Abdullah Hakim Quick – Reminders
AI: Summary ©
The importance of peace and balance in the Christian world is highlighted, along with the need for role play and balance in social context. The importance of understanding Islam and finding a path to peace is emphasized, as it is essential to achieving spirituality. The importance of peace and blessings for individuals and their families is also emphasized, along with the need for strong examples and principles to reinforce actions. The importance of resolving conflict resolution in community settings and avoiding evil behavior is also emphasized.AI: Transcript ©
Islam gives us a straight path, the prophet peace be upon him left the three axioms, make relations with those who cut you off. Even if somebody is doing bad to you, you still do good back, speak the truth, even if it is against yourself. And let us never forget that the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him, told his companions on that arafat sermon that those who are present should take this message to those who are absent. It is the message of the belief in one God, we should not be involved in oppression of any type. It is also the message that there is no preference of the white over the black or the black over the white. There is no preference of the Arabs over the non Arabs
or the non Arabs over the Arabs 11 taqwa It is only that consciousness that piety and action that separates the belief that message was also the one that said men have rights over women, but women also have rights over men. It is that message that has shown us that there are two affairs there are two things if you follow them, you will never go straight and that is the book of Allah and the Sunnah of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the Prophet peace be upon him was asked what will be the main reason why people will enter Paradise and so the Prophet peace be upon answered and said taco Allah wa hospital hulak he said this the consciousness of Allah and good
character, and then they asked him a messenger of Allah, what would be the main reason why people will enter Hellfire and he said alhfam Well, Farage, he said the mouth and the private paths
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim.
All Praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds
and may the choices peace and blessings be upon our beloved Prophet Muhammad, his family and his companions forever. I'd begin with the greeting words of the righteous. Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah.
Almighty, Allah subhanho wa Taala has blessed this nation, with the example of the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him. He was a source of mercy. And he was also a twin Hassan. He was the best example the best model. And he showed within his life balance. He showed within his life, how to be an individual who was involved in spiritual affairs, and also involved in material affairs, how to be a person who was involved in politics, but at the same time, would be praying to his Lord, how to be a person who was a businessman, but an honest businessman, a person who was involved as a leader of a nation, but was the most honest of people. And so this beautiful example, is one of balance.
And we are so in need of that today. Because extremism is tearing our communities apart. extremism has hit the Christian world, and the Buddhist world, and the Jewish world, and the traditional religions of Africa, and Asia, and it has also hit the world of Islam.
And so what we need is the middle road, oma tournois SATA, that we should be the middle road, moving along, Siddhartha musta came in the way of our Prophet peace be upon him. And so the Prophet Mohammed Salah Sallam has warned us of the opposite. And he told us in one authentic hadith reported in Makati, you will find amongst the worst people on the day of his resurrection, in the eyes of Allah is the two faced a person that is the one who comes to people with one face, and then he goes to others with another face. So this is the to face person,
the one who shows one face at home and another face outside with his friends.
The person while in the masjid is showing a face of piety. But then when he goes to his work, when he goes to school, he changes up according to the environment.
That is the two faced individual and it is very easy within the society today to find ourselves falling in a problem such as this. And when this happens, we find individuals in what could be called role playing
And so they they play a role. If they are with their friends in a secular type environment, they become secular. If it's time to go to the masjid, they put on the hat of Islam, or the scarf of Islam, and they become Islamic. But once they finish, they leave the hat in the masjid, and go back to the secular world.
This type of dichotomy within personality is a dangerous phenomenon. It is dangerous, because it can even affect the identity of the individual. In some cases, we find the individual at home is Beloved. And beloved is such a nice boy. He makes his prayers and he's so honorable and so polite. But when Bilbao goes outside and down the street, and he goes to school Bilbao becomes Billy
Billy's diff is a different story altogether. Billy has an attitude, a bad attitude, he swears he's rude and arrogant. And so the beautiful Bilaal has changed into the arrogant Billy Ali becomes al, Mohammed becomes mo
sumiya becomes make
Asya becomes Asia.
And so the names change. And some people even printed on their business card, they say Mo, instead of Muhammad.
