Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah We Have More Than Just Twitter Hir 12012023
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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 Islam and to iman,
and to his Mubarak house on this Mubarak
hour of this Mubarak day. And we were
not to be guided, was it not that
Allah had guided us?
O Allah, to His praise as His commensurate
with the majesty of Your countenance 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're the only one
who knows the true extent of your praise
worthiness.
And may the peace and blessings of Allah
Ta'ala be upon his servant and messenger,
our master Saydna Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
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 Mubarak and blessed
family and progeny
And upon all of the those who followed
their way until the day of judgement.
By Allah's father, after the visitation of the
sacred lands
of the Halami and Sharithain,
of
the Masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in Madinah Munawwara
of the Roza Sharifah
that the Messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam described
as that place which is between my
mimbar and my maqam
is a garden from the Gardens of Paradise.
That Muwajaha Sharifah where a person comes and
has the opportunity to present their
salaam to the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in person.
In
the Mazar of the Shuhada of Uhud.
In the Masjid Al Kuba.
In Maqamu Karamah,
at the time of taking ihram at the
mikat,
throughout the journey while saying the talbiyah
in the Masjid Al Haram, in the Mataf
by the
Maqam Ibrahim
at Safa and at Marwa.
After the salat and after the prayers,
when sitting alone and when sitting with people.
Allah is my witness.
I made du'a for our brothers and sisters
in Gaza.
And I made du'a for anybody who makes
effort in order to
give help and victory to
the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and to the deen of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala,
and to those who are suffering.
Those who can raise a hand against the
oppressors, my dua is for them. Those who
speak against the oppressors,
my du'a is for them. Those who hate
the oppressors, in my heart, in their hearts,
my du'a is with them. And those who
cannot do any of them, my du'a is
against them.
It's the dua, Allahaman Surman Nasara, umatasayidina
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You Allah, come
to the aid and assistance of the one
who comes to the aid and assistance of
the, umma of Saydna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
What's the other side of the coin? Allahummaqbun
min kazala umata Muhammad
What is kivlan?
Khivlan does it mean to oppose?
Doesn't mean to oppose, You. It doesn't mean,
O Allah, oppose the person who opposes the
Umra Sayidina Muhammad
That's not what it means.
Is what?
Is to fail to come to the aid
and the assistance of the one whose aid
and assistance you're expected to come to.
You have a friend, you say this is
my friend,
You act like a friend with them. You
take the privileges of a friend, but when
they need you,
you're nowhere to be found? This is kidlan.
Someone was about to make a terrible mistake
in their life, you could have given them
advice but you didn't. This is chidlaan.
Somebody fell and you could have grabbed them
and held them but you just let them
falter.
This is chidlan.
Somebody needed medical assistance. Somebody needed someone to
call 911. Someone needed something from you and
you were expected, you were in the perfect
place in order to render such an assistance.
And you didn't. This is chiblaan.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam describes
the believer as being the brother of the
believer.
And from the rights that a believer has
on his brother believer is that he doesn't
fail to come to render basic assistance for
his brother. It's fine. I'm not going to
come to your house and pay your rent.
And guess what? I know you're not going
to come to my house and pay mine.
But basic assistance we can,
we can expect from one another. We consider
it an honor to give to our fellow
brothers.
I also in every one of those places
made the dua that Allah ta'ala made the
kivlan of the person who makes the kivlan
of the Ummah, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah ta'ala doesn't need anyone of us.
He doesn't need anyone of us as individuals.
He doesn't need anyone of us as a
group. He doesn't need any one of us
as a qaum, or as a race, or
as a madhab, or as a school of
thought, or as anything.
Allah ta'ala
completely 100%
asamad baniaz. He has no need for anybody,
whatsoever. Everybody's need is complete for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And you will see this is a cycle
that happens, that those people who don't come
to the assistance of the Ummah, Sayyidina Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allah ta'ala makes them
irrelevant. Allah ta'ala makes them redundant. Allah ta'ala
replaces them with somebody better than them. And
you know what? I'm 100%
okay with that. If I'm a failure myself
that I can't do anything for my brother,
I want to be replaced by the one
who can.
But you know what? The person who has
these types of thoughts, one would hope in
front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
that just the love of good is itself
a sign that you won't be replaced.
