Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Aqsa History, Virtues and Responsibility
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I think one of the last over promised in the 20 minutes that I
have to talk about the history, the virtues and our tasks and
responsibilities is an extremely daunting task sounded like an exam
question with a small amount of window space. So we ask Allah for
baraka and blessing in our time. And in what we say about this, may
Allah allow us to fulfill the rights of these places that have a
right upon us. And sometimes it gets difficult because of the
place that we're in, in terms of what we can do being such a
distant away distance away. And what we can effectively do and
what we can't do, it gets complicated. That's why one dua
that I tend to try to make these kinds of situations is your Allah,
give us the give us the enablement enable us to do that, which is
befitting for us to do and allow us to be used in the service to do
that. However, there are some concrete things that we can do.
Right, there are some concrete things that we can do. But let us
first understand what we're speaking about here. There's a
interesting poem by Nizar qabbani. He says, I asked about Mohamed
within your walls, I begged news of Jesus in your streets of
Jerusalem, Swift this path between heaven and earth.
And I think the reason why he's saying is because Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wasallam that's a place he visited on a special
journey. And it wasn't something that probably sort of loathsome
went on foot or on any worldly mount Bay. It was something as
Allah mentions in the Quran, Subhan Allah, the surah the Abba
de Laila million Masjid Al haram, il message oxide, the Prophet
sallallahu sallam was sleeping, either in Omaha in his house or in
the Haram and he was woken up and taken by the angel with the Barak,
which is a special steed, a special animal, and he was taken
from there, to Jerusalem, and then to wherever Allah will end that's
where the Hadith mentions that he had a meeting with all the
prophets there, from Ibrahim money, some other money, some all
the way down. And they were all waiting there. And I used to
always wonder how would they do it when you see the pictures of the
Masjid? How would 124,000 prophets gather in there, but when you
actually visit, you realize that the message is the other day. Just
yesterday on Twitter, I put up the picture of about three quarters of
the compound, including Messi the Sahara, and I said, I talked about
Missy Lux. And somebody immediately tried to correct me
and say this is no this is not missing Luxor. This is a message
compared to Sahara. But actually all of the Cobra to soccer is
included within Masjid Luxa. So it's all of that environment as
soon as you get in from the chain gate, or any of the other gates
that we have that whole expense before they actually not even let
you wear slippers. They're hurt. You have to go barefoot, and it's
just, it's all paved and stoned right now. But they wouldn't allow
you to go now they allow you to go with shoes there. But then they've
got two major messages. They're the one is the Cooper to sutra,
the Dome of the Rock. And then they've got the Qibla Mosque,
which is now becoming known more well known as the Blue Mosque,
because that's more in the direction of the Qibla. That's
kind of on the edge. Right? So the whole thing is mushy, Luxor, the
whole thing, and then you can understand how you've got so many
people in there. So they all waiting there. And then the
prophets Allah sent them Djibouti lights and led him forward that
you lead the prayer. So the prophets of Allah Masha leads the
prayers, leaves that those two records of prayer, whatever number
of records it was, and all the prophets were behind him. So it's
a very special place that a person was specially taken down there.
For Jerusalem, Jerusalem is also
there's a few Hadith that I'll cover, just to give you an idea of
what it mentions in these Hadith. It is the place of Ibrahim alayhis
salam that he moved to that he moved in the direction of he came
from Iraq from Babylon, Iraq or southern Turkey. There's a dispute
there as to where a primary some originally was born and where he
was the Turks in shanlee. Orissa they say it was there whereas the
Iraq they say that actually not Babylon is here and we were in
that area of order. Right. So all of our order that's there's that
but then he moved with his nephew Luth Ali salaam to
In the Middle East, or this set the sham that area and looted
Islam he went to the Dead Sea and that's where he became the Prophet
of the saboom. And that area who eventually were destroyed
because of the evil acts, right.
