Abdullah Oduro – Khutbahs with Purpose – Civic Engagement Talk Toolkit

			In the hamdulillah Nash Meadow monastery no one has told Pharaoh when our other billahi min sharoni
and fusina when they say at Dr. Marina Mejia de la vida mobile Allah Hua Mei Lin farhadi Allah lie
to Allah Allah in the law why the hula should ecola or a shadow under Mohammed Abdullah Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. OhioLINK Yeah, you have Latina amruta la haka to party. Well that's a
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			for in the US Dr. hediki terrible la he will hide on houda houda Mohammed bin Abdullah he sallallahu
alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam, or Sharon ohmori attached to her. We call them that that's
in beta or collaborating God Allah, Allah gotten to know and hamdulillah we praise Allah we seek his
aid and we seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge and Allah from the evil of ourselves and the evil of
our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide. And whomsoever Allah allow us to be led
astray, none can guide and I bear witness that there's no one worthy of worship except Allah who to
honor the Exalted and that Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him is his last messenger and slave.
		

			Oh, you believe fear your Lord and died out except in a state of submission to Him alone, for your
Lord who created you from a single soul and from that created its mates and from that scatters many
men and women are humanity figure, Lord, and do not cut off relations with your kin with your
relatives. Indeed, Allah is unlucky, he has the ultimate monitor over you, or humanity, fear your
Lord and speak the truth code and sadita and return your combat Malika will rectify for your
affairs, and he will forgive you of the sins that you may have committed. And whoever obeys the
line, His Messenger has indeed achieved the greatest achievement as to what follows Indeed, the best
		

			speech is the book of Allah. And the best guidance is that of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon
him. And of the worst affairs in our doctrinal system of Islam are the newly invented ones. For
every newly invented affair in this situation is an innovation. And for every innovation is a form
of going astray. And for every form of going astray isn't the fire of *. And we seek refuge in a
lossy pioneer with data from that.
		

			We living in the West face many different trials, tribulations, new encounters, new frontiers that
we always will continually see in front of us, just as an individual that one time came from another
country. And he had an opportunity to come here to study and to learn, in order to possibly go back
to his country or to stay in this country and benefit. And he decided to come over to this country.
And he learned and obtained his degree, but he had his wife in the country of his origin.
		

			And upon trying to bring his wife it took him roughly around three years to do so, when he would go
to the embassy, no explanation, try to find out some of his friends told them Look, your paperwork
is in a black holes somewhere,
		

			possibly because you are Muslim.
		

			That may be because the country you are coming from. But he himself is saying what did I do to this
country except come to learn and benefit.
		

			When he gets a lawyer, he finds out that he should have gotten a lawyer. And he was delayed years
for making sure that his rights as a human being are maintained.
		

			That his rights as a human being are maintained
		

			when speaking to an African American individual one time and when he heard about the border
controlled or when the President, the current president of the United States wanted to prohibit
people from coming in particularly from Islamic countries, if you will, and other countries to be
fair, when you want it to prohibit that, and was motion by some of his classmates that were Muslim,
to come and get involved. His first question was, what has your community done for our community?
Where has the reciprocity taken place? Where is it happened to where what you ascribe to and what
you identify as? And the individuals that identify as such? Where have they come forth and shown
		

			their civic engagement to get involved to help our community?
		

			That was a question
		

			That was left unanswered.
		

			So when we look in this society of individuals in America that is highly diverse, and when we look
at the Muslim oma, that is highly diverse. This could be an opportunity, or it can serve as a
threat.
		

			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was asked by a companion named bovada as the father of the
Allahu Allahu anhu. Ginger immunogenetic rhodiola one. He asked him what is an action that can admit
me into Jenna? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said le mandevilla
		

			he said belief in Allah subhanho wa Taala but then I both other rhodiola who I knew if we knew his
nature, Mashallah, he was a person that was aesthetic. He was Azad and he was someone that was very
vocal for the sake of Allah, and sometimes can be kind of aggressive. Robbie Allahu Allah.
		

			He said O Messenger of Allah. And Amal, Imani Iman, he said but with Eman with belief in Allah,
there is actions also. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, to give a little from
what you have,
		

			you know, the whole minmetals like a whole lot to give a little from what you have. Then he said,
Well, what if the person themselves only has a little and they cannot give? He said, and yet my bed,
my roof and in my car. So order that which is good and to forbid that which is evil? I will didn't
give up. He said O Messenger of Allah, what if the person is vulnerable, and is not able to do that?
He said then he should teach an unskilled person help an unskilled person.
		