Furthermore,
we have an opportunity to make dua for
anything that we want.
So why always plan for the worst case
scenario? Let every single one of us make
this du'a that You Allah, the one who
You honored from Your creation the most, the
one that You love from Your creation the
most. They're the ones that You benefit to
people, other people through them the most. On
the tongue of Your Messenger salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, this has been very clearly declared.
You Allah, make us the ones who
serve the creation. You Allah, honor us by
making us the ones that You honored by
serving the Ummah, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
serving the deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Make us not people who come to Islam
like consumers,
like people who come to Walmart. Like, I've
been imam and masajid before. I get this
from, like, Masjid board members. You know, I've
literally heard
someone has people have told me again and
again this thing that we, you know, we
wanna have a basic modicum of customer service.
What do you mean customer service? Am I
selling you something?
Do you see like a white collar and
a black robe that I'm wearing right now?
My name is, Father Hamza.
Then you can go on the back, send
your daughters in the back room and they
can sit in a dark room with me
and then confess all their sins and then
I say, Yeah, you know, in the name
of this and that and the other thing.
And then you're, you know, you do this
and that and the other thing and you're
forgiven.
That you can pay 15, $20 because that's
a lot. You know, you did sins. I
forgave them for you. You are getting a
service in exchange for a service, right? Do
I have any service that I'm offering any
of you?
That you can pay me money for?
That I'm going to come to you and
give you some sort of customer service?
Every single one of us comes to this
jum'ah
with the intention,
Say,
The person who fears Allah will take the
reminder.
It so happens it's my turn for whatever
reason. I don't even know. If someone was
better at it, or more points to do
it, or picked to do it, I would
say, You do it, and I'll sit and
listen. All of us are here to be
reminded of the same thing, to remember the
same thing, which is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Make du'a You Allah
that I don't be a person who comes
to, comes to jum'ah like a customer at
Walmart,
expecting some sort of customer service.
Miqdu'a Allah Ta'ala that I come like the
Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam came to you.
That he wanted to be
a slave prophet, not like a king. He
wanted to be a servant. He wanted he
wanted to say,
Sayyidul Qomi khadimuhum.
That the the the
the the honored Master of a people,
the honored person of a people is the
one who what? Who serves them.
He's their servant. That's
the sign that you can recognize who the
master of a people is, the one who's
doing the service for them, the one who's
hustling, the brothers who are hustling in the
parking lot, pleading with people not to like
double park or not to
block a fire lane or block the neighbor's,
lots.
The people who were hustling around telling people,
For the sake of the Lord, please don't
sit down in the in front of the
door, go in deeper so that other people
can come in. The person who came before
Jumah that you don't even know who they
are and vacuum the floor, and the person
who will come after Jumaa, you have no
idea who they are, they'll vacuum the floor.
What does it
bother them?
That Allah ta'ala knows who they are, and
hamza doesn't know who they are? It means
it makes no difference whatsoever. So make this
du'a.
I made this du'a
in every one of these single places, holy
places, and not to pump myself up too
much, but I have
a lot of hope in Allah Ta'a's mercy.
I have a lot of hope in Allah's
karam that he didn't allow me to make
those duas except for because he wants to
give it to me.
You make the du'a also, He wouldn't have
allowed you to make those duas as well.
He wouldn't have allowed you to want to
make those duas except for He wanted to
give it give it to you as well.
A human being doesn't receive anything except for
the thing that they hustle for. And there
are people hustling out there for all sorts
of things. Some of them are good, some
of them are beautiful, some of them are
fun, some of them are evil, some of
them are ugly, some of them are weird.
And a
depressing amount of them are just brain rottingly
pointless.
So whatever it is you wanna hustle for,
ask for that thing.
Interesting, interesting times that we live in.
As has been mentioned
by myself in this
very place,
at this very occasion on Friday.
So many things that we read in the
news, it's become so plain. We all have
this idea that there's some propaganda in the
news, in the legacy media, and things that
governments say.
Our government
not being an exception to that, but other
governments also being like that.
The government doesn't always tell the truth. It's
not a shock to anybody. It shouldn't be.
But how
gross the sheer volume of lies is, has
kind of like astonished everybody.
