WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:08.859 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:08.859 --> 00:00:14.859 Orientalism and its role in the endeavor to remove Islam from the reality of Muslims. 00:00:14.859 --> 00:00:22.699 Orientalism, in its origin, is intended to be the study of Eastern cultures and their heritage. 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. 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. 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. 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:48.759 Their actions in this field are summarized as follows: 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:54.759 First: Attacking the truth of Islam, the Qur'an, and Prophethood. 00:00:54.759 --> 00:01:00.759 They claimed that Islam is a distorted development of Judaism and Christianity. 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.759 Or that it is a synthesis of a collection of Eastern religions. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:09.790 Born from the friction between Arabian paganism and the religions of Persia and India. 00:01:09.790 --> 00:01:14.790 They alleged that the Qur'an was authored by Muhammad, peace be upon him. 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:18.790 Or that a Christian monk dictated it to him. 00:01:18.790 --> 00:01:20.790 This is an ancient fabrication. 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:25.790 The disbelievers of Quraysh claimed it before, and the Qur'an proved them liars. 00:01:25.790 --> 00:01:28.790 As Allah the Exalted says: 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."﴿ 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) 00:01:39.790 --> 00:01:41.790 And the Exalted says: 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) 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) 00:01:53.790 --> 00:01:56.890 They also echoed the allegations of the Rawafid (Shi'a extremists). 00:01:56.890 --> 00:02:01.890 That the current Qur'an accounts for only one-third of the true Qur'an. 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. 00:02:07.890 --> 00:02:10.889 And that it is hidden with the Rawafid. 00:02:10.889 --> 00:02:13.889 In what is falsely known as the Mushaf of Fatimah. 00:02:13.889 --> 00:02:16.889 Yet Allah, glory be to Him, says: 00:02:16.889 --> 00:02:21.889 “Lo! We, even We, reveal the Reminder, and lo! We verily are its Guardian.” (15:9) 00:02:21.889 --> 00:02:27.889 They also claimed that the revelation sent down to the Prophet, peace be upon him, 00:02:27.889 --> 00:02:31.889 was merely bouts of epilepsy and hysteria. 00:02:31.889 --> 00:02:36.889 Or, at best, a form of poetic genius. 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. 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.919 Yet Allah, glory be to Him, says: 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) 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) 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.949 They attacked the Sunnah. 00:02:57.949 --> 00:03:02.949 Basing their arguments on the existence of weak and fabricated hadiths within it. 00:03:02.949 --> 00:03:05.949 They sought to generalize this to the entire Sunnah. 00:03:05.949 --> 00:03:10.949 Or to establish that it is unreliable based on that. 00:03:10.949 --> 00:03:15.949 They forgot that those who pointed out that the Sunnah contains more than just authentic hadiths— 00:03:15.949 --> 00:03:18.949 that there are weak and fabricated ones— 00:03:18.949 --> 00:03:21.949 are the Muslim scholars themselves. 00:03:21.949 --> 00:03:26.949 And that they clarified this through precise scientific methodology. 00:03:26.949 --> 00:03:30.949 In which they distinguished between the authentic, the weak, and the fabricated. 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). 00:03:34.949 --> 00:03:39.949 They also attacked the major narrators and preservers of the Sunnah among the Companions, 00:03:39.949 --> 00:03:42.949 such as Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, 00:03:42.949 --> 00:03:47.210 and among the Tabi'un, such as al-Zuhri, may Allah have mercy on him. 00:03:47.210 --> 00:03:52.210 Second: The claim that Islam has exhausted its purposes. 