Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah They Didn’t Spite Them But For Their Faith In Allah
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All praises to Allah
and may his peace and blessings be upon
his servant and messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
By Allah ta'ala's father, we are well within
the sacred month of Ul Hijjah.
By Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's father, the Hijjah,
by and large from our land have returned
home
safe and sound with their prayers having been
made for the Ummah, Sayid Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
It was a grand gathering.
There are more people there this year than
there were in years past,
and people stood in front of
in front of his sacred house in the
plains of Arafat and Muzdalifa and wept in
front of Allah
and made their tawbas and made their intention
to come back and worship Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala without any partner and to repent from
their old ways and to turn a new
chapter and with their return.
So we find that that repentance and that
new chapter is there for our entire
ummah and for our entire community wherever they
are. And it is within everybody's interest that
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, accept from the hujaj.
May Allah ta'ala accept from them in the
best way possible and not deprive anyone of
us from their ajars. Say, amen. Amen.
By Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's fadhu, one of
the things that I had the honor of
seeing
in Hajj this year and in the years
past
is that the sacred city of Makkamukarama
is
home to
a large population of ulama,
her father of Quran, students of knowledge,
and people who are servants of the deen
from Burma.
From the,
country formerly as Burma currently, officially referred to
as Myanmar.
It is not known to many people, but
there are over 200,000
Burmese refugees
inside the sacred city of Makkamukaramah.
You will find them
in every masjid.
You will find them in every madrasah,
teaching the book of Allah
teaching the books of Ulum,
speaking Arabic flawlessly.
One of their
who passed away not too long ago. In
fact, believe it or not, to who the
imams of the Haram and Shari think. One
would not believe this, that somebody from such
a distant part of Asia who is neither
from Arab stock nor a native speaker of
the Arabic language would come to where? To
the Arabian Peninsula, to Hijaz, to the sacred
home of Islam.
And teach the imams of the Haram and
Sharif and what? Tajweed. How to recite the
Quran properly. But it's true. If you don't
believe me, you can look it up. You
can look up Qari Muhammad Ayub. It's not
just those
few individuals who taught Tajweed to what? To
the imams of the Haram and Sharifayn.
Rather, we say in both masajid, both the
Masjid al Haram in Makkamukaramah
and the Masjid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in Madinah Munawara,
you will find literally dozens dozens of people
of Burmese origin teaching what the book of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to people on top
of people
serving in the madares preserving their ilm of
deen.
You will find them everywhere, literally in every
street of of of Makkamukarama.
Making khidma of their hajjaj,
doing
selfless
service for what? For the deen of Islam.
And they are are what? They're refugees.
And what do they tell us? They tell
us tales of difficulty. They tell us tales
of horror.
One of the ulama that we had the
pleasure of meeting with, he's a graduate of
the Benuri town Madrasah.
If those of you who are not perhaps
familiar with the Madaris of Pakistan,
know that this is the most prolific the
most prolific of all of Pakistan's Madaris since
the time of,
the founding of of the Islamic Republic until
this time.
Anyone who knows people who are graduates from
the Madaris in South Africa, many of our
young people are in,
this
Dar es Salaam and in this masjid and
in the mas adid in this area as
well as around this country, the 2 most
prolific madaris in South Africa, the madras in
Azadville and the madras in Zakaria. Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, keep all of our madras under
their protection. The chief of Sadiza of those
madras are all graduates from this same madrasa.
So I met an alim from the Benuritan
madrasa in in in in what, a Burmese
alim who's a refugee and a graduate of
the Benuritan madrasa in Makkamukarama.
He said, look, there are people who are
enemies of Islam in every single place, in
every single place in this world. There are
always those people who have both and who
have hatred for.
However, what people don't understand is our people
are different. Their hatred is
transcended what? Transcended politics, transcended economics, transcended any
sort of,
connection with some sort of worldly benefit and
has come into a a realm of blind
hatred. And these were literally prophetic words. Why?
Because the current situation, the current crisis in
Burma, or we should say the current iteration
of this existing crisis in Burma,
it reached a new level of conflagration
just a day or 2 after he said
what he said. So now we see what?
This is something that's something we cannot ignore.
People might say, Sheikh, why you bring up
all of these things every every every week?
We have to hear every day we have
to hear some other problem in the ummah.
There are all these difficulties in the ummah.
There are all of these hardships in the
ummah. Why do we have to hear something
negative all the time? I'm the one who
first agrees with you. I'm the one who
says what? Think locally.
Instead of worrying about other things, make sure
your children learn Arabic. Sign them up to
learn how to read the Quran. Learn your
fit, learn your aqeedah, you'll solve the problems
of the world another time.
However,
every now and again certain issues become so
acute.
So acute.
So so so difficult, so critical,
so difficult for a person to bear that
a person cannot turn away and say that
this is a problem for another time in
another place and I can't deal with all
of the world's problems.
