Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Laying the Foundations for Revival Masjid Mustafa Westmont 01132017.mp4
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All praises to Allah who guided us to
Islam and to iman and to this Mubarak
house and this Mubarak hour, this Mubarak day,
and we were not to be guided. Was
it not that Allah had guided
us? Oh, Allah, to you is praise as
his commensurate with the majesty of your continents
and the greatness of your authority.
Oh, Allah, we do not limit you with
any praise. We can come up with ourselves.
Rather, we admit that you are the only
one who knows the true extent of your
praise worthiness.
And may the peace and blessings of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala be upon his servant and
messenger,
our master, Sayyidina Muhammad
May the peace and blessings of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala be upon him and upon his
noble companions and upon his pure wives and
upon his Mubalik and blessed family and progeny
and upon all of those who follow all
of their way until the day of judgment.
Brothers and sisters, several weeks ago, the last
time I gave a in this masjid,
we were
in a crisis with regards to
the people of the city of Halab, of
Aleppo.
And, indeed, the crisis is continuing,
but it has changed in its nature.
The crisis is continuing, but it has changed
in its nature.
And
the synopsis of what's happened thus far on
top of all of the other chaos and
bloodletting that's happened in the Syrian civil war
is that,
you know, before the new year,
the,
city was completely surrounded,
by hostile forces.
It was besieged,
and it got to a point where even
aid workers,
even those people who are rescuing
people from the rubble of aerial bombardment.
They can hear the victims screaming,
but they don't,
they're not able to go and dig through
the rubble in order to pull those people
out. Why? Because snipers are so close overhead
that they're even shooting
humanitarian,
workers and humanitarian
personnel. So the
brother, do you mind if you're gonna pray?
If you do mind praying?
Ivan? The,
you know, they're not able to even,
go and dig through the rubble for the
the survivors. Why? Because snipers are so close
overhead that they're even shooting humanitarian aid workers.
I worked with Islamic Relief as most of
you know because I've come on their behalf
of this semester, then I've also come not
on their behalf of this semester.
But we were instructed actually to tell people
because people are asking us, do you have
staff and personnel that are in Hala during
that siege? We were instructed
to to to not comment on that issue.
Why? Because we did have people who were
working inside of the city, and, there are
people also with families who want to go
home and what they wanna do good, but
they also want to go home to their
families one day. And we were afraid that
they would also be targeted,
by by hostile forces. And so we're instructed
not to say anything about it until the
last of them was evacuated, which, alhamdulillah,
they have been
for several weeks now.
The situation recap again was so bad that
women are writing to Ullama, asking them for
a fatwa that if I'm afraid I'm going
to be,
raped or I'm going to be,
humiliated by enemy forces, is it permissible for
me to,
literally commit suicide?
And this is not just one person. It's
several people. Everybody knows and saw, on the
Internet, people are
leaving their salaams and their goodbyes and their
last messages for their family, for their relatives,
and for their loved ones because everyone expected
that's what what was going to happen.
And it's a reasonable
expectation. It wasn't an irrational fear because that
part of the world, and particularly that government,
has done that before. They've literally leveled entire
cities for for matters like this before.
Accountability. There's a city of Hama, and I
happens with little to no
accountability. There's a city of Hama and I
believe the eighties, it was completely leveled.
Everybody who was, inside of it was killed,
and they basically made a mass grave and
paved over it and acted like the thing
never happened. So this is a really
dark hour and a very bleak hour for
our brothers and sisters in in in in
that place.
By the funnel of Allah to Allah and
the grace of Allah to Allah from such
a place, from such a horrible,
you know, point to be at. Not just
for them personally, but for the entire Ummah
saying that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to
see this happen.
This is a center of civilization.
Halab is a center of civilization. Right now,
we live scattered.
We're scattered through the, you know, the the
the the 4 cardinal directions of the earth.
We come to the masjid on Friday because
we don't live close enough come to the
masjid 5 times a day. We don't live
close to one another. We don't we haven't
fostered a civilization.
We are, in essence,
civilizationally
guests of other people. We're in diaspora, which
is what happened with,
with Banu Isai.
Right? We don't have that civilization. That was
the center of civilization.
