner knows he's committing a sin The sinner

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has more chance an opportunity to come back

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to the truth than the arrogant fanatic Because

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the arrogant fanatic presumes that he knows the

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religion and nobody else knows it and this

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is the sign of fanaticism We learned from

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the seerah The first fanatic was the leader

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of the cottage it's the first fanatic that

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came the little hoist And I he came

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to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam And when

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam did not give

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him the amount of money he wanted he

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accused the Prophet sallallahu alayhi Wasallam of not

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being fair.

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He said yeah Muhammad He didn't even call

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him a Rasulullah and fanaticism is always arrogant

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against knowledge and the people of knowledge Yeah,

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Muhammad Be fair and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam said woe to you Who else will

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be fair if I am not going to

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be fair woe to you?

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You didn't hear what you wanted So you

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accused me of being unfair and then he

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said from his likes from his progeny will

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come groups of people Their salah you will

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think it is better than your salah and

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their recitation You will think it is better

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than your recitation But Quran will not proceed

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outside of their throats ie Outwardly, they will

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have the Dean inside.

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They will have no Dean this is Hadith

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and Sahih Bukhari our process and predicted the

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reality of fanaticism and Overzealousness and the final

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danger will mention the many dangers the final

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danger will mention of the five and we

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see this in our own lives fanaticism opens

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the door to disunity to harshness to Sectarianism

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to division of the ummah Fanaticism ends up

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with bloodshed people kill one another in the

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name of fanaticism Muslims and others and this

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is the reality of all faith traditions what

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we're seeing in Gaza It is because of

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a fanatical interpretation of Judaism called Zionism fanaticism

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is dangerous in any faith tradition what we

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saw in our own faith community of this

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group of ISIS and even right now as

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we Speak in so many lands different versions

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of Islam different sects of Islam are killing

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other * bombing other * Physical violence nobody's

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saying you shouldn't correct politely and gently But

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where did you get the fatwa to go

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kill another person because their interpretation is different

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than yours Who told you you can bomb

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masjids on Friday, which is happening across the

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Muslim globe?

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Where did you get this understanding from the

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problem?

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You think you are acting on behalf of

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God you think Allah is on your side

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Then how can you possibly reason with such

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fanatics?

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So brothers and sisters without a doubt fanaticism

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is extremely dangerous, but the question arises How

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do you know you're a fanatic because the

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problem comes no fanatic is gonna say I'm

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a fanatic.

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No overzealous person No ultra religious fundamentalist is

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gonna say I am wrong because they have

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been brainwashed to think they are right So

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let me share with you five symptoms five

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litmus tests You can quickly use to see

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whether you and your group you and your

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position you and your scholarship You and your

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group of people are perhaps beyond the fringe

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of mainstream First and foremost and all of

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these are from the Quran and Sunnah So

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it's not from me first and foremost of

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the biggest signs of fanaticism is The presumption

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that only you and your little group is

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correct and everybody else is going to Jahannam

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Every other Muslim every other firqa every other

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strand is automatically going to Jahannam our Prophet

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Sallallahu alayhi wasallam in multiple mutawatir ahadith praised

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the bulk of the ummah He said in

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the ummati ummatan marhumah.

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My ummah is a blessed ummah He said

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yadullahi alal jama'a that Allah's blessings is

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upon the group of Muslims He said alaykum

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bil jama'a followed the bulk of the

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Muslims He told us to follow a sawada

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al-adham Which is again the bulk of

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the Muslims because there is no Prophet after

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our Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam this automatically Necessitates

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that his ummah as a whole will be

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rightly guided The bulk of the ummah is

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upon hair and good the bulk of the

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ummah their beliefs and the knowledge that they

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have Nobody's saying that individually they are correct

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But when you meet the individual Muslim you

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ask him how many times to pray what

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to do the average Muslim will know the

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correct understanding of Islam even if they fall

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short in applying it This is what our

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Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam is saying therefore any

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group that comes along any firqa that comes

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along any teacher any person that comes along

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and Constantly says everybody's misguided all the other

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groups are going to Jahannam All of the

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other scholars are sell-outs that very person

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has demonstrated.