But Ibrahim Ali Salam, so Ibrahim Al Islam is Harker the Salam
jacobellis And I'm used to value some new talents that I'm studying
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here ism and find the easterlies they all been in Jerusalem and
Jerusalem has been a very, very special place anyway. Now, in
Arabic we call it L beta lock this or beta lock this L Baitul. Mocha
does. So all of these can be as you may have heard it, they're not
incorrect albedo, look at the word coats means holy coats, it's that
they actually refer to as coats as well, the holy, right. But el Beit
El Mercado has it's a noun an adjective, the house which is
hallowed, the house, which is purified.
Why is the UN Baytril mark this the house of purification? Why is
it called purified? Well, firstly, it's a purified area in terms of
the spirituality, right. And number two, it's a place where
people go to be purified. And we've had a history, it's just now
because of the turmoil, and many, many Muslim countries having
actually cut off relationship with the so called Israeli government
or Israeli area. And that's why the people can't even go to
Pakistan cannot even go and enter into that area. And sometimes
they're doing of their own for different reasons. There's a pros
and cons and both of these things, they decided we're going to
boycott the place, so that we can so that they return back to what
it's supposed to be, but it's not worked out. For people in the
West, we can actually go there and mashallah the people that just
absolutely love it, sometimes actually say that we don't want
your donations.
We don't want your donations, because the people in Jerusalem
itself,
there's probably more poverty in the West Bank, then come back
because in Jerusalem, they cannot get a hybrid situation where they
work in the so called Israel proper area, they can go into the
West Bank as well. It's a really difficult state, actually, it's
very difficult. I mean, you try to understand the kind of image the
kind of status of residents is really weird, right? But Allah
subhanaw taala helped them but some of the proudest people that
I've seen some of the most confident and proud as people I've
seen, I mean, I've traveled many places, but these people
Subhanallah they're willing to, they're willing to fight for this
area. And they're very, very proud. See, the men and the women,
they they stand up to these fully weaponized, policemen and army
officers and they will stare them in the face and they will say what
they need to say, and this was what like, do what you want. It's
almost like they know that that's they've got a task. And Allah
subhanaw taala generally doesn't give people a task without giving
them some capability if he wants them to succeed. And Insha Allah,
Allah wants these people to succeed the Muslims to succeed,
but they're at the forefront. We're sitting here, we can assist
in other ways. So that's the name for you the merits, there's a
number of verses that refer to Jerusalem aside from the one the
beginning of sortal Israel Surah to Bani Israel, where Allah says
that Glorified is He who took his sermon by night from
the sacred presence to the distant present. This is how Abdullah
Yusuf Ali has translated it and that's why I had a non Muslim once
who was interested in something that you guys are always talking
about Aqsa and you say it's in the Quran, you have not seen it. I've
read the whole Quran is not there. So
I said no, no, it's in the Quran. I've memorized the Quran I'm
telling you, it's in the Quran. And then I told him show me what
what do you did I know I showed him the verse. And apparently in
Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation is done a literal translation what
I've just done for you. And Masjid Al haram. masjid means the I
forget what he said a precinct that the Holy precinct or
something like that haram, the holy sanctuary to the further
sanctuary Mr. Aqsa, so I explained to a beta Mac this obaidul mocha
does. It has many names actually, the user shall Him, He will sell
him this is the Hebrew name. Then, in the time of the prophets, Allah
ism, he wasn't even known as Jerusalem. It was in the in the
books in our Quran, he was referred to as Mr. Aqsa, but
actually it was under the Romans. And that was the area their
capital called Aelia Capitolina, which they actually built for one
of their gods for one of their idols, or one of the Jupiter I
think is the temple of Jupiter or something like that. That's why in
the Hadith, in many times, it's, it's referred to as elior. When
the discussion about Heraclius, who was the the Roman emperor of
the time in Jerusalem, right of the area,
the reference to God
Jerusalem was Ilya in the Hadith Aliah Capitolina. That's, I think,
probably a Latin term or a Greek Latin term, I think, right? Or a
Roman term not sure. But that's what he was called. And then after
you had the whole list of the prophets also when they met the
prophets, that was probably a secret meeting, you know, that
nobody else knew about. And then after that, it's already Allah who
went and that's who mashallah took over the area was handed the keys.
