Johari Abdul-Malik – Faith in Action
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Beginning
the today
praising Allah,
thanking Allah for
so many blessings we cannot count them.
SubhanAllah,
the gift of this guidance from Allah Quran.
The gift of
the example of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam.
And those that followed them, alhamdulillah,
in the example
of all of the India,
sending
a very, very
simple message
to all of humanity
for all time.
Haqq of Allah until the day of judgment.
Today, the
few minutes we have together,
I'm going to try to
share with you
probably
for me,
what
has been
the most
important
lesson
from
Islam
for me.
My
how I know that maybe it's not just
a favorite
set of
phrases or ayat from the Quran, that is
not just me,
is because
according to what I read, Imam Shafi'i Rahimullah
like said that there was nothing else revealed
of the Quran except this.
It would be enough to guide all of
humankind
to the straight path.
In that Surah,
there is
a phrase,
not even the whole
just a phrase
that Allah repeats in the Quran
over
2 dozen times.
When Allah repeats something, out of Allah's mercy,
out of
Allah's mercy,
out of Allah's mercy.
It's important.
Many of you,
I know
at Dara
Hijra, those on the web watching us,
but here,
maybe Dara Hijra, the Islamic Center, we have
maybe 37
different languages
spoken in this masjid.
Every people will tell you,
whatever their language,
that when their mother was trying to teach
them a lesson,
She would say it
over and over
and over again.
The mother, she'll say,
how many times do I have to tell
you?
Ali, clean your room.
If I told you once, I told you
a 1000 times,
this is the mother
because there's some helm.
There's something of a sustenance
that the mother has
that out of the mercy Allah placed in
her, she will tell you over and over
again, reminding you.
And over
again, reminding you
so that you will know
what's important.
Allah reminds us in the Quran
this phrase.
He always remind us when we think of
not to think of
as faith.
Because
faith is something people can say that they
have.
I have faith in
the supreme court
that they don't make the right decision. That's
not Iman.
He says, I'm an Iman is a relationship,
a connection that you have with Allah
that causes you to function
in a certain way.
I'm a little sorry hat.
Deeds that are righteous.
Let me give you the example of the
mother.
They're the child.
They've been raised by their mother. They love
their mother.
And when their friends ask them to do
something that would displease
their mother,
even though they may like it.
They say, yeah, but if I get caught
doing that, my mother will never forgive me.
I know some men,
they say, I want to marry a woman.
But if my mother doesn't like her, I
can't marry her
because I don't want to displease
my mother.
There is disconnection.
If we have this for our mothers,
how much more to have that not with
the one who gave birth to us but
the one who created us. That connection, well,
hamdila, amen. If that relationship is right, then,
well, hamdila, everything
is right.
Actions
that are pleasing to Allah.
For many of us,
maybe
if we want to think about
our
actions,
if they're rooted in Iman,
then you should be able to see it.
People should be able to tell you about
it.
People should be able to tell you about
it.
This masjid is a masjid
that I believe is really built
on this concept of
Iman and Amal.
That
our
fundraising
dinner, the theme this year
is faith
in action. Because,
well,
this is what Allah
is calling on us to do
in
after.
But I have observed that there are some
misagit.
They're only a place for sojude,
while the people around them
suffer.
Allah reminds us in Surat Al Mar'un
that this there are some people who they
pray
for.
They they they woe to those people
that they pray,
but they don't care about
the fear of their neighbor.
This masjid is not that masjid.
This is a masjid, Alhamdulillah,
Allah calls us to establish it.
We pray in it.
We raise our children in it. We feed
our neighbor in it. We take care of
the homeless in it. We fight for civil
rights and the civil liberties in this masjid.
It
is
the epitome of
How do we do it?
We do it all together.
For me,
I believe that's part of why
you see so many people that don't hit
your own
because you can feel a sense
that is not just a place for sujood.
It's a place for Islam.
It's a place for Muslims.
It's a place for dawah.
That, alhamdulillah,
Allah
has blessed us
to be a part of this jamaah.
That, alhamdulillah,
we enjoin what is good
and we forbid what is evil.
Now, many of you probably
know
Myself and many others,
we chose Islam.
We weren't born
Christian or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist.
We were all born
in the state of Purity,
believing
that
somewhere there's
something
that created us.
And we're going to commit our lives to
reconnecting with a man
to the source that created us Allah.
But I can tell you,
I grew up a Christian.
I went to church
almost every Sunday.
Doctor. Hassan, you probably don't notice. I used
to sing in the choir
too.
So I used to sit right behind the
priest when he would
lecture.
Guided by Allah. But one of the big
elements that struck me is that when I
met
Muslims,
Muslims would say to me, what I was
raised to believe, and then they would do
it. I was raised
to believe, and then they would do it.
I was raised to
believe, and then they would do it. I
was raised to believe, and then they would
do it. I was raised to believe, and
then they would do it. I was raised
to believe, and then they would do it.
I was raised with the
idea that all people
before Allah, they're equal.
No racism.
But then when I would go to different
churches,
I would find
racism.
Go to 1 church, black church. Everybody in
the church, black.
Black black everything. Black Jesus, black God, everything.
It's all the pictures black.
You go to white church, white Jesus, white
angels, white God, everything white.
You said, that's that can't be
what the bible is saying?
