The Cause That Undermines Intellectual Security and How to Confront It
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Question:
A question from one of the attendees: Your Excellency the Shaykh, in your view, what is the main cause that undermines security, whatever its type, and specifically intellectual security? And how do we confront that?
Answer:
Yes, intellectual security is threatened without a doubt, and that is from the callers to misguidance and from the owners of destructive ideas. This is a known and observed matter.
But we have with us what repels this, as we mentioned. It is that we hold fast to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And that we fortify our children and teach our children. Holding fast to this Book and this purified Sunnah.
We raise our children upon that from the age of discernment, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded, and every newborn is born upon the fitrah (the innate natural disposition), which is Islam, as He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said:[Ar-Rum 30:30].
So we are being snatched away; our children, as you know, are snatched by ideas through all the sophisticated means in the mobile phones, in the stations, in the websites, in the newspapers and magazines, and the callers to misguidance who sneak in among us and spread their ideas. So the matter is very serious.
For example, you lock up your children at night. You are reassured about their beds, but they connect with them while they are in their beds. Ideas invade them while they are in the belly of your house. Ideas invade them in these evil websites and these mobile phones while they are inside your house.
But if you seek help from Allah and hold fast to Allah, Allah will help you and protect you and preserve you[Al-A'raf 7:128]. Yes.
A question from one of the attendees: Your Excellency the Shaykh, in your view, what is the main cause that undermines security, whatever its type, and specifically intellectual security? And how do we confront that?
Answer:
Yes, intellectual security is threatened without a doubt, and that is from the callers to misguidance and from the owners of destructive ideas. This is a known and observed matter.
But we have with us what repels this, as we mentioned. It is that we hold fast to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And that we fortify our children and teach our children. Holding fast to this Book and this purified Sunnah.
We raise our children upon that from the age of discernment, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded, and every newborn is born upon the fitrah (the innate natural disposition), which is Islam, as He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said:
So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created [all] people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.
فَأَقِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّينِ حَنِيفًا فِطْرَتَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ ذَٰلِكَ الدِّينُ الْقَيِّمُ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَSo we are being snatched away; our children, as you know, are snatched by ideas through all the sophisticated means in the mobile phones, in the stations, in the websites, in the newspapers and magazines, and the callers to misguidance who sneak in among us and spread their ideas. So the matter is very serious.
For example, you lock up your children at night. You are reassured about their beds, but they connect with them while they are in their beds. Ideas invade them while they are in the belly of your house. Ideas invade them in these evil websites and these mobile phones while they are inside your house.
But if you seek help from Allah and hold fast to Allah, Allah will help you and protect you and preserve you
Seek help through Allah and be patient. Indeed, the earth belongs to Allah. He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous."
اسْتَعِينُوا بِاللَّهِ وَاصْبِرُوا إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-042-أهمية الأمن في حياة الأمم|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (17:14)
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