1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:08,539 Summary of the Concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah 2 00:00:08,539 --> 00:00:11,570 Introduction 3 00:00:11,570 --> 00:00:15,570 Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, for guiding us to Islam 4 00:00:15,570 --> 00:00:18,570 and following the Sunnah of the Master of Mankind. 5 00:00:18,570 --> 00:00:22,570 "And we would not have been guided had Allah not guided us." 6 00:00:22,570 --> 00:00:27,570 May Allah send His prayers, peace, and blessings upon His servant and Messenger, Muhammad, 7 00:00:27,570 --> 00:00:30,570 the master of the first and the last, 8 00:00:30,570 --> 00:00:32,570 and upon his pure household, 9 00:00:32,570 --> 00:00:34,570 and his noble Companions, 10 00:00:34,570 --> 00:00:37,570 and upon us with them, by His grace and generosity. 11 00:00:37,570 --> 00:00:40,570 Indeed, He is All-Hearing, All-Responding. 12 00:00:40,570 --> 00:00:42,570 To proceed: 13 00:00:42,570 --> 00:00:45,659 What a great blessing is guidance to faith! 14 00:00:45,659 --> 00:00:47,659 And how abundant is this gift! 15 00:00:47,659 --> 00:00:53,659 And how pleasant is a pure and blissful life in this world and the Hereafter. 16 00:00:53,659 --> 00:00:58,729 Allah, the Almighty, said, in the context of His favor upon this Ummah, 17 00:00:58,729 --> 00:01:00,729 by sending His Prophet Muhammad, 18 00:01:00,729 --> 00:01:02,729 peace be upon him, 19 00:01:02,729 --> 00:01:05,730 "Allah has indeed conferred a favor upon the believers." 20 00:01:05,730 --> 00:01:08,730 “Allah verily hath shown grace to the believers by sending unto them a messenger of their own who reciteth unto them His revelations, and causeth them to grow, and teacheth them the Scripture and wisdom; although before (he came to them) they were in flagrant error.” (3:164) 21 00:01:08,730 --> 00:01:11,730 He recites to them His verses and purifies them, 22 00:01:11,730 --> 00:01:14,730 and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom. 23 00:01:14,730 --> 00:01:19,730 And indeed, they were previously in clear error. 24 00:01:19,730 --> 00:01:21,790 And He, Glorified is He, favored us 25 00:01:21,790 --> 00:01:23,790 by perfecting the religion for us, 26 00:01:23,790 --> 00:01:24,790 saying: 27 00:01:24,790 --> 00:01:26,790 “Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swineflesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death-stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And (forbidden is it) that ye swear by the divining arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who disbelieve in despair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion al-Islam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (5:3) 28 00:01:26,790 --> 00:01:28,790 "And I have completed for you your religion." 29 00:01:28,790 --> 00:01:31,790 “Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swineflesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death-stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And (forbidden is it) that ye swear by the divining arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who disbelieve in despair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion al-Islam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (5:3) 30 00:01:31,790 --> 00:01:36,890 And the excellence of this religion and its guidance towards the straight path is confirmed, 31 00:01:36,890 --> 00:01:39,890 as contained in His Noble Book. 32 00:01:39,890 --> 00:01:40,890 He said: 33 00:01:40,890 --> 00:01:45,890 "Indeed, this Qur'an guides to that which is most right." 34 00:01:45,890 --> 00:01:50,049 And Allah has not bestowed upon a servant, after the blessing of Islam, 35 00:01:50,049 --> 00:01:55,049 anything like what He bestowed upon him with a correct and pure understanding of this religion, 36 00:01:55,049 --> 00:01:58,049 its beliefs, its rulings, and its ethics, 37 00:01:58,049 --> 00:02:03,049 accompanied by a righteous intention, sincere to Allah, the Almighty. 38 00:02:03,049 --> 00:02:06,079 Imam Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 39 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:09,080 Correct understanding and good intention 40 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,080 are among the greatest blessings Allah bestows upon His servant. 41 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:19,080 Rather, no servant has been given a gift after Islam that is better or more noble than these two. 42 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,080 Indeed, they are the two pillars of Islam and its foundation. 43 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,080 Through them, the servant is safe from the path of those who have incurred Allah's wrath, 44 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,080 whose intentions were corrupted, 45 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,080 and the path of the misguided, whose understanding was corrupted. 