The Night Journey in Qurʾan & Hadith - Sayyid Sulayman Hasan - Muslim Group 2015

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[0:00]Arvilla him in a shape on regimes mila rahman al rahim alhamdu

[0:10]lillahi rabbil aalameen very ill holla eh marine also that was Lana

[0:15]should I feel ambia a one more Sedin sayyidina wanna be Gina

[0:28]a bill course in amojan Matt Winer Liberty here of the yeah

[0:34]being a marine and who taught in a de una caja de

[0:41]him in a yummy yummy teen respected hola ma dear guests brothers

[0:47]and sisters salaamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh don't think that this is a

[0:54]bait and switch where they told you that we're going to talk

[0:56]about mirage and instead we're going to have a little bit of

[1:01]a discussion of etiquette inshallah we have some time at the end

[1:05]i will say a few words about the originally scheduled topic but

[1:09]sometimes these meta discussions and sometimes these discussions of process are very

[1:13]important i would like to begin by commending our moderator for the

[1:20]company that he keeps he says that we have some people who

[1:23]are very conservative and they're worried about Medusa and about how to

[1:28]pray and they're constantly concerned about that and then you have ultra

[1:31]liberals who just say let's pray and get it done right I

[1:37]don't know what kind of ultra liberals you have what if those

[1:39]of us were liberals if that's the other extreme that is a

[1:42]very good company that you're keeping that the ultra liberals are preying

[1:46]on time and maybe they're not was fussy about natasa and baja

[1:52]de sousa lata mohammed rafi mohammed do introduce me to your friends

[2:00]in town the ultra liberals so what I wanted to begin with

[2:08]is a little bit of a look at how we as a

[2:16]community should approach our study of Islam people come to a conference

[2:20]like this people come to a Masjid people come to an Islamic

[2:23]environment for many different reasons and all of those reasons are valid

[2:31]and they are mutually complementary and harmonious one is to reinforce and

[2:35]strengthen and deepen our identity to remind ourselves of things that we

[2:45]know and that we believe and to affirm that commitment one is

[2:48]to learn new things that we didn't have any prior familiarity with

[2:54]and we may not have a strong opinion about one way or

[3:00]another I'm learning something that I was kind of even neutral about

[3:05]or unfamiliar with from before another purpose is for us to challenge

[3:10]some of our assumptions there is an impression that some of us

[3:17]have about Islam that Islam is just everything that is good or

[3:22]that is beautiful and it's a kind of fluffy sort of a

[3:25]cloudy impression of Islam and it fits whatever personality or whatever circle

[3:30]of friends or whatever subculture or culture you have and Islam is

[3:39]something that is a representation of all that is good and all

[3:44]that is beautiful but the beauty of it is that it is

[3:51]uplifting it challenges us it deepens us not just that it really

[3:53]reinforces the culture and the assumptions that we have had from before

[3:58]so now how do we combine all of those different goals we

[4:05]have we have to strengthen we have to reinforce we have to

[4:09]learn and we have to challenge and we have to do so

[4:16]in a way that meets the needs of not just ourselves but

[4:23]the entirety of our community so what becomes important is for us

[4:32]to understand the manner of discourse that we as communities want to

[4:39]develop and that we want to ensure that we can enforce the

[4:43]second thing that we want to make sure we have is empathy

[4:51]right one of the beauties of da in Islam and one of

[4:54]the most effective aspects of DA is that it encourages us to

[5:00]walk in other people's shoes if you look at how we have

[5:03]been taught to make dua in a hadith then we have been

[5:09]taught not just to make general to Oz but to make specific

[5:12]to us to think about what it is that the other person

[5:15]wants and needs and to do so very intimately and very specifically

[5:20]to develop an understanding of people who I might have kids and

[5:26]I come to this conference for my kids are Muslim but somebody

[5:28]else may have our intellectual or personal or spiritual concerns can I

[5:36]understand and can I develop that empathy so I'll just say that

[5:39]and read that but I want to come back to that first

[5:44]point of the manner of discourse if you look at conferences that

[5:49]Muslims conduct in America it's not just sheee Muslims who are hamdulillah

[5:56]have numerous opportunities to come together with one another and if you

[6:00]look at those Muslim conferences some of you may attend perhaps even

[6:04]more so than I do one message that you'll commonly find is

[6:09]and maybe you've heard this message sometimes from some institutions and add

