Ighsaan Taliep – Deen TV Eid Special Broadcast

Bismillahir, Rahman Al Rahim, in the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful. Alhamdulillah, Rabbi Alameen, all thanks and

mercies and praises be unto God Almighty. Salatu, Assalamualaikum.

Musaline, salawat and salams Love and Blessings upon our foremost

leader, our beloved Nabih Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa

sallam, upon his noble companions and family and friends and all

those who follow His divinely inspired Tariqah and Sunnah path

until the final hour, our dear and honored and respected viewers of

Dean TV, I greet you all Assalamu alaikum. Muhammad Allah He

wabaraketu, the peace and blessings of God Almighty on you

all.

On behalf of the International Peace college South Africa, the

staff and student population, it gives me great pleasure and

privilege to extend unto you all a celebrated message of ADL fitter,

Reid, Mubarak, Kullu, Anton bechair, and that you will have a

joyous occasion of celebration on this momentous culmination of the

culminate or the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan.

Our purposes for observing the fast during the holy month of

Ramadan are clearly articulated and clearly enunciated. It is our

prayer that we have all devoted ourselves and dedicated ourselves

to those purposes in order that we we may emerge out of this month

having

increased our spiritual capacities, having increased our

reserves of faith, and having a closer sense of association with

the Almighty Creator, Allah, Most High says In the Holy Quran,

walitullah Idah wali to Kabul Allah had akum wala Allah Kum TASH

Quran.

And such it is that after the culmination of the holy month of

Ramadan,

and you have completed that appointed term of the fast of this

month, and thereafter that you celebrate the majesty and the

glory of your Creator, God Almighty. And through the

engagement of the chanting of the takbir, the traditional takbir, in

the evening of the first of the month of shoghwa and the morning

of the first of the month of Shoah, and thereafter, God

Almighty says Allah Kum TASH, in order that you may attain unto

thankfulness and gratitude for your Creator. And so the entire

exercise and the entire experience of the holy month of Ramadan, of

trying with the rigor and with the amount of sacrifice and striving

and strenuous deprivation from food and drink in order to achieve

and attain unto those levels of self discipline and self

restraint. Allah, Most High in a sense, wants to bring to our

attention that all of that is to transform our being, is to

transform our own selves, to be thankful creatures, to be

thankful, servants of God, Most High

and so gratitude and appreciation abounds in the psyche, abounds in

the mind and the remembrance of the Muslim on this auspicious day

for having had the opportunity of reconnecting with his Creator

during the holy month of Ramadan, for having had the opportunity to

reconnect with the Holy Quran. Indeed, the month of Ramadan is

the month of the Quran, and to reconnect also with that sense of

establishing common humanity, establishing and firming in our

minds, our sense of common humanity with every human being

and with fellow religionists, fellow Muslims. For indeed the

holy month of Ramadan is also a month of concern, a month of

charity, a month of kindness, month of generosity. And these are

all the observances that become not only the practices which the

Prophet, peace be upon him, had emphasized during especially the

holy month of Ramadan, but they're also the very values, the

purposes, whereof we observe the fast in the holy month of Ramadan.

And so we emerge with those spiritual capacities. We also

emerge with a heightened sense, again, of awareness and

consciousness. And we pray that that and those are the objectives

that we have.

Achieved during this holy month of Ramadan. And so our observances of

the Siam, our observances also of the kriyam, the standing in front

of God Almighty as part and parcel of the

forms of rituals and the forms of worship during the holy month of

Ramadan, that they become far more

linked. They become far more emanating from the heart, and that

the heart becomes far more engaged and committed during those periods

of those periods of observance.

And so our beloved, our beloved viewers, we also bring back the

essence of purpose on this auspicious day by listening to the

words of the Prophet. Peace be upon him when he said in NAMA, la

redu.

Lay salary, Liman Le BIS Jadid in Namal edu, Liman echulwarid that

the day of Eid is not so much for those who don new clothes and for

those who engage in material expedition. On the contrary, the

day of Reid is rather for those who engage in remembrance and

awareness of the day of accountability and the day of

reckoning, the day where in which we have to hold ourselves to

account in front of our Lord, God Almighty, Allah, subhana wa taala.

