Johari Abdul-Malik – Slavery Freedom & The Five
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Beginning the Uhudbatul Jumah praising Allah
and thanking Allah
for having gathered us together
among those who say,
We thank Allah
because
Allah has guarded
us against
disbelief.
Guarded us
because we have embraced.
Allah
has guarded us against
the falseness of our speech.
Has protected us from
many of the misguidance that you find
everywhere, not just in America, but everywhere in
the world.
That
because Allah
has taken us
as among those who believe in him.
That, alhamdulillah, Allah will set our affairs aright.
We ask Allah's mercy and peace on the
Prophet alaihis salatu wa salam.
Because we are trying our best to walk
in his example.
That Allah
might reward us with the best in this
life
and the best in the hereafter.
Amen.
First, I have to say, well, hamdulillah,
I feel so at home,
with so many wonderful faces in Darhajirah.
SubhanAllah.
It's
maybe when you are when you are here,
you take it for granted
how amazing
this environment
is, walhamdulillah.
There are some places
in the
United States,
if you see if they see this many
people, they think it's Eid.
We have 1,000 gathered every
Friday
in this house to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
It has become an institution, Darul Hijra,
an
institution not just among Americans, but if you
travel around the country or around the world,
and they say,
where are you where are you from? Where
do you live?
You say, oh, I live in I live
in Virginia. I live in the DC area.
They said, do you know
the place of migration?
They say, subhanAllah, we watch the video and
we watch the program of the youth, and
we're trying, alhamdulillah,
to to,
learn from their example
so that we can apply it as best
practices
for our community. We
ask Allah
to continue to shower
blessings and mercy and peace and guidance,
protection upon this house of Allah.
Amin.
Today, I want to
talk a little bit,
in the theme of I saw one of
the programs
here on, by the way, brother, there's no
talking during the jumwah.
No. The the
even the the salaam,
save it
for when the imam give the taslim at
the end of the salah, then you can
taslim all you like. You can hug and
kiss, but during the khutba, insha Allah,
save
your your
communication.
And if the person bothers you, just ignore
them.
And you can explain to them later,
walhamdulillah,
This is,
really, I guess, maybe every now and then,
we should have a review of the the
the adab
of, of Salatul Jummah, but not today.
Today, I won in the theme of what
I saw one of the programs about,
black history month,
I want to continue even though February just
ended
yesterday,
to share with you something that bay'nillah
I hope you will understand
why it is so important
to build and establish
Islamic institutions.
First, I have to say, for many of
you, maybe you don't know, but
Islam was in America,
in the Americas before there was a United
States of America,
around 13/12,
with the advent of a man from West
Africa, his name was Abu Bakr the second.
His brother was Mansa Musa
that made the famous pilgrimage to Mecca.
But then Muslims came
with Columbus
as captains. There were Moors from
the
Moorish empire that had just been driven out
of Spain in 14/92
that, walhamdulillah,
to guide the 3 ships, the Nina and
the Pinta,
both had
captains
who were Moors.
They were
of Muslim descent. I don't know how
strong their their deen was after 8 centuries
of Islam
in Spain, but I know that they were
Moorish,
probably
some relatives in Morocco,
Mauritania,
somewhere like that.
But they guided
the 2 other ships of Columbus
to the Americas, so they were Muslims
with Columbus.
And then after the era of Columbus was
the tragedy of the transatlantic
slave trade,
And it's estimated during that period
that maybe 1 third
of all of
the enslaved Africans that came to the Americas
were Muslim.
And that number is estimated the total number
that left Africa is around 200,000,000.
Many of them died along the way, and
we ask Allah to have mercy on them
and to accept them into his agenda.
But
those that remained
experienced
something that was
a systematic
removal
of the essentials of human life and dignity.
And the reason that I'm mentioning this to
you is that if you study the science
of Maqasir Sharia,
you will find
that there are 3 main categories.