46 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,080 And he becomes among those upon whom Allah has bestowed His favor, 47 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,080 whose understanding and intentions were good. 48 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,080 They are the people of the straight path, 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:49,080 which we are commanded to ask Allah to guide us to in every prayer. 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,080 And correct understanding is a light that Allah casts into the servant's heart, 51 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,080 by which he distinguishes between the sound and the corrupt, 52 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,080 and truth and falsehood, guidance and misguidance, 53 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,080 and error and right direction. 54 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,080 and it is strengthened by good intention and seeking truth, 55 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,080 and reverence for the Lord in secret and in public, 56 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,080 and its source is cut off by following desires, 57 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,080 and preferring this world, 58 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,080 and seeking the praise of creation, 59 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,080 and abandoning piety. 60 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:23,180 And when the believer sees what the disbelieving societies, deprived of this blessing, are experiencing, 61 00:03:23,180 --> 00:03:28,180 and their state of confusion, contradiction, distress, and misery, 62 00:03:28,180 --> 00:03:31,180 his praise of Allah the Almighty increases, 63 00:03:31,180 --> 00:03:35,180 and his joy and contentment with what He has bestowed upon him. 64 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:42,180 For despite the luxury and apparent worldly knowledge these societies have attained, 65 00:03:42,180 --> 00:03:47,180 they nevertheless descend and sink to the lowest levels in their understanding, standards, 66 00:03:47,180 --> 00:03:50,180 and morals. 67 00:03:50,180 --> 00:03:54,180 This is because they are severed from their connection with Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, 68 00:03:54,180 --> 00:03:56,180 the Creator of the heavens and the earth, 69 00:03:56,180 --> 00:03:58,180 the Knower of His creation, 70 00:03:58,180 --> 00:04:00,180 the Gentle, the All-Aware. 71 00:04:00,180 --> 00:04:03,180 And they are severed from His straight path, 72 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:05,180 and His guidance, 73 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:08,180 and His light by which darkness is illuminated, 74 00:04:08,180 --> 00:04:11,180 and through which the affairs of this world and the Hereafter are rectified. 75 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:13,210 And among the Arab proverbs, 76 00:04:13,210 --> 00:04:16,209 "The opposite reveals the beauty of the opposite," 77 00:04:17,209 --> 00:04:20,209 and "By their opposites, things are distinguished." 78 00:04:20,209 --> 00:04:23,720 And the enemies of Islam, from ancient times, 79 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:29,720 saw what Allah had favored the believers with, namely the Messenger of Islam, the best of mankind, 80 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,720 and what He revealed to him of the illuminating Book, 81 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,720 the guide to the straight path. 82 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,720 And they compared it to their own state of turmoil and misery. 83 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,720 So, instead of entering the religion of Islam, 84 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,720 to enjoy what the Muslims enjoy, 85 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,720 they became arrogant towards the truth, 86 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,720 and envied the Muslims for this great blessing from which they were deprived. 87 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,720 And they exerted their utmost effort to divert them from the concepts of this religion, 88 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,720 and waged their wars against it, military, ideological, and unethical, 89 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,720 hoping to turn them away from their religion. 90 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,720 Allah the Almighty says: 91 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:14,720 “Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.” (2:109) 92 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:21,720 “Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.” (2:109) 93 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,100 And they inherited this hatred and approach generation after generation, 94 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:28,100 until our current era. 95 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:32,139 And when they despaired of turning Muslims away from their religion, 96 00:05:32,139 --> 00:05:37,139 they turned to raising doubts about the established truths and clear rulings of this religion, 97 00:05:37,139 --> 00:05:43,139 and they proceeded to distort them by manipulating religious terminology and concepts, 98 00:05:43,139 --> 00:05:46,139 diverting them from their correct meanings, 99 00:05:46,139 --> 00:05:49,139 and calling them by other than their names. 