5- Walāyah - Walāyah as Basis of a Community - Shaykh Abdulrahman Cherri

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[0:14]foreign um we're back and what we're going to do is we're

[0:37]going to continue from where we left off and the meaning of

[0:59]wilayah in the quranic sense and basically we talked about the different

[1:06]relationships that god had severed islamic relationships so people were connected to

[1:10]each other through blood ties connected with one another through worldly relations

[1:15]so basically a monarch you had a king got a tribe leader

[1:19]you had family members you have blood relations and people um live

[1:26]their lives according to that kind of deficiencies so if you're a

[1:31]member of a tribe then you are loyal to your tribe you

[1:35]do everything one of the reasons why uh some of the arab

[1:41]tribes were you know burying their daughters alive or killing them because

[1:45]the daughter was you know um shameful for a woman to be

[1:52]taken by another crime after they have come in prisoners for slave

[1:58]women so uh if there was a weak tribe and they would

[2:02]rather not have women being part of it because it's like taking

[2:06]their shame away um so relationships were based on things like that

[2:12]and there's a famous uh saying in the current world where tribal

[2:22]members used to say that i would defend my tribe even if

[2:25]they're on the wrong i'll defend them with my blood so he's

[2:28]ready to die or she's ready to die from the tribe even

[2:30]if that tribe is wrong because loyalty to the tribe is the

[2:33]most important thing if you your existent existence with depending on that

[2:40]tribe's existence your protection your wealth and everything else that social system

[2:45]that they they've built for themselves um god came uh i mean

[3:03]any system that you built any system that you can centralize is

[3:06]going to have to be based on some sort of principle or

[3:10]foundation that you believe in so if you believe in honor and

[3:14]dignity tribal uh superiority then you would develop a system tribal uh

[3:21]you have a tribal system running a system um and uh if

[3:26]you believe in let's say the islamic system that god is involved

[3:31]in everything in this world the tribes obviously didn't believe that father

[3:35]was just a creator so he wasn't really in the picture all

[3:39]the time tom came and put god in the picture in every

[3:43]single detail in her life and once he did that he began

[3:48]forming different types of social relations with individuals between individuals themselves tribes

[3:54]are to be eliminated we don't have any tribal records anymore we

[3:59]don't have any tribes anymore we don't see that there are there's

[4:04]an importance for loyalty to attract in the quran in numerous occasions

[4:10]it passes concept and it tells people that you should be loyal

[4:12]to god and the prophet you should love god in the prophet

[4:16]more than you love even your own family so even blood relations

[4:21]was diminished the importance of it was diminished in the islamic world

[4:26]so it was the prophet was trying to separate all relations between

[4:31]people even their blood relations so not just the religion of the

[4:35]tribe but even a father and a son and a mother and

[4:37]a son and a father and a mother in one another husband

[4:42]and wife um brother and sister siblings even those were severed to

[4:47]a certain degree what happened then was islam the prophets and through

[4:54]god began building a new form of relationships between the individuals and

[5:00]within that forms of relationship there's the family relationship as well but

[5:05]what takes president precedence over everything else basically um if we want

[5:13]to draw wilayan to uh put into a diagram um we can

[5:19]represent it this way so if we take this as all of

[5:24]existence in all relationships that exist in existence uh we can call

[5:31]it the system of whether you are connected to god or if

[5:37]you're connected to satan even the system that governs relationships in this

[5:41]world is a system of life unifying or becoming one uniting yourself

[5:47]with whatever you are loyal to whatever you're connected to so we

[5:52]have the people of the left here here are the followers of

[5:57]the same yeah the same as winning these people and on the

[6:01]right hand side we have god as the williams and believers those

[6:06]who are and here you have the dark individuals so this will

[6:10]be discussed uh further in the first presentation we're going to fill

[6:16]this up even here we names have we're going to use to

[6:21]show what kind of system the imams we're trying to present from

[6:26]this world types of relationships that exist between the people themselves and

