What is known as general freedoms has no existence in Islam
There exists in the democratic system what is known as general freedoms: Personal freedom, freedom of ownership, freedom of creed and freedom of expression.
- Every person can embrace any creed (aqeedah) they wish
- Every person can express any opinion they wish
- Every person can do what they wish
- No punishment against fornication
- It is even forbidden to enact such a punishment, for this is regarded as an infringement of personal freedom.
- Every person can acquire through any means, anything they wish
- Gambling
- Deception
- Monopoly
Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Every action not based on our order is rejected.” In Islam there is no freedom, meaning non adherence to anything when performing actions. Islam indeed restricts the Muslim to abiding by the Shariah rules. Every action performed by the Muslim is subject to the adherence to the Shariah rules:
- Personal freedom
- The men and women fornicators will be lashed
- The men and women adulterers will be stoned
- Freedom of belief
- If the Muslim apostatized, he would be killed if he did not repent
- Freedom of expression
- Islam has permitted the Muslim to express his own opinion, provided it is not sinful
- Ordered the uttering of the truth everywhere and at all times
- In some cases it is an obligation to voice your opinion
- Freedom of ownership – A Muslim cannot own anything acquired through:
- Gambling
- Unlawful transactions
- Riba (usury)
- Deception
- Monopoly
Martin Luther was thrown out by the Roman Catholic Church for two major
reasons one of them he refused to accept
the fact that the pope can’t make
mistakes said no we have to read our
Bible regardless of the Pope says we
have to stick to the facts and the
second reason he objected to a concept
called indulgences where you go to the
church and you buy from them real estate
land in paradise and if you don’t have
money you don’t get
Paradise so of course the church was
making a fortune out of this and the
historians even tell you that a wise man
went and said I don’t want Paradise I
want to buy the Hellfire they said we’re
selling Paradise said I want the
Hellfire so they gave it to him for a
cheap price and he went to the market
and he said to the people announcement I
own the Hellfire don’t worry nobody’s
going of course that ruined the business
so they forced him back and paid him
heaps of money to buy it back from him
so Martin Luther objected to these
things and he called for the protest
Reformation to the end of it but that’s
when the crossroads began 20 years later
1536 William Tindale is executed why is
he executed because he translated the
Bible for the first time in history into
the English language and he was executed
for it how dare you let the people know
what exists in their book that was the
implicit message and then his body was
burnt at the Stak the crossroads are
becoming more of a
reality fast forward 100
years 1642 Galileo you guys studied
Galileo in school sun is the center of
the universe not the Earth he dies in
1642 after 7 years of house arrest why
was he under house
arrest he said sorry science says
scientific revolution is bubbling now
science says the Earth is not the center
which the church would say but that’s
actually the son so they invited him and
they took him downstairs into the
dungeon and they gave him a tour of the
instruments of torture and he pulled
back his statement but the statement
already went out it doesn’t come back
and he spent the last seven years of his
life in
that house of his and he died therein
that was the beginning of the
Enlightenment and more or less the
crossroads it was the death of the
religion or the beginning of the death
of the religion fast forward 100
years Denise Dido the French philosoph
basically told the world listen man will
never be free until the last king is
strangled by the entrails the intestines
of the last priest he said listen this
religion thing was a hoax it was used by
the by the governments to keep the
monarchs in power to keep the king’s
dictators and they Justified it
religiously this was all a scam and
though he died before it it was said the
historians tell you that that statement
man will never be free was actually the
chant of the people in the streets in
the French Revolution fast forward 100
years 1848 KL Marx publishes his
Communist Manifesto and he says and I
quote religion is the
sigh of the suffering meaning it’s just
some madeup stuff to make you feel
better and it’s the Opium of the people
it’s just a drug to sedate you there’s
no real basis behind it and that was
European history for you that’s where
the rise of atheism came from it was an
overreaction and that’s human nature by
the way when you feel betrayed you
overreact most of the time and you
generalize when you go on vacation and
they steal your wallet you come back
they say how’s that town say oh they’re
all a bunch of Thieves and only one guy
robbed you right so religion as a
concept in its entirety was thrown out
and they said if we want to be the
modern world we have to let go of
religion and of course overreactions
also they they’re usually unreasonable
they’re over right so the human being
