Resolve disputes

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. And praise be to Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. From now on, my brothers and sisters, we are looking at a world which seems to be going from one stage of turmoil into a worse stage of turmoil. We ask Allah for goodness and well-being. And for protection from all evil, inshallah. I was recently at a gathering which I could not avoid. I generally try to avoid all gatherings because almost by default, they are a complete waste of time. And with huge scope of falling into evil. The biggest evil being that of Hiba. Of backbiting. As in the words of Sheikh Muhammad Mutawalli Ash-Sharawi, he said that when you do Hiba of a person, remember that the door of Tawbah is open for him. So you are doing Hiba about him as he is today. Tomorrow, day after day after that, before he dies, he makes Tawbah, he is free. But your sin... The sin of Hiba is with you. And that is why Rasulullah SAW told us to hide the weaknesses and the sins and the mistakes of our brothers and sisters. He said don't expose people because if you expose somebody, Allah will expose you. And my Malik said, if Allah decides to expose you, Allah will expose you in your safest place in the inside of your home. He also said, he said I have known people who were great scholars, very knowledgeable and who were, you know, on the face of it, which means that they were focused and they were established on their, I'd set salaa and on all of this. But they used to expose others. They used to talk about others. They used to tell their secrets through the world and he says Allah SWT humiliated them and exposed them and they became objects of ridicule and hatred and conversely, he said, people. They're not great scholars, nothing. Alhamdulillah, they're good people. Not as if they were evil. They were not evil, but they were ordinary people. But they used to cover the faults of their brothers and sisters. And he said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised them. And he raised their mention and he gave them Izzah and he gave them Dharajat. And one of the Salafi Salihin, he said, always forgive your brothers and sisters. Always have the best belief about them. Husna Zan, about your brothers and sisters. He said, to the extent, I think it's Ibn al-Khaimah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who said this. Anyway, he said, to the extent, he said, if I see, it's not a question of seeing, it's a question of seeing. It's not a question of seeing. It's a question of seeing. It's a question of talking about, hearing about. He said, if I see my brother with alcohol dripping from his beard, I will say somebody poured it on him. And if I see and hear him standing on a hilltop and saying, Ana Rabbukum al-Aala, I will say he's reciting the ayat of the Quran. If he stands on the hilltop and he's saying, I am reciting the ayat of the Quran, I will say, I am your God. Ana Rabbukum al-Aala, he said, I will say that he's reciting the ayat of the Quran. I will not say he has claimed to become, to be God. No. So I remind myself when you, let us become the lehaf of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Become the cover of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on our brothers and sisters. Hide the faults. Don't expose them. Because Imam Shafi'i said, don't talk about people because they also have tongues. They can also talk about you. Don't talk about people. Imam Shafi'i said, if you can say something good, say something good. If you have nothing good to say, keep quiet. Keep quiet. A closed mouth is the safest bet. If you say something, maybe it is good, maybe it's not good. But if you say nothing, Alhamdulillah. And that is why it is very good to avoid gatherings. By all means, meet people who are good, beneficial, useful, from whom you learn something good. Alhamdulillah, yesterday I had a very nice meeting with my very dear friend who is sitting here. May Allah bless him. And he was telling me that Alhamdulillah, we have in Islam a complete system of jurisprudence. It's not some hearsay that my grandmother said this. No, this is a complete jurisprudence, complete system of jurisprudence with divine laws, with laws of God. It's a complete system of jurisprudence, complete system of jurisprudence, complete system of jurisprudence. And which is applicable to our lives as we speak. And will be applicable until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decides to keep this world. Now, think about the number of Muslims who are in litigation in all the courts. You forget even the courts of the world. Take Hyderabad city. In Hyderabad, how many Muslims are in litigation, one against the other, in some cases in the same families. May Allah have mercy on us. Brother against brother, father against son, inna illahi wa inna illahi wa ati. Or some small piece of property or some house or some garbage. How many are there? Allah knows best. Hundreds of thousands. And these are never ending things. The only people who benefit in these are the attorneys, the lawyers, nobody else. Now, instead of getting stuck in those courts without ending, Supposing you come to the Islamic Sharia. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is very clearly given us parameters of measurement. How much? 3Y. 4Y. 6Y. 5y. to judge in the light of the Quran and Sunnah. Those cases can be decided literally in a matter of minutes, not even days. In one day you could probably do 10 cases, voila halaf. So what prevents us from doing that? Because if you do that, then number one, there is no court cost. Number two, it gets decided very fast. Alhamdulillah, this is according to the Quran and Kitab and Sunnah, Alhamdulillah. Why don't we do it? So I said to him, there is a existing living example as we speak right now in Bhadkal. They have a Sharia court which has been in existence, continuous operation for the last 30 years. Last 150 years. And more than 90% or 98% or some percent like this they gave me, more than 90-95% of all the Muslim cases in Bhadkal go to that court. They don't go anywhere else, they go there. And they have complete court records. There is a whole courthouse. I have been there, I have been there, I have seen that. The whole courthouse with, you know, the place the judge sits and the… Witness stand and everything else, Alhamdulillah, it's conducted as a proper court. So what prevents us from doing that? Because the beauty of Islamic law is that it operates on the arbitration principle which is that you have somebody who, the judge is somebody who has knowledge of law. And then it's a matter of bringing the two people together. And then the two people are used in a conversation with two brothers and sisters who have a dispute and settling it according to the Kitab and Sunnah in a way which satisfies both of them Alhamdulillah. What prevents this, the people themselves? Because when they go to the court, say, two brothers are fighting...or two brothers meaning maybe brothers in the same family or brothers in Islam Alhamdulillah. We are all brothers in Islam and sisters. So when they are, two two are fighting, have this dispute, may Allah have mercy, their intention is not to resolve the dispute. Their intention is to humiliate the other person. If you go in there and say, let us resolve the dispute. If you have a dispute, okay, let's end it. No, I am humiliating the other person. I will show it. What do you show? That's the problem. The problem is not the dispute. There is no dispute. What is the dispute? It says some land or some building or some money or what else? So what is so difficult about resolving that? It can be done in five minutes, literally. But that is not the intention. The intention is to humiliate this person. I must make him, you know, nothing in front of me. That is why the dispute never gets resolved. Because any reasonable solution, you will not accept. You want to see him grovel. You want to see him, you know, in the earth. And may Allah have mercy, the same thing from the other side. He has the same intention. That's why the Prophet s.a.w. said, if two Muslims fall, they will fall. And the Prophet s.a.w. said, if two fight and one kills the other, he said, both will go into Jahannam. So the Sahaba said, Ya Sulla, if the two fight and one kills the other, we can understand the killer goes to Jahannam. But the one who died, the one who died, died only because he could not kill the other fellow. He also wanted to kill him. The other chap was more skillful and so on, whatever, you know, he could fight better, he killed him. But the Prophet s.a.w. said, if two fight and one kills the other, he said, both will go into Jahannam. So he's fighting between, with your own brothers and sisters. So the point I'm saying is, you sit with people of Taqwa, may Allah make us all people of Taqwa, and who talk some sense, not ghibat and this and that. Alhamdulillah, it was a, you know, very nice meeting as far as I'm concerned. And that's why I said, let me put it here, because this goes all over the world. Let's spread the word. Let's spread the word. Let's spread the word. Let's say that here is an opportunity where, Alhamdulillah, Allah has given us the Qanun, we don't have to invent the Qanun, we don't have to write anything, the system is there, Alhamdulillah, wherever you are in the world, think about this. Instead of, first of all, don't fight. That's the best solution. And I'll tell you, Alhamdulillah, Allah s.w.t. has given me beautiful friends. There's a family in Sri Lanka who, Alhamdulillah, big business people. So, their parents lived in a house, very beautiful house, on the beach, right, seafront. Very, very valuable property, worth, God knows, hundreds of crores. So, parents died. So, these brothers and sisters, they sat together, and they said, well,