Sheikh Ahmed Haneed What brought me to Islam

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Sheikh Ahmed Haneef discusses relevant issues about Muslim and Islam at the Milad Nabi event in London 2017.

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[0:11]while they come Salam how are you today happy happy this dry

[0:17]nice locations very beautiful okay okay okay for the benefit of my

[0:22]my guests I guess we want to make this personal as well

[0:26]as spiritualism is knowledgeable so I guess the first thing we really

[0:29]like to do is it's about a bit about a bit about

[0:33]you in terms of your background in terms between we and I've

[0:35]witnessed it a couple of questions supported by myself as well so

[0:41]I guess my first question to you is what is it about

[0:44]Islam that Meiji becomes mr.

[0:53]lion Rahim I think the time I became Muslim was time when

[0:58]the history or the effect of Islam the influence of Islam in

[1:06]the West was something that was being newly discovered as part of

[1:11]the general awakening of the African American is through the situation in

[1:18]in America what we realize is that Muslims had a very long

[1:22]history of resistance in the West I don't know if a lot

[1:29]of people know but the first revolution that took place in the

[1:33]West was the Haitian Revolution against the French and that time the

[1:36]French were what you would call a superpower at the time and

[1:42]these were slaves up overthrew the French military in Haiti and took

[1:47]over the country this revolution was a very very important one because

[1:51]when Napoleon sent other French troops to defeat them the defeated that

[1:55]those troops as well and the inspiration of this revolution was Islam

[2:04]there were many Muslim Africans who had led that revolution and what

[2:10]inspired a revolution then we we find out that even long before

[2:15]Columbus came to America Muslims had come to America before Columbus many

[2:21]of these Muslims were Muslim Somali and you know there are in

[2:27]the historical records of Columbus that when the Spaniards were you know

[2:32]fighting all the Indians and massacring all the Indians they said they

[2:37]came upon some very dark Indians who dressed like Muslims who gave

[2:41]them the fight of their lives these were the descendants of those

[2:47]Muslim explorers that came over from Mali so Islam has a very

[2:51]very long history in America and it is because of the rise

[2:56]in that knowledge that I became Muslim well it more in a

[3:01]similar position to yourselves yes it was a very national type of

[3:05]a movement really yes so I mean once you did become assume

[3:11]did you see that those who were actually born Muslim they reflect

[3:15]the teachings of the Prophet once you have read upon Islam the

[3:19]Prophet well yes I know you know one of the things I

[3:23]think that stands out there's very impressive to Western people about Muslims

[3:29]is Muslim generosity and this generosity and also their hospitality as well

[3:35]most of most fatality like for example the heights of it one

[3:38]can see and the March we are very much between our Jeff

[3:42]and Karbala but they are they impressed by Muslim hospitality which goes

[3:48]back to the holy prophet salallahu alaihe Ali by Muslims outward respect

[3:54]for for women for example I said awkwardly because it also reflects

[4:00]upon certain things that Muslims deviate from the path of the holy

[4:04]prophet sallallaahu on Iran so you'd find for example among Muslims you

[4:08]would find the most many misogynists for example you know the you

[4:15]find you find racism very very very very big among among Muslims

[4:19]you find a lot of a lot of negative things you know

[4:25]like for example untrustworthiness and business deal for example and did you

[4:30]see that the Muslims were able to deal with those situations according

[4:35]to how I mean how did half of the Muslims those who

[4:43]were born yes yes were they living up to this I think

[4:45]you know I think there was a more knowledge of Islam that

[4:48]they have and when we say known as you mean knowledge in

[4:50]terms in the full sense not just getting the information but being

[4:53]also able to live the information being also to live those realities

[4:58]that you have learned I think Muslims when they do that yes

[5:05]we rise to the occasion but I do think also sometimes you

[5:08]know how much Islam you reflect has a lot to do with

[5:16]who you are on the inside you know and and if you

[5:19]have a lot of limitations on the inside you know you will

[5:23]reflect it so well yeah I mean in terms of the actual

[5:26]nights you know we are celebrating Senate I mean celebrating the birth

[5:33]of a certain character an Islamic historical character some sects within this

[5:38]time series as innovation we've heard the famous words of a laptop

[5:43]what is it's not actual take on celebrating the birth or even

[5:48]the death or commemorating the death of a certain historic personality minister

