Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Gaza- One Heart One Ummah
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The violent march in London leading to chaos and conflict has led to the loss of important city and army positions, leading to the loss of important buildings and people. The conflict between their country and enemies has caused chaos and chaos in the country, and the importance of protecting one's heart and not letting anyone take advantage of them is emphasized. The segment discusses the importance of learning from experiences and protecting one's heart, and the need for people to remember the history of the town and be prepared for the future. The segment also touches on the negative impact of killing children and the importance of knowing the history of the town and the potential for "we" elements to impact one's behavior.
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What can we do?
It's been a year and I don't want
to sound like a broken record.
Alhamdulillah throughout the year many of the ulema,
many leaders, many many people, many common people
have been trying to help one another, advise
one another, counsel one another on what to
do and what we can do.
There's a march nearly every few weeks or
at least every month at least there is
in London Alhamdulillah.
Now a lot of this seems like it
may be going nowhere.
But Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has his plan
and there are huge benefits.
The march today, there's a person who's been
coming to the march multiple times, a non
-muslim.
They finally embraced Islam, multiple other people have
embraced Islam, is given an opportunity for people
to understand what is this about?
Why is there so much aggression?
Why are these people so oppressed?
What is it?
Actually above all the mashallah the brothers and
the sisters there, their fortitude, their sabr, their
patience, their endurance.
That is what is winning everybody over.
So my dear brothers and dear sisters and
our dear young friends, mashallah see a lot
of young children here.
It's unfortunately, it appears to be a celebrate
a kind of a celebratory kind of environment
though.
It's actually we're gathered here for a very
somber occasion and may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
accept all of our coming here for this.
It's the little that we can do.
So may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala accept it
and allow it to be magnified for the
benefits that it's been designed for.
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says in this verse
that I just read earlier.
I'm just going to recount and just very
quickly recall a particular critical incident that took
place in time to prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
In fact, one of the deadliest incidents you
could say.
The battle of Badr where the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam they managed to overcome the enemies
and they managed to finish off 70 of
the leaders of the Quraish.
That was a very surprising outcome for the
Muslims themselves.
That was followed by the battle of Uhud.
Again, there was initially a victory but then
because of some mistakes that were made Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala showed us that mistakes can
be made and then there was There was
a you could say a stalemate.
Thereafter that the people of Makkah, they summoned
up the largest army that the Arabian Peninsula
had ever seen until that day.
The Arab factions were always conflicting with one
another.
To the north you had the Romans and
to the east you you had the Persians.
They had essentially colonized all around the area
of Hijaz and the surrounding areas.
Nobody wanted to touch these tribes.
Nobody wanted to touch Makkah Mukarramah and Madinah
Munawwarah or Yathrib as it was called at
that time.
Because the people there were seen as extremely
violent with one another always in some kind
of argument, dispute, chaos, conflict.
So people had just left them to it.
So now when the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
emerged in Makkah Mukarramah and finally he went
to Madinah Munawwarah they had the battle of
Badr and Uhud.
After that because of the setbacks that the
disbelievers at that time from Makkah had experienced
they gathered together what they called the battle
of the Ahzab.
Many people know it as the battle of
the Trench, but it's actually called the battle
of the Ahzab.
That's the surah in the Quran.
Ahzab means the plural of Hizb, which means
the various different factions.
Despite their differences, they managed to gather all
of the major tribes, all the major factions
of Arabia and bring them to bear on
Madinah Munawwarah.
Now the story is long.
I'm not going to go into the purpose
is not to explain the whole story.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he consulted with
everybody in Madinah Munawwarah, this included the Jewish
tribes because they had an agreement between them
that we will defend one another.
We will defend the city, Madinah Munawwarah.
We will defend it.
So they decided that the southern part, they
were major fortresses that the Jews owned, the
Jews of Madinah Munawwarah they had the fortresses
in the south, huge castles and forts.
So it was pretty safe from the south,
but the north was very vulnerable and exposed,
but such a huge army was coming that
it would be difficult to fight against them.
So let us put a distance between.
So one of the one of the ideas
that were provided was that let's dig a
trench, a kind of a semicircular trench to
the north so that that part can be
at least protected at some level.
So the whole army, the ahzab, the various
different factions, they gathered together in the north
and then what happens is Alhamdulillah Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala, he had his own plan in
mind.
But in the midst of all of that
there was a Jewish man called Ibn Akhtab.
Eventually the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam married
his daughter Safiyyah bint Huyayy radiyallahu anha, would
become a Muslim, but the father unfortunately was
a bad person, not a very good man.