At the same time, masha'Allah, we've seen other
interesting things because 20 years ago, there wasn't
a Twitter in order to refute the lies.
There wasn't, you know, social media in order
for you to see the pictures of the
lies in real time. While one man is
lying, the other person is showing, you know
this guy's lying, here's a picture of their
lie, right while it's happening.
It's something very interesting, it's something very amazing.
I've had many friends, Instagram accounts shut down.
Whatsapp accounts even shut down.
Facebook accounts shut down. Shadow banned. You put
a post up about a dancing kitty cat,
a 1000 people will like it. You put
a post up about, I'm against killing small
children in Palestine. All of a sudden, the
thing is like people your friends searched for
the post, they can't find it, but it
looks like it's posted on your account.
So a very practical thing happened. There is
one social media platform.
I usually dislike talking about particulars like this,
but what what can we do? It's where
we are right now.
It's called X. It used to be called
Twitter. It's been relatively unregulated,
relatively speaking. Some of all of this stuff
happens with it too, but still it's been
relatively unregulated.
For that, the owner of it got slammed
recently. He had to make a, like, hit
make a little umrah to visit, Netanyahu and
rub him 7 times and kiss him in
order to save his, company. And, he, you
know, he made his tawaf and he made
his sayy and his duas were accepted. And
he's still in business for now.
And people are now like crying about this
like, Oh, look, you know, is he really
sincere? Or did he sell out? Or did
he this, did he that? I'm not here
to talk about it's Jum'ah. We're not talking
talking about Twitter.
We're not talking about the individual. I didn't
even take his name even if you, you
know, if I did, it's not about that.
What do I want to say to us
here in Ju'an?
This is one of the monumental and colossal
failures of Muslim civilization in the time that
we live in.
I'm not talking about the deen of Islam.
The deen of Islam is protected until the
day of judgment. The Quran is protected by
Allah ta'ala, the aqayd, the ilm, all of
these things are protected until the day of
judgment.
But the Ummah has better days and has
not so good days.
This is a sign that we're in the
latter
and not the former. That the means that
we have to communicate with one another, they
have broken down, that now we have to
sit and talk about and think about as
a Muslim.
As groups of Muslims and as nations of
Muslims in the world.
Why does it this guy who lives in
Silicon Valley
thinks or doesn't think in order to get
our communication, our points communicated across to one
another and to other people? This is a
failure.
This is a failure.
We should not see ourselves as clamoring for
rights in somebody else's system,
in somebody else's
platform, in somebody else's space.
We should make our own space for ourselves.
We should have our own platform for ourselves.
Our platform is not only just the Masjid.
The Masjid is very important. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam when he came to Madinah Munawwara in
his Mubarak Hijra,
the first thing he did was had the
Masjid built.
But after that, what did he do? He
asked Anzah radiAllahu ta'ala Anh whom, where do
you buy, sell, and trade?
They said the Jews have a market, they
set the prices, we bring our goods, we
sell according to whatever their rules are.
Did he say bad about the Jews? No.
Good for them. That's their thing. Let them
do that.
We're in 2023,
December 1st. The Jews have a large marketplace.
Good for them. I have no spite against
them. I have nothing bad to say about
them
because they're Jews and because they have a
marketplace.
Good for them. Let them do what they
want to do in their life.
What's wrong with us? Why don't we have
our own place that we buy, sell and
trade?
Why don't we have our own place that
we speak to each other, that we share
information with one another?
Now this is an interesting problem. If you
think through it, I see that we have
some brothers who are IT people and consultants
and whatever. Masha'Allah. I'm sure there's actually a
lot of you over here who yourself either
in IT or have relatives in IT.
It's Chicago, so like half of Hyderabad. Mashallah.
Like, it's there's a lot of IT people.
I myself as having experiences being Imam and
masajid in America.
I have so much so much mind boggling
levels of
bizarre experiences
where an IT guy will come up and
then cause a fight over some small issue.
That's a difference of opinion with regards to
how to pray or how to make wudu
or whatever in the sharia.
And it's like, bro,
you work for Microsoft. You work for Google.
You work for Facebook.
Go do your thing. Say your salat. Put
your donation in the box. If it's really
that big of a deal, find some scholars
in order to like fix this problem.