Everybody from their place has to think about
what can I do about this situation, about
this crisis?
Now tell me something,
370,000
refugees is what the western news media, which
is not known to have a sympathetic eye
toward Islam nor toward Muslims.
370,000
refugees in the last couple of weeks, week
and a half, two weeks alone.
370,000
refugees in the last couple of weeks alone.
Out of those 370,000
refugees that had to flee from their homes
on foot,
240,000,
an estimated 240,000. Again, this is from what
western news media reports. An estimated
240,000
are children.
We have we have reports that what? Literally,
there are there are people who have carried
their mothers and their fathers on their backs.
People may have seen the pictures. They had
to carry their mothers and fathers on their
backs with them from their villages.
These are not people who said maybe I
can get a better job in Bangladesh.
These are not people looking for a better
economic future or economic prosperity somewhere else. These
are not people who are fed up with
unemployment or even with a repressive regime. They've
been living under a repressive regime for quite
some time now.
These are people literally, what happens? The military
the the military that is supposed to protect
its own people, the police, the government that
is supposed to protect its own people,
they give notice in villages
that we will come and burn your village
down, and we'll shoot anyone who's left in
2 days. And they literally wait and ambush
around those villages until the people start to
flee.
And those people who are complying with that
order,
those people who are complying with that order
and leaving when they're told to leave.
Those people they wait and ambush for them
and fire at them. Those people they wait
and ambush for them and shoot at them.
Those people they literally put land mines in
the path of those people when they're trying
to escape from one country to another.
Now brothers and sisters, it gets worse. It
gets worse. What does what's the the part
that's that's the next horror? The next horror
is that these people are not only Muslims
fleeing from a country that has a non
Muslim majority to a country that has a
Muslim majority, they also speak the same tongue
as the people they're going to. And people
speak a dialect of Bangla, although a different
dialect than the one that's spoken in in
in Dhaka, to my understanding. But there are
still Bengali speaking people. When they cross the
border into Bangladesh,
what used to happen before this catastrophe
started, this current cycle of this catastrophe was
what? Is that the military of that that
country used to fire on their boats and
fire on them when they were trying to
cross into Bangladesh.
The disaster became so bad. The disaster became
so bad that the news reports that even
those soldiers imagine a soldier as somebody who's
not paid to think. A soldier is someone
who is who is is
trained and and and
and absolutely conditioned to obey orders without thinking.
Even those soldiers, they couldn't find it inside
of their hearts to not let these people
in anymore. They betrayed the orders that were
given to them from higher up, and they
allowed these people to stream in. And now
100 and 1000 of them are what 100
and 1000 of them are refugees on the
other side of the border? And instead of
being received with welcome
instead of being received with welcome
by the official,
party line in the place that they're going
to, The people are receiving them. The average
people. This is one thing. It doesn't matter
how much people yell and scream, how much
people become nationalistic and wave flags, and how
much people try to deny it. Every Muslim
who has La ilaha illallah inside of his
heart, he loves every other Muslim.
So the people on the other side are
literally bringing things from their homes in order
to feed people. They're literally trying to help
and take care of people. There are literally
people who have come. Forget about just Muslims.
There are reports of even non Muslims who
have crossed the border from India into Bangladesh.
Just out of what? The sheer heartbreak of
seeing what's going on with these people who
have literally nothing, and they have literally nobody
to help them. And they've come to refuge,
to escape the fire of of guns only
to become the
the pawn of politics, of international politics that
the host country does not want
to give them too much too much facility
or too much aid or food or help
or, set up camps. Why?
Because they want to throw these people back
to the country that they came from. Now
the the fact of the matter is these
are all very poor countries and they have
difficulty dealing with these things. And one need
not judge another person.
People do what they do. The motives that
they have. Allah ta'ala knows best and Allah
ta'ala will judge them because he's the only
one who knows and is able to judge
them. But we as Muslims, you have to
understand whether those people have a legitimate reason
for doing what they do or not.
That's something we can put to the side.
What all of us can agree upon right
now is that those people who have come,
they need help.
Those people who have come and crossed the
border, they need help. They are not just
random people. They're not just jungle jungle dwelling
people who are uneducated and uncouth. Even if
they were, just the fact that they said,
Muhammadu
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is a
reason is a reason to what? To to
to invoke inside of our heart sympathy
and to invoke inside of our help. Heart
the willingness and the desire to help. In
fact, even if there are people of any
religion, if they went through what they went
through, this is part of iman that a
person should want to help them. But these
people are who? These people are ulama. These
people are students adeem. These are hafav. Look
in the in the news reports.
I know it's difficult. Psychologically, it's difficult. How
much can you go through? How much pain
and suffering can you go through seeing cholera
outbreak in Yemen and the destruction of of
of of, of Halab and this catastrophe in
Iraq, and and the destruction of Mosul, all
of these things.
