Clips — The Crises Management September 18, 2011

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Crisis management concerns every person and nation

“Today's topic is crisis management”

5 min 18 sec

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What a crisis is and how to manage one

“What is a crisis?”

23 sec

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Difference between an ordinary problem and a crisis

“A crisis is really what we call a problem”

54 sec

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Two cars deadlocked — the defensive driving lesson

“Suppose you're driving and a car comes head-on”

28 sec

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Muslims trapped in crisis despite Prophet's model existing

“Our Muslim community today is trapped in crisis”

1 min 50 sec

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The Prophet's caravan and the narrow mountain pass

“The Prophet was traveling from Mecca to Taif with 12,000 people”

44 sec

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Rethink and reassess when a new situation hits

“When a new situation arises, you must rethink”

4 min 52 sec

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The Prophet's model of crisis management, Mecca to Hudaybiyyah

“Look at how the Prophet handled it in Mecca”

2 min 21 sec

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The plot to kill the Prophet and the migration decision

“Mecca's tribal parliament plotted to kill the Prophet”

2 min 8 sec

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Hudaybiyyah treaty: accepting one-sided terms for peace

“The Hudaybiyyah incident — the Prophet was going to perform Umrah”

5 min 27 sec

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Colonial conquest misread as war on Islam, not a tech gap

“Let's go deeper — Islam began in 610 CE in Mecca”

1 min 19 sec

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Colonial dominance was technology, not hatred of Islam

“This was due to technological supremacy”

1 min 51 sec

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Suicide bombing, silent scholars, and the Quran's law of alternating fortune

“Muslims still live thinking everyone is their enemy”

2 min 22 sec

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The French Revolution ended the age of empires forever

“In 18th-century France came the French Revolution”

2 min 24 sec

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How Deng Xiaoping's rethink revived China's economy

“Then there arose a man named Deng Xiaoping”

56 sec

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China's revival is a lesson for Muslim civilization

“Muslims should learn from how China managed its crisis”

5 min 53 sec

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How the Pope kept his title by giving up an empire

“In Europe, the Pope once had power over every government”

3 min 46 sec

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Muslims' failure at crisis management: Palestine, Kashmir, 200 wasted years

“Muslims' biggest failure this era is the art of crisis management”

21 sec

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Result is the only real criterion for judging movements

“Result — result is the only criteria”

40 sec

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Palestine could have thrived had Arabs accepted partition

“If Arabs had accepted the Balfour verdict on Palestine”

25 sec

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Kashmir could have been like Switzerland today

“The same thing happened in Kashmir”

33 sec

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Reconciliation, not confrontation, is the Quranic principle

“The Quran says: reconciliation is better”

2 min 32 sec

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Every crisis gives two options: manage it or fight it

“The biggest problem of this era is only confrontation”

54 sec

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Problems are part of life and God's plan

“Life is full of problems — part of life, part of nature”

2 min

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Hadith: even a wrong ijtihad still earns reward

“A hadith says a correct ijtihad earns double reward”

51 sec

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Ijtihad is creative thinking, taqleed is frozen thinking

“Ijtihad is really just the name for creative thinking”

35 sec

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What true solitary prayer actually looks like

“You're alone in your room, thinking of God's majesty”

4 min 56 sec

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Why Muslims must admit 'we were wrong' before change

“We must be able to say: I was wrong, we were wrong”

1 min 14 sec

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Why did ijtihad become taboo among Muslims

“Why is ijtihad considered taboo by Muslims today?”

2 min 14 sec

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Does having a hafiz child guarantee family paradise

“We give huge importance to having a hafiz in the family”