Unity, Waiting for Imam Mahdi & AI Mujtahids with Shaykh Shuayb Wani

We often hear from Muslims that our ummah suffers from disunity on a local, national and international level. Slight differences of opinion can cause major divisions. Our countries remain deeply divided between themselves and there is an impression that has consolidated that we will not be able to recover our position. This situation has led to despondency. Helplessness and in the extreme, an acceptance of the status quo. But is this written? Is there anything we can do about this parlous situation? Have we come to the end of Muslim civilisation, and are we now merely managing decline? Are we waiting for the Mahdi, a leader who will change our situation? Or is there anything we can do about our predicament? To help us understand the issues of unity and division from an Islamic perspective we have invited Shaykh Dr. Shuayb Wani.

Dr. Shuayb Wani is the Director and Co-Founder of the Dār Al ‘Ilm Institute https://daralilm.org - He grew up in Indian-occupied Kashmir and started his quest to learn Islamic ‘Ulūm during his schooling years. He completed his foundational Islāmic Studies in India, and at Al-Azhar University, Egypt. He devoted 10 years to studying advanced Islāmic Studies specializing in Usūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) at the International Islamic University, Malaysia. He holds a PhD in : “The Legal Thought of Imam al-Shafi‘i” published in 2021. He has 20 years experience of teaching Islamic ulum. He lives in Istanbul with his family.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 103

0:00 Introduction
2:27 Our Current Situation
5:10 Hadith on 73 Sects
10:25 Regulating Differences
13:57 Praiseworthy Ikhtilaf
21:27 Unifying Fiqh Opinions?
26:15 Differences on Aqeeda
31:20 The Mutazilla School
35:20 A Centralised State
44:53 Adab of Difference
48:02 A Muqalid Debating
53:10 Raising our Intellectual Level
55:00 Can we have Mujtahid’s today
56:40 Artificial Intelligence Mujtahids?
57:40 A New Mujtahid Mutlaq?
1:00:32 Nationalism and Etnicity
1:04:30 Cultural Differences?
1:06:07 Are we Managing Muslim Decline?
1:09:40 Being Pessimistic
1:14:30 Imam Mahdi