[6:13]some conferences that America is the new Medina this is a place

[6:20]where that Constitution the Prophet made with the people of Medina is

[6:24]best represented and we have freedom of religion and we have freedom

[6:28]of conscience and it's a wonderful place and that is sometimes a

[6:34]message that you will find given and then within those communities sometimes

[6:39]it is that message that can plant the seeds of alienation and

[6:49]even extremism because many people will say really so you're going to

[6:54]ignore the other side of the equation the incarceration the structural violence

[7:00]and all of those other problems not that that is not true

[7:04]in any sense but it's also not the entirety of the picture

[7:10]and if you're going to present one thing and not the other

[7:12]than we do lose a portion of our audience so now imagine

[7:19]before we look at myself as a participant as a registrant as

[7:25]an attendee at a conference imagine it now from the perspective of

[7:32]that institution and this Muslim group conferences along standing institution within the

[7:42]shitty Muslim community within the Muslim community one of the things that

[7:50]will want to be very conscious of is that when we have

[7:54]these kinds of a gathering we want to maintain a manner of

[7:59]discourse between invited guests and speakers and scholars and between participants now

[8:08]that's not to mean that a scholar whether it be a turban

[8:16]scholar or a scholar from another academic institution that person cannot be

[8:19]challenged it doesn't mean that everyone who is in the audience you

[8:28]are all non experts and we are all experts standing on the

[8:32]stage or by the microphone but it means that we have to

[8:36]be conscious of the kind of dynamic and the kind of interactions

[8:38]that we need to have let me give you a couple examples

[8:43]I won't name the professor because I don't know if you would

[8:45]want to be named but there was a Christian professor who went

[8:49]to a Muslim country and much of his scholarly research is devoted

[8:55]to undoing some of the negative narratives that are prevalent sometimes an

[9:05]academic discourse and sometimes in popular culture about Islamic intellectual history and

[9:12]about Islamic alivet general and so at the end of a very

[9:21]enlightening talk somebody in the audience got up and said so professor

[9:24]if you know so much about Islam why aren't you Muslim and

[9:27]how often is that going to be run in our Muslim gatherings

[9:36]and then if you invite a Sunni scholar to come to a

[9:44]primarily sheee audience imagine what kind of narrow path that speaker would

[9:51]have if he talks about Al Khalifa Al Rashid une then much

[9:57]of the audience will say what you're coming to our conference and

[10:00]you're going to tell me about Oh Madame local pub and Abu

[10:07]Bakr Siddiq and really you have that nerve and then if that

[10:12]person comes and gives a willowy talk and they talk about the

[10:16]semi connection to a halal bait then we'll say well if you

[10:20]know so much about a debate why don't you go all the

[10:25]way and actually follow them and so we have a very difficult

[10:29]type of an environment with non-muslims with Muslims who are perhaps members

[10:34]of another community or another tradition and the way that we need

[10:38]to move past some of that difficulty is to recognize that there

[10:43]will be issues that different members of our audience different members of

[10:52]even our scholarly community will approach in different ways there will be

[10:58]different approaches and there will be different opinions on substance but we