[6:30]with god as well now if we look at the uh jesus

[6:38]theory and we look at the focus words that exist in relation

[6:43]to god and we see that one keyword is shared between both

[6:49]of them so when you look at shaytan you understand all these

[6:53]keywords that go are connected with so if you look at state

[6:56]and the islamic world there's enmity i don't want that one so

[7:02]he begins putting certain concepts in our minds so that we can

[7:08]experience a specific feeling shaytan is an enemy once you say shaitaan

[7:13]enemy comes in your mind so enemy someone that you have to

[7:17]come back you have to fight you have to go against uh

[7:25]forgetfulness if you follow shaitan then you forget the promise that you

[7:28]made before you came to this world which is testifying that god

[7:32]is the only god this is perfectfulness connected to singing as well

[7:35]punishment is another concept that's connected to satan you follow him you

[7:42]deserve punishment fear those people act here in this world part of

[7:47]the reason why you have fear is because you're following satan you're

[7:51]not following god if you were following god you have tranquility you

[7:55]would have guidance you would he's obviously affected the way they live

[8:13]that's why if you talk to muslims nowadays singing in front of

[8:19]them very different reaction or conception of thing and then he would

[8:22]mention things right now even though they might share certain ideas but

[8:28]the scene that god created in the quran uh with what's related

[8:32]to satan and allah and something peculiar to the islamic system of

[8:39]belief so here we have the struggle we're struggling between becoming a

[8:46]shaytan and only allah and this struggle is from pre-existence pre-temporal system

[8:54]until you have to life as well but the battle happens over

[9:01]here so basically when i say the struggle is the battle then

[9:04]it occurs in this world over here world pre-physical world let's see

[9:11]we are also missing to god after we die we might be

[9:15]all submissive to god because we just we realize the truth even

[9:18]though we have followed singing in this world but the combat or

[9:21]the battle is over here and over here every moment we're fighting

[9:25]between being dragged towards being followers of god and followers of shaytan

[9:32]and this is the scene that islam has created for the human

[9:36]being so the human the muslim when he's born uh when he

[9:39]wakes up in the morning and he's wary and self-conscious about his

[9:45]islam and his faith and his belief in god then the moment

[9:47]he opens up his eyes that struggle begins every moment for him

[9:52]the struggle in his decisions and his behavior and how he uh

[9:58]functions as a human being in his life between becoming a follower

[10:01]of god and what he does good remembrance and living a tranquil

[10:10]life or you know doing evil and therefore suffering and making others

[10:15]suffer as well the foundation upon which the islamic community should be

[10:25]built i become the one who befriends you that friendship should be

[10:29]based on when i not on anything else when i always take

[10:34]precedence over anything else um so it means friendship into the literal

[10:40]interpretation um and what islam was trying to do here there was

[10:53]a problem back in the islamic times foreign basically having uh affiliations

[11:06]and blind loyalty very tribes members this is very condemned [Music] members

[11:27]of the community he was trying to establish what was technically a

[11:35]militia by blood not a brother of someone unless you come from

[11:39]the same parent but the prophet when he even suggested this implemented

[11:44]it he basically said that brotherhood could be a spiritual and that's

[11:50]more important than your brotherhood that happens because of the physical conditions

[11:53]that you were born so he was trying to establish a society

[11:58]that has a spiritual connection transcends blood transcends private abuse and so

[12:05]on and so forth now uh if we look at pharma affiliations

[12:10]or blood relations even their importance even if there was importance that

[12:16]was placed on them in islam we're not really sure whether that's

[12:19]something that god legislated and wanted or something that you just accepted

[12:25]to be there because that's how the society ran and god didn't

[12:29]have a problem with it back then so i mean this is

[12:34]a question i'm not trying to originally conclusion but how important is

[12:41]it to preserve the lunch family something that religion asks for to

[12:53]be and the existed is founded upon families that are connected to

[12:56]each other through blood or is it something that islam doesn't mind

[13:01]losing and forming relationships between individuals without all these uh family-friendly bonds

[13:07]that we impose upon ourselves as societies so basically what the progressives

[13:12]are doing now i'm saying that family is a social construct my

[13:17]relationship with my brother lincoln brother because we inherited this idea from

[13:24]christian christian faith father and mother once i say father i'm assuming

