Abdal Hakim Murad – One Ummah

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One of the things that are most stressed by the scholars during

the month of Ramadan is that Ramadan is not just about

abstaining, food, drink, physical desire, smoking and the rest. But

it is also about abstaining from the inner vices to abstain

outwardly. without there being a natural falling away from the

inward passions is to have misunderstood and misapplied the

whole principle of fasting which is to purify the entire human

system, not just the physical metabolism.

So manlam Jada

AlkaViva. Well, Cole azul, Felisa Lila he had at one V and the other

are the Allahu wa Sharapova who, whoever does not renounce lying

and bearing false witness, Allah has no need of his renouncing food

and drink.

The Holy Prophet Ali's letters have been constantly emphasized is

that Ramadan is to be a time of real detachment from the fiery

lower self, from the knifes Amara from the false illusory sense,

which is unfortunately that part of us which is most stressed by a

modernity in this endless fool's errand looking for selfhood and

individuality. It's a kind of missed a cobweb. It's not really

there, but it's full of fire and passion and it's dangerous.

So Ramadan is a spiritual school. It is a month long retreat. It is

a time when we engage in this inward jihad. It butthole how're

Bisou Fillmore Jaya Hedda. slaughter your desires with the

swords of war Tjahaja inward jihad, ride the stallion of your

will into the battlefield of desire until bloodstains it up to

the fetlocks all of this language, we find because this energy has

this Jihad Akbar is fundamental to what this particular form of our

Iboga is about it is a spiritual school.

So we find

the famous Hadith in which was bingeable or de la who

is writing behind the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he

says uracil Allah, Allahu Akbar, there'll be manner all

the calendrical omocha Yom was, well Helya kupuna Sophie Nari Ala

Moana theory him ill Hassan Ido LC naughty him.

So Murad says, Are we going to be taken to account just for the

words that we say?

And he says

you misbegotten one or more hours it's a strong reproach are people

thrown down upon their for locks in * for anything other than

what their tongues have reaped?

The tongue is

Collie lon Jurmala its weight is little but its potential for

spreading harm is immense. And we are told in Ramadan particularly

to watch out for it. One of the early Muslims used to say the Sani

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tongue is like a wild beast if I let it go it goes and eat

somebody.

And the teeth are to the the tongues the bars of the tongues

cage and at this time of Ramadan, Morocco Baba and watching what the

ego does with the tongue is particularly important.

In another Hadith

one of the Sahaba asked the Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

the Rasul Allah, Allah barony Anil Islami be Amarin Le s Allahu Ahad

and Bartok tell me about something in Islam that will be enough for

me so I don't need ever to ask anybody else about it again call

call and then to be learned from a stalking. So it's a general

questions it gives them the general totalizing answer that you

pellon say I believe in Allah and then go straight be an upright

Muslim.

Called the What's more, firmer at 30? What should I be aware of?

For Oh,

might be God He eagerly Sunny.

So he said his bit is not going to speak again but he points with his

hand to his tongue. What should I be aware of the Holy Prophet has

the tongue Watch out?

And

honorable hottub radula, who and once passed by Abu Bakr, Siddiq

radula, who was sitting there kind of holding his tongue, strange,

literally holding his tongue. And he said, What are you doing? I'm

your minion. And he said her that I would rather kneel my worried.

It is this that has gotten into difficult places.

And this is abundant and evident and all human experience shows

that if there is suffering, it's probably because of what somebody

has done. Somebody's reveal somebody's secret. Somebody has

engaged in slander about somebody, somebody has engaged in gossip or

loose talk, backbiting, libel, slander, the thing that our

culture Hello magazine, the tabloids is just full of the we're

all eating the flesh of our dead brothers.

This is an age in which so much money is made out of gossip,

celebrity gossip, poor to gossip, we exchange amongst ourselves and

this is in Islam, a very grave thing that we defend the honor of

other Muslims. And we retain the principle of hospitals and we give

them the benefit of the doubt. If an adverse Radi Allahu Ana says,

even if you smell alcohol on your brother's beard, you should assume

that somebody has spilt it though. Don't assume that that person is

guilty of a sin. Always find some excuse. ATMs will order the Africa

and Muslim find an excuse for your brother Muslim.

Now, one of the most grave consequences of this

loose talk is when people start to engage in religious criticism of

each other. And this we should definitely avoid during this

fasting month. Because after all, what do we know? We ordinary

Muslims who are not scholars, what do we know?

The Hadith? There's about a million of them.

They're difficult to understand, how are we going to know for sure

who's right and who's wrong. Even though all of that have never

agreed on many things as to what is right and what is wrong when

they have their different interpretations. Particularly in

the early period of Islam, we find such an enormous breadth of

interpretations.

That becomes a little bit narrower as the years go by, but ours is a

religion of FTF and therefore, a religion in which we acknowledge

that these things are difficult to understand. And who are we to say

Imam Malik is right Imam Shafi is wrong. This is haram bedarra All

of this stop this neerabup

Imam Malik used to say in the hair they'll mera la semana de NiFi

shake. This ego based argumentativeness about religion

has nothing to do with religion.

And a hadith says never was a people destroyed Isla Otto Jeddah.