And then that's where he then this area was this had this area had
been neglected. You know, if you've been there, you'll see the
churches, right, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or Central Church
and how you there's both ways of saying it, I think, right, which
we visited as well, that's inside the old town that's inside the Old
City or whatever you want to call it. This area of the machine looks
at this whole mound is totally separate. And this was used as a
dump space for them. They had no respect for this area. Right.
There there's a lot of there's a lot of actually contradiction as
to where exactly Eastside ism went from and where he was, and some
say he went from the Cooper to Sahara. Other say that he and
there's several Christian denominations with different
churches in different parts of southern the Old City. In fact,
the holy several church that has, I think, four different
denominations, with small areas that they control of the same
churches or walls in between, and they kind of argue about who's
going to clean it and who's going to pay the bills, but the whole
thing is actually under the Muslim Alkaff. From the time of
Salahuddin Rahmatullah era, the whole thing is under no smoke off
so the doorman of the Holy Sepulchre church is a Muslim,
right from a certain family that and the house next door is where
Saladino the Allahu Anhu was Rahim Allah was and we actually got to
visit this house next door is his 70 year old woman who owns it
right now. So really interesting is a lot of history, you should
really really go they should make an effort to go there. And people
are scared to go there they shouldn't, is a whole different
experience and macabre Cara Medina. And that has an amazing
experience that when you go to Morocco, Morocco, Medina, why
don't you just see it and you feel it? Here, it's a totally different
experience, you actually get taken back in time. That's I would say,
my unique feature of Jerusalem is that if you want to go and feel
like you're back in the old days, because it's the same stone,
right? It's not as developed, you don't get the big marble, you
know, facades and everything like that. There's nothing artificial
there. It's all normal, and it's so down to earth that you can
actually sit there the whole day, essentially, nobody's gonna throw
you out. Right? Literally, you can sit there the whole day, and
there's nobody gonna throw you out. And there's so you know, so
in Macau and Medina, they have to be regimental because there's so
many more people that go there, right. But here you can literally
casually reading the first stuff, you get there just a bit before
and you can meet with the sheikh, the Imams you can speak and talk
to speak to them. It's very casual. And it just takes you back
in time and you get to understand how the people there are there are
and mashallah the pride that they have. And they're really specially
chosen, I think by Allah subhanaw taala for this purpose, may Allah
give him even more strength. So there's several verses though,
aside from this verse, verse of certainly sloth that refer to
Jerusalem that refer to Mercy Luxa for example, Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, chapter 21 Verse 71, when Egina who were looked on in
an auto delivery Bharat Nafi Hello, I mean, of course, that
references the whole of Sham that we gave, we secured we gave safety
to Ibrahim and some luta listen to a land to a ground to an area that
we had spread our Baraka in for Lil al Amin for the worlds so the
baraka is not just for the locals, but it's supposed to be for the
worlds right anybody can go there and take part in that Baraka
there after that in
Allah subhanaw taala says, what you know, Maruyama Wuma who is a
new way now Houma, Isla Robert in the the Corrado Marine, so, we
made Maria Maria Salaam and her mother science and we gave them
refuge in a rubble. And that Rubble is, is saying, referring to
Jerusalem, the shelter or high ground, that's what it refers to
rubble refers to a shelter or high ground, that is also referring to
Jerusalem as well, Mr. Luxa that area as well.
Thereafter that
the verse in Surah LWL, chapter 24, verse 36, Allah says, feeble
youth in avviene, Allahu and tutorfair, where youth coffee has
more, ALLAH SubhanA there are home there are places there are areas
or places in which Allah subhanho wa Taala has permitted that they
be raised that they be built, they be elevated and raised, and his
name be mentioned in the very stuff serious about this, but one
opinion is that this also refers to the Sacred House of Jerusalem.