When you guys have a bug in your
programs, you don't go to the Masjid and
call like a shaykh to come fix the
bugs, do they? Like all of us can
tell if something is buggy, it doesn't work
properly. You don't have to be an IT
professional to be able to tell that. But
you find someone who knows how to fix
it in order to fix it.
When there's something wrong in the hospital, you
want a second opinion because of a diagnosis
that may not be, you know, a 100%
right. You don't go and call a shaykh
from the masjid.
Even though most of most of the imams,
maybe even including me, we're happy to tell
you our diagnosis. Who cares?
Call somebody who knows what they're doing. Right?
This b bizarre like reaction that we have
where everybody wants to be sheikh, this is
what? This is a psychological problem we have.
Which is that we of ourselves become so
irrelevant.
So irrelevant to the time and space that
we live in. The one place where you
can walk in
and be taken seriously, even if you're a
complete lunatic is the Masjid. And this is
because the rahma, this is the house of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It is a refuge for every person who's
brokenhearted,
every person who's broken minded, every person who's
broken bodied. You can come here, you'll find
some sort of a refuge.
Again,
someone may not pay your entire rent, but
someone will probably at least buy you a
biryani for lunch.
You have something here even if you have
nothing anywhere else. Even as a non Muslim,
you can walk in, someone will do something
for you. If anything, people will leave you
alone, by and large, in the Masjid. Whereas
that's not the case anywhere else.
This problem with regards to
a platform by which we can speak to
one another,
a technological
platform by which we can interact and share
information with one another, It's an interesting problem.
It's a really big problem.
Even if someone were to design the app
and do all the front end, back end,
make it functional, how are you gonna get
people to sign on to it? If only
30 people are on it, it's not gonna
have any effect. You know, how you if
only Muslims are on it, it's not gonna
have any effect. How do you build it
and grow it? And if it becomes successful,
then that's the day that all our real
problems will start. Right? I have a
friend who really likes money a lot so
he has a lot of really wise
things that he says
about money. He says, If I if I
owe you $50, that's my problem. If I
owe you $50,000,000,000
that's your problem.
What's the point of having something, a platform
that's so large you can't defend it?
The government will shut it down. It will
get taken over by somebody else. It will
get taken over internally. This will happen. That
will happen. People get into a fight. People
cheat each other, lie each other, steal. All
these things happen. These are real issues, right?
Look, we're all the people who say what?
Islam is the solution, right? The sunnah of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is solution.
The deen is like literally a solution for
all of these things.
Your Internet can get cut off. Your Internet
can be taken away from you. Your phone
can get cut off, it can get tapped,
it can get bugged.
Right?
Your property physical can be physical property can
be stolen from you.
Your intellectual property can get stolen from
you. Your programs can get bugged in cyberwarfared
and all of these other things.
You're here in the Masjid right now. Right?
If you heard something about me or from
me or you wanna know something about me,
all you do is you go touch me
after the salat and say, Did you say
this? Did you not say that? And we
talk to one another.
Right?
This masjid itself is what?
It's
a low tech,
high security, foolproof social media.
This 5 daily prayers that we have, this
is what?
It's a low tech,
foolproof
social media.
The salatuliridayin,
the Haramain Sharifein
The Haramain Sharifain right now, it's in the
country.
I don't wanna speak good or bad about
other countries in Jamukhutah because we're not here
for that.
Like I have opinions about stuff. We can
talk about it later if you want to.
I'm not like afraid or ashamed of it
either, but to say in summary
that not all the countries in the Muslim
world can speak as openly about a lot
of things as you can in America.
There were people who were barred entrance into
the Haram and Sharifin because they had the
black and white checkered kaffia
on.
Why? Because they said there's no siyasa over
here. How is this siyasa? How is this
in politics? I have no idea.
You can get barred from those things. Even
then even then, you go visit the Haramain
Sharifayn, you can get the khabr about every
single country in the world. You can get
it within 15 minutes.
You wanna know if what the news is
telling you about Afghanistan is true or a
lie?
You can get it from
the Haramain Sharifin.
You wanna know about Iran? You can find
out in Haramain Sharifin. You want to know
about the difference between Iraqi Kurdistan and, the
Kurdish areas in Turkey?
