Johari Abdul-Malik – The True Independence Day

My beloved brothers and sisters in Islam,

I just want to let you know I'm

only gonna talk for 5 minutes.

So bayonillah,

if you lend me your ear,

inshallah,

you, Alhamdulillah.

You as the Ummah Rasulallah That Muhammad Aliyeh,

you have benefited from

this best month.

But what I want to remind you of

is that 100 of years ago,

there was

a declaration of independence.

Maybe

a few days ago, you were thinking about

it on the 4th July.

But I want you to think about the

founding mothers and fathers,

a group of them who rails up alhamdulillah

against injustice.

I want you to think alhamdulillah

about a group of them that stood up

alhamdulillah

for freedom.

They were given alhamdulillah,

a great document.

The wells in that document, alhamdulillah,

will stand the test of time.

The wells in that document

are and have become and be a hope

to the entire world.

The words will have to be that in

that document.

Great men, women and children, animals, nature, everything

will have to be left

to to for us to get the benefit

of this document.

He went up into a mountain.

He went up into the mountain as a

man.

He returned

as a prophet.

And when he returned, he returned with a

manifesto

to guide all of humanity.

It would be a declaration of independence

not in 17/76.

It was the declaration

of independence in the year 609.

It was the declaration that said,

as hedu and lie,

Eli

in the law.

The child of freedom

which is the act according to how Allah

would have us act.

In our freedom, we prayed in the night.

Within our freedom, we fed the needy and

we spent it for the money that Allah

gave us.

We stood with

knowing the clarity.

And we said

for us,

we are free.

That when the moseeba, when the tragedy, when

the crisis strikes

us, we say,

That

we have given ourselves over to Allah

and it's Allah's might and Allah's power.

Wa alhamdulillah

that has freed us

from the concern about those affairs in this

dukkah that might overtake us. I

That allows the man of God has blessed

you in ministry

just to have the word to call

to know that you are free from anything

up to worship except the Lord.

But none of us are free until all

of us are free.

The prophet said,

you are not a believer if you go

to bed with your stomach full

and your neighbors hungry.

You're not a believer

if you don't care,

so does the manor,

about caring for your neighbor.

I want to share with you right now.

I wanna share with you right now. Many

people who are living in this country

who used to be in the middle class,

they're now in what's called the vanishing middle

class.

The average white person in America

who's your neighbor

and say to them, we're concerned about your

condition,

we're gonna face a great threat.

By the way, the word threat starts with

t.

And the only way to solve it is

with the.

So I'm challenging you

as a Muslim, as a believer,

having gone through this great test

to leave this birth of Ramadan empowered.

Nobody can stop us.

But we have to go out and do

what we've been trained to do all I've

done,

which is to care for our neighbor.

I'm challenging you today.

If you're a smoker,

you you be smoking during Ramadan.

If you're a cheater, you stop cheating during

Ramadan.

If you're a liar, you stop lying during

Ramadan. You did a lot for yourself.

Now I'm challenging you to leave Ramadan and

do something for somebody else.

That will have a laugh. Allah give you

the reward and later they'll come to hide

them in empty sun. You're straight. You're free.

Free for the hellfire.