MUST WATCH: What is Fracturing The Muslim Ummah || Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan

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Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan discusses the importance of reading and understanding Muslim history to combat the ideological war against the ummah.

The Muslims once built the greatest libraries in the world. Today, our manuscripts sit in cities like Berlin and Princeton, catalogued by orientalists who've spent years learning our language while we scroll past our own history. In this lecture, Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan walks through how the salaf approached books, why Yusuf ibn Tashfin crossed the sea at ninety years old to rescue Andalus, and why one Muslim ruler was humiliated into receiving letters from his enemy dictating the terms of his own defeat. The argument is simple and uncomfortable: if you don't read, your understanding of history will be whatever someone else decided to teach you such as Henry VIII and his wives, the Romans, the Tudors. Everything about who you are as a Muslim, what your civilisation built, and the ideological war being waged on your ummah right now, sits in books that are collecting dust. This lecture is a call to pick them up. Timestamps 00:00:00 Precap 01:50 Introduction: The Importance of Reading 02:46 Why Allah Swore by the Pen 03:30 The Two Types of Bayan (Ibn al-Qayyim) 04:00 How the Salaf Treated Their Books 04:30 Ibn al-Mubarak: "I'm Sitting With the Companions" 05:57 Al-Zuhri's Wife…

People in this episode

Host: Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan

Topics covered

• importance of reading
• Muslim history
• Islamic civilization
• orientalism
• intellectual heritage
• salaf approach to books

Keywords

• Muslim Ummah
• reading
• history
• Islam
• salaf
• orientalists
• civilization
• manuscripts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Berlin, Princeton

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