100 00:05:49,139 --> 00:05:55,139 So they introduced deviant Western concepts, spawned by their disbelieving ideologies, 101 00:05:55,139 --> 00:06:01,139 resulting in distorted concepts, reflecting their flawed, ignorant, human source. 102 00:06:02,139 --> 00:06:10,199 A questioner might ask about the reasons for these vast differences between the pure, lofty, and just concepts of Islam 103 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:15,199 and the concepts of disbelief and its adherents, characterized by injustice, decline, 104 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:19,199 corruption, and imbalance in scales and judgments. 105 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:24,230 We believe that anyone who contemplates the Divine methodology, its characteristics, and its features, 106 00:06:24,230 --> 00:06:28,230 and the ignorant human methodology and its traits, 107 00:06:28,230 --> 00:06:33,230 will find no difficulty in answering this posed question. 108 00:06:33,230 --> 00:06:38,230 Nevertheless, the answer can be summarized in the following points: 109 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:45,259 Firstly, the concepts of Islam are of Divine origin, stemming from the Qur'an. 110 00:06:45,259 --> 00:06:54,259 Consequently, they are just, complete, comprehensive, balanced, pure, and free from all imperfections, 111 00:06:54,259 --> 00:06:58,259 because they are from Allah, the Almighty, the All-Knowing. 112 00:06:58,259 --> 00:07:02,259 “Should He not know what He created? And He is the Subtile, the Aware.” (67:14) 113 00:07:02,259 --> 00:07:08,259 He is free from all deficiency, safe from injustice, caprice, and ignorance, 114 00:07:08,259 --> 00:07:12,259 knowing what is beneficial for His servants in their worldly lives and their hereafter. 115 00:07:12,259 --> 00:07:19,259 He knows what was, what will be, and what would have been if it had occurred, and how it would have been. 116 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:29,360 Conversely, the concepts of ignorance originate from this weak human being, limited by time and space, 117 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:35,360 the one prone to caprice, ignorance, injustice, and fleeting desires, detached from his Lord and His worship. 118 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:41,360 Consequently, his concepts and perceptions are characterized by his own traits, 119 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:47,360 namely ignorance, deficiency, injustice, contradiction, confusion, and imbalance. 120 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:55,579 Secondly, any concept presented to people is governed by the creed of the one presenting it regarding the Lord of the universe, 121 00:07:55,579 --> 00:08:02,579 the universe itself, life, humanity, the purpose of their creation, and their destiny after death. 122 00:08:02,579 --> 00:08:07,579 Every concept is a consequence of this creed or perception, 123 00:08:07,579 --> 00:08:12,579 and a reflection of it, whether good or bad. 124 00:08:12,579 --> 00:08:18,680 And since the words of Allah, which falsehood cannot approach from before or behind, 125 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:25,680 are what provide us Muslims with understanding and perception of our Lord, the Creator of this universe, 126 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,680 and of the universe, humanity, the purpose of their creation, and their destiny, 127 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:36,679 it is the true understanding that provides certain answers to all the aforementioned. 128 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,679 Unlike the disbelievers, who have not been blessed with the creed of Islam, 129 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:49,679 their perceptions and concepts only emerge from the dregs of their minds and the carvings of their thoughts. 130 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:57,679 Thus, they wander in a sea of darkness and ignorance, going astray, suffering, causing others to go astray, and causing suffering. 131 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,940 Thirdly, and based on the foregoing, 132 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:07,940 the third and important difference between Divine concepts and ignorant human concepts 133 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:10,940 is the difference between monotheism (Tawhid) and polytheism (Shirk). 