From Warning to Governance: Islam's Deliberate Progression
The Prophet's Gradual Progression in Establishing Islam and the Islamic Economic System
Summary
This lecture continues the discussion of Zadul-Ma'ad (Provisions for the Hereafter), focusing on the Prophet Muhammad's gradual progression in his mission and the different stages of Islamic governance. Sh. Ali Mashhour explains how the Prophet transitioned from being a warner to establishing a state, moving through phases of patience under persecution, permission to defend against aggressors, and eventually establishing Islamic law and governance. A significant portion addresses the Islamic economic system, specifically the jizya (poll tax) paid by non-Muslim citizens of the Islamic state, contrasting it with arbitrary taxation and explaining how it provides protection and benefits in return, unlike exploitative taxation systems.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاه والسلام على رسوله الكريم وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين واشهد ان لا اله الا الله واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صل على محمد وعلى ال محمد كما صليت على ابراهيم وعلى ال ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد اللهم بارك على محمد وعلى ال محمد كما باركت على ابراهيم وعلى ال ابراهيم في العالمين انك حميد مجيد اما بعد ف قراءتنا موصوله في زاد المعاد او كثير من زاد المعاد نقرا في اختصار زاد المعاد اذ زاد المعاد الاصل كتاب يطول جدا وقد وصلنا فيه ووصلنا فيه الى تدرج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم مع المنافقين والذين لم يدخلوا في الاسلام.
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الله سبحانه وتعالى في القران زين المنافقين ويميز بين المنافقين والذين في قلوبهم مرض الله سبحانه وتعالى في القران يذكر المنافقين ويذكر الذين في قلوبهم مرض ويذكر للمنافقين انواع ودرجات ويقول والمنافقون بعضهم من بعض يعني بعضهم درجات من بعض في منهم غليظ النفاق وفي منهم قليل النفاق حتى قد يكون النفاق فقط في العمل كما قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ايه المنافق ثلاث اربع من ك فيه كان منافقا خالصا هذا المقصود النفاق العملي فهذه درجات are ty h who inred enged in hyp to the point a skill a those who people that weakness they dise in their hearts they didn't complet believe in the prop صل الله عليه وسلم in a way to distinguish them entirely from hypocrisy and so there are different levels when we look at hoc at wor we see the propet صل الله عليه وسلم صحح مسلم المنافقون في ات ا in my na me wor hit عبد اللهي بن سلول compl entire tra any of weakness the musim have and they any could against however other num الله سحانه mention that some them may be forgiven while others would be in the lower يقول رحمه الله تعالى اول ما اوحى اليه ربه تبارك وتعالى ان يقرا باسم ربه الذي خلقه وذلك اول نبوته ثم انزل عليه يا ايها المدثر قم فانذر فارسله بها يعني نبئ باقرا ثم ارسل بالمدثر هكذا يقول العلماء يعني كان نبيا مع اقرا ثم ارتقى الى درجه الرساله مع يا ايها المدثر لانه لانه امر بالانذار وقد سبق شرح هذه المساله يقول ثم امره ان ينذر عشيرته الاقربين فانذر قومه ثم انذر من حولاه من العرب ثم انذر العرب قاطبه ثم انذر العالمين فاقام بضع عشره سنه ينذر بغير قتال ويؤمر بالصبر ثم اذن له في الهجره ثم اذن له في القتال ثم امره ان يقاتل من قاتله ثم امره ان يقاتل المشركين حتى يكون الدين كله لله when we look at the entirety of the propet صل الله عليه وسلم his biog the moment between when he was first given the mage of islam the first verses الق the words spoke prophet said الفي الاعلى 23 years these two and 23 الله سبحانه وتالى ch with the change of his environ and circumstances and this is important because for us docum exact that he went through whether be levels of ag levels of defense levels of whatever it is are very important things for us to learn and stud because any islam goes the people who become muslim even if it's one person their circumstances can be compared in ring to the circumstances of the صل الله عليه وسلم الله for those in that position are الله وسلم اسلام صل الله عليه وسلم ملم اقرا بسم ربك الذي خلق was the mus in the world and he was not comm call any elite any that he was commed praise his lord in the bic way and of course he shared wife sheded his companions that that was the that he was that inage position hearn and begin implement isam in as best there are instan where the propet الله عليه وسلم was commed call others not just to call others in general but to invite those who are clos to him conf toite his of trib toite the entirety of his community city of me then it was to invite the entirety of the neighboring arab tribes etc etc expand this isan grow isam wh however ising blocks this now is diverging from the incremental الله سبحانه وتالى صلى الله عليه وسلم ex we ex and this can be d say for instance celebrity famous mus would be great but it doesn't then all of the sudden we inv this celebrity all over to give now celebrity te isam they have not studied isam properly they have not organically seen not learn the langage learn the book قران per some them of قران let aling in arabic let alone memorizing going through the stages of scholarship and this doesn't mean that only scholars give very incorrect what does me for a.
