Bismillahirrahman nirrahim
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It means that knowledge makes you a stranger,
Nobody can go around and say, I have knowledge of the Deen..and business as usual.
Its impossible!
Taqwa will not allow you to continue, with business as usual!
Because you will be disturbed.
You will be disturbed with yourself, even if people agree with you.
Because Taqwa will not allow you to be contempt with yourself!
Knowledge will make you a stranger, because you will see things that other people cannot see.
Its like to be in hiding, in hiding in a different world.
Its like people are speaking a language, and you're speaking a very different one!
That is knowledge.
Knowledge is equivalent to seeing.
The people have spoken about knowledge, and they spoke of it as light.
Knowledge gives you light.
Light, when you are in darkness you have light.
And with light you can see!
Knowledge is not hidden, it is not complicated and not a matter of research.
Knowledge has been spoken of as opening the eyes,
Some people said, you wake up...As if you were dead!
Knowledge is not something you relate to, as if it was a book and you put it on the shelf!
Knowledge is something tht is going to transform you!
Knowledge is as if you take up that book and put it inside you...its like a chip.
You become a different robot,
You're different,
And you see things differently.
Though, that you see things different is not strange.
Knowledge is precisely that.
It allows you to see things that other people cannot see.
It is not unusual,
And this is Allah s.w.t Himself reminding you, that there will be a handful of people,
And certainly, these people do not follow the majority of mankind,
So you don't have knowledge because you know what other people know,
In fact, its more likely that you will be completely lost,
You acquire knowledge from a completely different mean,
And that is through the mean of Islam,
And through the mean of struggle,
And through the mean of putting things right, correcting what has been corrupt!
All these are the people who will bring back a Sunnah that has been corrupted in our times,
Of all these, the one Sunnah that has been corrupted beyond any imaginable means,
Those enemies concerning riba,
That in our time, has corrupted our entire society.
And if you want to be of these people, and you want knowledge, you will become a stranger,
This is not something that is going to make you famous,
This is not something that is going to make the people say, "How wonderful"
This is something that is going to bring the matter to a struggle point!
It is going to make you a stranger...but a stranger has advantages.
The most important of which is, you can see what other people cannot see.
The reality is that, we know very little,
Mankind in general knows very little,
That knowledge is entirely determined using our senses, our eyes,
Our realities are compounded by the world as we see it,
Yet we have an intuition that the eyes know alot more than they can experience,
In the same way as an ant,
The insects has very little eyesight,
But with their two antennas, they communicate by chemistry,
Their reality is entirely different from ours.
If you put your finger in their path,
They will see that this is almost as a mountain,
Something that is totally blocking whatever they're doing.
They cannot understand what's blocking...This is our reality too!
They have limited knowledge, a tiny little knowledge,
So, this idea that we are great things,
And attribute to ourselves, powers and knowledges,
And attributes that belong to Allah s.w.t...is itself the very sign of kufur.
The very reality of the alim today, concerning the economic crises,
They carry on with the lie, although they have an intuition that there is a crime, there is injustice, they feel, there is nothing they can do, they're paralyzed.
They cannot see, they cannot understand.
Islam on the other hand will give you understanding,
Will give you vision,
Not only to interpret the events that come along,
But also, more important, is to act.
Knowledge gives you the power to act,
And that again is the advantage of the stranger.
Knowledge starts with La ila ha illaAllah
From La ila ha illaAllah, La hawla wala quwwata illa billah,
You build the whole attribute of Allah s.w.t,
From that, you start to understand things,
You start to see things,
By saying no,
By denying the things that are not,
That will give you the courage, the ability, the position to understand Islam,
To understand Rasul s.a.w,
To understand the Hadith,
To understnad the Muwatta',
To see the realities for what they are.
When it comes to the matter of the Gold Dinar,
Without knowldge, its impossible to understand,
And you can test this yourself,
You can go and tell people, and their reactions would be that this is not possible,
That this cannot be done!
That this things are not to be discussed!
Because this is the matter of a stranger.
To be continued.