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They are the fringe by their own Testimony

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our Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said hadith is

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in Sahih Muslim memorize this hadith whoever says

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Everybody is destroyed is the most destroyed out

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of all of them Whoever says helicon us

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Everybody's lost Everybody's gone the process said that

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is the worst of them Because you're the

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one that is assuming the worst out of

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all of mankind The ummah is upon hair

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and good and its scholars are upon hair

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and good and the mainstream is upon hair

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and good Anybody who comes accusing the bulk

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of the ummah the entirety of the ummah

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the mainstream of scholarship to have gone astray

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By the testimony of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam He is the one that is truly

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astray the second symptom the second litmus test

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that we have and this is Explicitly mentioned

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by the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam when he

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talked about the first fundamentalist group the harijites

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He said they will attack their fellow Muslims

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and leave the enemies of Islam This is

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an authentic hadith where he described the harijites

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They will attack their fellow Muslims and the

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actual enemies will be safe from them Any

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group any firqa any preacher that?

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Constantly lambast and terrorizes fellow Muslims the fact

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of the matter is this is not prophetic

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What unites us as Muslims is more than

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what divides us?

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What unites us as Muslims is more than

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what divides us and even if a correction

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has to happen even if?

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Internal debate has to happen there must be

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an adab there must be brotherly love it

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must be done with nasiha When a firqa

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or a strand or a preacher is known

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more for attacking Muslims Especially now that the

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genocide is going on and they're only obsessed.

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We're trying to Label other people this demonstrates

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their own fanaticism the third litmus test of

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fanaticism is To concentrate on the petty issues

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and ignore the larger ones lack of priority

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to concentrate on the very small Aspects even

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if they might be correct in the broad

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scale of things but to ignore much bigger

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ones And this is again a characteristic of

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fanaticism you all know of the terrible tragedy

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of Karbala where the grandson of the procession

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was assassinated and killed by a group of

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evil people one of their associates one of

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their friends came to do hajj and He

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visited even a bus and he was in

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a harm doing hajj, and he said oh

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even a bus I'm in a harm and

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a mosquito came buzzing and Bit me and

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I smacked the mosquito, and I know that

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you're not supposed to kill hunt animals You

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know the the prohibition of hunting animals so

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all been a bus is there a penalty

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for killing the mosquito Ibn, Abbas said wah

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What a strange person you are you and

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your lot killed the grandson of the Prophet

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sallallahu Alayhi wasallam, and you didn't blink twice

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and you come and ask fatwa about a

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mosquito you where's your priorities?

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How can you possibly be worried about this

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when looking in the reality of what you

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have done and wallahi?

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This is a sign of fanaticism, and I

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keep on saying 250,000 people have lost

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their lives in Gaza.

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How can you possibly be bickering about anything

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else right now?

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How can you possibly be dividing the ummah

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and getting involved in?

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Abstract issues such as and I'll be blunt

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here the sectarian issues of the attributes of

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God for example.

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It's a classical issue It's something that academics

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need to discuss behind closed doors let students

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of knowledge discuss with other students of knowledge

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in a polite manner but to bring this

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abstract sectarian theology Into the public eye to

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have YouTube debates to have Twitter and Facebook

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completely abuzz with the sectarian warfare in which

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99% of the ummah is completely clueless

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to what is going on and the 1

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% that is super religious and fanatic fanatic

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are making Takfir to be of each other

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because of how they interpreted a particular attribute

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of God wallahi I say this bluntly how

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foolish are the people that are involved in

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such sectarian online?

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Politics even as the genocide is going on

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have you no shame?