Ashariati,
began this work, but the contemporary
work that many of us read now is
Ibn Ashur,
and his text on Maqas e Sharia.
And if you look at this,
among
the 5 necessities
or Durura
in Maqas e Sharia,
you will find
that these 5
were systematically
removed
from the enslaved African.
Hebdul Hayat, Hebdul Nasser, Hebdul Aqal, Hebdul Maal,
and Hebdudin.
The guidance and the Maqasid is to preserve
these five things.
When you look at the process of
enslavement in America,
the enslaved African was not considered to be
human.
Therefore, the idea that they could
to preserve
their their human life,
Hebdul Hayat, to preserve your life, but the
humanity of your life. In the period of
enslavement,
they said that the enslaved
African has
no soul.
Therefore,
if you murder them,
it's it's destruction of property.
It's not murder.
The humanity was removed
from the people who brought Islam
to this country. And I know we had
the program. They talked about many famous
Muslims who came
during this period.
Omar Ibn Said, or in Georgetown, Abdulrahman
ibn
Suri was in Maryland. In Georgetown, they had
a man named Uru Mahmud
or Yuri of Maryland because Georgetown at that
time
was part of Maryland. They found his house.
The Smithsonian
now is turning it into a historical site,
but he was a known practicing Muslim
during the period of slavery which ended in
1865.
They took from the enslaved
African
the ability
to preserve
their lineage.
So you have a situation where the human
beings are property
and their children are property
of the master.
So when you look at the tradition,
now the second element
in the Maqas e Sharia has been removed
from the enslaved African, Muslim or otherwise.
3rd,
Hebdul Aqal.
Preserve your intellect. They said it's illegal for
the enslaved African to learn how to read
or write,
and there were some among them like Omar
Ibn Said, who when they,
put him in in jail because he refused
to obey certain orders, he wanted to, keep
his Islamic diet.
So they put him in a in a
hole.
When they came back to the,
this encased area,
they found
that he had some writing on the walls.
And they said, what what is that?
He said, this is my Bible,
the Quran,
written in Arabic. Now this is a person
who is supposed to be illiterate,
but yet, Balhamdulillah,
he's in the institution of enslavement,
and he's writing the Quran from his memory.
The inability
for the enslaved
African.
Before I leave,
I want to remind you, there were
if you were a white American and you
could read,
and you taught
an African to read,
they would beat you
or put you in jail.
People like Frederick Douglass learned how to read
in Baltimore,
as an enslaved person,
even under the conditions of
enslavement.
And I say this to you also because
for many of us, we we take
we take literacy
very lightly.
Even though the first words of the Quran
enjoin upon us
to be literate.
In
the the
4th element,
Hevdel Mal.
They made it illegal
for an enslaved African to pass wealth
from 1 generation
to the next.
This means every generation
starts out
where the previous generation started with nothing.
Because
when you are property,
the idea of you conveying property to someone
else is ridiculous.
People like Yuri of Maryland were exceptional.
That because of his excellent character,
his slave master allowed him to make money
on the weekends,
and he was able to buy his freedom.
He was cheated out
of that transaction.
He saved the money in a second attempt
and bought his freedom,
alhamdulillah.
There are examples of many of these, and
I I'm encouraging you to look at this
because
as Muslims in America,
this is your history.
When someone comes to you and they talk
to you about, you're a foreigner, you don't
belong here, tell them, look,
the first Muslims who came here, they removed
all 5 of the Durura from them, including
Hivdu Deen,
that it was illegal for us to practice
Islam or any religion.
They said, why if the person is just,
a step above an animal,
how can he doesn't have a soul. How
can he have a religion?
And so they removed from us
and made it illegal
to practice any religion,
but especially
Islam.
If you,
get involved in this history, you will see
some of the writings of captains
from slave ships
saying beware of taking
certain tribes because they are Muslim
and they are very difficult to
to maintain.
You see, one of their assumptions was that
because
the tribes spoke different languages,
that they wouldn't be able to communicate.