[13:31]a specific role for that person in society implies that he has

[13:36]to be some sort of thing in society obligation the father must

[13:41]raise his child the child must not speak ill to his father

[13:45]all these norms all these is that something that islam wanted or

[13:57]is it something that it doesn't mind doing without and you don't

[14:16]know that they're who they are at the beginning you know that

[14:21]this is the father they call the father and then they find

[14:24]a child feeling or something and they take that child and they

[14:27]add it to them so you think that that child is adopted

[14:31]toward the end of the movie you figure out that none of

[14:35]these people are related to each other by blood each one of

[14:40]them was deserted by their own family members one family was like

[14:43]embarrassed you know with her child he was never learning the other

[14:46]son was learning how to play instruments and it was a wealthy

[14:50]family this other one was an embarrassment to them so they just

[14:52]gave them to his grandmother or some other family or they paid

[14:57]this woman i forget the details but the point is that towards

[15:00]the end of the movie you figure out that um you thought

[15:04]the whole movie you think you're one family really the way they

[15:06]behave they live with one another they earn money for them they

[15:10]help each other but then you find out that they overthrown out

[15:12]of their families and they've formed their own system for survival it

[15:18]kind of uh got my mind thinking what is really the definition

[15:26]of a fan kind of you know uh you want to take

[15:28]like the side of the thing that was advocating if you look

[15:35]at let me know his son he was a son literally his

[15:39]son was sort of a problem why did god make an appointment

[15:44]to say that he's not from europe the bad doing the evil

[15:53]act so it's like god is not even referring to him as

[15:55]a son so does god see relationships essentially as transcending even the

[16:03]blood family relationships or does he allow for that to remain if

[16:11]he wants him because it's healthy for society and he must remain

[16:14]in society and um only exclusions like once you go into god

[16:21]then that takes precedence over your family then you lose the status

[16:27]of being even a family member but as long as you've gotten

[16:32]obedient then family member families like blood relations are very important but

[16:37]that's something we can explore later on i think but i think

[16:40]it's good to think about this kind of stuff but we have

[16:42]a lot of hobbies that talk about the rights of a father

[16:44]and the mother uh the family this is very recommended it's almost

[16:50]logical situations and there's even spiritual effects if you connect to your

[16:58]family the more you visit your family the longer you live you

[17:02]know have a relationship physical world not the spiritual world a longer

[17:05]life if you connect to your family so we have a hadith

[17:09]like that but this is just an idea to think about so

[17:11]basically what song came in the relationships then what it probably did

[17:16]was it was it tried building the relationships from the bottom of

[17:21]it so basically the essence and foundation now is god after that

[17:26]comes let's say family religion family that comes but in order to

[17:32]establish god as the the foundation of all relationships then you have

[17:38]to remove even the family by the family bonds in that society's

[17:44]mentality separate all you deleted with a lot of uh dirt inside

[18:04]of you this journey is unorganized first you have to clear out

[18:09]everything if you're trying to clean a kitchen that you haven't cleaned

[18:11]for a year you know if you want to sit there trying

[18:13]to clean with the dirt inside of it then it's going to

[18:17]take you a long time and you might not even get to

[18:18]the whole thing not even clean the problem but you remove all

[18:21]the junk out you take it all out once you clear it

[18:24]all out you clean it up then you start adding new things

[18:32]so maybe because it's necessary to uh to do this i mean

[18:35]this is how things work in this world probably human mind functions

[18:39]as long as you leave a little bit of what they have

[18:42]in their minds and uh remember this is something that they've been

[18:46]living with you know ancestors have accepted the system for generations and

[18:52]generations this is how they live they're born thinking and raised thinking

[18:56]that my crime is everything to me so to come and remove

[19:01]a social concept that's been ingrained in these individuals in such a

[19:05]short period of time as a very very uh difficult challenging tasks

[19:10]to do so maybe the easiest method was to remove all the

[19:17]affiliations even family ones establish god as the core uh concept or

[19:23]or reality that we've been starting relationships on and then we go

[19:27]and build upon that so then you say that family is important

[19:29]unless it goes up so that's what the quran obey your parents

[19:35]unless they will they command you to do something against one document

[19:40]so here you establish problems the foundation and then everything else comes

[19:45]uh comes after them uh so here these generations show that you

[19:51]know the challenge of the prophet had dealing with us we're trying

[19:55]to imagine the scene in the scenario that the prophet came in

[19:58]these people have ah so we have the prophet says whoever is

[20:02]bigoted or partial to the false cause or incites partisanship around himself

[20:08]and his own causes but not binding him to his faith and

[20:13]is untied from around his neck so basically remember he has alpha

[20:17]then he loses faith faith in our savior cannot be one person

[20:23]uh the prophet says whatever contains even a muslim weight of partisanship

[20:29]in his heart allah will raise him on the day of resurrection

[20:33]among the tribes of pagan and planish arabia if you have even

[20:40]that bit of assad then you have not entered islam you'll be

[20:45]resurrected with these people who are living based on messages and another

