Ihsaan Hendricks – 2016-06-09 – Lecture 09-06-2016

Respected Qalam,

under Bal Mufti Ismail Musa Menck,

members

of the executive of the Muslim Judicial Council,

members of the Imara,

the honorable

parents of the 2 young sisters and ladies

who have graduated here this evening.

Ladies and gentlemen,

elders, brothers and sisters, and honorable students,

I guarantee you that I will not be

too long because

it is a challenging affair

that kept our emotions

for the last 45 minutes

and perhaps maybe after such

tense moments,

the muscles needs to be relaxed

and I suspect

there's some good food on its way.

But if you bear with me with

another 2, 3 minutes,

I will be

short.

Every time that the mosque in Cape Town

is inaugurated

and opened,

we have reason to celebrate the vision of

a great lady by the name of Sartifan

Beqab.

And I think it is time that the

Muslim community dedicate an occasion and declared this

lady the first lady of the Muslim community.

And every time

when a mosque is open, we celebrate the

deep vision of Sarki Fandekar.

A lady who never graduated from the School

of Economics at UCT,

Neither did she graduate from UWC,

the law faculty,

but she understood the deep vision.

She understood

that in her unselfish

and her generous contribution

to the whatof

property

of the Omar al Masjid,

that on the day of Yawmul Qiyamah,

the scales of Sarki Fandekah

will qualify

a ticket into Jannah, inshallah.

From Sarki Fandekah,

when we listen this evening to this young

lady,

Aveda,

we are compelled

to journey our history.

And every time

that we celebrate the abilities of our young

children,

we have to ask

the colonial masters of yesteryear

and the apartheid regime of yesteryear,

when will you ever learn?

Indeed,

they never learn.

Our history tells us that every time

that when we listen to the young lady

who have recited Aveda,

we celebrate the deep vision of Sarki Fandekab.

And from Sarki Fandekab

bin Bekaab to Hafidah Mu'alima'aisha

series

is a long history to journey

in celebration

of the deep vision of a lady.

And when we listen to

Sheikh Abrahaman

Sadeem

in fact,

it was barely a week ago when we

listened to the chef at the masjid of

Sheikh Ibrahim.

And every time that we listen to Sheikh

Abrahaman, we listen to the maturity of the

voice.

But again, in the recitation of Sheikh Abrahaman,

there's a lot only the beauty of the

voice,

but also politically and historically today,

we can tell the political masters of yesterday,

you incarcerated

Tuamguru on Robben Island.

And tonight,

from Robben Island to Scarborough,

we celebrate the recitation

of the melonious voices of the Quran.

At the time

that the colonial masters

wanted to kill the growth of the Quran.

Tuanguru

incarcerated

for approximately

14 years on Rurban Island.

Can you imagine for a moment

how did Thuan Gourou recite the Quran?

He recited the Quran

whilst under incarceration.

Between the tiny four walls of his prison

cell, there was no audience.

But there was saber and there was foresight

because

one day there will be an occasion

that we will have

the likes of Sheikh Abdul Rahman,

who will read the Quran in the most

melodious voice

between the history that we journeyed

from slavery to freedom,

from Robben Island to Safran.

We take our history for granted,

and sometimes we take ourselves for granted.

And we don't attach enough pride

to our history.

Allow me to make a very nasty example.

I've been asking the community for the last

2 weeks,

when we witnessed the ceremony

of Michael Jackson.

I was

impressed with

the reverend that spoke at Jackson's ceremony.

But if people can celebrate Michael Jackson

and remember him for his moonwalk even though

he never reached the moon,

If we can celebrate the character of people

in the music world,

why can't we celebrate the dignity and the

honor of the Quran?

I think this community have a problem.

It seems not to identify

abilities and leadership in our community. And strange

enough,

a lot of things in our community was

achieved by individual people.

When you talk about the Masajid in Cape

Town, a 150

Masajid,

you have to talk about the individual vision

of Santi Fandakkad.

If you talk about liberation in the Quran

and the preservation of the Quran,

you have to talk about Tuam

Guru.

If you have to talk about the father

of Islam and the resistance

against the colonial masters, you have to talk

about Tuam Yusuf.

And so you can journey the names of

individuals

and will find that this community will do

themselves proud.

Only we have one occasion

where we celebrate the achievements

of individual people that brought us to where

we are tonight.

We celebrate the success

of Darul Fookhan,

the success of the 2 ladies.

Can you imagine that this is an unstoppable

movement?

I, myself and Sheikh Ibrahim, returned, approximately a

week ago from the Middle East.

In one of the meetings in Istanbul under

the auspices of Sheikh Yousuf Badawi,

the representative

of the International Union for the Muslim Scholars,

of which we are members,

from the Gaza stood up and he gave

a report on the Gaza.

Gaza stood up and he gave a report

on the Gaza. Sir, I want the world

to know that the people in the Gaza

is now more equipped

to handle the Israelis.

We are now more powerful than prior to

the 22 day war against us.

And I must tell you that for a

moment, I thought

that he was talking of the ability that

they have enhanced, the Katyusha rockets

or the Tassar rockets.

And then to our great surprise,

with great

enemies of the man said,

our preparation to challenge

the Zionist

is more of our children and people are

becoming half in the

The Zionists have spent the last 60 years

in trying to confuse the minds

of weak

souls in the Muslim Ummah.

Weak souls even amongst Palestinians,

except for those

let Sheikh Hassan describe

that the Quran have become part of their

blood.

And so our congratulations

tonight to Muhammadu Ma'isha

after 10 years of strife.

Now, Jamaican, if we have seen the caliber

here

tonight, and we see the

exhibition

of and

your beautiful faces here,

I am sure that when we see value

and African

that we don't want to put our money

where our deed is.

Hafiz students

always have to go for the crumbs.

Imams and all of us always have to

go for the crumbs.

The imbalances in our communities must be challenged.

We build mosque,

and we beautify the domes and the binarats

that cannot defend Islam.

Show me in the entire history of Islam

where a beautiful domes ever defended Islam.

In fact, in the painful history of Andalus

in Spain,

many masajid were turned into something else.

A million rand on the minaret

and 2,000,000 rand on the mosque carpet.

But the same budget is not spent for

the mind that must make subdued on the

carpet.

And so we have to engage the list

of priorities

and say

that the prestige

tonight

belongs to all of us,

and that we will begin to seriously spend

our money

so that institutions who produce for 5th

must not begin to speculate on the 24th

of every month.

Will everybody be there

to pay their dues

so that the school can function?

And under an economic crisis today,

many business institutions

have to think about closing business.

Half of its schools and madrasas and massages

have been going through an economic crisis

for the last 300 years, and it has

never closed.

And it will never close.

Le'an nafihi and barakah,

because we survive from the barakah

of Allah Subhanahu

wa ta'ala.

I pray that this institute will grow from

strength to strength inshallah.

And the seed that has been planted on

the eve of 10th anniversary

will produce more hafilaat inshallah

so that the future of this

will be well protected and well safeguarded inshallah.

Allah reward us all and all our duas

for the success of Dawud