And many of them were warring with each
other,
and so there was conflict.
But then they could hear in the belly
of the ship
when the people are really in their most
difficult moments.
You hear them in whatever language is their
native tongue.
They cry out to Allah, HasbunAllahuanitmuakim.
That legacy
of those 5 Durura, I believe sincerely
that they used to study
Islam.
I know that Thomas Jefferson
and James Madison,
they studied Islam. They have,
copies of the Quran.
Keith Ellison, when he became
sworn in as a congressman, he found in
the Library of Congress the the Quran of
Thomas Jefferson and he took his symbolic oath
of office on that Quran.
If they know about the Quran, they probably
someone, shaitan or something, taught them about these
5 Durura
because it's not by accident.
I believe that all 5 of them were
removed.
Well, alhamdulillah, we pray to Allah the restoration
of those elements of the necessities of Maqasse
Sharia be returned to us all, that we
might establish Islam in our lifetime to restore
it among those who lost it and to
invite those who have not heard about the
message of Islam,
that they might join us,
and this wonderful deen.
I have some great
news. I know maybe it was a little,
you know, like,
Johar, that was a little too heavy for
us, man. They took all of the durore
from the enslaved Africans, and we're in bad
shape.
First, I've got to tell you when they
talk about slavery,
stop calling the people slaves.
The only slave that's worth being is Abdullah.
Alright. One of the two best names, Abdulrahman
and Abdullah. I'm an Abdullah. I'm not an
ab to anybody else. The other people, they
are in the state of enslavement.
They are,
prisoners of war.
They're anything,
people in bondage, but stop calling them slaves.
Because, alhamdulillah,
we want to restore the dignity
that Allah placed in us. So that's one.
The second is I have fantastic news.
Slavery ended in
18/65
by the
order of the president of the United States
after the civil war, and they wrote the
13th 14th amendments to the constitution.
Slavery and involuntary servitude have been abolished except
for the punishment of crimes.
So there's still some slavery in America, but
it's for the punishment of crimes.
From 1865
to 1965,
something amazing happened in America.
By 1865
to 1965,
you have the X Factor.
Malcolm x was assassinated February
21,
1965.
1965,
Islam was the fastest
growing religion
organized religion in America,
and that continues
until today.
I'm not throwing shade on nobody's religion.
People can do in America what they like,
but I wanna be clear.
With Islamophobia
and everything else they throw at us.
Everything that they've tried to do to extinguish
the light of Allah is not working.
People
are coming to the deen of Islam
even though
we're not doing the best job of dawah.
We're not.
But,
we have institutionalized
the dean in America.
So if somebody wants to find out about
Islam,
because you're afraid to tell them,
you know, on your job, you're afraid to
say,
Abdullah, yeah, man. I mean,
what's your name, Adam? That's a Muslim name,
Adam. Your name is Joseph? Oh, that's Yusuf.
Right? Do you know anything about Islam, John?
That's Yahya. He's a prophet in Islam. Let
me invite you to come over to the
Masjid. They have a program here
about
tea, a cup of tea or something like
that. Why don't you come over to the
Masjid? Right?
Many of us, you're still scared
to tell your neighbor.
So your neighbor finds out from somebody else
about the beauty of this deen, but because
we have an institution, they can go to
the website, they can come to programs and
activities, and
learn about Islam.
And so I'm encouraging you,
In the memorable words of Tupac, he said,
ladies, I know you're fed up, but keep
your head up.
I know you're fed up.
I know you're frustrated.
Keep your head up, alhamdulillah,
because
people are coming to this deen
like never before.
And don't believe them when they say, oh,
they they're coming into Islam and they're leaving.
That means we just can't we're not following
them, but they but they're not leaving Islam.
They may not come to your Masjid, but
they they I'll meet them.
And so, alhamdulillah,
I want to invite you.
Keep making dua.
Don't don't be don't be afraid.
I might get in trouble right now, but
I'm going to say this has I'm not
credited to the masjid, safe.