And people do have to change somewhat according to their environment. If I were to play sports, if I were to play soccer, I wouldn't come with a three piece suit with a briefcase, I'd put on the clothing to play soccer. So that is a form of role playing, where the danger comes in is when the character of the individual changes. So if that individual is around people who swear and have bad character, he also swears and his character becomes bad. If he goes around people who are trying to fear Allah and trying to have Taqwa, then suddenly he becomes a pious person. That is the danger and that role playing could even turn into schizophrenia. Well, he has to be law. That is a mental
disease. And that is where the person actually loses control of itself and can no longer control the roles. And so Bilbao now comes to his parents. The father says to the young boy, it's time for Salah.
And the father turns around and Bilal has gone, Billy standing there.
And the problem develops in the family. And so this can become a mental problem. And it is something which we should seriously consider in this world today in how we are relating to each other, and how we are relating to the society outside of us, because Islam gives us a straight path. What we are in need of today is to look at Islam from original sources, to be able to go back to the book of Allah subhanaw taala, to the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and to make these two original sources relevant in the world today. The Quran should not take us back 1400 years and leave us back there. The sooner should not take us back 1400 years, and then leave us in the middle of the desert
with the companions and not relevant to the digital technology or the age that we are living in today.
But this Quran and the Sunnah should take us back and let us drink from the original sources, the pure sources of Islam, and then transport that understanding to the world we are living in today. So the slum would become relevant to our lives. And that our role playing would only change slightly and maybe partly how we dress and in partly the actions we are doing, but the characters should stay the same. If the Muslim is involved in sports, he should not be cursing the enemy. Foul words should not come out of his mouth. If the Muslim is involved in business, he should remain an honest person, just as he wasn't the masjid. If the Muslim was at school and there are non Muslims there, then he
should show character to the other students. If a Muslim even becomes a politician,
that he should not become a crook or a liar. He should not change and say one thing before elections and another thing after elections, but the politicians should be the most honest person within our community. Our leaders should be the most humble people. They should be the ones who we can trust more than anybody else within our community. That is the straight path. That is the oma tournois SATA. Those are the people who are living in
The world but they are not of the world. These are the people who could drive even a new vehicle, and still feel a lot. These are the people who fly in airplanes and still find a way to make their press. These are the people who can travel to lands outside of the world of Islam, and still be able to maintain the eating of halaal. And their actions. These are the people who are consistent with their Islam, who Allah subhanaw taala blesses with the one culture and that is the culture of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He did not speak from himself. And he was the example of mercy. He was the one who gave us the straight path, the middle road, not extreme to one side or the
other. But right down the center.
I pray that Allah would not help would not make us be of those who have two faces, and would be the most despicable people on the Day of Resurrection. But I pray that Allah would help us to be of those who would have one face and that is the face of Islam, the face of the Sunnah, the face of the love of the Creator, and the sincerity in dealing with all of humanity. May Allah bless this oma, May Allah help the non Muslims to see the truth of Islam. I leave you with these thoughts. And I asked a lot have mercy upon me and you are salam wa Alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
Miata at kodaka Siva
Dr. socket night.
The concept of God in any region is to try and understand what the sacred scriptures have to speak about that religion or the concept of God.
together and I see that is the real service that we do to God.
But the main purpose is to understand and let the followers of these two great religions come together like what we have done today.
dialogue between
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on concept of God and Hinduism and Islam in the light of sacred scriptures in cross fire
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim, Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala heartland bi mousseline say that Mohammed Ali he was a big giant robot, In the name of Allah, most Gracious, Most Merciful, all praises the due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the peace and blessings of Allah be constantly sent to our beloved Prophet Mohammed to his family, and his companions, and all those who establishes sooner to the Day of Judgment. The Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him
was the complete example of Islam.
And I usually allow on how used to say, if you want to see the poor and walking and talking, then look to the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him. From the beginning of his prophethood all the way to the last moments of his life, he cared about his oma.
And in one tradition,
which is not so well known to our community, and was reported by Ali Ibn Abi taalib, rather long on in this tradition, we are left with a legacy.
In this tradition, the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him, has given to the Muslims a legacy axioms that would last the Day of Judgment. And in this century that we are going into now, with the great wars in the world, and the tension, racial tension, economic tension, political tension, we are in need of strong examples and axioms principles to guide us through these lessons.
perilous times are Li rhodiola on May Allah be pleased with him reports. When I took possession of the weapons of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, I found in the hilt of the sword was a parchment. And on that parchment was the following. Still men pata aka arson element Asahi Lake, WA colon Huck Waldo Allen appsec, ali rhodiola, Juan, found the parchment in the hilt of the sword. So the Prophet peace be upon him must have had somebody do the writing, and the following words were written, make relations with those who cut you off, and do good to people, even though they harm you, and speak the truth, even if it is against yourself.