The loss of that civilization
is a a very big blow because you
see it's a very big blow to the
Umma. Why? Because you see there are very
few cities that preserve these old traditions and
ancient traditions that that that that are preserved
in places like that. And this is one
thing I think that people don't understand. One
of the misunderstandings that many people have with
regards to Islam, people say Muslims are not
pious. Muslims are not pious. I think Muslims
are extremely pious. Even Muslim people who are
profligates, who are are actually much more pious
than than than the the average member of
another bin.
But there's a couple of things that kills
them. And the most the worst of those
things is a lack of understanding.
One of the foundational lack of understandings we
have regarding our Islam is that we always
look at Islam through the individual frame.
We always look at Islam through the individual
frame. My reward,
my benefit,
my punishment,
my my my
and the fact of the matter is is
that this is the first thing we're supposed
to think about.
Right? This is the fact of the matter.
Save yourself and save your families from the
fire. But this is not the end of
the journey or the fulfillment of the journey.
This is only the beginning of the journey.
Once a person has
and they're fulfilling their their basic
Afterward, the vehicle to increase your rank with
Allah
is through the service of others far more
than it is through the service of yourself.
Example,
as a father, if you just pray 5
times a day or as a mother, if
you just pray 5 times a day and
fast in Ramadan, do your your 5 pillars.
Then afterward, if you were to sit and
read Quran for an hour every day, would
that that would be incredible if someone read
Quran for an hour every day. Perhaps after,
you know, a decade or so, they would
a half of the Quran. It's something that
that that would be really, wonderful and beneficial.
Will you receive more reward for that? Or
will a mother receive more reward for raising
her children?
Will a father receive more reward for spending
on his children? Will a person receive more
rewards for helping other people? And the fact
of the matter is in most cases, it's
by helping other people that you'll receive more
reward. Once you've taken care of your bare
minimum requirements,
you will receive more reward by helping other
people than you will receive reward by helping
yourself, even though you'll receive reward by helping
yourself.
So one of the greatest foundational misunderstandings
regarding the dean is what? Everybody looks at
it through the individual frame, and we're very
sophisticated at doing so, and we're very intelligent
at doing so. But oftentimes, we have a
very unsophisticated
and unintelligent way of looking through looking at
the through
the lens of community and through the lens
of of being a nation.
And perhaps there are, people from this
that were semi literate and that were semi
educated
and that were farmers and that did careers
and occupations. All of us would shudder and
probably,
scold our sons and our daughters for even
thinking about pursuing. But those people, if as
individuals, they're not as polished and refined as
we are
materially,
their common sense with regards to how to
behave with one another was far superior to
our common sense. In terms of understanding what
I'm doing right now, if everybody was to
do it,
would,
you know, would there would there be a
problem? Would there be some sort of chaos
and destruction? Right. There's a Toyota double parked.
License plate that started x11. Yeah. There's a
Toyota double parked with a license plate starting
with x11. Please move it and and golden
car.
And for completely proving
what I was talking about about being individually
proficient with our dean and thinking looking out
for number 1 and not
thinking about how to do things for the
community, bar a lot of people.
So coming back to the the the the
the, you know, halab. Right? Halal, the reason
I bring up this individual community, Halal is
a place where a piece of that civilization,
a piece of how Islam has lived as
a complete
city and as a complete community, it's one
of the few pieces of that civilization that
are still preserved to this day.
There are several of these cities that have
been inhabited continuously from the time of the
or from the time of the until today.
More than half of them were destroyed by
the Mongols.
Right?
Some of them, bukhara, all of these places.
They were destroyed in the middle ages by
the Mongols. Those were great centers of learning
culture after the Mongols destroyed them. They ceased
to be so. The people who lived there
are not the original people who lived there.
The the the the culture traditions are not
the original culture and traditions that those places
have.
Halab, unfortunately, this is a a great debacle
that has happened is that this is something
the likes of which hasn't happened since the
time of Mongols. It's happened before our eyes.
And just like people
wonder what was wrong with in those days.
Because their debacle, they're having lost to the
Crusaders, to the Mongols, these debacles that happened
in those days.
