Ihsaan Hendricks – 2019-09-25 – Islamic Heritage
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Respected all and all.
He and his brothers,
sisters,
listeners of radio, voice of the Cape,
fellow South Africans,
our honorable and senior imam,
and the present
here today.
Oh, praise and thanks be to the
and to whom belongs the kingdom
of the skies and the earth,
whatever exists between the 2
and beyond the 2.
Today signifies
a very
special
day, not only for the community
of Sunflay,
but indeed
for the community of South Africa.
Coming to the masjid here today for the
occasion
of the very first
official Tumah
after the establishment
and the building of this Masjid in 1958
means that after 60 years
after 60 years,
the Jama'a
today for the first time
performed salatul Jum'a
in this masjid.
May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
this community
with his divine barakah in Rama.
It is not something to take for granted.
Neither is it just ceremonial.
Because
today when people open Masjid
and Islamic centers, it can be regarded as
ceremonial. It is nice.
And after 7 days, it's a forgotten story.
But here, we are not here today for
the niceties of it.
We are here to recognize
that in fact the existence
of Islam,
the identity
of Islam in Zanfelay
precedes
the building of this masjid in 1958.
When we come to this particular
geographical
space
in our country, South Africa,
then we are coming to a place geographically
that carries the footprints
of those who came here
and who established the identity
of Islam.
And therefore, coming to Zenfel today to perform
the Jummah Ayah and to share in the
joy
with this community.
We must recognize
that this community
here became
a symbol
of the survival
of the Islamic identity,
not of the Muslims of the Western Cape,
but a symbol
of preserving the identity of Islam in South
Africa.
Because if the historians
will teach us
the history of Zanflee
and where the footprints of the early Muslims
who arrived here, then just try to imagine
what was this landscape
300 years possibly.
What was it like?
And so what was the required
dedication that was required
by the men and women who came here
Yeah.
And who amongst the bushes of this area
with the limitation of the urbanization
of facilities
had to imagine themselves
to stabilize themselves in this area.
And that to build an Islamic identity
so that
years after them,
long after they have left this world,
we, this community,
will have everything
on a golden platter of Islam.
May Allah bestow his mercy
on all of them
and grant them the highest place in Jannah.
Today, we have the luxury.
We read in books
about the sacrifices
of our forefathers.
And in fact, sometimes we don't even read
it correctly.
We read it with a skew mind.
We read it with the intention of controversy.
Instead,
in the great great classical writings
of Sheikh Abu Hassan Ali al Nadawi,
men
of Islamic
saviors of Islamic spirit.
That is the spirit of how we should
read
Zanflee.
That is the spirit of how we should
read
the arrival of the early Muslim community here.
That
and the most difficult circumstances,
they navigated
through
all of these complexities
but they preserve.
Are we yet to Islam?
The identity
of Islam.
If we talk of sunflay today,
then we must record
that sunflay not only
the symbol for preserving
the identity of Islam,
but the sunflay
must go
as a reference
of resistance
against Dutch colonialism.
A reference against
British colonialism,
a reference against
the then apartheid Russia's regime
that our Muslims in areas of
this
simplicity and the humbleness.
And therefore,
in a similar aspect,
as at times
we
miss the importance
When
Allah as we just
completed the month of Arjab,
very little do we reflect
on why
the geographical
journey
between Makkah and Baytul Maqdis.
Before we go into the extraordinary
details,
then we should reflect on the geographical
space of Makkah Al Mukher Rama.
And similarly, the geographical space
of Baytul Maqdis.
And begin to imagine
what was Mecca
5000 years ago when Nabi Ibrahim alaihis salatu
wa salam arrived in Makkal
And of course, his first supplication.
Oh, Allah make this a land
of safety and security.
And perhaps maybe the early Muslims
who came here, not perhaps,
most definitely,
when
they arrived here,
their complaint was not,
where is the 5 star hotel?
They didn't search for 5 star hotel.