He went and instigated some of the tribes
of the south that was supposed to defend
the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to violate
the treaty.
That became such a difficult issue.
It became such a vulnerable time, such a
dangerous time that as Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
says in the Quran, You started thinking various
different thoughts about Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, all
the promises that have been made.
Because as Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, Oh
you have, Oh you have believed, remember the
favor of Allah upon you.
When the armies came to attack you, the
various different factions came to attack you.
We sent upon them a wind and armies
of Angels that you did not see.
Allah is ever seeing of what you do.
Remember, then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gives a
graphic explanation of exactly what was going on
in people's hearts.
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, remember when they
came at you from above and from below
you and when your eyes were shifting in
fear.
You were wondering what to do because they
could easily attack you and overwhelm you.
The hearts, it became such a difficult situation
that they say that Allah says that the
hearts reach the throats and you started to
have various different assumptions about Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala.
And then remember when the hypocrites and those
whose hearts are deceased, when they started saying
that Allah and his messenger did not promise
us anything except a delusion.
This is a very very difficult moment.
So what exactly happened is it was because
they were facing the enemy from the north
and then suddenly there was a break in
the ranks and the south and they thought
they were going to get crushed.
This is when Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala then
further talks about and said this is when
the believers were shaken.
Zulzilu, Zilzalan Shadida that they were shaken with
a severe shaking.
Now what happened here is that various different
people started saying that a Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
was promising us that you're going to be
getting all of the riches of the Khosrows
of Persia and the Caesar of Rome and
here we can't even go out safely to
even relieve ourselves.
That was how dangerous the situation was.
Then Alhamdulillah Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala sent a
wind like a storm and what it did
is it uprooted all of their tents.
So Alhamdulillah no fights took place except a
few small issues here and there and then
they all retreated and that is how Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala saved them from the largest
enemy that that ever amassed outside of Medina
Munawwara at that time.
One of the duas that's very relevant inshallah
that we can use the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasalam was asked at that time, Ya Rasulullah,
Is there something we can say?
Is there a dua that we can read?
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam, he said,
say Allahumma Astur Awratana Wa Amin Rau'atina
Allahumma Astur Awratana Wa Amin Rau'atina Which
basically means, oh Allah, conceal our weakness and
calm our fears because literally what the person
asked is that our hearts have reached our
throats.
It's such a dangerous situation.
What can we do?
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam taught this
dua at that moment.
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala then says in another
verse, Am Hasibtum An Tadkhulul Jannah Walamma Ya'tikum
Ummathalul Lazeena Khalu Min Qablikum Masathumul Ba'sa Wal
Dhara Wa Zulzilu Hatta Yaqool Ar Rasoolu Wallazeena
Amanu Matan Nasru Allah Ala Inna Nasru Allahi
Karim Do you think you can enter Paradise
without such trials, without similar trials that will
come to those who passed before you?
They were afflicted with suffering and adversity.
They Were Shaken And They Were So Shaken
And This Is The This Is The Pertinent
Part They Were So Shaken That The Prophets
That The Prophet Of The Time And Those
Who Believe With Him, They Started Asking When
Will The Help Of Allah Come?
Sometimes You Get These Very Desponding Situations.
It Seems Hopeless, It Seems There'S Nothing That
We Can Do Now.
It Seems That There'S No Assistance.
So He Started Asking When Will The Assistance
Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Come?
That'S When Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Reassures Them
That Surely The Help Of Allah Is Very
Near.
For Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala He Has A
Purpose To Fulfill.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has A Purpose To
Fulfill.
For Too Long, Right?
Have Certain People Misled Others, Have A Lot
Of People Been Deceived With The Idea Of
Human Rights, That We Are The Champions Of
Human Rights.
This War, This Aggression, This Genocide Has Actually
Laid Bare Of What Really The Human Rights
Are And Who They'Re For And Who
They'Re Not For.
So Much Hypocrisy Is Becoming Unveiled Without Which
There Were So Many Muslims, Some Muslims Understood
This From Before But There Were Many Muslims
Who Are Always On The Fence.
They Always Had An Inferiority Complex.
They Always Looked At Other Civilizations With An
Eye Of Admiration That They Have All The
Rights, Wonderful System And Clearly There Are Benefits
In Multiple Systems And There'S No, There'S Nothing
Wrong With That.
But Ultimately This Has Shown And Laid Bare
The Hypocrisy.
