Sapient Thoughts #31: Did the Prophet ﷺ lead an uncompromising war cult? | Mohammed Hijab (2021-06-14) ​

0:00:02 [Music]
0:00:14 another episode of sapient thoughts
0:00:15 where we discuss theo philosophical
0:00:17 issues
0:00:18 where we answer the arguments of the
0:00:19 detractors of islam
0:00:21 in addition to making our own arguments
0:00:22 for the veracity of islam
0:00:24 today we're going to be dealing with a
0:00:25 species claim a spurious claim
0:00:27 a claim that's often made by the
0:00:29 controversialists and the detractors and
0:00:32 the objectionists
0:00:33 those who attack islam the right wing
0:00:36 the alt-right
0:00:37 the orientalists and others which is
0:00:40 the age-old claim that the prophet
0:00:43 muhammad
0:00:44 he knew no compromise and that he led
0:00:48 what would be considered in a sense a
0:00:51 war cult
0:00:52 a death cult and that
0:00:55 he spread islam in this way
0:00:59 in other words just preferring war all
0:01:02 over
0:01:02 over all other alternatives let's first
0:01:06 and foremost before we talk about
0:01:07 today's center piece of attention which
0:01:10 is going to be the
0:01:12 or the treaty of let's turn our
0:01:14 attention to what some of the verses of
0:01:16 the quran
0:01:17 says on these matters so for example if
0:01:20 you if you look at chapter number 2
0:01:22 verse 190
0:01:24 allah subhanahu wa
0:01:32 and fight those who fight you and do not
0:01:34 transgress
0:01:35 for allah does not love those who
0:01:37 transgress and allah
0:01:41 in chapter number 8 verse number 61
0:01:44 he mentions
0:01:48 that if they retort to peace
0:01:51 then also go in that direction and rely
0:01:53 on upon allah
0:01:56 allah also mentions in the quran and
0:01:58 this is very very important
0:02:00 this is extremely important what i'm
0:02:02 about to mention here
0:02:03 what allah mentions in chapter number
0:02:05 four verse number 90
0:02:21 for those so it's telling you who you
0:02:23 cannot fight because in verses 89
0:02:25 and 88 it was telling you who you should
0:02:27 fight so this is telling you who you
0:02:29 can't fight
0:02:34 illallahu
0:02:37 except for a people who have come to you
0:02:40 and you have an agreement with them
0:02:42 or that they come to you bare-chested in
0:02:44 other words that they are not wanting to
0:02:46 fight
0:02:47 that you can't fight them so these are
0:02:49 the things which are very clear
0:02:51 in the quran which very candidly
0:02:55 very unambiguously very unequivocally
0:02:59 tell us that you cannot fight certain
0:03:02 categories of people the prophet
0:03:04 muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam we
0:03:06 say to the
0:03:06 hadith
0:03:12 whoever kills a non-combatant
0:03:13 non-believer he will not smell the
0:03:15 fragrance of paradise
0:03:16 and he also mentioned it's also
0:03:19 mentioned in bukhari that he used to
0:03:20 completely condemn the killing
0:03:22 of women and children and so on and so
0:03:24 forth so
0:03:25 already we know with this preamble that
0:03:28 for those who want to try and maintain
0:03:30 the prophet muhammad knew no compromise
0:03:33 or that islam
0:03:34 was completely for anything but peace
0:03:38 what do you do with these verses what do
0:03:40 you do with these hadiths
0:03:42 if the attitude was of the prophet
0:03:44 muhammad
0:03:46 was a war hungry attitude why did he
0:03:49 mentioned in the hadith which is
0:03:51 muslim
0:03:56 that do not wish to meet the enemy but
0:03:59 if you do meet them
0:04:01 then be patient in fighting do not wish
0:04:03 to meet the enemy he says
0:04:05 and yet he is seen as a warlord or a war
0:04:08 monger by some individuals
0:04:11 what does it mean to be a war mongrel
0:04:13 when you're saying do not wish
0:04:15 to meet the enemy
0:04:18 in hodei bia which is one of the most
0:04:20 important
0:04:22 bedrock examples chief examples
0:04:26 of the negotiating and diplomatic way of
0:04:29 the prophet muhammad
0:04:32 the statesmanship of the prophet
0:04:33 muhammad
0:04:36 he actually approached quraish
0:04:39 he was going to do the lesser pilgrimage
0:04:42 which is called amra
0:04:43 as many of you will know with the
0:04:45 companions because
0:04:46 there was a revelation that he got in a
0:04:49 dream
0:04:50 and he saw himself and his companions
0:04:53 cutting their hair
0:04:54 and also shaving their hair which is
0:04:57 something that people do
0:04:59 when they go to pilgrimage so he went to
0:05:02 pilgrimage obviously blocking it were
0:05:04 these pagan arabs who had been at the
0:05:05 throats of the muslim people for years
0:05:07 on end now
0:05:08 and what happened in this situation was
0:05:11 that the prophet muhammad was prevented
0:05:13 from coming in
0:05:14 and so too were the companions which was
0:05:17 seen as a
0:05:17 as an aberration to the custom of even
0:05:20 the pagan arabs
0:05:21 that they would block people from going
0:05:23 and doing pilgrimage
0:05:25 so the prophet muhammad these people
0:05:29 and he said
0:05:32 that woe to quraish these pagan arabs
0:05:35 that
0:05:36 war has devoured them he says
0:05:42 what would it mean what would it do to
0:05:45 them
0:05:45 if they just allowed me between they
0:05:48 just allowed me to see the people in
0:05:49 other words
0:05:51 they didn't block me from the people
0:05:53 which already shows you
0:05:55 that the islamic attitude towards jihad
0:05:58 was an instrumental attitude and this