They didn't search for the
ostentatious
architectural
homes that we have today.
We can imagine
with the strength of the iyateen
how much
they
have prayed to the almighty Allah
to bless
this piece of land.
And that is why it is very difficult
to just listen to people
who become critical of our tradition,
where on a Thursday evening,
our community gather and they make the radical
haddah.
And, of course, whether
300
years ago,
whether the Arabic was perfect
or less perfect,
I think the one thing that was perfect
was that the class was perfect.
So whether 300
years ago,
they made the figure,
And we now become critical.
It's not.
It is.
Then we say the perfection of the Arabic
tongue
is perhaps may be correct,
but the perfection of the niyyah was stronger
than the tongue in Arabic.
That is why we survived.
That is why we survived.
So it is immaterial
if a new graduate comes from an Islamic
University
and he swallowed
the Arabic dictionary.
And you know what? If you come back
from your studies,
You are more fascinated with yourself
than anything else.
You know, it's like one day my late
father asked me,
So we must recognize
that our elderly people had great wisdom.
How smart we may be today.
How competent we may be today
in, science and technology,
and, all the contemporary facilities that we have.
We cannot deny
at 300 years ago
for our early fathers
and mothers
to have navigated through the enclave.
And Makassar
and this particular area
must have been
extraordinary.
So we are not here just today
to celebrate,
but we are here to recognize.
And today that it coincides
the Jumuah today here coincides
with the freedom day of this country.
The Muslim community
must be in the forefront
of social justice.
We must be in the forefront
of building this country.
We must be in the forefront to say,
do not forget
that the Muslim community
of
is a reference of integrity,
a reference of the citizenship of this country.
And so
my respected brothers and sisters,
listeners of radio voice of the king.
Occasions like this
does not come every day.
It comes very rarely.
For some of us today,
this will be
once
in a lifetime.
I am sitting here today and I don't
even know whether I will experience
another occasion like this in history.
And that is why
today what we have here today,
we must preserve it
so that in the next generation
we will have
the contentment
that we left a solid foundation
for the future generation to come into. Amen.
Amen.
All those people who already enjoy
the extra oath in their rahmah on their
faces.
White beard.
Those who have gray hair.
Your time
is very limited.
The elderly people must die.
The Arab poet said,
come in.
How many a healthy person
died? And how many a sickly person
recovered?
And therefore,
do not take this gathering today for granted.
Because
about tomorrow,
none of us know
what is going to happen tomorrow.
And therefore, barakallahu,
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless our honorable
honorable
imam.
And all the imams who serve here,
and the families who sacrifice.
We must place on the record, I could
have come here today and give you an
only encyclopedia
of the Jum'ah,
but I want to embrace the simple aspects
and say
that the broader community of Cape Town and
since we are on the radio voice of
the Cape,
the only thing that we should remember
or that we should not just remember
this area
is don't just remember it because we come
here Easter time.
In fact, it should be our day to
day thinking
that when the early Muslims were expelled to
this particular area.
They build their identity
so that in the rest of today,
we have a very smart Muslim community.
But this is where
the resistance
the actual resistance took place here.
If we read Surah Yassin,
then we actually see
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
praise the man who comes from the distant
part of the city.
Because
it is sometimes
that the people who live within that vicinity,
who are exposed
to all the benefits
cannot see the height of it.
And then Allah brings
somebody
from a desperate
position,
and he sees
that in the time
of Labi Musa,
Ananias salatu wa sallam.
The man came from the furthest part of
the city,
and he understood immediately
what was happening
and understood the signs.
Brothers
and sisters,
we have the responsibility
to preserve
for the young
generation here in Zanzibaly
and Makassar and this entire region.
If today is the first time
that we perform
the Jummah,
and the Jummah
is indeed
a very integral part of our deen.
The Quran is very clear about the status
of Jum'ah.
And so
the day of Jum'ah is saying
it is the leader of all the days.
There are many significance around the day of
Jum'ah,
and so we are extraordinary
in receiving the barakah
of this occasion here today.