[5:52]well I think first of all a bit eyes are is a

[5:57]highly precise term Bidar is when you call something you know Rajab

[6:01]or Haram or most hub or makrooh because you give some something

[6:11]that legal and spiritual almost criterion when there is no roots for

[6:17]it in the Holy Prophet Sunnah in hadith in Quran this is

[6:20]bitter you know so for example if I say that hold a

[6:26]holding mulatto and ABI is watching that's better you know or its

[6:30]movement is most ahaab it's better you know in a legal point

[6:37]of view and more all Muslims know that the Prophet didn't celebrate

[6:46]his birthday no but it can't call it that and make it

[6:49]a bit uh you see you can't call it up it's not

[6:51]cool or whatever you know they can't do this you see that's

[6:55]one thing the other thing is is I think the attitude towards

[7:01]that is a very rigid attitude I think it goes back to

[7:03]a false understanding of what we mean by Sunnah okay all right

[7:08]I think that we have we have we have two kinds of

[7:10]sana we have the son of the holy prophet salallahu alaihe are

[7:13]a and we have so many general sense which is some kind

[7:16]of practice that you introduce the people that people follow after you

[7:18]right so your perfect physical prophet you know this is a Sunnah

[7:25]and there's a very interesting hadith by the holy prophets allah allahu

[7:28]allah ma li where he says if a person introduces a good

[7:31]Sunnah and other people follow him on this he will get the

[7:38]reward of their acting out of that sooner right which would not

[7:41]diminish the rewards that they get from it in other words he

[7:44]is saying that you can do a good deed that might not

[7:46]necessarily be in Quran or Hadees you know you can do a

[7:50]good deed and if people follow that good deed and people aren't

[7:52]doing that good deed then you know you would get rewarded for

[7:58]that so for example a gathering like this is a good deed

[8:00]you know it increases our love for the holy prophet salallahu alaihe

[8:03]body and because of this we get rewarded for this okay I

[8:09]mean just moving on again in terms of the the life of

[8:14]the prophets of course he used known in many titles trustworthy one

[8:19]for example truthful most my kind and came his birth came at

[8:25]a time of deep ignorance that in actual history there's a term

[8:29]called for that people insist they are jealous at the time of

[8:31]ignorance so tell us tell us about his character - attributes that

[8:39]actually you know revived religion in the hearts of the people well

[8:44]you know first of all he behaved in a in a very

[8:49]kind manner to people he behaved in a very tolerant monitor people

[8:54]he he did not show you know theory and and and and

[9:02]rough the people he well he never showed anger on that kind

[9:04]of a level you know there were times when he was angry

[9:08]but he was headed under control you know you have the story

[9:11]of him going on tablet and somebody from from from their window

[9:18]is through you know refused upon him you know rubbish up on

[9:21]him I mean this man he passed by and this man didn't

[9:24]do it he inquired as to what happened to this guy and

[9:26]went inside to see him and was sick and he prayed for

[9:30]him and so I think you know when we interact with the

[9:34]community when you act with will be interact with non-believers you know

[9:37]on the basis of love and care and and standing up for

[9:40]their rights and so forth you know then non-believers start like you

[9:47]and when it started like you they started like Islam you know

[9:51]you know the Holy Prophet SAW Allah walia walia says that when

[9:55]he was younger there was something that he was most proud about

[9:58]even now and that was the healthful food rule where him and

[10:06]a number of young men from Mecca decided to form a group

[10:09]to defend the rights of those people who did not have the

[10:12]support of a tribe strangers in the society now who are these

[10:17]young men they were all mushrikeen you know they were they weren't

[10:23]Muslims he was not he wasn't a prophet then you see but

[10:25]they had a sense of justice you know I think this is

[10:28]something that we can learn we live in an environment where we

[10:30]have lots of mushrikeen you know our social problems you see social

[10:37]problems are the government you know the police or other people do

[10:41]nothing about you see so I'd be getting to a point where

[10:43]people have to get together you know and try to solve their

[10:47]own problems this is where Muslims could come in you're not very

[10:49]act itself is a prophetic act unfortunately if I a lot of

[10:55]Muslims especially she as I find that imaginal eyes themselves of the

[10:58]wider society you see and I think we we actually impose upon

[11:01]ourselves a limitation not being able to spread this beautiful map of

[11:05]ours in the society I mean I think is usually known to

[11:13]be a very spiritual religion area especially when it comes to connecting

[11:18]with the staff is always very personal it's very self development character

[11:24]building there's not much about this progress materially materialistically as well as

[11:31]as well as virtue so I mean I guess my question is

[11:33]I mean what college do you have about how Islam is a

[11:39]source of material and spiritual growth well I think if you look

[11:42]in history for example wherever a society became Islamic it became both

[11:46]materially powerful and well off and also spiritually wherever you go you

[11:52]know if you go to Indonesia for example the Indonesia is word

[11:57]originally Muslims you find when Islam takes root there you have a

[12:01]specific Indonesian Islamic civilization that grows up there you know if you

[12:06]find Islam for example going to Africa you find specific Islamic civilizations

[12:10]growing up in Africa each civilization having its particular characteristics of the

[12:15]people and the environment in which you find itself in China in

[12:19]India in Iran wherever you find Islam going you know you find

[12:26]a civilization in other words you find wealth you find power and

[12:30]you also find the growth of spirituality Islamic law or fun and

[12:35]so forth so Aslam is a spray is civilizational and spiritualizing type

[12:42]of religion just one of us I mean in terms of based

[12:48]on your experiences what can we do to give a good experience

[12:51]of a prophetic example okay well you know the holy prophets allah

[13:02]allahu ala nadya was described as being the quran in person I

[13:06]mean the having the personality of the Quran and and I think

[13:09]it is something that is actionable by all of us to the

[13:15]extent that we can in the sense that if we follow what

[13:19]the Holy Quran is telling us to do and if we avoid

[13:21]what the Holy Quran tells us to avoid and if we tolerate

[13:25]that was Holy Quran tells us is good but our culture tells

[13:28]us is bad our feelings tells us it's bad you know that

[13:35]we could control those things to conform to that particular personality Quran

[13:40]is trying to form of us and then all sort of follow

[13:42]the whole is that the son of the holy prophet sallallaahu Oliver

[13:47]RA which helps to even we find us even more I think

[13:49]when we do this and we go out in the society what

[13:51]are we in a classroom what on the street or in a

[13:56]store whatever that that light was shining forth and people will be

[13:58]attracted to it well it's been actually in nineteen conversation we are

[14:02]really really appreciate your time Michelle I'm Anthony we thank him for

[14:07]his presence but also how many Mohamed Salah

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