Whenever people have destroyed it's because they're given this

egotistic argumentativeness Finding pleasure in poking holes

in other people's argument to scholars this scholar is that all

of this nonsense because who are we? To point accusing fingers at

the great ones of the past who've memorized hundreds of 1000s of

Hadith and performed more a better in a year than will perform in our

lifetime? What does it mean? It's just ego? We feel less

insecure about our own weaknesses when we think I'm better than him.

I'm 100 Alas, baloney. I'm better than Imam Al Ghazali. I know I

know. I know. I am cheerful Islam, the self, the sovereign will. The

ego prevails and becomes Cadell Co dot and the Grand Mufti.

This is obviously the destruction of religion. And in the month of

Ramadan, in particular, when we are feeling a little bit broken,

and when there's less energy for all of these ego things, we should

be seeing those vices for what they are and be disgusted by them.

What do we know? How strong are we? How long will we live? What's

the point of spending so much of our time pointing out the faults

of others. If it's something extreme and outrageous and

destructive to the Ummah, then of course, the OMA is agreed that

those things are outrageous, but most of the FTF issues in

religion, these are issues on which the Allamah have a mutual

respect and one of the signs of the decadence of the almost that

mutual respect is going

the divergence between the brothers and the deobandis for

instance, to the great good

Leave so many Hindu nationalists and others who wish ill to this

ummah, is based on issues that the great honor of the past would have

regarded as legitimate areas of equity laugh, but you can see on

all sides, the the fiery egos and the sense of self righteousness,

and the passionate desire to defend a school tradition and an

inherited narrative blinds people to the reality of what is going on

in Ramadan in particular, let's leave that aside. Let's leave that

disputatious SNESs with our shoes outside the masjid. And when we

come in, to worship, and when we begin the fast, and when we say no

way to CRM and the fast begins, that really means that we fast

from these sins of the tongue. Erfurt listen

so that at the end of the month, we benefit from the end of the

month, the last 10 days.

And the ease with which the fast presents itself in those 10 days,

a very extraordinary transformation, almost a metabolic

change almost a different species. So that when the month is over, we

miss so much of it and we feel that the lights have been turned

out we're in a kind of gray, neutral, meaningless space. The

believer is nostalgic for Ramadan. Everybody feels this, that as we

move up to the Laila to God.

As we ponder, wrote util, Hillel and the joy of the aid, and

experience that is for families and friends and for the

reconciling of the Ummah, that togetherness should not be a

hypocritical togetherness. We should not be embracing people who

would have been sitting around in the mosque before mark or bad

mouthing because we don't agree with that we'll we think there

shakes upon Delilah, or something like that this is not a good thing

to do in the month of Ramadan.

arguments about right and wrong in Islam are further all of that in a

particular context. But they're not for us to gossip about when we

know nothing at all. Only the ego only the shaytaan takes pleasure

in that. And Ramadan is not the appropriate time.

So in this fasting month, let's try and keep that wild beast

locked up where it belongs. Let us consider before we say anything at

all, what we are saying why we are saying it? Is it to impress

somebody, is it to impress ourselves, is it because we wish

to feel superior to somebody? Is it because we wish to feel that we

are better than a whole bunch of Muslim scholars. What is the

reason? When we look at it honestly,

we will see that it is an ugly thing and unworthy of this great

and dignified and holy month, when we should be hearing the angels

and our voices should be like the angels and we should be listening

only to Quran and only to good things, and shutting out all of

the pollution that comes out of the minds of the mouths of human

beings, there should be a time of purity, and a time of turning and

a time of repentance, not a time of pride and superiority.

So at this time in these blessed days, as the month winds down, and

as the sand moves out of the hourglass, and we face the aid and

we face a return to what we take to be normality, let it be a time

of contrition a time of Tober time in which we recognize that we need

less. We need less talk. We need less food, we need less drink, we

need less sleep. We overindulge always and this is spiritually as

well as physically bad for us. And also the armor is terribly torn

and divided. The OMO which is the pride of the resourceful Allahu

alayhi wa sallam and for all of which he will intercede is wounded

and besmirched by these divisions that are now tearing Muslims apart

in so many places. Ramadan should be the time when we fix that it

should be the laboratory of the soul it should be a psychology

clinic where we try and look within ourselves to see what we do

that contributes either to the unity or the disunity of the OMA

either to the joy or the rage of Islamic enemies because I disunity

always pleases our enemies it doesn't please Allah subhanaw

taala doesn't please the angels doesn't please the Allah mat and

the ALI app. So let this be a time where embraces on the eighth our

sincere

and were the singularity of the OMA in the AI badda on the day of

aid is an inner as well as an outward reality. Because these are

difficult times we are weak. We should not be adding to that

weakness by unnecessarily an ugly and egotistic faction of fashion,

running each other down to May Allah subhanaw taala return to

this ummah, the US

A tea, which is what the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam

prayed for me will be reunited Amma shahada, alumnus witnesses to

and for and against mankind so that we may insha Allah be worthy

of the intercession of the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam

truly, inwardly, as well as just formally and outwardly members of

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will fit he will Baraka t what to Haiti will water insha Allah may

Allah accept this and accept your aid and accept your fasting and

insha Allah make this a time of spiritual breakthrough in sha

Allah for you and for all of us and for our friends, neighbors

family and the whole on the internet Allah Baraka lofi calm wa

salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

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