Ammar Alshukry – Jumuah 2024-12-13
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The speakers discuss the significance of the um salm in various cultures and modern times, as well as the use of the symbol "has been" in shaping people's minds and achieving their dreams. They emphasize the need to use the symbol "has been" in various context, including religion and political beliefs, and the importance of protecting people's rights from powerful people. The segment ends with a brief advertisement for a book.
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Inna alhamdulillah, nahmaduhu wa nasta'eenuhu wa nastaghfiruhu,
wa na'udhu billahi min shururi anfusina wa
min sayyi'ati a'malina, man yahdihi Allah wa
man yudhlihi la hadiya lah, wa ashhadu anna
la ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika lah, wa
ashhadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu wa safiyuhu
min khalqihi wa khaliluhu, ballaghi ar-risala wa
adda al-amana wa nasaha al-ummah, tarakuhum
ala al-mahajjah al-bayda, layluha ka nahaliha,
la yazighu anha illa halik, salawat rabbi salamuhu
alayh.
Ibadallah, yaqulu Allah azawajal fi kitabihi alkarim ba'da
audhu billahi min al-shaytan al-rajim, ya
ayyuhal ladhina amanu ittaqullaha haqqa tuqatih, wa la
tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun, wa qala ta
'ala ya ayyuhal nasu ittaqu rabbakumu alladhi khalaqakum
min nafsin wahida, wa khalaqa minha zawjaha, wa
batha minhuma rijalan kathiran wa nisa'a, wa
ittaqu Allah alladhi tasa'alun bihi wa al
-arham, inna Allaha kana alaykum raqiba, wa qala
ta'ala ya ayyuhal ladhina amanu ittaqullaha, wa
qulu qawlan sadeeda yuslih lakum a'malakum, wa yakhfir
lakum dhunubakum, wa man yuta'i Allah wa
rasuluhu faqad fa'aza fawzan azeema amma ba'd.
All praise is due to Allah, we seek
His guidance and His forgiveness and we seek
refuge in Allah from the evil of ourselves
and the whispering of our desires.
Whom Allah guides, no one can misguide and
whom He allows to be misled, no one
can guide and I bear witness that there
is nothing worthy of worship except Allah alone
having no partners and that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is His slave and His messenger
and His perfect worshipper.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
Qur'an, O you who believe, fear Allah
as He deserves to be feared and do
not die except in a state of Islam.
And Allah says, O mankind, fear your Lord
who created you from a single soul and
produced from that soul its mate and made
from their combination many men and women.
So, fear your Lord whom you ask each
other by and by the ties of kinship,
verily Allah is ever watchful over you.
And Allah says, O you who believe, fear
Allah and say that which is correct, He
will correct for you your deeds and forgive
you your sins.
And whoever obeys Allah and His messenger, then
they are indeed victorious.
To proceed, I wanted to begin by simply
congratulating the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam on the happiness that we're seeing in
Al-Sham.
This blessed place that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala says, سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَصْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ
الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, this masjid,
that its surrounding area has been blessed and
that surrounding area is the entire region of
Al-Sham.
And one of the most amazing things that
you'll find in Hadith literature is that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when he would
speak about Al-Sham, he would speak about
it as if it was part and parcel,
not part and parcel, but a major part
of the Muslim world, even though Al-Sham
was not Muslim during his time.
Al-Sham was not Muslim during the time
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Yet he would say, اللهم بارك لنا في
شامنا وفي يمننا Oh Allah bless our Sham
and bless our Yemen.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would
say, and he would say that Al-Sham
was one of the metrics of the righteousness
of the Ummah.
He would say, إذا فسد أهل الشام فلا
خير فيكم That if the people of Al
-Sham become corrupt, then there is no goodness
in you.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would
say, تكفّل الله لي بالشام That Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is taking care of Al
-Sham for me.
And the virtues of Al-Sham are many.
We've talked about that in many other places
and discussions.
But I wanted to just share three points
of benefit briefly in this khutbah insha'Allah
ta'ala.
Number one, this Ummah is an Ummah that
doesn't die.
This Ummah is an Ummah that doesn't die.
You know, the first verse of Surat al
-Mulk.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي
بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ You
know, when you read a verse like this,
and you contextualize it with what you are
seeing, it gives you a completely different lens,
a completely different understanding.
When you see that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala is saying that He is the one
who controls everything.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ
مَالِكَ الْمُلْكُ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشَاءُ وَتَنزِعُ الْمُلْكَ
مِمَّنْ تَشَاءُ وَتُعِزُّ مَنْ تَشَاءُ وَتُذِلُّ مَنْ تَشَاءُ
بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ Oh Allah, you are the owner
of the dominion.
