WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:08.800 Summary of Sunni concepts 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 00:00:15.820 --> 00:00:24.820 The British historian Arnold Twinney, who died in 1975 AD, studied this study 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 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:37.820 We mention some of them with modifications and additions 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:46.890 Firstly, there is no civilization without religion, and the temple is the important center of civilization 00:00:46.890 --> 00:00:53.890 Nations and civilizations fall if they lose their faith, philosophy, and concepts 00:00:53.890 --> 00:01:00.890 The contemporary West has claimed that its civilization is based on freedom and human rights 00:01:00.890 --> 00:01:07.890 Today, many of them violate this, and extremism and racism are spreading in their countries 00:01:07.890 --> 00:01:12.890 This is one of the factors in the demise of their civilization 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 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:26.079 This is an established divine law, as God Almighty said 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 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 00:01:42.209 --> 00:01:47.209 He does not establish an unjust state, even if it is Muslim 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 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.239 Whether it was in the West or in the East 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 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.” 00:02:14.530 --> 00:02:19.530 So what she said was true, so we destroyed it completely 00:02:20.750 --> 00:02:26.750 The Romans were known to have intercourse with animals, and their rule was removed 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 00:02:33.750 --> 00:02:40.750 Or women being content with each other more than men in what is known as lesbianism 00:02:40.750 --> 00:02:45.750 This is an indicator of the accelerated fall of their civilization and dominance 00:02:45.750 --> 00:02:54.939 Fourth, it is clear from the previous two concepts that civilizations often fall from within themselves 00:02:54.939 --> 00:02:58.389 Not because of the external enemy 00:02:58.389 --> 00:03:05.389 Fifthly, luxury and prosperity do not indicate the strength and survival of civilization 00:03:05.389 --> 00:03:11.460 Rather, it is true that luxury is the prelude to the collapse of any civilization 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:17.520 The scholar Ibn Khaldun had previously stated this in his famous introduction 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 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.520 A good example of this 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:29.520 And God Almighty says 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 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:45.520 And We sent the sky raining rain upon them and made rivers flow beneath them 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:52.520 So We destroyed them for their sins and created after them another generation 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 00:04:03.030 --> 00:04:10.030 6- Scientific and technical development that makes people arrogant 00:04:10.030 --> 00:04:14.030 It makes him think that he controls the universe with his knowledge 00:04:14.030 --> 00:04:18.029 Rather, it is a lure followed by disappearance 00:04:18.029 --> 00:04:20.060 God Almighty said 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 00:04:27.060 --> 00:04:32.060 The plants of the earth, which people and livestock eat, were mixed with it 00:04:32.060 --> 00:04:36.060 Even when the earth takes on its adornment and adornment 00:04:36.060 --> 00:04:40.060 Its people thought they were capable of it 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 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:53.060 Thus We detail the verses for a people who reflect 00:04:54.060 --> 00:04:58.699 Summary of Sunni concepts