[11:03]want to make sure that in our interactions we do so in

[11:07]a respectful way atheists would come to a mangy opera sabic info

[11:15]and they would rub shoulders and bump into the Imam and speak

[11:18]rudely now this is at the time of hutch in a moment

[11:22]of a harem it is in front of the car but a

[11:26]mom is engaged in a bada the person is an atheist and

[11:30]the amount response in not a rude way that this is beyond

[11:40]the pale but in a way that is able to move the

[11:41]discourse and say that we will talk after I finish my thought

[11:49]this is not the moment for it sometimes you use a level

[11:53]of discourse to get a result and that's the responsibility of each

[11:58]and every one of us if I'm a listener if I am

[12:05]a participant a questioner a speaker all of us have that collective

[12:09]responsibility so now i want to share hold on actually when you

[12:14]spoke about the approach of the scholar that has also be approached

[12:19]that a student and a person who is learning should take but

[12:23]what I want us to be able to try to do is

[12:27]for every one of us to understand that Islam if it is

[12:34]going to be something that moves us in a certain direction is

[12:41]to be approached with humility all of us we have certain assumptions

[12:48]they come from our culture and from our family and from society

[12:58]at large and we don't want Islam just to be that wrapping

[13:01]paper that we put on top of that gift we want it

[13:08]to be something that can deepen and that can give us a

[13:11]better understanding of how we are to respond and interact with our

[13:21]received assumptions and culture and so when we find something that is

[13:24]new or that is challenging we don't have to accept it right

[13:27]away we don't have to agree to it but we have to

[13:34]be able to entertain it and to think about it and have

[13:42]a basis for being able to eventually reach a conclusion or a

[13:46]decision and via hadith evaluated ahem salata wassalam are very clear that

[13:52]that is the nature of what separates a man from cough cool

[14:01]O'Shea in yo Jordan woohoo kirara wats vivo for holy man were

[14:11]cool yo che in yerevan in caro el dorado for alcove in

[14:14]the words of our sixth among evangelist audit everything that comes with

[14:19]accepting and being submissive to the truth as you discover it in

[14:27]as it is a disclosed to you that is Iman and everything

[14:30]that comes from Giroud that state of obstinacy that now I'm not

[14:34]going to entertain and not going to learn I'm going to reject

[14:42]without base that is coffee we have a hadith that say that

[14:44]if people when they were confronted with something that they don't know

[14:49]if they were to pause and say i don't know i have

[14:52]to study then that is something that will be a matter that

[14:59]will not remove them from iman but people become covered because we

[15:04]are very quick to reject things and we move closer to coffer

[15:09]when we have that state of obstinacy within ourselves so when it

[15:14]comes to issues of the prophets life when it comes to practices

[15:21]of fifth when it comes to rulings of allah ma yesterday we

[15:24]had a question about the Fatah of imam khomeini with regard to

[15:27]salman rushdie when it comes to many of these issues you and

[15:32]I are not called upon to give the final answer the conclusive

[15:36]answer what we are called upon is to approach our religion with

[15:42]humility so that we become more deep in our understanding the Prophet

[15:49]as you are familiar has said that in the dena mateen for

[15:53]a little fee here but if a religion that is profound and

[15:59]deep don't think that one lifetime of study don't think that one

[16:05]conference or one sort of evening of sincerity is going to be

[16:11]enough for me to have conclusive and authoritative opinions about it and

[16:16]if all of us can do that then we will be able

[16:19]to interact in a positive way now if there are things that

[16:22]we believe are important to be disclosed we need to find constructive

[16:26]ways to convey our feedback our criticisms our suggestions in such a

[16:34]way that we build stronger institutions I want to say just one

[16:40]word about niraj as well that was the original topic and it

[16:44]is related to the understanding that we have of the deepening of

[16:55]religion the Prophet was taken to Mirage for several reasons that are

[17:03]mentioned by scholars as consolation perhaps after the tragedy of the death

[17:10]of Abu Talib and Lady hadita ademas salam preparation for the establishment

[17:15]of the community of Medina it was a year before Hitler at

[17:22]least one of the incidents of mirage but there are two things

[17:25]that are very closely related to maharaj and those are the two

[17:34]ways I think that we can understand the heart of Islam and

[17:39]how it is possible for us to deal with uncertainty to deal

[17:47]with parts of the Islamic tradition that are sometimes hard for us

[17:52]to wrap our minds around at the same time as we are

[17:57]able to feel that we do have a connection to our religion

[18:01]right the two most important perhaps parts of marriage there were many

[18:09]scenes that the prophet saw many visions that the Prophet was given

[18:13]but two of the most important things perhaps at a no amount

[18:18]of time one is the legislation of thought that was something that

[18:23]marriages closely affiliated with it was the oven and it was the

[18:30]final manner of salat that was a gift given to the prophet

[18:33]and the other is in a hadith from our 6th mmm i'm

[18:39]joe quesada but I salata wassalam it's in Al Kaffee that when

[18:44]the Prophet came closest to the divine and the nation very closest

[18:53]to the Prophet went where jabra in says that this is somewhere

[18:57]that no one has gone before and then Allah called to the

[18:59]Prophet at their most that most delicate and substantive moment of maharaj

