The Printing Press & Fall of the Muslim Ummah - Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi - 2012-01-04

Lessons from History - In this special lecture, Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi discusses the political rise and fall of the Muslim Ummah and how it coincides with the development of paper and the spread of the Printing Press.
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[@paxvostrum4824]

Please God give us more scholars like Shaykh Yasir Qadhi

[@AbdurRahim-ng2ud]

In Medieval Ottoman prison: Inmate 1: What did you do? Inmate 2: I killed a man, you? Inmate 1: I owned a printing press. Inmate 2: *backs away sweating nervously*

[@ilyasabdirisaq2552]

May Allah(swt) increase the knowledge of Dr. Yasir Qadhi. His lectures are intellectual, eye-opening and very profound in descriptions. It's so inspiring.

[@fazalbk]

Deep learning of Islam and power of expression differentiate Dr. Yasir Qadhi- from other preachers. We have curiosity to listen to his lecture in Urdu.

[@usefulaudiobooks7372]

Thanks. For about a decade few mosques in Damascus use power point during khutba and give a bullet points summery on a one-sided a4 sheet for attendees to share with family at home or keep for reference. Thanks for shaikh Google and shaikha Wikipedia and for that woman who talked Omar may Allah be pleased with him out of limiting the dowry. These are not threats to scholarly work but an opportunity through providing a challenge. و للحديث بقية.

[@delamalasie]

in my masjid in malaysia have powerpoint for jumaah khutbah 3 ,4 years ago, alhamdulillah, i was shocked that khutbah cannot use microphone? since when?

[@elche752]

2018 STILL LEARNING FROM THIS GENIUS BROTHER.THANK YOU MIC

[@mdtalhaansari1096]

2019 here bro! Great to see someone diagnosing the problem so well and proposing solutions

[@mohammadusmankhan4854]

@@mdtalhaansari1096 2020 here bro🙂

[@ZedElite]

very good speech.

[@jamfold2956]

I'm an atheist. I don't know why am I watching it 😅

[@tomphilips3266]

Learning History is always good for the exposure of one's mind.

[@williamjames4031]

Learning history from the Islamic perspective is good.

[@_f_]

Thanks

[@mmshohidullah6722]

Book "The 100" by Michael H Hart said that printed book was found, which was printed in 868 AD. Gutenberg was placed in number 8th position in his book, The 100 A Ranking of the Most influential persons in the History of mankind. Would you kindly give some light on this publication? Your lecture is excellent one and I do liked it very much. Thanks for your best efforts.

[@SA-zd4vs]

Jazakallah. On the topic of printing press and the fall of muslims, I just want to add one thing. Today I am watching your lecture on youtube. It would not have been possible back home because youtube is banned in Pakistan. Being a doctor, I missed using youtube as one can just open it and learn new technoques and procedures. I wish we learn from our history and become open minded and accept new things. Having said that, ofcourse like any other muslim, I cannot stand blasphemy but the infotech department can block those sites and videos

[@megamanxcold5]

KZbin is banned in Pakistan?

[@paxvostrum4824]

KZbin is banned in China and they are the paper inventors :D So don't feel too bad lol

[@Mohammed-gw2nn]

Dr. Salman Ahmad Of course why not adapt new inventions & if any unreligious , harmful then remove it block it ect: but in my opinion it is the elite who are hindering the nations progress only for their petty gains , we have so much to learn & educate ourselves & to catch up with the world , one can say . Remember the sheikh was saying paper was only for the Chinese elite

[@rinsedpie]

I am very sorry to hear this; I hope Brother, that it is now OK to use KZbin there. We learn so much in medicine from youtube. Who can go to a lecture theatre 1000 miles away to hear a good lecture, say on Primary Hyperaldosteronism? Or on Seerah? Or on Aqidah.

[@rinsedpie]

I am very sorry to hear this; I hope Brother, that it is now OK to use KZbin there. We learn so much in medicine from youtube. Who can go to a lecture theatre 1000 miles away to hear a good lecture, say on Primary Hyperaldosteronism? Or on Seerah? Or on Aqidah.

[@karimahbintdawoud6758]

as salaam alaikum barakallahfeekum

[@karimahbintdawoud6758]

as salam alaikum, when i do talks on islamic nutrition i do it with power points,

[@masroorahmedkhan5028]

So much knowledge

[@ThatOldDelhiGuy]

Mufti Tariq Masood Sahab is one such scholar who is open minded as well who knows where the line needs to be drawn.

[@BigBoss-qh6kb]

ياليتها مترجمه ..

[@LawSpiritual]

Could you please write me the spelling of Papyrus?? Am I right?

[@shabeerali1256]

Yes, correct.

[@heeeemoooo]

someone have to translate this to Arabic please brothers and sisters

[@biographyname779]

THE RED THE ONE it has been done.

[@faridguelmi7123]

@@biographyname779 link please

[@mcmemmo]

To be fair, the Catholic Church never killed anyone JUST for having a science book. Copernicus was a Catholic monk.

[@djsisojdjxo6683]

mcmemmo have you ever heard if Inquisition ?

[@I_BlitzY_I]

Leyla Demirtas lol

[@mexo100]

Does anyone has references to what he is speaking about?

[@faridguelmi7123]

google is your friend, if not than you have to ask in forums.

[@Armored11]

You wanna maketh paper?

[@faridguelmi7123]

@@Xaviergonzalez85 that part about shia and sunni is totally wrong, for the simple reason: shiites are not muslims (at least those turbined), si they were coinsidered as themis. besides, who can believe that a very tiny minority can rise up a nation...

[@sainarouzi3269]

Qaghaz is uyghur language. It is not Chinese. I hope you need more study about this meeting I like you and respect you.

[@dansam3060]

تستطيع تعليم أي شيء عن طريق الرؤية والعين ماعدا الدين والأخلاق فإنها لاتدخل القلب إلا عن طريق الأذن ... والأذن لاتفتح قلبها إلا للخطيب المفوه ولذلك يجب الإهتمام بتعليم الخطابة وليس استخدام powerpoint...

[@user-se3hd1pk9l]

This guy is humble, he claiming just books are Arabic invention. Here some people claim we invented aeroplanes 3000 years ago. :)

[@karimahbintdawoud6758]

obviously the scholars were not that intelligent...hmmmm...may allah guide us all including the so called scholars

[@shabeerali1256]

they could be intelligent, but may be they lacked vision.

[@truthseeker6167]

Dr Yasir is doing some incredible service with his history lectures.However,he should beware of snares of Shaytaan as we all should.His contentions about the scholars rejection of the printing press,radio and tv sounds like ridiculing them as bunch of idiots and fanatics-which is far from correct.Those scholars have many valid points,and finding a middle course is not always easy. Do we not see how due to much of these inventions there have been many good and bad impacts.Those scholars are not entirely wrong nor is Dr Yasir entirely right either.I am sure that if some of those scholars are alive today and review the situations now they would still find some justifications for their rejection of the printing press and may be some will see how best they could have achieved their objectives without the negative outcomes of the rejection. Islam has both the eternally binding aspect and changing part as well.The belief system and rituals are immutable.What new and deeper understanding at Jumu'ah Khutbah do you want to achieve by making power points part of your Jumu'ah khubah?Why don't you leave the khutbah the simple way and manner that the Prophet-sallallaahu 'alayhi wasallam- has left us with and do your power points later in the day in your other duroos like this one?What open mindedness do you think you want to promote with this? Can't you see how the so-called open mindedness is leading many ignorant people out of their Deen on daily bases with modern apostate victims of youtubes and shallow books coming as a result of the printing press?I enjoin myself and you too to fear Allaa regarding Allaah's religion and the Muslim masses who listen to us.

[@nazhussain4833]

this brothers obviously a smart guy he's a doctor after all, but he's got a lot of mental developing to do, he's very narrow minded himself or he's putting it on!!?

[@eatle7604]

What do you mean?

[@milkhoney1631]

Clearly talking about the crusades as unmotivated and particularly more cruent than any other conquest or expedition of the time is a narrow minded and backward way of thinking, knowledge of history made a lot of progress since such fractious narrative.

[@karimahbintdawoud6758]

we are already doing this...... scholars are not leading ,you are still manipulating like ibn khaldun, as long as we base the information we are sharing on the quran, complimented by science in the field of islamic medicine , we do not need to worry about the opinion of scholars because we are also scholars alhmdulilah, you are elitist

[@EyesOfFrozenMeat]

What he said in the beginning was not true. Rome was certainly a civilization that was global on the level of the Islamic Empires and it came before Islam. As for never before did anyone ever reach the peaks of scientific development, arts, etc. is also not wholly true/relevant. This is the time of the Dark Ages, not just for Europe, but for the whole of the Old World. Many technologies and understandings were lost when Rome fell, and were not transferred to others. Also, there was a dearth in tech progress and innovation during this time, compared to what came before/after. Many (I would say most) art forms were not even practiced by the Muslims, so they were not pushed forward. While they certainly had made many advances, this guy is championing them way too much. For the world, this was a bad time, not a good time.

[@nazhussain4833]

you're giving your opinion based on absolutely no factual evidence. firstly islam has been around from day one, the islam we have today is what happened when the message of islam came to the arabs and then they took it to a global level. before the arabs islam was contained to communities. there was a point of international islam and that was when David and Solomon (peace be upon them both ameen) who were both a king and prophet. yes my friend every prophet from Adam, Noah,Enoch, Moses,John to Muhammad peace be upon them all ameen were all Muslims. being Jewish is not a religion, its just what you would be called if you hailed from a place called Judea likewise an irishman is from Ireland.

[@SaadiaAliKhan908]

+EyesOfFrozenMeat Watch "When the Moors ruled Europe". It will show you the State of the Muslims at that time and how the history has been distorted by the Europeans. This was done by the British also in the history of Indian Subcontinent. All this is in the open now in writings and videos.

[@EyesOfFrozenMeat]

Saadia Ali Khan One, it is a bit of a propaganda piece. I have seen it before. I mean, just look at the name "When The Moors Ruled Europe". The Moors never ruled Europe. They conquered the Iberian peninsula. Two, what I said still stands. In the modern age, Islamic invention and progress are far overstated.

[@SaadiaAliKhan908]

EyesOfFrozenMeat When Muslims scholars were translating and refining the philosophies of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle, the cosmologies of Ptolemy and Aristarchus, the medicine of Galen and the geometries of Euclid and Diophantus; Charlamagne and his lords, is reported, were learning to write their names. The scientists, exegesists, philosophers, lexicologists and mathematicians of Cordova, with their 17 libraries and each one of them equipped with no less than 400,000 volumes, enjoyed their luxurious baths after their study and concurrently at the Oxford University - the highest seat of learning in Christian Europe - washing the body was considered a dangerous custom. Such conspicuous was the intellectual contrast between the enlightened followers of Islam, tracing the minutest profundities of science and faith and the benighted land of Europe, plunged in the lower abysses of complete darkness, ignorance and ignominy. Muslims enjoyed an unprecedented supremacy in all the known branches of science and technology. The universities in Baghdad, Cairo and Cordova were places to where thousands flocked. Michael from Scotland reached the bureau of translation in the Umayyid capital of Toledo in 1217 A.D. He learnt Arabic and introduced Aristotle to Latin Europe, translating not from Greek, but from Arabic translations of Aristotle's works. The most momentous contribution of Muslims was transmitting Greco-Roman science to the medieval west. From Toledo, Michael reached Cordova and then Salerno in Sicily where he met his Scandinavian counterpart, Hendrick from Denmark, who was a student at Salerno's medical school. Inspired by Ibn-e-Sina's (Avicenna) Canon of Medicine and Ar-Razi's (Rhazes) treatises on physiology, he compiled a seven volume compendium on bloodletting and surgery. The compilation is still kept with the National Library, Stockholm and the portrait of these two great clinicians of Islam adorn the medical hall at the Paris University. George Sarton, in his monumental five-volume History of Science presents a chronology divided into periods of fifty years. From 700 A.D. and the seven half-centuries to follow, there is an unbroken succession of genii from the Muslim world - Jabir (Gaber), Khwarizimi, Razi (Rhazes), Masoodi, Wafa, Beruni and Ibn-e-Sina (Avicenna), Ibn-ul-Haitham (AlHazen) and Omer Khayyam. Only after 1100 A.D., the first European names appeared - Gerard of Cremona, Roger Bacon and Jacob Anatoli, but the honours are still shared with the names Ibn-e-Rushd (Averroes), Musa Bin Maimoun (popularly remembered as the Second Moses), Tusi and Ibn-e-Nafis.

[@eatle7604]

Overstated? I do not agree. Over-romanticised? Maybe. But to rediscover our own lost and unknown history, sometimes romanticization is necessary and that's what Muslims need at this day and age. The Muslim world was prosper at the time and gave birth to modern science. I have not seen anyone disputed this. It is a bad time for Europe, but I cannot say for certain that it is a bad time for the world.

[@MrTitiking]

Stop drinking on microphone it’s so bothering

[@faridguelmi7123]

I'm almost sure he's not aware of this