Adnan Rajeh – Between June 6th and Rafah – The Day After
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The speaker discusses the upcoming " 9th month" of the current year, which marks the anniversary of the operation Yacine, which caused deadly killings and murders. They emphasize the importance of taking action and working towards forgiveness and peace, warning of potential consequences of actions that do not work. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of staying in peace and creating a positive attitude for the future, protecting Muslims, and finding ways to change the future. They emphasize the need to ensure Muslim institutions are properly supported and find ways to make it happen.AI: Transcript ©
Today is an extremely significant day. It's a
significant day for 3 distinct reasons, and I
think it's worthwhile
to contemplate these three reasons for us to
appreciate
the day that we're
in and the effect that may have upon
us.
First, this marks the beginning
of the 9th month
of the attempted ethnic cleansing that the apartheid
Israeli government has unleashed on the people of
Gaza.
9 months.
Let me tell you a story.
There's a man
from Gaza by the name of Yacine, his
wife's Sadah.
They found out just at the beginning of
October 7th that they were pregnant.
She carried
within her womb
her son to be
for these long 8 months
through blood, war, destruction and death.
She gave birth today
to a little boy by the name of
Ahmed.
Now little Ahmed Yassine is being born into
a world of blood destruction,
terror.
He's surrounded by children who are amputees, orphans,
malnourished
into a family that is missing siblings,
grandparents, uncle uncles and aunts,
cousins and friends.
He's being born into a place
where he has really no place to live
because his parents throughout his pregnancy moved 3
times, are now
staying in a refugee camp.
By chance, the tent beside them burnt down
during the Israeli raids.
His tent was spared.
Little Ahmed Yaseen and all of the children
who are similar to him
are gonna grow up in a very difficult
circumstance.
They're gonna find it very hard
to grow up with any sense
of education,
stability,
safety,
and direction.
In order for us to make sure
that they do have that, that they have
that which every child needs and deserves on
this planet,
I have to talk to you about the
second
reason that today is extremely significant.
So not only does it mark the beginning
of 9th month
of these raids of these senseless
senseless killings
and murders,
it's also the day after June 6th.
It's the day after.
I remember June 6th well in 2021,
but I really remember the day after more.
I remember the day after way more than
I remember the actual day itself. The day
itself was turmoil.
It was a it was shock.
We didn't know what exactly had happened, and
we could not imagine that it happened. We
didn't really believe that it happened. We had
to ask the question, how exactly did this
occur? Where did this occur? Who was it
I was driving?
Based on what? And in the midst of
the turmoil, we it was just it was
the day after that I remember.
It was the day after that I remember
well.
It's when you get rid of the shock
of what actually occurred,
That the adrenaline comes down a bit and
it gives you a moment of of clarity
for you to reflect
on what actually happened
what's going to come next. The day after
is something that sociologists
and psychologists talk about all the time. The
day after World War 2. The day after
this and the day after that. The day
after something.
And the day after World War 2. They
talk about what happened in Germany, happened in
Japan, and happened the day after World War
1. Talk about what happened in the Arabic
world. These things matter. The day after matters
because sometimes you cannot control what actually occurred.
What occurred occurred. It could be horrible. It
could be great. It could be something that
you you you regret. You had it. You
could have prevented. You didn't. Regardless, it happened.
The event occurred and you can't do anything
about it. But the day
after is what you is what you have.
Meaning, you carry in your hand the ability
to influence and impact the day after to
come up with a plan the day after.
This happened there there is precedence of of
this concept in Islam. You see, Uhud was
a disastrous day. Was a disastrous
day. It was horrible.
It was beyond what they could imagine. The
Sahab were in shock. People people didn't speak
on the way back from the battle. He
said nothing. Questions started to occur because it
was so horrific what happened. The prophet alaihi
salatu wa sallam's face did not look the
same after it. There was a scar on
his face salallahu alaihi wa sallam physically he
looked different.
The people who fell that day that they
lost hamazdan muslima. They lost people
that were significant to their story. People have
been there from the beginning.
So the Quran would come and talk to
them about this.
Because the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam out of
pain of what occurred on the day of
Quhr, he made a lot of du'a against
those who inflicted the pain.