			I Booba radi Allahu anhu. He said, What if the person himself has no skills and he's not able to
help that person?
		

			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam continued patience. He said, to help an individual that is
Maha lube and overpowered person
		

			to help an overpowered, weak person.
		

			And then above or below and we said, well, what if that person is weak himself? And he's not able to
even do that? We're a problem. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said letter that he Africa
mean Hayden yeah above him. He said, You're not going to leave any door of good or any opportunity
of good. You're not going to leave anything for your brother, your brother.
		

			And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said he should withhold harm from people.
		

			And then I move around the Allahu anhu. He asked him, it probably should have a lot if he was to do
this with this admitted intergender the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said a gardener general
rule. He said, If he was to take one of these hustler, hustler terminhandel, he saw if you could
take one of these characteristics or actions or tasks, to do one of these things, then this one of
these actions would take him by the hand and permit him into agenda.
		

			For this brothers and sisters and a time of confusion, where Muslims are confused. We don't know
what's right and what's wrong to do. Or we are angry at the state that we're in. We see the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in this hadith makes it very, very clear a number of things, that we as
Muslims should not be thinking when it comes to our actions in an idealistic fashion. Meaning that
if it's not 100%, perfect, we leave it or if it's not, as we know, as we read in the Quran, and as
soon as the Sahaba were, then it is something that we don't touch. We don't get involved in, we
don't emulate
		

			This was negated in this Hadeeth because there are situations to where people may not be able to do
the most idealistic thing, but it gives them other options, which leads to another point, another
benefit,
		

			do what is in your capabilities to help
		

			do what is in your capabilities to help
		

			when we see that as an oma, we may not have reached the ideal state as an oma even within a Masjid.
There may be certain hatred amongst brothers and sisters, there may be racism, there may be
discrimination.
		

			This takes place where human beings and we have not yet reached that level to where on a general
scale, there was Tao went out of the battery with tequila. There was helping an assistant in that
which is good,
		

			but do what you can. And if we noticed early in this Hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
The first thing he said is a man Billa but the manifestation the way that you would act out that he
man the way you would actually realize that the man is in doing something that would help someone
else. Everything that he said, was an action that assisted and helped someone other than yourself.
not confined to Muslims. Only
		

			The Prophet Sall Allahu alayhi wa sallam also said in the Hadith, if the hours error was to be
established, if the error was to be established, and there is in your hand, for sila, and this is
like a small tree, that you want to plant that you need to put in the soil, and you are able to do
so and you know, the hour is about to be established for the first half, when he should plant it,
showing the urgency of doing what you can, even if you know, it's literally the end of time
		

			doing what you can to help others. And then in this spirit, in this spirit, I want to speak about
the importance of civic engagement.
		

			What do we mean by civic engagement? And why is there an urgency for us as Muslims, especially in
America to get involved with civic engagement?
		

			We see that the Institute of Social Policy and understanding they take polls and surveys and write
articles about what goes on with the Muslim woman and even outside the oma on things that may affect
the Muslim ummah. We see that they have mentioned in particular, that Muslims, for example, 75% of
the Muslim Ummah, was registered to vote from faith groups. We see Catholics are at 95% Protestants
are at 94. Jewish are 86, Muslims at 75 that are registered to vote in 2016.
		

			One may say registering to vote is not within my capacity. But we say if you are registered, and you
are capable, and you are legible, to be someone that's registered to vote, you should take part in
that to help get involved and that is an implementation of civic engagement. Civic Engagement is
getting involved in the process of actions and things that will help better the lives of people
		

			that will help people live better lives in the locality.
		

			That is civic engagement. So we understand that the Muslim in general, and in specific, even
		

			the one that lives in America should take part in getting involved in things that help people's
lives, not only in the walls of the masjid, not only in the walls of your home, but outside to step
outside of the boundaries of being of Islam or your the Muslim community and getting involved with
your neighbors, bridging the gaps between the individuals that don't know who you are or what this
building represents. As we know there was a Masjid years ago, when they started to build a Masjid,
we know that there was a garden next to them property, the people in spite started to have pig
races. But what happened because of the civic engagement, the walls of ignorance, the walls of
		

			prejudice were broken.
		

			And a means of healthy pluralism was established. So when we understand the civic engagement, we
have to understand brothers and sisters, the examples that I gave earlier, are very, very important
for us to understand that we have to take some effort to reach out
		

			to our neighbor that doesn't know who we are. To our YMCA that doesn't know who is this child, this
woman, this girl that has he Javelin? What does that represent? How can I get involved?
		