You can find out in Haramain Sharifin.
You can find the most obscure,
bizarre,
small, niche group of people from anywhere in
the Ummah. You can go visit there and
you can talk to them.
Why is it that we are not aware
of this? Why is it that we don't
take benefit of this? Why is it that
we don't develop and cultivate our ties with
these things?
We actually had and I've said this before
and I'll say it again. There are some
people, they don't like the government,
in the Arabian Peninsula.
Again, I'm not here to judge whether this
is a good thing or a bad thing
or whatever. Whenever I go there I don't
engage in politics. I'm not there to, like,
have lunch with the King, you know. I'm
just there to visit Allah Ta'ala's house. I'm
visit there to visit
Rasool alAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I don't go
to other cities. I don't go to other
places.
There was somebody in the group who said
that. They admitted that. There's actually 2 women
who were talking. One of them said that
my husband didn't come. Why?
Because he says, Well, I'm in a boycott
because I don't
agree with the king's politics with regard to
Palestine.
The other one said, Well, my husband said
the same thing but I dragged him anyway.
So I went and talked to her husband.
I overheard this conversation.
And then afterward, I talked to the ladies
too, but I talked I I talked to
the group leader. They asked me questions. Okay.
You know, Shaykh, how many times do we
go around the Kaaba 7? Okay. These types
of things, this is what I do in
the group.
So I talked to the husband and said,
Did you really say this? He says, Yeah.
I have to admit. I go, Are you
are now that it's done, now that we're
on the bus on on the way back
to Jeddah airport to fly back to America,
do you regret having gone? He says, No.
I don't regret it at all.
I go, Did it ever cross your mind?
If you don't like the government,
just stop driving a car.
Just stop driving a car. Walk to work,
bike to work.
Right? The Hajj industry,
as much as I hate this expression and
concept,
is the 2nd largest
vehicle
of of of revenue for
the government in Arabia. What's the largest?
Oil. Oil. So if you really don't agree
with them and you wanna, like, have economic
harm or whatever, which I, again, I'm not
advocating, but I'm just saying that, you know,
as
a consultant minded, strategist minded person, what is
it? It's oil. Right?
So just stop driving your car.
How much money does the government get out
of your out of your trip and how
much does it get out of you driving,
you know,
40 minutes to work and home again and
driving to the Masjid and driving here and
driving there?
What is it? This is a this is
a problem that we have in our minds,
which is what? First of all, the dunya
is sacred, so we don't question that. The
even the proposal of not driving a car
is all of a sudden considered impractical. Why?
Because that's sacred. You don't talk about that.
What do you talk about? You talk about
the thing that's negotiable. Right? That what used
to what should be dunya has become deen,
and what should have been deen become what?
Become dunya.
But what's the bigger point than all of
that?
What's the bigger point than all of that?
Do you know this is not the first
time? This is not the first time that
some problem has happened in the ummah? Problems
have been happening for centuries, like in all
parts of the ummah,
Africa,
Asia,
Europe, all different places.
Where do all of the rebellions, where all
the revolutions start?
Where did they always start?
The Haram and Sharifa?
Our own masha'id.
Sayyidusayn Ahmed Madani, I studied Madras and Jamia
Madaniyah
Allah have mercy on him. He taught the
hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in the
masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
during the Ottoman time for 16 years, for
16 years he taught for free.
Where was the rebellion that they coordinated against
the British and the Indian sub continent? Where
was it hatched? Where where where would the
refugees exiles all come up in order to
hatch and plot
the Haramain Sharif?
Do you have any Algerians in here?
The patron of the Algerian revolution against the
French.
The struggle to throw the French out of
Algeria.
The spiritual patron was a Sheikh by the
name of Abdul Hamid bin Badis.
He actually studied with Ulan of the saints
Hussein Ahmad Madani during that time in Madinah
Munawwara.
He wrote a letter to his Ustad, to
his teacher in hadith saying that the French
have ruined Algeria,
and they've ruined the akhlaq of the people,
and they've made it such that the Algerians
cannot practice their deen anymore. And they've been
there so long that I fear that my
people have strayed so far from Islam. It's
not a place to live anymore.