Even the contemporary
people recognize the fact that they were not
because of a lack of power, lack of
numbers, lack of economic means, or lack of
any other means that they happen. They were
all because people, their their their their their
their habits and their practice of their being
as individuals and as communities became rotten to
the core such that they were primed to
get knocked by,
somebody else's dishlogged from their place of favor
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is a debacle. If you understand history,
you understand for an entire metropolis to be
destroyed and to be evacuated from its people,
its entire cultural infrastructure to be destroyed. And
when you say cultural infrastructure, people say, oh,
well, brother, why are you talking about culture?
We're talking about deen.
Their culture was deen.
The that that are closed in Hadeb now,
who are the people who they they they
pump pumped out? Let me tell you. Has
anyone read the that the
comes from the the royal print shops in
Madina, Manoa?
Right? The the one that all the hijabs
get for free as a gift. Right? Or
if mom,
the captain who wrote it wasn't typed up
on Microsoft Word. Right? The Quran is a
special lesson.
The word processors cannot cannot cannot process it
properly. It's not like,
modern standard Arabic. It was written the entire
from,
tongue.
It's all written by hand. The captain who
wrote it was a halabi.
Right?
I know these things because my sheikh himself
is
is a.
He was also he was a scribe, and
he was a calligrapher. He's a master calligrapher.
The,
the people who transmit the living,
sign of the hadith, if there was a
of the study of the hadith outside of
the Indian subcontinent in this day, it was
halal.
Sheikh Abu Fata Abu Huda, the
All of these great. Right? They they all
of these great were the living people who
not only propagated the chain of narration of
hadith, but wrote books upon books,
with regards to the preservation of the knowledge
of hadith. They're Halabi people. Most of them
are the graduates of the same one madrasa.
You can see it if you take us.
Halab has a a central, like, a a
mountain in the center of it that has
a keep. The old part of the city,
you can see it's very close to that
part of the city. It's a very prominent
feature in the skyline. It's called the Madrasa.
Even in Illinois, there are. I know of
at least 2 people are graduates of that,
perhaps there are more.
Even that was bombed into rubble during this
entire fight. And despite being bombed into rubble,
the teachers and students, they had enough maturity
and sophistication, understanding of the deen to know
that the effort of deen is not
contingent on having a building.
It's not contingent on having money. It's not
contingent on having a stipend. What stipend was
Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Abu Bakr
alaihi wa sallam on whom receiving what they
were in the?
What building were there? And it wasn't even
big enough for them to sit up improperly.
So they kept teaching and learning. Literally, the
people of Halib in this last year, the
bombing was so bad. The original houses, many
of them, they're they were uninhabitable. They were
bombed out of the ground because they were
targeted. They see people are living there. They
bomb them. So they were literally roping from
building to building, looking for usable housing units.
When the next one would be bombed, they
would go to the next one. The same
thing with the people in the madrasa.
Now the entire city is surrounded and there's
the threat of large scale genocide and killing.
Even
that, Khalas, is gone. It's done.
But I tell you, despite all of that
bad news, despite all of that bad news,
and despite the fact that the the threat
of death was moving looming over the heads
of such people, and despite the fact that
these people were essentially facing a certain death
and a humiliating death, not just humiliating for
them. In fact, for them, it would have
been a shahada. They would have been done
with all of this dunya.
It's humiliating for the entire Ummah, Sayedna Muhammad
that we're people that we eat and drink
and we're we're we're happy,
by day and night. And we know that
this is, completely, like, one of the jewels
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave to us
in this world, and it's completely gone. It's
completely. It's it's done. It's it fell. It's
there's no more. You're never gonna be able
to retrieve it again. The
that built made all of these scholars in,
it's not like you're just gonna be able
to build a building in Willowbrook and make
that again.
It's not like you're gonna build a build
a building build a building in Westmont and
make that again. Khusro Basha, the the the
Ottoman general who who built that building after
who which its name,
who built that after which its name. It's
saying that he gathered the amount of money
for the, not just for the building, but
to the lands and the properties as investments
that would be endowments to seed the the
the the money for paying expenses and paying
teacher's salary. All of that. He had gathered
all of it.
The problem was he was looking for a
for a trustee in order
to, entrust the with. And he knew.
Doesn't accept from anyone except for the one
who fears him. So he looked for decades
for decades to look for someone to be.
He had the one condition, somebody from the
time that he's
never missed the congregation.
