Ebrahim Bham – Situation In SA – Be Solution Orientated

			Alhamdulillah
		

			Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Milan Viva La Mulana Viva la vida de la vida kitabi. Well
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			de Marana bill Murphy, wattana hona Anil Mancha, Sara Kala will azim My dear respected elders and
brothers. We begin by praising Almighty Allah for all the favors Allah has bestowed upon us. And we
send solicitations upon our beloved Navy aquariums that Allahu alayhi wa sallam. The topic that we
have at hand is some of the challenges that are facing us here in our country. And there is no doubt
whatsoever when we look at a situation. In our country, there are many challenges, many aspects with
regard to concern. But on one hand, we know that crime has become quite widespread, and people do
not feel safe, even while they are in their own homes, despite elaborate security arrangements. So
		

			we have people who have created great amount and spend great amount on security. But despite that,
they do not feel comfortable, they do not feel secure as you are supposed to feel in the privacy and
in the realms of your own personal homes. Then, of course, we look at the country, by and large,
what do we find, we find a situation where many times there are protests, which recently had
erupted, which erupted and went into violent protests which led to the loss of life and led to the
loss of property of many people. And it is something that, you know, we read on the newspaper, I'm
not going to go elaborate. It is something that we see with regard to what is happening. The
		

			unemployment rate in South Africa is something that goes into millions, according to a last figure
something like 6.7 million people in South Africa and employment, something like 29%. Officially,
unofficially, it might be even more than that. And these are the type of situations that we find in
our country, the ruling party, we have to say that has a record of fighting against injustice and
oppression. Unfortunately, corruption has become endemic within the ruling party. And while it has
sound principles, it has a good constitution, it has a record it has a good history, the set
situation is members of the ruling party are more concerned with regard to fighting with one another
		

			and jostling for power for the sake of monetary gains, that is the reality with regard to what is
happening in our country. But however, all of this call for introspection, what do we do in this
situation? What are the what are the options that are there with regard to us in the present
situations, we need to introspect many times we hear from Allah and many times we see whenever there
is a situation of concern whenever there is violent protests in the country, you will hear from the
allama from the members and you will hear many Allah organizations telling you turn towards Almighty
Allah subhanho wa Taala. Now, this is not something that we must take lightly. And many times you
		

			and I we take things for granted and we sometimes even make a sort of, you know, look at it
lightheartedly or we start you know, sometimes even making insane statements that are not supposed
to be safe this statement. Why do why do why do LMR tell us to turn towards Almighty Allah subhanho
wa Taala in all situations, whenever there is difficulty one of the reasons is there is always a
core relationship between halaqaat and situations and our our morals and our deeds. It is so clear
cut anyone who has read the Holy Quran will clearly see that there is a correlation. We are not
forming any judgments, but there is a correlation between what is happening. happenings and our
		

			deeds. xrl fosatu Phil burry well Barbie Marchesa but at NUS corruption has appeared in the heavens
and earth because of the doings of humankind. So Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us Womack and Allah
who you want to feed him, Well, McCann Allahumma Isaiah humo Mr. foon Allah anger and Ross will
never come upon you come upon the mutt Oh prophet of Almighty Allah when you are amongst the oma
womankind Allahu wa ma ma ma homea star fare una luz en will never come upon people when they are
turning towards Almighty Allah, Allah and they will never come upon people when they are seeking the
forgiveness and seeking the help of Almighty Allah subhanho wa Taala. So when what am I tell us turn
		

			towards Almighty Allah in situations like that? There is a lot of wisdom which comes from Quranic
injunctions which comes from the Quranic view. So that is one of the aspects that we have to turn
towards Almighty Allah but on a practical level, we have to
		