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حتى قال ابن حجر ابن حجر الحافظ العسقلاني رحمه الله قال اصل كل بدعه قول قول الرجل في غير فنه يتكلم في ما لا يتخصص فيه هذا اصل كل بدعه ابن حجر رحمه الله said or اسلام chr chris even more ancient perdis perhap hind perhaps they root back to a prophet some thousands of years ag but now when we look at them and weare them what happens they believe in reincarnation they believe in the trinity they believe that jesus is god they come هذه بد اض شي فشيئا فتراكمت حتى صار الدين كله فسد accumulate until the innovation becomes more than the original and this progression is the diseas of all revelation revelation is revelation because ites from other other than man manel for reas الله سبحانه وتالى pres fin revelation do me that people won try to chelation قران they do every add inov to it all the time but pres in will always schar who are proficient enough to articulate to us exactly said exactly the messenger of صل الله عليه وسلم said and more importantly exactly what they meant with what they said this will always remain in the earth and that will be unch colc the muslim has the entirety of islam ى الله عليه وسلم and so this prog this natural organic prog he receives revelation he doesn't immediately become a messenger he doesn't immediately run down slowly grow not every in circle inle equ isic grow الله سبحانه وتالى قران in incrementally a ver here a chapter here a few verses here why so that it could be useful to us now when we know these the circumstances this is what allah said now we have a blueprint for any time or place that we happen to be and so learning this blueprint is something that thear isam presc meticulously and with incredible precision this has been one of the primary focuses of islamic scholarship from the inception after he started to call to all all of the people then he and his companions were now a minority of muslims living among a hostile majority of non-muslims a h maor nons these are people that areish theming them antagonizing them relentlessly etc then he was all to migrate when he made his migration now the state musl state was established at that point me to have ael of military action to protect preserve interest every country and so if we look in the world today there are countries very few but there are some countries that do not have a military don't have infrastructure f great يقول تعالى لولا دفع الله الناس oric natur وسلم حجره مدين that ملين الله سبحانه وتعالى viol compl prit in their circumstances in me even when they were a minority among majority of hle enemies they were not all to exercise violence with that vi اذنا او اذن الله له في القتال قبل ذلك كان مامورا بالصبر فاعفوا واصفحوا حتى ياتي الله بامره ثم اذن له في القتال ثم بعد ذلك امره ان يقاتل من قاتله ايش الفرق يعني اذن له في القتال من اذا علم انه في جيش مثلا جايين او علم انه في حدا يقطع طريق المسلمين فله ان يدفع يدفع بالسيف ثم بعد ذلك ان يقاتل من قاتله يعني بينه وبين قبيله او بينه وبين جهه معينه من جهات العرب عداوه ما في بينهم ليس ثم بينهما عهد فانه يقاتلهم ويتربص لهم و يغزوهم في جميع الاحوال انه ما في عهد فاذا كانت مثلا في حموله او كانت جماعه ماشيه كان في مثلا ابل جايين من الشام في التجاره فان المسلمين يستولوا عليها هذا هو الحرب وهذا ليس من الغزو العشوائي هذا للمحافظه على دوله المسلمين وهم يقابلون بمثله هذا هو طبع الحرب طبيعه الحرب هكذا واما المعارك الكبيره فهذه تكون اندر من الغزوات الخفيفه ثم امره ان يقاتل المشركين حتى يكون الدين كله لله والمقصود هنا القتال الذي يستقر فيه العدل والامن صار دوله المسلمين هي الدوله الحاكمه وهي تاتي بالامن لبقيه جزيره العرب ف الان في هذه الفتره وهي فتره العزه فتره السؤدد فالان هم امراء العرب للناس ان يدخلوا في الاسلام ولا اكراه في الدين وللناس ان يؤدوا الجزيه ويكون لهم مال المسلمين وعليهم ما على المسلمين او لهم ان يقاتلوا كما هي طبيعه كل دوله وهذه الدعايات التي ياتي بها المستشرقون يريدون ان يتهموا المسلمين ب يعني يقولون انتشر الاسلام بالسيف وما شابه ذلك هذا كلام كله حكي غير مضبوط اكثر الاسلام واكثر المسلمين دخلوا في الاسلام بالدعوه بدعوه المسلمين لكن في هذه الفترات وفي دوله المسلمين وفي كل دوله يكون لها نوع من العز ونوع من السؤدد فانه لا بد ان يكون سيف في يد وك كتاب في يد لازم لذلك الله سبحانه وتعالى ذكر هذه الفتره وقال لقد ارسلنا رسلنا بالبينات وانزلنا معهم الكتاب والميزان ليقوم الناس بالقسط وانزلنا الحديد لابد حفاظا على راس المال حفاظا على هذه دعوه وعلى متبعيه ومتبع هذا الدين and so we see the natural progression first he was allowed to use violence meaning in a state of total necessity after this he was allowed to plan skirmishes he was allowed to use offensive warfare as a deterrent and as a form of defensive warfare after tries andin maor ofs then ofs inin to esta jti in the land to esta order to esta law any ma goverment people different tyes relig so no was is no was يعني is رحمه الله undesirable for a superior to invite his what mean a person person other people man toite is no for those is and so any des ent isam was always option however person to retain his religion.