Took decades for him to find such a
person. He seeded it with such a with
such a person. So imagine the sincerity of
the one giving the money, and imagine the
sincerity of the one who starts that work.
That's how you receive this type of barakah.
It's not something that you can flash money.
Otherwise, I'll show you buildings. Forget around the
world. I'll show you buildings in this very
in this very metropolis
that people threw money at and there's nothing
coming out of them. $4,000,000 buildings, $5,000,000 buildings.
They don't even have a to read.
I know. I show I'll show them to
you if you're really interested.
But
Don't scrutinize the the the failure and see
how has he failed.
Rather scrutinize the one who's successful and see
how he's successful because that's the latter is
it? Knowledge that will benefit you. The former
is a knowledge that has very little benefit
in it.
Allah
from his from his generosity and from his
answered the prayers of the people that what
looked like it was going to become a
massacre, Allah
saved by and large most of the people.
They're evacuated from that place.
Somewhere between 70,000
to a 150,000
people, there's no accurate count. They had to
leave everything behind in the dead of winter.
Most of them didn't have anything anyway because
their original houses were bombed out. Just with
the clothes on their back, they had to
sit on buses and go from Halib, which
was the most populous city in all of
Syria,
to Idlib, which is a backwater. It's infrastructurally
underdeveloped, undeveloped backwater in Syria. It is deep
north it's in the north,
west corner of the country. And so they
have to go immediately into refugee camps that
are already overwhelmed with refugees from other parts
of the country And that now all of
a sudden have a number of people that
are greater than probably the entire,
village of Westmont. A number of people like
that just dumped there right away. But you
know what? Still,
By Allah's father,
Allah saved them, said Abdullah and Omar
who looked at the Kaaba and said, how
great you are and how great is your
honor. And I swear by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala that the the, you know, one single
person of Islam, one single person of
is greater in the eyes of Allah and
has greater honor than you. So Allah saved
all of these people by their duas and
by our duas, and we say
for that. And Allah
says that if you're thankful to me, I
will give you an increase. Why? Because despite
the catastrophe of losing the city, despite the
catastrophe of having lost the metropolis, its culture,
it's it's it's,
living of its land, its living organic,
example of the din despite all of that.
More important than the land, more important than
the buildings, more important than all of that
is what? It's the life of every every
believer and
by
Allah save those people.
Now
our duty was at that time to pray
because there was nothing else we could have
done.
Now Allah
answered your prayers and he answered my prayers.
What is our duty? Our duty is toward
those people that we cannot leave them in
a lurch. Just like it's winter over here,
it's winter over there as well. Just like
there is snow on the ground over here,
there's snow on the ground over there as
well. You and I live in houses by
Allah
Allah, keep it that way. You and I
live in houses by Allah Allah, those people
are intense. You and I have winter coats,
jackets. Our children have sweaters, jackets, boots, all
of these things. Those people have to get
on a bus. They didn't know if they
were gonna get a seat on a bus
in the first place. They didn't know if
the buses would stop in the middle of
the evacuation. They had no idea. They just
crammed as many of them as they could
on the bus, and they had to leave.
Those people need help now. Those people need
blankets in the middle of the night. Those
elders need blankets. I don't know if you
noticed or not, but a person can die.
If a person's already ill, They can die
because of conditions like this. So those are
people we need to show to Allah that
you're the one who asked for them to
survive Allah I gave them your life. What
are you gonna do with it? Now if
we want to see this calamity
lifted from the heads of the people of
Islam and from the Ummah of Islam, We
have to show to Allah to Allah when
he answers our prayer and not just turn
a blind eye like the person who asked
for something then when they got what they
wanted, they act like nothing happened.
This is something this is a type of
behavior with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's not
a good type of behavior and it's not
going to engender a good result. Rather, we
should give whatever we have. The time to
hold back is other than now. The time
to give is now that these people need
this. They have this need right now. They
have this,
this, you know, this this this this,
dire,
necessity right now for things like blankets, for
things like boots, for things like jackets. This
is something you don't want somebody their life
to pass away for. The want of something
like that for a $30 jacket or for
a $15 blanket or something like that.
Further than that.
Further than that.
We also have to reform our habits as
a civilization.