People who are all different kind of letters,
every different kind of group,
they are very
proud to say what they are, what they
believe in. Am I right? Don't answer that.
Just, alright.
People got all different kind of lifestyles.
Right?
They're all proud of their lifestyle.
Then why
we got the best program going?
Best program. We had equal rights for women
way before the Constitution, the,
21st Amendment to the Constitution.
Women had rights in Islam.
Racism.
We've been battling racism. Anytime somebody does some
racist, you can go back to the Quran
and the sun of Rasoolullah
and say, bam!
Then
we ought to be out there.
I know we've been on defense since 9
11, you know.
We don't I don't want to say anything
about Islam, you know, probably I'll lose my
security clearance.
Why? The other person is not afraid.
We should be afraid of Allah.
When Allah asks us, why were you in
America? You had this great messian. You had
these great programs.
You ought to make a commitment to yourself.
Every week, I'm a bring somebody I know
to Donald Hijra.
Whatever the right whatever the right time is.
You know what I'm saying? Maybe there's a
maybe there's your person not vibing this way,
don't take them to that. They'd be offended.
Take them to something where they're going to
connect with Islam.
The first thing they're going to tell you
is
those were some amazing people, how they were
the men were hugging and kissing each other,
the ladies were hugging and kissing each other,
and and the it was so diverse
against the racism that they see other places.
You just need to invite them.
I'm going to invite you, Alhamdulillah,
to the 36th
36th Annual
Banquet of Donald Hijra.
36.
We didn't get here yesterday.
I need you after salah. I'm going to
ask you to raise your hand if you
don't have a ticket
to raise your hand and buy a ticket.
And don't buy a ticket for yourself.
Buy a ticket for yourself
and your family
and your children
because we don't get enough opport there are
only 2 Eads a year.
The rest of the time,
CNN and Fox News is bombarding you.
Come on out and enjoy yourself.
It's going to be fun.
Your family gets to dress up.
You get to eat some good food you
don't have to cook dinner.
You get to hear some inspiration.
You have some perspiration,
and then you make a donation.
So Alhamdulillah is $65
per ticket,
$700
to buy a table.
Most of our families
if you're 1st generation American, most of you
you have enough family with between you and
your brother or sister and aunt, whatever, you
could buy a whole table.
Bayanillah.
But let us come together
that we might celebrate, walhamdulillah,
the beauty of what Allah has allowed us
to build
in this country,
a place for the remembrance of Allah azza
wa jam.
O Allah, guide us among those whom you
have guided. You Allah, protect us among those
whom you have protected.
You Allah, join us, walhamdulillah,
in the footsteps of your, you Allah.
O Allah, we pray, walhamdulillah, open our hearts
to love for you, you Allah, and love
for each other. O Allah, help us, walhamdulillah,
that we might establish a karmat ad Din,
that we might establish, you Allah, your remembrance
in this country. O Allah, we ask, walhamdulillah,
every facility for us. Some of us suffering
with difficulties, you Allah, with our family and
our finances,
you Allah, open to shower us with your
rizkuntayabun,
you Allah. Oh Allah, bless us, alhamdulillah,
with health, you Allah, that we might go
out, alhamdulillah,
strong,
to stand for what is right and forbid
what is wrong.
O Allah, we ask for your mercy and
your peace on those suffering around the corner
or around the world, you Allah. O Allah,
help us to be emissaries of your peace,
you Allah. O Allah, guide us,
that we might have the best speech and
the best character, that we might guide someone,
you Allah, to the deen of Islam.
O Allah, preserve us and our families, you
Allah, from a fire whose fuel is men
and stones. You Allah, forgive us of our
sins, you Allah, and grant us into your
jannah ma'abrar.
We ask for your mercy and peace, you
Allah, on the prophet
and upon his family and his companions and
upon all of the MBA and those who
follow the way of your hak, you Allah,
until the day of judgment.
Amin.