He made a lot of dua against those
who inflicted that pain, the hadith you find
in Bukhari and Muslim and Ahmed in Nasai
where he would make
He would ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
curse certain tribe and certain people for what
they did. After doing it for a few
days the Quran will come and say,
oh
yeah. The Quran come and say, no. No.
This is not up to you. Who Allah
curses, who he punishes and who he doesn't?
That's not up to you. Leave it. Stop.
Leave that peace. Let it go. Let that
peace go. So he did alayhis salaam.
And then the verses will continue to explain
to him to what then what do I
do? What do I do? In the midst
of this pain,
That's what the verses would talk about. Now
start working.
Hasten. Run.
Compete. Speed towards the mercy and the forgiveness
of your lord and to the Jannah that
is awaiting you.
And hence the verses that I talked about
at the beginning of this
and do not feel weak.
Do not feel sad.
And you will have the upper hand.
If you continue to behave
and to be
then you will have the upper hand. If
a difficulty came your way,
Other people have went through difficulties and hardships
as well like you.
And that's life. That's life. That's time.
One day you're on top and one day
you're not. And that's just those those are
days, the days of life.
We give it to some people. We take
it back then we give it to them
again. It goes back and forth. But why
does this happen? And
so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can establish
and expose those who are actually believers
from those who are not.
And he made news from you martyrs.
It's not by coincidence by the taisir of
Allah subhanahu that this first talks about that
specifically.
Yes. The people who fell on the on
June 6th were marchers.
They didn't have every sense of the word.
They were marchers. There are there are London
family, but they they are our Muslim marchers.
They died for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. They did nothing aside from just
being visibly Muslim. That's all they did. Salman
had his long neck and his wife was
wearing her hijab. That's it. They did nothing
else.
They did nothing else aside from them.
But they are our marches.
So difficulties will be will be dished out
to you so that the true believers can
show themselves, and he chooses
some of your marches some marches amongst you.
People who he wants for himself, and he
chose that family. He chose the Absalom family
for amongst us. And he chose from us
also the people of us the people of
Rafai.
He chose them as well.
But Allah does not love those who are
oppressed.
Is when
something is put to the test. And so
he made put to the test those who
claim that they are believers.
And to expose the disbelievers.
Or you thought you were going to enter
Jannah for free?
You thought you were going to enter Jannah
for free?
You thought it was gonna just work out
like that with nothing.
There was gonna be no pain, there'll be
no suffering, no difficulty, no hardships, no misfortunes,
no struggles, no
that's what you
thought? That's what you thought. For free.
And it's yes and he and he has
yet to expose the people who are truly
believers and those who are truly perseverance and
those who truly strive. No.
No. It's not gonna happen.
The day after. The
day after June 6th June 7th.
It's an important day for all of us
because on the day after, you have to
make a decision.
When they came back from Uhud, they had
to decide what were they going to do
next.
Listen to the verses.
And you were all talking before Uhad about
how ready you were to give your life.
Well, you saw death.
You saw death. What did you do?
You didn't expose them to power tab. What
did you do? Did you all stand your
ground? Did you all do your job? Did
you all many of them did it that
day.
And Muhammad is a prophet like all the
prophets who came before him. What if he
dies or if he passes away or if
he is killed in battle? You're going to
turn your backs and run.
That's what you're
going
to
do.
Go ahead. Run. Turn your back. Walk away.
You don't harm Allah.
You don't harm Allah.
Masay, Yajazis shakidim He will, He will reward
the grateful. Those who learn the lessons.
No one dies before their time comes. It
is something that Allah has documented
is given and and is postponed till the
time comes. If
you want dunya, then he'll give you dunya.
If you want we'll give you that as
well.
We'll all we'll reward the grateful.
The day after, the Sahaba had to come
to some conclusions.
They had to hear what they had done
wrong, and they had to decide who they
were going to be moving forward.
Gotta decide after of it how they were
going to behave after after the catastrophe occurred,
after the misfortune happened. Unfortunately,
for for the many of our brothers and
sisters, because it's not over yet, so I
can't say the day after for both. I
can just say the day after what happened
June 6th for us. It hasn't ended for
them, unfortunately.