I understand it's difficult.
Summon some courage inside of yourself. Look in
those reports at the faces of these people.
These are innocent people. These are not people
who are involved in sectarian war. These are
not people who are partisans to a political
fight. These are not people who started any
fight with anybody whatsoever. If you look in
their eyes, you can see that these are
people who never fought with an animal much
less than with a human being.
These are people. They need our help. These
are people. They need our help. Now this
is an issue that
we as a community have to think about.
We as a community have to deal with
as individuals and as an as a masjid,
this specific masjid and as local masajid.
You and I both know we cannot solve
all of the problems of the world alone.
We will not establish a Khalifa.
We will not be able to straighten out
the rulers in xyz country. We're not able
to There's so many things that we're not
able to do. All we can do with
regards to those things is what? Ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala for their for his help.
But there are things that you and I
can do.
And there are things that you can you
and I can do, and those are the
things Allah will ask us about. Allah ta'ala
will not ask us about things we cannot
do. Allah will ask us about those things
that what? That we can do.
What is it that we can do? We
can make dua
for those people.
We can make tawba in front of Allah
ta'ala with sincerity and ask Allah ta'ala for
his help for us and for them.
Because remember, everybody in this room, look around.
Is there anybody in this room who at
some point or another
within the last generation, 2 generations, 3 generations
at maximum, that someone of our forefathers wasn't
a refugee. Is there anybody in this room
like that?
My grandfather, Rahimullah Ta'ala, both from my mother's
side and from my father's side. Both of
them were from East Punjab. Our ancestral lands
where we lived. Our ancestral lands where my
forefathers lived. I never saw them. I may
never see them in my lifetime.
Why? Because they lost everything and they had
to leave. Because of decisions that were not
decisions of their own.
Forget about myself. I, Marshall, grew up very
comfortably in America.
The biggest hijrah I made was to leave
Seattle to come to Chicago and that's not
really much of a difficulty at all.
Look at who, look at forget about my
forefathers,
Look at who? Look at Rasool Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and his Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala at
home.
The person who leaves his house for the
sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The person
who leaves his home for the sake of
Allah is a Mubarak person. He is one
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves.
Leaving a person leaving their home for the
sake of
Allah says in his
that the kuffar the people that
who their story is mentioned in the Quran
not
for your entertainment or for my entertainment.
Rather to show this is something that happened.
And what's happening to the sahaba radiAllahu anhu?
It will happen until the day of judgement.
That people will be
literally
killed. People will literally be treated worse than
people treat animals. Why? Just Their
their their nikma and their their spite and
their anger wasn't aimed at them. Except for
what? Because they said
Now this is a, this is a motif
that's invoked a lot by a lot of
people who have
different sorts of grievances.
But in this case, a person is at
a loss to see for any other explanation.
You see literally
the nationalist leaders of that country and the
religious leaders of that country.
People who are in the robes of monks.
These are people who say that they, represent
the teachings of, of the Gautam Buddha.
A person whose teachings may not be Islam,
but they definitely don't encourage people to kill
or harm other living things much as a
human being.
They come in the garb of religion which
is something that people are trained to accept
as being not just good but an absolute
good. Not just truth, but a source of
absolute truth.
And they have fed into their minds what?
Things like these people are evil. Like these
people are worse than animals. Like these people
are what? That these people there's it's an
act of piety to kill them and to
throw them out and to harm them. That
somehow they are going to come and destroy
your way of life.
Muslims
rule over the Indian subcontinent for so many
centuries.
Muslims rule over Spain for so many centuries.
What happened in Spain? The Christians massacred the
Muslims and threw them out.
What happened in the Indian subcontinent?
Even to this day, there are people who
hate Islam.
When they use their speech, when they speak
their tongue, they cannot speak a sentence without
saying a word of Farsi or without a
word of Arabic. There's nothing about the India
that they love
that they can pull the Islam out of.
Still, they blame Muslims for some sort of
phantom,
dreamt up massacre that happened
at some indiscreet point in the past.
That same fear you see in those in
those people in, in in Burma and Myanmar,
and it's a completely unfounded fear. But what?
Because it's been
put into their hearts so deeply, so deeply.
You see what? Literally, there are pictures of
stuff for Allah. Don't forward these pictures to
one another. It's a shame that we even
have to see them.
I have a grown man standing on top
of the corpse of a child. 3 year
old, 4 year old child.
Men * women.
These are our sisters. There was a time
that what? There was a time that the
abuse of just one woman used to make
entire thrones fall.
This is a time in which what? We
ourselves abuse our own sisters and our own
homes much less worry about people in different
places.
These are what Hafad of Quran, these are
what people who are farmers. They they have
no political ambition whatsoever.
And they're being harmed and they're being killed.
