MUST WATCH: What is Fracturing The Muslim Ummah || Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan

The Muslims once built the greatest libraries in the world. Today, our manuscripts sit in cities like Berlin and Princeton, catalogued by orientalists who've spent years learning our language while we scroll past our own history. In this lecture, Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan walks through how the salaf approached books, why Yusuf ibn Tashfin crossed the sea at ninety years old to rescue Andalus, and why one Muslim ruler was humiliated into receiving letters from his enemy dictating the terms of his own defeat. The argument is simple and uncomfortable: if you don't read, your understanding of history will be whatever someone else decided to teach you such as Henry VIII and his wives, the Romans, the Tudors. Everything about who you are as a Muslim, what your civilisation built, and the ideological war being waged on your ummah right now, sits in books that are collecting dust. This lecture is a call to pick them up. Timestamps 00:00:00 Precap 01:50 Introduction: The Importance of Reading 02:46 Why Allah Swore by the Pen 03:30 The Two Types of Bayan (Ibn al-Qayyim) 04:00 How the Salaf Treated Their Books 04:30 Ibn al-Mubarak: "I'm Sitting With the Companions" 05:57 Al-Zuhri's Wife: "Worse Than Three Co-Wives" 07:14 Reading Through Illness 08:30 Al-Hasan al-Lu'lu'i: 40 Years With a Book on His Chest 09:38 Even the Call of Nature Didn't Stop Them 10:32 A Flight From Egypt Showed Me the Problem 11:15 The Orientalists Are Reading Our Books 11:52 Who Published Our Manuscripts? 12:25 4 Books Every Muslim Must Read by Mahmud Shakir, Ibn Ashur, Qabawa & Shakib Arslan 17:10 "He Would Not Put a Book on His Shelf Except That He Read It" 17:52 How to Read a Book Properly: 3 Techniques 20:39 One Foundational Book Per Science 20:53 Aqeedah → Sharh Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi of Aqeedah al-Tahawiyyah 22:44 Tawheed → Fath al-Majeed 23:33 Nahw → Sharh Ibn Aqil of Alfiyah Ibn Malik 25:02 Mustalah al-Hadith: 2 Books 29:17 The Cost of Not Reading 33:16 Why We Read as Muslims 35:50 Some Books Must Be Read on Repeat 37:23 ChatGPT vs the Dictionary 39:02 Where to Start in Arabic Studies: Al-Misbah al-Munir 40:01 Reading as a Refuge From Falsehood 41:48 The Fall of Andalus 45:47 Read Your History, or Learn Someone Else's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abdu... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/AMA... Telegram: https://t.me/+c87I9vy6kqkxOWZk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rahmaniyyahofficial WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0... X (Formerly Twitter): https://x.com/UstAbdulrahman #abdulrahmanhassan #AlMadrasatuArRahmaniyyah #AMAR