Now the of Islam has not it's not
like this is the only time it's been
an alert or it's been in a problem
before. We mentioned several times,
in different localities, this is the Dua of
Rasool
Allah because you and I are sitting comfortably
over here. There are people sitting comfortably in
some places In some places like Sham, like
in Burma, like in Missouri, some of these
cataclysmic,
type of,
of of of scenarios.
The dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
one of the gave to this ummah is
what? That he answered the prayers of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and promised that this
entire ummah will be wiped from the earth
at one time. Rather, the punishment of Allah
that comes on it will come part sometimes
here, sometimes there, sometimes in another place. And
a person shouldn't
look at the the people who are going
through difficulty and say, this is I know
these people. This is the sins that that
are of of them or of their forefathers
that are coming down on their head. Don't
you know Rasool Allah is the
one who says,
that those people who have the most
difficult tribulations from amongst the people are who?
The
then those most like them then those most
like them? If one person is a fasic
out of 10,000 or out of a 1000,
this doesn't mean that you have the right
path judgment over those people. I can promise
you, I can guarantee you many of them
were are and were and still are more
pious people than you and I are or
could even aspire to be.
The the idea is what? That if we
want to lift this this this
this this catastrophe from our heads, we have
to look at how is it it was
done before.
And it has come down on the heads
of the Umayr Islam. We mentioned the Mongols.
We mentioned the Crusaders.
We mentioned,
or we didn't mention, but we can mention
the the the, situation
in,
Andalus,
the the Muslim Spain,
which at one time was the most powerful
and vibrant,
community,
in all of Europe,
of any religion or of any race whatsoever,
was the only place where you have a
multilinguistic,
multi ethnic,
multi religious society,
living in economic prosperity,
living in intellectual prosperity, living in all of
these things. And what happened
after time, because of people, again, the degradation
of those habits that make Muslims
successful not only as individuals because everyone's good
at looking out out out for themselves. But
that's not the end. That's the beginning of
the journey.
The degradation of those habits that make people
successful as what? Successful as,
community and successful as nations. Those habits degrade.
So you go from having one centralized and
powerful,
state that was arranged and put together by
Abdul Rahman Ad Dahil.
You
go from that state to a fragmented state,
in the 12th century, in the 13th century
where you have 6 different states, 6 different
that that rule over the Muslim Spain.
3 of them are ruled by Berber kings.
Right? And,
Salakosta,
and,
Allah Masuda Hasidim Muhammad.
Right? And then 3 of them are ruled
by ruled by Arab kings. Right? Uh-uh, and,
Batlius. Right? Badajos. Right?
Is
an Arabic contraction for the Latin name Caesar
Agasta. I think it's called Zaragosa in modern
Spain.
They fight with each other constantly
along racial lines, along ethnic lines, along political
lines. Somebody's aligned with the the
kings of, Castiglione
against their Muslim brothers, and then the other
one does the same thing. All of this
led to what, the entire Muslim presence from
the Iberian Peninsula being close to being wiped
away in what In the 12th century.
What prolonged for several centuries the the of
the Muslims over there? There is a movement
of of pious
Berber
nomads,
called the.
What did they do? Their their and when
I say, I don't mean I mean the
tribal elders. They're just the people whoever their
tribal elders were. 1 of them went to
Hajj and he came back and wanted to
reform his people. And so he went and
made with one of the fast and they
said, teach your people the basic part of
deen
and gather them together around that.
Do good things. They completely
not only,
restore order to the western part of the,
the Muslim and Arab world and
But they also then at the petition of
these kings who are about to be thrown
out of their lands by the Reconquista,
They came across the to the,
the,
Iberian Peninsula
and the United armies of Galatia, of Castile,
of Leon, of Navarre, they defeated them on
the on the field of battle. Everybody likes
the the battle of, Sangrahas. They call it
in Arabic, a. This is because it was
so slippery. The battlefield was so slippery because
of the amount of blood that was shed
that it was difficult to walk or to
run any distance. Even horses were slipping and
things like that.
People like to remember the day of the
victory. Nobody likes to think about the fact
that that day of victory was only possible
by the which
came down. Why?
Because decades
earlier, there are some Bedou and Berbers who
are sitting in tents in the in
the uninhabitable
parts of the Maghrib, Learning
the
and learning the the the the the the
the the and learning the books of and
learning the books of and learning the books
of and learning all of these things.