			Much more than that. And one of the things that we have to do, which is so important for us is to
avoid racist conduct. It's so important for us that we always bear this in mind when we look at our
Sharia and we look at our beloved nebia Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam. It was our beloved nebia
Kareem saw Ceylon wood gave this revolutionary message, long before it was trendy, long before the
united nations have resolutions with regard to it. Or long before, you know there is this whole
particular aspect of speaking against against apartheid, or against race racism. Long before that it
was our beloved nemea Kareem saw Selim, who taught humanity and who taught the world with regard to
		

			his revolutionary message. And in the football video, what did he say? La Familia harabedian Allah
Hi, Jamie and Jamie in Arabic and there is no superiority of the Arab over the non Arab or vice
versa. Or there is no superiority of the white over the black or the black over the white, except on
the base of taqwa. All of you start off in an equal footing, every human being start to have an
equal footing. And if anyone searches ahead, if anyone goes ahead, he doesn't go ahead on the basis
of his ethnicity. I come from this village, he doesn't come go ahead on the basis of his tribe, he
doesn't go ahead or he searches ahead on the basis of the color of his skin. If anyone searches
		

			ahead, it's on the basis of his conduct and His righteousness, no other ways, no other aspects. And
it is very, very sad. If we start generalizing with regard to matters that are happening in our
country, we as Muslims throughout the world, we are the victims of generalization. We are the
victims of generalization. So if a small group of people who out of desperation or other reasons go
and do something, the entire Muslim community in the world has to suffer the consequences with
regard to it. So we are the victims of general generalization, it will be very safe that we becomes
amongst those who generalize with regard to matters. We have to stay away from racist conduct. And
		

			we have to stay away from racist language. One of the one of the definitions of backbiting, not one
of the dish and definitely the prime definition of backbiting which nebbia Kareem saw silom was
asked when he was said you know when he asked the people to you know what is he but you know what is
rebirth. So, let me occur him sort of Lavalle wasallam said that you must make mention and relate
something about people that if they come to know about it, they would dislike that particular type
of speaking about them in such a manner if we have to relate to any group of people or we have to
relate to any individual in a way that if they come to know that you are relating or speaking to
		

			them in that manner, and they dislike it according to the definition of Nivea cream sauce to them
you are committing backbiting when our beloved navia creme de la la wa sallam, you know when, in the
time of the conquest of Makkah, after the conquest of Makkah, you know the conquest of Makkah
happened in early morning. It was a time of Tsar when me occur himself Salaam toalhas ability
allowed an op lol get up in the roof of the Kaaba and called as an
		

			perhaps it has never happened again in Islamic history are very seldom that a person has got up in
the roof of the Kaaba and called out the Azzam and when the people of Arabia upon whom they were
still, you know vestiges of racial superiority and racial prejudice, they saw this many of them
said, We are happy that our father passed away before this day. They didn't have to see such an
occasion where a person a black Abyssinian saved his sir coming on top of the carbine is given the
call of Assam when a cream sauce lamb came to hear about it, he called the people and said, Oh
people what what is this aspects of racist conduct and language I'm hearing? We're learning Hanukkah
		

			confirming coffee woman commitment. Now as far as believers are concerned, there are only two
categories. As far as Muslims are concerned, there's only two categories righteousness simply Right.
Right. Yes, good and evil, there is no other considerations. Those who are good, they are honored in
the eyes of Almighty Allah irrespective of the ethnic backgrounds or the the color of the skin, they
are honorable, and those who do evil irrespective of the you know, background, they are evil, they
are not honored in the eyes of Almighty Allah subhanho wa Taala irrespective of their racial
background or the color of their skin or the ethnic or tribal background. We are amongst the people
		

			when Islam has given us such strong feelings and such strong taleem and education on this particular
matter. It is essential that we avoid any type of racist conduct, in our in our mindset in our
attitude in our language. The second thing that we have to do here is such an important point is
stay away from the flaunting of your wealth, stay away from extravagance and literally the Holy
Quran says in the libertarian
		

			We have one of those extravagant there are the brothers of shaytan. It is not wrong for you to
utilize your wealth for the sake of your own comfort, there's nothing wrong with regard to it. Allah
subhanho wa Taala in the 20th superar of the Holy Quran in surah cosas Allah tala makes mentioned
with regard to the good of this material wealth. What does he FEMA attack? Hello Darryl ashira. Seek
with the wealth Allah has given you seek accurate, don't only seek your comfort. What does he FEMA
attack along with data, see what Allah has given you with regard to wealth? Seek what seek what that
well, Darryl ashira will attend Santa ceiba camino dunia. Don't forget your share of this material
		