And then this is a beautiful verse sort of out of us 137 And just as
it was applicable to the people before in sha Allah it is
applicable to the people of now who are there, right what the
Morabito of the area look at them and see the pitch in the last day
sleeping in the masjid you know with those stones next to them
that's all they have to fight against this But Walmart Ramita is
Ramita well I kidding Allah Rama.
May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant them more power. So Allah says,
whoa Roth Nila Coleman Lavina cannon who you saw the iPhone a
machete out of the Omaha, Omaha Reba, ality Barak Nafisa Wetton
met Kelly Kadima to rob because it got sick or whatever killing
tropical husana either Bani Israel Isla de mas Subaru. This is about
the Bani Israel how Allah subhanaw taala protected them and save them
and grant them granted and victory and granting them success. So
Allah says, We then gave that place in inheritance to a people
that were downtrodden, that were considered weak, that was
subjugated in the east and west of the lands, right?
Which places did we give them as inheritance, the lands which we
had blessed? Right, in that time? What a muckety muck tropical
husana. And
your loads, perfect words have been completed upon the Bani
Israel because they were patient, because they were patient. And
with the modern America and eosinophil our own, we totally
utterly devastated and destroyed what Iran was doing and his people
were doing and what they were building. So, and may Allah
subhanaw taala, give it back to them as well. And the mashallah
they're doing the sober, they're being patient. Of course, it's a
challenge. It's a challenge for them. Because
they have when you go and you speak to them, some of the
challenges in the Old City, they've got their houses,
they're holding on to them, there are people willing to buy them at
10 times the cost, right, but they won't sell. And the common idea
there is that if you sold you have a really bad name, because it's
almost like you cannot sell it, you can't give an injury. And
there's some Hadith regarding this, but you can't give even an
inch away. But the problem is that they don't get put because it
comes under the Jerusalem municipality, they don't get a
permit to build. So then they have to build in secret.
They have to bring in the CIP the supplies, the building materials
in secret and then build up and then if they find out they say
this will build without license, and then they take it down. It's
crazy. So it's like they can't build they can't add and it's
because it's just suffocation it's really really bad. But may Allah
subhanaw taala give give them that. Give them the strength and
the stability again. Thereafter that you have Musa Elisa and I
mean, there's other verses. Yeah, call me call out other Mikado.
versitility Khattab Allahu La come well at Alta do either at the body
competent Kalibo Hassanein. When Musa Osama told his people enter,
it's for you, but they refuse to enter that time they had to stick
around for 40 years, wandering, wandering around in the valley,
the tea valley as such, it actually means wandering, being
lost in that sense. And then finally they made an insight but
that was often Musa al Islam had departed from this world.
Abu Dhabi al Rifai now let's understand some Hadith about the
Buddha or the fiery Radi Allahu Anhu. He asked Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam, which was the first Masjid to be built on earth.
He decided to ask him a common knowledge question I guess like
you know, what's
what general knowledge question which is the first question
the prophets Allah Islam said maca, because that was the first
by the angels. Even before Brian Reese, I'm actually just re
elevated it from the foundations but angels had built it first or
other monies on these different opinions about them about my karma
karma, which was the next one after my karma karma. So Madina
Munawwara is quite late. That was 1400 and something years ago,
right? But he said, the Masjid of Jerusalem just 40 years between
after McConnell is just 40 years afterwards this hadith in Sahih
Muslim so it's 40 years after Maka Maka, Rama
and now, there are three messages in the world where you will be
rewarded for going so for example, if I'm by Captain masjid, and I've
heard of this beautiful place called masala Nora, which is a
very it's one of the smallest mysteries in the area in a
basement, right? But mashallah, they filled it with lots of
resources. So I've heard lots of stuff about it. Right? So you go
in there, there's lots of resources for children for adults
and they do all sorts of, you know, mashallah good things in
there. So I like I need to go and check this place out.
