Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Salvation is in Being True 10272023
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All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah who guided us to
this,
who guided us to this Mubarak house and
this Mubarak hour and this Mubarak day, and
we were not to be guided. Was it
not that Allah had guided us?
Oh, Allah. To use praise as his commensurate
with the majesty of your countenance and the
greatness of your authority.
Oh, Allah. We do not live in you
with any praise. We can come up with
our selves rather we admit that you are
the only one
who knows the true extent of your praise
worthiness.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon his servants and messenger,
our master Sayidina Muhammad
may the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him and upon his
noble companions
and upon his pure wives
and upon his Mubarak and blessed family and
progeny and upon all of those who follow
all of their way until the day of
judgment.
Brothers and sisters,
as of
the last check,
and the numbers have undoubtedly increased since then.
The total number of civilian
deaths
that are verified,
the innocent people of Gaza
has exceeded
7,000,
of which over 3,000 are children.
This does not include
tens of thousands of
people wounded
and severely injured.
Many of them complain
of burden
that not only burns the skin, but goes
all the way into the bone.
That is untreatable
with the type of munition
that they haven't seen before.
And this is the place where munitions manufactured
in this America
go
subsidized by your tax dollars
in order to be tested on the innocent
people of Hassan.
They complained about birds
that they cannot treat because they go in
all the way to the bone in injuries
that they haven't seen before.
At this point, the hospitals are out of
anesthesia.
So surgeries are happening.
Stitches are being put in,
all
in the weakened state.
All with the patients wincing and grimacing at
the pain of being operated on.
The fuel has run out.
And so babies
who are in incubators
are not dying because there's not even enough
energy, enough power to power those hospitals that
haven't been bombed out yet.
Over 30 have
been destroyed. Got it.
People are praying. They create this. They
create this.
They pray their daily prayers in rubble.
Not 1, not
2, over 30 Masaja,
including a resident in Jeneen
in the West Bay, which ostensibly has nothing
to do with
any of this.
The oldest church
in Gaza.
The 3rd oldest church in the entire world.
The church of Saint
Porphyrios,
in which hundreds of people had crowded in
order to take refuge from the
incessant aerial bombing.
Was this week, it was bombed.
Destroying
and damaging
a part of the patrimony
of humanity,
of all of mankind.
If you don't know who Saint Porphyrios is,
look it up. He's the 5th century bishop
of.
5th century means what?
Means 200 years before the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Therefore,
destroying and desecrating
the resting place, the place of worship,
a a man of god who may as
well have been a Muslim as well.
And Allah knows the secrets that are in
the hearts of people.
But in midland time, he was our guy.
They claimed him. We claimed him at the
same time.
And Allah knows that the secret that's in
people's hearts.
From amongst those who were killed in that
bombing,
are several relatives of a sitting member
of congress,
Justin
Amash,
the 3rd district representative in
the US Congress
for Michigan.
Members of his family several members of his
family were killed.
Yet,
amongst Muslims,
amongst non Muslims,
amongst
the media, amongst the political elites, amongst the
legacy media,
still not a word of condemnation for any
of these.
A combination of duplicity and powerlessness,
Not a word of condemnation for any of
these things.
Look. I'm not a fan myself of bringing
politics into the message.
And I tell you right now, this is
not a political issue. I have no agenda.
I have no horse in the race.
I don't care about Democrats and Republicans.
I don't care.
If you registered to vote, good for you.
If you did it, good for you.
It's a separate discussion. It's not supposed to
be had in this sacred
place, in this sacred hour of the sacred
day.
However, I tell you this is an issue
of the deen of Allah.
That the people are being killed. They're innocent
civilians. Not even all of them are Muslims.
So many Christians are being killed as well.
So many UN workers who are in Gaza
and couldn't get out and still can't get
out are being killed as well.
The hypocrisy of those people who say that
we're evangelical Christians. What does what does evangelicalism
mean?
