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 --> 00:00:14,859 Orientalism and its role in the endeavor to remove Islam from the reality of Muslims. 3 00:00:14,859 --> 00:00:22,699 Orientalism, in its origin, is intended to be the study of Eastern cultures and their heritage. 4 00:00:22,699 --> 00:00:29,699 This served as the gateway through which Westerners entered to understand the lives and thoughts of Muslims. 5 00:00:29,699 --> 00:00:35,700 Consequently, they sought to alter this by attacking the truths of Islam and distorting its fundamental tenets. 6 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:43,700 They distorted these under the guise of scientific study of thousands of manuscripts and what they claim to be objective criticism. 7 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:48,759 Their actions in this field are summarized as follows: 8 00:00:48,759 --> 00:00:54,759 First: Attacking the truth of Islam, the Qur'an, and Prophethood. 9 00:00:54,759 --> 00:01:00,759 They claimed that Islam is a distorted development of Judaism and Christianity. 10 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:03,759 Or that it is a synthesis of a collection of Eastern religions. 11 00:01:03,759 --> 00:01:09,790 Born from the friction between Arabian paganism and the religions of Persia and India. 12 00:01:09,790 --> 00:01:14,790 They alleged that the Qur'an was authored by Muhammad, peace be upon him. 13 00:01:14,790 --> 00:01:18,790 Or that a Christian monk dictated it to him. 14 00:01:18,790 --> 00:01:20,790 This is an ancient fabrication. 15 00:01:20,790 --> 00:01:25,790 The disbelievers of Quraysh claimed it before, and the Qur'an proved them liars. 16 00:01:25,790 --> 00:01:28,790 As Allah the Exalted says: 17 00:01:28,790 --> 00:01:35,790 ﴾But those who disbelieve say, "This is not but a falsehood he invented, and another people assisted him in it."﴿ 18 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:39,790 “Those who disbelieve say: This is naught but a lie that he hath invented, and other folk have helped him with it, so that they have produced a slander and a lie.” (25:4) 19 00:01:39,790 --> 00:01:41,790 And the Exalted says: 20 00:01:41,790 --> 00:01:46,790 “And We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech.” (16:103) 21 00:01:46,790 --> 00:01:53,790 “And We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech.” (16:103) 22 00:01:53,790 --> 00:01:56,890 They also echoed the allegations of the Rawafid (Shi'a extremists). 23 00:01:56,890 --> 00:02:01,890 That the current Qur'an accounts for only one-third of the true Qur'an. 24 00:02:01,890 --> 00:02:07,890 And that the rest was suppressed by the Companions, as they claim, for their own personal interests. 25 00:02:07,890 --> 00:02:10,889 And that it is hidden with the Rawafid. 26 00:02:10,889 --> 00:02:13,889 In what is falsely known as the Mushaf of Fatimah. 27 00:02:13,889 --> 00:02:16,889 Yet Allah, glory be to Him, says: 28 00:02:16,889 --> 00:02:21,889 “Lo! We, even We, reveal the Reminder, and lo! We verily are its Guardian.” (15:9) 29 00:02:21,889 --> 00:02:27,889 They also claimed that the revelation sent down to the Prophet, peace be upon him, 30 00:02:27,889 --> 00:02:31,889 was merely bouts of epilepsy and hysteria. 31 00:02:31,889 --> 00:02:36,889 Or, at best, a form of poetic genius. 32 00:02:36,889 --> 00:02:43,919 Every scholar of the Arabic language knows the extent of the falsehood and incoherence of this claim. 33 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,919 Yet Allah, glory be to Him, says: 34 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,919 “And We have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry, nor is it meet for him. This is naught else than a Reminder and a Lecture making plain,” (36:69) 35 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,919 “And We have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry, nor is it meet for him. This is naught else than a Reminder and a Lecture making plain,” (36:69) 36 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,949 They attacked the Sunnah. 37 00:02:57,949 --> 00:03:02,949 Basing their arguments on the existence of weak and fabricated hadiths within it. 38 00:03:02,949 --> 00:03:05,949 They sought to generalize this to the entire Sunnah. 39 00:03:05,949 --> 00:03:10,949 Or to establish that it is unreliable based on that. 40 00:03:10,949 --> 00:03:15,949 They forgot that those who pointed out that the Sunnah contains more than just authentic hadiths— 41 00:03:15,949 --> 00:03:18,949 that there are weak and fabricated ones— 42 00:03:18,949 --> 00:03:21,949 are the Muslim scholars themselves. 43 00:03:21,949 --> 00:03:26,949 And that they clarified this through precise scientific methodology. 