			world. Don't forget your share of making yourself utilizing your wealth for the sake of your own
comfort and needs nothing wrong with regard to it. But open flaunting of wealth. What does he do?
Our alumni have told us it creates and it makes the people who are poor feel deprived. It created it
creates distress. It arouses bitterness. It arouses bitterness, definitely a cream sauce alum. Toad
has a Mojave Jebel when he was going towards Yemen, or was yakata not in Nevada law. He leads to
Bill Montana in Omaha stay away from a very ostentatious way of living. The servants of Allah are
not given to an ostentatious way of living, to calling speaking about this creating button a button
		

			as I said, move data. Chemotherapy was money came many years back to South Africa. And in one talk,
I was with him. And he related one amazing incident. He said when I was small, they grew up in the
village of diomande. So they were not you know, they were people who grew up and they were born in
Durban moved into kiss up and move to a few move to the case of went away to Pakistan at the age of
five, five or six. So in the early years, he grew up in Diovan because that was his father's home
village. So he said that once we were invited to a very great alum by the name of Manas said as Dr.
Hussain shahzeb. He was known as Mia sub. So he said after we had you know eaten we as young people
		

			who said we will make it much we will take away the the you know the table and we will clear the
tablecloth. So, Mia sub said Do you know how to clear the tablecloth and said what is it to clear
the tablecloth we will take the plates and we will clean up and he said What will you do? He said we
will take the fruit that we have the peels of the fruit we will take it and we will put in the
dustbin. So do you know what one essential SAP told him? He said, don't take out those peels and put
it in the local dustbin. So he said why he said the people of our community can't afford fruits.
When they see the peels of the fruit, they will feel hurt.
		

			Take that take this fruits and the peels of the fruit wrap it up and going through it at a distance
so that people don't feel bitterness, and then don't feel deprived because they can't afford it.
Stay away from flaunting of your wealth where you create an arouse bitterness, and you create a
sense of depravity amongst the people who cannot afford it. This is what we are supposed to do. And
very importantly,
		

			brothers we are we are we are going to live in this country. How many how many percentage of the
people who are there who can afford to go out and go and make themselves and go abroad to go in, you
know, go and stay somewhere else. 2% 3% How many people majority 5% 95% of the people who are
Muslims here are going to stay in this country. Now if you are going to stay in this country, you
have to make yourself you have to make and play your role with regard to making this place the best
of places so that you can live together with harmony with the people who around you. And that is an
aspect that we have to keep in mind. So if you are going to stay here in this country, what do you
		

			do? You can only speak about the problems. I mean, you can only speak about the situation that is in
this country. What is your role in being amongst those who create a solution to the problems? When
you look at our our DNA, our DNA our never made mentioned that you always look at the problems.
Islam has taught us that you must be solution oriented, you can talk about the problems till the
cows come home, start talking about the solutions. What is your What is your effort? And what is
your role in creating a solution to the problems that are facing the country? And then when we look
at Islamic history, we find enough solutions we find that Muslims have found themselves in similar
		

			type of situations. What do they do? The first thing Yes, we have to create an environment for
ourself and our children in which we remain steadfast upon the deed we cannot compromise on our
Deen. You have to make arrangements with regard to the steadfastness of Deen for yourself and your
family members never take this to be likely. It was Hazzard jacoba Lee Salatu was Salam. O Allah
Allah says in the first part of the Holy Quran, I'm kuntum shuhada is Hydra jacoba
		

			mode, where you present when jacoba Salatu. Salam was in the final moments of his life when he was
under, you know about to depart from this world. What did he do is Heather is Cordelia Penny Mata
Poonam embody All My Children who are you gonna worship after I pass away?
		

			Who are you gonna worship after I pass away? I asked you this question who is asking this question
my dear respected brothers, and maybe of Allah, whose father was an epi of Allah. As a documentary
salons father was his alkalyn salaam. His grandfather was Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa sallam.
		

			His son is Yusuf alayhi salaatu wa Salaam, and he is asking his children who are you going to
worship after I pass away?
		