So I want to move and just take
up permanent settlement in Madinah Munawala. The shaykh
wrote him a letter back saying, Absolutely 100%.
You are not allowed to do this.
You learn what you need to learn. You
figure out what you need to figure out
and then you go back and you take
your land back from the usurper. You don't
allow a thief to come into your home
and steal it.
Both of those letters are to this day
in Jazair. In Algiers, they're in a museum.
As a sacred relic of the struggle of
that those people in order to throw out
their satanic usurpers who tried to kill them
in their own land?
Why is it that that's what we want
to boycott and we think somehow or another
sitting on your
phone, and sitting on your computer,
sitting on your tablet,
making ad revenue for somebody in the Silicon
Valley on somebody else's app is going to
be the solution. I'm not saying don't be
on it, I myself am on all of
those things.
But why is it that we look to
those things to the solution, we cannot look
to the Masjid itself for the solution?
We cannot look at each other's faces and
say, We have problems.
This is how we're gonna come together, we're
gonna solve them, by looking at each other
face to face. Because there's no algorithm. When
I see your faces, there's no algorithm between
you and me.
There's no advertising between you and me. There's
no lies and cheating between you and me.
Those small things that are just a matter
of wording that cause fights
on social media platforms.
When we see each other face to face,
even those things we disagree about, we learn
to love each other despite those disagreements.
Have you not had this
experience before? So many times I've had this
experience before.
Email,
text,
WhatsApp,
Telegram,
social media.
You
escalate, you go back and forth and fight
with one another. When you see somebody, literally,
when you see the nur in their face
and the barakah of lahi lahi lillahi lillahi
lillahi lillahi lillahi inside of their heart, you
don't have it inside of you to hate
that person, you don't have it inside of
you to keep enmity for that person.
Why is it that we don't see the
barakah and the khair in that?
Why is it that we don't see Allah
ta'ala's help in that? Why is it that
we don't see that's the place that we're
supposed to start from?
And then we expand to something else. People
say, you're talking about coming to the masjid
for 5 daily prayers and visiting the Haram
and Sharifeh.
Look what's happening. People are dying overseas. People
we didn't get to that situation overnight. We're
not gonna fix it overnight.
There are basic systemic issues that are broken
in the Umna.
Until they get fixed, we're not going to
be in a position in order to fix
those other
more high level issues.
This is a
blessing from Allah
Why?
Because your reason for being put in this
earth
is not freeing Palestine.
Your reason for being in this earth is
that you have a limited amount of time.
I have a limited amount of time that
we can
fix
the broken relationship that we have with Allah
and that we can be eligible for salvation
for najat on the day of judgment.
Palestine is a reason for that. It's a
way that you can get through that.
As there are many other reasons, and there
are many other pathways.
I will say this even further than that,
that jihad fisabilillah.
To struggle in the path of Allah ta'ala
not only is one path, it's one of
the highest paths.
Ramadan will be here in a couple of
months.
Listen to the Quran.
There'll be some people, blah, blah, blah, there's
no such thing as war in Islam. Blah
blah blah, there's no such thing as fighting
in Islam. Islam means peace in Islam. Listen
to the Quran. Like a third of it,
a quarter of it, half of it is
about fighting in the path of Allah
It's wonderful.
All of
the
propaganda in the world,
a couple of nights of salatul Taraweeh,
it's all gone.
Like blowing an old dandelion into the wind,
it's gone.
Does it mean terrorism? No.
What does it mean? Fighting the path of
Allah
for what's right. Stop the hand of the
oppressor.
Stop the hand of ba'tls. Stop the hand
of liars and cheaters.
How are you gonna do that when you're
on somebody else's platform?
How are you gonna do that when you're
playing someone else's game? How are you gonna
do that when you're taking someone else's education?
How are you gonna do that when your
entire economy has somebody else's face printed on
the money?
How are you gonna do that when somebody
else's name is on all of your stuff?
Do you see the name of any kaffir
on my clothes I'm wearing right now?
I get annoyed. I went to the hospital
the other day,
the nurse asked my wife, Oh, is your
husband some kind of priest?
Because he's dressed like that. This is how
I dress all the time. This is how
I used to go to school.
Like at madrasa if you can understand. This
is how I used to go to college
as well.
