How Islam changed between the Salaf & Khalaf, (Neo-Islamicism) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

now there is something I'd like to discuss with us and that is people I'd like to discuss how Islam changed or the changes that were brought about in Islam after the seller the seller or the the the early generations of Islam which of the Sahaba that ever in in the earth about having up to the generation of

like Imam Malik after this Islam it begins in that kind of time but really after them it cements and solidifies as a different entity almost not as an entirely different entity but the period after them are known as the helath those who come after okay now the hell of this some religion Islam during their time undergoes a huge institutionalization process religion becomes systematized it

becomes structure alized and institutionalized it gets linked in with Empire with with a lot of kind of this whole system creed becomes codified we now know what dogma appears all of a sudden and replaces faith it's more about dogma meth-heads up here now when people start kind of they want to just restrict people in all aspects now this I'm not saying has to be that it that

this structural ization or institutionalization of Islam has to be a bad thing I'm not saying that but it does bring within a new face of Islam one thing you can't deny is the face of Islam is modified this is what I would like to refer to as Neo Islamists ISM okay so Islam is obviously there but it's now got this new structural face it's got all these Bolton's and this now represents Islam this is from the time

of the Caliph so art either becomes a it comes on the scene meth-heads land on the scene Empire is now linked to religion religious expansionism political things are well entrenched I mean oh some of these things were there before but in a very prototype version okay politics was there before but the other things about the religion so the politics earlier on was kind of almost divorced from religion to quite a strong

extent so Bonio mayor were very political in their way and very kind of Pro tribal but they weren't necessarily trying to push this whole Islam Islam Islam they weren't trying to act like the ambassador's of Islam or linked with religion either in fact they didn't even really care much for scholars and but with the Abbasids as the Abbasid start to develop this culture emerges that locks in and the clergy with the state it creates a new culture for the clergy

a new institutionalization of the religion and with this there's a lot of things that go on you see Muslims in in hindsight view the is view the Quran like we view it with our understanding that we've developed afterwards and it's important that we understand this point so Muslims today or even are at that point like let's say a thousand years ago when they started then reading the Quranic was about affirming ideas that

they've already now got it wasn't so much about it wasn't a blank canvas anymore the ideas were already there and Islam the Quran was simply now a kind of proving a confirmation bias so let's say miracles or these kind of things or anything people would now look into the Quran only to affirm the views they already have so this era of neo Islamism is interest and this happened like I'd like you to like I'll give you some

examples like look not about this but just how we view the Quran with things that came of them we retrospectively apply them back onto the Quran so let's say as an example here's a good example the word like older man right so the word Allah MA Israel is generally understood as scholars of Islam in nya Shailaja may I buy the Hiller anima in verse of the Quran indeed the ulema are

those who fear Allah but you see you've got to understand that Oh Lamar is a term that the Sahaba in the time of the Prophet didn't exist like this there was no clergy there was no orlimar like that so this

Surrey is just trying to alright ok now this so when the prophet read this to the companions there was no clue who were they thinking of when they read the word Olam ah because there was no Ola ma who did the Arabs used to refer to as orlimar people with insight with knowledge today the word Olam are in Arabic for example is used for scientists as an example in general Arabic they'll say allah ma means scientist in the time of the prophet or

the moment people of deep insight and knowledge we read the quran with this understanding that Rolla ma is talking about the clergy that's a perfect example of hindsight retrospectively superimposing concepts on the quran so if this is making sense that's what I'd like to explain another good example is like Allah saying in the quran in ej i know fil ardi khalifa i am placing a

halifa now today we understand this to mean representative we understand this to mean you see in the time of the Prophet they never used to use the word Khalifa for like kings and deputies so the Arabs the jhilik Arabs never used to say oh these are the hoola fire these are the Kings they would call them Malik Kings they would call them the the new Kaaba of a tribe the Sayyed of a tribe they wouldn't say the halifa this was a word that obviously existed in Islam I mean in the Arabic language

it emerges after the Prophet when abu bakr radiallahu an is deemed and given the title the accolade you are khalifa to rasool allah you have come after the rasool halifa means after something that comes at the end health from the word health then what happened is in almost time they said we can't call you Holly fatale hanifa so we're gonna call you a mere Amin then this would refer develops a political understanding of a ruler in

Islam so you start to get the whole affair of money a year and the whole affair so what happens in time to come if halifa does not mean a successor it does not mean a successor it's taken on that meaning it does not mean a successor in that I said it means somebody that yeah I suppose is taken on that meaning it means somebody that comes at the end of and you could say well yes you succeed him but it wasn't necessarily about a chain of succession it wasn't like that

hence they changed the term when it came to Omar because now it's just getting khalifatul Khalifa and Holly fertile Holly fertile Khalifa so it wasn't about that it was about the end so something that comes as the end of something and then it's adopted this understanding of a deputy this is the understanding it's adopted in later Islam in political philosophy within Islam but then what we've done is we now when we read the Quran and read the word halifa we carry our understanding which wasn't there in the time of the Prophet so when the

Prophet was speaking to people and read to them the verses that inni ja'ilun fill of the khalifa right in somebody just saying hey bro i'm knowledgeable on this behave a bro I'm knowledgeable on this you think I'm just sitting here for you behave yourself right so the thing is look I leave for mej I don't feel of the Khalifa I'm placing a halifa in the earth this is why halifa

here the original understanding would have mean would have meant the atom was coming at the end of something in that a whole chain of hominins would have preceded him and he was at the end okay so that is something for for you to understand then this understanding of a deputy on earth and stuff like this comes much later on it is through neo Islamists thought so through the understanding of the halluf it's re-engineered and superimposed onto the

Quran so I want you to share that tip with you that look understand this when you look at the Quran try to understand terminologies when you read it how would have the Companions understood this when this was revealed because they didn't have these terms that we have today and they didn't have that psychosocial narrative that reflected it either so it's worth it's worth kind of definitely pondering over