			What is the state of your Eman going to be? With we are going to remain in this country it is
essential for us to make the necessary steps to see that human remains in our children. That's one.
The second thing is whenever we look at history, whenever Muslims had come in any place, there was
one aspect that was formant and dominant in the way, they always kept a good relationship of
kindness, sympathy, and helping the people the local people of the land in which they remained.
Whenever they kept to that Allah Allah kept them steadfast and Allah Allah kept that kept them in
that land, whenever they left that Allah subhanho wa Taala expel them from that land. When the
		

			Muslims came into Spain, go and look at the history. You know, the rodrick, whose daughter was
abused by the king of Spain called the Muslims to help him. They came into Spain, they were welcomed
by the locals. Because the Muslims came with a different mindset into Spain. They came with a
mindset that we are going to help the people of Spain who had underwent a great amount of oppression
and injustice from the rulers of that particular time. Muslims were welcomed, they were welcomed for
800 years. That day, they started in a way where the local people, when they turned away, were not
worried about the local people they got involved in their own wealth in their own squabbles of
		

			power. Then what happened the very same people who welcome there many centuries back those very same
people, expel them and kill them.
		

			As if it was money I gave a talk recently in in UK and I last night, I took the very same transcript
of his talk and I I wrote it down I said let me share that with people. As a student of Dean says
Mufti Taqi whose money it is necessary to know the psychology, social social culture of the local
people whom you are living with, they problems they mentality, they thought and work to remedy the
end to provide solutions with regard to a particular type of difficulties. When are we going to
start doing that it has been the history of Muslims whenever they went
		

			you know, I recently there was a brother who came here from Sri Lanka Maulana Fazal, he was someone
who was a good he said, manana, we were so well established in silica. We had everything that you
could ever think of. We had, you know, freedom of religion, we had everything. Then a right wing
group started creating enmity and hostility against the Muslims in the national press. We answer
one, there's another particular type of situation that came our visibility, which we took pride in
in Sri Lanka became a problem for us. They started saying you are cultural invaders in this land,
you are not part of this land, you bring about things from other other countries, and you keep your
		

			own particular state, you are not loyal to the land in which you are living in. He said, everything
changed to such an extent that we had to make fatwas that don't dress in a manner that you are, you
are so visible that people look upon you in a in a in a way that is suspicious.
		

			When are we going to be able to sit? And remember there is a strong link to this. I'm trying to show
you that. When are we going to be a part of this solution and only took a when are we going to be I
know that sometimes we can say that yet the problem is so big we don't have we don't have the means
to be able to provide solutions. But at least start thinking in that direction. Start playing your
role. There is such a strong link. There is such a strong link in Islam, between our Deen and a
social conscious conscience. There is such a strong link or at least the UK will be deemed Have you
seen those who deny religion? Have you seen those who deny religion? Now you and I our understanding
		

			of religion, maybe the next if we would have felt maybe the next it is those who deny religion who
do not read namaz who do not read Salah who do not make Zika What did Allah Allah says, for their
legal team to Allah Tamil miskeen it is those who repel the orphans and we do not encourage the
feeding of the poor. There are 6.7 million people who are unemployed in this country. Have we
thought about it
		

			have we given it a thought?
		

			They are, according to one set 870 million people in this world every day go and sleep hungry. 870
million people go and sleep hungry every day. Sahaba said when nebia Kareem said Allahu alayhi wa
sallam came from Mecca to Medina. And when he came, you know, when he came into Medina people want
to do and listen. People like a buildability salam, who has read in the scriptures in the last
interview of Allah will come and he will migrate. Right? People like that. All of them as at salmaan
efrc, who was looking and he had searched for the last prophet and someone told him go to Medina,
the last prophet of Allah will come there. So when Kareem saw Selim came to Medina, where everyone
		

			was very keen to listen, What is his name? He who has migrated from Mecca to Medina, what is going
to tell them? Those Sahaba who went to listen to him saw slum said, when we came to listen to him,
saw Selim, his first talk, his first message, yeah, you were nervous, of Shu Salam. Mo Tom was
single or ham was soluable layli, oneness when he said who agenda be salam, O people, spread the
Salam amongst you spread peace amongst people.
		