There Are So Many People Have Understood And
Not Just Muslims But The Many Many Non
-Muslims Have Understood What Is Really About A
Cronyism That'S Taking Place.
So What Can We Do?
It'S Been A Year And I Don'T Want
To Sound Like A Broken Record.
Alhamdulillah, Throughout The Year Many Of The Ulama,
Many Leaders, Many Many People, Many Common People
Have Been Trying To Help One Another, Advise
One Another, Counsel One Another On What To
Do And What We Can Do.
There'S A March Nearly Every Few Weeks Or
At Least Every Month, At Least There Is
In London, Alhamdulillah.
Now A Lot Of This Seems Like It
May Be Going Nowhere.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has His Plan
And There Are Huge Benefits.
The March Today, There'S A Person Who'S Been
Coming To The March Multiple Times, The Non
-Muslim, They Finally Embraced Islam.
Multiple Other People Have Embraced Islam, Is Given
An Opportunity For People To Understand What Is
This About?
Why Is There So Much Aggression?
Why These People So Oppressed?
What Is It Actually Above All The MashaAllah,
The Brothers And The Sisters There, Their Fortitude,
Their Sabr, Their Patience, Their Endurance, That Is
What Is Winning Everybody Over.
How Can They Survive And Still Say Subhanallah,
La Ilaha Illallah, Hasbuna Allahu Wa Ni'mal Waqeel,
What Does This Mean?
How Can They Be Losing Their Children And
Just Carry On?
How Can They Lose Their Children And Still
Advise People To Carry On And To Be
Patient And To Carry On With Their Movements?
This Is Really What Helps Is The Humanity
In These People.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Give Them Even
More Himmah, May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Give
Them Much More Than They Have Lost.
May Allah Replace For Them A Much Greater
Compensation Than They Can Even Imagine And That
Will Surely Inshallah Happen, That Will Surely Inshallah
Happen.
So Now Alhamdulillah A Lot Of The Benefits
That Come From This And What We Can
Still Do, Alhamdulillah The Boycotts Are Winning.
Of Course Because We Don'T Really Control The
Media, The Media Doesn'T Really Put A Lot
Of Stuff Up There That You Find On
On X And Twitter And Other Places.
Unfortunately, The Problem Is That The Mainstream, The
Majority Of People They Only Read The Mainstream
Media.
That'S Why This Hasn'T Got There As Fast
As It Should Have Even Though For You
And I Who May Be Doing A Certain
Searches Or Whatever Will Find The Relevant Material.
Unfortunately, It'S Just Not Out There For The
Rest Of The World To See Easily.
If They Look For It, It'S Alhamdulillah, It'S
There But It'S Not Easy.
That'S The Problem Because There'S A Whole Lockdown
In Terms Of What Can Be Shown And
What Cannot Be Shown.
That'S Why Alhamdulillah Many People Are Waking Up,
The Boycotts Are Working.
Our Biggest Job Right Now Are Two Things,
In Terms Of Practical Things That We Can
Do Beyond Our Spiritual Contributions.
In Terms Of Our Practical Contributions, What We
Have Seen Is That The Only Reason This
Can Continue, The Way The World Works Is
That Whoever Has More People On Their Side
Then They Usually Win.
There Are Exceptions To This Rule, But Usually
When You'Re Able To Get A Lot
Of Supporters Then You Definitely Seem To Win
In The Interim, At Least In The Short
Term, You Definitely Win.
That'S Exactly What'S Happening.
Nobody Is Stopping Them Because They Basically Got
Everybody On Whether That Be Payroll Or Whatever
It May Be.
That'S Why It'S Very Very Important That We
Might Not Be Able To Do Something Effectively
This Time That Brings Immediate Benefits, But Maybe
Very Possible That We Need To Learn Huge
Lessons From This, Which Is That We Need
To Set Ourselves Up.
Remember In Democracies, You Either Have To Be
In The Driving Seats Or You Have To
At Least Be A Passenger Or You Have
To At Least Be A Backseat Passenger.
If You'Re None Of Those, You'Re
Not Even In The Car.
You Have No Say And For Too Long
We'Ve Been Outside Of The Car.
Others Have Gotten Themselves Either In The Driving
Seats Or They'Re The Passengers Or They
At Least The Backseat Driver, You Know That
That Mother Who Sits At The Back And
Tells Her Son How To Drive, Don'T Drive
Too Fast And So On.
We'Re Just Nowhere In The Car.
Alhamdulillah, This Is Woken Up Many People And
You Know, May Allah Bless Leicester And The
People Of Leicester That They At Least Did
Something Very Good, Mashallah.