The evangelist, the good news, to bring the
good news to the gospel of Christ.
Enduring, all of us are in favor of
that.
What good news is there? Genocide?
What good news there in genocide
for anyone?
If you claim that god is god of
love,
what love is there in being children?
When we met the,
the the idolaters, the pagans of Quraish,
who would commit fa'aish indecent acts.
And they'd say,
when confronted about their indecency,
that this is how we found our forefathers
behaving before us.
And God commanded us to it.
Which is literally the same thing, the same
thing evangelicals,
and the same thing
fundamentalist
Zionist
Jews say with regard to their killing of
innocent civilians.
Quoting at times the Torah and at times
the Talmud.
Allah
commands the prophet
to respond to such people.
Say, Allah doesn't come out to indecency.
This is a religious issue for this reason.
So I'm not telling you who to vote
for, who not to vote for, but what
I am telling you is this,
if you believe the rasalla of the sacred
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
there is a necessity.
There is an obligation
for you to speak to people whoever will
listen to you.
If you're afraid you're gonna get fired from
your job or kicked out of your school
or kicked out of this country or whatever,
Don't put up a post on your LinkedIn
page.
Talk to whoever you could talk to. But
this is something we cannot be silent about.
Our president, as a statement of fact, whether
you like it or not,
got up in front of
the congress
and asked for over $100,000,000,000
to fund foreign wars.
I tell you as a Muslim,
funding endless wars in which innocent people are
killed
is antithetical to the teachings of anyone who
believes in Allah.
They're definitely not sanctioned by our religion,
and we're not pacifists.
But this is not sanctioned by our religion.
It doesn't matter if it's Muslims getting killed
or anyone else getting killed.
This is not sanctioned by our religion.
This is a slam dunk. This is low
hanging fruit.
$100,000,000,000.
I think our generation hasn't already seen
endless land wars in Eurasia
that come to no conclusion whatsoever and cost
1,000,000,000,000 of dollars that as fools we have
to as Americans and Muslims, we want to
rush into another one again? As if somehow
or another, we'll do the exact same thing
we've been doing for the last 25 years
and there's going to be a different outcome?
As it did come time, we also
we're in Texas. We talked to our fellow
Texans.
I have love for them. I have great
hope that they can see common sense things
as they've demonstrated the ability to do
in many other culture war issues.
Is it worth getting into another multitrillion dollar
land war
that pulls in several countries
overseas
in order to kill 1,000, tens of 1,000,
100 of 1,000 of people
in a place we all agree is sacred?
Is it something that you would rather spend
your money on that than be able to
pay rent
than to be able to buy medicine, than
to be able to send your children to
college?
The money we send to Israel, the free
munitions we send to Israel, Israel has universal
health care for free for everybody.
You and me as Texans on the other
time?
We get to choose if we cut our
fingers off which one we wanna have sewn
back because we don't have the money to
pay for all of them.
It's apparently cheaper to get your ring finger
reattached after cutting it off than your pinky
because people have to make this choice.
Is it worth it? Is this what you
wanna pay your money for?
This state itself has a number of laws,
as a matter of fact,
that prohibits speech against
Israel and in favor of
boycott, divest,
sanctions against the apartheid
system that the occupation runs in Palestine.
Literally like Nazis.
Like the Nazis used to make Jews wear
a patch to identify them openly.
Palestinians have a different color license plate than
Israeli Jews do.
But if you speak against it in Florida,
if you speak against it in Texas,
you're subject to a constitutionally
untested.
Constitutionally
untested.
Set up consequences
from the
state.
Already in Florida
already in Florida,
the student group, students for justice in Palestine.
It's already been disbanded by state order through
the state university system just a couple of
days ago.
This is political speech on the university campus
that is being banned by the government. This
is not the behavior of Americans.
Definitely not the behavior of Muslims.
This is the behavior of communist party bosses.
