Johari Abdul-Malik – 3rd Khutbah 5192017
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The upcoming month ofoplas is recognized as the month of the new month for Islam, where sharing guidance and words will transform society and empower people. There is a need for forgiveness and justice, equality, and freedom in society. Islam is important for empowering people to run and run in a way that is not equal, and bringing guests to join the community is essential. Finding ways to make Muslim children have the same civil rights and liberties as everybody else is important, and a Sunday meeting is also emphasized. The importance of bringing guests to join the community is also emphasized.
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Beginning to put us in doing was praising
a lot.
And
for so many gifts,
none of us
who are present
can in any way
forget
that we are at
the eve,
the
dawn
of an amazingly
powerful time
for our lives.
But but can they lack a powerful moment
for their time at work?
We are approaching
the month of Ramadan.
And I want to share with you in
the left
that maybe from this month,
we can acquire
something
that will cause us
when we enter it, if Allah allows us
to live to enter it,
the section of the Quran so
that he would share it with his companions
at times and at places that would empower
them.
You see, for us,
Quran.
Islam.
We know that the
son
of
a
brother
who is trustworthy.
We know that the son of the prophet
his life and his. We know
when there was corruption,
the prophet
provided guidance and and for all.
He comes from an old family even though
he's an old.
He's not in the cave because he's trying
to fix some problem with himself.
And Allah
gives
him something
to go back to his people with.
Go back and tell the people.
There is guidance
that they can apply on their own. They
need and put that.
They need this book.
And if they have it,
you
will be able to transform
their society
from what it is
to what Allah wants it to be.
The power
in that experience, those words,
revealed to the prophet
calling them
not to see
the city of Mecca as it is,
but to envision a Mecca that is Muhammad.
Of the poor by the rich.
Then the prophet is
going to go to that society
and provide them the guidance
to transform
them
into a life
and way of life,
a being that would be
acceptable to Allah.
That
this idea
came down in the month of Ramadan.
I'm going to challenge
you and I
the beginning,
when
the era of the new month decided
and for you and I, it's the month
of Ramadan. For everybody else, it'll still be
made.
And you'll think you're walking around and it's
made.
You're gonna read more than anything that you
read all year.
You're gonna pray more than you pray all
year.
You're gonna give one of the kind that
you gave all year.
You're gonna study, memorize. You're gonna
you. You're gonna study, memorize. You're gonna seek
forgiveness. You're gonna do everything that you can
do in the mother of
God if you lift it if you lift
it.
Tremendous
power
that Allah will provide to you from that
message,
words that will be transformed.
A vision of the
world different than the vision of the world
that your neighbors
believe in today.
If your neighbor is watching television,
your neighbor thinks that we can't own this
together.
Your neighbor thinks that they want the FA
UX news.
They think that
if you're a Muslim, probably,
you'll secretly
worried. You're going to every single person that
you know. You're killing yourself trying to make
down, Don't worry. A lot of got this.
That's
the problem with the problem, son, son.
Our problem is the opposite.
On Friday.
They have full access to it. They don't
need Wi Fi. Tell
them when they left. What's happening?
Because without you,
they won't know.
I don't want you to turn
the mess made in Ramadan
into the cave
where you go into the cave every night
and you you do so I have to
you stay all night, but I have to
I'm inviting you
to. Invite his neighbor
like the prophet from Allah, invited
his name.
And then tell the neighbors what it's all
about.
That there's some words that the prophet was
given from Allah. They have come.
From Allah.
They have power.
There's a vision
of how society should be that's outlined in
the Quran.
Justice, equality, freedom.
And then go into action.
Well, I
I can tell
you maybe I don't know. Maybe
Maybe when I was younger,
if you saw me in the parking lot
at night,
you might be afraid.
So who's that black man in the parking
lot over there by my car?
He doesn't look like he.
What's he doing here?
You did it.
Now you're not nervous anymore because it takes
long. Oh, that's the
for us,
I don't
want you to have a Ramadan,
which is what it is.