			We see that civic engagement is twofold. From a principal stamp standpoint and a practicality
standpoint. When we talk about our principles, we as Muslims have principles. We are principled
individuals, our religion calls for you to be a principled individual, meaning that there are
boundaries that you will not cross and there are things that you must implement in order to maintain
morality, spirituality. In other words, to be a good citizen, which is synonymous with being a good
Muslim.
		

			We see that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was known as the alameen and mercy for mankind,
		

			but a condition for being a mercy for mankind. When we understand that mercy means withholding harm
from others than yourself.
		

			withholding harm from someone you can punish them even if they deserve it, but you withhold that
from them. That is mercy and that is what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was for mankind.
But a condition for that brothers and sisters,
		

			is to love for your brother, which you love for yourself. How can you be merciful on someone if you
do not love for them what you would love for yourself.
		

			And when we see based on the context, this word as he as some scholars have mentioned, could be an
incentive for humanity. So there is not a religious barrier here. If there was someone that you see
there right has been violated.
		

			It can be upon you to demand that those rights are maintained, at least speaking out about it or
writing about it or doing something that can help maintain the rights of that individual. And that
is civic engagement. That is how you get engaged. That is how you help society.
		

			When we see this, we understand that this is the only way that we will fulfill the verse that Allah
subhana wa tada says, after the lamina ship on the regime, contemplado, mutton, frigid ness,
		

			roof with an allen bunker with
		

			a loss of patent with data says that you are the best nation that was sent out. He uses the passive
form you were sent out to the people.
		

			What do you do? Order the good forbid the evil, and you believe in a law.
		

			That belief in the law serves as the engine
		

			for you to keep moving and ordering the good and forbidding the evil not to see something and don't
say or do anything about it, using the processes and the methods that help establish justice to you,
your family, and in this particular situation, society as a whole. So we see the urgency is,
firstly, from a principled standpoint, that we love for people that we love for ourselves. And
because of that, if that is there, we will be merciful to everyone around this. And secondly, from a
practical standpoint, all of us when we have this initial love for humanity,
		

			whether it's the man asking for money on the streets,
		

			or whether it's the individual that may not be Muslim, but there is a law or a bill that is passed,
that prohibits him or her from implementing their human rights.
		

			We form organizations, groups, that will have a mission in maintaining those rights as human beings.
And we as Muslims, Mashallah we have a number of them.
		

			But there are other groups that are not Muslim, that have the same universal goals. So in this
instance, for each group to get involved in those efforts that help maintain the rights of people.
		

			This is how we, from a practical standpoint, fulfill the urgency of civic engagement. So when we
understand that the Muslim just sitting at home, and not getting involved, as ISP, you mentioned,
the Institute for Social Policy and understanding mentioned that this non Islam and Islamic
uninvolved moment can serve as a negative means for us, meaning that if you don't get involved,
		

			it can be negative, they'll have a negative impact on you and your family. Ask yourself the
question.
		

			Do you want people that do not understand Islam who Islam and Muslims are and what we represent from
a creedal standpoint, from our belief, to our actions? Do you want them to speak for you? Or are you
going to speak for yourself from your actions from your involvement from your love that exhibits
mercy for mankind? Uh, hello, Callie Hello safale will accompany saddens me, we're stuck in a hole
for writing
		

			Alhamdulillah he is and he was shuffled over to the cantina he went in any.
		

			So brothers and sisters, we understand that
		

			being involved in a locality
		

			is Islamic. Being involved in a locality is Islamic, it's from our religion, to get involved in your
surrounding areas, not only with Muslims, especially if you're in an area where it's predominantly
non Muslim, to get involved in the processes and in the efforts that take place that the effort is
there to help improve the lives of people, whether it's bringing forth a good or prohibiting and
stopping an evil.
		

			And in this current situation, we see that Muslims may say that voting
		

			for candidates that the decisions of this candidate can affect you and your daily life. We see there
may be two groups, there may be an individual that say there is no benefit in this. Or they may say
I don't like the candidates.
		

			If the one that says we don't like the candidates, we have to understand we cannot have an
idealistic approach,
		

			meaning that there will never be a perfect candidate as Abu Bakr radi Allahu anhu when he stood up
after the death of the province of Aloha and he was said I'm ready to say
		

			in New York, in new Lita, la Kamala has to be Heidi come, verily, I was the one that was chosen, and
I'm not the
		

			Best of you. A Sidhu, Amanda tune will cannibal piano, that truthfulness is a trustworthy thing.
		

			It is a trust and lying is deception.
		

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strong one with you is the weak one with me until I take the rights of others from him in sha Allah.
Well, but even feet away even in the hat, or gra he has a lot. And he said the weak one that you all
see is weak is the strong one with me.
		

