seen
before but one of the messages that I
wanted to convey to the Muslims as I
found many Muslims would stand up in the
question and answer session and they
would speak very strongly against the
Muslim fundamentalist these
fundamentalists this and these
fundamentalists
that and I advise those people as I
advise you now do not
let the media and the
agenda of those people who do not
believe in our religion and who are not
part of this precious umah of Muhammad
s. wasallam do not let them divide us
further they want to divide us into
fundamentalists and
moderates and
modernists and the more different groups
they can divide Us in and the more they
can have us fighting amongst each other
and refuting each other the more happy
they will be therefore I don't even like
this term fundamentalist Muslim islamist
Muslim every Muslim must be a
fundamentalist in the literal sense of
the word because we
all because we all believe fundamentally
in Islam we all believe the Quran is the
word of Allah subhah wa ta'ala we all
believe that the Quran has remained
unchanged and will remain unchanged
until Allah subhana wa ta'ala lifts up
the Quran from this Earth we all believe
that Allah has sent with the Quran a
messenger whose words were true words
whose example was the best example whose
life was a practical explanation of of
the Quran and that this practical
explanation exists with us today and we
call it under the generic term the
Sunnah of the messenger sallallah wasam
we all believe in the Quran and we all
believe in the Sunnah of the Prophet S.I
wasam and whoever disbelieves in one
verse of the Quran or whoever comes to
know of one Hadith of the prophet and
they know that this is authentic
and they disbelieve in it they have
disbelieved in the whole
religion this is what every Muslim
believes this is the fundamental of our
dean of the fundamentals of our Dean the
Quran the Sunnah of the Prophet s. wasam
and by extension
also that the people who understood this
religion the best were the people who
lived with and listened to and were
taught by the prophet sallallah
wasam his
companions the companions of the Prophet
were the living students of s. wasam
when the prophet prayed they saw him
praying they saw the prophet s. wasam
when he was sitting on his camel and the
revelation Came Upon the prophet and it
was heavy so the prophet would begin to
sweat and even the camel on which the
prophet sat began to Sag and had to sit
down from the weight of the Revelation
his companions saw that they lived with
the messenger s.
wasam therefore it is only logical and
rational and this is confirmed by the
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Quran it is confirmed by the verses of
the
Quran that their understanding is the
best understanding Allah subhana he
mentioned in his book the meaning of
which is whoever contends with the
messenger and chooses a path other than
the path of the Believers then Allah
will leave them in the path they have
chosen and land them in hell
what an evil
refuge and the prophet s. wasam
said when he gave a he gave a sermon and
the companions began their hearts were
moved and they began to
cry and they began to feel as if this
the prophet sallallah alai wasallam was
saying goodbye to them as if it was a
farewell sermon so one of them stood up
and said oh messenger of Allah it seems
to us as if this is a farewell sermon so
advise us they were waiting hoping for
some precious piece of advice from the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam that
if he was to leave them at that moment
there would be something they could hang
on to and so these were the words of the
prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam he said I advise you to fear
Allah
I advise you to fear
Allah and to hear and obey your Amir
even if he is an Aban
slave he said after me you will see
great differing you will see great great
differing the prophet is telling his
companions that after I have gone you
will see people differing to a great
extent
so he said cling to my
Sunnah and the Sunnah of
the the rightly guided
successors and bite it with your Moler
teeth bite it and Beware of the newly
invented matters in the religion this
was the advice of the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam he didn't just say cling
to my Sunnah but he also mentioned the
of
the the right ly guided successors which
means of course first and foremost Abu
Bakr
sidik and then Omar Al andb afan and Ali
Talib these first and foremost are
the and of course the house of the
Prophet Sall
was which includes his wife AA and
Fatima
and whoever else the prophet sallallah
alai wasallam included as his house and
then the righteous Companions and the
people of knowledge people like Abdullah
IB Abbas Abdullah IB Mas Abu
Hur and many many other of the
companions these are the ones the
prophet told us to hang on to their
example when we see
differing we must always refer it back
to Allah and his messenger not our whims
not our opinions not our desires not our
intellect but before anything we refer
always when we have a disagreement about
anything we must refer it back to Allah
and his
messenger so the very essence of Islam
the very essence of what Islam means is
Islam to submit
to surrender to the will of Allah
obedience to Allah and his commands this
is the very essence of what Islam means
that is why the saying of the Believers
is
always we
hear and we obey we hear and we
obey so this is Islam submission to
Allah to the command of Allah and the
commands of Allah are contained in his
sh the laws the commands and the
prohibitions that Allah has given us
whether they are the commands to pray
and how to pray to give charity and how
to give
charity to fast and how to fast to make
pilgrimage and how to make pilgrimage
all the beliefs that we should hold told
about Allah and the angels and The
Messengers and the books and the Divine
decree and the life after death all the
laws by which we should live what is
halal and what is Haram this is the this
is the laws of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
the laws concerning divorce the family
laws and the criminal laws and
international law all of this is
contained within the Sharia
so at the very heart and the very
essence of what Islam teaches us is that
we are people who submit ourselves to
the law of Allah to the law of
Allah and this is what it means to be a
Muslim