I'm asking Allah
to help us
that you have this year, Ramadan is in
strong year.
Then
when you leave the look of Ramadan,
you will have experienced something that, somehow, Allah,
it will
you. Like,
Umar ibn Fatah al Rahim Allah, and they
say he used to.
If he's going down the the alley
one way,
so I can't go the other way
because there's
the other way because there's a certain power
that comes from the knowledge,
from the experience,
from the commitment
to this being that when others see it
to run along,
they will either be drawn to it because
they like the light of Allah,
or they will run because they are afraid
of what will happen
if they they
are
on the wrong side of the mosque.
I I was listening the other day to
a good friend of mine,
and he was giving a lecture.
And he said,
in the book of Ramadan,
there's one night.
It as legal
cover.
There there's something
I mean, it could've been a lot of
good trouble in anything.
But to use the word
cover,
people translate it as
power. Excellence.
There's something about
the event of of descending
this Quran
that should
empower us.
You know,
we reminded our reminds us all the people
who have knowledge like the people who don't
have knowledge.
They're not equal.
We're gonna win. They're like, We were worried,
and we saw a lot of people on
Islamophobia
not liking us.
You wanna know without the end of our
fairness.
If you start looking at the for after
news,
not the the Internet to lose. You're looking
for after news. I have
I'm
a living down forever. All I have to
do is what? And then again, I don't
know. Why do you suffer?
For us to have a deadline,
this is in the country.
It should have power
This is in the country. It should empower
us.
I would like
to encourage you to help us to acquire
some power in this community.
This Sunday,
through our
organizing this community,
the chairman of the chairman of the board
of county supervisors, we have had meetings with
them to say come to because
we have some issues
as Muslims
who live in this community.
One of our agents,
our children, most of them go to public
school.
I know Mohammed Karriyah, some of them, they
come on the weekend. They come for pass
and learn on Thursday. They come
to the weekend for out of school, but
most of
them, maybe 97%
of Muslim children
go to Fairfax County Public Schools.
So what we gonna do?
So we had a meeting with the chairman
of the schoolboy,
They said, you know, what's the difference? School
will still be in.
The Muslim children have to
and we have enough power to compel him
to meet with us.
So we said we also need to have
a meeting with the superintendent
of schools
because we don't just want it to be
yes. Stewart has something, but t, TC Williams
doesn't have
and we'll be with your community. We told
them we're gonna bring
those who are joining with us in voice,
but didn't organize the interfaith community. We're gonna
bring them all together and say, we all
are gonna stand together as a community
to make sure that Muslim children
have the same civil rights and civil liberties
that everybody else has to practice their religion
freely.
And we're going to ask you to make
your commitment
to us,
not in the back office.
You know how that happens sometimes.
You meet at the back, and they tell
you everything's gonna be okay.
And then nothing happens.
So we told them we'll have about 4,
500 people
on Sunday, and they'll hit it up this
Sunday.
3:30 to 5 o'clock.
And we're gonna ask you,
school board,
superintendent of schools,
county supervisor,
to commit in public,
to accommodate
Muslim children in Ramadan,
to accommodate Guma, to accommodate
things a lot, to make sure our girls
can wear the proper
And
we have to show up
without power.
It's the.
The right is now to move the peace
in that.
So
So I'm inviting.
I'm not inviting.
I'm challenging
you to come and join us,
whether you have children
in school
or not.
Because all of these children
are our children.
This Sunday,
3:30,
right here in this room,
until 5 o'clock.
To say that we stand with our children,
if we laugh,
so that they can get the benefit of
Ramadan,
they might empower them
to become better Muslims.
Brothers and since tonight, you know, I apologize
this time that ends.
And, I know you have to get back
to you, to your pain,
some of you.
So I ask the
to have mercy on you and replace the
time that we've taken with something better.
For our feet as you met my faith.
Oh, lord. We pray
that you might bless us in our prayers.
Also, I should
remind you that on Saturday,
between Assur and South Asia,
we're having a fantastic
Quran competition.
Please come and join
us. Bring us benefit to.