That's something that nobody thinks about. Nobody thinks
that's a glamorous. Nobody thinks that. Nobody sends
their sons to do that. In fact, if
their sons go and say, Bob, I wanna
do this. Don't waste your time. You're going
to medical
school. Don't waste your time. Don't waste your
time. You you have to be practical. What's
the practicality? That's the thing that gave them
victory and saved them from. The
that tortured, killed, and forced, converted people several
centuries later into Catholicism.
That that they didn't even even spare the
Arabic speaking Christians of of of of the
Iberian Peninsula. That's how much hatred there was
in it. That
was warded out by what? By this.
People wanna talk about Saladin and you'll be,
oh, free Palestine, free Palestine. Every Muslim country
like a like a herd of lemmings. The
the leaders, they talk about Palestine. They have
no care about the deen in the first
place, and they have no care about Palestine
afterward either. You want to know what freed
Palestine?
You know, the how did the Arab world
come together in order to, free Palestine from
the Crusaders?
They didn't.
Who's the people who did it? Nuruddin, Zengi,
Ahmaduddin, Zengi.
They are Turkic, Turkic slave soldiers. Right?
Right? He's he he receives his command from
his uncle who passes it away.
Shirku.
Shirku is a Persian name. It's not a
it's not a a an Arabic name. He's
a Kurd. He's a Kurdish refugee.
We're talking about helping refugees right now. He's
a Kurdish refugee.
His father and uncles had to leave Tikrit
where where where just literally months or days
after he was born. They were kicked out,
and they had to leave their exiles.
What did what did what did this project
everybody likes to see the day of victory
on the battle of and likes to see
the day of victory in the the the
the the gracious way that
entered as a counter into Jerusalem. Nobody wants
to see the fact that this project took,
like, 90 years for them to make. Nobody
wants to see the fact that this project
started
before
fighting the Crusaders with the with with with
bringing Egypt back into the the orthodox practice
of Islam. Nobody even knows about that. Nobody
even knows about the fact that it took
3 generations. It was a project started by
Ahmad al Din al Zengi, and
then he bequeathed his his project too, Nur
ad Din al Zengi, who by the way
was the emir of Halab, of the same
Halab. When he started, he had nothing except
for the city of Halab. He first had
to bring the entire Sham under the suzerainty
of 1 political entity, then bring Egypt together
with it. He died before the project was
able to be fulfilled and realized. Then Saladin
Ayub is in a position that he can
work hard and his generation can work hard
so they can look eye to eye in
the eyes of the Crusaders and not have
fear in their their eyes. What did the
do?
Any island from any place in the world
who had any renowned or any repute, they
would send messengers to him and say, come.
Move to Halab. Move to Damascus. Move to
our lands. We'll pay you whatever whatever you
ask for, whatever you want.
But guess what? All of us are busy
becoming doctors and engineers, so forget about it.
Individually, we'll become successful. You will pay off
your mortgage. You'll pay off your home loan.
You'll drive the car you want to drive.
You'll eat the food that you want to
eat. And as a community,
we will be people who are humiliated
and the double life that we live, the
schizophrenic life of 2 faces that we live,
that we can be very pious Muslim wearing
that and
whatever, a turban in the masjid, and the
other person that we are at work. We
can do that. Our kids can't do that.
They're like, this is not normal. This is
not the psychology of a normal human being.
I'm gonna choose 1 or the other because
I know morally inside, living 2 faced is
is is not easy. And we made a
fitna for them by making the choice to
become a Muslim, a completely humiliating choice.
A completely humiliating choice. A choice that's alien
to them. How are you going to how
are you going to fall in love with
somebody if you don't know who they are
but people don't know who Rasool Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Salam is? How are you gonna believe
something if you don't know what it is?
But people who expect them to believe Islam
and we have kids graduating from Islamic schools
from k through 12. You ask them what
is the dajal? What is the imam Mahdi?
What is, you know, you know, on the
day of judgment, is the resurrection corporeal or
spirit? They have no idea about any of
these things because all of the time Islamic
schools spent was teaching them math and English,
and they received 3 hours of, all of
them. It's not gonna put taking potshots at
one of them. All of them, they received
3 hours of Islamic studies, in a week
by oftentimes people who are completely unqualified to
to teach what they're teaching. And that's 3
hours is what? It's actually less it's instruction
in the deen
than than than Sunday school. Wrap your head
around that for a second.