So if I come here and pray here, I don't get any extra reward. I get
more rewarding praying in Medina Masjid. Right. But
of course, you can visit different Masjid to meet people to visit the
masjid to, you know, maybe give them some encouragement. You know,
there's different reasons you can do that. But
you wouldn't be rewarded specially for just visiting another Masjid.
If you go to, for example, you go to under Lucia, and you go and
visit Cordoba, you don't get a special reward for visiting the
Masjid. You may be you know, there may be some other rewards you get
for that, but you don't get it for praying there. They get on it. You
pray there anyway. But
hamdulillah had the Tofig to pray that long time ago. But now
they're very, very strict.
So
there are three messages though, to shut the * Illa Illa fella
that he massaged, where you get a reward for specially going there.
So your whole trip is actually worth it. So the ticket money you
will pay will also be rewarded. That's the interesting thing about
going Jerusalem is not just a holiday. Right? You know, when I
say holiday, it depends what you mean by holiday for religious
people. The holiday is
like somebody said, Do you ever go on holiday? Like what do you mean
by holiday? My holiday is going there visiting the scholars
visiting universities visiting Islamic institutions. I went to
Vienna and that's what we did. That's my holiday. That's what I
enjoy doing. Or not Do you ever go to the beach? And I said, Well,
maybe if you go to Trinidad, yes, you know, or the Maldives. There's
some nice pure beaches there. But in England, I mean, there's a few
hot days in the year and there's a few decent beaches. So when
there's a few hot days, that's when the whole of England come
they're in all of their glamour. And you know, that gets
complicated. But mashallah, there are places in the world where you
can enjoy the view. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the
beach. It's the Curatola and it's you know, it's there's some
beautiful places to be honest, go to Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados,
right? And Maldives is amazing. But anyway, let me not talk to
anyone right now when you've got a monetary I'm on traveling. you
characterize like Rosetta Claire bunny, bunny, decolorize aapko.
Allah here carry Allah Allah remove this issue from us, this
pandemic and remove the endemic from them as well. So how many?
Once you go there, then how many rewards you get? What's What's all
this money you're spending for? Well, it's because you got a huge
amount of reward. And there are opinions from 250,000, a 250 500,
or 1000. There are several Hadith about this. One, some narrations
talk about 250 rewards as they say, but minimum you're gonna get
250 extra reward, they're multiplied 770 times depending on
your sincerity that's like your base 250 times reward of a prayer
anywhere else in the world, except McCormack or Medina which have
higher rewards, right? The other opinion is 500. And the third
opinion is 1000. So either way, 1050 is huge. And mashallah, when
you go there, what else are you going to go there and do? Right?
That's what you do. You get a hotel, and then you go and pray in
the masjid. And you just sit there and you speak to the people you
give them and they love it when you come as I said, rather than
donation, they said that, that we want more, you come here and show
us your support and really make them feel good. And they're
beautiful people, they're really hospitable and so on. And they
they really help you out and look after you as well. It's not enough
CFC world as the it is in some other places become like this,
just Money money money here is not like that yet, there's a lot of
decent people they'll help you out.
