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We need to rethink through sectarianism.

We need to rethink through our sectarianism. You see one of the problems that we have as an

Uma is that in order to be trained to be an alim you need to go through a school, which is of course understandable.

And when you go through a school, each school is very eager to protect its own interests.

And one of the ways it must do that is by separating itself from the other schools of thought.

In other words, it has to trumpet its own and denigrate the other groups.

They have to. It's a survival. So what happens is we send our

students to these schools, but they're coming back with baggage that's we

don't need over here. We don't need over here.

They're coming back with disparaging remarks about other movements, other groups,

because that's what their own teachers have been teaching them,

because that's to the society they're living in

And we need to understand that sectarian lines are being redrawn in front of us right now.

No longer does anybody care about what is your opinion

about Allah's names and attributes.

There's a huge controversy in classical Islam.

Nobody cares about this anymore. Where do you place your hands in Sala? These are issues. Let the advanced students of knowledge debated. But do not bring them to the public sphere and have one group of

average innocent Muslims hate another group of Muslims

because of these issues.

We need to move beyond this type of rhetoric.

And this is a deep topic and I've spoken about it in more detail

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