Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Be Patient & Enjoin to Patience 10202023
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Praise is due to Allah ta'ala in all
circumstances.
Brothers and sisters, it's not a secret to
anybody
that we are going through a time of
tribulation
as Muslims in this country and as Muslims
in the world.
The bombing of the civilians of Gaza,
who now
people are starting to say openly, not Muslims,
not Palestinian activists,
but just regular
Americans
are starting to see and say openly
was from the beginning of
the bombardment,
from decades of occupation, an open air concentration
camp.
Not an open air prison, but an open
air concentration
camp.
The likes of which there are none in
the world currently
to talk about.
Now it's being bombed openly,
and a number of things have happened in
the time since last week.
The number of civilian casualties in Gaza
have
surpassed 4,000.
This was in vengeance for
1400 people killed
in a
raid that resistance fighters from Gaza
made into Israeli territory.
I said it last week and I'll say
it again. I even received pushback for it,
and I don't care.
That if anyone
innocent is killed on either side, we don't
stand for it.
That being said,
we do not in any way, shape, or
form, not as Muslims, nor as Americans, nor
as human beings,
deny
occupied people and oppressed people the right to
defend themselves and the right to take their
land back, nor do we recognize any right
for occupiers to defend themselves. If they want
to defend themselves, they should have done so
in their homes. They should have done so
back in America, in New York, in Los
Angeles, back in London, in Paris,
back in Germany, back in Poland, and the
different countries that they came from. They came
to somebody else's land, and they occupied it
by brute force.
That's not called self defense. That's called what?
It's called oppression.
And it's not something that we accept.
However, according to their model and their theory,
there's still Tejawas that we're at now 4,000
people killed.
In retribution for what?
For 1400.
And who are those 1400?
Now we're seeing the news is starting to
be digested that the news that came out,
40 supposed beheaded babies, it's a complete fiction.
Women being raped and paraded naked through the
city and paraded about as trophies with fighters
having the Quran in one hand and pushing
around women strip naked in the other. No,
no proof whatsoever. Just verbal talking.
No proof whatsoever. A week has passed. No
one comes
on TV and says, I was raped. I
was this. I was that. In fact, what
do you see? You see survivors from the
other side.
Sin fighters came into my house
and they treated me and my children with
respect.
They asked, Can I have a banana? And
I said, Okay, go ahead and eat one.
Things like this.
What do we see? We see even the
rave. What kind of sick people have a
rave in front of a concentration camp? You
see the rave party goers, it turns out
what? That many of them were killed by
Israeli fire, indiscriminate Israeli fire that killed them
because they started a fire fight in the
middle of it, populated and crowded area with
their own people.
We see what? We see now that
all sorts of misinformation was pumped out and
it's still continuing to be pumped out.
What did we see? We saw on Sunday.
A 6 year old boy.
In our
own Illinois,
was brutally murdered by his landlord who's become
sick in the head by watching
One-sided
propaganda that's being pumped out unquestioning unquestioningly
unquestioningly from
our own media and from our own government
officials.
That child used to play with this landlord
apparently as if it's his grandfather. He used
to buy him toys,
and they used to have a loving relationship.
In fact, even the incident when this poor
child was stabbed, may Allah
accept his sha'adah.
He reportedly
ran to him out of love thinking that
this old man is going to play with
me, and what was he going to do?
He stabbed him 26 times.
Despite all of that, still still the media
is saying, Oh, rise in antisemitic this, rise
in antisemitic that, rise in antisemitic the other
thing. Has anybody, has anybody in this room
ever gotten up and said, I hate Jews?
Has anyone done that?
Have you met a Muslim who does that?
That the other Muslims say, This is somebody
we accept as one of our own.
Absolutely, it's not possible, it doesn't exist. Our
own Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't behave
that way. Lakulafa wa ashidun never behave that
way. Our forefathers never behaved that way.
But what is it the depth and the
depravity of the propaganda has gotten to the
point where anybody who brings up a legitimate
grievance, a legitimate concern, or a matter of
fact.
You're an anti Semite, you're a Jew hater.
When iyalu billah what has that ended up
doing? What is it ended up doing? It's
charged the atmosphere.
In our own DuPage County, forget about the
rest of the country. You know, people in
New York and in,
California and in DC are telling us now
that they feel an atmosphere more repressive currently
than they did after 9:11 even.
And really the amount of lies that are
being put out, brazenly.
It's actually much worse.
In our own DuPage County, think of how
many Muslims we have over here.
