Shaykh Sa’d bin Naasir ash-Shithree [May Allaah
Preserve him]:
True manhood is defined by the ability of men to eradicate
what threatens them.
When the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be
upon him] passed away, the calamity of his death and the threat of the enemies
of the Ummah remained behind.
This was what tested the Companions [May Allaah
be Pleased with them all] as well as several other factors:
The Arab were new to Islaam thus their vulnerability to
remain as Muslims became a test.
After the death of the Prophet, the Companions were
geographically separated, this also become a test.
The Roman empire was a superpower and after the death
of the Prophet the Muslims may have seemed as easy targets, that was a threat.
Despite all of this, Aboo Bakr and the Companions [may
Allaah be Pleased with them all] overcame these threats and exemplified manhood.
Therefore, our manhood is purely dependent on our
ability to overcome what threatens us.
All of us have initiatives that we can all exercise
and benefit the Ummah by. For example, the scholars of the Sharee’ah use the
Islaamic texts in order to gain a solution for what threatens us, resulting in
us becoming one Ummah, united upon honour, supported and our rank raised in the
Dunyaa and the Aakhirah.
This is based on three affairs:
Firstly, the Sharee’ah is based on the Book and the
Sunnah. We are aware that divine admonitions are universal and is not bound by
time or location. There is never an affair that effects the Ummah except that
the Quraan and the Sunnah has a medication for it.
Secondly, revising history: whether it be ancient or
modern history, we must pay heed to the people that have passed away and the personalities of individuals and their influence. Even the passing of nations contains a
lesson for us, all of their affairs have been displayed to us – coming generations
after them. All of this in order for us to talk and revise the lessons within
them. This is how we benefit from the information we have received about them.
Thirdly, we can benefit from recent history. Lets take
Saudi Arabia. This is a country which is based on the ‘Aqeedah as-Salafiyyah (orthodox Islaam which takes its teachings directly from the sources of the Quraan and
Sunnah, not to be confused with claims of extremism).
Its very first call was
to call to the worship of the One Who Belongs the Dominion and then to be
united under one King, King ‘Abdul-‘Azeez. Its banner is ‘There is no god but
Allaah and that Muhammad is His Messenger’. With this, a constitution based
upon the Sharee’ah of al-Islaam was made its infrastructure was the Quraan. This
is the basis of the slogan that has been coined, ‘Dustooree al-Quraan’ (trans.
My constitution is al-Quraan). From this basis, we all have gained many
advantages and virtues;
-The symbols of the religion are apparent and
everywhere.
-Security is widespread.
Before the surfacing of the Saudi state, people lived
in a sense of constant fear (much like the Ummah today). There was tribal
warfare, famine, disunity, and Allaah, the Glorified and the Exalted, exchanged
their state and made them a united nation. Tribes and clans killing one another
and spilling innocent blood, became by the Favour of Allaah, brothers who were
united under one banner and country. Tribes then began to intermarry, trade, build
relations and prosperity and mutual respect had spread, all united for the sake
of Allaah.
We differed in our clothes, food, health, unity,
education, and as a nation, we were debased. As a result of this unity, it
found that it was able to put into practice Islaamic practices, being at the
forefront of doing so which has impacted the wider population.
So it is incumbent for the Ummah to benefit from this
lesson in order to remove what effected Saudi Arabia before it became a land of
peace.
The position of the scholars is always based on the Kitaab
and the Sunnah. A scholar cannot give a cure or a point of benefit except if it
is has been based on the teachings of the Islaamic Sharee’ah.
We are in no need of looking for solutions of our
problems elsewhere and in other societies. If we learn from history and put its
lessons into practices we will prosper, other we will be in lost.
For example, it is not correct for someone to call to
communism, when today we observe that communism societies have been corrupted
and failed.
Secularism and liberalism has become widespread in most
countries today, its been praised and raised in its status.
For us to stand upright and avoid deviation, it is
upon us to return our way and methodology to the origin of the affair; the
sources of Islaam, we need to benefit from history, benefit from what has been
tried and tested.
We have sects and parties in this Ummah, they have
become widespread and the countries have become corrupted, so whatever has been
implemented besides al-Islaam has failed as we are in no need for it.
[Summarised from this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqEHXhjp_64]
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