The Continuing Legacy of the Prophet - Sayyid Sulayman Hasan - Muslim Group 2015

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[0:01]rahimullah he was salat or allah assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

[0:07]we are now coming to the close of the fourth annual Ahlul

[0:16]Bayt forum and we had a progression of trying to decide whether

[0:19]we can know the Prophet whether we need to and how we

[0:23]can defend the Prophet and then what are some aspects of the

[0:26]legacy of the Prophet that we might need to appreciate in a

[0:29]way that we were not aware of before and of course we

[0:34]want to bring the session to a close by giving ourselves a

[0:41]little bit of homework something that we want to think about and

[0:45]engage in further contemplation and reflection and so I want to begin

[0:49]with a couple of questions about our Muslim communities I'm going to

[0:53]take for granted that most of us either in practice or on

[1:01]a conceptual level appreciate the need to constantly be in touch with

[1:06]the Quran and with the Quranic message that's something that in chauvel

[1:10]has a baseline for Muslims many of us are very careful to

[1:16]read the Quran regularly especially in the month of Ramadan and sometimes

[1:21]if we still aspire to do better than we have in the

[1:26]past we see that as being important how often do most of

[1:28]us feel a need to regularly study and engage with the biography

[1:35]and the life and the serie of prophet muhammad sallallaahu are they

[1:38]here it's often not something that we put on the radar in

[1:47]the same way and some Muslims we may have an explanation for

[1:51]it we say that when we read the Quran the Quran is

[1:56]talking about the life of the Prophet it's describing the struggles and

[2:02]the sacrifices and the battles and the commandments and the theology and

[2:08]the totality of the teachings of the Prophet and so in appreciating

[2:12]the Quran we are also connecting with the Prophet but that understanding

[2:19]is not really so far from hispanica table that the book of

[2:26]Allah is sufficient for us because those who say that the book

[2:29]of Allah is sufficient for us they're not denying that the book

[2:31]of Allah has to be seen as a commentary on the teaching

[2:38]in the life of the Prophet what they are denying is that

[2:43]we have to have an independent appreciation and a sense of humility

[2:49]towards the life of the Prophet on its own terms in order

[2:52]to be able to understand the Quran better just as book Quran

[2:56]is going to be one of the ways in which we learn

[3:00]about the Prophet and that is something that Imams solvated a maserati

[3:05]wa salam emphasized when Amir al-mumineen sent abdullah IBN abbas to debate

[3:11]with the sawara CH the cottage were people who used to read

[3:15]the Quran regularly and often very beautifully many cases they had the

[3:20]Quran memorized and Imam Ali said don't use the Quran with them

[3:24]because the Quran can easily be abused and it has been abused

[3:32]and the Quran itself says as we explored very briefly in the

[3:35]previous session that for people who are not looking for hidayah the

[3:38]Quran is easy to misuse or misconstrue or misunderstand immutable meaning said

[3:46]one of the solutions to that is to begin by talking about

[3:52]the practice of the Prophet if you know the Prophet and you

[3:55]are intimate with the Prophet the Quran will make more sense just

[3:59]as the Quran is going to be one of the ways in

[4:04]which you will acquire that intimacy with the Prophet so that is

[4:06]what I would like to do in the few moments that we

[4:11]have together to try to give us motivation and some ways to

[4:14]think about how to connect to the Prophet now the topic diplomacy

[4:20]and dynamism I just chose dynamism for the alliteration it's more vitality

[4:24]of the message of the Prophet it's diplomacy now what is diplomacy

[4:28]if we were to phrase that within the language of hadith in

[4:32]Islam what word would we use within our tradition within a hadith

[4:37]within the teachings of alphabet how would you describe diplomacy some people

[4:42]would say it's Neph Ark munafa right it's hypocrisy we don't like

[4:48]it and we don't generally do it very well what term would

[4:52]fit well for diplomacy the term we choose might make us appreciate

[4:58]better or worse whether the Prophet was or was not diplomatic or

[5:07]a diplomat and what part of the prophets message was engaged in

[5:15]diplomacy any suggestions for MoDOT is one turn that might not be

[5:20]familiar to all of you moderat basically refers to try to interact

[5:24]with people in a positive and in an amicable way a way

[5:34]that reduces tension that is one term now some of you may

[5:37]have heard that term if you studied a hadith especially a hadith

[5:41]about Ashlock you will have come across the term without anything broader

[5:48]tactfulness yes I'll tax fullness this awaited heretic who a part of

[5:55]the term that I would like us to think of as diplomacy

[5:57]is Tatia Tatia often gets a bad rap and it's an accusation

[6:05]that nowadays you actually find many non-muslims using Islam is the religion

