Hacene Chebbani – Palestine – A Profile Of Courage, Faith And Resilience
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So today I'll be talking about Palestine,
Uma Adraqima Palestine.
I'll be talking about
the lasting legacy
of our brothers and sisters in Palestine.
I'm trying to inshallah to connect the dots
between our Dawah legacy in North America
and the legacy of our brothers and sisters
in Gaza.
And when we talk about our lasting legacy,
Ekhwan,
it is a legacy that will be remembered
forever.
We'll be talking about it forever.
When people talk about a legacy, they talk
about a positive impact
that is made in this life,
but they don't include something very important
which is al akhira,
which is jannatil firdaus, because we believe
that people will be remembering
or the pious people in our community, our
heroes and our leaders,
people will be talking about their achievements
and their deeds
in Jannatul Firdaus,
And we have proofs in the Quran
that people remember
what they go through in this dunya
in Jannah,
in paradise.
They will remember their feelings
and their duas and their supplications.
You may check Surat Atoor
when Allah
said,
So Allah
is telling us about the people of Jannah
that they will approach each other
asking about past events
in this dunya,
and they will say,
Verily, we were afraid of Allah's punishment in
the middle of our families,
but Allah has
been gracious to us,
and he saved us from the torment of
fire.
We used to invoke him in the past
before.
Verily, he is El Bara, the most kind,
the most merciful.
And the hardship that they went through, not
in a negative way,
they will not be sad about it
because there is no sadness in Jannah.
But they will be happy that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala relieved them from all types of
grief and sadness.
And this is in Surat Fathir.
Waqaluhamdulillahi
athhabaanal
Hazan
And you say they will say all praise
is due to Allah.
All thanks are due to him
who relieved us from all types of grief
and sorrow.
Indeed, our lord is
oft forgiving,
most appreciative.
So
these are proofs in the Quran from the
book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that the people of Jannah will remember their
life,
and our leaders,
our heroes,
the reformers
in our communities, the shuyuk, the leaders,
insha'Allah, they will remember their deeds in this
dunya,
and they will be proud of their legacy.
And our heroes of Palestine
will be proud of their lasting
legacy.
They will meet Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and they will tell him that we sacrificed
everything
for the sake of Baytul Maqdis.
We sacrificed
our homes.
We sacrificed
our children.
We sacrificed
our blood
for the sake of protecting
Al Masjid Al Aqsa.
And we know
that the 35,000,
generally speaking,
you cannot talk about individuals,
but generally speaking,
those children and women
who passed away, who lost their lives,
we hope that they are shuhada.
And I'm sure that we have some Palestinians
with us today
who have lost family members in Gaza,
and I would like to share some good
news with them.
We have in the community
people who lost 30, 40,
and to me that was a big number
to lose.
When I met brother Khalid
last
Wednesday, we had a rally here in front
of the city hall,
and he told me that he knows a
couple. They are related together. They are in
the city of Calgary. I don't know their
names,
but he said they are a couple from
the same family.
Till the end of Ramadan, they lost 160
family members.
It's something that is beyond our imagination,
how people are
handling
this situation.
But I wanna give them the good news.
2 famous ahadith from the sunnah of our
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
The first hadith
is agreed upon in Bukhari and Muslim, hadith
Anas ibn Malik
radiAllahu
anhu.
And this is a bushra
for those, as I said, who lost their
loved ones, and a bushra for those who
received the shahada.
It is a shahada fisabilillah.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, maamin ahadin.
Rakizma ahadal hadith, maamin ahadin yadhululjannah.
So in this hadith, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said that is in Bukhary and Muslim,
he said no one will enter Jannah.
No one will enter Jannah and will have
a desire
to return to this dunya.
Even if
even if
the whole world
is given to him, even if he is
told that you will be the owner of
every type of wealth on this earth,
you become the owner of this earth.
He said, no one. He will say, no,
thank you, I don't want to go back.
But he said, except the shahid,
the person who was granted shahada,
he will wish to come back to this
duniya
to receive shahada 10 times more
on account of the dignity that he receives
by virtue of his martyrdom.
By virtue of his martyrdom.
The our brothers and sisters in Palestine, they
will also be proud of their Ribaat on
the day of judgment.
Ribaat, Yahuen, is in Arabic world and rebaat
their rebaat is the is the best type
of rebaat.
Ribaat is
to live in the frontier
with the purpose of defending the Muslim
lands,
defending Muslim communities.
And we have this beautiful hadith,
and I want you to pay attention again
to this to the beauty and the power
of this hadith.