So I'm not going to in the interest of time, I'm not going to
mention all the Hadith in detail, but I've mentioned to you there
are these three views in the Hadith. And there are also other
views as well. There's also another really really interesting
Hadith he says that anybody praying the dispute can be
purified like the day his mother gave him both. So you can actually
go there and be completely become sinless by the special doors and
the special bobcat and blessings that can be that can that are
received there that are available down there and that we can insha
Allah benefit from I've got a set of three lectures that hamdulillah
Allah gave me the opportunity to actually deliver in Masjid Luxa
itself literally in the masjid itself is they call the Aqsa
lectures, right, and I think they want some some Academy called the
Aqsa lectures and they call so I'm going to refer you to them if you
want any more history, okay? Because they were done over three
days, right? So we went with a group and for three days, they
like 45 minutes to an hour, 45 minutes each or something and that
goes to the whole history, the virtues. I've also tried to
mention all the people who visited not all the people but all the
great people, the Sahaba and the tabby and other righteous people
who used to go and make that place as the rebirth for themselves as a
place to Imam Ghazali went and spent a long time there in
seclusion, right and numerous other righteous Sufis and saints
and pious people went there because it's a place of special
Baraka. One of the reasons that some of the will facility and have
mentioned about why the prophets Allah Hassan was taken to
Jerusalem from a coma, coma and then up
to the heavens, for the ascension was because that is where the door
to the heavens is otherwise the heavens above every place in the
world Macaca Rama Medina, absolutely. But that is apparently
the place of the door to the heaven. Like if somebody wants to
go there, that's going to be the place to go from right, one day
when it's the time to go. Right. So
there's a few other points that I want to mention. What can we do?
Well, as I said, That's sometimes gets configured like we get
frustrated, what can we do? And so number one, I think the one thing
we can definitely do is, I think, raise awareness. And what I mean
by raising awareness is not just a few campaign calls or few messages
or emails to your local MP, which you cannot, you should also do,
but I think this needs to be ongoing process. The problem is
that we only wake up when there's a problem, but it's been an
ongoing issue. And the problem with the issue is because it's
such an old issue
10 years ago, 20 years ago, there was a lot more awareness, because
it was a fresh issue. Now, you had so many other issues as well. So
it looks like this, this has become kind of like a stale issue
for some people, unfortunately, you know, something it's happening
to me is going to go on about Palestine. But it's real. And it's
actually worse, from the scenes that I sorted. In fact, I was
happy at the beginning of Ramadan, because I expect a bombing every
Ramadan of Gaza, right. And this year, it didn't happen. 15 days,
20 days, like Al Hamdulillah, no bombing this year, what's going
on? And then it's happens at the end. Right? So it looks like they
find this time for its provocative, right. And I know of
people who've been there in Ramadan and seen the provocation,
right. So what we need to do is we really need to get your neighbors
and other people to just understand the reality of
Palestine, the reality of the suffering, the reality of the
persecution, the reality of the encroached land areas. And what
made my heart really bleed is that we were because you're foreigners,
you can use the Israeli highways as such, that literally go over in
terms of bridges and other places into even the West Bank. And
you're just zooming past. And you look over to the side. And there
are these small dirt paths and other broken roads and other
roads. And you can see these local communities there. Right, this is
West Bank, Palestinians, this is occupied occupied land, this is
not this is something that we encroached on, for sure, this is
not something that one in a wall, right. Or that is allowed by even
international standards. And there are exits to these areas of this
main sparkling motorway, but they've got these big boulders
there. So the people who live in those days cannot use this. This
is for the Israelis with the Israeli passports, right. So
they have to go through inside and then there's parts which are
cordoned off, there's walls, there's then settlements and if
you're one family is on this side, and the other one is it's
harassment to go to the other side, they've taken their fields.
It's crazy, it literally is just like as much as possible take as
much as possible of it. So that's why the only way this is going to
change and Britain has to be at the forefront because Britain's
the one who actually caused this problem in the first place, right
with the whole Balfour Declaration and everything like that. It was
really sad the Ottomans went and then this we lost, right? They
mashallah saved it for so long. Sultan Abdul Hamid, Abdul Majeed,
all the others. Although mashallah the compact of Sahara is probably
about over 1300 years old. Because it was originally built by Willie
did not Abdulmalik the Romanians, that's early, that's the within
the first 100 years of Islam. And mashallah, that what a glorious
piece it is, what a glorious building it is Subhanallah
I don't know what else is surviving or what needs work
because he built the Umayyad mosque as well in but that was
destroyed. And now what you see is obviously been redone, but this
place is still there and may Allah preserve it and continue it.