[6:08]of yeah sure many Shias are going to be looked at with

[6:14]quite a bit of hostility by Sunnis that this is your fault

[6:21]that non-muslims use Tatia as a weapon against Islam but actually it's

[6:24]a badge that we should wear with pride yes Aslam is the

[6:27]religion of Tatia and the teachings of a debate emphasized the importance

[6:33]of takea but tapia is not lying it's not even the simulation

[6:41]it is diplomacy and moderat is one of the important components of

[6:47]tapia atopy you build moderate so let's begin and look at just

[6:52]a couple of examples from the serie of the prophet of the

[6:58]prophet's diplomacy notice the way that the Prophet debates with people who

[7:04]are questioning tawheed I don't know if those of you on this

[7:08]side can see the verse but in Surat Saba we have that

[7:10]question pull my ears of Ockham minister mamata without so people are

[7:19]questioning to hate and the Prophet is saying who is it that

[7:21]brings you sustenance from the heavens and the earth and then the

[7:24]Prophet is said is told to say Palillo it is God and

[7:30]then the manner of debate is going to be after you tell

[7:35]them the answer and give them that food for thought well in

[7:39]the Yakama allah hood an oaf even a Lima Bean either we

[7:47]are rightly guided or you are either we are in manifest error

[7:51]or you are now take a look at in many cases how

[7:56]we are unable within our families if you have a she who

[7:58]was a very committed she and a Sunni who was a very

[8:02]committed Sony will we often be able to maintain that kind of

[8:04]an etiquette even within our own family of Islam that this is

[8:10]the way that the Quran teaches the Prophet to discuss not something

[8:12]that is a detail of theology or a detail of law or

[8:18]who you do have lead to but a matter as fundamental as

[8:20]the existence allah subhanahu wata'ala the creator of heavens and earth we

[8:28]have the example of Abdullah heaven obey many of you may have

[8:32]heard of Abdullah heaven it obey the head of the Khazraj at

[8:38]one time it was about to be crowned king of medina and

[8:41]then the Prophet came and all of a sudden that whole crown

[8:48]and the dynasty it became a mirage and he was also the

[8:51]head of the mana 15 Surat Ramona 15 and specifically that statement

[8:57]that they say that when we go back to Medina we're going

[8:59]to kick out the prophet and his companions their valley and we

[9:06]are Aziz their lowly and we're strong a person who actually said

[9:10]that and tried to do that and was engaged in many conspiracies

[9:14]in the time of the Prophet the Prophet stood over his body

[9:24]when he died and acted in a way that gave people the

[9:28]impression that he was praying for forgiveness for Abdullah heaven it obey

[9:33]this was somebody whose own son Abdullah was Abdullah Abdullah was a

[9:41]very sincere Muslim and he came to the Prophet sometimes and said

[9:44]that ya rasulallah if you give me the command then I will

[9:46]fight and I will even be willing to assassinate my father the

[9:52]Prophet said no that is not my way other companions of the

[9:55]Prophet they came to the Prophet one very famous companion and said

[9:59]ya Rasulullah just give me the command or even if you don't

[10:01]give me the command turn the other cheek and I will go

[10:04]and I will put this person's life I will and this person's

[10:08]life and that became one means for the entire conspiracy of the

[10:14]munafa pain to almost be buried with the burial of Abdullah having

[10:20]to obey that diplomacy of the Prophet and of course there is

[10:23]a hadith now these are hadith that I'm about to mention they

[10:28]are somewhat questionable from the perspective of the teachings of Allah legs

