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U ovoj lekciji se raspravlja o krizi liderstva među muslimanima, posebno u kontekstu nedavne uvredljive izjave jednog svjetskog vođe prema muslimanskom kralju. Predavač ističe da današnji lideri često nemaju viziju niti misiju, te da služe vlastitim interesima umjesto dobrobiti zajednice. Kroz analizu nedostatka liderstva, naglašava se važnost pravde, morala i odgovornosti koju lideri imaju prema Allahu i ljudima, pozivajući na vraćanje osnovnim islamskim vrijednostima koje je podučavao Poslanik, sallallahu alejhi ve sellem.
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0:00 Brothers and dear friends, assalamu alaikum, rahmatullah.
0:01 Today we are speaking
0:05 about
0:06 a statement
0:07 from the president of the strongest world power today, who said
0:09 literally,
0:13 that one of the most famous Muslim rulers
0:15 must kiss the backside.
0:18 Of course, he said it even more vulgarly.
0:20 Naravno on je to rekao još volgarnije.
0:23 So, if he does not love the backside, the rear, however you want to say it,
0:30 then in fact, there will probably be more severe consequences.
0:35 I first read this statement in the early hours on social media,
0:41 I thought it was AI and that it was fabricated.
0:52 However, later I saw the footage and realized that the media here
0:58 and in the region are indeed reporting this and portraying it as extremely,
0:59 offensive, regarding that man who is the future king,
1:02 of one of the strongest,
1:04 most important Muslim countries
1:06 in the world, so in fact,
1:09 This is truly a form of degradation.
1:12 In the end, the roles that this man has today, and will have tomorrow,
1:21 especially regarding the two worlds, haram, Mecca, and Medina. But,
1:27 this is something that a normal person cannot truly understand,
1:28 such a person who leads the world today is indeed leading it towards destruction,
1:33 into conflicts, possibly a Third World War and other such matters.
1:36 That such people are in positions of power and express themselves so vulgarly,
1:41 so shamelessly insulting,
1:43 and
1:44 so simply.
1:45 They are coming from a position of power and so on.
1:46 So, this matter has certainly stirred me,
1:52 I believe many of you who followed it, and it truly sparked a flood of comments.
1:57 It is somehow appropriate for me to say a few words today about the crisis of
2:03 litosphere among Muslims.
2:08 That is one reason. The second reason is that this morning I happened to come across this booklet
2:11 of about 85 to 90 pages,
2:14 The Bible for Managers.
2:20 And to be honest, I found it quite appealing when I picked it up; I took a few more books with it.
2:22 So, it was relatively inexpensive. I took it and read it today.
2:25 For about half an hour and 40 minutes, smaller books.
2:29 I was curious about what a person actually says.
2:33 Under this title, The Bible for Managers. I thought there would be some biblical content, some Christian values, and so on. However, no.
2:41 The person is merely economic.
2:43 In a way, they have misused,
2:45 or rather exploited
2:46 the title of the Bible and wrote a
2:49 book, literature, which is actually advice.
2:53 It has the ambition to advise managers,
2:57 ugliness,
2:58 the leader and so on, thus within the Western
3:02 world. And it is very interesting in that... Literature... I hope, if Allah wills, that there are... Very interesting things
3:07 to convey from this book, and perhaps, if Allah wills, I will make a short video about it. However, what I actually wanted to say today is related to this
3:17 challenge and one of the problems that we all seem to notice or should notice, is the evident leadership crisis among Muslims today. Muslims actually have very poor leaders,
3:30 and this is at all levels, if you want, on a global Muslim
3:34 level,
3:35 if you want, on national levels.
3:37 Look, and if you want even in religious
3:40 circles, or in a religious context. Thus, we simply have major problems arising
3:46 from these deficiencies.
3:49 leadership
3:50 etc. Here I have outlined seven things that actually highlight
3:57 the mentioned problem,
3:59 but at the same time tries to understand what we could possibly do today, and what is the state of Muslims today or, if you will, the Muslim world.
4:10 The first thing we see in today's Muslim leadership, or lack thereof,
4:17 is that we have leaders or heads of state who simply lack
4:26 both vision and a clear mission,
4:29 that is, the message and the function they hold. Simply put, people without vision lead us, people who
4:38 do not look far ahead. Such individuals often represent
4:43 the Muslims,
4:44 And often they represent Islam. So, this is definitely in the wrong way.
4:57 Thus, the essence of Islam, as taught by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
4:58 should be the spreading of justice,
4:59 morality,
5:01 tawhid,
5:10 monotheism,
5:13 and good behavior, and so on. These are all things that the Prophet
5:22 sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught his companions, asking them for.
5:23 The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked Muslims,
5:26 Muslim leaders, Muslim heads, at any level, to be aware of the trust they have from Allah, the Exalted.
5:29 or the entire community, but even more to have awareness
5:33 of the trust of the Exalted Allah, Jalla... Shan. Unfortunately, it seems
5:39 I personally do not see among the Muslim
5:42 Muslim leaders,
5:43 and so on. Another thing that truly arises within this loss of vision,
5:54 it seems to me, may be my mistaken perception, is that Muslim leaders today absolutely,
6:00 seem to serve their own interests first and foremost, and of course, those close male circles
6:08 thus, according to the system of who is closer, he will also be warmed.
6:12 And the welfare of the community, or the welfare of all those being led, is not considered.
6:18 I also do not see today's leaders lacking this vision,
6:25 that they have a clear purpose, so what is it that they do, what do they represent,
6:32 what are their goals, what are their plans, what is their strategy, and so on. This is
6:39 not clearly seen in them. What this tells us is that the public function of governance,
6:44 leadership, or if you will, has simply become an end in itself. You will see this later in
7:03 this book, if Allah wills, that people have realized they are an end in themselves,
7:04 so the professor has imagined he is an end in himself, rather than being at the service of
7:10 his students.
