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Mufti Menk

Unity or Uniformity - Respectful Disagreement

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We need to understand the meaning of unity.

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Unity. People say Muslims are not united.

0:11.0

People are not united. What do they mean? In reality a few minutes ago I saw people

0:20.4

walking past here. They were all wearing the same clothing. Did you see them?

0:26.1

They were wearing the same clothing. That clothing is called a uniform. It's called a

0:31.9

what? A uniform means it's exactly the same. Everyone's

0:36.1

wearing a white top black and white and there we are or a certain color. A lot of

0:41.1

the schools they have uniforms. The uniform is the same color. Everyone must be the same color and everyone must have the same shoes and all of that. That is called uniform. It's called a what? A uniform. For me to be united with you, I do not need to be uniform. Uniformity and unity are two different things. Some people think when

1:09.6

we are exactly the same then we are united no we will never be exactly the same to be

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united you need to respect one another you need to disagree respectfully that's's what it is. I don't agree with you, but my brother I care for you.

1:27.0

Let's talk about this matter and so on. But the minute I swear you, I cannot be united with with you because now I'm not respecting you the minute I insult you I am not united with you the reason is

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I am not respecting you. So unity comes with respect.

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Unity comes with tolerance.

1:51.0

Unity comes with with

1:55.0

diversity. Diversity means we are different, completely different,

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but we are united, we care for each other, and we believe that together we will be able to achieve goodness in this world and the next. So we can be united today we are sitting in

2:15.1

the Maschief. There might be people from different schools of thought who are

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sitting here. Are we not united? We disagree sometimes on some matters. It's fine to disagree is normal.

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The Suhabar of the Allah who Anhun disagreed on some matters, but they respected each other.

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They knew that if this person's interpretation of something is an acceptable interpretation.

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Alham do Allah. Let's leave them. We are united. I might have a different opinion,

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