134 00:09:10,940 --> 00:09:16,940 The concepts of one who worships Allah alone, disassociating from Shirk and its adherents, are not equal 135 00:09:16,940 --> 00:09:21,940 to the concepts of the disbeliever, who is cut off from his Lord, the Almighty, and His law. 136 00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:23,970 Allah, the Almighty, says: 137 00:09:23,970 --> 00:09:25,970 "And the blind and the seeing are not alike." 138 00:09:25,970 --> 00:09:28,970 “Nor is darkness (tantamount to) light;” (35:20) 139 00:09:28,970 --> 00:09:31,970 "And every vessel overflows with what it contains." 140 00:09:31,970 --> 00:09:34,059 Fourthly, 141 00:09:34,059 --> 00:09:40,059 likewise, a person who believes in the Hereafter and accounts for it 142 00:09:40,059 --> 00:09:43,059 cannot be equal to another who lives only for this world 143 00:09:43,059 --> 00:09:46,059 and does not look beyond it. 144 00:09:46,059 --> 00:09:52,059 These two cannot agree on a single matter of this life, 145 00:09:52,059 --> 00:09:55,059 nor on a single value among its many values, 146 00:09:55,059 --> 00:10:02,059 nor do they agree on a single judgment about an event, situation, or affair. 147 00:10:02,059 --> 00:10:04,059 For each has a scale, 148 00:10:04,059 --> 00:10:07,059 and each has a perspective, 149 00:10:07,059 --> 00:10:14,059 and each has a light by which they see things, events, values, and circumstances. 150 00:10:14,059 --> 00:10:17,059 One sees the outward appearance of this worldly life, 151 00:10:17,059 --> 00:10:21,059 while the other perceives the underlying connections and the light beyond the apparent, 152 00:10:21,059 --> 00:10:25,059 and comprehensive principles for the manifest and the hidden, 153 00:10:25,059 --> 00:10:27,059 the unseen and the witnessed, 154 00:10:27,059 --> 00:10:29,059 this world and the hereafter, 155 00:10:29,059 --> 00:10:31,059 death and life. 156 00:10:31,059 --> 00:10:34,059 This is the distant, vast, and encompassing horizon 157 00:10:34,059 --> 00:10:37,059 to which Islam transports humanity, 158 00:10:37,059 --> 00:10:43,059 elevating it to the station befitting humanity as Allah's vicegerent on Earth. 159 00:10:43,059 --> 00:10:44,700 Fifth, 160 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:51,700 and just as the Muslims' concepts differ and diverge from those of the disbelievers, as previously mentioned, 161 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:56,700 based on each group's understanding of the reality of Lordship and Divinity, 162 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:59,700 the universe, life, and humanity, 163 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:06,700 there also exists a divergence in the concepts of the saved sect among Muslims 164 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:09,700 from those of the deviant sects, 165 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:13,700 such as the Khawarij, the Rawafid, the Jahmiyyah, and the Mu'tazilah. 166 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:18,700 This is due to the differing sources of evidence used by the saved sect, 167 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:20,700 who are Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah, 168 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,700 compared to those used by these deviant sects, 169 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:28,700 despite the conceptual differences that may exist between them. 170 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:33,700 Similarly, differences in their concepts arise from their differing beliefs. 171 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:39,769 And differences in some concepts may occur among those within the circle of Ahl al-Sunnah 172 00:11:39,769 --> 00:11:44,769 due to variations in understanding the reality and circumstances they are living in. 173 00:11:44,769 --> 00:11:49,769 This then leads to a difference in applying rulings to those circumstances, 174 00:11:49,769 --> 00:11:53,769 while agreeing on the fundamental concepts for all. 175 00:11:53,769 --> 00:11:56,769 Imam Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, states, 176 00:11:56,769 --> 00:11:59,769 as he explains the two pillars of correct understanding, 177 00:11:59,769 --> 00:12:04,769 that the mufti and the judge cannot issue fatwas or judgments with truth 178 00:12:04,769 --> 00:12:06,769 except through two types of understanding: 179 00:12:06,769 --> 00:12:10,769 one is understanding the reality and having fiqh of it, 180 00:12:10,769 --> 00:12:13,769 and discerning the true nature of what has occurred 181 00:12:13,769 --> 00:12:16,769 through clues, indications, and signs, 182 00:12:16,769 --> 00:12:18,769 until one has comprehensive knowledge of it. 183 00:12:18,769 --> 00:12:22,769 The second type is understanding what is obligatory in that reality, 184 00:12:22,769 --> 00:12:26,769 which is understanding the ruling of Allah that He has decreed in His Book 185 00:12:26,769 --> 00:12:30,769 or through the tongue of His Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 186 00:12:30,769 --> 00:12:32,769 concerning this reality. 187 00:12:32,769 --> 00:12:35,769 Then, one applies one to the other. 