And so we see the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him was Ramadan, Allah mean, he was a mercy for all of the worlds.
What do people put on their guns and their swords today? If you find the person shooting a missile, or he has his gun, he says born to killed. He calls it hellfire. He uses different dampening type words. This is the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him, who even in times of war, was thinking about bringing people together about forgiveness about mercy, about the ultimate goal of Islam. This is what Muslims are really about. And so in this legacy, the prophet peace be upon him left the three axioms, he said Silman kataka, make relations with those who cut you off.
Many people are accepting Islam today and have Christian families.
And they cut them off, they're told to totally cut them off. But no the Prophet peace be upon him, kept his relationship with people. Yes, he stood up for the truth. Yes, he would not follow anybody and taught us not to follow even our mothers and our fathers, if they are leading us to polytheism or leading us astray. But the relationships, keep relationship with people and those who are cutting you off. If they cut you off at one time, make relationship back with them. This is the way of the dour. This is the outreach that the Prophet peace be upon him did. And we find in his relationship with many of the people of Mecca, that he maintained himself, and he was able to see them at one
point in his life, accept Islam. The second axiom is well as an element aside, like an even if somebody is doing bad to you, that person is harming you. You still do good back.
We don't fight evil with evil. Our characters should remain good under all circumstances. And we find it today. When people are trying to reject Muslims are trying to give us a bad image, or even doing things which are unethical, and reporting against Muslims. We do not fight evil with evil, but we take the higher ground. And we show that Islam is the way of life representing the Creator of the heavens and the earth. The Prophet peace and blessings be upon him. When the times were difficult in Mecca, he went to a tarrif the persecution drove him to the mountains of the South. And when he went to actief, hoping to see people come into Islam. Their answer was to stone him until the blood ran
down into his sandals. And it is reported that the angel of the mountain appeared to him and told him in words that he would destroy the people of Thailand. But the prophet Sal seldom said no. Maybe there would be somebody who would say la ilaha illAllah there is no God but Allah and the Prophet peace be upon him live to see the people have come into Islam and crowds. So Dakota pseudo law to good to people, even if they harm you. This is a difficult axiom. But it is so important for Muslims today. And that does not mean that we don't defend ourselves. We do defend ourselves, but even in our self defense, even when we are being harmed we do not use the evil methods or the cruel methods
of the unbelievers. Finally, the prophet peace be upon him has given us an important axiom in conflict resolution, while Kahlil Huck, wallow Allah enough sick and speak the truth, even if it is against yourself. This is a very important point. Because Muslims in many parts of the world, whether it be on a community level, whether it be on a national level, they find themselves
at odds, one side is saying a and the other side is saying B. How do you resolve this conflict? One says right and the other says black. The believer in this case, as our divine guidance has told us, if you if you find differences, then take it back to Allah and His messenger. Go back to the original sources, go back to the early seller for solid, those people who gave us that foundation in the purity of the original message, and then we can resolve the truth. And if I am wrong, I am wrong.
You know, it's easy for a person, if he's in an argument. If he's right, then it's easy to be honest and to be straightforward. But if he's wrong,
does he admit to his brother or his sister, I am wrong. I have made a mistake. You my brother, you my sister, you are correct. And I accept your opinion. I accept what you have said that is the high moral ground. That is the way of the Prophet peace be upon him. Because there is the might, the perfection is with Allah subhanaw taala perfection come out. It is not with us. We are imperfect creatures. We are we are human beings in sadness. Yeah. And we forget, we make mistakes, we should accept the fact that we are wrong in the circumstances that we are in. If this type of conflict resolution can come about, then in our communities, we can come together in peace in our nations, we
can also resolve the nations if our leaders would even admit that they were wrong and bring it back to Allah and His messenger. This is the straight path. Allah has blessed us with a prophet peace be upon him whose words are eternal, and will stay with us to the Day of Resurrection. But will we follow these words? And will we become those who can make relations with those who cut them off and do good to people even if they harm them and speak the truth, even if it is against themselves? Are co lokali how the world stock for lolly welcome. I say what I have said, I asked a lot to have mercy on me and you what salam wa Alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
I wouldn't come with a three piece suit with a briefcase, I'd put on the clothing to play soccer. So that is a form of role playing, where the danger comes in is when the character of the individual changes. So if that individual is around people who swear and have bad character, he also swears and his character becomes bad. If he goes around people what trying to fear Allah and trying to have Taqwa, then suddenly he becomes a pious person. That is the danger and that role playing could even turn into schizophrenia. Well, he has to be law. That is a mental disease. And that is where the person actually loses control of itself and can no longer control the roles. And so Bilbao now comes
to his parents, the father says to the young boy, it's time for salah
and the father turns around and bilad is gone, Billy standing there.
