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Al I get the most controversial
question out of all the questions that
were sent up and I'm lucky because I get
to run away so none of you can confront
me
afterwards um but I have the question
about uh the sea burial of uh Usama Bin
Laden and I know that that's the most
controversial question obviously out of
all of these papers but we're not going
to shy away from them um first and
foremost I request everyone to approach
the topic with maturity and please do
not misconstrue my words in any way
shape or form and I'm going to answer
the question and I'm going to answer it
very direct and number one we have to
separate between whether or not we
supported Usama bin ladin and whether or
not a sea burial is permissible there
are two totally different issues okay
number one um and I saw that
unfortunately sometimes as Muslims we
have a tendency to react with
emotion uh to certain things and you
cannot repel evil with evil
you cannot repel evil with evil now I
understand that there are the 911
truthers and there are the people that
speak about all the different things
that happened in 911 and did he really
give a confession or not and these types
of things but the fact of the matter is
and and and anyone who has read the
history of this person before 911 he was
someone that the scholars confronted
like and many others and he did without
a doubt have the views that are very
similar to those of the
and I make that statement very clear
without any hesitation it's not an
apologetic answer his history starts
before 9/11 and wasallam informed us
about the and this is why it's important
for us not to go based upon emotions
that said when you see the how would you
feel about
them you would feel like your Salah is
nothing compared to theirs they would
cause you to have a a a sort of a mini
crisis because you would see them they
read Quran as if AB described them and
like Buzzing Bees their eyes became red
from how often and frequently they were
reading Quran they appeared to be a very
Pious people but alai wasallam said if I
live to see them then I will fight
against them and these are the only
people that the messengeri wasallam gave
such a a a harsh description of he
called them the dogs of the people of
hell I'm not saying that I'm not passing
a judgment on an individual I'm talking
about a mentality now of the and
essentially the pass kufur on many
different Muslims they pass a verdict of
disbelief on many different Muslims they
show complete disregard to innocent life
and this is essentially the same track
that Usama bin ladin was taking and the
scholars were talking to him way before
9/11 about his views and his mentality
in that regard as for the individual as
for the individual as Muslims we do not
pass a judgment in on an individual I
don't care how disgusting or despise
that in despised that individual is we
cannot say to any human being or about
any human being definitely that he is in
Hellfire we can condemn the actions we
cannot condemn the person to Hellfire
because only Allah subhanahu wa taala
knows what took place in the last
moments of his life so Muslims also
should be very very very careful because
this is the only faith in which passing
a judgment of kufur upon another person
justifies in essence passing a judgment
of kufur on yourself of disbelief on
yourself we do not pass a judgment on
the individual situation in the that is
extremely dangerous however without a
doubt we condemn his actions we condemn
his beliefs we you know we we don't
believe in killing innocent people we
don't hold the views that he held in
that regard I would recommend everyone
and I would advise everyone to read a
very good article the most balanced
article that I read in regards to this
was the one by y uh that posted on
Muslim matters.org uh uh a few days
after the death of usam Bin ladin the
most balanced statement that came out
out of all of the organizations was the
one from the Vatican from the Catholic
Church ironically so we don't Rejoice at
the death of a human being this is not
the believer's situation we're not going
to go beat our chests like animals and
and want to see pictures of heads being
split apart in body parts we don't
celebrate death we condemn demn the
actions we condemn the individual we
hope that that in the future there is
more peace in the world and we hope that
people that used you know people that
propagate these views would essentially
their views would be eliminated their
mentalities would be eliminated in that
regard so that was the most balanced
statement in that regard as for the sea
burial itself because this caused a lot
of questions in the community especially
is it permissible to bury someone at Sea
because essentially what was said is
that this was done in accordance with
Islamic law and the answer and I'm not
going to beat around the bush is
no absolutely not there is nothing
within our books of Islamic law that
allow a person that died on land to be
buried at Sea if a person dies at Sea
and that person's body would become
decomposed before that person could be
brought to land and buried at land then
there are circumstances that would
permit such a thing however not in any
circumstance do we have any clearcut
just open invitation to dump a body at
Sea regardless of how we felt about that
human being with that being said also
balance now on the other side because
that is the complete apologetic side
which is to say that the Shar permits
this according to Mercy and these types
of things a person could easily be
buried in an unmarked grave a person
could easily be buried in a place where
he would not be found this is not
something that's impossible so that
issue yes the apologetic uh answer is
too far it went to an extreme on the
other hand as Muslims I don't think we
should dwell so much on this issue that
we forget people that are fighting for
their Justice people that are fighting
for their freedoms innocent people that
are being M murdered daily in the Muslim
world we should be concerned about
what's happening with them so I don't
think we should dwell too much um on the
issue in that regard um and I and I ask
Allah subhana to protect us from going
to Extremes in either way
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