I hope
that what we experience here today
will preserve
the unity of this community.
Amen. Amen.
It will preserve the brotherhood of this community.
Amen.
It will preserve, since also men said, Africans,
Because I must tell
you, the day at the click of a
finger,
a community gets split.
People fight with one another because they don't
all wear the same faces.
People fight with one another because they don't
all wear the same jubbas.
People fight with one another today because
of simple aspects.
And not only
that,
they are ready to go to the deepest
end,
and it is not part of our identity.
So if the early Muslims who came here,
how did they build this community?
What did
With what did they build this community?
They build this community
with Yaqeen.
So increase in your Yaqeen and our Yaqeen.
How did they build this community?
They built this community with.
So I ask that all of us increase
our Tawakkul.
How did they build this community?
With
love
with brotherhood.
Preserve
this brotherhood.
How did they build this community?
They built this community
because they understood
that once upon a time,
there was a classical community
That the characteristics
of the and
the
that
the used to give preference
to the needs of the about themselves
even if poverty was made to become
I'm sure that the communities who live here
don't need to be called the task
of what it is
to share
a bread
with your neighbor.
What it was to share,
to what's my say in Central Africa,
which is sacred,
a which is milk,
and a which is meal.
Was our blessed.
And our street was restaurant.
And we stopped up our bridges
and our covered with so much of food
that we have forgotten
about the aspect of the neighbor.
But because we have come to the point
where we don't cook food like that anymore,
our mothers and forefathers
used to prepare it like this.
This is where we damage our identity.
We sometimes look for the highly sophisticated
things,
but then we destroy
it at the very simple things.
And those simple things made our
forefathers
thrive. Enough they had for one another.
The concern they had for one another.
And so I conclude my message
and I am
very happy
not as a guest speaker yet today. I'm
not here as a as a guest speaker.
I insisted with Muhammad al Khaliq
that you are the imam,
But when he insisted that I should be
here, I felt very happy
that the community
was ready to include me
to share
in this today.
We are in need of
our grandfathers
and grandmothers and great grandfathers,
great grandmothers.
Allah give them the highest name of their
heart. Amen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala please.
And this community will be protected, inshallah. Amen.
And that this community will grow
from strength to strength.
Amen. And brothers,
if this is the first Jumal today,
my name is.
And the reason why I say my name
is
so that you can remember.
Close the gaps.
Close the gaps.
The losses they
get
And
then after that,
the community
will be
scattered.
But, of course, no income,
you say,
Recorded for history.
All our brothers and our sisters here and
the community is wonderful to be here today,
for Jumah.
And I hope
that,
we will
see many more
prosperous
years for this community.
Inshallah.
We have
a request that we make to and
to.
You know, our
this is a very sensitive
period that we are in now.
Keeping in mind the Palestinian people, their resistance.
And, of course, the initiative of the
marches that is taking place in Palestine
leading up to the Nakba on 15th
May.
Our brother Mohammed Desai,
who is
a young activist
and who leads the BDS,
campaign and works very closely
with the MGC, Malabakalik,
myself, and UNS.
We are planning
the big march for the 15th
May,
in solidarity with the Palestinian people,
the Nakba, the catastrophe
of 1948.
So we've asked,
brother Mohammed Desai to join us here for
the barakah of this Jum'ah.
And because the barakah of radio voice of
the Cape is here
and ITV is here, And so, again, today,
Zalefele will
demonstrate
to South Africa and the world
that this is indeed
the center
of Islamic identity
in this country.
So, Malana, shall we take few minutes now?
Freedom. Yes, sir.
And so I'm very humbled to to join
you here today.
We we are preparing to go into the
month of Ramadan.
The month of Ramadan,
one of the beauties of the month of
Ramadan
is that there's an increase
and then a heightened sense of Taqwa,
of Allah consciousness.
It was indeed
in this month of Ramadan that one of
the most important battles
in the history of Islam took place.