44 00:03:26,949 --> 00:03:30,949 In which they distinguished between the authentic, the weak, and the fabricated. 45 00:03:30,949 --> 00:03:34,949 In what is known as the sciences of hadith and the discipline of Jarh wa Ta'dil (criticism and appraisal). 46 00:03:34,949 --> 00:03:39,949 They also attacked the major narrators and preservers of the Sunnah among the Companions, 47 00:03:39,949 --> 00:03:42,949 such as Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, 48 00:03:42,949 --> 00:03:47,210 and among the Tabi'un, such as al-Zuhri, may Allah have mercy on him. 49 00:03:47,210 --> 00:03:52,210 Second: The claim that Islam has exhausted its purposes. 50 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:56,210 This is a chameleon-like call appearing in various forms. 51 00:03:56,210 --> 00:04:00,210 Sometimes they say it is a moral call, 52 00:04:00,210 --> 00:04:05,210 which came to extract Arab society from its bad habits. 53 00:04:05,210 --> 00:04:09,240 At other times, they claim it is a social movement, 54 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:14,240 aiming to transform tribal society into a civil society. 55 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,240 And at others, they claim it is an immature revolution 56 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,240 against the class of wealthy masters in Makkah. 57 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,370 The implication of all this is 58 00:04:24,370 --> 00:04:30,370 to consider Islam a transient phenomenon for a limited period of time, 59 00:04:30,370 --> 00:04:33,370 having no relation to contemporary reality. 60 00:04:33,370 --> 00:04:38,850 Third: Restricting Islam to devotional rituals, 61 00:04:38,850 --> 00:04:42,850 as is the case in the narrow Western concept of Christianity. 62 00:04:42,850 --> 00:04:50,850 And claiming that Islam has no involvement in matters of governance, social life, or economic activity. 63 00:04:51,850 --> 00:04:54,850 They overlook the fact that the Holy Qur'an 64 00:04:54,850 --> 00:04:58,850 is replete with verses that mandate ruling by the law of Allah, 65 00:04:58,850 --> 00:05:01,850 establish the foundations for ethics and transactions, 66 00:05:01,850 --> 00:05:04,850 and regulate the economy and trade. 67 00:05:04,850 --> 00:05:07,850 Allah, glory be to Him, says: 68 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:12,850 ﴾O you who have believed, enter into Islam completely [and perfectly]﴿ 69 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:15,850 ﴾and do not follow the footsteps of Satan.﴿ 70 00:05:15,850 --> 00:05:19,850 ﴾Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy.﴿ 71 00:05:19,850 --> 00:05:22,850 Meaning: follow all the teachings of Islam. 72 00:05:24,139 --> 00:05:25,139 Fourth: 73 00:05:25,139 --> 00:05:30,139 The claim that Islamic fiqh is derived from Roman law. 74 00:05:30,139 --> 00:05:34,139 They aim for two things behind this: 75 00:05:34,139 --> 00:05:35,139 The first: 76 00:05:35,139 --> 00:05:39,139 To invalidate the connection of fiqh to the law of Allah the Exalted. 77 00:05:39,139 --> 00:05:41,139 The second: 78 00:05:41,139 --> 00:05:45,139 To trivialize the adoption of contemporary man-made laws. 79 00:05:45,139 --> 00:05:47,139 For as long as ancient fiqh 80 00:05:47,139 --> 00:05:51,139 is derived, in their claim, from Roman origins, 81 00:05:51,139 --> 00:05:56,139 what is the obstacle today to borrowing from French or Swiss law, 82 00:05:56,139 --> 00:05:58,139 and so on? 83 00:05:58,139 --> 00:06:00,389 Fifth: 84 00:06:00,389 --> 00:06:05,389 The claim that the Shari'ah is incompatible with contemporary civilization. 85 00:06:05,389 --> 00:06:09,389 Where they label Islam as a tribal, desert religion, 86 00:06:09,389 --> 00:06:14,389 whose legislations do not harmonize with modern, civilized life, 87 00:06:14,389 --> 00:06:18,389 and that it is the cause of the current backwardness of Muslims. 88 00:06:18,389 --> 00:06:21,389 The truth is that the cause of this backwardness 89 00:06:21,389 --> 00:06:24,389 is the Muslims' abandonment of the teachings of their religion, 90 00:06:24,389 --> 00:06:27,389 which allowed the West to occupy their lands, 91 00:06:27,389 --> 00:06:32,389 implement their conspiracies to keep them ignorant, and plunder their wealth. 92 00:06:32,389 --> 00:06:36,389 When Muslims were holding fast to their religion, 93 00:06:36,389 --> 00:06:41,389 they conquered the world and became its masters through truth, justice, and knowledge. 