Ighsaan Taliep – Cape Accord

Scholars, our father figures, our mentors, our beloved fathers and

mothers, brothers and sisters and our innocent children. Assalamu.

Alaikum. Warahmatullahi, Assalamu alaikum.

Ji satari would have been better to balance this group here by

having sister Fatima come and speak after Ambassador Ibrahim

Raso and I would have advised that we've been good ballads. Shukan

Ibrahim for making it very difficult to say anything.

The development that have been taking place in our community,

different developments that have been happening in our community

have been causes of great concern. But these issues are issues that

have been coming on for time.

And these are not issues that are peculiar, unfortunately and

regrettably to our community here in the cape, they are happening,

seem happening, seeming, seemingly in the Muslim communities across

the world,

it would appear that

we certainly, as

Ambassador Abraham, said, We certainly do not take lesson from

history.

It seems that we would rather follow the adage that says that

history must repeat itself.

History repeating itself is in fact,

a system and a design of Allah.

And Allah subhana wa Taala speaks in the Holy Quran about history

abundantly and Allah. Subhana wa Taala references that he has

certain laws that govern human existence on this earth,

and that those laws are, in fact, referred to in the Holy Quran as

sunnat Allah fill out. And

Allah emphasizes, and he says,

Walen tajid Ali, sunnathi, tahwillah, Walen tajid Ali, sunnat

Elahi, tabdila, you shall not find divergence from those laws and

deviation in those laws of Allah, subhanaw wa taala, substitution of

those laws of Allah, subhanaw wa taala, not in the most minute of

forms.

Allah's laws will always apply irrespective whether they're on

communities of faith, or they in communities of non faith

communities. It does not matter.

And so whatever we bring forth with our hands,

we will reap the consequences thereof, the HAR al facade in NAS

that mischief and

transgression shall spread through the earth and through the oceans

on the basis of what human beings have brought forth with their own

hands.

So these laws of Allah,

this the natural laws of Allah, amen.

And obviously they are in and around. We live them, and we

sometimes don't even realize that we live them.

Of these laws are that Allah, subhana wa Taala had created human

beings,

and the law that applies to them is

that Allah subhana wa Taala had decided against Allah Tala had

decided against uniformity

in this creation,

uniformity is not how Allah created human beings. Walosha or

Bucha la Jas

had been the will of Allah. He would create human beings as one

Ummah,

but his law is wala, yaza, Nuna, Mukta, lefe, they shall indeed

continue to have differences. Differ with one another, have

different views. Look at things differently, see the world

differently. Wa La yaza, Luna mukht Ali, they shall do that

forever. La yaza, it won't cease.

Differences. Is natural,

that we would differ and have Sunnis and shiris is natural.

This is Allah subhana wa taala, that you believe and that we

believe as we are in this Masjid. The majority of us are Sunni.

And that we have our beliefs is not just natural. It is also our

right,

because Allah also speaks about the freedom of conscience, the

freedom of thought, the freedom of belief. And all of that becomes

part of Allah, taala, sunnah on this earth. And so when we speak

about the differences that we have with the Shia, you can speak about

it.

There is no, no problem with that.

The problem is, how do you speak about it? The problem is, how do

you differ with one another?

And so our brother sitting on the corner on that side, brother,

molena Aftab, heyder, I've had opportunity to quote from himself,

saying, We do not have a problem. If you critique, if you have, if

you put forth your position of differences between the Sunnah and

the Shia, that's not a problem. That's your right.

But do not create mischief. Do not create and spread hatred. Do not

incite the emotions of people and fan people's emotions to the point

where people go into a stupa and into a frenzy of how they view the

other person.

I think the cape accord for us is about understanding that in our

beautiful country in which we live, we also understand that we

have the right to express our views, but we do not have the

right to express those views whilst we incite hatred against

anyone,

if anybody, I think I've said it at this platform, if anybody spews

hatred from this pulpit or from any pulpit, that person cannot be

inspired by a Rahman.

On the contrary, that person will be inspired by shaytaan, our

beloved Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam had spoken about

the emergence of the khawarij.

He had foretold that they shall come among you, people whom, when

you look at the way, how they perform salah, you will look at

your own Salah in disdain and say, Allah, I should really brush up on

my salah. When you look at how they fast, you will think about

your own fast in real, insignificant terms. If you look

at how they recite the Quran,

you will think that you really need to be ashamed of how you

butcher the Quran.

But then Abu Salah Salem says

that they would have left

the fold of Islam like an arrow leaves its bow towards its target.

So notwithstanding the way in which the appearances are then,

abhisalaam had indicated that these people would have already

left the fold of Islam. Now, these, in our history, were known

as the khawarij. These were people that, for the most minute things,

would declare others Kafir.

These were the very people who then ultimately were responsible

for the assassination of Sayyidina Ali Radi Allahu Taala

and so Sayyidina Ali, famously, when the dispute between say NA

Ali and Sayyidina muayya came to that point where the arbitration

was Put forth,

they then raised the slogan and said Al hakimill

that the settlement of disputes shall not be done via arbitration,

but it must be done in accordance with the law of Allah, because law

and judgment belongs only to Allah

with a sense of self righteousness, with a sense of

a sense of arrogance, and also a sense of clear extremist ideas of

their own understanding of the deen of Islam.

Sin Ali's famous retort to that was colon Haq,

you're all Do we have a

that is a true word that is being spoken, but the intent behind it

is battle.

And so when we then find that we are being

in.

Excited towards hatred, towards hating the other, towards other

rising and to looking at others in ways other than ways of dignity

and respect, as had been mentioned before, then we need to become

extremely, extremely cautious and ask questions.

The reason why we believe the cape accord is important,

again to the Sunnah of Allah is the entire Sharia.

Every hukum in the Sharia is confirmed

exclusively to secure the outcome of that hokum,

the hokum wants to secure an outcome, or it wants in a positive

way, or it wants to avert a potential scenario in a negative

way.

So therefore, we believe,

we believe that sectarian speech, sectarian hatred, sectarian

discourse of inciting and encouraging others to look

differently at others with hatred, etc. Sectarianism is haram in

Islam. Allah. Subhana Watani, in the Holy Quran, explains why that

is the case, and that is that you shall, you shall self destruct.

You shall self destruct. Many places in the Holy Quran, maybe

just to quote the hadith of Ibn Masood in the collection of Imam

Al Bukhari and Abu Sala Salem says, Let the telephone

for in naman Khan ako Bala Kum,

a telephone

Don't fall into factionalism. Don't fall into disputes of rancor

and hatred and factionalism among yourselves, because those who have

gone before you fell into such disputes and they perished and

self destructed.

May Allah accept this endeavor and initiative to be one which,

inshallah reaches the hearts of human beings and reaches in the

depths of our hearts to bring out our humanity and so that our faith

can be expressed on the platform of our humanity. Inshallah,

shukran Abu.