It's happening right in front of your eyes.
It's happening right in front of our eyes.
Hasn't it time come time for us to
speak with our fellow Texans
that this same law that Florida is using
today and Texas is going to use tomorrow
is going to be used by New York
and California
next week
in order to ban, in order to silence,
in order to penalize, in order to criminalize,
that person who writes a written statement saying
I believe there's only 2 genders,
or did you forget about that?
Did you forget about the point of the
first amendment? Did you forget about the sanctity
of the constitution for which your forefathers fought?
Did you forget about
the sanctity of freedom for which your forefathers
fought and died?
Only in order to sacrifice it at the
altar of genocide and mania.
Look. I get the fact that there are
some people from our friends and neighbors who
believe somehow or another that bite.
Mindlessly
abetting genocide overseas.
That they are going to somehow hasten the
return
of Christ to the messiah,
and who would not wish to meet him,
including us, the messenger of Allah.
He gave the to this that he will
come back as
a just ruler.
He will be the one who slays the
Dajjal, the antichrist.
Say it now. He would be the one
who slays the Dajjal, the antichrist. Say it
now. He would meet a young man.
Imagine the prophet
instilled the joy and the love of meeting
him so much. And the People of the
ummah and the companions of the Allah, may
Allah be pleased with them. Let's say that,
Abu Huraira, when he would meet a young
man, he would ask and say to him,
tell him
my
salaam.
But did any of the companions of the
messenger of Allah
say,
go and give financial aid to the Dajjal,
to the antichrist so that that day could
come earlier?
You people are people
of faith. You're not Muslims. We know that.
We disagree with many of your beliefs, and
you disagree with many of ours.
And according to the US Constitution, that's okay.
But for the sake of the Lord,
your critical faculties, your intellects are not that
impaired.
That somehow remember that you can say in
front of God on the day of judgment
that the love of Christ has
caused you
to kill children,
to rain white phosphorus on
civilian population,
to starve them, to cut off their water,
to cut off their fuel.
That somehow or another person who accepts Jesus
Christ as their lord and savior and claims
that god has audacity to claim that god
lives inside of them.
That such a person will now
validate lying,
validate cheating,
validate
the wanton spilling of blood.
Why? Because of the love of Christ?
He has nothing to do with such people.
He has nothing to do with such criminals.
Rather, the good news of this gospel is
there to give hope for those people who
are downtrodden
by such
sick thinking,
such maniacal thinking,
and we don't say our friends and neighbors
are maniacal. What do we say? We say
you've been lied to.
You've been cheated.
You've been incentivized not to put 2 and
2 together. This is where your job comes
in and where my job comes in. The
messenger
of
Allah That's sin being true, not just telling
the truth because there are many lawyers who
are talented
at being able to sit through a deposition
and not say one lie, but they're not
being true, are they?
No. Being true with one another.
This is a sickness also has cracked into
many Muslims that are
closer to current culture than they are to.
The sunnah, the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, that we think that deception,
lying,
being true faced is somehow some sort of
strategy or some sort of sharp wittedness. And
it's not.
It's not. We lie. It's not.
The messenger of the prophet said
what? Sin be true. It guides to Bil
to piety and piety
guides to Jannah, to paradise.
Whereas lying,
it guides to
Fujor,
to profligate even mischief.
And mischief will guide a person to the
hellfire.
And, subhanallah, look at our Muslim American
community.
Not every pious person has a turban or
a beard. In fact, now we see there
are many villains that do the shalid,
like wolves in sheep's clothing,
holding their tongue back and speaking the haqq.
What it is what is
demanded by Allah and his messenger
for the sake of themselves, their own salvation,
their people, the and for all of mankind.
We have UFC fighters.
Can you imagine how crazy it would be
to get into the octagon
and have a match against somebody like
Alexander Volkanovski?
Were like savage people who described themselves as
savages.