00:03:52.210 --> 00:03:56.210 This is a chameleon-like call appearing in various forms. 00:03:56.210 --> 00:04:00.210 Sometimes they say it is a moral call, 00:04:00.210 --> 00:04:05.210 which came to extract Arab society from its bad habits. 00:04:05.210 --> 00:04:09.240 At other times, they claim it is a social movement, 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:14.240 aiming to transform tribal society into a civil society. 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.240 And at others, they claim it is an immature revolution 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.240 against the class of wealthy masters in Makkah. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:24.370 The implication of all this is 00:04:24.370 --> 00:04:30.370 to consider Islam a transient phenomenon for a limited period of time, 00:04:30.370 --> 00:04:33.370 having no relation to contemporary reality. 00:04:33.370 --> 00:04:38.850 Third: Restricting Islam to devotional rituals, 00:04:38.850 --> 00:04:42.850 as is the case in the narrow Western concept of Christianity. 00:04:42.850 --> 00:04:50.850 And claiming that Islam has no involvement in matters of governance, social life, or economic activity. 00:04:51.850 --> 00:04:54.850 They overlook the fact that the Holy Qur'an 00:04:54.850 --> 00:04:58.850 is replete with verses that mandate ruling by the law of Allah, 00:04:58.850 --> 00:05:01.850 establish the foundations for ethics and transactions, 00:05:01.850 --> 00:05:04.850 and regulate the economy and trade. 00:05:04.850 --> 00:05:07.850 Allah, glory be to Him, says: 00:05:07.850 --> 00:05:12.850 ﴾O you who have believed, enter into Islam completely [and perfectly]﴿ 00:05:12.850 --> 00:05:15.850 ﴾and do not follow the footsteps of Satan.﴿ 00:05:15.850 --> 00:05:19.850 ﴾Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy.﴿ 00:05:19.850 --> 00:05:22.850 Meaning: follow all the teachings of Islam. 00:05:24.139 --> 00:05:25.139 Fourth: 00:05:25.139 --> 00:05:30.139 The claim that Islamic fiqh is derived from Roman law. 00:05:30.139 --> 00:05:34.139 They aim for two things behind this: 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:35.139 The first: 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:39.139 To invalidate the connection of fiqh to the law of Allah the Exalted. 00:05:39.139 --> 00:05:41.139 The second: 00:05:41.139 --> 00:05:45.139 To trivialize the adoption of contemporary man-made laws. 00:05:45.139 --> 00:05:47.139 For as long as ancient fiqh 00:05:47.139 --> 00:05:51.139 is derived, in their claim, from Roman origins, 00:05:51.139 --> 00:05:56.139 what is the obstacle today to borrowing from French or Swiss law, 00:05:56.139 --> 00:05:58.139 and so on? 00:05:58.139 --> 00:06:00.389 Fifth: 00:06:00.389 --> 00:06:05.389 The claim that the Shari'ah is incompatible with contemporary civilization. 00:06:05.389 --> 00:06:09.389 Where they label Islam as a tribal, desert religion, 00:06:09.389 --> 00:06:14.389 whose legislations do not harmonize with modern, civilized life, 00:06:14.389 --> 00:06:18.389 and that it is the cause of the current backwardness of Muslims. 00:06:18.389 --> 00:06:21.389 The truth is that the cause of this backwardness 00:06:21.389 --> 00:06:24.389 is the Muslims' abandonment of the teachings of their religion, 00:06:24.389 --> 00:06:27.389 which allowed the West to occupy their lands, 00:06:27.389 --> 00:06:32.389 implement their conspiracies to keep them ignorant, and plunder their wealth. 00:06:32.389 --> 00:06:36.389 When Muslims were holding fast to their religion, 00:06:36.389 --> 00:06:41.389 they conquered the world and became its masters through truth, justice, and knowledge. 00:06:41.389 --> 00:06:43.579 Sixth: 00:06:43.579 --> 00:06:47.579 The call to write in colloquial dialects 00:06:47.579 --> 00:06:49.579 and to abandon the Arabic language, 00:06:49.579 --> 00:06:54.579 under the pretext that it is difficult and does not suit contemporary life, 00:06:54.579 --> 00:06:58.579 and fabricating a conflict between the rules of grammar and syntax 00:06:58.579 --> 00:07:01.839 and the styles of the Holy Qur'an. 