We have failed to be able to actually
halt the ongoing killings, the ongoing ethnic cleansing
and attempted genocide
that this government is is inflicting on these
people. But it will end because as everything
does at some point it will, and the
question will come back again to be the
day after. And then what? And then what
are these lessons going to teach you? And
what are they going to do for you?
And how are they going to impact you
as a person? That's what you remember. I
don't remember any of the things I've
done in my life. I don't remember any
of the things I've done in my life.
I don't remember any of the things I've
done in my life. I don't remember
That's what you remember. I don't remember any
of the things I've done in my life,
but I do remember
the moment I was sitting listening to the
sheikh talk about something,
and at that moment deciding that I wanna
live like that. This is what I want.
I don't know why yet. I was like,
I don't know why, but that's what I
want.
It makes sense. I want I want to
live up to this model that he is
establishing for me. I remember those moments of
clarity that I had growing up listening to
people and deciding that that's that's what I
wanna be like. I didn't do anything at
that moment. It was a completely motionless moment.
It was motionless. Nothing happened. I didn't sign
a treaty. There was no background music. Nothing
No one came in and came in and
congratulated me again. It was a completely meaningless
moment to any to everyone on this planet
but to me but to me. It was
a moment that meant something to me
because I remember what it what it what
it did for me. That's when I decided
deep inside, you know, something something there was
something ignited on the inside that yes, yes
you're right. Yes you're saying something that makes
sense. I I want to be that. I
want to do that. I want to live
like that.
And it's a meaningless moment for the rest
of the world, but it was something for
me.
And that's what you want to remember in
life, moments like these. That's why this day
is significant. Significant.
Marks the 9th beginning of 9th month. It's
the day after, and it's the beginning of
the lija.
It's the beginning of the lija.
The most valuable days of the year.
The most valuable days of the entire the
first day of Dhul Hijjah is a Friday.
He
says
That there's no days that are more beloved
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and more significant
in his eyes than these 10 days. So
increase your tahleel. So say La Illaha Illallah
and increase your takbir and say Allahu Akbar
and insist your tahmid and say Alhamdulillah.
This is what you do during these days
because this is what he wants you to
see you doing, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, for drawing
yourself closer. Another hadith in Musari where
he said,
There's nothing better than doing good deeds in
in these days.
Not even striving for the sake of Allah
in combat
Except someone who left with his life and
his wealth and came back with nothing.
Except someone who lost everything. Like the Absalom
family. Like the people in Islam. They lost
everything. They lost everything.
It's hard to understand what it means to
lose everything, but they lost everything.
When you die
under the rubble of your own home and
you're pulled out unidentifiable
and you are
buried with no documentation of the fact that
you ever lived or that you died that
day, that's losing everything.
That's losing everything.
Countless thousands of people have lost everything. We
can't live up to that but we can
come close. We can come close to the
next best thing
which is taking the advantage of this day
and these days where there is nothing better
than doing good deeds in these days. There's
nothing better.
Even this simple act of implication
just saying that
this is it's a big deal on these
days because everything is amplified.
Everything is amplified.
Also an intention
an intention
of changing our ways is amplified as well.
An intention of living differently and being different
is amplified as well.
The day after,
marking the 9th month of this, this is
a good moment. It's a good moment to
hear someone talk to you about the importance
of changing
your ways and turning your life around and
making an intention and remembering that moment for
yourself. No one will remember it. I remember
where I was.
Where I was sitting, the speaker in front
of me. Well, I remember the details of
the moment when I heard the story. I
remember the story of the Sahabi.
It was Abdullah bin Unaikhs. I remember the
story of the Sahabi.
I remember the the sheikh talking and telling
me the story of this guy coming back
after 6 months running in the mountains
after doing something to take a taking the
mission on the for the prophet alaihis salami
coming back and the prophet alaihis salami granting
him a gift and giving him a stick.
I remember the story. I remember I remember
how he felt when I heard it. I
remember when I listened to it, that's that's
gonna Yeah. That's khalas no more.
None of this
none of this empty emptiness.
None Not the empty living anymore. I wanna
I wanna I wanna do something. I wanna
be like that. I wanna be someone who
comes to the prophet alaihis salatu was saying,
I'm gonna hold something. So I did I
did I carried on. I carried the baton.
