WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:09.890 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:09.890 --> 00:00:15.779 The efforts of the people of falsehood to combat sacred knowledge by creating confusion around it. 00:00:15.779 --> 00:00:20.780 Since the people of falsehood are unable to confront knowledge and its scholars directly, 00:00:20.780 --> 00:00:23.780 they have resorted to fighting sacred knowledge 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:27.780 by obscuring it from the people or casting doubt upon it. 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:31.780 Just as the disbelievers of Quraysh did in the past, when they said, 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) 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:40.780 And just as the enemies of Ibn Taymiyyah burned his books, 00:00:40.780 --> 00:00:46.780 and just as contemporary tyrants ban the books of scholars who oppose them, 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:50.780 and likewise block websites that express opposition. 00:00:50.780 --> 00:00:57.840 Occupying people with their livelihoods and entertainment to distract them from sacred knowledge. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.640 Among the methods used to combat the spread of knowledge 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:07.640 is distracting people from it by preoccupying them with their livelihoods and various means of amusement, 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:12.640 such as sports, competitions, television series, and game shows, 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.640 and other such things, under the pretext of entertainment. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:21.640 In reality, this is a waste of what is called people's leisure time on falsehood, 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.640 so that they do not turn toward seeking sacred knowledge. 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:30.109 Alienating people from the schools of fiqh. 00:01:31.620 --> 00:01:33.620 Another method is 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:38.620 searching for the extreme and radical opinions within every school of thought, 00:01:38.620 --> 00:01:42.620 gathering them, and presenting them in a single context, 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:45.620 and repeating this in various forms 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:47.620 to influence minds 00:01:47.620 --> 00:01:51.620 and alienate them from all schools of fiqh, 00:01:51.620 --> 00:01:54.620 along with all the knowledge and truth they contain. 00:01:54.620 --> 00:02:00.640 Attacking the scholars themselves. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.640 In addition to attacking knowledge, 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:07.640 the people of falsehood attack the bearers of knowledge and truth themselves, 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.639 either through imprisonment and torture, 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.639 which is well-known and needs no description, 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.639 or by tarnishing the image of the scholars 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.639 so that they fall in the eyes of the people and are shunned. 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.639 For if the bearer falls, the burden they carry falls with them. 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.699 Pharaoh said regarding Moses, peace be upon him, 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) 00:02:33.699 --> 00:02:38.699 And the disbelievers of Quraysh said to Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 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) 00:02:45.629 --> 00:02:48.629 The West’s containment of Muslim scholars, 00:02:48.629 --> 00:02:52.340 or getting rid of them. 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:55.340 The West strives to contain those who excel among the Muslims 00:02:55.340 --> 00:02:57.340 in modern sciences 00:02:57.340 --> 00:02:59.340 and to benefit from them. 00:02:59.340 --> 00:03:01.340 If they do not succeed in that, 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:04.340 they seek to kill them and get rid of them, 00:03:04.340 --> 00:03:07.340 just as they did with the Egyptian nuclear scientist, 00:03:07.340 --> 00:03:09.340 Yahya al-Mashad.