Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Revival and Revivalist June 7, 2015

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Quran 81:29 · At-Takwir
Sahih Ibn Hibban, Hadith no. 361
Quran 2:249 · Al-Baqarah
Quran 13:17 · Ar-Ra'd
Quran 7:12 · Al-A'raf
Quran 38:85 · Sad
Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 6018
Quran 4:69 · An-Nisa
Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith no. 4291
Quran 6:108 · Al-An'am
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Hadith: a reviver comes every century for this faith
“Allah will send a mujaddid at the head of every century”
5 min 35 sec
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How Allah, not any one man, revives a nation
“People chase who was the reviver of which century — that's secondary”
2 min 7 sec
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God's role is primary, the reviver's is secondary
“Take these verses seriously and a mujaddid's role becomes secondary”
3 min 57 sec
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Decline is natural, but violent revival is outdated
“The Muslim ummah will face decline, but it will never end”
2 min 11 sec
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Fighting for Islamic rule ignores that kingship ended
“Today, huge folly is happening in the name of jihad”
49 sec
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Quran verse: small groups overcome larger ones
“A small group has often overcome a much larger group”
2 min 35 sec
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Research shows challenge awakens a group's creativity
“Research shows exactly how the defeated rise again”
4 min 27 sec
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From partition despair to predicting Muslims would become heroes
“After 1947's partition, everyone said Muslims had no future”
38 sec
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India is opportunity, not a problem, for Muslims
“India is not a problem country, it's a country of opportunity”
2 min 13 sec
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Muslim press only prints negative news, never good news
“Yesterday a man told me about a huge donation no paper reported”
48 sec
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Muslims in India already have an economic base
“Muslims in India have already gained an economic base”
52 sec
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Dawah means becoming a giver, not a taker
“Dawah lifts you from a taker group into a giver group”
53 sec
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A reviver is self-appointed, unlike a prophet
“A mujaddid's role isn't an appointment, it's self-discovery”
2 min 2 sec
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No opportunity is itself the biggest opportunity
“A young man came back from America saying there's no scope in India”
5 min 22 sec
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Calling it discrimination is really following Satan's language
“Complaining about discrimination in India — I consider that forbidden”
43 sec
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Discrimination is really the price of backwardness
“Life has competition and challenge — someone advances, someone falls behind”
1 min 21 sec
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Dawah is not a waste of money or time
“Why do Muslims consider dawah a waste of money?”
1 min 3 sec
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Why later generations lose the spirit of faith
“This always happens — it happened to past nations too”
2 min 8 sec
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Difference between reviving faith and modernizing it away
“What's the difference between tajdid and tajaddud?”
5 min 39 sec
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Why exiled Jews modernized while ghettoed Muslims didn't
“Twice the Jews were driven out of Palestine, into diaspora”
57 sec
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Jewish college gave Jewish students no grace marks
“A Muslim studied in a Jewish college in America”
1 min 18 sec
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Muslims understand favors but not the value of challenge
“A Muslim studied in a Jewish college in America”