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Omar Suleiman

Social Justice EP10

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hadith 10: If you can’t stop them, join them. The “everyone else does it” fallacy

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So tonight we're going to

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to be a film for him to feel. So tonight we're going to continue you and you can tell me what the last hadith was about or the last class was about.

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Anybody? Is anyone paying attention last week?

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What's that? last week we spoke about this concept of they are not

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social justice that's a good one

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all right last week we spoke about this concept of they are not our teacher. Meaning what,

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don't let someone with bad character teach you bad character,

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instead you teach them good character. A lot of times we excuse our own injustice and response to an injustice.

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So somebody commits bullin towards us, and justice towards us, and we believe we can also transgress against them.

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And the Prophet, Allah Ali who is said, Adul Amanatah,

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that you should fulfill the trust of the one who entrusts you.

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And he said, well at a hunman harnak,

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but do not betray the one who betrays you. Do not deceive the one who deceives you.

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So the idea of mercy, of forgiveness, of tolerance of a person not stooping to the level of the one who wrongs them.

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That is one of the most profound lessons that we take from the biography of the Prophet peace

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upon him. We gave the example of when he entered into Mecca, the same people of the caused him all that hardship for two decades and the Prophet

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so Allah ha ha ma ma when he returned back to Mecca victorious

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what did he do right he said what do you think I should do with you? You know, tell me what I should do

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with you. This person, you know, understood from that that the Prophet's life

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would have been justified in actually killing them

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because they killed people as well and they persecuted and they oppressed but

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