I did something. You see he gave him
a stick. A stick is a it's a
symbol. It's a baton. It's like here. It's
a reel. You know reel? Hold on to
this. Bring it back to me, you mutliya,
and remind me, and I'll and I'll take
care of you. We all have that opportunity
to carry that stick.
We can all carry something and and come
to the prophet and say, yeah, Rasool Allah,
I did this and then, you know, take
care of you.
But it requires a moment, a moment of
clarity that only you can live, Only you
can identify in life in 15, 20 years
from now. You'll look back and you may
not remember the deeds you did and the
failures and the and the successes. And you
may not remember that but you remember the
moment that you decided for things to be
different, and that happens the day after. It's
always the day after. In the midst of
it all, it's impossible. It's too much pain,
it's too much fear, it's too much confusion
but the day after. You could take a
moment and reflect and say, Yeah. I know.
I can't afford not to do some things
differently.
And if that does become
the case for you, especially if you're younger
or you remember yourself on June 7th,
1st of Il Hijjah
2024
marking the 9th month.
The beginning of the 9th month of this
ongoing
catastrophe
in the holy land, the day after
June 6th,
a significant day for all of us. If
you take that moment you can start thinking
no let's
let's do things a little bit differently now.
I mean, you make that intention.
May I share with you a few thoughts,
Shaul?
Number 1, in order for us to honor
the marches of our community and the marches
of
of the holy land, we must continue the
legacy that they live by.
We must we must continue to walk in
the footsteps that they walked in, which is
carrying the message of Islam. If we don't,
then their lives and their deaths are in
vain. If we don't, if we decide that
we want to ignore and forget, the prophet
alaihis salatu wa sallam by the way never
forgot forgot his martyrs ever.
He remembered them every Saturday. This was his
Saturday ritual.
After Fajal he would go over to Uhud
to the to the Maqbara Tuhud.
The the the burial, the the cemetery of
Uhud, and he would go there and give
salaams to all them name by name. The
salaam alaikayaha hamza, and he would cry every
single Saturday when he did it.
Every Saturday, he would give salaams to his
uncle, and he would sob.
And he goes to them 1 by 1
and he makes to offer them. He tells
them we are soon to follow you.
We are soon to follow you. And he
used that word to follow you. Not in
death
but in
in purpose. Not in death.
We're all gonna die. There's nothing significant about
saying it that way if we're going to
die. No. He's talking about following us. We're
gonna continue to walk the path that you
started with us.
Your death will not be in vain. The
purpose that you lived for will continue. It
will it will move along. All of us
will continue to walk that path. That's so
That that was his vow to them. He
vowed to them every single time. Even the
The only time he missed the Saturday is
when he was away.
When he was traveling, he got accomplished. He
went and saw them the Saturday before he
passed away.
He passed away passed away on a Monday.
He was there Saturday. He couldn't walk. They
carried him. Subhayla
And it's that day where he said,
He changed the word, the dua of it.
He said, I'm I'll be following you soon.
He talked about himself personally because he knew
he was gonna die.
That's what happened that day.
But he he honored his marchers by continuing
that legacy,
by continuing to
to to walk down the path of what
it means to be Muslim. And honestly, this
family that was taken away from us on
June 6th, I can't imagine a better one
for this example. Wallahi I can't. I can't.
I can't imagine a family that was more
humble,
that had better ethics,
that were more committed to their deen than
these people
wallahi I spent five and a half years
at Alimam
I think I did not
miss Salman for Moghlib al Isha at once.
He was there every single night. Moghlib al
Isha, I knew he was there for Hajar
but I wasn't. Was the one who was
always there for Hajar but he was there
every
single not a word. This man walked in
with a smile. He prayed. He sat for
a halakkah. He left nothing.
His wife the same.
I can't imagine a better a better example
of people who lived what it meant to
be Muslim. Carried it with pride, carried it
with dignity, carried it with with confidence. That's
how you honor your martyrs. You honor your
martyrs not just by just talking about them
and by having
ceremonies for them but by continuing to walk
that path. And if you're not, then you
do.
Number 2.
You protect your community and prevent something like
this ever happening again.
We protect our own. We make sure that
we protect Muslims so that they don't feel
unsafe walking down the streets. So they don't
feel unsafe
in expressing their deen or wearing the kufi
or doing whatever whatever it is that they
do that makes them feel Muslim, that attaches
them to their deen and to their identity
that they don't feel unsafe doing it. We
make sure they're protected and we prevent something
like this from ever happening again.