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Imagine if you were in Gaza right now

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Imagine if the people of Gaza saw you

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and you are bickering online about this particular

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abstract Theological point that nobody even knows beyond

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your madrasa students have some shame have some

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Hikmah This is the essence of fanaticism and

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I say this bluntly and loudly have some

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shame in light of what is happening and

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leave these Academic discussions to the private classrooms

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I'm not saying don't have them the right

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time the right place the right audience to

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drag the ummah into these Abstract issues while

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this is going on truly indicates a complete

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lack of wisdom and of knowledge and a

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prophetic methodology This brings me to my next

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point of the symptom of fanaticism.

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How do you know you are a fanatic?

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One of the ways you do not allow

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for any diversity of thought no spectrum of

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opinion My way or the highway if you

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don't agree with me, you're a kafir if

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you don't agree with me You're going to

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jahannam Ibn Taymiyyah says and Ibn Taymiyyah was

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very very blunt in what he believed But

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he was also a scholar Ibn Taymiyyah definitely

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has his own understanding of Islam meaning It's

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a strand of Islam, but he's also a

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person of knowledge Ibn Taymiyyah says it is

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not allowed for any person to make his

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opinions the criterion of Islam It is not

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allowed for any human being to make his

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positions the criterion of correctness Such that whoever

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follows is a good Muslim and whoever disobeys

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is a bad Muslim that is only for

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam only the Prophet

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of Allah has Unconditional loyalty either other than

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that Oh Muslims from the time of the

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Sahaba We have had differences of opinion the

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Sahaba themselves disagreed about aspects of theology Yes,

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theology aspects of fiqh aspects of methodology They

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all disagreed and they were still united in

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their love for Islam We have to have

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the level of tolerance and I will give

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you a personal anecdote that is well known

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Meaning I know the two people involved and

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it is known that they said this and

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both of these are great scholars and mentors

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I admire and respect sheikh Ibn Baaz the

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Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia of the 90s

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and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi The great scholar

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of Islam as we're aware or many of

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you are aware and I'm very fortunate I

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have met both of these scholars Interacted with

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them and I admire both of them and

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consider both of them to be of the

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mentors that I look up to and I

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have met them multiple times Sheikh Qaradawi had

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a different understanding of fiqh than Sheikh Ibn

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Baaz We all know this or the students

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of knowledge know this and Sheikh Qaradawi wrote

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his book al-halal wal-haram for Islam

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back in the 80s and At that time

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the the country was very strict about publishing

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books So every book had to be approved

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by the ministry and this book was brought

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to Sheikh Ibn Baaz and he read the

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whole book It was read to him.

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He called up Sheikh Qaradawi to Mecca They

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they met and Sheikh Ibn Baaz gave a

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long list of points He didn't agree with

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many points, maybe 25 points.

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I don't agree with this fatwa I don't

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agree with this fatwa and because Sheikh Ibn

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Baaz is senior and elder and and he

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was a blind man Sheikh Qaradawi said I

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didn't want to get involved in any debate.

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I just listened Say jazakallah, jazakallah and Sheikh

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Qaradawi says and this is well known.

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He says this in a public lecture He

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says I thought because he disagrees with my

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book in 25 points He's gonna not allow

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the book to be published but lo and

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behold after he advised me privately next thing

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I know he allowed the book to be

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published and sold in the kingdom This demonstrates

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for you diversity of thought the views in

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halal and haram for Islam Sheikh Ibn Baaz

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did not agree with them But he understood

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who am I to ban other points of

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view?

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Who am I to enforce my view when

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this is a legitimate understanding as well Even

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if I disagree who am I to stop

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other people from hearing another mainstream interpretation and

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there was no labeling of Sheikh Qaradawi He

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wasn't a sellout or a reformist or a

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liberal or a demonizer or a somebody wanted

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to destroy Islam This is his understanding of

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Islam and Sheikh Ibn Baaz has his own

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understanding Anybody who has this narrow-minded bigotry

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is once again demonstrating fanaticism And then the

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final point I will mention in this khutba

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the five of the symptoms of fanaticism and

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wallahi This is the worst of them and

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again mentioned straight from the hadith of the

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worst manifestations of religious fundamentalism of the worst

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manifestations of overzealousness is these people lose Islamic

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spirituality completely their hearts become hard and Arrogant

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and they become obsessed with the outer form

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of Islam and forget the inner spirit of

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Islam once again These are not from me.