[20:50]one the problem says one who opposes partisanship is not one of

[20:54]us nor one who fights for a brain a negative cause nor

[20:57]one who dies so the prophet was obviously challenging this content trying

[21:03]to offer it trying to change it and using severe language very

[21:08]harsh language over here because if you gave them a little bit

[21:15]of leeway i mean this was everything their loyalty to their tribes

[21:19]their loyalty to their own members of family and whatnot uh was

[21:21]so strong that you have to use a very harsh type of

[21:27]language with to separate and to disconnect it so if the prophet

[21:32]just said you know it's better for you guys not to be

[21:34]loyal to your tribes and be loyal to allah because allah is

[21:37]greater and better and your tribe is like if he's trying to

[21:40]argue that way you know they might not really be convinced by

[21:44]anything but the language that he used that you know faith is

[21:48]untied from your life you'll be resurrected with the out of the

[21:53]pagan era you're not one of us not part of this muslim

[21:57]group that's forming right now so basically they're excluding you completely from

[22:05]faith that you know plays a big role in movement i'm also

[22:10]speaking about this because the ramanasana has to deal with this problem

[22:13]the prophet passed away immediately after he passed away those people who

[22:20]you know kind of went quiet about this whole tribal affiliation thing

[22:25]during the prophet's life suddenly now that the prophet is gone this

[22:30]whole you know uh effect that he brought with him is gone

[22:35]now not only feel like this person is gone now we can

[22:39]go back there's no one here to tell us what to do

[22:40]and what not to do so we know when allah says that

[22:45]it has still not yet entered your heart that's sort of how

[22:51]it was the prophet passed away and immediately tribal affiliation came back

[22:57]who's going to leave the muslim community oh bring the tribal so-and-so

[23:03]bring the tribal zone so the tribal mentality began to come back

[23:10]you know we believe that the continuation of the prophetic message and

[23:14]he faced the same problem because he himself transcended that he never

[23:18]had a decision so he condemns he's uh as being the father

[23:28]of assad and bigotry and partisanship uh if you look at malawi

[23:36]as well yeah actually brought back the whole concept of tribalism entered

[23:41]into islamic inheritance the sun monarchy venue again you find the tribes

[23:49]coming back into the sonic world the prophet came to remove all

[23:53]of this stuff but immediately it just you know came back home

[23:57]that's not for our history um but the immense suffering you know

[23:59]they face that you know one of the problems that they have

[24:04]to face and challenges if you want to go to the quran

[24:19]we look at the verses what i tried doing was i tried

[24:24]to survey all the verses so anywhere that the was found in

[24:28]the quran i put it under a certain category so some somewhere

[24:34]in the quran they have one of the that comes after it

[24:38]so this is important why does god always tie moses and in

[24:46]one verse god says what do you want the concept of helper

[24:56]connected so many times so we have the concept of defender who

[24:59]is once in the quran um uh instances where this is an

[25:07]interceptor when you and marshall died without being connected to any other

[25:18]country those are the verses that i mean you can review them

[25:23]on your own but you see that here you know the most

[25:27]common found so it kind of gives us an idea of what

[25:34]god is trying to put in our minds muslims when we think

[25:39]about this think about what it essentially means that it always comes

[25:44]with health and assistance from them um so this is just a

[25:55]quick survey first that might be something that they can try to

[26:21]push you away from philippines and it's not like someone outside of

[26:46]us that we say oh he has a you know the team

[26:47]called shaytan and his father we could be his fathers as well

[26:51]so if we obey shaytan we obey saying we do evil in

[26:56]this world basically we're doing it under the instruction of satan himself

[27:02]um those who don't believe god has made satan his willing regardless

[27:10]saying that he himself has made sanctions on living suspension he willing

[27:15]to lose it openly then we have people that may themselves so

[27:21]all these two different things are the same thing one time i

[27:26]mean this refers to people deciding that shaytan is their body and

[27:30]here god is referring to he himself making sure on the wedding

[27:36]of the distance how can we reconcile this through the clock style

[28:02]allah will refer to the same thing in separate verses and attribute

[28:09]it fix the souls when they die and then so it could

[28:29]be like um yeah but it's all ultimately taking place with god's

[28:41]authority right yeah yeah that would be a good way to resolve

[28:47]it because i mean this would open up a lot of questions

[28:53]here about predestination justice of god and things like that they come

[28:57]up over here attributing everything to god they don't see that negative

[29:14]i think a theologian would have a big issue for him as

[29:18]a concern because all those other theological debates come in his mind

[29:22]divine justice predestination that kind of stuff you know that you're always

[29:24]busy with um so they'll try to resolve maybe maybe someone who's

[29:30]more spiritually fine understand about being the ultimate cause of everything so

[29:37]he's not necessarily listening even though without him it wouldn't happen if

[29:47]you reverse it right like if a person takes his witty allah

[29:55]makes himself here right if you think god is your wendy yeah

[30:03]god will make himself your money right like so it's like they

[30:09]took shape on as their so the 30 they took in as

[30:15]their only uh 27 we made the team you know like it's

[30:23]like the day of their own free will made that decision and

[30:31]then a lot allowed it to happen that's interesting for it almost

[30:39]seems like if that's the case verse 30 should be verse 20.