This is how I go on a plane.
Do you see someone else's some kafir's name
on my clothes?
How are we gonna do any of these
things if we're playing on someone else's game?
And the issue is this, it's not saying
that everybody has to go full, like, you
know, whatever, like off the grid overnight.
That's a separate issue. Some of these things
are more important, some of them are less
important, Some of them will make sense for
some people, some of them will not make
sense for others.
The point is is what? The basis of
all of these things, the basis of all
these things is the deen of Allata' practiced
as with as the Nabisallallahu
alaihi wa sallam instructed us. The basis of
your social media is what? Come to the
masjid, look at each other's faces.
If you live far away, maybe it's time
to talk to your real estate agent.
If you don't like this neighborhood,
well, guess what? The person who is the
neighbor of the house of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala, Allah ta'ala takes care of him because
He's the one who commanded that you be
good to your neighbors.
Don't look for the solution in something else.
Look for the solution in the thing that
you have. Allata'a will put barakah in it.
This is how you build your own constituency,
and this is in fact in fact this
is in fact the thing that your enemies
are
afraid of. This is in fact the thing
that that your enemies have invested 1,000,000,000 of
dollars in order to get you and get
me to forget.
Why is it when
a country like ours,
under a
neoliberal
imperialist agenda,
bombs the smack out of a country, like
they've done to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to other
places.
Did they say you can't build masajid anymore?
No. What did they do? They said, We
want you to change the education system like
this.
We want you to change the banking system
like this.
We want you to change the way people
talk to each other about things like this.
Afterward, you can
say you're a Muslim all you want.
You can act like a Muslim all you
want, just do things in our system.
Thankfully, we live in America. This is something
that we should thank the Lord for, mashaAllah,
of all the places we could have ended
up. We came here.
The country was built on this idea that
these are things you're not supposed to trust
the government with. We don't live in Europe
where there's this idea that the government hasn't
duty in order to make everybody into a
loyal citizen,
of one type, of one
national and linguistic identity.
Our government does it as well because it's
convenient.
But the idea is there's enough critical mass
in this country of people who know what
America is, what ideals it was founded on,
that you will get support, not just from
within the community, from outside the community, if
you wish to live according to your own
ideals, and people will respect you for that.
Which makes it all the more perplexing. Why?
All the more confusing.
Why? Why is it then we have people
in the ummah, Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
left this ummah with such a hujja, with
such a proof, such a bright and shining
path illuminated toward Allah ta'ala, that its day
and its night are equal.
Why is it that people then look to
the calf
when you have Allah
and say,
Give us a God like they have a
God.
This is your home. This is where your
barakah is. This is where you're going to
get what you want. Even if you don't
like me,
even if you don't like my speech, even
if you don't like the board, even if
you don't even if you don't like, you
know, the the that you want, lamb briyani
at lunch and not
chicken. Even if all of those things are
still, Allah ta'ala is still there. Right?
What's a bigger consideration?
Do you go to a masr to pray
because of the imam?
People do that. They're like, Oh, I love
the reciter over there. Okay, alhamdulillah, mashallah, everybody
loves that someone does something well, and of
all the things that you can do well,
the Quran is like one of the most
well things that can be done well. Right?
Do you know whether Rasul sallallahu alaihi wasallam
in his age, in his era, in the
era of the Aslaf? People used to recite
very plainly.
The Arabs used to recite very plainly.
There's no Abu Basak on the Samad
in the time of the aslaf.
There's no maqam system in the time of
the aslaf.
Alhamdulillahi
rabbil aalameen Arrahmanir
Rahim
Is it a different Quran?
Is it less barakah? Is it a different
Allah you're calling on?
These things, what? They remove a modicum of
entertainment from people's practice, so people don't like
that. But it's something to think about, that
the barakah is still there. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala give us all tawfiq to be
connected with the house of Allah ta'ala. May
Allah ta'ala give us the tawfiq to take
that thing that he already set up for
us, that that connection he set up for
us, so that we don't have to be
dependent on handouts from other people. May Allah
give us that tawfiq to come together and
to make those prayers that get us to
where we need to on the day of
judgment, that get us to where we need
to get to
in this life, that get us the things
that we need to get done before we
meet Him,
and have to give account.