WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:08.859 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:08.859 --> 00:00:10.859 Light and enlightenment. 00:00:10.859 --> 00:00:13.859 True light. 00:00:13.859 --> 00:00:16.859 It is that which is a gift from Allah, the Almighty and Majestic. 00:00:16.859 --> 00:00:18.859 The Creator of light. 00:00:18.859 --> 00:00:20.859 Bestows it upon the righteous among His servants. 00:00:20.859 --> 00:00:24.859 Allah guides to His light whom He wills. 00:00:24.859 --> 00:00:28.859 And by His light, glorified be He, which He casts into the heart of His believing servant. 00:00:28.859 --> 00:00:32.859 The servant is brought out from the dark paths of falsehood. 00:00:32.859 --> 00:00:35.859 To the bright and straight path of truth. 00:00:35.859 --> 00:00:41.859 “Allah is the Protecting Guardian of those who believe. He bringeth them out of darkness into light. As for those who disbelieve, their patrons are false deities. They bring them out of light into darkness. Such are rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein.” (2:257) 00:00:41.859 --> 00:00:47.859 How vast is the difference between one whom Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, has blessed with a light by which he walks among the people. 00:00:47.859 --> 00:00:52.859 And one who is drowning in the depths of the darkness of ignorance and disbelief. 00:00:52.859 --> 00:00:56.859 Stumbling through his life without guidance from Allah. 00:00:56.859 --> 00:01:01.859 “Or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covereth him a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon layer of darkness. When he holdeth out his hand he scarce can see it. And he for whom Allah hath not appointed light, for him there is no light.” (24:40) 00:01:02.859 --> 00:01:07.859 For whoever Allah has not blessed with faith, guidance, and knowledge of His Book. 00:01:07.859 --> 00:01:10.859 Is deprived of true light. 00:01:10.859 --> 00:01:15.859 Regardless of how many high degrees or worldly positions he may hold. 00:01:15.859 --> 00:01:19.859 And regardless of how many hundreds of books and treatises he may have read. 00:01:19.859 --> 00:01:23.859 He lives in darkness, layer upon layer. 00:01:23.859 --> 00:01:28.019 By understanding light through the scale of the Qur'an. 00:01:28.019 --> 00:01:33.019 It becomes easy for us to understand enlightenment through the scale of the Book and the Sunnah. 00:01:33.019 --> 00:01:38.019 Not by the scale of the Age of Ignorance, used by those who call themselves today. 00:01:38.019 --> 00:01:41.140 Enlightenment thinkers and modernists. 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:44.140 Indeed, the most deserving of people of the description of enlightenment. 00:01:44.140 --> 00:01:48.140 Is he who reveres the texts of the Book and the Sunnah. 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:51.140 Understanding them according to the understanding of the salaf of the Ummah. 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:56.140 Referring in his standards, judgments, and stances to the light of Allah. 00:01:56.140 --> 00:01:59.140 Represented in the Book and the Sunnah. 00:01:59.140 --> 00:02:04.140 Striving for every enlightenment that opens for the intellect, within the limits of its capacity. 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:07.140 Broad horizons and vast spaces. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:10.139 That do not deviate from the guidance of the infallible revelation. 00:02:10.139 --> 00:02:16.139 Which protects it from misguidance, moral looseness, and inverted understandings. 00:02:16.139 --> 00:02:18.139 The bearer of the banner of enlightenment. 00:02:18.139 --> 00:02:21.139 This is true enlightenment. 00:02:21.139 --> 00:02:24.139 Not the enlightenment of the people of innovation and deviant notions. 00:02:24.139 --> 00:02:29.139 Who describe their abandonment of the texts of the two revelations and their alteration. 00:02:29.139 --> 00:02:33.139 As enlightenment and the renewal of the foundations and constants of the religion. 00:02:33.139 --> 00:02:38.780 Claiming that they are observing the variables of the age and its people.