[10:31]but they are found in the most authentic sources in Bukhari and

[10:35]in Muslim within the Sunni world and that's why I think it's

[10:37]important for us to mention them even if we may have some

[10:39]reservations about part of the content and the reason for that is

[10:45]that this understanding or these examples of the diplomacy of the Prophet

[10:50]they are found within all of the sources that different Muslim schools

[10:54]have thought have and this is that the Prophet is reported to

[10:57]have told his wife Aisha that you know my community your community

[11:05]are recently converted from and Kaufer into Islam and so because of

[11:09]that there are some changes that I would make to the construction

[11:12]of the Kaaba I would take these treasures that are inside the

[11:15]Kaaba and I would sell them and I would use it for

[11:18]the furtherance of my mission but because they used to be mushrik

[11:24]I will not do so so there is a way that the

[11:26]Prophet is saying that something is right it's something that I should

[11:32]do but I am NOT going to do it because it is

[11:34]not diplomatic it is not something that is advisable so the Prophet

[11:42]was a diplomat why was that diplomacy or that Satya in particular

[11:46]and Tapia is the concept that I'm going to be focusing on

[11:48]because I want to keep somewhat focused discourse that's the term that's

[11:56]been used and emphasized in the teachings of elevated mo salatu wassalam

[11:58]one hadith tells us and this is from Imam Baccarat ahead salatu

[12:04]wassalam that fatiha was legislated and I won't read the Arabic it's

[12:10]legislated to protect people's life and livelihood and so if that exercise

[12:16]of diplomacy might cause loss of life then it doesn't have a

[12:20]place within Islam and another act of or other reason for diplomacy

[12:26]is that it is to maintain the reputation of a debate should

[12:32]Muslims be image-conscious well imam ja'far so that says a yakuman tamil

[12:37]or a milan you are you know they don't do anything that

[12:41]people will insult you but then they will come and they will

[12:44]insult us be conscious of the image of your religion and the

[12:49]image of elevated ahem of salatu wassalam and so the Imam he

[12:57]explains that these are some of the reasons why we have that

[13:01]exercise of diplomacy in tafseer we have numerous a hadith would say

[13:06]that the exercise of diplomacy is not a weakness of faith it's

[13:13]not because well you're a questionable Muslim and therefore you're going to

[13:18]be diplomatic a true believer is somebody who goes and says everything

[13:22]directly calls them as they see them there were some companions of

[13:27]the Prophet who were like that you are familiar with the hadith

[13:33]of the Prophet that Abu Dharr is the most honest man Under

[13:36]the Sun that is a hadith that is reported in sheee and

[13:41]in some resources and it is where it is a word of

[13:45]praise for a Buddha but is a Buddha the most highly praised

[13:50]companion of the Prophet among the hadith of Ahlul Bayt he certainly

[13:59]was the most honest and sincere but there were others who were

[14:05]sometimes praised in certain contexts more highly there actually is a hadith

[14:10]from Imam bara that says me from Adam ma all of you

[14:14]are familiar with their heroic story of sacrifice and struggle or a

[14:18]man Baca said why didn't meet them do takuya didn't he know

[14:22]the verses that were revealed about Ahmad in the asset almost indicating

[14:26]not that meet them was not heroic there is their heroism but

[14:34]saying that you sometimes get more reward and you deepen your understanding

[14:38]of Islam by being able to hold your tongue or express yourself

[14:41]in a particular way that is in fact why we are taught

[14:47]that Abu Talib has the greatest reward of any of the Muslims

[14:50]of his time because he held his tongue and he acted with

[14:58]wisdom so what are some examples of tapia right this is basically

[15:01]something that I want to just introduce kind of briefly so that

[15:06]we can see that takea is broader than the simulation than concealing

[15:11]than just trying to protect ourselves imam ja'far Sadiq says that the

[15:17]Pieta min danila Satya is part of God's religion and then the

[15:24]companion are the omnia by Hamza in this case says that Mindy

[15:27]Neela really it's that important and kind of does not buy it

[15:33]or is a little bit shocked at that emphasis and then the

[15:36]Imam gives two examples of Tatia and these are examples that are

[15:41]not always necessarily even with a lot although in one analysis will

[15:47]return it to that concept but they're certainly not about protecting one's

[15:51]life the Imam gives two examples to prove that takea is part

[15:54]of God's religion one he says that in surah Yousuf when used

[16:00]to Farah historama schemed against his brothers and then he had an

[16:04]announcer called out that a year to hire a year in the

[16:06]Communist era tuned Oh camel riders you're thieves but they had not

[16:13]stolen anything that now a hadith and tough seed give various explanations