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I quote you the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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when he warned against the kharijites What did

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he say?

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He said when you look at them their

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salah will put your salah to shame Their

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recitation will put your recitation to shame But

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the Quran will not leave their throats meaning

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the Quran will not be acted on by

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them The Quran will not be acted on

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it's just a show.

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It's a shallow shell It's an outer form

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you think they're religious, but there's no Religiosity

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in them.

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This is straight from the words of the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam You look at them

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you will be impressed, but there's no reality

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to that spirituality Fanaticism does not bring spirituality

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Overzealousness does not bring love of Allah subhanahu

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wa'ta'ala any group any firqa any trend

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any preacher That does not bring you closer

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to Allah does not cause your heart to

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be full of rahmah and compassion Maybe even

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mocks compassion anybody who makes fun of rahmah

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and makes fun of the beauty of this

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religion Wallahi, they have testified to themselves that

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they are in the fringe of fanaticism and

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not within the mainstream This religion of Islam

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is all about spirituality.

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It is all about connection with Allah It

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is all about this gear to nuts and

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when you don't have that Even if you

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have the outer form you have lost the

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entire plot of Islam Oh Muslims realize that

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fanaticism has always been a problem from the

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beginning of Islam That's why our process and

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warned against it and we have to be

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careful in this day and age that we

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do not fall prey To it realize this

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religion is a beautiful religion.

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It is a mainstream religion It is an

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omelette and wasata and therefore be careful of

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falling prey to these ideas Because they are

00:32:30 --> 00:32:32

from Shaitan and not from the methodology of

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our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam May Allah subhanahu

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wa'ta'ala bless me and you with him

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through the Quran and may he make us

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of those who is verse that they Understand

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and applies halal and haram throughout all I

00:32:42 --> 00:32:44

span ask Allah's forgiveness you as well Ask

00:32:44 --> 00:32:46

him for his the Ghafoor and the Rahman

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Alhamdulillah al-wahid al-ahad al-samad alladhi

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lam yalid wa lam yulad wa lam yakullahu

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kuffuan ahad wa ba'du Three simple pieces of

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advice to protect us from extremism from fanaticism

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three simple pieces of advice First and foremost

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without a doubt one of the most obvious

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mechanisms is to not follow Anonymous or youngsters

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to follow the senior elders to follow those

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with track records Oh youngsters I'm telling you

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bluntly you cannot compare a 70-year-old

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scholar who has 55 years of service to

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the community with some anonymous 25 year old

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online fear Allah age Wisdom experience all of

00:33:40 --> 00:33:43

it comes in handy Do not think that

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a 25 year old has more zealousness for

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the religion than an elder man Do not

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think that a youngster knows Islam better than

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somebody who has a track record for five

00:33:52 --> 00:33:54

six seven decades We have elders in our

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community that have been preaching Islam since even

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before I was born We have seniors that

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have decades of wisdom.

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Listen to them because you cannot learn wisdom

00:34:04 --> 00:34:08

from books You cannot replicate experience experience and

00:34:08 --> 00:34:11

wisdom comes with age It comes with seniority

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and alhamdulillah.

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We have great ulama in this country and

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around the world So listen to those senior

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ulama and do not follow youngsters In fact

00:34:20 --> 00:34:23

in one hadith Literally our process and described

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

the cottage rights as being so for how

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

a hlami who the foul as man They

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have high fangled ideas, but they're youngsters in

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

their age.

