The Way Forward Part 6

as well as Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala sherfield Ambia even more serene Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam this even cathedra and cathedrals

on my Bible. We continue with our series of Fatah called the way forward. This is the sixth in that series.

Most of us, especially Muslims are historically illiterate.

Meaning we don't understand history, we don't know our own history. And our cherry picking approach to history ensures illiteracy.

However, our lives won't change until we learn lessons from history, and break out of the vicious cycles that we are caught up in.

We don't learn the lessons because we can't differentiate between critiquing and critical analysis and criticizing.

We cannot differentiate between critique critiquing and critical analysis and critique and criticizing.

We have no capacity to objectively analyze incidents in history, without either hero worshipping those involved or trashing them.

People who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. That is what we are doing today, both globally and locally in our organizations. We do the same with each other, and have this insane, unspoken rule. For me to love you and be your friend, you must agree with everything I say.

We must develop the capacity to not only accept dissent, but to encourage it and learn to disagree without being disagreeable. We must not only accept those who disagree with us, but value them because they help us to look at another side of our pet theory.

Without that, it is very easy to blind ourselves to reality until we meet face to face and realize that it is the face of multiple modes.

Here's a short history lesson.

Since the late seventh century, Muslims have lived in empires and have imbibed the culture of feudal subjugation.

First, the bun Omega 661 to 750. Then the Manoa bus 750 to 1258 C. After that arose three great Muslim empires the Safavid Empire in Persia, which ended in 1736, the Mughals in India, which ended in 1857, and the Ottomans,

which ended in 1927. Today, most Muslims live

in democratic, non Muslim countries.

The dynamics of society, opportunities for development, citizens, rights and obligations have all changed.

If we still want to live in the fantasy of empire, we will be discarded.

It is time to wake up and face the reality of our existence today.

That reality

is far better

than today, our condition is far better than it was.

Let me share my perception through the lenses of political science and psychology. emotional maturity is the process of changing our mindset from others are responsible for me to I am responsible for myself and others.

So are we adults are still children.

In transactional analysis,

Eric Byrne calls it the parent child ego state. The parent is the authority and the child is powerless and blames authority for whatever happens to him.

It is always someone else's fault. To mature emotionally is to break out of the cycle and become adults.

Most people are physically adults, but emotionally still children are looking to the parents which is outside authority to solve their problems. So let's do a self check. Let me ask you, what is your greatest most urgent desire as you sit here today?

Nordsee Jana Jana happens after you die in this life. What is the right data was just them wanting what you want right now?

What would it be?

Job car house marriage holiday?

What is it?

things for ourselves Now ask yourself

all that you thought you have in your mind are those things for yourself or for others for the woman.

And that's why they say the difference between men and boys is the price of their choice.

The sign of emotional maturity is to think of others.

The finest example of this word the Gambia, Alaimo, Salah,

the prophets

they live for people

and they died for people.

At the end of his life,

when Rasulullah Salah was passing away

Gibreel Islam came to inform him, that Allah subhanaw taala

wanted to meet him

at that time,

this was a solemn did not ask him

about the future of his family.

He asked him

what will happen to my own

conserve others is the sign that we have majority concern means action without action is only words useless, powerless and worthless.

So the next question is,

if you claim to be concerned about the Ummah, what are you doing about it?

Now

we had a self test, a self check test last week

the 25 mile march for ceasefire in Palestine.

It was an opportunity to see our faces in the mirror.

You know if you participated or not.

And you know why? And you know, why not?

However, let me remind you that the mart was organized by Jewish voices for peace under the leadership of a college student.

A young woman by the name of Molly Aronson, Molly Aronson, write that in big bold letters and stick it on your wall and look at it every day. Molly aaronson

asked why?

Why did she do this?

in material terms, to think about this, given who she is, what happens in philosophy and in what happens in Palestine, Gaza, makes no difference to absolutely zero difference.

And doing this resulted in paying a very heavy price.

Yet, she did it knowingly. So on the Day of Judgment, when she and we will be asked by Allah subhanaw taala What did you do? She will have an answer.

And what will be what will the answer be? For those who did not participate?

This is what growing up means.

That is what true freedom and dignity means to step out of our comfort zone and do something for someone when we are not personally affected by that hardship.

