1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:08,859 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 2 00:00:08,859 --> 00:00:12,859 The distinction between making peace with the disbelievers and normalizing relations with them. 3 00:00:12,859 --> 00:00:17,920 The permissible peace with a warring disbelieving enemy. 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,920 It is that which is concluded by a Muslim leader who submits to the Sharia of his Lord. 5 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,920 When he deems it necessary, after consulting with the people of authority, the scholars, and the wise. 6 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,920 That it achieves a benefit for the Muslims or wards off an evil from them. 7 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,920 It is a temporary peace, intended only until the Muslims gain strength. 8 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,920 Then, he shall cast their treaty back to the disbelieving enemy. 9 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,920 Then they fight them so that the religion may be entirely for Allah. 10 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,920 It is a peace governed by the weighing of interests and harms and the fiqh of balancing priorities. 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,920 It is not a permanent peace. 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,920 Nor does it grant the disbeliever any right to a permanent presence in the lands of the Muslims. 13 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,920 Nor does the disbeliever, through this peace, transform from an enemy into a friend. 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,920 Nor does the enmity toward them transform into allegiance. 15 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:12,980 Rather, enmity and disavowal toward them remain, even while the peace treaty is in effect. 16 00:01:12,980 --> 00:01:16,980 As for the normalization with the disbelieving Jews that is being proposed today, 17 00:01:16,980 --> 00:01:21,980 That is a different matter entirely, having no relation to peace in the aforementioned sense. 18 00:01:21,980 --> 00:01:27,980 It is a betrayal of the religion of Islam and the Muslim Ummah for the following reasons: 19 00:01:27,980 --> 00:01:37,079 First, because it constitutes an acknowledgment of the disbelieving occupier’s right to permanent ownership of Muslim lands. 20 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:41,079 This contradicts the objectives of the Sharia and the foundations of Islam. 21 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:47,079 Because it involves the suspension of the rite of Jihad in the path of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic. 22 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:51,340 Second, because it demolishes the doctrine of loyalty and disavowal (al-wala’ wa-l-bara’), 23 00:01:51,340 --> 00:01:54,340 Which is the foundation of "There is no god but Allah." 24 00:01:54,340 --> 00:02:02,340 For it replaces love, brotherhood, and peace with the Jews in place of enmity and disavowal of them and their disbelief. 25 00:02:02,340 --> 00:02:08,340 It compels ruling regimes to silence anyone who declares their enmity and hatred toward them. 26 00:02:08,340 --> 00:02:14,340 And it purges educational curricula and media of everything that points to this enmity, 27 00:02:14,340 --> 00:02:18,340 Which Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, has explicitly stated in His Book. 28 00:02:19,340 --> 00:02:26,340 “Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe (to be) the Jews and the idolaters. And thou wilt find the nearest of them in affection to those who believe (to be) those who say: Lo! We are Christians. That is because there are among them priests and monks, and because they are not proud.” (5:82) 29 00:02:26,340 --> 00:02:33,500 Third, because it is a contract of humiliation and disgrace, in which the enemy is the superior party. 30 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:39,500 It is the enemy that dictates its conditions to the Muslims and dominates their countries. 31 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:43,500 And everyone remains in a state of permanent submission to them. 32 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:49,590 Fourth, normalization allows the Jews to enter Muslim countries, 33 00:02:49,590 --> 00:02:53,590 To manipulate their economies, media, and education, 34 00:02:53,590 --> 00:02:58,590 And to seize control of the nation’s resources through investment and the spread of usury. 35 00:02:58,590 --> 00:03:06,590 It allows them to occupy the country’s administrations and turn the children of the Muslims into humiliated employees under their control. 36 00:03:06,590 --> 00:03:13,819 Fifth, opening the country to them allows them to spread vice and corruption in the land. 37 00:03:13,819 --> 00:03:19,819 For the Jews have never settled in a land without corrupting its morals and its economy. 38 00:03:19,819 --> 00:03:25,979 Sixth, normalization provides aid to the Jews against the mujahideen in Palestine, 39 00:03:25,979 --> 00:03:28,979 And serves to liquidate the Jihad there. 40 00:03:28,979 --> 00:03:32,979 In this, there is support for the disbelievers against the Muslims. 41 00:03:32,979 --> 00:03:36,979 And this is one of the nullifiers of Islam. 42 00:03:36,979 --> 00:03:40,139 How, then, can it be said after all of this, 43 00:03:40,139 --> 00:03:43,139 That normalization with the Jews is a legitimate peace, 44 00:03:43,139 --> 00:03:48,139 To be measured against the peace the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, made with the disbelievers of Quraysh, 45 00:03:48,139 --> 00:03:51,169 Or with the Jews in Medina? 46 00:03:51,169 --> 00:03:55,169 The Prophet’s peace with Quraysh was only temporary. 47 00:03:55,169 --> 00:03:58,169 And his treaty with the Jews in Medina was not, 48 00:03:58,169 --> 00:04:02,169 Except while they were under the rule and control of Islam. 49 00:04:02,169 --> 00:04:07,169 They were inhabitants of the city before he, peace be upon him, arrived. 50 00:04:07,169 --> 00:04:12,169 Yet, despite this, they betrayed the Messenger, peace be upon him, 51 00:04:12,169 --> 00:04:15,169 And violated the treaty through this betrayal. 52 00:04:15,169 --> 00:04:17,170 This is their habitual way. 53 00:04:17,170 --> 00:04:19,329 So he expelled them from it. 54 00:04:19,329 --> 00:04:24,329 Furthermore, how can the permanent normalization of contemporary regimes with the Jews be compared, 55 00:04:24,329 --> 00:04:28,329 When these regimes reject the Sharia of Allah and refuse to rule by it, 56 00:04:28,329 --> 00:04:30,329 And have suspended the rite of Jihad, 57 00:04:30,329 --> 00:04:35,329 To the Prophet’s temporary peace with them? 58 00:04:35,329 --> 00:04:39,329 He was the one who submitted to the Sharia of his Lord and followed His command, 59 00:04:39,329 --> 00:04:42,329 Struggling in His path. 60 00:04:42,329 --> 00:04:46,329 His peace with them was only until he gained the strength to confront them, 61 00:04:46,329 --> 00:04:50,519 At which point he cast their treaties back to them and fought them. 62 00:04:50,519 --> 00:04:54,519 Normalization, in reality, is humiliation and a betrayal of the Muslims, 63 00:04:54,519 --> 00:04:57,519 A selling of their homelands to the disbelievers, 64 00:04:57,519 --> 00:04:59,519 And an endorsement of their presence there. 65 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:04,519 It is a demolition of the doctrine of Tawhid, which is based on loyalty to Allah alone, 66 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:08,519 And disavowal of polytheism and its people, whether they be Jews or Christians, 67 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:12,519 Or any other sect that associates partners with Allah the Exalted. 68 00:05:12,519 --> 00:05:15,519 Whoever seeks to remove the enmity toward the disbelievers, 69 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:19,519 Without calling them to Islam and bringing them into it, 70 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:25,519 Is merely seeking to alter the religion of Allah that Muhammad, peace be upon him, brought, 71 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:28,519 And to introduce a new religion. 72 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:33,800 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.