And so in this sense, again, our spiritual rejuvenation guides us

that even in celebration, it's not a material oriented celebration.

It is expression of happiness. It's expression of joy, but for

great gratitude and for appreciation for having been been

guided by Allah subhanahu wa during the holy month of Ramadan,

to reconnect with him, to reconnect with ourselves, to

reconnect with our societies, and to reconnect with our ultimate

source of guidance, the Holy Quran.

And so as we proceed on this particular day, it is our prayer

that God Almighty allow us that such benefits and such lessons

that we have gained during the holy month of Ramadan to really,

in a sense, prevail over our own selves, to prevail over our sense

of personal interest or personal

personal desire and personal lust

that that carries us through the entire year that lies ahead of us.

And so God Almighty says in the Holy Quran or a lahau, Hawa AFA

and Tata Kono, alehi wakila. Do you see O Muhammad, such that take

their desires and their lusts as the God that they worship and they

become slavishly in pursuit of their desires and their lust? Do

you think that such people can have any control over themselves,

or that anyone can have control over them. Do you even think says

Allah further, Abu asmaaqahuna, Oh, ya Akhi Luon? Do you even

think that the majority of them are able to listen to what you

have to say, or that they can even reason or understand what it is

that you are saying. And then God Almighty says In whom, Illa

kalanam Nay, they are but like cattle grazing, Balham Abu sabila,

in fact, they are lower in status than those very animals

and so prevailing over ourselves and then defining and refining our

own selves are of those higher purposes of the holy month of

Ramadan, which we sincerely pray that God Almighty, Allah,

Subhanahu wa Taala will allow us to take us through the remainder

of the here, and we pray that our children, we pray that our

communities will be safe and that our communities will engage in

those exercises of renewal and rejuvenation

whilst we are celebrating the day of Eid,

it is impossible for us to

spend this day without shedding a thought and sharing a thought and

reflection on some of the experiences and the conditions

that Muslims in different.

Parts of the world are undergoing at this moment in time, and more

particularly in the Muslim world,

Muslims are experiencing very difficult and trying times.

Muslims are living in conditions of conflict. They are living in

conditions of war. They are living in conditions of deprivation.

They're also living under circumstances of unjust rule and

unjust

politics. And so during this time, I think as Muslims, first and

foremost, living in South Africa, it becomes important for us to ask

the question, what is it that we ought to do from a leadership

position, from a position of community religious leaders,

community leaders, academic leaders, even business leaders,

what do We do in order to share and hold up the very good and

favorable circumstances that we are enjoying in our beloved

country here in South Africa. What ought we to do in order to share

this model of peaceful coexistence and peaceful and tolerant,

tolerant lives among one another, as well as alongside our fellow

citizens. How do we hold that up as a model so that Muslims living

in different parts of the world may even be able to take lesson

especially from ourselves?

I think it is important for us that we reflect on some of the

causes, why we find that the words that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala

recall in the Holy Quran for us in ways in which Muslims or humankind

in general will find trials and tribulations. What are some of the

causes behind that? And I think more pertinently, I wish to draw

attention to a particular verse where Allah says,

kulhuald,

him, oh, yell, be second Shia or the Comm. But ba sabald,

and so Allah subhana wa Taala calls upon the Prophet, peace be

upon him to reflect and see how amongst humankind,

given their circumstances in history and given how they conduct

their affairs, that God is able to send upon them tribulation and

trial, and God is able to send upon them

wrath in the form of natural calamity from above them or From

below them. Or he says, Oh, yelby, second Shia is also able to clothe

you into circumstances of sectarian conflict

or Sabbath, and he can make you taste the wrath of one another.