This Time Round They Did Very Very Well
Of Electing The Right Kind Of Person In
Sha Allah, May Allah Give Them Tawfiq.
That'S Why We Really Have To Learn From
This That It'S The Power, This Is Where
The Power Lies.
It'S The Power Then The Second Thing You
Need Is A Lot Of Money But The
Money Has To Be Spent In The Right
Way.
Just Money For Indulgence Is A Waste Of
Time.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Said How Wonderful
Is Pure Wealth In The Hands Of A
Righteous Person.
This Is What We'Re Missing.
There'S A Huge Amount Of Wealth In The
Muslim World, In The Muslim Community After 70
Years Of Being Here As After Being Immigrants,
There'S A Huge Amount Of Huge Amount Of
Wealth Just Not Being Used Correctly.
Alhamdulillah, We Saw Things Where Certain Candidates Stepped
Down So That They Did Not Have To
Oppose Or Stand In Front Of Another Muslim.
Alhamdulillah, That Led To Some Victories.
This Kind Of Strategy Is Very Very Important.
That Kind Of Strategy Is Very Important.
The Other Way To In Sha Allah Benefit
This Is That We'Re Just Not Enough
Until The Mainstream Doesn'T Pick This Up As
An Important Issue And It'S Not Just The
Muslim Issue, It'S An Issue Of Humanity.
If They Can Do This To Our Brothers
There, They Can Easily, Anybody Can Easily Do
This To Other Places Because There'S Already A
Model To Follow.
There'S Already Something That'S Been Done And A
Precedence That Has Been Set.
That'S Why It Becomes Very Important For Us
To Educate The Masses, The Neighbors, The Colleagues,
The Coworkers Because Ultimately The Politicians Are Elected
By The General Masses And When The Mood
Changes, That'S Politics Changes.
That'S Usually What Happens.
Politics Goes With The Wind And With The
Flow.
They Changed From No Brexit To Brexit.
There'S A Lot Of That Going And That'S
Why We Really Need, We'Ve Got A
Lot Of Work To Do.
That'S Why Education Is Very Very Important And
We Have To Speak About It As A
Human Catastrophe, As A Humanitarian Issue Rather Than
Just The Muslim Issue Because It Is An
Issue Of Humanity, That They Can See People
That Have Done Nothing Wrong, That There'S A
Genocide That'S Taking Place Because Of It.
We Need To Tell People That Their Taxes,
Their Money Is Being Funneled To Commit This
Aggression.
It Could Easily Be Used In This Country
To Alleviate The Poverty.
It Could Easily Be Used To Bring The
Prices Down.
The Price Of Fuel, The Price Of Electricity
And Gas, The Price Of Food Has Skyrocketed
Compared To Many Other Countries.
I Was Just In Japan, Things Are Half
The Price Sometimes In Japan Compared To Here,
Much Cheaper Even Though It'S Such A Progressive
Country As Well.
It'S Not A Third World Country At All.
What'S Going On?
Where Is This Money Going To?
People Are Struggling And The Issue Is That
All Of This Money, Why Do They Do
This?
Eventually The Money Will Come Back.
Right Now The People Who Are Making Money
Are All The Big Corporations That Manufacture The
Weapons.
They'Re Making All The Money And Then
After That When Rebuilding Has To Take Place,
The Big Corporations Will Make The Money Rebuilding.
The Contracts Will Be Given To Those Particular
Corporations, Which Means That The Common Folk They
Just Have To Keep Paying And Paying And
Paying And The Money Becomes Concentrated In Those
Few Companies That Run Everything.
This Is Even No Longer A Conspiracy.
This Is Just Reality.
People Are Openly Saying This Now.
We Need On A...
Now Coming To Coming To This Our Personal
Spiritual Level Which Is Very Very Important.
People Are Being Massacred.
Thousands Have Been Killed Including Absolutely Innocent Children
And Innocent Men And Women As Well.
I Know We Focus On The Children But
It'S As Bad To Kill Innocent Men And
Women.
I Guess Emotionally Just Sounds Worse When You
Say Killing Children, But These Are All Innocent
People That Have Been Killed.
What Have We Learned Out Of It?
Yes, We'Ve Gathered Here To Have A
Wonderful Meal In Sha Allah And To Maybe
In Sha Allah Donate And May Allah Bless
One Nation That Is Trying To Bring Our
Nation Together, Our Ummah Together And May Allah
Take Their Work Take Their Work From Strength
To Strength.