He said to stay watch for 1 hour,
to stay watch. This is rebal,
to live on front in the frontier,
to protect the Muslim lands, protect Muslim communities.
He said to stay watch for 1 hour
for 1 hour
in the way of Allah Allah
is better than praying
near the black stone.
Qatar. And this hadith again is authentic
and it is in Sahih ibn Hibban
al Bayhafi as I said in Sahih al
Jameh.
So our brothers and sisters, many of our
brothers and sisters in Palestine
are aware of this divine text.
They know that very well.
And also they are aware of the status
of their land from an Islamic perspective,
the value, the excellence of their land.
We know that
when we say Palestine is a matter of
faith, what do we mean by that?
It was the first kabbalah for Muslims.
We know that when Muslims moved moved to
the city of Medina,
they
were praying facing Bayt Al Maqdis for 16
or 17 months.
And we wonder why, why would Allah
make them to face
Bayt Al Maqdis for this period of time
when he knows
we know definitely he knows
that Al Kaaba will be their main and
only qibla.
And one of the hikam, it could be
Allahu ta'alaalam,
that that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanted Muslims
to always
maintain
strong ties between the 3 Masajid.
Al Masjid Al Haram in Makkah, Al Masjid
Al Nabawi in Madinah,
and then Masjid Al Aqsa
in Jerusalem in Bayt Al Maqdis.
It's like the message is like like
all Muslims
all Muslims
never forget
that Bayt al Maqdis was your first Iblah.
Are you going to forget?
No.
So the Muslims never forget that
Baytul Maqdis was your first qibla.
The second thing,
the night journey, think about the night journey.
Allah
subhanahu
wa ta'ala
could have taken his messenger, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
from Makkah
directly to the heavens, to the 7 heavens.
And by the way by the way, when
it comes to the night journey
that the messenger of Allah went to the
7 heavens, some people ask how can a
human being does that.
And we're not the the answer is very
simple.
We're not talking about the power of a
human being. We're talking about the power of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who created this universe.
This is for those who ask this question
whether they are Muslims or non Muslims.
We're talking about the power of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala who created this universe with its
galaxies and planets
and stars.
He's the one who created this beauty and
this power in this universe. It's easy for
him to take his servant from Makkah
to the 7 heavens and bring him back,
you know, in one night.
It's very difficult for many people to understand
this, but this is our answer. We're not
talking about the power of a human being,
We're talking about the power of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
But what happened during that journey,
as I said, it was possible
to take him from Makkah to the 7
heavens directly, but Allah wanted him to go
through Jerusalem.
And here,
he met prophets and messengers of the past.
Regardless of in I mean, how how come
they were there, they were by their physical
bodies.
I mean, our Allah
just brought them brought their shapes in front
of him, Allahu
Alem. But we know in the ahadith, in
the authentic ahadith that he met with the
prophets and messengers,
and he was a leader.
There was a congregation. There was a prayer.
They prayed together,
and he was the imam. Our prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was the imam. The
congregation
included Ibrahim alaihi salam, is Sahih Muslim,
Aesah alaihi salam, in English Jesus,
Musa alaihi salam, in English Moses.
These are great prophets and messengers from the
children of the community of Banu Israel.
And this is very significant.
Why? There is something that we don't talk
about it a lot.
There is a clear
transfer of leadership during that night.
Benoit Israel
were the religious leaders for almost 2000
years from the time of Yaqub, in English,
Jacob.
Yaqub alaihi sallam till our prophet Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wasallam was sent
as a messenger for almost 2,000.
They were religious the religious leaders. They had
their victories.
They had their failures.
They had their achievement.
They were able
to establish a kingdom during the time of
Dawud alaihi salam, David in English, time of
Suleiman in English, Solomon.
They were able to they had their own
achievements. On the other side, some of them
have killed prophets and messengers. This is well
documented in the Quran.
Their community was not able to preserve
the old scriptures,
the Torah that was given to Musa alaihi
salam, and the bible that was given to
Isa alaihi salam.
So they had their own victories and their
own,
you know, failures
until
our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi was was sent
as a messenger of Allah,
and it was time
for the new Muslim, Umma, to carry the
message
or to carry the torch as they say
it sometimes.
It was a clear,
as I said, transfer
of
of leadership.
Now our brothers and sisters also in Palestine,
they know
the value of praying in Masjid Al Aqsa.
They are aware they're fully aware of the
multiplication of rewards of praying in Al Masjid
Al Aqsa.
Every prayer there, every 5 daily prayer counts
for 250 or 500 prayers. It depends on
which opinion you follow.