[16:17]of why Yousuf as a prophet who would not lie called them

[16:21]or had them called he's but the Imam says that this is

[16:25]an example of takea and then the other example that the imam

[16:29]mentions is when Ibrahim alayhi salatu wassalam was kind of pressured by

[16:37]his people to join them in their polytheistic festival and Ibrahim never

[16:41]another attempt in new gym for Salah in Nisa team he said

[16:47]that I'm sick and hadith say that he wasn't sick so there's

[16:51]explanations about what kind of a metaphor it was or why he

[16:56]used that term but the Imam says this is Tapia so Tapia

[16:59]is used by the prophets in order to be able to convey

[17:06]a spiritual message in order to be able to make people understand

[17:10]something it is something that has to do not just with protecting

[17:13]me when I'm in danger not with trying to to simply remove

[17:21]someone's evil from me but in gradually bringing others who might not

[17:29]be receptive to guidance like the people of Ibrahim or like the

[17:33]Brothers of Yusef and slowly make them more receptive towards a message

[17:43]of guidance so how are we to perform Tapia right the Imams

[17:47]gave some examples those were from the Prophet there was a companion

[17:51]of Imam jefra saw that he came to the Imam Imam said

[17:55]I imagine that if somebody were to insult Amitabh what meaning in

[17:58]your presence that the term the amount uses it that you would

[18:01]probably take your mouth and you would bite off that person's nose

[18:06]that's kind of a very severe insult and if we were orientalists

[18:08]we'd say that in Arab culture it's kind of like showing the

[18:11]bottom of your shoe it's a severe insult an observant Muskaan is

[18:15]proud of it he says that yes me and my family even

[18:20]my kids we would all do that and the Imam says that

[18:21]you know what sometimes I'm in the Masjid of Medina and I'm

[18:26]praying and I hear somebody bad-mouthing Imam Ali and there's only between

[18:31]me and that person a pillar of the Masjid so I hide

[18:33]behind that pillar until I complete my prayer and then I pass

[18:38]by that person and I say Salaam to that person and I

[18:40]shake that person's hand I hid so that they wouldn't even know

[18:43]that I heard it because if I heard it and I didn't

[18:47]respond that might be support so the Imam says that this is

[18:50]the extent to which the PIA is to be performed this hadith

[18:55]is although it's in Muharram but it's a hadith it has a

[18:57]generally well-regarded Senate and then I will skip the next hadith in

[19:09]the interests of time so now what is the reason behind tapia

[19:13]or what is the benefit of viewing the life of the Prophet

[19:20]through that prism of diplomacy and takea with this broader understanding of

[19:24]our human relations and of trying to convey our interactions and use

[19:29]words that are going to make us a positive influence to bring

[19:34]people closer towards guidance one of the main things is that it

[19:40]makes the life of the Prophet so much more interesting it makes

[19:43]the life of the Prophet so much more captivating for us because

[19:48]just like we know that the Quran is a book there has

[19:50]been revealed from on high and it has encapsulated a transcendent message

[19:56]in human language and so every time you read the Quran you're

[20:02]going to find something new and nobody can write a comprehensive or

[20:06]conclusive tough seed of Quran nobody can say that well I've finished

[20:09]this project my top seed is going to be the top seed

[20:13]and out of Sears now you guys work on something else I've

[20:15]done this the same thing applies to the serie of the Prophet

[20:21]and there not only makes us more interested in studying it but

[20:25]it also gives us a great deal of agency it allows us

[20:29]to see new dimensions in the teachings of the Prophet sometimes it

[20:34]might be the legal commandment of the Prophet that will be relevant

[20:38]to us and meaningful for us sometimes the legal ruling of the

[20:42]Prophet might not make sense for us now we may have to

[20:47]submit to it or we may have to find out if that

[20:51]ruling applies to us or it doesn't apply to us that's a

[20:52]separate process but sometimes I hear a ruling of Islam and it

[21:00]clicks and sometimes I hear a ruling of Islam and it doesn't

[21:04]click regardless of whether I submit or I don't submit there might

[21:09]be another aspect of that same story or that same incident or

[21:14]that same ruling that will be directly speaking to me and insightful

[21:17]for me and it's when we forget that that we sometimes get

[21:21]disconnected so we find that within the steerer of the prophet many

[21:30]times we view it in a static way we are trying to

[21:33]find what is the right answer what is the right date of

[21:39]a particular event what is the right interpretation of a particular event

[21:43]what is the right meaning of a particular part of the prophets

[21:48]life and the prophets theta especially if we view it as the

[21:56]prophets exercise of diplomacy we will be able to see it as

[22:00]something that gives us a great deal of agency it means that

[22:06]we won't have to let the perfect be the enemy of the

[22:10]good many of the debates that we have within our communities they

[22:14]are because of that it's between something that is good and something

[22:18]that is better and we make them the enemy of one another

[22:23]and enter into a negative competition rather than a positive connotation just

