Ighsaan Taliep – Cape Accord
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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.