Women are being harassed.
Women, in hijab are being harassed. Old people
are being harassed. Harassed. Men are being harassed.
Lombard, Bridgeview, all of these different places. There
are too many, incidences to count.
This is all what? This is all
it's our issue. If we want to ignore
it, it's not going to ignore us. We
can either sit here and be demonized to
the point where we ourselves end up in
internment camps.
Or we can
take a deep breath and ask Allah ta'ala
for His help and say something,
Say something, push back.
Say something, push back. Push back. Push back
against the lies. Push back against the propaganda.
Push back against the harassment.
Every masjid,
every masjid
should have its own security.
This doesn't mean hiring an outside security guard.
This means what?
Its own security.
The believers, in the manmu minunah ikhwatun.
The believers are none other than brothers, than
a fraternity.
You don't
trust your loved ones to somebody else. You
take care of your loved ones, yourself.
You don't say to a random person, here
I'm gonna pay $15 an hour. Can you
stay at home and make sure my wife
is safe?
This is a lack of reira. This is
something is broken in somebody's mind.
The reira for the deen, the reira for
the house of Allah, the reira for your
Muslim brothers and sisters should be no less.
It's different but it should be no less
in its magnitude.
It's a sunnah.
Whether something is happening in Gaza or not,
it's a sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
that we stand watch over our own gatherings.
The Rasul said that
the eye
that stays open in the night and suffers
from tiredness and sleepiness during the night, watch
that eye will not be burned in the
fire.
You and me, I'm not part of the
administration of the masjid. I come on Friday,
and then I come the next Friday. But
this is my naseeh for you and me,
and for the administration of the masjid who
is not separate from us, but we all
work together.
We make ta'aun al bilir wi taqwa.
We help one another toward what?
Toward piety
and God fearingness.
That we have to stand watching this masjid
on our own.
This country,
this state, there's a legal procedure by which
a person can get a concealed carry permit.
It's not all that difficult to get.
You have to take a couple of classes.
You have to spend some money. You know
what? Masha'Allah. We're all good at saving money.
I love saving money just like the other
person. Some people brag and boast about how
much they paid for something. I brag about
how cheap I got it.
But some things, it's not good to be
penny wise and pound foolish. Spend the money,
get your concealed carry permit.
If you're of even disposition, if you're a
person given to anger, you have outburst, you
have a hard time controlling yourself, this advice
is not for you.
This is for people of even disposition, people
who are responsible,
people who are in a position to do
so, you don't have little kids running around
through your stuff, you're going to take care
of it properly.
If you have any question whether that's you
or not, go and ask somebody else. Maybe
it's not for you if you have a
question. But if you have confidence that you're
able to do something like this, the money
you spend in order to
purchase the arms. The money you spend in
order to get the conceal and carry, lawful
conceal and carry permit.
The money and the time you spend on
all of these things, all of it is
nafakafi sabiillah, you will receive the reward of
sadaqah.
You will receive the reward
of of giving in the path of Allah
to Allah for that. Don't let it hold
you back.
Sit in the masajid in different points.
Volunteer, the Masjid has a Sunday school, children
come to it. You know, these types of
incidents, and these types of people, why is
it that the man went after the grandchild,
and he didn't go after the father?
Why is it he went after the child's
mother, and was unsuccessful,
but went after the child and was successful?
These are all animalistic. So, we talk about
these types of things in the Khutbaai, right?
We talked about how in order to be
a human first you have to be a
functional animal. These are all animalistic
based types of mindsets. People are not conscious
of them.
If you watch an, you know, a documentary,
nature documentary,
The lion will always go after a what?
The weak.
The old,
the sick, the baby, the one that separated
from the pack. Why?
A fully grown lion can probably kill a
fully grown healthy wildebeest.
But why would it do so? If it
tries, what's gonna happen? It might get kicked
in the ribs. It's not gonna have 2
weeks in the hospital and medical insurance.
It's not worth it to mess with somebody
that can do something back to you.
Always, always the predatory mindset will prefer the
one who is what? Sick, weak, and easy.
Easy to kill, easy to take out.
This masjid we have children that go to
Sunday school.
My own children go to it.
We have children. That, read Maktab.
These things we should know, even if you
don't have any children, those children are your
children. Come, just sit, keep your eyes open,
sit, stand, watch.
This place, other places, wherever we have
events, we should have our own people doing
security.
This is 100% legal and lawful, and this
is something that the Deen tells us, and
the Deen commands us that we have to
do.
