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be led astray or that I should be
oppressed or that I oppress or that I
should be ignorant or that I'm ignorant
or ignorance is done to me or that I
should trip or that I should be true
Shahla the title of this talk is
secularism the greatest danger facing
Islam and what I'd like to do is in
shallow look at the idea of secularism
historically and the results of the the
secular idea upon the psyche of
humankind
what the implications of that mean for
us as Muslims particularly but also the
implications of it globally for
humankind because we are Benny Adam we
are all part of the the the offspring of
Adam and Eve sedan and so we share
common destinies in this world and
insha'Allah we will not share a common
destiny in the next world
with those who reject the identical
brahim equate and the Mohammedan way
sell a lot it was for the most awfulest
era milan and vietnam the idea of
secularism is a really a rather modern
idea in fact it means enlightenment one
of the meanings of it is modern or of
the age or of the time and it has the
idea of temporality or an anytime
situation the word in in Latin cycle you
will find on the dollar bill which in
the back of it there's a free Masonic
steel and most of the founding fathers
and this is historical it's not
conspiratorial theories or it's it's
accepted history in the United States
that most of the founding fathers were
freemasons but the actual steel did not
come until 1935 when it was placed on
the dollar bill during the Roosevelt
administration and on the back of the
dollar bill that says Novus Ordo
seclorum which means a new secular order
or a and really what the word seculars
is a nice way of saying worldly or out
of the world quite literally a new order
of the world and this was the V
encounter distinction with the old way
which is orders that were based on
religious structures in other words
understandings that people's had that
were based on religious hierarchical
structures on the belief that not only
were we created but there was a creator
and that there was a certain standard of
behavior that was demanded of
individuals that made up the society
based on certain religion and moral
injunctions that came down to them so
the Christian tradition
despite the gross breaches of
Christianity nonetheless had a
or that is not really that different
from the more order of the Muslims and
this is why we share with other
religions certain basic moral concepts
and precepts the the where we begin to
depart grossly is how we do with reaches
of the moral order and this is what we
call in Islam the dude in Shariah in
other words the when gross breaches of
the moral order how the Muslims view
with that we deal with it by going back
to our loss of Mohammed and his
messenger and looking at what the Sharia
dictates for us this sacred law this
sacred way the Christians traditionally
because they separated their teaching
from the Judaic tradition which did have
a sacred law and this can be found in
remnants of it in deuteronomy's and
numbers and levitz's and in the books of
the Old Testament where there are
injunctions of how to deal with thieves
of how to deal with fornicators
adulterers all of these things the
Christians departed from this based on a
verse that's in the New Testament from
Paul in Romans 7 where he uses an
analogy of a woman married to a man and
she's bounded by the law as long as
she's married to the man and when the
husband dies she did a lot rebound by
the law in other words of being a
married woman she can go and marry other
men well in what Paul uses this in his
analogy for the death of Jesus Christ in
other words that thought when Jesus was
alive we were still bound to the law
meaning the Judaic law but since Jesus
has died we are no longer bound to the
law Jesus has freed us through his death
from the law and this is a very
important concept in Christianity and
this is really setting up the scenario
of the using the rational intellect to
deal with
in other words Paul's belief and whether
he was sincere in it or not Allah Adam
but Paul's belief within his is based on
what he said is that people because they
were in such a deeply spiritual state in
viewed with the Spirit of Christ they
would not go into the errors that
necessitated the law in the first place
so it was almost like if we're looking
at it as part of being a sincere person
in what he was preaching that he that
his spiritual state was so high they
from being imbued with the holy spirit
and with this fear that he could not
fornicate that he would not but because
he was he was in such a deeply exalted
spiritual state this is the idea now
this is a extremely idealistic romantic
picture of the human being the idea that
through accepting Jesus Christ won't
become angelic when the one has now
entered into the realm of spirit and the
flesh is no longer a difficulty for him
now we have seniors therapy the result
of this kind of idea but what it did in
separating from the sacred law it
created the viability within a Christian