Our parenting, oppressive governments, our schooling system, all contribute to delaying maturity, and prolonging childish thinking and behavior.

Constantinople

was conquered by Mehmet the second

How old was he when he conquered Constantinople?

20 years old.

20.

The same age

as some of your children

who

who have free food?

who live in their mom and dad's home free of rental, Braintree

who have a nice cell phone paid for by daddy. Bill paid for by daddy. They drive a nice car paid for by Daddy

would gasp paid for by daddy?

And then if you meet daddy, and you say where is your sir?

That is I don't know.

Your choice. You want to raise kids like this. They don't blame anyone else

if they grew up

bodily physically, but mentally, they're still four years old.

Your choice

to change our future, we must grow up. This means to simply ask one question, What can I do? And then go and do it.

It means that everyone I was must donate, Energy, Thought, prayer DUA and money to things that help us all as a community and not expect some outside authority figure of a government philanthropic people or institutions to do it for us.

Empire and slavery ingrain the child into us, the child ego state into us.

Globally, that is the state of Muslims today.

We must break out

and break our mental shackles and take charge of our destiny if you want to succeed.

Allah subhanaw taala told us

that he blessed us so much that we can't even count his blessings. He said Oba atta min Colima, tomo Wen Tao do the amatola Hilah are so hot in in Santa Lazaro Oman kuffaar, he said which means and he has granted you all that you've asked him for.

If you try to count Allah's blessings, you will never be able to count them.

Indeed, humankind is truly unfair, and totally ungrateful.

They are oppressors. They're Zulu and Kapha.

Ask yourself, if we reflect on our thoughts on ourselves, are they mostly negative or positive? Monitor your conversation? When you speak about this country, you speak about where you live, you speak about your job, you speak about the weather, you speak about anything political situation, economic situation, what comes out of your mouth,

negative statements or positive statements, complaints, or gratitude, what comes out of your mouth?

individually or collectively, do we consider ourselves blessed or deprived, powerful, or helpless in control of our destiny or not?

The truth is that we are the architects of our own destiny.

That is an amazingly powerful realization, because it means that we have the power to change our situation anytime we choose to change it.

But that will happen only if we act, not just talk about acting,

unless around data created us and give us intelligence and taught us through his books and his prophets and messengers that we are free to choose, but that no choice is free. Every choice has a price tag, every choice has a consequence. This is not even theology, theology. This is observation, logic and reason which we see every day of our lives. And so if anyone thinks that our society that is based on the single minded pursuit of profit at any cost, can be free from the consequences of this philosophy, that surprise, surprise, we can only live surrounded by crime, misery, fear and pain.

It is only when we live by a law that was made by the one who is unaffected by our actions and who has no personal stake in it. He gets nothing from it, he loses nothing. But he made the law for our benefit.

When we follow that law, only then can we be assured that the results will be positive and

Outlaw is an Islam.

That law is Al Islam

that is what this hobby lobby of our motherland said to the Persian general Rasta before the Battle of Cassia in November 636 C. Brewster asked him why the Arabs are coming to challenge the Sassanian empire. What gave

Robby, an AMA rather than the confidence to reply in the way that he replied

ask yourself this question

what gave him the confidence to reply?

Let me have an out of that I was in the garage in a bad minivan University labor, ILA a big believer. First one.

Min jural and Yan, Isla Gallatin, Islam. Number two,

mean they still have the dunya Isla Sati dunya. Well, accurate number three, three reasons we came to extract the slaves from the worship of slaves to the worship of the run of the slaves, to extract them from the confusion of different religions and laws and so on into the justice of Islam, and to extract them from the construction of the life of this world, into the expanse of the life of this world and the Accra and the art.

To justify inaction and blaming. we indulge in a psychological cop out which I call globalizing problems. For example, Muslims complain that media is hostile to us that we don't have a robust Hala Islamic financial system, that politically we have no power and authority and so on and so forth.

But if you ask, what can you do to change this?

What is the answer? The answer is what can I do? I am only one person.

We forget that everything begins with one person. Allah didn't send armies on via or even teams on via he sent one man for an entire nation.

