Johari Abdul-Malik – Myanmar Feel The Snake Bitenot The Whisper
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Beginning the Khutbatul Jummah praising Allah
and thanking Allah
for having guided us, walhamdulillah,
to the Deen of Islam.
That, walhamdulillah,
the great gift
of being guided
should not be underestimated.
That, walhamdulillah,
something about you
made you answer the call
that you would give up
any idea
of worshiping
or obeying
or following
a way of life
that would be against the one who created
all of our lives.
You should congratulate yourselves,
that when the whisper of
Shaitan
came to you,
and we are reminded in the Quran that
the wasuisu,
the whisper of Shaitan,
is ever present,
trying to call people away
from what is right.
And subhanAllah,
the whisper comes in every language,
every occasion when it's an opportunity
to decide between right and wrong.
And so we learn in the last
Surah of the Quran,
Whispering
into the hearts
of human beings
to do something
other
than what God Almighty
would have them do.
We are blessed
to have been sent prophets, guides and messengers
over the millennia
to continue
to remind
us,
culminating with Muhammad
the last of
those prophets
giving us the guidance,
still preserved in the Arabic language that it
was revealed in
the Quran.
Well, Alhamdulillah,
Allah
reminds us in the Quran,
This ummah of yours, the the ummah that
you have embraced
is 1.
That community, subhanAllah,
saying that
we now have put aside
the beautiful
diversity that Allah has created us in
to recognize
that That all of us have come from
the same source.
Maybe the dirt is a different color.
You go to Saudi Arabia, they have one
color, dirt.
You go to some part in Africa, they
have different kind of dirt.
All different kind of complexions of dirt.
But all of us come from,
from the elements that make up this earth,
dirt.
And all of us are going to return.
When we return,
it's up to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That's
not our affair.
But know that, alhamdulillah,
Allah has created us different
for a reason. Allah has put you here
in Jumuwah today
for a reason, not by accident.
There in America, there are many places you
can go for Jumuwah. Excuse me, brother. There's
no talking in the Jumuwah.
Maybe you came just for that. Assalamu alaikum.
There is no talking during the Jumuah Khutba.
No talking.
Alhamdulillah.
That, well, alhamdulillah,
Allah put us here
because
we are following in the example of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Put us here because it's the time of
Jum'ah. You leave your work, you leave whatever
you're doing to come and gather as one
ummah.
Doctor Martin Luther King, he said, the most
segregated
hour in America
is Sunday at 11 o'clock.
Some of you all don't know that's when
they have church.
Some of you all don't know that, because
I grew up a Christian. I know that.
Sunday 11 o'clock,
most segregated hour in America,
probably the most
diverse
hour in America,
is Friday
at the time of Junwa.
Most diverse
gatherings in America
happen every week.
Why? Because
because this is 1.
Now, if you say
that this is who we are,
then it requires
something from us.
The requirement
from the narration of a hadith from Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he reminds us that
the ummah is like
one body.
You know, the body has different parts. Some
part, they they call the arms and legs
the extremities.
There's some parts of the body, they're far
away from
the main part of the body,
the thorax.
The heart is here,
but blood still has to flow to the
feet and the hands
even though they are far away.
He said the example
of the Ummah is like 1 body that
if one part of the body hurts,
I want you to think about it for
a minute.
My
foot,
if I step on something, if a snake
bites me,
my hand
automatically
reaches out to protect the foot.
It doesn't think about,
you know, there was a snake right there,
the snake might bite me.
The hand
begins to look, how can I pick up
something to kill the snake?
Because I have to defend
part of my body.
When you are part of 1 body,
the whole body reacts
when one part of the body is endangered,
when the stomach is hungry,
it's craving to be fed,
the brain begins to operate,
how can I provide
sustenance
for my hungry body?
I'm thirsty. There's nothing for me to drink.
My arms and legs begin start to move
in a direction to get me something to
drink.
Fast. During the time when it's
hot and you're fasting,
finally your body
begins to sweat. Why? Because the whole body
is working together.
Why? Because the whole body is working together
under the conditions,
maybe of danger or of hunger or of
thirst.
Today,
and this has been going on for months,
months going into years,
that there is a part of the body
that is hurting.
And right now,
the particular
part of the body is located in the
place they used to call Burma.
They now call it Myanmar.
Probably it was named Myanmar before and then
some people came and changed the name
to Burma.
So they're going back to their identity.
And in that
place,
maybe that extremity, we
don't like to think about the pain,
but the Burmese
are suffering,
and among them,
the Burmese Muslims, the Myanmar Muslims, the Rohingya
Muslims
are suffering.
They are suffering under a 21st century genocide.
Now we have been organizing
demonstrations
and rallies
to apply political pressure.
But in the meantime,
we need to do something
about the danger and the hunger and the
thirst
that the Rohingya Muslims are experiencing today.
I want to ask you
to make du'a,
that Allah
in this hour, the hadith of the Prophet
said, there is an hour in the day
of Jummah,
that the supplication
of my servant
is answered.
We ask Allah
to have mercy on the people in Myanmar,
to have mercy on the Rohingya,
that Allah
would preserve them and protect them,
provide them with every facility, alhamdulillah,
that they continue to be connected to us
in the body of Islam.