[30:43]you know what i mean if you're thinking of it's a more

[30:48]like yeah maybe i can pull up the uh the quran yeah

[31:05]okay so uh is it 727 right now i know it doesn't

[31:25]happen if you can pull up the arabic for us all right

[31:58]did you pull it up in arabic um um god is doing

[32:42]this here [Music] right and then and you actually go with the

[33:13]temptation in a sense you've lost faith in men yeah well depending

[33:17]on how you think yeah there's a theological debate while you're performing

[33:24]this then you lose your manner enough right there there's a group

[33:29]of people right so then the next person was the verse 30

[33:59]devoting religion entirely to just having himself uh [Music] the ones that

[35:02]say there are not there's no talking about in and of itself

[35:07]independent from god yeah and then can take place but only with

[35:11]when you bring a lot into the picture above everything you know

[35:44]when when you're sitting down and just looking at the puppets you

[35:46]think it's his own world or the characters but you don't see

[35:52]any puppeteer behind so maybe when god is describing the from your

[35:56]vision causing the movements to happen it's causing things down who's making

[36:15]a decision you're watching you're deciding this is the one i want

[36:20]to in the follow of choices right because that's what we're talking

[36:30]about let not on contempt yeah they took truly they took the

[36:35]shayateen as their of the right talking about decisions yeah it's like

[36:54]even our decision-making takes place under the authority of god even if

[37:00]we're choosing that evil right it's still bizarre so maybe that could

[37:06]even fight the choices that the author has determined yeah now they

[37:26]have the kind of movie that's like that oh you have to

[37:31]choose make a decision and the rest of the movie plays according

[37:35]to your god i mean potentially makes that you know different one

[37:58]moment he puts himself as he wants to hear [Music] i'm the

[38:18]one so what is he establishing here dominion some sort of you

[38:24]know sounds like he's going out perfect not just putting it there

[38:31]for it makes sense for us that predestination thing that happens when

[38:41]this comes into play it kind of forces it on i wasn't

[38:47]thinking of predestination god when i was reading this but now that

[38:51]you said this you put it in my mind this is like

[38:57]an intentional thing that god is doing context so well um in

[39:40]other categories these are categories that we need that we're going to

[40:01]go into until the next few days uh wedding the family context

[40:04]so we saw over here that there was a senate family of

[40:09]the uh we have so god refers to that as well he

[40:26]calls that person now this is very different enough it's not trying

[40:32]to connect them all together or he's just using a concept that

[40:36]maybe we're familiar with might not summary and those who are god's

[41:06]followers are also here singing the non-believers have nobody in this world

[41:11]god says that and they have no money in their hands but

[41:16]then he says their wedding so if you're trying to not give

[41:22]him any existential significance truly you might take him as a wedding

[41:27]but it's only imagine your imagination it doesn't really it's not a

[41:33]wedding he has no authority in the realm of existence that's why

[41:36]himself he says he disassociates himself from the people is it because

[41:43]of that but this also to be resolved verses that talk about

[41:48]maybe the next week i can bring them up uh whereas is

[41:50]that they have have no wedding in this room northern hereafter but

[41:56]then the shaytan is running why does he make this that there's

[42:13]nothing about god in existence other things outside of himself also some

[42:23]existence is only imaginable or is it real can we differentiate that

[42:42]is so that's why certain sins for example were forbidden because how

[43:26]do you say that if you perform that then you lose the

[43:35]spiritual protection everything is able to uh penetrate your faith for your

[43:40]heart much much easier so drinking alcohol for example maybe eating certain

[43:44]animals has that effect on the individual if you drink alcohol let's

[43:47]say it might have a spiritual effect that makes you more vulnerable

[43:52]once you go may also be because when you believe among your

[44:26]spouses and your children there is an even enemy unto you establish

[44:30]the ultimate bond between god and man and man therefore we see

[44:46]the formation of a new community uh which we will go into

[44:54]next week use this concept to start forming from how above so

[45:14]we'll end it over here [Music] you

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