You give it to whomever you wish.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you take
it from whoever you wish, and you honor
who you wish, and you debase whom you
wish.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, to
come back to surah Tabarak, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says, وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Allah is able to do all things.
And one of the blessings, one of the
benefits of understanding this name Al-Qadir, which
appears in over 30 places in the Quran,
where Allah says, وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
وَاللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى
كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ Again and again and again,
Allah says that He is able to do
all things.
One of the benefits of understanding this name,
is that you recognize that if Allah is
Al-Qadir, then I never stop making du
'a for what I want.
Sometimes that thing that we want becomes so
distant, that job that a person wants, or
that marriage, or that child, or that freedom
from occupation, it becomes so distant, that a
person finds that they stop making du'a
for it.
They kind of run out of energy, or
maybe they run out of hope, and they
say, you know what?
Maybe this isn't written for me, so let
me focus my du'as on something else.
And I'm sure that over the past 13
or 14 years, since the time where we've
been praying for sunnah, that some people might
have stopped, and focused on other things.
Or sometimes the pain that a person has
becomes so present, that thing that you don't
want, that illness, or that poverty, or that
oppression, becomes so constant, becomes so cemented in
a person's life, or in a person's world,
where they stop making du'a for it
to be removed.
I'm just stuck with this sickness.
I'm stuck with this oppression.
I'm stuck with this circumstance.
I'm stuck with this brokenness.
But if a person believes that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is Al-Qadir, وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ
كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٍ Allah is able to do
all things, then I'm constantly going to continue
to make du'a for it, because I
don't know when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will decree for it to be changed.
And in the past two weeks, look at
how quickly Al-Qadir changed the circumstances of
the people of Isham.
So we become inspired.
We become again reconnected with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala's names and attributes.
We become reconnected with du'a.
We become a people inshaAllah ta'ala who
recognize Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's power over
all things.
The second thing briefly inshaAllah ta'ala, and
I'll end soon inshaAllah.
But the second thing is understanding that this
is an ummah that has agency.
You know some of people's responses to what
has been going on immediately is as if
the entire ummah is pawns on the chessboard
of imperialists.
That everything that we do or don't do,
someone else is already planning, and you're just
falling into the plan of this person.
As if the entire world, including imperial powers,
are not all under the plan of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُوا
اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala says, they plot and plan.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala plots and
plans.
And Allah is the best planner.
There's nobody who outplans Allah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ
كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ Did Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala make the hidden plan of Abraha a
superpower?
The Abyssinians, did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
not make their hidden plan misguided?
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would destroy
them.
And so we are an ummah, we don't
want to be like Bani Israel, who said
to Musa, these are people who are Jabari.
No, no, no, we have no agency, we
have no power, they're the ones who have
power, we're not gonna go with you.
As if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
not the greatest of all powers.
And so yes, this doesn't mean that a
person is dismissive, this doesn't mean that a
person doesn't plan, but at the end of
the day, we are a people.
You know they say, if you believe that
you can, or if you believe that you
can't, either way you're probably right.
And that's just in life.
If a person believes that they can, you'll
find that they'll overachieve in life.
Because they always believe that they can.
And if a person always believes that they
can't, then they'll underachieve.
So we are an ummah that believes in
agency, and what we are required to do
is to work towards what Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala loves.
And one of the greatest things that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala loves, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala did not write for us to
be humiliated.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, that al
-izzah belongs to Allah, and the messenger, and
the believers.
وَلَكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ But the hypocrites, they
don't know.
And the third thing, and I'll end with
this, is to recognize and to be reminded
of how evil oppression is.
As we're seeing these prisons be opened, and
we're seeing the horrifying figures of people who
have been imprisoned unjustly for decades, coming out
to the sun for the first time.
And the joy of families being reunited.
And the revulsion that we have towards those
who oppress them.
Rasulullah ﷺ says, أَلْظُلْمُ ظُلُمَاتِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ That
oppression is darkness on the Day of Judgment.
And Rasulullah ﷺ tells us that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says, يَا عِبَادِ إِنِّي حَرَّمْتُ
الظُّلْمَ عَلَى نَفْسِي وَجَعَلْتُهُ بَيْنَكُم مُحَرَّمًا فَلَا تَظَالَمُوا
Allah says, I have made oppression haram upon
myself.