Coming back to the issue in Gaza.
Coming back from
on Monday,
the janaza of this 6 year old boy.
I heard the news what?
That the occupation bombed.
The Ahli Muhammedani
Mustashfa,
the hospital, the Baptist Anglican Baptist Hospital, the
only Christian hospital in Al of Gaza.
It was founded in the late 1800.
That they bombed it, and something like at
least 470
people.
470 people were killed.
Most of the people who were there taking
refuge in that hospital
were what? Were people whose houses were already
bombed out in the first place.
Many of the people who were killed were
children. They're like backpacks strewn about because a
bomb hit the courtyard.
It was a high impact explosion that blew
out the
windows for the buildings all around.
The idea of the Israeli Defense Forces so
called the occupation army boasted and actually mocked
the people of
that were victims and casualties in the hospital,
and said, You guys were gonna die anyway.
At least we gave you a merciful
euthanization.
As if you're putting down a dog or
an animal.
They had been calling for 3 days beforehand,
telling them, evacuate the hospital, we're gonna bomb
it. You tell me, when you have 2,000,000
people in a 25
mile long strip of land, And you tell
1,000,000 people to go to the southern half.
What is it? Concentration camp
becomes double as concentrated.
And there's no fuel, there's no electricity, there's
no water, there's no food, there's no medicine.
How are you going to move sick people
from one place to another?
The roads are bombed. How are you gonna
move healthy people from one place to another?
It's all a complete and cruel and twisted
joke.
Brothers and sisters,
even though all of it is a spectacle
of cruelty, even before 2 weeks ago it
was all a spectacle of cruelty,
for whatever reason,
bombing a Christian hospital made people's to do
list.
It was a Christian hospital. We as Muslims
are offended.
You guys want to go after us, why
in the world would you go after them?
It doesn't make any sense anymore. You're drunk
with your own violent visions.
You're drunk with your own bloodlust.
You drank the blood of the people for
so long, you've become intoxicated now,
that you just kill for the sake of
killing. There's no rhyme or reason to it
anymore.
What happened?
The president of our own country,
as a matter of fact, Joseph Biden,
he
planned a visit, which he actually did, he
went into the middle of a war zone
on Wednesday, in order to show war criminals,
in the middle of their war crime, that
we stand with you, we're always gonna stand
with you. Which is what? It's complicity in
war crime, isn't it?
And the thing is this, they say, Well,
you know, he whispered in people's ears afterward
that, you know, maybe you guys should like
think about international law. No.
When you write a person a blank check,
and then the person does whatever they want,
they did exactly exactly 100% what you told
them to do.
Because what? The
disposition of all human beings, good and bad
is what? You only do what you they
only do what you incentivize them to do.
This is why the Quran is replete with
what promises that this is the reward of
that, this is the punishment of that, this
is the reward of that. This, that's the
punishment of that.
Is there anything in the house? Yeah, Ayesha.
Yes. There's the entire
lamb is there except for the one,
leg of it that that we gave to
a beggar. And the rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, No. That's the only part of
it that's left. The rest of it is
all going to perish. What is it? It's
explaining the benefit of having given the charity,
right? No, because nobody does anything, except for
what you incentivize them to do.
We told them, There's absolutely no deterrent whatsoever.
Kill whoever you want.
Maybe think about not killing people, but you
know, really there's no deterrent whatsoever.
This bombing of this hospital is so disgusted
the people in this country, so disgusted the
people around the world, Muslim or non Muslim,
that the foreign minister of Jordan, the foreign
minister of a number of neighboring Arab countries.
All of which are high dollar amount receiving
countries of American international aid. And that aid
isn't because
you know the American government likes them. It's
what all because Israel is a very unpopular
child in the block.
And so America has to pay everybody to
be their friend.
But despite the fact that their economies could
literally suffer for this, They all refused to
meet with the American president, not the foreign
minister with the American president.
This is complete embarrassment to us. As Muslims,
and it's a complete embarrassment to us as
Americans.
It should be an embarrassment to us as
Americans even for the one who supports Israel.
It's a complete diplomatic failure.
Why? Because
people he wrote a blank check to,
for humanitarian
catastrophe,
for blood letting,
without consequence.
They now embarrassed him so badly, and they
put a stain on the face of America
that's so ugly that people don't even want
to meet with the president anymore.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian authority, he refused to
meet with the president.
This is a problem. This is a problem
for us as Americans.
This is a problem for every single American.
Whatever your political beliefs are.