People are fearful, though, of what's going on because they're
getting closer, they would never come into the general messy Luxa
bound boundaries before. And then now they've started encroaching
more and more, they've coming into the door, and it's getting worse.
So we need to raise awareness, because it's only going to be
pressure, the boycotting and the pressure right on the MPs to do
something to change the perspective that you we can't
carry on like this. When you see these interviews. It's almost like
the newscaster is literally scared. frightened. hamdullah
there was that one recently on with the British with the
Palestinian representative. I'm not sure if he's an ambassador
where he was an ambassador. And there was there was obviously
resistance in the beginning but eventually I think he got through
to the news to the news caster whoever she was and it looks like
she did take it like she got it finally some she
manatee in high think, you know he was very good though, right? But
hopefully that was some humanity. And I think this can happen when
they see the pictures and I think it's changing Inshallah, because
the social media is making that difference. So we need to spread
this as much as possible. Right, we need to spread this and then of
course we need to campaign to our, to the politicians directly, but
just us campaigning, that's not enough. We need to get the
mainstream to campaign when they take the job, right. They're gonna
they're seen as first class citizens. So it makes a big
difference. We're still kind of second class, you know,
regardless, you know, we're still a bit second class, that's the way
we're seeing so it's not going to make that difference until we get
that.
And number three, the Hadith Allah mentioned about something
directly. There's a hadith which is related by IGNOU. Manager,
Imam Muhammad
from
Maimunah.
Said, your US will Allah, she asked this question. So one, I
wonder what came in as you said, you had a sort of Athena Fe beta
lock this, give us a fatwa give us some direction, some guidance
regarding beta Democritus. For color E to fossa Luffy, visit it
and pray in it. So that's the first thing visited and pray in
it. Now, at that time,
it was an enemy state. I mean, how do you get to visit at that time,
but the browser also means recommending it from that time.
Then he said, Okay, if you cannot visit it, you can't get there for
a reason. Maybe like, I think Pakistanis can't go there like
Pakistan, Pakistan, because they have their passport doesn't allow
entry or something like that. And there's other countries as well,
who cannot go there on their passport. That's why it's very
easy for Westerners to be able to go there.
You see a lot of people, they're from India, the Christians from
India, they go there, right? You see a lot of Turks there,
Mashallah. And you see, a lot of the western South Africans have
been going on there forever, Mashallah. They've got a lot of
support. But that place in the British and Americans are still a
bit scared. I don't see so many Americans still going there, for
whatever reason.
Even the Muslim Americans, I don't see as many true God but from
England, like there's like a group going every week or something at
one time, you know, before the lockdown. Mashallah.
And they really respect the British people and the South
Africans, because, you know, they really rate them. Now, he says, if
you cannot go there, and praying there for bathroom is at New
Sergio fee, Karna, Delia, so something simple, you can do take
some oil and send it there, which can be helped to burn the lamps of
the place. Now, I don't think they've got any oil lamps. They're
not I don't remember seeing any oil lamps there anymore. So I
don't, they could have kept once you know, it's like symbolically
actually actually suited to fulfill as soon as mandala. Maybe
when I go next time, I'll give them that suggestion. I know, they
might have one, I'm not sure. But that would be something really
interesting. Just to follow up, but obviously, electricity, right
money, to to illuminate the place to bring light to the place. And
that could mean in other ways as well, to assist the place in many
other ways. And the donations will be accepted, and so on and so
forth. But I think we really need to campaign we really need to get
serious about it, not just when there's a problem, not just in
Ramadan when they're attacked. We need to do this throughout then
may Allah bless friends of AXA, that is my bipartite he's been
working on this, like a lone ranger Subhanallah for such a long
time. And he's developed a lot of relationship in among our non
Muslim community. Right? He's developed a lot of relation, a lot
of the time what they do in terms of the Expos that they have, it's
full of non Muslims, mashallah, there's probably more non Muslims
that go there and picking this up because it's the only it's the
minimum that we can do about this. Right? Of course, for the people
who are there, they've got a different responsibility, you
know, for them, this is probably a jihad, right at the end of the
day, but for us, this is our way of doing things. You know, the
minimum that we can do from here insha Allah may Allah subhanho wa
Taala accepted. I know one friend of mine is a scholar. Probably
locked down now but before the lockdown for I don't know how many
years for 1015 years, every year. He goes, takes a group to
Jerusalem. They put that haram on there, and from there they go for
ombre. He's been doing that for years. Because there is a special
Hadith about that as well about the blessing of putting it haram
in Jerusalem and going to karma karma from there. It's not easy,
obviously. Right? But hamdulillah they do that and they come out of
it saying that bake Allah Humala bagel bagel actually Calacatta
bake what a sin, Mashallah. And everybody knows them, though,
because they do this regularly. So be creative re ingenuous to bring
about awareness of these things. And I said, we really need to
seriously because it's true. What happens if we lose muscle? Luxa
what next? The guys who are sitting in Morocco, you know,
Saudi, they think we can let that go. We'll be safe.