188 00:12:35,769 --> 00:12:39,799 Therefore, for correct understanding to be complete, 189 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:41,799 it is necessary to understand the contemporary reality 190 00:12:41,799 --> 00:12:44,799 and to discern the path of the criminals. 191 00:12:44,799 --> 00:12:46,799 Otherwise, error in understanding will occur 192 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:50,799 due to not verifying the underlying cause and knowing the circumstances. 193 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:53,799 And another serious obstacle remains 194 00:12:53,799 --> 00:12:56,799 that prevents the servant from applying correct understanding, 195 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:01,799 namely, desires and prioritizing this world over the hereafter. 196 00:13:01,799 --> 00:13:04,799 For it may be that the understanding is legally sound and correct, 197 00:13:04,799 --> 00:13:07,799 and in accordance with the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah, 198 00:13:07,799 --> 00:13:09,799 along with fiqh of the reality, 199 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:12,799 but due to desire or fear, 200 00:13:12,799 --> 00:13:16,799 The servant deliberately abandons this correct understanding 201 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:19,799 and prioritizes erroneous concepts over it 202 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,799 and deviant applications. 203 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:25,929 We ask Allah for safety and steadfastness upon the truth. 204 00:13:25,929 --> 00:13:28,929 From the foregoing, the reasons for 205 00:13:28,929 --> 00:13:32,960 the deviation and divergence of concepts can be summarized as follows: 206 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,960 First, disbelief or associating partners with Allah, the Almighty. 207 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,960 This causes wholesale deviations 208 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:41,960 in concepts, scales of judgment, 209 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,960 rulings, and stances, 210 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,960 because its adherent is cut off from Allah, the Almighty, 211 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,960 His Lordship, His Divinity, 212 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:51,960 and His Names and Attributes, 213 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,960 and cut off from the Last Day and true belief in it. 214 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:01,960 And joining them are the people of heretical innovations that lead to disbelief and excommunication from the fold of Islam. 215 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,179 Second, heretical innovation that does not lead to disbelief. 216 00:14:06,179 --> 00:14:09,179 This causes partial deviations 217 00:14:09,179 --> 00:14:12,179 that reflect on some concepts in creed, 218 00:14:12,179 --> 00:14:14,179 worship, or conduct, 219 00:14:14,179 --> 00:14:17,179 even though their adherents are from the people of the Qibla (Muslims), 220 00:14:17,179 --> 00:14:19,179 and they possess both truth and falsehood. 221 00:14:19,179 --> 00:14:24,340 Third, ignorance of reality and the path of the criminals. 222 00:14:24,340 --> 00:14:28,340 Although those characterized by this are from the people of the Sunnah, 223 00:14:28,340 --> 00:14:32,340 their ignorance reflects in some errors 224 00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:35,340 and deviations in certain concepts 225 00:14:35,340 --> 00:14:38,340 due to flaws in applying the rulings. 226 00:14:38,340 --> 00:14:41,440 Fourth, desires and love of this world. 227 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,440 This causes the abandonment of correct understanding 228 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,440 or deviation in its application, deliberately and out of desire, 229 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,659 after knowing it and having it firmly established. 230 00:14:52,659 --> 00:14:54,659 In light of all the above, 231 00:14:54,659 --> 00:14:58,659 the utmost importance of correcting concepts becomes clear to us, 232 00:14:58,659 --> 00:15:01,659 and the danger of tampering with them, 233 00:15:01,659 --> 00:15:05,659 and of turning away from the divine sources for correct understanding 234 00:15:05,659 --> 00:15:08,659 towards the concepts of the disbelievers, the hypocrites, 235 00:15:08,659 --> 00:15:11,659 heretics, and those driven by desires, instead. 236 00:15:11,659 --> 00:15:14,659 And receiving them with ignorance or desire. 