more or less was reduced to an
intelligent animal in the perception of
the West nowadays aren’t we that
explains that wild west right that was
spearheaded by a feeling of betrayal and
angered that they were Shackled by the
concept of religion and also not very
scientific not very factual either but
that was the West what does it have to
do with Islam absolutely nothing and
that’s exactly the point you see Islam
disabled deactivated this
dilemma from day one there was never any
Crossroads in Islamic thought because
Islam promoted knowledge Islam promoted
research Islam promoted intellectuality
Islam promoted critical thinking Islam
promoted The Sciences from the Inception
our Dean our religion began with what
recite our Dean came
with oh my Lord increase me in knowledge
it’s in our Quran 1400 years ago our
Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said
whomever practices medicine without
being known to be skillful in medicine
then he is liable here in court and
there in the Hereafter meaning meaning
medicine is not a game go and study it
become known for it become skilled in it
then practice it our prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam he said Allah did not
send down a disease except that he sent
down for it a cure whoever knows it
knows it and whoever doesn’t doesn’t
meaning go look for it so the likes of
this is what spearheaded Islamic
civilization where their religion and
their worldly life they went hand in
hand and that’s why you have for example
in the 10th Century
Eva who as William Osler says Theon the
Canon OFA was the medical library in
Europe for longer than any other book in
history in the 9th century you have
alisi the father of algebra the Colombia
history of the world says that modern
trigonometry algebra and geometry are in
consider considerable measure Arab
Creations they mean Muslim
Creations the 10th Century alhazan you
may not know there’s a crater on the
moon that they call alhazan it was named
after alhazan meaning
alass who died in 965 Common Era why was
it named after him because of his
contributions to Optics and his
discussions on luminosity and he
Vanguard it he started the discussions
on the experimental method 300 years
later 1295 five Roger Bacon who we learn
in school as kids is the father of the
scientific method he would quote and
depend on and adore the writings of
alass to be the father of the scientific
method the House of
Wisdom centuries ago that was the
world’s largest repository of books no
one valued books the way we did and
that’s why even when the Mongols
attacked the Muslims and they took over
they said what is this they burned bur
down the library and they took the books
and threw them in the Euphrates river to
such a degree that you could not drink
from the river for days because of how
much ink contaminated the river that’s
how many books were there there were
more books in a street of Bagdad than
there existed in cities in Europe and
then there’s Cordoba what do you know
about
Coba Cordoba is Muslim Spain southern
Spain just to give you a snapshot of
what it looked like in the 10th century
and if you want to cry cry but not for
pessimism 28 Burrows 10th Century
thousand years ago 3,000 mosques 18,000
properties meaning a house with the
front and the back and the fencing and
properties
500,000 cities some perspective that’s
the third most populated place on Earth
number one was Bagdad 3 million number
two was Cordoba 500,000 and number three
was cevil another city in Muslim Spain
400,000 Kuba was known as The Jewel of
the world people would go there for
vacation just to see the uni in in
Cordoba to see the Grand Mosque in Coba
the great uh Bridge of Coba markets
Galore can you imagine markets for
flowers other entire markets for rare
flowers markets for fruits and
vegetables markets for rare animals
markets for all different kinds of paper
all of this and then the
streets the streets ofba can you imagine
this Islamic civilization in the 10th
century was paved in stone Ina the
streets had street lights in the 10th
Century you
know there’s a famous letter even
speaking of the university ofba and the
OM University as well from the English
king of the time to hasham ABD rman who
was the governor of at the time asking
him permission the king that his
daughter and the members from the Royal
Court can go study in the University of
Cordova you know what that means that
means number one that this was an
intellectual Hub in the planet and
number two that we were the ones that
taught the world tolerance he knew that
the King’s Daughter could be safe there
and the letter was signed as the
historians mention your loyal subject
the king of
England and that’s why Gustav Leon who
you may study in Psychology in college
perhaps in
University the French social
psychologist he said if only the Muslims
would have conquered Paris as well this
is a non-muslim saying this he said
because if they would
have it would have been like
Cordoba he says for 600 years we
depended on the Muslims to translate for
us Greek philosophy he says and you walk
through the streets of Cordoba you find
that the people can read and they can
write and some of them even know poetry
in an age when the Kings and princes of