Then you go then you go to the
masjid and you say, Well, where's the picture
of God? And they say, We don't have
a picture of God. You
be like, that's what the Bible was talking
about.
That's the iman that I that Allah put
in us.
When I went
to the different religious groups, everybody was hung
up on their own race. But I found
the masjid. I found the diversity.
I found people from all over the world,
all bowing, all praying
the way the bible said you should be
praying.
I don't know if you heard me.
When you
are standing in salah,
you are praying the way the bible says
Christians and Jews should be praying.
In the book of Nehemiah
8 verse 6,
Ezra
raised hands to the Lord,
the great God,
and all of the people said,
amen.
And then he bowed
and prostrated
with his face on the ground.
Now if you can imagine
being a Christian, meeting Muslims, go to the
masjid and see them do what the Old
Testament
said they should be doing. That Jesus in
the New Testament
fell on his face in the Garden of
Gethsemane
praying to God.
When we meet them
and we talk about what we believe in
and then we do what the bible, what
the Quran
says we should be doing
in
the
When
we are saying
we believe in diversity,
you know, they preamble the constitution
with all men
created equal and endowed by their creator.
And then you go and you see where
they are and then you say, wait a
minute. There's not a whole lot of equality
going on over here.
And then you meet Muslims.
And you see the hat.
Today, I'm saying to you
part of why I became Muslim
was not just because
I had found
the truth.
Many of us, we embraced
Islam
so that we could join with other people
to establish
the remembrance of Allah the way Allah should
be remembered.
We became Muslim
and joined with other people who would fast
the way the prophet fasted.
I want you to know we're in Lent
right now
where the Christians are fasting.
But if you ask them,
how do you fast?
You ask 10 people, you get 15 different
answers.
Well, or more.
Then you say to them,
Fasting was prescribed
for you
as it was prescribed for you.
They
follow it exactly as the Quran gave
the
big outline,
Fasting for so many days
in the way of Rasulullah SAWSAW, the way
the prophet fasted. You can go anywhere in
the world.
Shiite, Sunni, Sufi, Hanafi. I don't care what
you call them.
When the when the halal of Ramadan comes,
bam, everybody's stopped.
Black, white, red, yellow, green, don't make any
difference.
Now is our challenge. I'm gonna tell you
right now.
We're living in America.
It's showtime.
It's not enough to say
that we practice Islam in America.
We got to establish
and maintain
Islam in America.
Not just for us,
but to establish
the institutions
for our children and our grandchildren
and our great grandchildren.
I know some of you have the myth
of return. I'm going back home one day.
And leave the rest of your family behind
in America.
Because trust me, if you're going back, they
ain't going back.
They're part of this.
And if you want to
figure out why Allah puts you here,
why Allah left some other people over there
catching *.
And a lot spared
you. It's because you're here for a reason.
To do something.
This weekend,
we're having the fundraising
dinner to
support this masjid
and the amazing,
amazing work
that is done
by men and women
in this institution
on your behalf.
They take your money
and they convert it
from from
dollars
into Dean.
They take your dollar and they convert your
dollar into Amelous Solly hat.
Of
judgment, you'll be like, wow, man, where did
all
of this come from? This hair is like
a mountain. They saw it came because
from that money that you gave, they used
to house homeless people.
They used to feed hungry families.
They used to fight for the freedom
so that we could practice
Islam in our children and our children's children's
generation.
That's what this fundraising dinner is about.
It is not about the chicken
even though it's halal.
It's not about the entertainment.
It's not about dressing up.
It's about coming, well hamdiddlyla, with something to
give
that will be for your dunya
and your.
It is
our community.
It's our masjid.
Art.
To be Khalifa
art. Not leaders
of the earth, not rulers of the earth,
but people who would have the obligation
of
establishing
the deen of Islam
from 1 generation
to the next generation.
That is our job.
May Allah make us successful.
Oh Allah, guide us among those whom you
have guided.
Oh Allah, take us as a friend as
you have taken the
Ibrahim Alaihi Salam as a friend.
Oh Allah, help us
that you might preserve and protect and guide
us and our families You Allah. Oh Allah,
we ask that you grant us,
grant us a righteous income, you Allah. Oh
Allah, strengthen us through these difficult days, you
Allah,
profiling
and Muslim ban and,
immigration.
You Allah, open the door, alhamdulillah,
of your mercy upon us.
Oh, Allah, we ask, alhamdulillah,
that you help us to stand for what
is right. Oh, Allah, we ask, alhamdulillah,
that you secure our families, subhanallah.
Put love between our hearts during these difficult
days, You Allah. Oh, Lord, fill our hearts
with love and compassion,
all our love for you and love for
each other, You Allah. Oh, Lord, we ask,
alhamdulillah,
open the doors of guidance and forgiveness and
mercy, You Allah. All are provide us with
with
dua, You Allah. For those who are suffering,
You Allah. Not only around the corner, but
around the world. All are help us to
be among those who help. All are help
us to be among those who help.
Oh, Allah. Help us to be among those
people
that on the day of judgment, you will
enter them with with with no
interrogation. You Allah. Oh, Allah. We ask
for peace for this world.
O Allah, we ask for your mercy and
your peace on the prophet
and on his family and on his companions,
and all of the and those who followed
the way of your Haqq, you Allah, until
the day of judgment.