But Ultimately We Have To Benefit From This
And How Are We Going To Benefit From
This?
Ultimately, We'Re Getting Our Salaries.
We Have Our Own Bank Balances.
We Have Our Own Wealth.
We Have Our Own Resources.
We'Ll Donate A Bit.
We'Re Not Gonna Donate Our Whole Wealth.
Maybe Somebody Will.
We'Re Still Going To Enjoy Our Lifestyle
And Lives Are Becoming Much More Prosperous.
20 Years Ago When It Would Be Hard
To Find One Dessert Parlor, Today It'S Everywhere.
Before It Was Just Restaurants, Food That You
Needed To Eat.
So You Go Somewhere To Eat, A Takeaway.
People Have So Much Disposable Wealth Now, Masha
Allah That Food Is Not Enough.
There Are Probably Now More Dessert Parlors, Dessert
Places Then Are Probably Food Places Because That'S
Become And People Splash Out In These Places
And Then Forget The Dessert Places, What Next?
And Nothing Against The Companies But What Next?
Because They Only Provide What People Want.
Then You Get The Tea Places, A Simple
Tea That You Could You Could Make At
Home.
You Have To Go Out To Buy It
Because You'Re Able To Spend Two, Three,
Four Pounds To Do That On A Pound
Or 50 Pence Of Tea That You Could
Make At Home.
It'S Just Convenient.
It'S Just Convenient To Do So.
I'M Not Saying Any Of This Is Haram
Or It'S Wrong.
It'S Just Let Us Take Stock Of Where
We Are.
This Indulgence, Is It Correct?
It'S Harmful.
The Indulgence Is Harmful.
Yes, You Need A Cup Of Tea And
There'S A Place, Chaiwala, Whatever It Is, Go
Ahead And Have A Cup Of Tea.
But I'M Saying That It'S Just Become Such
An Indulgence That You Have To Go Out
And You Have To Do These Things.
We Have To Change Our Lives.
We Have To Change Our Lifestyle Because The
World Is Only Going To Open Up More.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam Said That My
Fear Upon You Is That The World Opens
Up, And Then You Begin To Compete With
One Another.
We May Not Be, We May Not Be
Consciously Competing That I'M In Competition With You,
But We Definitely Subconsciously Compete.
If So-And-So Has So Much, We
Need To Have So Much.
We Have To Then Work More.
We Have To Indulge Ourselves More.
The World Is Just Going To Open Up
More.
It'S Black Friday.
It Was Just Black Friday.
This Is Black Friday Weekend So Called, People
Have Purchased So Many Things That They Probably
Didn'T Need.
That Money Could Have Gone Somewhere Else.
Of Course, If You Need Something, Go Ahead
And Buy It.
Why Does A Person Who Has A Completely
Fine Apple, An Apple Phone, Right?
Which Is The Number 15 Or 14.
Why Do They Have To Buy The Next
One?
Even Though There'S Hardly Anything New In There,
Maybe An Extra Pixel Or Two.
You Have To Give Your Zakat To Apple
Every Year.
You Have To Give Your Zakat To Apple
Every Year.
That'S Why We Just Have To Cut Back
And Think And Be Productive And Practical.
We Have To Calculate Where Things Are Going.
Where Do We Want Our Life To Go?
We'Re Not Saying That You Give Up
All Your Possessions.
We'Re Not Saying That You Donate Necessarily
All Your Wealth.
Of Course, We Have Precedence Of Abu Bakr
R.A Who Did That.
We'Re Not Saying You Must Do That
Or We Must Do That.
We'Re Not Saying That Stop Eating Completely
And Go On A Hunger Strike.
Although There'S Many People Especially Non-Muslims Who
'Ve Done That.
They'Ve Gone I Just Got A Call
From America Just A Few Days Ago.
Is A Hunger Strike Allowed For Us To
Do?
We'D Love To Do That If It Was
Allowed.
We'Re Not Saying Do That.
Just Stop Indulging.
Just Get Out Of The Consumerism.
You Have To Remember Most Of The Big
Corporations That We'Re Buying From.
Most Of The Big Corporations That We'Re
Buying From.
They'Re All Connected.
They'Re All Connected.
Many Of Them Are Probably On The Boycott
List.
They'Re All Owned By The Same Few
Big Conglomerates.
They Promote One Another.
Their Products Get Into Each Other'S Businesses.
It'S Their Products That Get Into Each Other'S
Businesses.
Buy What You Need And Be Careful And
Be Selective About What You Need.