7:11 From the imams,
7:14 that is, leaders of a certain local community, and so on, where people have clearly mixed
7:21 some
7:23 Thus, the disconnect
7:24 between knowledge and the functions they perform.
7:27 Today, you have a situation where people are appointed to positions
7:33 without basic Islamic knowledge, fundamental sharia matters, which they should know, yet they are placed in responsible roles,
7:41 which require
7:42 a person to have truly extensive Islamic knowledge,
7:46 to be proficient in Arabic, English,
7:50 to be well-versed in classical Islamic literature,
7:53 to understand the contemporary Muslim world, to have, thus, certain connections, relationships, and so on. Unfortunately, we often do not see this. Thus, we often face a marginalization
8:06 of the scholars. Thus, the scholars who are simply marginalized,
8:10 which simply is not in any political or social context.
8:14 Unfortunately, often the scholars
8:16 are marginalized even by the official
8:18 so to speak, scholars,
8:20 or rather the official
8:22 bodies that possibly govern the Muslim nations,
8:25 which is actually definitely wrong. In history,
8:29 Islam had extremely influential scholars who affected the behavior of rulers,
8:45 who influenced the direction, the course, however you want to say it, of the Muslim society. Unfortunately, we do not see that today.
8:49 So we have all this immorality
8:52 in the world. So, what is truly one of the great problems.
8:57 The third thing we have
9:00 in this somewhat cross-section of the situation
9:04 of the Muslim crisis.
9:06 leaders,
9:07 is actually authoritarian models of governance. So, what does authoritarian mean?
9:13 It means that these are people who simply
9:16 have no
9:16 in any way any responsibility
9:19 towards the people they lead. That's one thing. Another thing is that these are people who have somehow imagined themselves to be the measure of things,
9:28 they simply...
9:30 They simply fight against different opinions, so anyone who presents
9:40 different views or disagrees with them automatically becomes an enemy.
9:42 They create blacklists,
9:44 they make lists of undesirables,
9:47 and so on, and this is all, in fact,
9:50 a classic form of authoritarian
9:53 regime. And so you have them, I say again,
9:54 from religious,
9:55 to cultural issues, up to our national
9:58 And so, our local
10:00 things that we can actually see everywhere. This way, initiatives are stifled.
10:06 Initiatives are especially stifled among younger people. So, younger people
10:12 tend to step aside, to the background...
10:19 because they cannot express themselves. There are older people,
10:27 who are nearing retirement or are retired, who simply dictate things.
10:32 And these younger ones, they are, well, in a kind of stagnation
10:33 that is just as it is. Also, within this authoritarian
10:35 approach,
10:37 we have a situation
10:42 This is not only in Syria; in almost all Muslim societies,
10:48 people are not allowed to criticize,
10:50 the governor,
10:51 the chief, the mufti, this, that. So, simply fear.
10:55 Thus, fear is within people, and they become paralyzed by it, which is definitely one of the
11:05 great problems of Muslim leadership
11:08 today. Instead of developing trust, instead of fostering dialogue, instead of promoting,
11:19 that interaction, the exchange of ideas, we have fear, threats, intimidation
11:22 and so on. The fourth thing,
11:25 which is somehow evident
11:27 there is a lack
11:29 of nurturing leaders.
11:30 Unfortunately,
11:32 it seems to me that we simply
11:34 do not have a systematic,
11:35 planned
11:36 approach to nurturing future leaders, people who will guide us in ten, twenty, fifty years. So, everything seems to be left to chance and we are not doing what the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) did.
11:48 To nurture people, to educate people, to prepare and teach them,
11:54 about things that will be important for their future engagement. Just as the Prophet (s.a.w.) did with Hazrat Umar, with Hazrat Ali, with the young people he sent as governors, and so on. Here, the focus is often on formalities,
12:11 on formalism,
12:13 In certain procedures, which, truly, everyone is deeply engaged in this booklet.
12:18 Where, where is the form
12:20 has become an end in itself, thus, not the essence, and it often
12:25 in some way loses its meaning. The next thing or fifth is fragmentation
12:31 of the ummah.
12:32 Today we simply have too much fragmentation,
12:35 where Muslims are divided into their camps, where you have various sects,
12:46 where you have various movements, where you have various parties, where you have various... Thus, everyone is simply within their own group,
12:51 thus the main one does not tolerate the other, has no interaction with the other.
13:04 And in this way, thus, we simply have no effective strength. Just like the example in Spain. Thus, Muslim Spain fell apart in a way that it was first divided into small, thus, emirates,
13:21 So where you have a sad state, where some backstab each other,
13:30 even though there is an interest at stake, but he does not want it,
13:33 and thus that party.
13:35 Something is desired. So, indeed, this is a big,
13:39 big problem that weakens the Muslim
13:40 unity and Muslims in general. The next thing,
13:47 sixth,
13:48 in the criticism of Muslim leaders or generally in thinking about the
13:52 crisis of Muslim leadership,
13:58 is that Muslim leaders have lost the trust of the people.
14:02 or rather sometimes without faith.
14:04 So these are really questions we need to ask ourselves. Most of our world,
14:18 the ordinary world, when you talk to them, actually sees those in power,
14:20 those in positions, first and foremost as corrupt.
14:25 So they say, these are corrupt people. These are people who have sold
14:32 their souls, as they say, to shaytan or have sold themselves to certain
14:37 interest groups for 1,000, 100,000,
14:41 a million, ten million, more or less. So, they are seen as corrupt.
14:44 Another thing, how the authorities and leaders
14:55 are viewed, they are often seen as insincere.