And in the case of the last of them in Colombia, say you will mousseline Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alayhi, WA he was, Salam. Allah subhanaw taala is in one man for the whole world until the end of time, one person

the individual is the most powerful unit because it is the only one on which you have power.

You on yourself, me on myself.

If we focus on this and correct and empower it, we empower the whole room.

So on that topic, let me tell you about what these valleys were 12 million the whole world. People who follow Yamaha and the Dow The waters

are only 1 million.

Let me tell you what these communities do.

They donate. Every person every earning member

donates 10% of their monthly earnings. They're not talking here about 2.5% of wealth the whole year, we're talking about the their salaries, their earnings, the business earnings,

they donate 10% of their monthly earnings to the community to the Common Fund every month.

And from that different education, healthcare and entrepreneurship they are doing in schools.

They give startup funding to their people.

And they have hospitals.

That's why all beggars in our countries that either she also knew

they know is violinists or bodies.

In the US, there are 3.5 million Muslims.

If each Muslim donated $5 per day

to a central fund. That's the price of a coffee, one coffee.

We would have

hold your breath.

We would have $6.387 billion

every year

$6,000,000,387.5 million per year,

almost six and a half billion.

With that in hand, ask

what can we do with 6.5 almost billion per year

hear in this handed County we have maybe 5000 Muslims

if he's Muslim,

and I'm talking now about

everyone, men, men, women children.

If each Muslim donated $5 a day, same price of one coffee to account fund, we would have 9,125,000 per year

9,000,001 25,000 per year.

No need then to do any fundraising for anything. We would establish a world class Islamic school.

We could set up a VC fund venture capital fund for startups. And we could support anyone who wants to enter politics.

That is the choice which shows whether we are grown up are still children with beards.

Do you want to spend more time more money or how bad the public school system is?

Or do you want to create a world class school?

It costs us $5 per day. So Buddha or shut up.

It is this sense of personal commitment to the collective

the Ummah that distinguished the sahaba.

We have heard the story

of Rasulullah. Selim raising funds for the gospel of Starbuck,

he asked people to donate was one in a farmer the Allahu Akbar Amarna over

and above whenever we looked at a bell Ha, sad been over I've been over the Mohammed bin Muslimah holy Allah Allah was made and others give as much as they could.

I will look out for the law who brought everything he owned, as well as SLM asked him what have you left for your family? He said Allah and His Rasul enough for them for a family.

Then there was this a hobby

whose action is mentioned.

But not even his name.

He was not one of the leaders. He was a daily wage earner

Lavery

in some date God,

he came with a handful of dates, you know, hold your hand like this and fill it with dates and see how many dates that is

maybe 1520 30

He came with a handful of dates. And he presented them resources like this there is a year as well Allah, I worked all day today and this is my earning, I have nothing else. But I would like to donate this to your fund.

Those who receive those dates in both his hands and then you scattered them on top of all the material that was gathered there and he said, Allah subhanho data deluge and hon accepted all your charity because of this now imagine what that's the hobby must have felt. And the huge honor the wrestlers so I'm giving

Thomas to fit.

This happened because the savvy didn't change himself.

After all, I was on a bus and of the Roman route over the over the hubbub and I will get another lotto. All right. All of these are wealthy people. They're given so much, what difference will my one handful of dates make? So what is the point in me doing it?

Instead, he would have set himself then it what they wanted to do, I must do what I see as my duty.

what others do or don't do does not affect my duty.

And when he did that, Allah subhanaw taala honored him to the action and words of Rasulullah Sallam in a way that he could not possibly have imagined.

That is what I mean by personal commitment.

That is the meaning of being free. That is what we need today. If we are serious about impacting our destiny, we need moral ethical principle Muslims focused on the good of the nation and the world in position of positions of power.

That takes years before Allah subhanaw taala in the night.

That takes years before Allah subhanaw taala in the night

and it takes working together

and money

it will happen if

We grow up and decide to take charge of our destiny. The alternative is slavery. The choice is ours, because it is our future that is at stake.

Ask Allah subhanaw intelligently delectable, to help us to do that is pleasing to Him and to save us from that which does not please him was salam ala Hara Nabil very wild Ali he was a member of the Tikka Masala Malik uma rahmatullah wa barakato.