And the problem develops in the family. And so this can become a mental problem. And it is something which we should seriously consider in this world today in how we are relating to each other, and how we are relating to the society outside of us, because Islam gives us a straight path. What we are in need of today is to look at Islam from original sources, to be able to go back to the book of Allah subhanaw taala to the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and to make these two original sources relevant in the world today. The Quran should not take us back 1400 years and leave us back there. The sooner should not take us back 1400 years
And then leave us in the middle of the desert with the companions, and not relevant to the digital technology or the age that we are living in today.
But this Quran and the Sunnah should take us back. And let us drink from the original sources, the pure sources of Islam, and then transport that understanding to the world we are living in today. So this slum would become relevant to our lives. And that our role playing would only change slightly, and maybe partly how we dress and then partly the actions we are doing, but the characters should stay the same. If the Muslim is involved in sports, he should not be cursing the enemy. Foul words should not come out of his mouth. If the Muslim is involved in business, he should remain an honest person, just as he wasn't the masjid. If the Muslim was at school, and there are non Muslims there,
then he should show character to the other students. If a Muslim even becomes a politician, that he should not become a crook or a liar. He should not change and say one thing before elections, and another thing after elections, but the politicians should be the most honest person within our community. Our leaders should be the most humble people, they should be the ones we can trust more than anybody else within our community. That is the straight path. That is the omoton, wasa those are the people who are living in the world, but they are not of the world. These are the people who could drive even a new vehicle and still feel a lot. These are the people who fly in airplanes, and
still find a way to make their press. These are the people who can travel to lands outside of the world of Islam, and still be able to maintain the eating of halaal and their actions. These are the people who are consistent with their Islam, who Allah subhanaw taala blesses with the one culture and that is the culture of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He did not speak from himself. And he was the example of mercy. He was the one who gave us the straight path, the middle road, not extreme to one side or the other. But right down the center.
I pray that Allah would not help would not make us be of those who have two faces, and would be the most despicable people on the Day of Resurrection. But I pray that Allah would help us to be of those who would have one face and that is the face of Islam, the face of the Sunnah, the face of the love of the Creator, and the sincerity in dealing with all of humanity. May Allah bless this one Ma. May Allah help the non Muslims to see the truth of Islam? I leave you with these thoughts. And I asked a lot of mercy upon me and you are Salaam wa Alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Miata at kodaka Siva.
Dr. socket night.
The concept of God in any region is to try and understand what the sacred scriptures have to speak about that religion or the concept of God and that
we need to bring people together and I see that is the real service that we do to God.
But the main purpose is to understand and let the followers of these two great religions come together like what we have done today. Imagine it's a
dialogue between Dr. Zakir Naik and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, on concept of garden Hinduism and Islam in the light of sacred scriptures in cross fire.
smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen
salatu salam, ala Hartman bi, mousseline, sadan Mohammed, while he was rbh mine were bad, In the name of Allah, most Gracious, Most Merciful, all praises due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the peace and blessings of Allah be constantly sent to our beloved Prophet Mohammed to his family, and his companions, and all those who establishes sooner, to the Day of Judgment. The Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him
was the complete example of Islam.
And I usually allow on how I used to say, if you want to see the Koran walking and talking, then look to the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him from the beginning of his prophethood all the way to the last moments of his life, he cared about his oma.
And in one tradition,
which is not so well known to our community, and was reported by Ali Ibn Abi taalib, rather long on in this tradition, we are left with a legacy.
In this tradition, the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him, has given to the Muslims a legacy axioms that would last the Day of Judgment. And in this century that we are going into now, with the great wars in the world, and the tension, racial tension, economic tension, political tension, we are in need of strong examples and axioms, principles to guide us through these perilous times are Li rhodiola, and may Allah be pleased with him reports. When I took possession of the weapons of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, I found in the hilt of the sword was a parchment. And on that parchment was the following. sill metal pata aka acid element aside a lake
were called Huck Waldo Allen appsec Lee rhodiola, one found the parchment in the hilt of the sword. So the Prophet peace be upon them must have had somebody do the writing and the following words were written, make relations with those who cut you off, and do good to people, even though they harm you. And speak the truth, even if it is against yourself.
