WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:08.830 A summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:08.830 --> 00:00:13.179 The reality of loyalty and disavowal. 00:00:13.179 --> 00:00:16.179 Loyalty is support, love, and closeness. 00:00:16.179 --> 00:00:18.179 And its opposite is disavowal. 00:00:18.179 --> 00:00:21.179 Which is distance, hatred, and enmity. 00:00:21.179 --> 00:00:25.239 And the loyalty and disavowal beloved by Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:29.239 is alliance and enmity for His sake, Glorified is He. 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:33.240 So there is no love or support except for Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.240 and for His Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:38.240 and for the believers, 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:42.240 and for everyone whom Allah loves and for whom He loves. 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.240 And disavowal and enmity for everyone whom Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, opposes, 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.299 and hates, and distances. 00:00:49.299 --> 00:00:51.299 Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says: 00:00:51.299 --> 00:00:56.299 “Your guardian can be only Allah; and His messenger and those who believe, who establish worship and pay the poordue, and bow down (in prayer).” (5:55) 00:00:56.299 --> 00:00:59.299 The exclusive particle "inna ma" (only) indicates 00:00:59.299 --> 00:01:03.299 that loyalty, love, and support must be restricted 00:01:03.299 --> 00:01:05.299 to those mentioned in the verse. 00:01:05.299 --> 00:01:08.299 And disavowal from others. 00:01:08.299 --> 00:01:12.340 And the statement of monotheism, "La ilaha illa Allah" (There is no god but Allah), 00:01:12.340 --> 00:01:16.340 half of it is a disavowal of polytheism and its people: "La ilaha" (There is no god), 00:01:16.340 --> 00:01:20.340 and the other half is loyalty to monotheism and its people: 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:22.400 "illa Allah" (but Allah). 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:26.400 And the concept of loyalty and disavowal has been mentioned in the Noble Qur'an 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.400 more than three hundred and eighty times. 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:31.400 And this is not surprising, 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.400 as it is the methodology of all the prophets. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.400 Their loyalty and disavowal were based on creed. 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.400 And sufficient in indicating this is the statement of Allah, the Most High: 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.400 “There is a goodly pattern for you in Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk: Lo! we are guiltless of you and all that ye worship beside Allah. We have done with you. And there hath arisen between us and you hostility and hate for ever until ye believe in Allah only - save that which Abraham promised his father (when he said): I will ask forgiveness for thee, though I own nothing for thee from Allah - Our Lord! In Thee we put our trust, and unto Thee we turn repentant, and unto Thee is the journeying.” (60:4) 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:56.400 “There is a goodly pattern for you in Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk: Lo! we are guiltless of you and all that ye worship beside Allah. We have done with you. And there hath arisen between us and you hostility and hate for ever until ye believe in Allah only - save that which Abraham promised his father (when he said): I will ask forgiveness for thee, though I own nothing for thee from Allah - Our Lord! In Thee we put our trust, and unto Thee we turn repentant, and unto Thee is the journeying.” (60:4) 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.400 "We disavow you." 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.400 “There is a goodly pattern for you in Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk: Lo! we are guiltless of you and all that ye worship beside Allah. We have done with you. And there hath arisen between us and you hostility and hate for ever until ye believe in Allah only - save that which Abraham promised his father (when he said): I will ask forgiveness for thee, though I own nothing for thee from Allah - Our Lord! In Thee we put our trust, and unto Thee we turn repentant, and unto Thee is the journeying.” (60:4) 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.400 “There is a goodly pattern for you in Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk: Lo! we are guiltless of you and all that ye worship beside Allah. We have done with you. And there hath arisen between us and you hostility and hate for ever until ye believe in Allah only - save that which Abraham promised his father (when he said): I will ask forgiveness for thee, though I own nothing for thee from Allah - Our Lord! In Thee we put our trust, and unto Thee we turn repentant, and unto Thee is the journeying.” (60:4) 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:12.500 Therefore, any call that does not stem from the creed of loyalty and disavowal 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:16.500 is a call that contradicts the methodology of the prophets. 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:22.199 A summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.