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tr fr in bad very ironic for a country such america that is absolut envel in tax i mean we are and then after that when you spend the money taxes taken out and the other person that earns the money taxes are taken out when you inherit money taxes are taken out when you win the lottery taxes are taken out when you go to the casino taxes are taken out when you.
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andic and then in this environment what is is something which is you know unacceptable tax that every cz has to pay ta الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم لعن صاحب المكوس المكس ما هو المكوس المكس هي الضريبه التي تكون للملك او للامير خلاص يؤخذ قصرا من الناس له كذا وكذا هذا اسمه مكوس وصاحب المكوس هو الذي يذهب للامير او يذهب للملك وخذها من الناس هذا ملعون ملعون من اخذها لماذا لانه ياخذ من الناس مالهم ولا يعطيهم شيء بدل هذا المال الزكاه والجزيه ما لها دخل في المكوس لان الزكاه والجزيه هذه تؤخذ فترد على من على الناس قل فاخبرهم ان الله افترض عليهم صدقه تؤخذ من اغنيائهم فترد على فقرائهم وكذلك الجزيه الذمي يدفع الجزيه لماذا لانه يريد حمايه المسلمين حفظ المسلمين باس المسلمين اذا كان في سبب لذلك ان حدا غزاهم فالمسلمون يقفون و عون لذلك في التاريخ افضل اماكن جلس فيها الذميون عند المسلمين كانوا في بلدانهم يقتلون ويذبحون ويسجنون ويظلمون فكان النصراني وال اليهودي او يسكن في بلاد المسلمين كان يسكن يعطي الجزيه اذا كان من من يستطيع اعطاء الجزيه وله الحمايه وله كذا لكن يقيم يقام فيهم العدل ويقام فيهم حكم الاسلام لابد وكذلك طبع جميع الحكومات ما في فرق الا ان هذه الحكومه حكومه مبناها تقوى الله والخوف من الله ومبناها قول النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من قتل ذميا فلا يشم رائحه الجنه هكذا يقول صلى الله عليه وسلم ماله ان يفعل ذلك.
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17 1 de of independence was written when the party exed all these things the american revolution what was the purpose of it the reason was the taxes they were being taxed by the kings in eng and their money was being taken even they est andan revolution was bn that kind of tax tax which is aage is صل الله عليه وسلم سبحانه again what kind of taxes are weing tax that are to a particular r leader the leader is taking and not giv anything back he taking the this عليه وسلم right someone goes to col the or someone is commissioned with collecting person prit from taking any gi even need sewing need prit the the gift is this is kind different than taxation that we have in modern days so our taxes for instance in america largely not entirely but largely taxes are based on a kind of coal sy taxes basn andy is pulled together and distributed in way of infrastructure or pling or sewage roads right so a lot of the benefits police ambulance fire right rescue all these things so benefits taxes are returned upon the cens that is very different than the taxes of england in the 1700s over the first colonizers here so the point is is that when islam was established in the land and the rule of law law of the qur was establ people could mus and where tyes of people no else nothing el and taken strictly from five types of wealth nothing else and no else and all of that isb among the community was taken from this is and is very s which collected by the muslim state from those who are non muslims they are cens of that state and what do they get in return not just a tax that is taken they get in return protection milit their land صلى الله عليه وسلم a the me mean someone who is citizen of the muslim stat is not muslim this person will never smell the of parad is incredible war that not mus me in s and so their wealth their blood is all protected by the muslim state they get that in return and they get to use the infrastructure of the muslim state and they may be in some situations very slim sit for even and so this is the between tax and and is some kind of evil thing is not some kind of wicked bloodthirsty you know as it as it is portrayed by antagon of islam and the uneducated and unaware rather this is a protection and this is them contu toy isation for but very ironic that a person who lives in you know a place country like america where we are literally taxed taxed for being taxed our taxes are taxed right for us to you know thum and find be is you what is how can make non yeah how can you make an american citizen born and raised they get tax for everything you buy bubblegum and you get tax for it right and the person who collects the tax they're going to get tax for it too and when they pay their workers they're going to get taxed to so the dollar is tax 20 times and it has no end forever and our economy is bas dollar print init meaning we only get our money from the federal reserve and dollar that comes them we ow them interest we can get money from them how do we ever pay that ir كل حال r in time the great muslat اعلم وصلى الله وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى اله واصحبه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين next ان شاء الله att.