This is going to make it unsafe. This
is going to make it economically unviable, diplomatically
unviable for us to be Americans in the
world. Forget about any moral questions.
Then he had the gall to fly back
and just yesterday, just yesterday,
get on TV in front of everybody and
ask for $100,000,000,000
100 what? $1,000,000,000
in order to fund
this war and the other wars he's prosecuting
around the world? I tell you as a
Muslim, to fund wars that are nonsense wars,
that are between 2 hostile parties that have
nothing to do with us, as Muslims and
as Americans,
to fund the war of what's called the
war euphemistically, and is really just the spectacle
of bombing innocent civilians in their own home?
I can tell you Islam teaches this is
100% categorically impermissible and one of the most
gross sins a person can commit.
A man rather than have one drop of
innocent blood on his hands, we wish you
could have just gone back into this world
and done drugs and drank alcohol and committed
zina.
Because it would have been much lighter in
front of the Lord
than spilling the blood of children and the
sick people, of elders,
than destroying residential buildings, entire apartment blocks,
than the bizarre spectacle of cruelty
that unfolded in front of us. And on
top of all of that, despite
several repeated acknowledgments and gloating over destroying that
hospital,
all of a sudden.
Even though our own government is too unresponsive
to realize what happened,
or they realize and they still
are taking it on the chin.
The Israelis themselves said, You know what? We
didn't,
we didn't bomb, we didn't hit that hospital.
It must have been a a rocket from
a militant group.
Right? The rockets from the militant groups are
what? They're basically water pipes stuffed with with
propellant.
They're fancy overdone fireworks.
But
Okay. No problem. You tell me something.
Why would you have admitted you did it
in the first place?
The president of the United States, he completely
bought without examining any evidence. He bought the
story of the
IDF, the change, the several time changed story.
And they ridiculous us. Oh look, we caught
and intercepted
a dialogue between 2 militants in which they
admitted and they put it up on the
internet.
The 2 people speaking in that audio clip
are obviously Egyptians.
They don't even speak with the lahja of
the people of Gaza.
You're about to tell me what? That your
pre your omniscient Israeli intelligence
that completely
missed any sign that the largest attack in
the history of Israel
is about to happen.
But now all of a sudden you hear
everything as if you're some kind of God?
This is ridiculous. Only a fool would believe
something like this.
If you don't believe me, go watch. Al
Jazeera did a very detailed analysis,
and it showed that there is no other
possibility. What the except for that this is
a an Israeli,
an Israeli attack on this hospital.
But even if you didn't see it, you
don't believe me, you don't believe Al Jazira.
You tell me, you remember we talked about
this in this very masjid.
The assassination
of Shireen Abu Aqila.
Palestinian Christian woman with American citizenship,
who the Israeli shot. Don't you remember for
an entire week the IDF was putting up
videos saying, Oh look, see this is a
video of a Palestinian militant shot her. Video
had absolutely nothing to do with her.
But they claimed it they claimed it for
about a week until the fact checking got
to such a ridiculous point that's okay, maybe
maybe we we shot of course you shot
her. You did it and you did it
on purpose. Everybody knows.
Brothers and sisters, all of this, the entire
world is watching.
And now we're having a request for a
$100,000,000,000
A $100,000,000,000
in order to fund this.
I'm telling you it's haram to fund an
unnecessary and useless war.
You're in a unique position to help your
own countrymen. You're in a unique position to
help the people of Gaza.
Raise your voice and say, This is stupid,
this is ridiculous, not on our dime.
The national debt in this country is what?
It comes out to over a $100,000
per person.
If you divide it over the number of
taxpayers,
it comes out to $260,000
And now we have this $100,000,000,000
on top of an existing multi $1,000,000,000,000 deficit?
You want to borrow money on interest in
order to pay for what? The bloodletting of
innocent people abroad? This is ridiculous.
People need to knock it off. Whatever their
their views are about Israel and Palestine, it's
a very easy sell to tell them to
knock it off. We don't have a speaker
in the house. Why? Because they don't wanna
fund another war.
Our president asked for this budget. The house
doesn't even have a speaker right now.
It's all drunkenness. They've drank their own their
own Kool Aid. They've drank their own Kool
Aid. The silliness,
the nonsensicalness,
the fact that the pieces, the puzzles don't
add up. When you put it on news,
it's something entertaining for them. But when you
actually have to pay it and execute it
in real life, there's no money to pay
for any of these things. This is all
nonsense. It's hurting us. It's gonna hurt us
as Americans.
