Ali Hammuda – Palestine Reimagined #10 Haste
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The speaker discusses the importance of working towards the welfare of the umber and avoiding asking for outcomes. They also touch on the history of the umber's actions, including persecution and death in Mecca, and emphasize the importance of showing the future outcome to the umber. The speaker emphasizes the need to be a visionary and not despairing, and provides practical examples of Ali Ali's decisions. They stress the importance of meeting God's priorities and not taking the decision to see the outcome of one's labor, while also highlighting a book called " pin drop silence" and emphasizing not taking the decision to see the outcome of one's labor.
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Your duty is to work towards the welfare
of the Ummah. Don't ask me, Allah, about
the outcomes. I decide these things. Your duty
is to work.
In the searing heat of Mecca, under
the shade of the sacred Kaaba, lay the
prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam his cloak serving
as a makeshift pillar.
This was a time of immense trial
for the early Muslims, a period marked by
relentless
and * persecution.
Among them was Khabab ibn al Arat.
A man fatigued
by torment
at the hands of the pagan Meccans.
With a heart heavy with suffering,
Khabab
approached the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and he
said I came to the prophet as he
laid in the Kaaba shade.
Having made a pillow of his cloak.
We had experienced Khambabset, intense torture at the
hands of the pagans, And so I said,
Will you not ask Allah to give us
victory?
Will you not pray for us?
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's response was profound
but also equally measured.
He said
a man from those before you would be
dug,
a hole in the earth where he would
be placed.
Then a sword would be brought and placed
on his head and he would be sawed
into 2 pieces.
And that would not deter him from his
religion.
And he would be combed with iron combs.
Separating flesh from nerves and bones.
Yet it would not deter him
from his religion.
And then he said to Khabab, wallahi I
swear by Allah.
So that a rider
will be able to travel from San'a to
Hadramaut,
to cities in Yemen that were dangerous. He
said people will travel between them fearing nobody
but Allah
and perhaps the wolves for your sheep.
He said,
but you are in haste.
The story
shows that moments of outpouring are not always
necessarily
blameworthy,
nor necessarily an indication of hypocrisy or doubt.
But it also shows that man, by way
of his humanity is hasty.
It's natural, Allah Almighty has made it an
instinct instilled in all humans
Allah said man is ever
hasty. Man was created of haste. The word
haste, and its derivatives appeared 19 times in
the Quran.
Here
it is key to note
That the efforts you exert today in the
championing
of any cause of justice whether that of
Palestine
or elsewhere
A Muslim cause or otherwise
May only come to fruition
many years after your death.
Remember that you are not more concerned for
the Ummah's causes than Allah is. So don't
despair if you don't see your efforts taking
off during your lifetime.
Your duty is merely to sow the seed
with dedication.
Then it is up to Allah to decide
how and when to give life to matters.
I mean we burn out after a few
months of activism
and complain that nothing is changing. But whilst
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam invited to Islam,
around the clock, in Mecca, for 13 years,
there was nothing but
persecution. Where Allah refused
to give him the power to resist and
to fight.
Subayyah,
the first Martyr,
did not see Badr. She didn't see Uhud.
She didn't see Al Ta'disiyah.
She saw nothing but persecution and an early
death in Mecca.
Our mother Khadija
never had the privilege of reciting a full
copy of the Quran. It wasn't fully revealed
by the time she had passed away.
Allah Almighty said to the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
Muhammad. Indeed the promise of Allah is truth.
And whether we show you some of what
we have promised them or we take you
in death,
it is to us that they will be
returned.
Whether we show you or we don't, that's
that's up to us. They will come back
to us.
Look, I understand
the
human
desire to see the outcome of his or
her wa'ik.
The fruits of their
life, the fruits of their activism, sacrifices, an
outcome of justice
that abates the inner flames of frustration or
anger.
But in the grand scheme of things none
of this should really matter. What actually matters
is to meet Allah having carried out
that concern.
Having tried your best
with all what is at your disposal.
What matters is to have earned the honor
of being an active participant in the process
of giving honor to the causes of truth
and justice. Whether you live to see the
finish line
or not, that is inconsequential.
Because the truest finish line is where? It's
with Allah on the day of reckoning.
A finish line that crosses into paradise or
* not in this temporal world.
No mortal
brings honor to their religion. Their religion brings
us honor.
So take your share of this honor by
being part of this project,
by being a visionary,
by never despairing,
then hand over the baton to those
who will come after you and will build
upon what you did. So don't be in
haste.
Don't assume that your eyes
must see any outcome today. All things will
come just in time for Qadrach, the decree
of Allah.
And the fact that prophet Yunus
Gave up on his people when inviting them
to Islam since they rejected him so stubbornly
Only for him to go back and find
that they had all embraced Islam on their
own accord. That's a message from
Allah.
That I, Allah, I am the one in
control of affairs, I decide how and
When efforts come into fruition
Your duty is to work towards the welfare
of the Ummah,
don't ask me Allah about the outcomes. I
decide these things, your duty is to work.
And allow me to share with you here
one final practical example of this. Since we
are on the topic of Palestine.
Ali Abu Muntar al Sulani was a jurist
of the Shafi'i school of thought, teaching in
the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
We authored a book which detailed the rulings
of war,
explained to the Qur'anic verses that address
it.
The duties of different people
towards it.
The book frequently cites Al Ghazali and other
classical scholars. It was, you can say, the
first scholarly response to the crusades which had
by that time conquered Jerusalem.
The initial public readings of this book
were in the year 1105,
just 6 years after Jerusalem had been conquered
by the Crusaders.
So you would assume that these readings would
be popular
due to the urgency of the matter.
Yet amazingly, subhanAllah, they were poorly attended.
And a year after this Ali ibn Tahaher,
the author passed away.
So he didn't live to see much.
Fast forward just 81 years to the blessed
land of Asshaab.
The night sky should be filled with tension
yet there is a surprising calm
and excitement fills the air.
This time, thousands of Muslims have gathered in
a huddle to hear
a reading of a book.
His book,
pin drop silence,
is only broken by weeping sounds of the
sincere or the bellows of Taqmi'u and
led by Salahuddin,
and his teacher Muradin Azingi,
a once disparate
Muslim community of various ethnicities and languages became
united by Islam, inspired into action
by the book of Ali ibn Taha'i.
And it was read in the lead to
the decisive battle of Hetreem.
The battle in which Jerusalem was liberated by
Salahuddin,
one can imagine therefore the reaction of Ali
ibn Tawhid when, insha'Allah,
on the day of judgment he is told
that your book
played a key role in the recapturing of
Jerusalem.
What is the point of saying this?
Beware of the arrogance of assuming that you
must see the outcome of your labor.
Beware of being in haste.
We are responsible for the striving
not for the result.
We are responsible for the journey not for
the arrival.
We are responsible for the struggle
not for the victory.