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:02.839 Seventh: 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:06.839 The claim that Islam despises women 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.839 and does not enable them to live a dignified life, 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:14.839 supporting with this the West's suspicious call for the liberation of women. 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:20.839 The truth is that no religion or culture has done justice to women like Islam. 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.060 Eighth: 00:07:23.060 --> 00:07:25.060 Distorting Islamic history 00:07:25.060 --> 00:07:28.060 and confining it to the political aspect, 00:07:28.060 --> 00:07:32.060 as if it were a series of disputes and conspiracies. 00:07:32.060 --> 00:07:39.060 They portrayed rulers as being drowned in debauchery, amusement, slave girls, poetry, and singing. 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:45.060 They relied in this on the fabrications of the Rawafid and their forged historical writings. 00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:47.220 Ninth: 00:07:47.220 --> 00:07:51.220 Glorifying destructive movements and deviant sects, 00:07:51.220 --> 00:07:53.220 and inflating their roles, 00:07:53.220 --> 00:07:55.220 such as the Batiniyyah, for example, 00:07:55.220 --> 00:08:00.220 and the Ubaydiyyun, who are falsely called the Fatimids, 00:08:00.220 --> 00:08:04.220 as well as the Mu'tazilah, the Druze, and the Sufis. 00:08:04.220 --> 00:08:08.220 And being keen to highlight and praise deviant figures, 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:11.220 such as al-Hallaj and Ibn Saba', 00:08:11.220 --> 00:08:14.220 and Abdullah Ibn Maymun al-Qaddah, 00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:16.220 and the Ubaydi ruler. 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:17.670 Tenth: 00:08:17.670 --> 00:08:20.670 Trivializing Islamic civilization 00:08:20.670 --> 00:08:25.670 and claiming that it is borrowed from Roman civilization. 00:08:25.670 --> 00:08:27.860 Eleventh: 00:08:27.860 --> 00:08:29.860 Excavating ancient civilizations 00:08:29.860 --> 00:08:31.860 and reviving their knowledge, 00:08:31.860 --> 00:08:33.860 such as the Pharaonic, 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:35.860 the Phoenician, 00:08:35.860 --> 00:08:36.860 and the Assyrian, 00:08:36.860 --> 00:08:39.860 so that Islam appears, at best, 00:08:39.860 --> 00:08:44.860 as merely one factor among several factors of Eastern civilizations. 00:08:44.860 --> 00:08:47.220 Twelfth: 00:08:47.220 --> 00:08:51.220 Establishing a secular methodology for scientific research, 00:08:51.220 --> 00:08:55.220 claiming impartiality and objectivity in it, 00:08:55.220 --> 00:08:58.220 even though the truth is the opposite. 00:08:58.220 --> 00:09:02.220 They insist on quoting from unreliable books 00:09:02.220 --> 00:09:06.220 that have no relation to the subject they are judging. 00:09:06.220 --> 00:09:09.250 They take from literature books 00:09:09.250 --> 00:09:13.250 that which they use to criticize the history of the Prophetic hadith and its sciences, 00:09:13.250 --> 00:09:18.250 and from history books that which they use to judge the history of fiqh. 00:09:18.250 --> 00:09:21.440 Among the examples of books they revere are: 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.440 *Al-Aghani* by the libertine al-Isfahani, 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:29.440 and *Al-Hayawan* by the Mu'tazili al-Jahiz. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:30.440 Finally, 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:35.440 the Orientalists proceed in their endeavor to destroy Islam 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.440 according to a studied plan. 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.440 Therefore, it changes according to the requirements of the situation 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.440 after evaluating the results of each stage. 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.440 Currently, they are keen on avoiding provocative methods 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:51.440 and overt attacks, 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.440 and are implementing instead 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.440 a plan to contain Islamic thought.