			Until I give him his right, return his right to him. This is a boubakeur.
		

			Probably a low one. We initially should understand from our religion, that Allah is perfect human
beings are not from that actions will emanate from them will come from them that are deficient,
there may be some laws on immigration that you don't like about this candidate. But guess what, he's
much better than the ladder. And in Islam, we have a general principle that is extracted from all of
the proofs in the study that scholars have extracted, determine my facet to cut the malla German
masala, that relinquishing the harm takes precedence over bringing that which has beneficial.
		

			When we vote, we don't look at No, I'm choosing the person that has done this bad. No, we say I'm
choosing the one that can eliminate the when
		

			we look at this situation, because if you don't,
		

			the number will stay at 75% it will not increase. And then when you want to complain, led to lumen
inland hefsek, do not blame anyone but yourself. If you complain about a state what's going on in
your schools, with your children, what's going on in your locality, from your parts, from your
sidewalks, from the stores from crime that's being that's taking place, and you're not getting
involved in community service events. When you see churches in your locality speak badly about
Islam, or they may choose candidates that openly speak badly about Islam, and they don't know about
Islam, but you've been next to that church for 20 years. Have any of you reached out to speak to
		

			them?
		

			And if we have, this is exactly what we should be doing as Muslims, may Allah bless you all for
that, speaking to your neighbor and having dinner with him,
		

			getting involved in outreach events,
		

			trying to become someone that's involved in your local schools. Being someone that teaches CPR in
your YMCA, and you are a doctor and you happen to be Muslim.
		

			You are someone that is involved in the community, from a grassroots level, as we mentioned, even to
a political level.
		

			So when we see that people say that none of them are good, therefore I won't vote, you've just
lessen the vote, which does not allow us to establish justice for ourselves and for others on this
earth or in your locality.
		

			And what about the ones that say voting doesn't cause it doesn't bring any benefits. Some of them
may be preservationists, their self, they don't want to get involved at all They say it's all that
all of it is, is cut up. But if you're living in this locality, I guarantee you that whatever vote
has been taken will affect you and your family. So if you're not taking any effort to try to change
that, we see the worst of a loss of power went the other way. Last month, Allah says after all the
damage upon a gene with God, it's my two men who met a woman named
		

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			all do not get an email or become with alone.
		

			Allah, Allah says in the Quran,
		

			when a certain group of people say why are you telling whom Why are you wanting these people, that
Allah has destroyed them, and will punish them?
		

			I've ever been shaida What was the answer? My zero 1011 become? What was their answer?
		

			It is to serve as a means of excuse an excuse for me in front of my Lord.
		

			In front of your Lord, don't be cool with me. Perhaps you have hoping that people perhaps there'll
be people that fear Allah subhanho wa Taala.
		

			So we may be sincere in saying I don't want to get involved. But understand if you don't, it will
have an effect on you. We see that Yusuf Alayhi Salam was an individual that wanted to get involved.
He said make me
		

			a person that is in charge of the Hosanna that is in charge of the agriculture, he got involved in a
non Islamic Society.
		

			So brothers and sisters, it is urgent for all of you, if you have the means, and if you are able to
affect society, whether it's in your convenience store, in your park, in your school, at voter
registration.
		

			On your way to a school to register to vote and you are eligible to vote,
		

			to get involved in your community to help make a change, because when it comes to you,
		

			this is when we are concerned. And that is not the approach of an individual that wants to help make
a change in society.
		

			When we look at ourselves and FC FC will lie that people will feel that
		

			communities will feel that
		

			to where when you as a group, as a name are oppressed.
		

			They're going to say, Where was their involvement? And where was their assistance and help? Where
was their voice even in an issue where people were We were suffering.
		

			Because when you do not do that, it may, by default, make you a suspect, rather than a citizen.
		

			You have to ask yourself the question
		

			or the actions or your lack thereof, closer to making use someone as a suspect, to where people
don't know about you.
		

			And assumptions will come doesn't say that it's right but it happens. Or will it make you a citizen
to where people say yes, we know those people. We know this group of people I know my neighbor, I
know this individual is involved with the education system with the with the with the system of
police brutality, they're saying something about it, they're doing something about it. They're
involved, they're inviting us to their community to speak about how to properly deal with
immigration issues, how to properly deal with police brutality and law enforcement in our area, how
to properly deal with education, how to properly deal with women in our society. What does that
		

			mean? This is what I'm talking about when we do this brothers and sisters. This is where we can make
an effective change not for ourselves in this common error. But for the errors to come
		

			in this is how we affect people.
		

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