[22:27]to give one example the Prophet says that banqueted a dune analogy

[22:31]for Humanity Shaheed and another hadith for hwacha healed a person who

[22:35]sees that their property is being stolen and taken from them and

[22:38]fights for that property and is killed that person is equal to

[22:44]a Shaheed or is a Shaheed a martyr is there anything that

[22:48]a Muslim aspires to above martyrdom a martyr's death is the best

[22:55]death and then somebody asked the Prophet so Jana slew the law

[22:59]what would you do would you fight or would you not fight

[23:03]the Prophet says if it were me I wouldn't fight I would

[23:05]let the property go the property is not worth giving my life

[23:10]for now that's not a universal principle in some cases it might

[23:13]be worth fighting for and giving your life for or sacrificing for

[23:16]but what the Prophet wants us to understand is that not every

[23:22]religious question moral question or evil legal question is a matter of

[23:27]give me my marching orders not every Muslim who is just a

[23:31]trooper is a good Muslim sometimes a Muslim who has that tension

[23:35]and that uncertainty is going to better appreciate the teachings and the

[23:43]message of the Prophet there's another example from a question that was

[23:49]asked I believe the question was asked of Imam Bob that I

[23:52]stood on that there are two men in Kufa and the cour

[23:56]the governor at that time or the commanded them to dissociate from

[24:04]imam ali so one of them did so very tome in a

[24:06]literal and the other person refused the imam said that the person

[24:17]who dissociated from imam ali that person is the regimen for even

[24:22]feeding that person is a but the person who refused and allowed

[24:26]him or herself to be put to death rajat untied Gela a

[24:32]legend that person rushed towards paradise which of them was wrong in

[24:38]rushing the paradise we're going to Jenna are you wrong Roger 151

[24:44]FINA so there is the beauty then of the agency that we

[24:52]are given by appreciating how and when the Imams want us to

[24:55]exercise diplomacy and in our lives it's not always going to be

[24:59]an extreme case like this in sha Allah may Allah never put

[25:01]us in a situation where we have to make that difficult choice

[25:06]but this is also something that is very relevant to the Quran

[25:10]and this is one of the beauties of the hadith of ahlulbayt

[25:13]something that's often underappreciated because we were looking at the Quran through

[25:17]other people's lenses and not through our lenses there's a very beautiful

[25:21]hadith from Imam Jafar Sarkoja salatu wassalam he says that if the

[25:25]Quran whenever a verse was revealed about one person and then that

[25:35]person died if their verse were also to die or become irrelevant

[25:38]then eventually all of the situations about which the Quran revealed certain

[25:43]verses or certain verses were revealed in the Quran all of them

[25:46]would come to an end all of those people would die and

[25:51]then Matt al-kitab the book would have died but the Quran like

[25:54]in Naju hyeyeon the Quran is alive just like a human being

[25:59]is alive you're constantly growing and developing and changing and adapting like

[26:04]in the who high you know Quran is alive Yoji FEMEN puppy

[26:07]Kamara femen mother the Quran continues so if you've ever wondered why

[26:13]is the Quran not a chronological book non-muslims have sometimes said it's

[26:20]a frustrating book Muslims sometimes say it's a frustrating book some of

[26:24]you have studied a loom or Quran what was the first revelation

[26:26]revealed to the Prophet so - Fatiha absolutely alack what is correct

[26:35]this never bleaker Akram that was the force will fall to her

[26:39]after so little further where was the mood that day do we

[26:44]have one opinion in the Muslim world no do we have one

[26:46]opinion among the Shia no right that chronology was not something that

[26:50]was emphasized by a debate and there's a reason for it because

[26:57]when you have a chronology it kind of puts you into thinking

[27:00]in terms of what came first what came later what supersedes in

[27:07]a historical way it's a big part of stuff see to talk

[27:13]about Shannon Azul the occasions of Revelation but sometimes and sometimes very