That's not the way these things work in this world. People are
greedy, and people are selfish. And people are ambitious. Right?
And this is just human human.
You know, and we've seen in history, that it's those who
struggled, they may lose in the short term you lose, right? You're
struggling against a bigger foe, a bigger against the bigger enemy,
you're there's going to be casualties because Allah has never
promised that you will always be safe. And you'll always be secure
in the sense that you won't lose anything. Look how much the
progress the Lord is in them last, the prophets Allah Allah says life
is fully a struggle until the conquest of Makkah.
If you look at the life of the prophet, it's a full 23 years of
struggle. You want to book on struggles, and you want to see a
story of struggle. You want examples of struggles, and misery
and difficulties and tests and trials. Just read the zero the
books, the loyalists, only after the conquest of Makkah, does there
seem to be some semblance of no greater stability and so on,
because even after Madina, Munawwara they found a home, but
there are constant army, there are constant struggles of attacks, and
betrayals, and other other issues.
So Allah subhanaw taala, we pray to Allah, Allah, grant us the tofi
to do what's right, we feel so helpless sometimes. I think I'm
reflecting what a lot of people what do we do. It's not just
simply about money. It's not simply about just donating a bit.
You people will now donate so much to rebuild.
Those same few million that are going to be corrected now should
have been collected beforehand.
To do a lot of campaigning,
this situation would not have probably reached this because the
only way they survived down there is because they know that they've
got everybody
in some kind of control. Now if the same people can be mashallah
contributed to by other people are campaign, these few million pounds
when there is no struggle there is given as campaign funds, you know,
lobbying funds to politicians in America and the UK, things will
change can easily change. What's the point? Well, you know, now
this is still beneficial that we're sending money, you know, to
rebuild, but why let it be destroyed in the first place? It's
all about that's the way the world works. Now. It works on money.
That's a huge aspect. So we have money. People have money these
days, but it's just not strategically spent. Personally, I
think that's going to contribute hugely in sha Allah, if that can
happen. Allah subhanaw taala bless everybody's Ramadan. For some
people. This is the last moments of Ramadan for some people they
may have another day, whatever it is for you. May Allah bless our
Ramadan's make these final moments better than any before them make
this Ramadan, better than any Ramadan before it. And
whatever we've done, we think to Allah subhanaw taala we don't want
to let shaytaan make us feel like we didn't do anything. If you
didn't do anything, you didn't do anything, right, call us. But if
you tried to do something, then now do sugar to Allah because we
would not have been able to do this without Allah's help anyway,
the fact that you've even done something that's from Allah
subhanaw taala so we thank him for it. And may Allah subhanaw taala
give us many, many more blessed Ramadan's after this. And may
Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us and our misogyny, and our iman in
our generation and until the Day of Judgment have root keep in
mind, in our families, in our descendants, it's very, very
important. Working with that one and hamdulillah
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