It's hurting us as Muslims.
It's hurting the people of Gaza. All of
it needs to stop.
This is a critical time all of us.
Talk to whoever you need to talk to.
And you know what? If you're afraid you're
gonna get fired from your job at work,
don't put up a post on Facebook.
Don't put up a post on
Twitter. Don't put it on your Linkedin. Don't
write a letter to your boss. If you
know that your boss is just going to
use the list in order to fire you
and get you blacklisted from your profession don't.
At least talk to people, human to human,
human to human. Talk to people.
Why? Because people in this country think about
the events that have happened in this country
in the last just 3 4 years.
They know how clear and how plain it
is that the news lies to people through
their teeth.
They start to trust one another more than
they trust authority.
Talk to people, keep your voice going, keep
talking about it, keep this thing in the
news. Don't overstate your case. Out of the
20 things you wanna say, pick the 1
or 2 or 3 things that are the
most easy to prove
objectively.
That there's no argument about and hammered those.
Once people realize they've been lied to about
2 or 3 things, they'll realize all the
other lies on their own. They don't need
you to explain it to them afterward.
Keep the pressure on, Allah ta'ala says in
his book. He says,
Be patient, O people of belief. O people
of imam who claim imam.
Be patient
and enjoin one another to patience. Don't say,
I'm tired of this. I'm sick of this.
Why will this go away? I'm trying to
pay off my mortgage.'
Don't say that.
Be patient and enjoin one another the patience.
When you see your brother is about to
buckle, when you see me, I'm about to
buckle. Say, Be patient. Enjoyed me also the
patient,
Stand firm.
Stand firm. The Quran doesn't ever command anyone
to run away. What does it command? It
says, command to stand firm.
If it wasn't for some people,
Allah are pushing some people back through other
people,
the entire earth would be filled with mischief.
Literally the defense of Allah ta'ala of some
people through others,
the entire earth would have been filled with
mischief.
Women?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, If it wasn't
for Allah using some people to defend others,
to push others back,
You would have seen that the monasteries have
been would have been destroyed. The churches would
have been destroyed. The synagogues would have been
destroyed.
The masajid in which Allah ta'ala's name is
taken in plentiful
amount. You would have thought that they would
have been destroyed.
And whoever comes to the aid of the
cause of Allah Ta'ala, Allah Ta'ala will come
to that person's aid.
Indeed Allah ta'ala is powerful, He's mighty.
Brothers and sisters, this is not a time
to run away. Yes, don't take on a
task that's bigger than what you can fulfill.
But whatever you can do it, keep doing
it.
Stand firm, keep pushing back, keep pushing back.
Looks like it's so amazing and so huge,
it's all a phantasm.
The numbers don't work out, there's no future
in
it. Just have some patience, just enjoying one
another to patience. Those of our brothers and
sisters who don't wanna hear this, with kindness
and with love.
End your disputes with them, and enjoin them
to have patience. Those who don't wanna come
to the masjid,
end your disputes with them. Tell them to
come, and join them to have patience. Brothers
and sisters, you don't have to do a
whole lot. You should just do something. Why?
Because this thing, if people don't push back,
then they're complicit. It's not I'm not gonna
say if they don't push back then we're
not going to win. Allah ta'ala always wins.
But if you don't push back, if you're
complacent, you'll be written with what? You'll be
written with the mufse deen, with the people
of mischief.
And our only hope and our only dream,
when all is said and done, when we
die in our homes, in our cars that
we paid off, in our nice clothes, in
the food that we eat, in the vacations
that we took are all over.
The only desire we have is that what
Allah ta'ala loves us and accepts us.
That we should come to Him, He should
be pleased with us.
Allah ta'ala is pleased with sinners. Allah ta'ala
is not pleased with treacherous people. Allah ta'ala
is not pleased with sellouts. Allah ta'ala is
not pleased with those people who love murder,
and destruction, and mischief, and mayhem.
If you are a sinner, you can repent,
Allah will accept you. Even if you don't,
He might forgive your sins anyway.
But there's no place on the day of
judgment for the love of Allah ta'ala for
somebody who
would cast their lot with the treacherous, and
cast their lot with
oppressors, and cast their lot with those who
spill the blood of children and women. There's
no place for such a person.
It's never too late to repent and never
too late to change. It's never too late
to have your name written even if it's
at the bottom of the list, to be
written in the list of the people who
push back. May Allah
give all of us tawfiq. Wassalamu alaaydu
wa sahabi ajma.