Alhamdulillah rabbilahaminu salaahu salaamu rasulihikareem
You know, Allah reminds us in the Quran,
and
for those of you who know me,
I
love this particular
Surah,
particularly to recite it out loud
in Jama'ah.
If we want to know where the help
of Allah is gonna come from,
It's going to come when the parts of
the body
come together.
Around saying, lailaillallah,
Muhammadar Rasulallah, and then following it
with deeds of righteousness. I'm a lusalihat.
That's what it's about.
You know, some people we had some guests
here from different religions today. We were meeting
before the Jummah. They said, why did you
become Muslim?
Because I found in Islam
people who
say
what they do.
They don't say, we love all of humanity,
but we're racist.
Oh, you know, we're for moral and upright
behavior, but we gamble.
I found most of us. I found in
the Umar Rasool Allah SWA
a relationship between
what you say
and what you do.
And so when the Quran says the victory
will come,
it's a guarantee
it will come.
But Islam has to be more than talk.
It has to be converted
into action.
Right now,
there is a worldwide
crisis
of racist nationalism worldwide.
It's the opposite of Islam.
Worldwide,
look in France and Germany,
skinheads,
anti
non European racism.
Look in England, Brexit.
We don't want those people here.
Some of them been there
100 of years. We don't want them people
here.
We wanted we wanted them when we when
they were our colony, we were exploiting them.
Now that they're not a colony, we don't
want them anymore.
Check it out.
The United States of America,
and I'm I'm an original I'm a I'm
a Richel Asli. I'm an original American. I
love America.
But
there's
race of the snake
raising its ugly head in America. Racism.
Ku Klux Klan just murdered somebody a month
ago down in in Virginia, in Charlottesville.
What do you do about it?
You see it raising its ugly head in
Myanmar and the big difference
we're talking about 1 person being killed in
Charlottesville.
We're talking about thousands of people being killed
in Myanmar,
because people are listening to
Nwasawiso of Shaitan.
And some of them
have displaced
100 of 1000
of people.
If there is a Muslim born in your
body,
you need to ask yourself the fundamental question.
What are you going to do?
Now see, for you and I,
because the extremity is so far away from
us, we have to think about
what to
do. If our heart was connected right and
our blood was flowing through it, it would
circulate and we would feel what they feel
in Myanmar.
Right now, Helping Hand for Relief and Development
has been over the past few years providing
support
for families
who have been made either internal
refugees. They had to flee where they live.
Others have sought refuge in Bangladesh.
May Allah have mercy on the people of
Bangladesh. They're already suffering.
Umair Ibn Kathar, there
was a famine in Medina. He said, food
enough for 2 is enough for 3.
Some narrations say, enough for 3 is enough
for 4.
So the Bangladesh
Muslims are doing what they're supposed to do.
They may not do everything, but they're doing
this,
because they're they're part of the body that's
close.
You and I have to do our part.
Sheikh Shakir,
he said something in the first Khotba, he
said, how many of you know about the
crisis in Myanmar?
Everybody raise their hand.
And we've been sending around to each other
horrific photographs
of Muslim children being treated like dogs.
Sometimes we get overwhelmed.
He said, well,
how many of you would like
to take one of those refugee families,
just family of 3 or 4,
and let them stay with you
for 1 month.
Some of us, we have you know, when
you're a refugee,
you live in overcrowded
conditions.
They won't mind staying in your basement.
I'm telling you, they won't mind. You say,
look, let let the Rohingya come and we're
and I'll let them just stay in the
back bedroom.
They'd be happy.
He said, then how about this?
Why don't you just
send some money
to the relief effort in Bangladesh
so they don't have to come and live
in your house,
but you will adopt them as part of
your family.
Well, alhamdulillah,
to help them through the crisis,
because if one part of the body hurts,
the whole body
is caught in fever
and pain.
So, binillah, after the salah, I'm going to
ask you
to help us help them.
In fact, it's even better than that.
We're going to help them so that they
can help us,
so that when we meet Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
with all of our mistakes and all of
our errors and our forgetfulness,
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to
give us something
from the family
that we would have put in our basement
or in our small room,
a hasanat from them that's pure.
For some of us, it will enter us
from the hellfire into the Jannah and for
others, it will raise our station
to have saved the life
of 1 family.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala strengthen you. Don't
listen to the wasuwisoo
when it comes time to give.
Beitinilah, put shaitan out of your mind,
and I'm saying to you now,
less than $20
a week
is $1,000
for the whole year.
If you can pledge
at that level,
we will have saved the lives.
People are starving.
They're in pain.
We'll have saved the lives of 1,000 of
people.
Oh Allah, guide us among those whom you
have guided.
Oh Allah, protect us among those whom you
have protected.
You Allah, take us, alhamdulillah, as a friend
like you took Ibrahim alayhis salam as a
friend.
You Allah, we pray, alhamdulillah,
for your mercy and your peace, you Allah,
on those who are suffering, you Allah, around
the corner or around the world.
O Allah, help us to be emissaries of
your peace, you Allah.