237 00:15:14,659 --> 00:15:17,700 Therefore, among the most obligatory duties 238 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:21,700 upon scholars and callers (to Islam) who have realized this danger 239 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:24,700 is to rise to save the Ummah, by Allah's will, 240 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,700 from the darkness of deviant concepts 241 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:31,700 to the light of the divine Qur'anic concepts, 242 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:35,700 and to establish for people these pure concepts, 243 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:39,700 and to expose the flaws and deviations of ignorant, pre-Islamic concepts, 244 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:43,700 and to refute the doubts used by the misleaders 245 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:46,759 to confuse people. 246 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:50,759 And for this reason, your brothers from among the students of knowledge, 247 00:15:50,759 --> 00:15:53,759 who are concerned about this matter and troubled by it, 248 00:15:53,759 --> 00:15:56,759 They strove to their utmost to produce a concise summary 249 00:15:56,759 --> 00:15:59,759 of pure Islamic concepts 250 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:02,759 according to the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah, 251 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:05,759 and as indicated by the texts of the Book and the Sunnah, 252 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:10,759 while addressing deviant, misguided, and erroneous concepts, 253 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:14,759 refuting them and responding to them to expose their falsehood. 254 00:16:14,759 --> 00:16:18,759 Among the references for this were books concerned 255 00:16:18,759 --> 00:16:22,759 with correcting concepts and clarifying the legal principles 256 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:26,759 that govern them, such as the books of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, 257 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:30,759 his student Ibn al-Qayyim, and Tafsir al-Sa'di, 258 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:34,759 may Allah have mercy on them all, and some contemporary books 259 00:16:34,759 --> 00:16:38,759 that address this matter and whose methodology is trusted, 260 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:41,789 and whose authors' creed is sound. 261 00:16:41,789 --> 00:16:45,789 However, since brevity and stylistic adaptation 262 00:16:45,789 --> 00:16:48,789 were predominant in this work, 263 00:16:48,789 --> 00:16:52,789 we only cited these references in a few instances, 264 00:16:52,789 --> 00:16:55,789 as we attempted to summarize each concept 265 00:16:55,789 --> 00:16:59,789 so that it would be in three or four lines, 266 00:16:59,789 --> 00:17:03,789 or not exceed half a page for most of them, 267 00:17:03,789 --> 00:17:06,789 except for a few concepts 268 00:17:06,789 --> 00:17:10,789 where clarification might necessitate detail 269 00:17:10,789 --> 00:17:15,079 that could extend the concept to a full page or more. 270 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:19,079 The number of concepts in this summary reached 271 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,079 twelve hundred and fifty concepts, 272 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:25,079 distributed across thirteen chapters. 273 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:28,079 We assigned a general sequential number to the concepts 274 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:31,079 from the beginning to the end, 275 00:17:31,079 --> 00:17:36,079 and another specific number for each chapter or overarching title. 276 00:17:36,079 --> 00:17:40,079 The chapters of this summary are as follows: 277 00:17:40,079 --> 00:17:42,079 Concepts in Creed 278 00:17:42,079 --> 00:17:44,079 Concepts in Worship 279 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:47,079 Concepts in Knowledge and Fiqh 280 00:17:47,079 --> 00:17:50,079 Concepts in the Deeds of the Hearts and Their Ailments 281 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:54,079 Concepts in Asceticism, Piety, and the Journey to Allah 282 00:17:54,079 --> 00:17:57,079 Concepts in Ethics and Manners 283 00:17:57,079 --> 00:18:00,079 Concepts in Upbringing and Family 284 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,079 Concepts in Da'wah 285 00:18:02,079 --> 00:18:04,079 Concepts in Jihad 286 00:18:04,079 --> 00:18:07,079 Concepts in Divine Laws 287 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:09,079 Concepts in Trials 288 00:18:09,079 --> 00:18:11,079 Concepts in Politics 289 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:15,079 Concepts in Islamic Culture 290 00:18:15,079 --> 00:18:21,369 Finally, we do not claim to have encompassed all concepts, 291 00:18:21,369 --> 00:18:24,369 but we have done our utmost, 292 00:18:24,369 --> 00:18:28,369 focusing on what we deem to be essential concepts, 293 00:18:28,369 --> 00:18:31,369 or those that are absent or misrepresented. 294 00:18:31,369 --> 00:18:36,369 Perhaps Allah will bring forth someone to complete what is lacking and mend what is flawed. 295 00:18:36,369 --> 00:18:40,369 We ask Allah, the Almighty, for sincerity in speech and action. 296 00:18:40,369 --> 00:18:44,369 And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds.