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Imperialism, Resistance, Revolutions & Revival | Dilly Hussain & Shaykh Asrar Rashid
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- An open discussion between 5Pillars deputy editor, Dilly Hussain, and Shaykh Asrar Rashid hosted in Blackburn on Sunday 30 June, 2024. #imperialism #revival #resistance
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31:50 Arab Spring
42:00 Wrap up on Arab Spring
1:00:00 Bashar Al Assad
1:10:50 Why are Shia better organised
1:14:30 Intellectual Intifada
1:17:50 Muslim Ummah approach to Russia
good man
shykh Asrar didn't answer well about Offensive jihad and islamic Imperialism.
It's my feedback to my beloved shykh ..plz Dilly ask him to clear his stance on offensive jihad it's something that should be done every six month or once a year according to shafi ruling .
Listening to Sheikh Asrar Rashid is always an enlightenment, asset to the Ummah! May Allaah bless him Ameen
Ameen
اَمِين يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِيْن
Ameen, he's a much needed British scholar.
سبحان الله❤
اَمِين يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِيْن
Sheikh Asrar Rashid back on 5Pillars. This is gonna be good...
💯
was it? what did you like?
You know…The Middle East, the end of the world…Quasimodo predicted all of this
@@AU-ic7ur ...Who did what?
@@AngryMuhreens it’s a reference to The Sopranos lol. A show that the original commenter makes a lot of videos about that I watched growing up since I’m from New Jersey
To the Question at 25:25 Shaykh Asrar mentioned Palestine & Afghanistan as free economies but did not mention Iran's economy that despite being under Western Zionist sanctions for last over 40 years has built itself as a survivor and not only has it found alternative routers to sustain its economy but has utilized its resources and ability to become a regional player which is backbone of the Axis of Resistance fighting on behalf of Palestine and Al Aqsa.
There not really under sanctions though are they? “Ghost ships” carrying 2 million barrels a day of oil, being sold, as “the order” turn a blind eye, is proof that the sanctions on Iran are really a sham
Sectarian Asrar & 5pillar are never going to give any real credit
@@muhammad5272 Dilly Hussain has an agenda. I think he on the zionist payroll, not saying he a zionist but he is paid by them to stop us thinking what is truly right. Look how he discredited Sheikh Imran Hosein and how he hasnt had Sami Hamdi back on. On top of that his page is called 5pillars but yourre not going to tell me that voting is Shirk. Thats a fundamental point and he refuses to approach the subject
@@muhammad5272you are wrong. Shaykh asrar mentions khomeini shia and Hizbullah
@@rashidabdul3117 I said real credit not a mention. No you are wrong. You want a medal?
Just because Dilley a bigger sectarian bigot and just attacks them.
Thank you Sheikh Asrar, you're the voice of sanity in this insane world. Thank you Sheikh for speaking truths that all Americans seem to know EXCEPT our Government.
I leave a comment to support the Muslims and those allies of true justice.
MāshāAllāh an encyclopaedia of knowledge! Allāh protect and preserve the Shaykh
Dilly, if you want to know Why Shia has leadership, while Sunnis do not - read about tobacco uprising in Iran. Shia world has a functional religious structure (mrajai) that gave birth to Iranian revolution, its constitution, and when their Imam calls for a 14-yr old to go into the battlefield, Shia women obliges!
I am a Sunni from Bangladesh, but was curious about it at great length, and took free online courses in Coursera, read books for seeking truth. Here, I MUST clarify that we have irreconcilable difference with Shia aqeedah.
Sunni world is in denial - as in your podcast both Sheikh and you presented Afghanistan as an independent country, while both of you did not mention that Iran has no dealings with IMF, WB, or any other western financial institution. As a matter of fact, there were 3 countries among a few more that are outside of western financial system - Iran, Libya, Yemen & Afghanistan.
Shia theology: "every day is a Karbala", meaning that this world is full of oppression, and according to a fighting group in west Asia, western world never understand the mindset of the dignity of a Muslim, insofar as to sacrifice his life for "noble lineage"!
Have you ever looked into Iranian constitution? It is a masterpiece, which has a proven track record of "success" that Sunnis not only lack, but deny its significance even when the country is under embargo since 1979, even when the whole world was against them during Saddam's invasion! The Guardian Council exists so that no one can hijack their system, and the man who is running for president is properly vetted - does not become a Gorbachev.
No "revolution" started, or will be allowed, without the consent of Western hegemons. When McCain, Lieberman, Graham who are instrumental in promoting settler colonialism in occupied Palestine, and also visit Syria to "liberate" Syria, and Muslims support Syrian "second Arab Spring", it only shows the hollowness and heedlessness of Muslim ummah. In lay man's term, no one should destroy their home without having a plan to build another one that will replace it.
I agree with Sheikh mostly with his political outlook as far as South Lebanon, Houthis, however the world knows that without Iranian assistance these resistance forces would have been futile, and he never mentioned Iran! We are limited by our thoughts!
Except that there’s a sizable portion of Iran’s population that doesn’t actually practice Islam. How are they successful in that regard?
Very well articulated.
On point with every detail.
I feel that there's a sense of ego with this brother who believes that king Faisal had something to do with the Axis of Resitance.
King of deflection
@@FahimAhmed-xj9lq "sizeable" is an overstatement. Have you seen the religious gatherings in Iran? or you've only met the Iranians living in the west that would do anything for a refugee status
My favourite Sheikh!
i can never get tired of hearing him speak. May Allah preserve you both!
Common you can't be so fool to believe this
@@TheWaveSonI'll believe you once you learn English properly
Sheikh Asrar Rashid is truly blessed. We need more like him who are educated and set the context right. Sahi ul Aquida
Jazakallahu khairan to the Five Pillars and to the Shaykh.
Sheikh Asrar has excellent points on Syria, really insightful and well thought out points
People used to live in lawless land in Syria. This guy, like many who think like him, probably didn't have to deal with any governmental agency there.
There are unwritten laws to govern lawlessness in there, i.e.. bribes, having to pay tribute for military thugs when having to do any business deals, the fear for one's property, the houner of his family, their life to be violated at any time by any low life who affiliate themselves with the aasad regime. Yes, those things are far more prevalent now, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist before. My uncle was a very, very moderate sheik, masjid imam. He and many others were questioned, jailed, and beaten just because they didn't have razor shaven beards. He used to use a clipper to leave no more than a couple of millimeters of hair length, but that was too extreme according to the regime. His lectures were very mundane and don't talk about politics or takfeer or anything close to that, just regular things like zakat, prayer, fear of Allah...
When he, and others get jailed, their family don't expect that they will see them again. They don't dare to go and ask for them or their whereabouts.
Many imams or even mosque goers would face similar problems for doing very minor and unintentional things. A guy who used to work in Saudia came back to our town and once made athan. There they don't make salah on prophet after athan, while sufis in syria do. So out of habit he didn't say salah after athan. He was dragged and many of his close acquaintances because they were being "radicalized". Have you ever heard of the marxist Christian who was jailed for all his life because he was "of the muslim brotherhood". Yes, that happened in syria. Things didn't have to have anything to do with religion for some. Any argument with a thug or if you don't give in to their extortion, they would bring in an alawite high official to threaten you with.
Things were cheap there, but what he didn't say is that wages were shit. In the 2000s, sure, you can buy dinner for your family for 3 dollars, but your wage is 100 dollars a month, 150 if you work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
All that, while Syria is considered one of the richest countries on earth in oil and natural gas, phosphate, and many other natural resources. I bet his whole nonchalant attitude towards Syrian suffering is to make excuses for his mawla "sheik" albouti. Those sufis love their shieks more than they love truth or even good.
I used to be one of them. I used to love Bouti. But at one point you have to face the truth. He was a stooge, a pawn. And if you have been in Syria for real, I don't believe you are naive. You must also be a stooge and a pawn like your mawla albouti.
I always love to see interviews/podcasts with Shaykh Asrar Rashid mashallah
Shaykh asrar is one the best scholars of our time
Well, Sunnis, both the salafis side and the other traditional groups, are all acting like cowards now. What a shame.
Great talk. May Allah SWT grant the shaykh barakha and increase him in all the good he is doing.
Jzk
Make this a more common thing. Really enjoyed the discussion between both. جزآك الله خيرا
1:08:38 you cut the Shaikh off from a very interesting point and sidetracked him . Please avoid this in the future
Axis of Resistance vs Team Genocide
Both the west and east (russia, china, iran) are enemies of Islam
I deem Sheikh Asrar as a true student of knowledge because when he first came on the scene he seemed hardcore Brailvi, but over the years I have witnessed his maturation and willingness to build bridges for the sake of the ummah… may Allah increase him in beneficial knowledge Aameen 😊
We need more podcasts on Palestine. More detailed about like Town wise and different Resistance Forces.
At 36:40 about the origination of this term Axis of Resistance, was as a result of a term called "Axis of Evil" used by George Bush Junior when he was US president, he used it to describe Iran, Iraq & North Korea as an evil axis. As a result then Iran referred to its own resistance against US imperialism as Axis of Resistance. This term is now used for the alliance which today comprises of Iran, Houthis, Hezbollah, Hashd Al Shabi, Syria's Assad govt and Palestinian Resistant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. So dictators like Gamal Abdul Nasser, Iraq's Saddam etc. were all Western backed at one point in time hence they can never have the same respect, dignity as todays Axis of Resistance.
Let's not forget the Afghan Fatemaiyoun and the Pakistani Zainebiyoun fighters✊🏽
Thank you and may Allah bless you, Dilly and Shaykh Asrar, for having the courage, honesty, and generosity to openly state that Sunnis can align with the Shia in resistance to imperialism (while maintaining theological differences), that we should not judge the intentions of Shia resistance fighters, that the Shia are more organized politically and this is due to leadership. Such statements are extremely rare, and they will bring many blessings and open many doors of productive unity, and protect us from the schemes of imperialists. Sunnis and Shias are Muslim communities that consist of humans who display faith, wisdom, and nobility, and also humans who display various errors, weaknesses and misdeeds. We can believe one side has flawed theological beliefs, but this doesn't mean they are evil people with nothing positive.
I believe there are many things Sunnis and Shias can learn from the unique historical experiences and intellectual traditions of each other, without affecting theological differences. Sunnis have generally not studied the religio-political tradition of the Shia in the past two centuries, and I think they would benefit from looking into it. Shaykh Asrar noted that it was after the Iranian revolution that the Shia were politically revived by Khomeini. It's true that there was a major shift after Khomeini, but he was part of a process which began in the late 1700s, and if Sunnis study this history, they will find it insightful. There is a short paper written by a Sunni political thinker, Kalim Siddiqui, that deals with some of these insights. The paper is called, “Processes of Error, Deviation, Correction and Convergence in Muslim Political Thought” (1989). The paper can be found on the following site: kalimsiddiqui.com/writings/
The Muslim community in U.K. should be more involved in conferences like this. Education to all
Alhamdulillah, having this intellectual man of the today world
Umar ibn al-Khattab while taking Palestine said Allah gave us victory because of Islam, so the only way Palestine will be free is because of Islam
wonderful points by asrar rashid.
Very good debate thank you - sadly Muslim did vote Labour and I hope they can live with consequences
this needed to be longer...maybe a series...I'd happily watch with interest
The Ummah is waking. Sami Hamdi said it best. We cannot continue to watch and be silent.
Sami Hamdi is a sectarian low life. With his mindset the Ummah will never succeed to help Palestine.
And yet you sit in Britain and not in any Muslim country to talk about it... Think why and stop being so ungrateful and hypocrite
Shaykh asrar is officially my shaykh now the past year
Love And Support To Both Of You..
Mashaa-allah shaykh, you a an erudite of our time, may allah swt keep you blessed…
Long live the resistance
یٰبَنِیْۤ اِسْرَآءِیْلَ اذْكُرُوْا نِعْمَتِیَ الَّتِیْۤ اَنْعَمْتُ عَلَیْكُمْ وَ اَوْفُوْا بِعَهْدِیْۤ اُوْفِ بِعَهْدِكُمْۚ-وَ اِیَّایَ فَارْهَبُوْنِ
Salaam Brothers, keep up the great work.
Alhamdulillah
Sheikh Asrar serves it up how its supposed to.. no gimmicks!
As a muslim from the uk, i will never be on the side of communism and capitalism.
Great topic. An amazingly thorough and relevant discussion. jazakallah Khair to both
Iran is a free nation . Why not mention? As Iran is sanctioned with brutal and crippling sanctions by America and its allies. Very biased view indeed.
He mentions khomeini shia and Hizbullah. Listen to it all
Exactly what Imran Hussain was saying when it came to the Ottoman empire.
He was against the Arabs overthrowing the Ottoman empire but at the same token weren't perfect
I agree with a lot of things the Sheikh has said. The problem is how do we peacefully free the Muslim world from these despotic regimes.
Only listening due to sheikh Asrar Rashid
Love sheikh asrar even though I'm salafi
This is nonsense, a Salafi cannot love someone who calls to Shirk
This exactly where we need to be if we are to succeed
Disagreement is fine, we've had it since the beginning. As you can see, many people who consider themselves behave like khwarij bootlickers who would rather support Isis and Bin Salman than people like Shaykh Asrar. How can we as an Ummah be successful when we can't overcome our differences?
@@millatiibrahim2416You're confident calling him a mushrik?
@@millatiibrahim2416y'all arent even salafis call yourselves madkhali najdi takfeeris Thats what you really are.
JazakAllah Sheikh ❤.
Would be interesting to have an interview between dilly hussain and candace owens
She would be destroyed or become Muslim
May Allah reward you abundantly brother Dilly for your work
You should ask questions pertaining to the concerns of the Muslim of UK.
Shaykh tried to hijack the term "Axis of Resistance" and those who don't know its history are impressed lol. The term was coined by Iran and its allies to refer to themselves in response to George Bush calling them an "axis of evil". The Resistance Axis specifically consists of Iran, Hamas, PIJ, PFLP, Hezbollah, Syria, Hashd al Sha'bi in Iraq, and AnsarAllah/Yemen. Abu Ubeida, Yahya Sinwar, and other Palestinain resistance leaders have made this clear many times. And while mentioning Afghanistan and Palestine as free Muslim nations, it's curious that he doesn't mention Iran or Yemen, which have maintained their freedom from Western domination through blood, sweat, and tears.
Also, Syrian govt did not oppress the Sunnis on a sectarian basis, rather on a secular nationalist vs Islamist basis. He specifically mentions the early FSA but ignores the much more powerful sectarian groups like Al Nusra, Ahrar as Sham, Jaysh al Islam, etc. While there were sincere actors against the govt at the beginning of the war, the US had been preparing for Bashar al Assad's ouster since at least 2006 in coordination w Syrian dissidents.
There's a clear bias here lol
Actually shaykh mentions khomeini shia and Hizbullah in the interview
1:10:02 Without realising, Shaykh Asrar just undermined Ahmed Rida Khans objection to the anti-imperialist movement led by Deoband in the early 1900’s.
Shaykh Asrar Rashis is a gem in our community. Alhamdulilah
Great sheikh
Why are the shia more focused, united and successful on working towards their goals? Simple answer is Imam Hussain (as) and Karbala. And of course the wilayat of Ali ibne Abu Talib (as)
that is too dumb of an answer
Dilly talks about everything and everyone; except the oppressive regime of Sheikh Hasina. Family ties? Bakhshish? What Dilly?
I am sure he has brought it up. The subcontinent has always been so bad. The Palestine issue is going to bring all these issues together as a full Muslim co operation from the ground level up.
Interesting thought definitely.
@@alpasy2712 Journalism alone can't save the watermelon. We need strong states free from puppets.
Dilly from day 1 just don't get Syria and what's going on. Gets too emotional if someone has a different view.
He's way too emotional and not at all objective. The people with true objective knowledge saw early on and especially now that this Syrian 'uprising' was hijacked very early on to destroy Syria to strengthen Israel. The Israelis were literally treating wounded FSA and Nusra fighters in the Golan and sending them back to fight the Syrian army
@@saifmirza90baseless lies, even h*m*s supported the FSA, to the point where Iran withdrew tens of Millions of Dollars worth of funding
Amazing sheikh
Allah bless him and protect him
An important prophet's hadith about Axis of Resistance that should be mentioned:
Abdullah ibn Hawalah (r.a) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said "It will turn out that you will be armed troops, one is Shaam (Syria), one in the Yemen and one in Iraq." Ibn Hawalah asked "Choose for me, messenger of Allah, if I reach that time." He replied "Go to Shaam (Syria), for it is Allah's chosen land, to which his best servants will be gathered, but if you are unwilling, go to your Yemen, and draw water from your tanks, for Allah has on my account taken special charge of Shaam and its people." (Abu Dawud) Ash-Shaam (Syria) here means Jerusalem, Palestine where Prophet Muhammad ﷺ received revelations. Shaam also includes Jordan, Lebanon & modern day Syria. - Its not surprising that Houthis from Yemen, Hezbollah, Hamas & Islamic Jihad in Shaam and Hashd Al Shaabi in Iraq could be a reference to these troops.
Think you spent too much time on the Axis of Resistance definition, the Axis of Resistance was coined by Iran, Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas (and PIJ), this is their term and what they call themselves.
Sheikh making that Bruce Lee reference 😂
Israel doing it with FATHERS strength may God bless america Israel and FATHERS
The blood of a Muslim in Syria is no different than a Muslim in Palestine, dont associate with those who speak ill of the Muslims who fought against the alewite regime, don't forget about what they did to the Palestinian Muslims in yarmouk refugee camp in Syria
Should we forget what they did to others ,the alawites have stood with Palestinians more then sunni
@@dilonkumar4960 stupid whataboutism, im not saying sunni leaders are any good, however the alewite regime is no ally of Muslims, convenient how you forget that both the PLO and h*m*s have had horrible relationships with alewite regime, even to the point where h*m*s supported the Syrian Revolution, and even now bashar still speaks against h*m*s. Once again the blood of a Palestinian Muslim is no different than the blood of a Syrian Muslim, bashar has murdered more Muslims than the zionist state has ever done, how is bashar murdering thousands of Palestinian refugees in yarmouk helping Palestine exactly?
@@dilonkumar4960 when exactly? Hamas is banned in Syria since 2012 lol
May Allah (SWT) preserve the Shaykh.
May Allah Accept your works, and make it a means of acceptance and Guidance for the Ummah!
جزاک اللہ خیرا
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarokatuh From Bangladesh
Mashallah very important points made with regards to resistance concept and how it is practiced by individuals.
It's time for us all to unite.
You forgot to mention Malaysia as a model muslim country
Malaysia where it is outright forbidden to be Shia Muslim is a model?
@@abnadalil3926 yes. Ahlu Sunnah wal jamaah only
@@tray005
So do you believe that people should only be allowed to be Sunni and not Shia? What about Christian, Jew, and so on?
@@abnadalil3926 we have all these in our country. But majority is sunnis
@@tray005 I didn't ask what majority is. I asked how can Malaysia be a role model when they have forbidden Shia Muslims from practicing their branch of Islam, you prided yourself about that. So are Christians and Jews and other religions free to practice their religion while Shia Muslims, WHO ARE MUSLIMS, aren't?
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
Great work Dilly and team ❤❤❤
Sheikh Rashid was brilliant✌️🇵🇸
At 55:05 Shaykh Asrar is at the right point when he says that the Syrian fighting groups were numerous but leaderless and that is why their so called revolution (largely backed by Zionists, NATO and Gulf states) was bound to fail. Comparatively where Syrian groups failed Afghanistan's Taliban succeeded in their uprising and revolution because they were fighting under One Ameer and remained consistent in their hierarchy of command despite a long 20 year period! A leaderless revolution vs a strong leadership is the key. The host dilly is wrong when he argues abt gaining backing from a non-Muslim power for sake of establishing Islam because those backers were not at the same level, they backed from a power of position while these groups were at the mercy of these backers. Today no Syrian rebel group has fired a single missile towards Israel, why?
May Allah bless the sheikh
keep up the good work bro!! serious discussion
Alhamdulillah, the intellectual warriors of our ummah
Shaykh not looking as healthy as usual. Make dua for him
He just stole the axis resistance term from iran, Yeman etc 😂 and applied to himself and others where they are casually talking about oppression Vs Palestine, yeman and Lebanese are resisting with their lifes
Excellent
This shayk is really good
Getting some turncoat vibes from Dilly lately
You resist where you are located
Allahuma ansur al islam wal muslimeen fi filistiin ameen
50:30 the deathtoll in syria is 400,000 not 1 million 🤦♂️
Ban the filth bots please
Well done 👏 good talk
Jazaa kAllahu khairah fid daarain
I learnt a lot from this jazak
Why hasn't he mentioned the largest free Muslim country Iran, free from the world bank, the IMF and American imperialism.
Perhaps all those questions should have been asked of Sheikh Imran Hussein, instead shrouding him in darkness and asking him silly questions.
Iran is not a Sunni country. We would never ally with them if it came to having a khilafah
What? None of these is true. Iran actively cooperates with World Bank, IMF and has not fought one single battle in Iraq without American air support. Try to refute one single point of these, I dare you
@@delcior i cried for your delusion
@@therealhusam4840 your mind is till so narrow that you cannot see the whole picture...Allah says, do not let the hatred toward others sway u from the truth...for it is close to piety.
Jazakum Allah khair
If you want to talk/know about the Axis of resistance you should bring in the originators and supporters of the said agenda ie the Iranians, as much as Shaykh Asrar is respected, it's as if bringing a plumber to talk about intricate workings of electric.
He mention Hizbullah and the Shia unity. Listen to all the interview.
One thing Muslims keep forgetting is most of those islamic empires were created by the Turks or a mix of Turco-Mongol entities. Arabs rose quickly and folded early. The Persians after being conquered by the arabs were soon conquered by the Turks. When your talking about islamic imperial history for the most part your talking about Turkic history. When the Turks fell the whole of Islam fell with it, whether it be india with the Mugul Turks, Persia with the Safavid Turks, or Turkey with the Ottoman Turks. So simple logic says you want islam to rise, put your money behind Turkey.
In a similar way to how the Viking/Germanic class were the conquerors of christian europe and formed its nobility the Turks were that to nearly the whole of Islamic civilisation.
Sen Türk müsün?
@@yakubalptekin7477 I had to use google translate, no i'm not. Just know lots of Turks and have an interest in history. Actually it was Turks talking to me about their history that made me look into it. Muslim civilisation doesn't seem to realise that their empires for most part were built by Turks. 95% of the wars between the christians and the muslims were mostly wars between europe and the turks. Even when the entire Muslim world from morroco to indonesia fell to europe, the Turks under Ataturk still fought and remained free never been conquered by europeans. Turks are the unique element within Muslim civilisation. Its also why i find it counter productive for Islamists to attack Turkish identity, that identity has been the most powerful military force within the islamic world for much of the last 1000 years. You remove that from the Turks and then turned into any other failed islamic entity.
@@billyjesus5442 true
Masha Allah ❤
جزاك الله خيرا
Allahu Akbar
Dilly is so contradictory because he himself is as sectarian as it comes and willfully engaged in propaganda against shias.
Shaykh is having two standards here. If Syria shouldn't have rose due to the immense bloodshed, then neither should have Hamas on Oct 7. Neither should have the Algerians who sacrificed 1 million for freedom. Not sure if he is aware of this however freedom and liberation does not come for free and tyrants are not keen on giving up their power.
Haqq, so many sunnis in syria have been forced to utter "there is no God but Bashar" or else they will be killed
Before every one were sufis
Please explain why American soldiers in Syria.
we. need geehad
People used to live in lawless land in Syria. This guy, like many who think like him, probably didn't have to deal with any governmental agency there.
There are unwritten laws to govern lawlessness in there, i.e.. bribes, having to pay tribute for military thugs when having to do any business deals, the fear for one's property, the houner of his family, their life to be violated at any time by any low life who affiliate themselves with the aasad regime. Yes, those things are far more prevalent now, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist before. My uncle was a very, very moderate sheik, masjid imam. He and many others were questioned, jailed, and beaten just because they didn't have razor shaven beards. He used to use a clipper to leave no more than a couple of millimeters of hair length, but that was too extreme according to the regime. His lectures were very mundane and don't talk about politics or takfeer or anything close to that, just regular things like zakat, prayer, fear of Allah...
When he, and others get jailed, their family don't expect that they will see them again. They don't dare to go and ask for them or their whereabouts.
Many imams or even mosque goers would face similar problems for doing very minor and unintentional things. A guy who used to work in Saudia came back to our town and once made athan. There they don't make salah on prophet after athan, while sufis in syria do. So out of habit he didn't say salah after athan. He was dragged and many of his close acquaintances because they were being "radicalized". Have you ever heard of the marxist Christian who was jailed for all his life because he was "of the muslim brotherhood". Yes, that happened in syria. Things didn't have to have anything to do with religion for some. Any argument with a thug or if you don't give in to their extortion, they would bring in an alawite high official to threaten you with.
Things were cheap there, but what he didn't say is that wages were shit. In the 2000s, sure, you can buy dinner for your family for 3 dollars, but your wage is 100 dollars a month, 150 if you work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
All that, while Syria is considered one of the richest countries on earth in oil and natural gas, phosphate, and many other natural resources. I bet his whole nonchalant attitude towards Syrian suffering is to make excuses for his mawla "sheik" albouti. Those sufis love their shieks more than they love truth or even good.
I used to be one of them. I used to love Bouti. But at one point you have to face the truth. He was a stooge, a pawn. And if you have been in Syria for real, I don't believe you are naive. You must also be a stooge and a pawn like your mawla albouti.
For your info Shaykh Asrar did have to deal with the Syrian mukhabarat.
@rashidabdul3117
If he did and still doesn't see why the Syrians had to rebel, then he probably works for them. Well, his wali, Albouti, did for sure.