94 00:06:41,389 --> 00:06:43,579 Sixth: 95 00:06:43,579 --> 00:06:47,579 The call to write in colloquial dialects 96 00:06:47,579 --> 00:06:49,579 and to abandon the Arabic language, 97 00:06:49,579 --> 00:06:54,579 under the pretext that it is difficult and does not suit contemporary life, 98 00:06:54,579 --> 00:06:58,579 and fabricating a conflict between the rules of grammar and syntax 99 00:06:58,579 --> 00:07:01,839 and the styles of the Holy Qur'an. 100 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:02,839 Seventh: 101 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,839 The claim that Islam despises women 102 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,839 and does not enable them to live a dignified life, 103 00:07:09,839 --> 00:07:14,839 supporting with this the West's suspicious call for the liberation of women. 104 00:07:14,839 --> 00:07:20,839 The truth is that no religion or culture has done justice to women like Islam. 105 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:23,060 Eighth: 106 00:07:23,060 --> 00:07:25,060 Distorting Islamic history 107 00:07:25,060 --> 00:07:28,060 and confining it to the political aspect, 108 00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:32,060 as if it were a series of disputes and conspiracies. 109 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:39,060 They portrayed rulers as being drowned in debauchery, amusement, slave girls, poetry, and singing. 110 00:07:39,060 --> 00:07:45,060 They relied in this on the fabrications of the Rawafid and their forged historical writings. 111 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:47,220 Ninth: 112 00:07:47,220 --> 00:07:51,220 Glorifying destructive movements and deviant sects, 113 00:07:51,220 --> 00:07:53,220 and inflating their roles, 114 00:07:53,220 --> 00:07:55,220 such as the Batiniyyah, for example, 115 00:07:55,220 --> 00:08:00,220 and the Ubaydiyyun, who are falsely called the Fatimids, 116 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:04,220 as well as the Mu'tazilah, the Druze, and the Sufis. 117 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:08,220 And being keen to highlight and praise deviant figures, 118 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:11,220 such as al-Hallaj and Ibn Saba', 119 00:08:11,220 --> 00:08:14,220 and Abdullah Ibn Maymun al-Qaddah, 120 00:08:14,220 --> 00:08:16,220 and the Ubaydi ruler. 121 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:17,670 Tenth: 122 00:08:17,670 --> 00:08:20,670 Trivializing Islamic civilization 123 00:08:20,670 --> 00:08:25,670 and claiming that it is borrowed from Roman civilization. 124 00:08:25,670 --> 00:08:27,860 Eleventh: 125 00:08:27,860 --> 00:08:29,860 Excavating ancient civilizations 126 00:08:29,860 --> 00:08:31,860 and reviving their knowledge, 127 00:08:31,860 --> 00:08:33,860 such as the Pharaonic, 128 00:08:33,860 --> 00:08:35,860 the Phoenician, 129 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:36,860 and the Assyrian, 130 00:08:36,860 --> 00:08:39,860 so that Islam appears, at best, 131 00:08:39,860 --> 00:08:44,860 as merely one factor among several factors of Eastern civilizations. 132 00:08:44,860 --> 00:08:47,220 Twelfth: 133 00:08:47,220 --> 00:08:51,220 Establishing a secular methodology for scientific research, 134 00:08:51,220 --> 00:08:55,220 claiming impartiality and objectivity in it, 135 00:08:55,220 --> 00:08:58,220 even though the truth is the opposite. 136 00:08:58,220 --> 00:09:02,220 They insist on quoting from unreliable books 137 00:09:02,220 --> 00:09:06,220 that have no relation to the subject they are judging. 138 00:09:06,220 --> 00:09:09,250 They take from literature books 139 00:09:09,250 --> 00:09:13,250 that which they use to criticize the history of the Prophetic hadith and its sciences, 140 00:09:13,250 --> 00:09:18,250 and from history books that which they use to judge the history of fiqh. 141 00:09:18,250 --> 00:09:21,440 Among the examples of books they revere are: 142 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,440 *Al-Aghani* by the libertine al-Isfahani, 143 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,440 and *Al-Hayawan* by the Mu'tazili al-Jahiz. 144 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:30,440 Finally, 145 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,440 the Orientalists proceed in their endeavor to destroy Islam 146 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,440 according to a studied plan. 147 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,440 Therefore, it changes according to the requirements of the situation 148 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,440 after evaluating the results of each stage. 149 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,440 Currently, they are keen on avoiding provocative methods 150 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,440 and overt attacks, 151 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,440 and are implementing instead 152 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,440 a plan to contain Islamic thought.