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So for how a hlami who the foul

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as man They have beautiful slogans, but they're

00:34:36 --> 00:34:38

all a bunch of youngsters You think they're

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saying good, but they have no experience to

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

back up that good so point number one

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follow the ulama follow the mainstream follow the

00:34:46 --> 00:34:49

elders of your community because they have Experience

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and wisdom that the youngsters don't have point

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number two Never trivialize dua to Allah be

00:34:55 --> 00:34:58

sincere raise your hands to Allah Do you

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know Oh Muslim that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi

00:35:01 --> 00:35:03

wasallam in the middle of the night in

00:35:03 --> 00:35:06

tahajjud one of his duas was Allahumma dini

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

the maqturi of a fee him in a

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

haqqa be in it in tahajjud in sajda

00:35:10 --> 00:35:13

He would say Oh Allah any issue that

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

people have differed over I want you to

00:35:15 --> 00:35:17

guide me to the truth if he is

00:35:17 --> 00:35:20

making dua that in confusing matters guide me

00:35:20 --> 00:35:21

to the truth Where do you and I

00:35:21 --> 00:35:22

stand?

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Have you sincerely made dua to Allah in

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

this confusing mess of all of these different

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

fatwas all of these different?

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Interpretations all of these different competing clergies.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

Have you ever thought let me ask Allah

00:35:34 --> 00:35:37

for hidayah Genuinely raise your hands to Allah

00:35:37 --> 00:35:38

and say Oh Allah.

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It's really confusing I don't know which of

00:35:40 --> 00:35:42

these groups seems to make more sense Which

00:35:42 --> 00:35:44

of these scholars which of these clerics make

00:35:44 --> 00:35:46

dua to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and the

00:35:46 --> 00:35:48

third and final point?

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To any fool whom be seen a home

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

you will know them by their fruits any

00:35:52 --> 00:35:56

group or preacher That you associate with and

00:35:56 --> 00:35:58

they make your heart softer towards Allah You

00:35:58 --> 00:36:01

find yourself wanting to worship Allah your love

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

for Allah and his messenger increases This is

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

a very positive sign and any group repeat

00:36:05 --> 00:36:09

preacher that your heart becomes hard You don't

00:36:09 --> 00:36:11

find leather and peace in Salah, you don't

00:36:11 --> 00:36:13

really want to worship you're more involved in

00:36:13 --> 00:36:16

refutation You're more involved in lambasting.

00:36:16 --> 00:36:18

You're more involved in academic arguments.

00:36:18 --> 00:36:21

Well rather than spirituality without a doubt This

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

is a sign that something is wrong.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

You will know them by their signs Look

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

at the fruits of the people's dawah Look

00:36:27 --> 00:36:30

at what produces when you follow a particular

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

interpretation or strand and when you find that

00:36:32 --> 00:36:35

your closeness to Allah increases Then inshallah, it's

00:36:35 --> 00:36:36

a positive sign.

00:36:36 --> 00:36:37

And when you find that no, there's no

00:36:37 --> 00:36:40

connection to Allah But I enjoy debate and

00:36:40 --> 00:36:43

I enjoy getting involved in abstract issues Then

00:36:43 --> 00:36:44

this is not the religion of the Prophet

00:36:44 --> 00:36:49

sallallahu alayhi wasallam Oh Muslims beware of fanaticism.

00:36:49 --> 00:36:52

Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said hadith is

00:36:52 --> 00:36:55

in Bukhari and Muslim In the hadith deena

00:36:55 --> 00:36:56

yusrun.

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This deen is the essence of simplicity In

00:36:59 --> 00:37:02

the hadith deena yusrun This deen is the

00:37:02 --> 00:37:06

essence of simplicity and ease and no one

00:37:06 --> 00:37:09

will make this religion more strict Except that

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

it will end up destroying him.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

Do not make the religion stricter than it

00:37:13 --> 00:37:16

is Do not become fanatical and overzealous There

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

is no guidance better than the guidance of

00:37:18 --> 00:37:21

the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam And the best

00:37:21 --> 00:37:25

interpreters of that guidance are our senior Mainstream

00:37:25 --> 00:37:27

people that have demonstrated their connection with our

00:37:27 --> 00:37:30

tradition May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala make us

00:37:30 --> 00:37:31

amongst those rightly guided people

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