This, unfortunately, I think, is a very pertinent point that we need

to reflect on as society, why it is that we find the mutual

conflict in the Muslim world unfolding in the way that it has

and it is common cause that of the major contributing factors in this

regard, is in fact, the sectarian conflict, the intolerance and the

sense of

excommunication of one another that have really been contributing

factors towards the condition and the situation that Muslims find

themselves in. And so we do find that those who have imperial

ambitions in the region, they exploit those very social

circumstances that the Muslims bring to bear within their

societies. Like to reflect on the words of an author and journalist

when he says, in particularly Graham Fuller,

he says that, had it not been that there was a religion like Islam,

had it not been that there was a prophet like Muhammad in the world

today,

he says that the political relations between the West and the

Middle East would have

precisely or more or less been the same as we find them.

In the world extent today because of the imperial ambitions of those

who wish to secure

natural resources.

We know the examples of the gas wars that have erupted and that

continue to erupt, and all of those political reasons why they

are invasions in the Muslim world, we have seen how in 2003

the invasion of Iraq on false pretenses have been accompanied by

a specific design of divide and rule, where Muslims of Iraq, who

have lived amongst one another in peace for centuries, have been

stoked against one another. Conflict on the lines of sectarian

divides have been stoked deliberately in order to bring

about anarchy and violence amongst the communities, it is up to us to

identify the danger of sectarian conduct in our community, because

there are Those who have the ambition and the desire to exploit

those differences in the communities. And this is

historical fact at this moment in time. And so therefore it behooves

us as Muslims in our society, Muslims lay people, Muslim

leadership, that we come together and reflect on how we ensure that

we not only hold up as models, our own positive experiences for

others living in different parts of the world, but that we continue

to critically introspect, to ask ourselves the question also, how

do we ensure that we preserve that very privileged and positive

experience of Muslims here in our beautiful country that have been

going on for 350

years? How do we safeguard that? How do we enhance that? How do we

leverage that in order to ensure that we make a greater social

impact in our societies. How do we leverage that, in order to ensure

that the contribution that Muslims are able to make to this beautiful

nation is even amplified and becomes more entrenched and

consolidated? It It reminds me of the time when the Prophet, peace

be upon him, during the very first emigration, the very first Hijra

that Muslims ever undertook was to Abyssinia, and the prophet sent

the persecuted Muslims and the young, nascent community that

suffered at the hands of those who wish to crush the emergence of the

young Muslim community at the time, and he sent them on the

first emigration to Abyssinia.

Abyssinia, at the time, was ruled by the neges, the king of

Abyssinia, who was a Christian person, was known as the negas and

the Prophet peace be upon him then said that go to Abyssinia, for

indeed, Abyssinia is being ruled by a king in whose presence none

shall be oppressed, none shall be dealt with unjustly.

And so our emergence out of our struggle as South Africans have

known such leaders who were the proponents and the champions of

justice, in whose presence and under whose rule none will and

have been

oppressed and dealt with unjustly. And these are values that we as

South Africans have enshrined in our legal composition as a nation,

in our Constitution, and these are Islamic values, and these are

universal values that we as human beings hold dear. And so we pray

that God Almighty allows us the foresight, allows us the wisdom

and the vision to be able to take our spiritual refinement, our

spiritual restraint and our spiritual development, which we

have been exposed to during the holy month of Ramadan, and bring

that to bear on how we take ourselves forward for the

remaining months of this year, in a mindset and in a sense of

spiritual awareness and heightened spiritual capacity, heighted

spiritual consciousness as we.

Said at the beginning, which is the very purpose of celebration on

the day of Eid, when the Prophet, peace be upon him, says that lay

salid Liman lebih Sal Jade, that indeed is not only for those who

have a material outlook of preoccupation with new clothes,

but rather aid is, indeed and in fact, for those have a spiritual

orientation, an awareness and a consciousness of their service to

their Creator, service to humanity and service to your society. Once

again, I extend unto all of you a warm and a joyous aid, and may God

Almighty take us all into the next year with a sense of achievement

and accomplishment for his cause, at his pleasure. WA da Rana, Anil

alhamdulillahi, Rabbil Alameen, Salama Alaikum, warahmatullahi,

wabarakatuh, and the peace and blessings of God Almighty on you,

all you.