Sunday school.
Paying full tuition for Islam is where you
receive less instruction in the deen than a
kid who's going to Sunday school receives
by going to Islamic school. It's like a
Jalal muraqah that you have you have this
this,
person who doesn't know what they who doesn't
know something, and they think they know because
I've gone to Islamic school for 12 years.
My kid has gone to Islamic school for
12 years.
Brothers and sisters, these habits are collectively going
to lead us to ruin and destruction.
If we want to be saved, right, we
talked about giving to Allah to Allah for
having saved the lives of these people. If
we want to then take this to a
level that we're able to get our act
together as an, It will start with our
own community. If we wanna get our act
together in order to be able to survive
because you think that those people are the
only ones going through hardship? I don't know
if you've been reading the news, but the
next month is not gonna be a a
super enjoyable month for the community, Muslim community,
in America. I don't know if you noticed
or not. Allah knows best, but it doesn't
look like it's you know, the signs are
not there for it to look good. These
things we have to what? Reform our own
habits and that reform happens with what?
With the same way that the reform happened
from before. Not by gadgets, gimmicks, conferences,
you know, wearing different types of clothes or
all this novelty type Islam.
The same thing that reformed the and
the same thing that reformed the generations between
is the same thing. The only thing that's
going to reform us which is what understanding
the of this deen, understanding the of this
deen, understanding the the, the spirituality of this
Deen. And it's all going to come from
instruction in the book of Allah, the sunnah
of the prophet
and it's not going to make you any
money and it was never meant to make
you any money in the first place. Allah
says in his book that, do you think
that you're going to be left to say
and you're not going to be tested? We
tested everyone before you who came with this
with this dawah with this claim.
It's embracing that challenge that's going to help.
If you look at the history of Islam,
the only place it survived is where it
doubled down. Every place where it watered down,
it was completely obliterated and wiped off the
face of the earth. Allah
The good news is what? Where we're sitting
right now, when the calamity is up on
your head, that's a time that you can't
do anything. Right now, we live remarkably normal
lives. Remarkably normal lives. Everyone has a house,
food, job. The one who doesn't have a
job has someone to help them out. We
have dignity, everything. Even though people say dumb
things in public. Maybe we suffered less abuse
for being Muslims here than many Muslims do
in their own countries in the Muslim world.
Now is the time to think and to
get together and to plan how are we
going to change things for the better. We
live in a city with over a 100
Masjid. I cannot name more than what you
can count on a finger which masjid has
an alim as an imam. We have problems
over here. If we want to resurrect and
revive this teaching of this deen, that teaching
which will be the life of our community
in this world, in our life, in the
hereafter,
We have to get together and think about
these things. We have to speak clearly about
these things. We have to be, stop beating
around the bush because our time in this
world is short as individuals. And it looks
like our time as a community in this
world is not looking that positive either unless
we unless we change with a type of
immediacy and urgency that's that's that's
necessitated
by the aqwal and by the the the
the and the circumstances that we live in.
Allah
give us of keeping the company of the
pious, of keeping the company of the learned,
of listening to the hop wherever we go
and not being afraid of speaking the hop
wherever we go and not being afraid and
abstaining from the company of and abstaining from
polluting our ears with the or eyes with
the Allah give us an peace in Himna.
Allah
help our brothers and sisters in or the
ones that were kicked out of that are
in the cold right now. Allah
give them the toffees of rebuilding their lives.
So many people
himself is a refugee.
Khalafa, Rashidun themselves were refugees. The Anul Bayt
were themselves refugees.
The Asharabu Basharim Bin Jannah themselves were refugees.
Said Ibrahim was a refugee. Saladin was a
refugee. Jaladin Rumi was a refugee.
Was a refugee. From every part of this
this this ummah, all of these great people
were people who were refugees. What does it
mean? Despite how bad it gets, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala can still bring great. And that's
a choice that's it's a secret between you
as individuals and us as a community and
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. May Allah ta'ala
place that secret there and not remove it
and put in its place, our halakh and
destruction in this world and the hereafter.