0:06:00 indeed was
0:06:01 the opinion of the great scholars of
0:06:03 islam
0:06:04 including but not limited to even hajjir
0:06:07 al-haytami in his kitab in his book
0:06:11 where he talks about harp quoting as
0:06:13 zakashi as being
0:06:15 wasilla and not maksad or in other words
0:06:18 instrumental
0:06:19 and not an objective so here we have
0:06:23 already very clear attitudes
0:06:26 from the prophet himself telling he's
0:06:28 not wanting to fight
0:06:29 in fact they came without the armory of
0:06:31 fighting
0:06:33 and if they did have it they had it
0:06:34 packed up somewhere they weren't coming
0:06:36 in with swords
0:06:37 they were coming to do a pilgrimage and
0:06:39 so
0:06:41 what happened is that there was a treaty
0:06:42 that was
0:06:44 there was a treaty that was agreed by
0:06:46 the prophet muhammad sallallahu
0:06:48 alaihi wasallam and and this treaty
0:06:51 that was agreed upon took the following
0:06:55 form i'm going to read out to you
0:06:56 exactly what it's mentioned
0:06:57 to show you the extent to which the
0:06:59 prophet muhammad
0:07:01 he knew how to be a statesman and this
0:07:04 is why
0:07:06 this is why he was as successful as he
0:07:08 was listen
0:07:10 he was a successful the prophet muhammed
0:07:12 as he was
0:07:14 because he knew when to fight and he
0:07:15 knew when to compromise
0:07:17 listen to the prophet muhammad
0:07:18 sallallahu alaihi
0:07:20 so he was there and he told sure
0:07:24 bismillah which is in the name of allah
0:07:27 the most merciful the most gracious the
0:07:29 most merciful so he said i don't
0:07:31 i don't understand this phraseology i
0:07:33 don't understand these names
0:07:34 put bismillah put another phrasal verb
0:07:38 in the name of god
0:07:39 okay no problem the prophet compromised
0:07:40 because it didn't
0:07:42 it didn't go against any of the sacred
0:07:46 uh sacred symbols of islam and in fact
0:07:49 the prophet he said if
0:07:53 the quraysh tell me to do something and
0:07:56 it doesn't go against
0:07:59 the huromat of allah the sacred
0:08:03 symbols then i will accept
0:08:06 then i will accept so long as it's not
0:08:08 going against islam
0:08:11 so what happened was sohail is said
0:08:16 he said
0:08:24 the prophet said but this is what
0:08:26 muhammad
0:08:28 the prophet of allah of god
0:08:31 has agreed to with suhailup number so
0:08:34 i don't agree that you're the prophet
0:08:36 and if i did i wouldn't be fighting you
0:08:38 so he said take away that thing which
0:08:40 says the name of allah and put instead
0:08:42 of it
0:08:44 something else and alibaba got very
0:08:47 upset by this he said how can you take
0:08:48 this away
0:08:49 how can you take this away but the
0:08:50 prophet salallahu salaam he told
0:08:52 them to rob it out and to put muhammad
0:08:55 in abdullah
0:08:57 it shows you the great wisdom the great
0:08:59 compromise of the prophet muhammad shows
0:09:01 you the great wisdom the great
0:09:02 compromise
0:09:05 so you put that down and he said
0:09:14 and that put down that we will
0:09:18 be at peace and not at war for 10
0:09:21 years
0:09:25 and the people will be safe in those
0:09:27 years
0:09:30 and that they will be restricted from
0:09:32 one another in other words
0:09:33 in war allah
0:09:47 this includes muslims by the way and in
0:09:50 fact
0:09:51 he would the prophet and the muslims
0:09:53 would be tested by this
0:09:54 were a person called abu jandal who
0:09:57 would be literally shackled up
0:09:59 shackled up as a muslim he said please
0:10:03 he said please let me come help me to be
0:10:07 saved and the prophet salallahu sallam
0:10:11 he wanted to make him an exception but
0:10:13 since he put that contract down
0:10:16 he told abu jahel that he was unable to
0:10:19 take him which shows you the extent to
0:10:22 which the prophet was
0:10:23 so cautious of breaking his promises and
0:10:27 breaking his contract
0:10:29 so cautious and this shows you also
0:10:34 and then they agreed one more thing
0:10:36 which is that whoever wants
0:10:38 to enter the alliance with the prophet
0:10:40 muhammad
0:10:42 they can do so on whoever wants to enter
0:10:44 an alliance with hazard they can do so
0:10:45 and by the way huzzah which is a group
0:10:48 of arabs they entered the
0:10:50 the alliance with the prophet and banu
0:10:52 bakr entered the alliance
0:10:54 with with
0:10:58 so what we need to understand here
0:11:02 is that this shows great statesmanship
0:11:03 and compromise and that the idea for
0:11:06 putting this in the first place
0:11:08 was to create a treaty and to
0:11:11 stop war from happening and so of course
0:11:13 this is something something that
0:11:15 muslim people can continue doing until
0:11:17 the day of judgement
0:11:18 and in fact they should if they want to
0:11:19 emulate the prophets not despite the
0:11:21 prophets teachings but
0:11:23 because of them and i will say that
0:11:26 this is just one of many examples
0:11:29 where the prophet muhammad sallallahu
0:11:31 alaihi wasallam he preferred peace to
0:11:33 war
0:11:33 and in fact he worked in that direction
0:11:36 and he put peace treaties and stuck to
0:11:37 them as much as possible
0:11:39 and in the next episode in sha allah we
0:11:41 are going to be talking about fatah
0:11:44 or the conquest of mecca and how that is
0:11:46 even a greater example
0:11:47 of the prophetic mercy was allah
0:11:56 you