Naseehah - 'ilm + Inexperience - authority = noise

What is the path to reestablishing an Islamic caliphate or the like?

Let me take that question in a serious way. You have to first understand. You have to have an accurate understanding historically of what the Qilafa was and how it operated as a governmental system, and that it was highly decentralized unlike what you hear from most of the people who called for khilafa, who seem to think that it was just a very sort of totalitarian, centralized authoritarian type of a system, and that's not the way it was. It was authority and power and responsibility were distributed throughout all of the Muslim provinces. And it's not that much unlike what we have now except that it was unified, except that all those provinces were unified and more or less unified and more or less following a a uniform policy.

And I think that that's something that can be restored and I think that that's something that we're actually moving forward towards. It's not the way the people who talk about Philadelphia would like it to be, but it's the most realistic way that I've that that I can imagine, which is the existing states, the existing countries working in concert, coordinating with each other, safeguarding their own interests and also seek serving the interests of the whole, serving the interests of the of of regionally and of the Muslims generally. And I think that that is happening now. I think I've talked many times about the GCC and Saudi Arabia specifically forming what what appears to be a soft empire that more or less covers the the same territory as was under the Ottomans. There's a very good brother on on one of the one of the other chats that is a middle nation chat that I belong to, who is quite well educated and I respect his his intellect a lot.

And he has said many many times and I'll repeat it here, which is that Muslims generally, especially Muslims who like to opine about politics and and so on and authority and the governments and all of that. They tend to be sorely lacking in education in two areas, which is and history. I think that these are two things that if you if you care about if that's like a priority for you, then I would say that those are two areas of Islamic studies that you need to focus on and become as adept and as informed as possible because that will tend to change your perspective on the issue of khilafa. When you put it in the when you're looking at it in the continuum of history, it will give you a different understanding about and what it was and what it can be. Mhmm.

And how it how something similar to or something practically speaking the same as or even better than how that can realistically be achieved. If your religion is just virtue signaling, signaling in the comments section here and there or on Twitter at x or wherever else and trying to give people when you never left your father's house and you think that you can tell people or you think that you can decide, again brother, I'm not picking on you, but if you think you can say that this ruler or that ruler or the other ruler should be doing more. Well, like I said last time, you probably don't even know what your father does for a living. You don't even know what your own father has to deal with, and what his assets and his liabilities are, and everything that he has to has to cope with. And, you know, it's like it's like, for example, let me I'll I'll put it this way.

I'm sorry. I'm kind of going on, but then again, it's a live stream and that's what you're here for. If I'm walking, okay, I'm a father. I have small children. If I'm walking in the street with my family and I see someone getting beaten up, I know I have the ability to intervene.

Physically, I have the ability. I'm trained, whatever, I can do it. I can intervene. Mhmm. But what happens now if I intervene?

If I if I if I get into that fight and I beat that other person, just like what happened subhanAllah, just what happened to Nabi Musa Alaihi Salaam. Mhmm. He intervened Mhmm. And he killed the man. Yep.

And I can actually even relate to that in my own personal history. Mhmm. You try to intervene to try to do something good and then someone dies and you go to jail. Then what happens to my family? So the father has to make a decision based on the people he's responsible for.

And and and, like, for example, MBS, he's responsible for the people of Saudi Arabia.

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Erdogan is responsible for the people of Turkey, and there's nothing different about that than in the time of the Khilafa. The emir of a particular province was responsible for the people in his province. And so you have to understand that that that that the rulers are like a father. They're like a father for their nation. They're like a father for their country and they have to make decisions based on what's gonna happen if I do this and if I do that to my people, to the people that I'm responsible for.

So they have to make those those types of decisions. And if they if if I were to make a decision, for example, in that scenario, if I were to make a decision, yes, I'll intervene and I'll beat up that man. What happens when the police come and I go to jail? What happens to my family? Was that a responsible decision?

Mhmm. It wasn't. But my children might blame me. My children might say, blah blah why didn't you stop that? We know you're strong, we know you can fight, why didn't you stop that?

Well, you don't know what your father has to deal with. You don't know what your father's responsibilities are. You don't know what your father is thinking about and planning about and trying to all of the considerations in your father's mind that he has to calculate before he takes a step. Mhmm. And that's times how much times infinity for the actual ruler of a country.

Like your your your piety, if you are basically like Borsica and your piety exists in the comment section on the Internet or on Twitter and it hasn't been forged your piety hasn't been forged through experience and interaction and engagement with the world. And as said, bearing patiently with the harm that comes and the fitna that comes from mixing with people. Yeah. If your faith hasn't been forged by that, then your your how can I say this? Your your breed of piety is like one of those like like a like a, what do they call it?

A hothouse flower? Like, you can only exist in perfect conditions. Your piety can only exist in perfect conditions. And so

In a vacuum.

Yeah. The moment you go outside, just like Bursisa, it it it dies. You

you can't cope.

It dies. You can't cope. Yeah. So that being the case, you're not you're you're allowed to talk about people outside. Yeah.

You're not allowed to talk about what Muslims are doing outside Mhmm. And what they should and shouldn't do. Mhmm. Because the imam and the piety and the religiosity and the righteousness that that you think you have Mhmm. Will die the moment you get in the oxygen.

Yeah. It will die the moment you get in the sunlight. It won't survive. The moment you're the moment you're out in the elements Mhmm. Your imam, your faith, your piety, your righteousness can't face the elements.

Mhmm.

And those people are facing the elements already. Mhmm. They know what they have to do better than you. You know how how Allah says and we know that no soul is burdened with what it cannot bear. Mhmm.

So the people who are actually interacting with the world and people like say, Erdogan or MBS or any of the other rulers and just normal rank and file Muslims who are out there dealing with the world and like most of you, trying to cope with Western society and trying to survive and trying to preserve your humanity. You're being tested with what you can bear. Someone who lives in a bubble is not being tested with what you are bearing because they can't bear it. That's why. So it's already shows the fact that you're not being tested with the same thing that we're being tested with already tells us that we're being tested with something that you can't bear, so you don't get to advise us about that.

You don't get to give us and you're as I said, you're not in a position to enjoying good and forbid the evil, when you're not even facing what we're facing. And the reason why you're not facing what we're facing is because Allah knows you can't bear it. So therefore, whatever you have to say is not informative. It's it's the people in the trenches preserving the people in the ivory towers.

Yeah. Absolutely.

But but but the people in the ivory towers need to know the difference.

Yes.

If you're in an ivory tower, hooray for you. Mhmm. I'm happy for you. And I hope that it it it can be preserved for you and especially if you're a woman, I hope that your your father and your brothers and your husband can keep you in that ivory tower. Yes.

But don't spout off about things outside of the tower. Don't try and tell people in the trenches how they're supposed to fight and how they're supposed to survive and what they're supposed to do and how they're supposed to struggle because you don't know it. You don't know anything about it. You have no experience. Enjoy your ivory tower.

It's very comfortable there. And Allah if you're there, then Allah puts you there because he knows you can't bear outside.