That but the multiplication
is there.
So all these
divine texts,
all these
beautiful stories of prophets and messengers
shaped
they have shaped
the the, you know, they they call it
the collective,
the collective consciousness
of the Palestinian people.
This noble
heritage,
you know,
made some or created some sort of unifying
force
within their circles
After the help of Allah
and his assistance,
this beautiful concept, this beautiful principles
are
the the source of their resilience,
their bravery, their courage,
and also they became these things became part
of their identity.
And that's why we see this, you know,
these beautiful achievements
in the land of Gaza. Yes, there is
destruction,
there is pain,
you know, everyone knows, everyone is following the
news and we know what's going on,
But the people were
are showing the highest level the highest level
of resilience in Sabar. The world will never
forget
their commitment
and their resilience,
their courage,
and Muslims will never forget their
their love for salah, their love for Quran,
their submission to the will of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
It's a dynamic story
of of pain,
of heartache,
and also determination
and resilience
and courage.
You see this, you know, that what has
been shared there so
far is amazing, maybe you're not able to
watch every video, but if you watch some
of them,
you'll be amazed
about the resilience of these people.
You see this uncle
who was under the rubbles for the whole
night,
an elderly person,
under the rubbles for the during the whole
night when people came
at Fajr time at dawn to rescue him,
they found him that he was they found
that he was praying salat al Fajr under
the
and they had to wait for him to
finish his salah,
and then they started communicating
with him.
You see this young girl who is only
10 and 11,
and there's the rebels.
And when people came to rescue her and
they started talking to her, communicating with her,
she said, don't worry about me.
Start with my mom and little brother.
Don't worry about me.
And when she came out, she was not
crying.
She was not shaking.
And you feel like you guess that these
people are giant of resilience and sabrekhwan,
and they are raising
they are raising
their children
to be the same.
And like Sheikh Ali said in the first
previous
in the previous lecture, he said, youth,
you are the products of your environment,
and these children of Gaza are the product
of their environment.
There are people who love the Quran,
and they love the deen,
and they understand their duties,
and they understand they really understand their position
and their responsibility
about
Al Masjid Al Aqsa and the future of
this Umma. They are defending
defending the whole Umma.
Gaza is changing the course of history.
Ghazah is breaking the algorithm.
The truth is out there,
and it is making a difference.
Last Saturday,
I received I met a sister, she came
to my office.
And by the way, she came with another
sister from Gaza.
And the sister, she said,
Gaza has completely changed my life.
I have accepted Islam yesterday.
So she accepted
Islam on Friday, and she came to my
office on Saturday.
She said, Gaza has completely changed my life.
She was wearing hijab.
That was her 2nd day of reversion
and winning a Palestinian Kufiyya.
And I had discussion about, you know, with
her about Islam and salat and everything,
and on the same day I called brother
Omar,
who is in charge. Omar, I mean Zada.
He could be here with us.
I called him about adding this sister, new
revert sister,
to the the the revert sister, the the
WhatsApp group of the revert sisters.
And he said, I have added today 4
sisters.
Wallahi,
4 sisters in one day.
And I was amazed. I was shocked.
This is way different than what happened in
September 11.
We have made a big progress.
I don't want you to be
to be sad about what's happening. What's happening,
wallahi?
Allah knows that it is good for this.
The struggle of Gaza has awakened the world.
The struggle of Gaza has awakened many Muslims.
They are paying to the pay attention to
their deen
and to the power
the and and the strength of their iman
and their faith,
and they are coming back to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And the struggle of Gaza also has exposed
the hypocrisy
within what is called
the international
community.
You know, I promised all our leaders in
the Western world,
and also our leaders in the Arab and
the Muslim world,
I promise
those who have shown a display
disgraceful
display
of hypocrisy and double standard
that you will never be proud of your
of your of your fake
legacy.
You will never be proud
of the decisions that you made about Gaza.
And if you are if you are a
human being and you have you still have
some goodness in your heart when you leave
office, we know it will happen to you.
You will regret that the decisions that you
made
about Gaza. We see the bias.
We see lies. We see manipulations.
We see false news
shared about what happened on October 7th,
and then when the news when they discover
that it was false news, for example, the
killing of 40 babies,
these
mainstream media outlets, they don't show they don't
they don't utter an apology.
One single apology, we don't hear it from
them
that it was fake news
that the Palestinians did not kill 40 babies,
and there are many, many news who are
not allowed to follow everything.
Right? It's very difficult to, you know, to
understand and to and to follow every single
event. It's not it's not possible these days.