Buy The Best Of Things That You Need
But Only Based On Needs.
Don'T Do Israf Because You Might Think That
It'S Just Me, Just Me Little Nobody Who
Is Spending Extra Money.
What Effect Does That Have On Anybody Else?
Seriously, This Is The Confusion In The Minds
Of A Lot Of People.
It'S Just Me Doing This Little Sin.
It Is Me Doing This Little Excess.
How Does That Affect Anybody?
How Does That Affect Palestine Or Anywhere Else
In The Ummah?
It Affects Because Allah Has Made This Ummah
One Nation.
You'Re Like One Body And Any Part
That Does Anything Wrong And Exposes Itself To
The Wrong.
Ultimately It Will Have Reverberations Throughout The Ummah.
This Is Something Really Important To Understand.
Otherwise We Think Ourselves As Insignificant That Leads
Us To Think That It Can'T...
Our Actions Do Not Do Not Affect Anybody
Else.
We Blame Everybody Else.
We'Re Waiting For Everybody Else To Do
The Right Thing.
We'Re Complaining About The Muslim Countries.
We'Re Complaining About The Neighbors.
But Why Can'T They Do Anything?
I'M Not Here To Defend Anybody.
Everybody Knows Their Situation.
Maybe They'Re Just Not Prepared For It
Because Of How Bad The Situation Is.
I Know That There Are Definitely Some Countries
Which Will Be Wiped Out In A Week
If They Try To Do Something.
And Yeah, We'Re Just Waiting For Them
To Do Something And We Think That By
Waiting For Them To Do Something, It Gives
Us A Free Path Not To Do Anything
Because We Can'T Do Anything.
We Think That The Only Thing People Can
Do Is Combat And That'S The Only Thing
That They Can Do.
And Yes, That Is A Important Part Of
It, But You Need Preparation For Combat.
You Can'T Just Go In And Kill Yourself
And Go In A Reckless Manner.
Combat Is Not Reckless In Islam.
Combat It Has To Be Done With Preparation
And Unfortunately, Yes, We'Re Guilty Of Not
Being Prepared.
That'S For Sure.
But The Fact Is That We Have To
Look At The Situation As It Is Right
Now.
There Are Many People Around There Who Are
Just Literally Trying To Preserve Their People Because
They Know That If They Put A Step
In There, Their People Will Be Destroyed Because
They Just Don'T Have The...
They Just Don'T Have The Capability.
And Have To Remember Jihad Is Not Reckless.
Combat Is Not Reckless In Islam.
And That Does Not Free Us From Doing
What We Need To Do Productively In Our
Capacity Here.
That'S Why In All Of This, In The
Thousands, Tens Of Thousands Of People Who Have
Literally Died For This.
If We Haven'T Learned A Lesson, We Haven'T
Changed Except That We'Re Just Able To
Give A Bit Of Money.
Then We Haven'T Really Learned Much.
The Lesson From This Is Multiple.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Intends Multiple Things To
Come From This.
We Should Feel Guilty.
In Fact When We Do Something Wrong, Even
If That Is As Much As Doing A
Bit Of Intelligence, That We Are Actually Learning
The Whole Ummah Down, Even Though It'S Just
Me As Little Person, Right?
A Housewife, Fatima In A House Thinks What
Difference Does It Make If I Buy That
Extra Dress?
If I Buy That Extra Wonderful Hijab, What
Difference Does It Make?
I'Ve Got 20 Already.
How Does It Affect Anybody Else?
I'M Donating Already.
Believe Me All Of This Has An Effect.
We Live In A Quantum World, Even From
A Science Perspective, Everything Is Interconnected From A
Science Perspective, From A Physics Perspective And Definitely
From A Spiritual Perspective It Is Connected Because
Allah Made Us Kajasadin Wahid, Like One Single
Body, Like One Single Body, Every Part Will
Have An Impact On The Other.
So Let Us Feel Empowered By This.
I Want Us To Feel Empowered That Me,
You Know, Shoaib Or Musa Or Abdul Rahman,
Simple Guy.
I Can Make A Difference If I Just
Change My Life.
Aisha, Khadija, She Can Make A Difference Just
By Cutting Back, Just By Being More Particular
About What They Do And Just By Trying
To Use Our Resources And Do Our Duas
And Do That Extra Prayer And Stay Away
From Wrongs, Stop The Arguments That Happen Between
Us Because That'S Always Just Devastated The Muslim
Ummah And Yes, There'S Big Countries, Muslim Countries
That Are In Conflict With One Another.