By
by what? Here's the thing. By what? By
what? What do we do? How do we
prevent this? See, we haven't even spent enough
time talking about how this is going to
be prevented. You think the politicians of this
country care about preventing this happening again? You
think they care? They don't care. They never
cared.
Politicians care about one thing. I've said it
before. I'll say it again. They care about
a vote. They just want you to vote.
They will dance. They will do whatever you
want to get your vote. And once you
get their vote, they don't care about you
anymore. Right? And I dare a politician in
the country to prove me wrong. Prove me
wrong. Show me that you actually stand for
something. Show me that you'll go after the
poor and actually do something for them when
they have no one to advocate for them.
Show me that you will go and you
will spend your time advocating for for someone
who is not going to give you a
headache and who does not donate to your
campaign.
Doesn't happen.
So if you want to prevent this from
happening in terms, then we have to find
ways to do that. Then we have to
make sure our voices are are louder. That
our stands are stronger.
That our institutions are are properly
our institutions have to be properly supported
like Hikma, like NCCM, like MRC. These institutions
have to be supported appropriately. Our Muslim institutions
have to be supported so they can educate,
so they can teach, so they can have
open houses and they can open up to
the the larger community in society to come
and see what Islam is about, if we're
going to protect ourselves and prevent something like
this from happening again. If you don't,
then technically you and I are a little
bit in at fault if it does happen
again. And even if it doesn't See even
if it doesn't, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala argues
with you that which could have but didn't.
This is a scary part of you,
He'll talk to you about what could have
happened
and what you did to prevent it. And
if you didn't, then you're in trouble.
He tells the sahaba, and had the Phezza
have entered on the day of handuk, most
of you would have left your deen. But
they didn't. I know they didn't, but you
they had they?
Who can say that besides Allah? No one
can say that besides Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He knows. He knows where the breaking point
is. He knows what you where you work.
He is criticizing his truth.
The highest people in our name. The people
that we look up to. But he that's
that's how it works. If you're here you
need to be there, and if you're there
you have to work to be higher. You
have to keep on working and keep on
looking at your flaws and fixing them and
worming forward. The moment you stop is the
moment you fail.
And then finally
in order in order for us to move
forward as as a community.
Aside from honoring our marches by walking down
that same path
and then preventing or protecting this from happening
happening again.
We have to look at what we have
we have to reach farther.
We have to start looking towards how we're
going to stand for justice and for righteousness.
How we're going to strengthen
the causes of Muslims. How we're going to
improve the situation
and the circumstances of our own community, of
our society, of our world.
Why the global society? We have to start
looking proactively at how it is we're going
to move that needle.
How it is we're going to improve that
is not just reactive.
See, if we're always stuck in this position
of always being reactive, something happening, then we
re something happening, then we respond. Then we're
gonna continue with your if your back is
to the ropes and you're just trying to
avoid punches, then you're never gonna be able
to make a difference. Yet we have to
start thinking about what comes next.
How do we change the future? How do
we make sure that by the time I'm
you and I are under the ground, the
people who stand here have a different
environment and different circumstances, a different
paradigm, a different
different hopes and different dreams, different fears. How
do we make sure that they're better? That
they're not standing here talking about the same
stuff.
That's a Mahala or worse.
And that and that's how we
that's the day after. The day after is
when you take a step back and you
start thinking about these things.
And you make a decision somewhere deep inside
of you of being a part of it,
of finding your place in that puzzle and
then focusing on the place that is yours
and working there for the rest of your
life.
Finding that that spot and just standing there.
Whatever. It may be something simple.
Maybe He found something very simple.
But if it's if if the intention is
there and that's the reason is meaningful to
you, then it will have impact. And Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will make sure that it
has impact.
And that's the and that's the that's
the message that I think we should think
about at the beginning of the hija.
There's no better time to plan for it.
There's no better time to intend it. There's
no better time to start executing it than
now.
There's literally no better time.
It's not an issue. It's not a figure
of speech. There is literally no better time
in the year than today.
I hope that was a benefit to you.
The story of the Mohammed was fictional,
But is
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