And so we see the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him was Ramadan, al al amin, he was a mercy for all of the worlds.
What do people put on their guns and their swords today? If you find the person shooting a missile, or he has his gun, he says born to killed. He calls it hellfire. He uses different dampening type words. This is the messenger of a lot of peace be upon him, even in times of war, was thinking about bringing people together about forgiveness about mercy, about the ultimate goal of Islam. This is what Muslims are really about. And so in this legacy, the prophet peace be upon him left the three axioms, he said Silman kataka, make relations with those who cut you off.
Many people are accepting Islam today and have Christian families.
And they cut them off, they're told to totally cut them off. But no the Prophet peace be upon him, kept his relationship with people. Yes, he stood up for the truth. Yes, he would not follow anybody and taught us not to follow even our mothers and our fathers, if they are leading us to polytheism or leading us astray. But the relationships, keep relationship with people and those who are cutting you off. If they cut you off at one time, make relationship back with them. This is the way of the Tao. This is the outreach that the Prophet peace be upon him did. And we find in his relationship with many of the people of Mecca, that he maintained himself, and he was able to see them at one
point in his life, accept Islam. The second axiom is what is an element Assad like, and even if somebody is doing bad to you, that person is harming you. You still do good back.
We don't fight evil with evil. Our characters should remain good under all circumstances. And we find it today. When people are trying to reject Muslims are trying to give us a bad image or even doing things which are unethical and reporting against Muslims. We do not fight evil with evil, but we take the higher ground and we show that Islam is the way of life representing the Creator of the heavens and the earth. The Prophet peace and blessings be upon him.
When the times were difficult in Mecca, he went to a tarrif. The persecution drove him to the mountains of the South. And when he went to actief, hoping to see people come into Islam, their answer was to stone him until the blood ran down into his sandals. And it is reported that the angel of the mountain appeared to him and told him in words that he would destroy the people of Thailand. But the prophet SAW Selim said, no, maybe there would be somebody who would say la ilaha illAllah. There is no God but Allah, and the Prophet peace be upon him live to see the people of Thai have come into Islam and crowds. So Dakota pseudo law to good people, even if they harm you. This is a
difficult axiom. But it is so important for Muslims today. And that does not mean that we don't defend ourselves. We do defend ourselves, but even in our self defense, even when we are being harmed, we do not use the evil methods or the cruel methods of the unbelievers. Finally, the prophet peace be upon him has given us an important axiom in conflict resolution, while Kahlil Huck wallow, Alana fsic and speak the truth, even if it is against yourself. This is a very important point. Because Muslims in many parts of the world, whether it be on a community level, whether it be on a national level, they find themselves at odds, one side is saying a and the other side is saying B
How do you resolve this conflict? One says right and the other says black. The believer in this case, as our divine guidance has told us, if you if you find differences, then take it back to Allah and His messenger. Go back to the original sources. Go back to the early seller for solid, those people who gave us that foundation in the purity of the original message. And then we can resolve the truth. And if I am wrong, I am wrong.
You know, it's easy for a person. If he's in an argument. If he's right, then it's easy to be honest and to be straightforward. But if he's wrong,
does he admit to his brother or his sister, I am wrong. I have made a mistake. You my brother, you my sister, you are correct. And I accept your opinion. I accept what you have said that is the high moral ground. That is the way of the Prophet peace be upon him. Because there is the might, the perfection is with Allah subhanaw taala perfection come out. It is not with us. We are imperfect creatures. We are we are human beings in sadness. Yeah. And we forget, we make mistakes, we should accept the fact that we are wrong in the circumstances that we are in. If this type of conflict resolution can come about, then in our communities, we can come together in peace in our nations, we
can also resolve the nation's if our leaders would even admit that they were wrong and bring it back to Allah and His messenger. This is the straight path. Allah has blessed us with a prophet peace be upon him whose words are eternal, and will stay with us to the Day of Resurrection. But will we follow these words? And will we become those who can make relations with those who cut them off and do good to people even if they harm them and speak the truth? Even if it is against themselves? Our co lokali Heather was talking stock for lolly welcome. I say what I have said I asked a lot to have mercy on me and you wa Salaam wa Alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
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