Kumar Osman was a Muslim brother, but the
guy is scary to get into the ring
with. Imagine.
And then when the magic's over, the first
thing, still out of breath, still sweating.
The first thing to praise Allah to Allah
and say I'm concerned for my brothers and
sisters in Palestine.
I open Instagram every day,
and I see dead children. And that's hard.
In the moment of exuberance and exaltation,
do you think that doesn't have an effect
on people?
Dave Chappelle,
a comedian.
A man
goes out of his way, not to mention
that he's Muslim, out of fear of
some of the indecency of his comedy causing
a stain on the honor of Islam.
A man who gave up all of his
career, all of his deals with corporate media
in order to be able to say what
it is that he wanted to say.
He gave up money in order to what?
Keep his integrity. Not as a scholar.
The standard for the is so much higher.
Not as the righteous person. The standard for
the sali hing is so much higher as
a
comedian.
His said what it saved him because he
was able to what? Twice in the last
week say in front of an entire audience
that the occupation isn't right.
That I don't agree with the killing of
innocent
Israeli civilians, but the occupation isn't right.
And when Hekler
cursed at him, he cursed at that person
back and said, what? Don't ask me for
money to fund your wars
when you're gonna cut off water, food, electricity,
medicine, communications
with innocent populations.
This is what?
What does the Ummah need from you? What
is Allah asking you for? What is the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asking
you for?
What are they commanding you to? What do
the people in Texas need from you right
now?
This Texas that made a life for you,
that gave you a place to live and
water to drink and food to eat, that
we should be thankful.
What does it mean? It means your sick
right now.
That you speak with anyone who's going to
listen to you.
Like Moana, Rumi said in the opening lines
of the mess that is
I am the one this sad story I
have in my heart.
I cried
this sad tale
in every gathering I go to. Whether it's
a gathering of the minds or it's a
gathering of people in the bad state, I
still cry and tell them my
story. This story is the story of the
love of Allah, mister Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wa
Salam. In this moment,
that story overlaps with what? With the story
of the killing of innocent people right now.
And this country
sacrificed its soul at the altar of satanic
bloodletting.
That masking of shaykhan is going to do
something. Isn't he gonna come and tell everybody,
look, this is what god wants? Or does
Shayban change his lotus operandi?
Someone says, how can I tell the difference?
It's because what Allah commands to is good.
And what Shaybon commands to is whatever you're
seeing right now. Killing, murder.
If violence was able to solve the
for the last 70 years?
Wouldn't I have solved it in the last
set up? Bombing civilians? Wouldn't I solve it
in Iraq? Wouldn't have solved it in Afghanistan?
No, brothers and sisters.
Violence is not going to solve this problem.
It is not going to solve this problem.
It's time that we also muster our instead
of thinking that we're gonna put our hats
down and get through this, you're not. You're
not. Look at everyone who made it in
politics, everyone who made it in media. The
kings, princes, presidents,
governors in America and around the world.
The famous people, influencers in America, around the
world.
Rich people in America, around the world, all
of them are tongue tied
at the murder of children. Is that what
you wanna be?
This dunya is not all it's cracked up
to be. Your actual wealth isn't something else.
If you cannot enjoy your money, if you
cannot enjoy your fame
while still being a human being and while
still having your salvation intact in the next
world, it's not worth it. It's not wealth,
it's a type of poverty. Curse on that
poverty. The lahat of Allah ta'ala on that
poverty.
The land of Allah on people who cut
off food and water
from innocent children, who let the blood of
civilians. God's curse on such people.
May the blood of the innocents not go
uneventually in this world or the hereafter.
Not out of anger,
but what out of honor and pride for
those downtrodden people because of which Allah sent
his prophets in order that they should be
protected and protected, that they should be honored,
that Allah created mankind on the greatest of
forms and figures, on the most honorable forms
and figures. Why? Because of them.
May
Allah raise the honor of the person who
can speak a word in their name.