society for secular law for secular life
in other words there will be laws to be
brought about by the emperor or by
legislation like now this use in
Parliament or in the United States and
Congress the legislation of laws so the
secular idea is literally that religion
has studied the human being from
progression in other words what happened
in Christianity because the Christian
rule was so deeply suspicious of science
and in fact because they tied their
metaphysics to Aristotelian metaphysics
in other words the transubstantiation of
the the wine and the bread into the
blood and the flesh the calories don't
like to talk about this but they
believed based on Aristotelian
physics but this was possible they based
the idea that the blood and the flesh
were literally blood and flesh it was
not a metaphor and this was a doctrine
within the Catholic Church that they're
ashamed of now when Aristotelian thought
began to become challenged and this
happened oddly enough from the
introduction of Muslim arguments against
Aristotelian thought the habit of
philosophy was one of the books that was
translated into Latin where Imam
al-ghazali refused much of what the
Aristotelian believed in terms of
metaphysics and he in fact categorically
denied the ability for the human
intellect to arrive at a sound
metaphysic in other words what is beyond
the physical world that within certain
limitations the human beings could
discover things about the natural world
but about the spiritual or otherworldly
in the enve conjecture which is what
Allah said that they are not one they
only follow conjecture ultimately and
from a Muslim perspective really just
does not simply apply to metaphysics but
to the physical world as well people
don't like to admit this but the vast
majority of Sciences in the Western
civilization are actually based on
conjecture they are theories now they
watered them down to the masses as fact
we learn them in schools as facts but
those people that actually write the
textbook or those discoveries and
scientists that actually have come up
with the theories they're the one
that know the limitations of their own
thought people learn for instance in
chemistry the the table the chemical
table of the table of elements and this
is a model that human beings have just
projected onto the world it is not
reality it is a model now the model is
it's useful obviously I mean they've
done extraordinary things with the
chemical table that's me I have a
limited perspective of what is taking
place in the chemical world we can only
assume things based on our own
perceptions and so we're making
hypotheses based on a configuration of
facts that in fact are limited because
they're limited by on our own
perspective of it and this is something
that the deeply the deeply esteemed
scientist amongst them will admit
amongst themselves but it's something
that really is not admitted when you're
studying chemistry in the classroom you
learn it as if this is reality it is
simply a model for something that we are
experiencing now they had a philosopher
hearing here is from Scotland who
literally destroyed this whole idea of
absolute knowledge because he came along
and now the news comes the sad thing
about it is is that we made this a long
time ago way before they have a renew
about this if you study the mythical
moon I mean they talk about that we
cannot determine true cause and effect
because our perspective is limited it is
only a loss of $100 that truly knows
what is happening even in chemical if
you pretend goes together and see
reactions and things like this what is
causing the reactions from a materialist
point of view it because this and this
substance came together this and this
substance came together that does not
allow in its number what we call hada
colada which is a break in the chain of
events for instance when allah subhanho
wa taala said to the fire crew bikini
bottom with sadhana be cool and peaceful
solana the owners
why he says not only did he say be cool
but he also said be safe because it's
not simply enough to say be cool because
of a lot could have taken the heat out
of the fire but still inflicted the same
damage that fire we inflict on a human
being so this is a Muslim understanding
that fire does not intrinsically burn it
burns by the power of Allah Subhan Allah
Allah so a material that we will say
well know if you if you put a match to
your finger you're gonna burn your
finger well then you have people that
walk on coals and these type things and
and this kind of makes people scratch
their head right but the point is from
the Muslim perspective all of those
Sciences are conjecture now they are
useful that useful within their own
limitations and we should never forget
when Newton this this Giants to the
Western civilization intellectual giant
who gave them the foundations of their
physics this man's physics screaming to
deep questioning at the turn of this
century because they recognized it was
only limited to a certain model it did
not apply at the subatomic world it
