Safeguarding Our Souls #02
Feb 28, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 12 segments
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Feb 28, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 12 segments
Hamza YusufHost
In his book, he wrote a book on the age, on the secular age, this age of secularism.
And the other really important book on that subject is Sayyidina Naqeeb al-Attas, and he just got released from the hospital, so may Allah make it easy for him He's one of the great sages of our time.
And in that book he felt that the single most dangerous threat to Islam, and arguably, and I think Samso makes this argument, to religion in general, is secularity.
And the essence of secularity is this idea, what Charles Taylor calls it is imminent closure.
So in religious tradition you have what's called The transcendent and the immanent.
Allah is and there's a khilaf about what that means and I prefer the opinion of Ibn Abbas because in Arabic it's called which if it meant the worlds like other worlds or all the worlds then it would have said But it said, رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ And Raghb says in Al-Mufradat that the reason Allah says عَالَمِينَ Ibn Abbas said it meant الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنَّ So all the sapiential beings, which means those beings that have عَقَل The ability to reason, to think, to intuit.
They're the ones that God is speaking to in this khitab al-takleef, right? So you have khitab al-wada, khitab al-takleef.
And the Takleef is who's responsible? Who is responsible? When Allah says, فَاعْلَمَنُهُ لَا إِلَٰهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ Who is that Amr being addressed to? That's the Muqallaf.
In his book, he wrote a book on the age, on the secular age, this age of secularism.
And the other really important book on that subject is Sayyidina Naqeeb al-Attas, and he just got released from the hospital, so may Allah make it easy for him He's one of the great sages of our time.
And in that book he felt that the single most dangerous threat to Islam, and arguably, and I think Samso makes this argument, to religion in general, is secularity.
And the essence of secularity is this idea, what Charles Taylor calls it is imminent closure.
So in religious tradition you have what's called The transcendent and the immanent.
Allah is and there's a khilaf about what that means and I prefer the opinion of Ibn Abbas because in Arabic it's called which if it meant the worlds like other worlds or all the worlds then it would have said But it said, رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ And Raghb says in Al-Mufradat that the reason Allah says عَالَمِينَ Ibn Abbas said it meant الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنَّ So all the sapiential beings, which means those beings that have عَقَل The ability to reason, to think, to intuit.
They're the ones that God is speaking to in this khitab al-takleef, right? So you have khitab al-wada, khitab al-takleef.
And the Takleef is who's responsible? Who is responsible? When Allah says, فَاعْلَمَنُهُ لَا إِلَٰهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ Who is that Amr being addressed to? That's the Muqallaf.
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