Abdul Nasir Jangda – Reflections on the situation in Palestine

			I wanted to take out a little bit of time today to obviously, address and to discuss and to talk
about
		

			the tragedy and the atrocities that are unfolding right now. It's something that is very obviously
painful and very tragic. And it's something that's on everyone's minds and on everyone's in
everyone's hearts. So we thought it would be beneficial just to take a couple of moments to kind of
discuss and reflect. I'll start with the
		

			question that kind of arises in this situation is the question about all the pain and the suffering
		

			of innocent people.
		

			And Allah subhanaw taala talks about this and sort of Tally Emraan in the aftermath of the Battle of
God, in which there was a lot of suffering.
		

			Right. The hadith of Makati mentions there was crying coming from every home in Medina.
		

			There were a lot of broken hearts after the battle.
		

			And Allah subhanaw taala said, em siscon Quran for the muscle Omaka Hiromitsu
		

			that if you are feeling pain today than others have felt similar pain before.
		

			What tickle a Yamanaka will have been a nurse, that that's the nature of the life of this world.
		

			Ups and downs highs and lows, happiness and sadness and pain, suffering. That's the nature of this
world. This world is not paradise. It's not free from pain and suffering.
		

			Will Yalom Allahu Lilina Amman Waitaki them in come Shuhada
		

			but a lot of times as human beings we kind of need
		

			that silver lining. Right? We need that glimmer of hope.
		

			Even though our faith in Allah is unquestioned.
		

			And we have absolute faith and trust in Allah.
		

			But as human beings, we kind of have a need to at least see the little ray of light, the glimmer of
hope, the silver lining, as we call it. So Allah says that this is so that this makes a parent,
these moments of difficulty, these moments of adversity, these tragedies, they make a parent who
actually has faith and who doesn't.
		

			It's an opportunity for people with faith to shine
		

			and weigh them in come Shahada.
		

			And the people who have suffered in this world,
		

			they're suffering just like the nature of this world is very temporary.
		

			But they suffer this very temporary
		

			suffering, they go through it.
		

			But then they have the peace and tranquility and the bliss and the happiness
		

			have all of eternity in the life of the hereafter. The second thing is to again talk about something
very obvious but a reminder and that is about our obligation in this moment. In the how the heat on
vertical mutton Wahida. We are one oma
		

			in a moment manana Aicha. We are one family, I'll Muslim who are called Muslim. This is a tragedy
		

			happening within our family. If I had an actual like, blood relative, a family member going through
		

			anything that was even a fraction of what this is, think about how that would affect me.
		

			This has to affect me at some level.
		

			And I have to be concerned and I have to be moved and I have to be inconvenienced some way somehow.
Some of us might already be there. hamdulillah some of us might not be there. Well, that's okay. But
I'm going to find a way to get there.
		

			I need to find a way to get there. That's my responsibility. That's my obligation. That's that's
comes with the privilege of being in the home of the prophets. Allah determine is that when
situations are difficult, we all have to come together. Thirdly is while we have that concern, and
we feel the pain,
		

			then again, we are people of action
		

			that we have to take some kind of action
		

			Raising awareness, donating and contributing.
		

			That's why the topic of sadaqa is such a prominent topic throughout the Quran. That's why Allah
talks about it all throughout the Quran. We didn't feel too when we met Rosa Khanna whom you and for
your own. So foundation of the practice of our deen. So this is particularly a moment where we can
exercise that we can practice that.
		

			And then last but not least at all,
		

			is that this is a time where we need to increase our prayers, increase our devotion to Allah and
increase our house and pray and make dua for Allah's help and Allah's aid and Allah says assistance
and Allah's protection
		

			in this situation, so wake up in the middle of the night, inconvenience yourself
		

			and invest time and energy and effort into pleading and begging Allah subhanaw taala for the
alleviation of the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Philistine and Gaza, and all throughout
the world.
		

			But may Allah subhanaw taala grant them
		

			safety and dignity and may Allah subhanaw taala remove from them the oppression and the oppressors
that they are suffering under. And may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to do our part as brothers and
sisters and sisters and as members of the ummah of the prophets Allah listen, I mean Arabella mean