1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:08,800 Summary of Sunni concepts 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:15,820 Some of the reasons for the fall of nations and civilizations and the reality of the world today 3 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:24,820 The British historian Arnold Twinney, who died in 1975 AD, studied this study 4 00:00:24,820 --> 00:00:32,820 He conducted an in-depth study of twenty-one civilizations, in which he mentioned what he saw as the reasons for their downfall 5 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:37,820 We mention some of them with modifications and additions 6 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:46,890 Firstly, there is no civilization without religion, and the temple is the important center of civilization 7 00:00:46,890 --> 00:00:53,890 Nations and civilizations fall if they lose their faith, philosophy, and concepts 8 00:00:53,890 --> 00:01:00,890 The contemporary West has claimed that its civilization is based on freedom and human rights 9 00:01:00,890 --> 00:01:07,890 Today, many of them violate this, and extremism and racism are spreading in their countries 10 00:01:07,890 --> 00:01:12,890 This is one of the factors in the demise of their civilization 11 00:01:12,890 --> 00:01:21,079 Secondly, the spread of injustice and the lack of justice is a decisive factor in the fall of civilizations 12 00:01:21,079 --> 00:01:26,079 This is an established divine law, as God Almighty said 13 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:34,079 And those towns We destroyed when they wronged, and We made a set time for their destruction 14 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:42,209 Ibn Taymiyyah was famous for saying that God establishes a just state even if it is infidel 15 00:01:42,209 --> 00:01:47,209 He does not establish an unjust state, even if it is Muslim 16 00:01:47,209 --> 00:01:53,239 Let every oppressor and tyrant announce the fall of his state and the demise of his kingdom 17 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:56,239 Whether it was in the West or in the East 18 00:01:56,239 --> 00:02:06,530 Third, moral decline and the spread of sins and immoralities are a common factor in the fall of civilizations 19 00:02:06,530 --> 00:02:14,530 God Almighty said, “And when we wanted to destroy a town, we commanded it to pass through it, but they disobeyed therein.” 20 00:02:14,530 --> 00:02:19,530 So what she said was true, so we destroyed it completely 21 00:02:20,750 --> 00:02:26,750 The Romans were known to have intercourse with animals, and their rule was removed 22 00:02:26,750 --> 00:02:33,750 Today, homosexuality is widespread in the West, whether it is the result of the people of Lot among men 23 00:02:33,750 --> 00:02:40,750 Or women being content with each other more than men in what is known as lesbianism 24 00:02:40,750 --> 00:02:45,750 This is an indicator of the accelerated fall of their civilization and dominance 25 00:02:45,750 --> 00:02:54,939 Fourth, it is clear from the previous two concepts that civilizations often fall from within themselves 26 00:02:54,939 --> 00:02:58,389 Not because of the external enemy 27 00:02:58,389 --> 00:03:05,389 Fifthly, luxury and prosperity do not indicate the strength and survival of civilization 28 00:03:05,389 --> 00:03:11,460 Rather, it is true that luxury is the prelude to the collapse of any civilization 29 00:03:11,460 --> 00:03:17,520 The scholar Ibn Khaldun had previously stated this in his famous introduction 30 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:24,520 And the disappearance of the civilization of the Muslim people of Andalusia due to luxury and abandonment of jihad for the sake of God 31 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,520 A good example of this 32 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,520 And God Almighty says 33 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:38,520 Did He not consider how many generations We had destroyed before them? We had established them in the land unless We had established them for you 34 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:45,520 And We sent the sky raining rain upon them and made rivers flow beneath them 35 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:52,520 So We destroyed them for their sins and created after them another generation 36 00:03:52,520 --> 00:04:03,030 The verse shows that luxury and opulence cause an abundance of sins that lead to the collapse of civilization 37 00:04:03,030 --> 00:04:10,030 6- Scientific and technical development that makes people arrogant 38 00:04:10,030 --> 00:04:14,030 It makes him think that he controls the universe with his knowledge 39 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:18,029 Rather, it is a lure followed by disappearance 40 00:04:18,029 --> 00:04:20,060 God Almighty said 41 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:27,060 It is only like the life of this world as if We sent it down from heaven 42 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:32,060 The plants of the earth, which people and livestock eat, were mixed with it 43 00:04:32,060 --> 00:04:36,060 Even when the earth takes on its adornment and adornment 44 00:04:36,060 --> 00:04:40,060 Its people thought they were capable of it 45 00:04:40,060 --> 00:04:48,060 Our command came to it day or night, and We made it a harvest as if it had not sung the day before 46 00:04:48,060 --> 00:04:53,060 Thus We detail the verses for a people who reflect 47 00:04:54,060 --> 00:04:58,699 Summary of Sunni concepts