[27:16]frustrating Lee in the hadith of a holiday they don't talk about

[27:22]Shannon Azul there's a hadith or there's a verse of Quran that

[27:25]was clearly revealed about something in the lifetime of the Prophet an

[27:28]incident with the Jews or with the Christians or with within the

[27:33]Muslim community and the Imams would say this is about amount money

[27:36]and his lovers this is about a holiday and their Shira and

[27:38]we sometimes look at and we say well Derek doesn't seem to

[27:43]fit the history but there is something deeper than just the chronology

[27:48]and sometimes verses were revealed because God wanted to give a message

[27:52]at one time but the truer to a wheel of that verse

[28:00]was to come later that was an excuse for the verse to

[28:05]be revealed and the message to be there but the Imams would

[28:07]explain that the deeper meaning of that verse is not going to

[28:11]be understood by looking at when it was revealed but looking at

[28:14]to some of the future events let me just give a few

[28:19]examples from the Quran and sort of talk we are all familiar

[28:21]with also a lot they are you rambling footed us when the

[28:28]female infant buried alive is asked by what sin was she killed

[28:31]now why is that important does that happen today not in the

[28:39]same form thankfully and even at the time of the Prophet it

[28:41]was probably very very rare those of you who think the Arabs

[28:44]used to bury their daughters alive probably not it's probably very rare

[28:49]now we have a hadith where that is explained as if L

[28:53]know what that I saw it at bi EFMB incontinence when mo

[28:57]at de know what de in Arabic if you look at it

[29:01]it's very similar to mo you des when the love is asked

[29:03]why was it killed before it was able to grow and flourish

[29:08]and that is explained in numerous a hadith as being the love

[29:11]of ahlulbayt now is that a question of changing the text of

[29:18]the Quran or is there example of halal date saying that mo

[29:20]Buddha - is a historical example and yes as Shannon Azul or

[29:26]as a historical example it's relevant it should be there in your

[29:29]table see that this did sometimes occur and female infanticide was condemned

[29:35]by the Quran however the reason why that is such a grave

[29:41]crime is that Allah gave you that daughter that daughter didn't just

[29:45]come from a stork or from some coincidence and without knowing what

[29:49]blessing that daughter would bring you if you are going to turn

[29:52]your back on allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and his favor and bury that

[30:02]daughter then that is a grave crime how similar is that to

[30:07]milada of Ahlul Bayt that you have been given a favour by

[30:09]allah that is greater than any favor a son or a daughter

[30:12]or anything that we can be given in our lives and the

[30:14]oume will be asked that what did you do with that mawatha

[30:19]so what the Imams are doing is not saying that we're changing

[30:22]the text of the Quran but they're explaining that sometimes when you

[30:26]think of Shannon Azul you lose the deeper moral significance and then

[30:32]the Sira of the prophet or the reading of the Quran it

[30:35]becomes ritualistic and it becomes boring there's many other examples one I

[30:38]have here in the slide but I am out of time and

[30:41]it would be very unfair for us to ask our other guests

[30:43]to be punctual with time and to make them end on time

[30:47]and then not to do so ourselves but one last example I

[30:53]want to give you when the quran says to the to the

[30:58]jews yeah you had Lavina hadoo in santa monica madhya-lila him in

[31:01]dunya nasa but the vendor will motor in kuntum solder clean many

[31:04]muslims are uncomfortable with that how can we talk to the jews

[31:07]like that and so what we've done is we've said okay we're

[31:10]not going to say the Jews are bad we'll say the Zionists

[31:14]are bared right and many Jews they know that Zionist is just

[31:18]a euphemism that Muslims use for Jews and sometimes that's the case

[31:21]now what I want to say is that if we understand this

[31:25]principle which we found in the Quran here it's very fair for

[31:28]us to say that yes the Quran when it says yeah you

[31:31]had latina hairdo it's not speaking of a label it's speaking of

[31:34]enzyme - when the Cavalia would allow him in dune in us

[31:38]if you think you're special and the law doesn't apply to you

[31:40]if you believe in exceptionalism this verse is talking about you now

[31:46]I'm not going to end it's lucky that amount of time because

[31:49]you will understand who believes in exceptionalism who the Quran is convey

[31:53]is condemning so the text is there but the text is there

[31:58]to give us a means to root our understanding and when we

[32:01]understand it then we realize that that is a very living and

[32:05]a very meaningful text for us to derive inspiration from assalamu alaikum

[32:10]wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

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