Al-Wala' wal-Bara'

Allah Ta'ala knows best.

Now, the sixth matter I mentioned is إِذَا الْعَدَمُ الْوَلَاءُ وَالْبَرَاءُ إِنْدُهُمْ أَوْ ضَعْفُهُ وَيَتَبَيْنَ ذَلِكُ مِنْ دَعْوَتِهِمْ لِلْتَقْرِيبِ بَيْنَ السُّنَّةِ وَالشِّيَاءِ نَعَمْ وَقُولُ مُؤَسِّسٍ نَتَعَاوَنْ فِي مَا اكْتَفَقْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَيَعْذَرْ بَعْدُنَا بَعْدَ فِي مَا اكْتَلَفْنَا فِ is that they did not have al-waraa wal-baraa.

They did not have this matter of loving and hating for the sake of Allah.

Or they would have da'af.

So we love whomsoever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves.

This is from Al-Wala Al-Bara.

That we love for the sake of Allah and we hate for the sake of Allah.

Allah loved the companions, so we love the companions.

If you saw, now this entire editorial is talking about w- exactly the three doctrines I identified a long, long time ago, that I said these are the problematic ones that every non-Muslim should be concerned about, as opposed to all the other sort of inter, uh, civilizational things, you know, what they do amongst each other, which again, that can be a distraction.

And so what are they? So the first one that I identified that is the root cause of it all is the last one that they just quoted, which is, um, loy- which is that word, al-wala wal-bara.

Okay? Al-wala wal-bara in Arabic can be translated in various ways.

Um, it's a dichotomy.

And wa- al-wala means, could mean, could mean loyalty, it could mean alliance, could mean friendship, could mean love.

Well, that's, Ibrahim is Abraham, um, the patriarch.

Okay? 'Cause Abraham in the Quran, unlike in the Bible, so in, in, in the Bible, God calls Abraham from his people in the land of, I believe, Ur And takes him to the promised land or starts guiding him there, promises him all that.

Um, but in the Quran version, it's similar, but at the same time we have Abraham saying that, "We," him and his folk, his people, "hate the people," that he's leaving, "and nothing but enmity and, and hatred will exist between us until you people believe in Allah." Okay? So there's one of those key example verses that this, um, this doctrine I'm telling you about, Al-wala Wal-bara, is based on.