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 Among the benefits of the struggle between the people of truth and falsehood: 3 00:00:12,859 --> 00:00:20,760 Allah has decreed that His defense of those who believe shall be carried out through their own efforts. 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,760 He did not make it a gift that descends upon them from the heavens without any exertion. 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,760 Allah the Almighty says: 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,760 "That is so; and if Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them Himself." 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,859 "But He does so to test some of you by means of others." 8 00:00:35,859 --> 00:00:37,859 Among the benefits of this: 9 00:00:37,859 --> 00:00:40,859 The testing of both the people of truth and the people of falsehood. 10 00:00:40,859 --> 00:00:42,859 As the verse has clarified. 11 00:00:42,859 --> 00:00:45,859 And as it is stated in the hadith qudsi: 12 00:00:45,859 --> 00:00:49,859 "I have only sent you to test you and to test others through you." 13 00:00:49,859 --> 00:00:51,920 Narrated by Muslim. 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,109 Furthermore, in the struggle against falsehood, 15 00:00:55,109 --> 00:00:58,109 there is a maturation and a clarification of the truth and its people. 16 00:00:58,109 --> 00:01:03,109 For the human constitution does not awaken all the latent energies within it 17 00:01:03,109 --> 00:01:06,109 except when it faces danger. 18 00:01:06,109 --> 00:01:11,109 The truth becomes illuminated and manifest whenever it is challenged by falsehood, 19 00:01:11,109 --> 00:01:14,109 as its proofs and evidences become clear. 20 00:01:14,109 --> 00:01:17,109 Thus, the veracity of the truth and its reality are revealed.