1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:09,890 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 2 00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:15,779 The efforts of the people of falsehood to combat sacred knowledge by creating confusion around it. 3 00:00:15,779 --> 00:00:20,780 Since the people of falsehood are unable to confront knowledge and its scholars directly, 4 00:00:20,780 --> 00:00:23,780 they have resorted to fighting sacred knowledge 5 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:27,780 by obscuring it from the people or casting doubt upon it. 6 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:31,780 Just as the disbelievers of Quraysh did in the past, when they said, 7 00:00:31,780 --> 00:00:36,780 “Those who disbelieve say: Heed not this Qur'an, and drown the hearing of it; haply ye may conquer.” (41:26) 8 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:40,780 And just as the enemies of Ibn Taymiyyah burned his books, 9 00:00:40,780 --> 00:00:46,780 and just as contemporary tyrants ban the books of scholars who oppose them, 10 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:50,780 and likewise block websites that express opposition. 11 00:00:50,780 --> 00:00:57,840 Occupying people with their livelihoods and entertainment to distract them from sacred knowledge. 12 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,640 Among the methods used to combat the spread of knowledge 13 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,640 is distracting people from it by preoccupying them with their livelihoods and various means of amusement, 14 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:12,640 such as sports, competitions, television series, and game shows, 15 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,640 and other such things, under the pretext of entertainment. 16 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:21,640 In reality, this is a waste of what is called people's leisure time on falsehood, 17 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,640 so that they do not turn toward seeking sacred knowledge. 18 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,109 Alienating people from the schools of fiqh. 19 00:01:31,620 --> 00:01:33,620 Another method is 20 00:01:33,620 --> 00:01:38,620 searching for the extreme and radical opinions within every school of thought, 21 00:01:38,620 --> 00:01:42,620 gathering them, and presenting them in a single context, 22 00:01:42,620 --> 00:01:45,620 and repeating this in various forms 23 00:01:45,620 --> 00:01:47,620 to influence minds 24 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:51,620 and alienate them from all schools of fiqh, 25 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:54,620 along with all the knowledge and truth they contain. 26 00:01:54,620 --> 00:02:00,640 Attacking the scholars themselves. 27 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,640 In addition to attacking knowledge, 28 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,640 the people of falsehood attack the bearers of knowledge and truth themselves, 29 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,639 either through imprisonment and torture, 30 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,639 which is well-known and needs no description, 31 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,639 or by tarnishing the image of the scholars 32 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,639 so that they fall in the eyes of the people and are shunned. 33 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,639 For if the bearer falls, the burden they carry falls with them. 34 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,699 Pharaoh said regarding Moses, peace be upon him, 35 00:02:28,699 --> 00:02:33,699 “(Pharaoh) said: Lo! your messenger who hath been sent unto you is indeed a madman!” (26:27) 36 00:02:33,699 --> 00:02:38,699 And the disbelievers of Quraysh said to Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 37 00:02:38,699 --> 00:02:45,629 “And they say: O thou unto whom the Reminder is revealed, lo! thou art indeed a madman!” (15:6) 38 00:02:45,629 --> 00:02:48,629 The West’s containment of Muslim scholars, 39 00:02:48,629 --> 00:02:52,340 or getting rid of them. 40 00:02:52,340 --> 00:02:55,340 The West strives to contain those who excel among the Muslims 41 00:02:55,340 --> 00:02:57,340 in modern sciences 42 00:02:57,340 --> 00:02:59,340 and to benefit from them. 43 00:02:59,340 --> 00:03:01,340 If they do not succeed in that, 44 00:03:01,340 --> 00:03:04,340 they seek to kill them and get rid of them, 45 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:07,340 just as they did with the Egyptian nuclear scientist, 46 00:03:07,340 --> 00:03:09,340 Yahya al-Mashad.