Brothers and sisters, we cannot turn a blind
eye. We must at least turn to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Tawba in repentance.
We at least stand in front of Allah
The same dua that what that said that
said that Yunus alaihis salam made from inside
the the the the belly of the of
the whale. That there is no God except
for you.
Glory be to you. Indeed I was one
of the one of the wrongdoers, one of
the transgressors.
Umma itself needs to make repentance in order
to attract Allah to Allah's mercy and attract
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's help.
After that, there is no person in this
place that cannot what? That cannot give something
for the sake of Allah Ta'ala.
You cannot
change what a government does or what an
army does.
If you can, what are you waiting for?
You can't do
it. But what you can do, you can
give something. The person you say, oh, sheikh,
I'm broke. You give $5 trust me, the
person who hasn't eaten in 3 days, the
$5 worth of food that they receive, they
will appreciate that. That will change entire destinies.
Haven't you seen? Haven't you looked at our
history?
Look around us. People like myself, look around
us. We're not the ones who made this
we're not the ones who made this Islam.
If you look in every place
in the subcontinent, Ilham and Masha'Allah,
what happened in the central square of that
of that city, there will be the the
grave of 1 of the Oliya of Allah
Subhanahu Wa
ta'ala. They used to come and they used
to stay. And they used to call people
to Allah ta'ala and through their duas and
through their dhikr and through their superior akhlaq.
One person did the job that an army
of a 100000 couldn't do.
Which is tilt the people's hearts toward the
deen.
You get $5 worth of help. Who knows
which one is going to be that one
that tilts the hearts of the people toward
the dean that you help. They are going
to be those people come from people like
that.
They don't come from people like me. It's
good to be from people like that. People
whose hearts are broken for the sake of
Allah ta'ala. People's who people who are humble
for the sake of Allah ta'ala. People who've
given up hope in the dunya for the
sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is something I make this very,
humble appeal to you.
I come to you today wearing literally, these
are the 2, pieces of cloth that I
wore in Arafat and that I stole the
Jamatul Aqaba, the hiram of Hajj that I
wore for the entire almost a week and
a half,
just last, 2 weeks ago.
I have the same two pieces of cloth
for the Hajj. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
give the reward of this Hajj to whoever
gives for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala. I don't know what more to say.
I'm not a talented orator. I can only
just say with sincerity what's inside of my
heart. And
I repeat it again, and I'll repeat it
again and again. It's a sabat. It's a
lesson that we've forgotten. We have to remember
and remind one another again once more about
it. He's looked at the house of Allah
ta'ala and he said, how noble are you?
How sacred are you? How high is your
station in the eyes of Allah Ta'ala? And
I swore an oath by Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Every person of iman, every person of
has a higher maqam with you than Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allah ta'ala, give the reward of that Hajj
to anybody who gives for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is not a
time to hold back. This is a time
to give.
Imagine 300 and some odd thousand,
refugees.
There's nobody to take care of them. There's
nobody to help them. You and I, you
know, you have to remember people give up
hope when things bad things happen. We're in
America. People give up hope really easily over
here. If you lose a job interview or
something, people give up hope very easily. They
literally kill themselves.
These are people who've gone through so much
so much. Imagine the little thing that you
do to help them. If that person that
person that causes them to keep hope that
Allah loves me and that the ummah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't turn
its back on me. The kings and the
tyrants and generals and people, they they turned
their back on me, but the
the people
who live in Glendale Heights and say
and just come to Jummah out of hope
for forgiveness from Allah and for out of
hope of following the sunnah of his Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Those people, they gave something
for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's sake. If that
causes a person not to lose hope and
a person to hold on to life and
to struggle for a better tomorrow, imagine who's
the one then who will receive the reward
for all the good deeds that happen afterward.
And if we don't value their lives, then
what does that say with regards to the
value of ours? Because what has happened to
them, every single person is in line for
that. We're not saved because of our virtue
and they're not being punished because of their
sins. This is a wrong idea that people
have inside of their heads. They need to
get it out. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, save
all of us. Allah ta'ala, help all of
us. Allah, give us tawfiq to open our
minds and our our hearts, inshallah. There are
brothers here from Islamic Relief on both, doors,
inshallah. Please give what you can. If anyone
has any questions regarding our efforts over there,
please do,
do not hesitate to ask one of the
brothers over there to ask me myself,
as well. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give all
of us courage inside of our hearts. Allah,
give help to our brothers and sisters in
Burma. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give them someone
who will stand for them. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala gives them someone who will defend them.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give them hope inside
of their hearts. Allah ta'ala
hold back those people who wish them harm.
Everywhere, not just them, everywhere in Umasaynu Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Whoever says
until now. From now until the day of
judgement, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put them in
his protection and not not put them subjugate
them under an enemy that overwhelms them. Allah
give all of us so much.