			Keep good with your relatives, feed the poor, feed the poor, and keep yourself also steadfast upon
Dean rizzolatti. In the early hours of the morning when people are sleeping, Allah will keep you
peaceful year, Allah will put you into genda
		

			maybe you can you can see right we don't have the means to be able to do so. At least have kindness
and compassion to the people who are going through difficulty Marana Scalia has suggested no money
matters he lolly. He makes mentioned he said, I used to see my father My father was a very great
Muslim manana. Manzano Money Matters he lolly, he came to South Africa, I think, in the 1968, or
769, varnamo did, and I read some of his, you know, his travels when he was here, he gave very
valuable lessons and wisdom to the people of South Africa. He said, My father used to have an
amazing thing I used to see about him, he used to say he used to leave home. And amongst the family
		

			members, he used to smile, he used to be happy, he used to be cheerful. When he left the home, I
used to see him the moment he got onto the streets of the country. All of a sudden, I could see that
there was a change in his facial expressions. I saw that he was said, he was like, worried he was
anxious. So So one day I asked him, I said, Oh, my father, I see when you leave the house, you are
cheerful, you are happy. And then when you go on the streets, I see all of a sudden you are full of
anxiety full of anxiousness, you are sad, what is the reason? He said, when I go and I see the
problems of the people, of course, at the time and maybe today also, they still a great amount of
		

			poverty in India. When I look at the poverty of the people, I look at the people who are sitting as
beggars on the streets, you know, I feel hurt with regard to the situation. And then I in that
particular situation, I changed my facial expressions change. I feel I feel, you know, ashamed that
I can help them. The most I can do is to make dua, and every person I see in difficulty I make dua
for them, who will open up his way for him. Allah granted prosperity in this world in the after.
What what what what life is those people who are staying on the streets? What lies do they have?
What life Do they have, they've got no family to go back to, they got no shelter to go back to have
		

			we ever given it some thought that only you can help them to the extent of giving them any shelter,
country the spare a smile to them, Congress make a door for them, Allah they are unemployed you
Allah give them some sort of
		

			Allah give them some sort of happiness.
		

			When when are we going to be part of the solution, rather than always complaining with regard to the
aspect of and this is, remember, in a in an in a when you are together in an entire togetherness,
you rise together or you fall together? There is no way you can be in in an ice in an island of
prosperity in a sea of poverty. Either you rising together or you're going to fall together. One day
the disgruntlement of the people who are in poverty are going to come and impact upon you. Therefore
we have this beautiful saying that when Allah subhanho wa Taala has blessed you with something.
Don't make your fences longer, make your tables longer.
		

			Don't make your faces long fences longer to stay away from the people make your tables longer to be
able to interact with the people to help to the best of your ability to the best of your extent.
That is what something was established. You see when our beloved nebia cream sauce let me let me
conclude with this. You know we can go and give many other when our beloved Nivea cream sauce silom
started off his message. When he started off giving the message of Islam What did he say? What did
he tell the people on the amount of suffer? Oh people if I have to tell you that there is an army
behind me. Would you agree Would you accept me
		

			What I'm saying? Would you accept in what I'm saying that there is an army behind me? What did they
say? They said, Yeah, oh Muhammad, we have still spent 40 years of our life with you. We have never
ever heard you speaking lies. If you have to tell us that there's an army behind this mountain that
is waiting to take us. We will we will accept what you are saying. After he established his
credentials as a person of honesty, a person of integrity, a person of kindness and compassion. A
person who was truthful, then maybe aquarium saw slim said Hulu La ilaha illAllah tofu. Oh people,
c'est la ilaha illa Allah you will be successful.
		

			If you want to make an impact. First, start establishing establishing your credential as people of
integrity. People have honesty. And of course we know about the corruption that is endemic in our
country. In every particular type of problem there is an opportunity here is an opportunity for us
to rise above the muck of corruption to rise above the muck of what is happening with this honesty
and this integrity and a whole lot of problems. Now, there is an opportunity for you to rise above
the muck to be able to show what our beloved Navy saw silom established. establish your credentials
as a person who is who's honest, who's a man of integrity, a man of kindness and men of compassion,
		

			then inshallah you will be part of the solution, instead of being part of the problem. And Islam has
always come to be part of the solution, not to be part of the problem. May Allah give us a topic of
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