But Then We Think They Should Sort Themselves
Out.
We Have Conflicts With One Another And We
'Re Not Able To Reconcile.
We'Re Not Able To Keep Our Hearts
Open.
We'Re Not Able To Have That Compassion
In Our Heart That We Let Bygones Be
Bygones.
We Hold On To Things.
The Lesson From What'S Happening Right Now Is
Much Bigger Than Just The Loss Of Lives.
The Lesson Is Huge On Multiple Levels And
Allah Is A Very Complex, Elaborate, Sophisticated, Multifaceted
Being And His Actions Are Like That.
There'S Multiple Things That Are Going On Through
This Action.
So Let Us Feel Empowered That Me As
Abdul Rahman And Nobody I Can Do Something,
Yusuf Can Do Something, Ahmed Can Do Something.
Everybody Can Do Something And We Do It
With The Intention And That'S Even Small Just
Correcting Ourselves And Making Dua To Allah Subhanahu
Wa'Ta'Ala.
Shaytan Wants To Make Us Weak.
It Makes Us Feel Weak That You Can'T
Do Anything.
So Then We Feel Good By Just Blaming
Others.
Believe Me, We Can All Do Something.
It Will Have An Effect.
If I Can Sort Out Myself And My
Family, That Means That'S One Extra Unit In
The Community That Has Been Able To Reform
Themselves And If That Unit Reform Themselves, Inshallah
The Nation, The Ummah Of Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi
Wasallam Will Also Reform Themselves.
You Have To Also Remember That Sometimes We
Look At Certain Influences Or People In High
Positions.
We Don'T See Them Doing Anything And We
Feel Bad About It And Maybe It'S Justified
To Feel Bad About Anybody Who'S Not Doing
Something, But Maybe They'Re Not In A
Position At That Moment To Do Something.
They Weren'T Prepared For It.
They Found Fame Or Whatever It Is And
They Just Have Too Many...
They Have Maybe Too Many Strings Attached In
Places, But I'M Praying Inshallah And I'M Not
Defending.
It'S Wrong If The Person Can Do Something
They Don'T In Their Capacity, But Inshallah The
Benefit Is That We Will All Learn And
They Will Learn That The Next Time Because
Remember It'S Now Ending This But Next Time
It Shouldn'T Even Be Allowed To Happen.
There'S Just Been Too Many Cycles That It
Happens And Then Mashallah We Raise The Funds
And We Go And Rebuild.
And It Happens Again And We Raise The
Funds And We Rebuild.
We'Re Constantly Putting A Plaster, A Band
-Aid On These Things.
We Have To Think More Strategically Going Back
To The Beginning Of The Talk.
We Have To Strategically Think How We Can
Make...
How We Can Make Sure This Is Avoided
In The Future.
Other Nations Have Exactly Done This.
They Were Oppressed.
They Were Massacred And They Learned A Lesson
Saying Never Again, Never Again.
It Should Be Never Again, Inshallah.
It Should Be Never Again, Inshallah.
So Let Us Continue To Straighten Our Lives
Out.
Avoid All The Haram That Is Increasing Day
By Day, Especially Through Social Media.
All Of That Is Going To Impact Us
And May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Give Us
The Tawfiq To Call On Him.
We Go Through And We'Re Flicking Through
And It'S Become Like Normal For To See
People Dead Anymore.
It Doesn'T Even Bother Us.
It Doesn'T Surprise Us Or Astonish Us.
At Least Do One Thing.
When I'M Looking At These Things, At Least
Make A Dua Every Time You See Something.
Instead Of Just Like Oh How Bad This
Is.
This Is So Ugly.
This Is So Gruesome.
This Is So Evil.
That Doesn'T Do Anything.
What Does Something Is When Every Human Being,
When Every Person When They See Something They
Say Ya Allah Assist Us.
Ya Allah Help Them.
That'S A Dua, Duas Are Very Powerful And
Imagine Thousands Of Duas A Day, Millions Of
Duas A Day.
Every Time You Read A Piece Of News,
You See A Documentary, You See A Clip,
Duas Have To Be There.
Otherwise, We'Re Just Making Ourselves Feel Bad
And We'Re Not Getting Anything Out Of
It.
Muslims Have To Be People To Use The
Facilities That Allah Has Given Us, Especially Of
The Dua.
The Dua Is The Weapon Of A Believer.
It'S A Weapon That We'Re Not Using
Enough.
Ultimately, It Will Have Benefits.
Ultimately, It Is Having Benefits, But It Will
Then Have The Benefit That We Seek In
Sha Allah.