Otherwise, you will lose your job
and you will
even you neglect your family, neglect your your
duties.
But anyway,
miss Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and waftikhanahu alikhaer.
I would like
to end, you know, my lecture with 2
suggestions.
I'm just throwing ideas here.
When it comes to boycotting
Israeli products
and boycotting,
you know,
companies
which deal with
with the Zionist states.
I would like to share an idea here.
I think that we are not organized,
and the reason I'm sharing this idea,
if we have some activists
within us, within our circles today,
if we have people who are interested to
work on this subject.
We need to be organized. We need to
have a body.
We need to have an organization
which takes care of this issue.
And in the last
6 months,
we heard that some people did the research,
Matt and for example, about major banks in
in Canada.
And I'm not going to mention names, but
he said these 4 are heavily involved
with, you know,
supporting
Israel.
They are investing
in the manufacturing
of weapons and doing this and donating, and
and we have these 2 who they are
okay. These 2 banks, they are okay.
We can do banking with them or we
should, you know, switch our bank accounts
to these 2
banks. This is the research. Oh, he said
it was a research done by some people.
And I was talking to a brother from
Gaza
who works in one of these 4
so called guilty banks,
and he assured me he assured to me
that,
you know, my our bank, he's an insider.
He works in the department
that's supposed to do deal with Sharia compliant
investment.
He said, I can assure you
that my our bank donated
both to the Palestinians
and to support also the Israeli civilians.
As I said, I'm not going to mention
a name because I don't want to advertise
to any bank,
but the idea that I got, and I
received today a letter from a senior
officer in this bank,
The idea that I want I want to
share
that everyone,
we are lost.
We are everywhere.
We're trying to get information from this organization,
from this organization,
and we don't know what to do with
many,
many companies and many businesses.
The idea of boycotting
is making actually is
very effective in Malaysia,
in some countries in the Middle East.
Some companies are losing 1,000,000,000 of dollars.
I'm not sure if they are changing their
position, that's a different story. But my point
is
the reason I'm sharing again this idea
in case we have some, as I said,
activists,
some people who want to share these ideas
with other shuyuk,
with other leaders in our community, you might
have a connection with other ulama in North
America
or overseas, and we talk about this, we
need to have a body, we need to
have an organization.
It doesn't have to be based here in
Canada or North America, could be in Malaysia,
could be in
in,
in Turkey, for example.
And then we we need to have the
scholars who will come together
and issue fatawas about, you know, these etiquettes
of boycotting these products, boycotting these companies and
these businesses,
and also what are the businesses that we
can boycott and are not,
and those who we cannot.
So something that we need to do,
we need to do about it. I remember
in 2001,
I shared an idea in the south was
measured about the importance of making dawah.
We didn't have I s e at that
time. We didn't have I s e. And
so people have said, okay, you aren't you're
talking about dawah, let's go
to the Glenmore Park and invite some non
Muslims and share some, you know, dua with
them.
Talk to them about Islam.
And we met. I remember we met with
some brothers in Glenmore
Park, and then within a few weeks we
came up with the idea of establishing ISC.
In 2001. We started our Dawah activity
in 2002.
Alhamdulillah.
I shared an idea on the member
and you see the results, the outcomes of
this idea. So I'm sharing this idea with
you now in case, as I said, you
have connections with activists, with Rulama, with Shuyuk,
you can share this idea. We really need
to organize ourselves
when it comes to boycotting the Zionist state.
2nd idea,
that we
are lacking
rulings regarding
working with other people in rallies
and the area of activism,
when these people have an agenda that is
not accepted in our deen.
They have we know that they have an
agenda,
and they're working with their agenda, and their
agenda is not halal.
What are we supposed to do? Our youth
are confused.
Some of Ulema and Maheika tell them it's
haram to participate in these rallies. Some of
them are saying no, they came here, they
are supporting us, they are supporting our cause,
then we should work together.
I feel like the community is lost when
it comes to this area.
And I don't have a clear answer why
because I don't want to I don't believe
in individual fatawas when it comes to this
kind of,
you know, difficult matters.
I like to see a collective fatwa,
a work of a team. I know some
scholars are meeting in Malaysia this summer, they're
meeting in Turkey, they're meeting in Europe, huge
conferences taking place. As I said, if if
it happens that you participate in one of
these conferences,
maybe we can talk about these issues insha'Allah
and find a solution
for them. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
you will fit an alikulkhair. That's Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And you will fit an alikulkhair.
That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And you will
fit an alikulkhair. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And you will fit an alikulkhair. That's Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And you will fit an
alikulkhair. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And you
will fit an alikulkhair.