worked very well in dealing with this
physical world that we experience every
day but once they started actually
looking into the atomic world and the
subatomic world they realized that this
thing is very limited this model now
they think now that they reached the
height now but 100 years from now there
may be scientists that look back now and
say look at what the darkness these
people were in so Muslims have always
had this historical understanding that
human knowledge is deeply limited will
not receive them in an Indian law kalila
this is a principle that the Quran used
us to know that knowledge
first and foremost is from our last
panel at the ANA Allah is the one that
teaches the human being unravel column
Allah taught the human being so
knowledge is literally a revelatory
process it is a process in which the
human being is given insights based on
the power of the intellect that Allah
has has has endowed it with now when
it's coupled with revelation it allows
for the human being to literally work
within creation and not be a danger to
himself or to creation because you have
certain parameters that he recognizes
that he must stay within as an atomic
human being that is responsible for his
actions now to give an example in the
secular world what happens and recently
in in the South Pacific
there were liberal scientists who are
oceanographers people that study the
ocean now they had this they were having
a problem understanding why is it that
plankton and other types of seaweed do
not simply take over the ocean what is
it in the ocean that is preventing this
seaweed to proliferate in the same way
that person's grass will proliferate in
an area given the right circumstance
because the ocean has all these right
circumstances for a limited amount of
seaweed what is stopping it from growing
everywhere so they came up with a
hypothesis that it was iron that there
was the mineral the the middle iron was
lacking so what they did was they took
an area five mile radius and seeded it
with iron pellets all over this area
they came back a month later the
reasoning in New York islands they came
back a month later and the entire area
was covered with seaweed it was
completely covered with seaweed they had
destroyed the ecosystem of that area
completely one of the scientists who is
being interviewed said that several of
the people on the boat actually vomited
that they were so horrified and this was
their initial reaction and then he said
and then
we kind of became elated so the initial
reaction the human got heart reaction
was they were horrified him that they're
like children playing with extremely
dangerous toys you see they're literally
out there experimenting with a system
that Allah has set up and balanced to
perfection and it's not for us to ask
why there's not seaweed all over the
place it's for us to say subhanAllah
that Allah has created this thing in
perfect balance Allah says in the Quran
in surah Rahman that he says no one is
on a laptop the Havanese and he has
placed this balance in order that you
might not transgress the balance I laugh
at the dolphin is an what a demon wasn't
a benefice and established this balance
with justice well that of civil Nissan
and don't destroy this balance now this
balance applies at every level of human
existence there is an ecological balance
that we literally have the power to
destroy based on the linguistic analysis
of this this injunction in the Quran
when Allah says lat of sit on Nissan
he's telling us don't destroy it which
implies we have the ability to destroy
it and so this is what the human being
without revelation becomes an extremely
dangerous animal becomes a dangerous
animal because the intellect which has
massive power the intellect must be
constrained by revelation if the
intellect is not constrained by
revelation then we see what we see
because this is what's happened in our
modern world we have an intellect that
is completely gone crazy and the word in
Arabic
literally means to bind something to
constrain that this is the point of the
internet that it's an alcohol that is
imbued with Rakhi
what's a difficulty not resistant when
Allah says move on Allen or he says what
you nala Apple that no light upon light
is revelation upon the intellect of the
human being because the intellect itself
is an interface for revelation it's a
it's a it's a receptacle third
revelation itself revelation cannot be
carried by idiots Allah in the Quran
says never an arena for millennia
minnerath committed in our middle
Apsara that's the matter in all this the
likeness of those who carry these this
sacred revelation on their backs right
without like donkeys they're like
donkeys because the donkey carries it
but doesn't know what's on its back the
dope you have no idea is carrying
knowledge and this is what happens when
when we take the Quran as a book to put
on our shelves and we don't actually
study it we don't have it impact the
intellect the Quran if the individual
begins to recite the Quran it will
create a dynamic tension within t