Europe could not spell their names in
their own languages say Allah
abbar this is what Islam Prov there was
no
Crossroads there and then speaking of
Paris very quickly before I leave and I
only have a three four minutes
left the first Islamic Hospital in the
world was in Damascus syri
may Allah send peace upon its people and
give them Victory against their
oppressors 900 years before there was
the first hospital in Paris 200 years
later 700 years meaning before Paris had
its first hospital Cordoba had 50
hospitals all this is what why I’m
mentioning all
this this is just a testimony that Islam
can and has
always built Industries and
individuals has been able to maintain
economies and
ethics Islam can and has balanced
between materialism this dun and
spirituality the SP the spirit and the
religion Islam can and has ensure
prosperity and happiness and peace in
this world and salvation in the
hereafter the Wild West in reality are
the ones at the crossroads they’re the
ones that should feel there’s a clash of
civilizations that this religion is
going to hold them back and in reality
it wasn’t the religion that holds you
back it’s the false fabricated man-made
religion that Shackled them into the
Dark Ages that has nothing to do with
you and even them they began realizing
it now that it was an overreaction but
only Allah knows if they bounce back
will they bounce back to another extreme
because even now the atheists say no we
should tone down our narrative and they
call themselves
humanists The atheists now have atheist
churches look it up they’re not talking
about God yet but they’re on root to it
and consider a world that is spiritually
parched refusing to believe in God and
the Unseen for the most part they’re
addicted to movies about the Unseen
Harry Potter Lord of the Rings and all
this magic Titans and Greek Legends
superheroes what is that that’s the
internal conflict that’s the crossroads
that happened in them because they
couldn’t balance between both whereas
the Muslim the Muslim has no reason to
believe that rather the Muslim is the
only one qualified to take the Wild West
by its hand and gently pull them out of
their confusion because he is the one
who’s Islam your Islam is the only one
that has the solution to every problem
that can ever arise you know many times
we say Islam applies in every time and
place in reality that could mean that
something else could also o apply but
Islam applies no
Islam we should reward it no time and no
place can ever Thrive properly without
this Islam so just to conclude these
Crossroads are two
extremes that the West is suffering from
and Islam is a straight path in the
middle of
them is that straight perfect path in
the middle of them and the Muslim only
assumes that he’s at the crossroads when
he thinks his ISL is typical like
everything else has some Merit has some
flaws as well and that’s why we will not
move forward once again like we did in
the past without realizing the
Perfection of your Islam and without
realizing the honor and privilege of
having Islam and realizing our
responsibility within Islam and Allah
pulled all of these three factors
together in when he
so hold on to what we revealed to you it
is the perfectly straight path and it’s
a mention for you and your people a
reason to be mentioned an honoring a
privilege and you will be questioned
about it it’s a
responsibility so this delusion of the
crossroads these challenges we Face a
majority of them come from not realizing
what our Islam is all about and as Allah
said how can you possibly persevere and
hold on to something you’re not
acquainted with and that’s why all of
these challenges W it’s as if it’s a
gift from Allah subhanahu wa taala to
press the re reset button for this um so
we can go back and check what’s our
Islam all about to revive the true Islam
of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
as if as if don’t kill me as if we’re
winding all the way back to say read
recite all over again from the very
beginning because we live in an age now
when being socially Muslim I’m Muslim
because my parents are Muslim won’t cut
it anymore because there’s no social
benefit in being Muslim we’re the
minority that’s picked on but only when
you know what your Islam is and what it
can do for you and do for the world
around you will you love it more than
life itself oh Allah teach us your dean
and fill our hearts with appreciation
for your Dean Allah I have to stop here
forgive me but we have another
appointment about the actual freedom and
balancing that freedom surviving the
freedom tomorrow inshallah and if you
cannot be with us I ask the youth
especially that I love you from the
bottom of your my heart and I hate that
you go check outside Islam and come all
the way around if Allah permits you the
length of life and find out that it was
in your Islam all along perhaps if Allah
has made of benefit in it you can look
up a video called survival of the
fittest why Islam will survive and
whoever holds on to it will survive
regardless of what happens because Allah
told us how this movie is going to end
how this history is going to be wrapped
up it’s only a matter of whether it’s
going to be with us or at the hands of
someone else that was privileged with