[19:12]and said ya muhammad and the prophet said that they cannot be

[19:17]and the Prophet said Monday almaty cathodic who is for your OMA

[19:22]after you and the Prophet said Allah Allah Allah knows best and

[19:31]then Allah said a lien a mirror what we need was a

[19:33]hideously mean Walker it'll Haroon Raja Deen Oh mom but it is

[19:46]your successor the commander of the faithful the Lord of the believers

[19:52]and the standard bearer of the noble ones on the day of

[20:01]judgment that will be for your OMA as a gift and as

[20:04]a protection and as a source of guidance after you and then

[20:07]in on joppa sawbuck says to his companion that in Nevada italia

[20:11]by abu talib Maha Atma na da bo ja at- aha imusa

[20:18]ferritin this was how the Prophet was conveyed that message that knowledge

[20:23]was there from before but Allah said that this is a message

[20:29]that i am going to delegate to the Prophet at that moment

[20:32]when it is the peak of Maharaj some messages we sent by

[20:41]text some messages we make a phone call some messages we make

[20:45]a personal visit some messages we do a lot of preparation for

[20:48]it depends on who and how important that message is so these

[20:54]are two things that are associated with one another and that are

[20:58]a source of our reinforcements theoretically and practically and I can bring

[21:03]our community together and I will conclude with this final statement that

[21:08]if I know and connect to the prophet and to Amelia nominee

[21:14]and to the practice of a religion that they brought which is

[21:18]symbolized first and foremost by salat then it becomes possible for me

[21:24]to have uncertainty I was going to give an example of a

[21:27]married couple but I think that's a little bit of a dangerous

[21:29]example so two business partners if they're just starting out with a

[21:33]business transaction they don't yet have a lot of familiarity with one

[21:40]another they may have to keep somewhat accurate books right and if

[21:43]one sees the other person dipping into the cash jar then they

[21:47]might doubt what is going on but now that they know one

[21:53]another they've tested one another they are familiar intimately familiar with the

[21:57]piety and the character of one another you might see somebody a

[22:03]partner sitting with a competitor and they're sitting in kind of a

[22:07]very intimate conversation and there is no suspicion there's no worry because

[22:11]you know the person you and I can know the Prophet intimately

[22:19]enough for us to have room or we say that this is

[22:20]something that I don't know about this is something that I don't

[22:22]understand but because we have a connection to the prophet and that

[22:26]connection will come through our practice and through our connection to the

[22:30]progeny of the Prophet we don't have to then know every detail

[22:36]or reject things that are unfamiliar it will become easier for us

[22:40]to be able to navigate those challenges and get momentum that takes

[22:45]us towards a deeper understanding of our religion so I pray that

[22:49]for all of us we have that humility and we have that

[22:53]appreciation for the challenge that the organizers of a conference and the

[22:56]participants of a conference and the guests of a conference in whatever

[23:00]capacity they maybe have and trying to meet the different needs that

[23:05]people bring to these kinds of a sessions we pray to allah

[23:09]subhanahu wa'ta'ala for the topic of all who have given their sincerity

[23:12]and their efforts they do so not for recognition or not for

[23:17]profit but in order to be able to move towards Allah and

[23:19]help others move towards Allah and if we have criticisms and suggestions

[23:26]I pray that we are able to see how it is in

[23:28]light of some of the things that have been discussed how it

[23:32]is that we can convey those so that they are useful to

[23:35]ourselves to others and to the institutions that we need and that

[23:43]we benefit from so greatly within our community so Salaam alaikum warahmatullahi

[23:47]wabarakatuh

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