And Then Let Us Read Our History, Final
Few Points.
Let Us Read Our History.
This Is Not The First Time That We
'Ve Had So Many People Killed And This
Is Not To...
This Is Not To Diminish The Status Of
This.
This Is Not To Lighten It In Any
Way At All.
It'S Just That The Ummah Has Been Through
Multiple, Multiple Problems In The Past.
In The Time When The Mongols Came In
And Ravaged The Various Different Muslim Cities And
Then He Went Into The Capital Of The
Muslim Land, Into Baghdad And Totally Ransacked It.
They Killed A Million People.
They Killed Nearly A Million People.
And That'S No Exaggeration.
And They Took The Khalif Of The Time.
And There Was A Superstition That You Couldn'T
Let The Blood Of The Khalif On The
Ground.
You Couldn'T Let It Spill On The Ground.
They Rolled The Khalif In A Carpet And
Beat Him To Death.
So His Blood Would Not Spill On The
Ground Because They Were Superstitious People.
But Alhamdulillah Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Always Brought
It Back.
Read The Book By Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali
Nadwi Rahmatullah.
They Call Saviors Of Islamic Spirits.
It Shows Us The Ups And Downs Of
The Muslim Ummah, How It Went Down, Huge
Problems, But Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Always Brought
It Back Up.
That'S Why I'M Not Waiting For Any Mahdi
Radhiallahu Anhu To Come.
He'S Definitely Going To Come.
I Don'T Want To Be Around When He
Comes Though Because The Situation Is Going To
Be A Lot More Complicated.
I Don'T Want To Be Tested During That
Time.
But You Have To Remember That Our Deaths
Are Closer And Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Can
Bring It All Back And Bring It Back
To Where It Was As Long As We
Inshallah Change.
So The Final Point Is Let Us Stop
Blaming Others Or Trying To Outsource This To
Others.
Let Us On Our Level Do What We
Can.
Even If That Means A Small Dua Just
Cutting Back, Just Being Practical, Just Being Productive
And Just Avoiding Any Wrongs In Our Life.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Give Us The
Tawfiq.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Open Up All
Of Our Hearts To Do Not Just The
Money That Will Inshallah Be Collected Today And
The Funds That Will Go And May Allah
Reward Those Who Are Doing That Abundantly And
Allah Will Give Them Back Multiple Times Over,
Multiple Times Over.
In Fact, If You Want The Most Lucrative
Side Business, You'Ve Already Got A Job
Which Is Giving You Your Main Income, But
You Want A Lucrative Side Business.
Go And Drive Some Uber.
I'M Just Joking.
That Is What People Do.
Even Ulema As Well, You Know, Side Business,
They Go And Do Something.
The Best Side Business, Guaranteed Side Business To
Bring You Multiple Rewards And Increase Is You
Donate.
As Little As That Maybe You Continue To
Donate, You Continue To Donate.
It'S Not Just Donating Today, But It'S A
Continuous Donation Because That'S Purification For Us.
Literally Donation Is A Source Of Purification, Source
Of Removing As-Sadaqah Tutfi'u Ghadab Ar
-Rabb.
Sadaqah Calms The Anger Of Allah.
There'S A Person Who Contacted Me Just A
Few Weeks Ago And What She Said Is
That I Had...
I Hardly Ever Have Problems With Appliances Breaking
Down In My House, You Know, Appliances And
She Said This Time Two Appliances Went At
Once Like Very Close To One Another And
I Said Thinking What'S Wrong?
What'S Going On?
There'S Something Abnormal About This And She Said
I Discovered That My Direct Debit For The
Sadaqah Jariyah That I...
The Sadaqah That I Give Every Month Had
Somehow Stopped And She Saw The Effects Of
It Straightaway.
Sadaqah Will Give You Back A Lot More
And It Provides Many Other Benefits, Many Other
Benefits.
So Do It Ongoing Not Just One Day.
So Inshallah One Nation And The Other Charities
They Can Continue To Do Their Work If
We Can'T Do It Directly.
Allah Reward Everybody That'S Part Of It.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Bless You All
For Coming Here, Bless Us All For Being
Here.
May Allah Accept This Majlis And Mashaallah You
Will Now Hear From Our Teacher, Our Shaykh,
Our Hazrat Mawlana Abdur Raheem Sahib And He
Will Give You The Rest Of The Discussion
Which Is The Important Part Of The History
And So On Inshallah, Jazakum Allah Khayran, As
-Salamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.
Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.