And I have made it haram for you.
So do not oppress one another.
And so as we are revulsed, as we
reject, as we are angered and enraged by
the oppression that we see in far off
places, one of the things that we always
have to work on and make sure is
that we are not oppressors ourselves.
And I'll end with this hadith.
Hadith of Ibn Majah.
The Prophet ﷺ, when the Muslims came back
from Abyssinia after having migrated for over 10
years.
And they finally came back in the 7th
year of the Hijrah after Khaibar.
Rasulullah ﷺ asked, he asked some of them
a question and he said, and this is
hadith of Jabir ibn Abdullah.
He says, what's the most amazing thing that
you saw in the land of Abyssinia?
And so one of the Sahaba he said,
Ya Rasulullah, while we saw a nun, she
was walking and she had a vessel of
water on her head.
And as she was walking, minding her business,
a young man came from behind and he
pushed her down onto the ground.
And the vessel of water broke.
And so then the woman got up and
she said to the young man, she said,
سَتَعْلَمْ أَيُّهَا الْغَدِّيرُ She said, you will know,
O traitor, that on the Day of Judgment
when Allah ﷻ sets up the Qursi and
hands and feet talk about what they used
to earn, you're gonna come to know between
this affair between you and me very soon.
So she's threatening the man with the Day
of Judgment.
But Rasulullah ﷺ he commented on that story
and he said, صَدَقَتْ صَدَقَتْ كَيْفَ يُقَدِّسُ اللَّهُ
أُمَّةً لَا يُؤْخَذْ لِضَعِيفِهِمْ مِّن شَدِيدِهِمْ He said,
how can Allah ﷻ honor an ummah where
the marginalized, where the weak do not have
a mechanism to secure their rights from the
strong?
How?
كَيْفَ يُقَدِّسُ اللَّهُ i.e. how can Allah
purify or how can Allah bless a nation
where the poor or the weak or the
marginalized do not have the ability to secure
their rights from the strong?
And so if we want Allah ﷻ to
bless our families, we want Allah to bless
our community, we want Allah ﷻ to bless
our country, we want Allah ﷻ to bless
our ummah, one of the things that we
have to be concerned with is to make
sure that oppression does not happen in our
jurisdictions, whatever jurisdiction we have.
كُلُّكُمْ رَاعٍ وَكُلُّكُمْ مَسْؤُولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَةٍ that every
single one of you is a shepherd and
every single one of you is responsible for
their flock and that we make sure that
we've created systems and mechanisms for those who
are weak to be able to secure their
rights from the strong.
أَقُولُوا مَا سَمِعْتُونَ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوا اللَّهِ وَلَكُمْ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوا
إِنَّهُ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على
رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم We ask
Allah ﷻ to protect the people of Syria,
that Allah ﷻ opens up for them the
doors of His mercy, that Allah ﷻ heals
their brokenness, that Allah ﷻ reunites their families
and bring them back to their homes, and
that Allah ﷻ makes Syria as He has
always made Syria a doorstep from the freedom
of Palestine.
We ask Allah ﷻ to bless their steps
and to bless their decisions and to bless
their nation.
اللهم آمين And ours.
اللهم إنا نسألك الجنة وما قرب إليها من
قول وعمل ونعوذ بك من النار وما قرب
إليها من قول وعمل اللهم آتي نفوسنا تقواها
زكها أنت خير من زكاها أنت وليها ومولاها
اللهم اقسم لنا من خشيتك ما تحول به
بيننا وبين معصيتك ومن طاعتك ما تبلغنا به
جنتك ومن اليقين ما تهون به علينا مصائب
الدنيا ومتعنا اللهم بأسماعنا وأبصارنا وقواتنا أبدا ما
أبقيتنا واجعله الوارث منا واجعل ثقرنا على من
ظرمنا وانصرنا اللهم على من عادنا ولا تجعل
مصيبتنا في ديننا ولا تجعل الدنيا أكبرها منا
ولا مبلغ علمنا ولا إلى النار مصيرنا واجعل
الجنة هي دارنا برحمتك يا أرحم الراحمين رب
ارحمهما كما رباني صغيرا اللهم ارحم المسلمين في
سوريا اللهم كلهم معينا اللهم انصرهم نصرا مؤزرا
اللهم وفقهم لكل خير اللهم انصر اخواننا في
فلسطين وفي السودان وسائر بلاد المسلمين اللهم كلهم
معينا يوم قل المعين وكلهم ناصرا يوم قل
الناصر والصلاة والسلام عليكم