Mohammad Moerat – Coexistence
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In the Name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful,
alhamdulillahi, Rabbil Alameen WA, Salatu was Salam wa, Allah. Aw
mursalin, Sayyidina, wana, begin our Wahabi Binah. Worship, all
praise, thanks and gratitude is due to Allah, Lord of the
universe, our mercy, blessings, salutations, love and compassion
on our beloved prophet, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa alihi wa
sallam, his family and friends and those who follow him their
guidance until the Day of Judgment.
Respected Imam, respected ulama, brothers and sisters, I greet you
with a wonderful greeting of Islam. Assalamu. Alaikum. Wa
Rahmatullah, wabarakatuh.
The reason why this topic was chosen is today we have an influx
in our country of different nationalities, different people
coming into our areas. And what we have noticed today is everybody
wants to live their own tradition and their own culture.
But also we are faced with problems throughout the world
today, and we can identify many of those problems throughout the
world. What is happening to Muslims throughout the world,
especially
for example, what is happening in Palestine, the genocide
those that have been killed in Iraq, those have been killed in
Syria, what is happening in Sudan? We might think it is different
people and different nationalities, but unfortunately,
you wake up tomorrow morning, you see it is Muslim fighting Muslim.
And this is when you start realizing that we have a serious
problem, and the problem is that we cannot coexist with one
another.
Look at our homes. Take a close look at your home, and you see
parents and children. They are living on separate islands.
They're not even on the same island. They are in the same home,
but they live like they live in a hotel. They pass by one another,
and this is how they live. Every day. You find divorce rates
amongst the Muslims I'm speaking about is climbing drastically.
Look at the youth today. Unfortunately, when we speak about
the youth, there is always condemnation of the youth. Instead
of trying to understand the youth and why are they doing what they
are doing today, they can hardly find somebody they can talk to.
And therefore, you find them going to with friends, and they go off
the road, and you find they head for extremism. They they become
delinquents. They start doing drugs. They're doing all the wrong
things because there was nobody they could talk to. Unfortunately,
even in our educational institutions, we are not teaching
the educators are not giving the learners the opportunity to
understand what it is to coexist with one another. Look how certain
students and learners live within their school structures, and
believe it or not, even our mosques has not being spared
because we have the audacity to fight within our mosque, because
there is different * and we differ with one another, that the
mosque is not even being spared. How come that we do not find there
is special causes has been designed for our young people how
to communicate and how to coexist with one another.
We, as Muslims, we
want to migrate because South Africa is no longer for us. So
we're going to migrate. So you migrate to another country, and
when you get there, whether it is Australia, New Zealand, wherever
you are going to, you start isolating yourself, and you start
refusing to coexist with a society that is already established there.
And if you take that, vice versa, vice versa, people are entering
our country. They coming here. What are they doing? They want to
establish their own educational centers. They want to establish
their own masajid they want, not realizing that our Anna, masajid,
Al lahid, belongs to Allah, instead of integrating with us and
believing that this is where we belong and we are one society and
we can coexist with one another, instead of establishing our own
culture, our own tradition, where We have our own little nook in one
corner of the city. This is what's happening today. Tomorrow, you're
going to find within our very city, you're going to have, here's
going to be a Hanafi masjid, there's a shafari Masjid, there's
a Maliki Majid, there's a hamburger Majid. There is, there
is a Gio Bondi masjid, there is a bralhei Masjid. You going to find
them?
All over the show. Why? Because they cannot coexist with one
another. It is important. It is important that we understand we
must coexist with one another. We cannot live in isolated pockets
anymore. You know, when we talk about coexisting, one of the first
lessons that Allah subhanho wa Taala teaches us in the Holy Quran
is when Allah speaks about the other, and when we speak about the
other, the first thing that come to mind we are speaking about the
Western Wall. We are not we are speaking about the other, your
other self. Look at what Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the
Glorious Quran, what law alayhim, Naba, abana, who is the ACH?
Who
is the other? Allah subhana wa Allah says, recite to them, read
to them the tiring of the two sons of Nabi Adam Habib and Kabil read
the truth, and one offered the sacrifice. One sacrifice was
accepted, and the other sacrifice was not accepted. Who was the
other? The other was the biological brother. So when we
talk about the other, we are not talking about what is happening in
the western world that we must call it the other No, a person, a
human being that is able to coexist. He is a self confident,
he is strong, he is open minded, he is civilized. If you have these
qualities, then you can coexist. And that is why we find this
beautiful deed of Islam, this beautiful religion is open to the
entire world. Why? Because it is so profound. It's such a beautiful
religion. It's a complete way of life. How many people today in the
world have taken to the Glorious Quran after they have seen what is
happening in Palestine, what is happening in Gaza and what is
being portrayed through the media about Islam, and people started
researching, reading the Quran, understanding Islam, and how many
people have embraced this Deen of Islam, because it's such a
beautiful and profound religion. And the fact is that we must
realize one thing, and this goes for everyone, and especially for
our young people, to coexist doesn't mean dissolution. It
doesn't mean that you must lose your identity. You know today we
find even at our workplace, we want to coexist with our fellow
being at work, but we want to be like them. We want to dress like
them. We want to talk like them. We want to eat like them. No, that
is not the way. You don't lose your identity, you don't lose your
Eman, you don't lose your character. Co existence as a
concept is existence between two parties, and both of them must
interact mutually with one another. And let me say this, and
let me address the Western world, you can't enforce you can't
enforce your culture on me and accept me to coexist. You can't
enforce our youth to be carbon copies of your youth and and your
culture and expect us to coexist. You can't occupy my land my home.
You can't take it away from me and occupy it and ask me to coexist.
We are calling for coexistence between two parties who respect
each other and they respect one another's wishes, and therefore we
can go into history. And we want to tell our youth, be proud of
your identity no matter where you go in the world. Be a proud Muslim
and coexist. But never forget your roots. Don't forget where you came
from. Don't forget your own tradition and your beautiful
religion that you have, because you have a global mission, not
just a mission amongst us here, and the global mission is open to
all, and therefore you must be proud of your Muslim identity. Why
do we think our beloved prophet, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam, said that for a Muslim to interact or to coexist with other
people and be patient and endure their harm is better than a Muslim
who does not interact and yes, he is not harmed by them. So don't
think that you are better off because you are not being harmed
by anybody. You're sitting in your little cocoon at home, and you
say, I'm not being harmed. I am okay. I'm fine where I am. But if
you coexist, and if you intermingle, and you come into the
crowd, and even if you are harmed, you are better off as a Muslim to
coexist, coexistence, my dear brothers and sisters, is when we
live with each other and.
Accept each other for what we are. Coexistence is when we we even
debate with each other with respect, even if we have
differences. Today, our differences have led us to do what
to make one another, Kafir. Kafir is the word that is hanging around
you. Differ with me. Your opinion is different. I make you a curfew
today. No, this is not how Islam teaches us. Islam teaches us to
coexist. You see a person, he is coming into the masjid, and he
makes salah. And his hands is down on the side. Hey, look at that.
Man is Salah. Is bafil, who told you his Salah is bathil. There's
another Madhab we are talking about. Have we studied all the
mother? Have we become judges, Judas and executioners so that we
can condemn one another simply because we don't agree with one
another when not agreeing with one another, and the differences that
we have is the sunnat Allah, and that is the fitrah Allah that we
will differ Allahu, subhana wa Taala has created us in that way.
Allah says Wa ja al naqum, shohom, waqabah in Alita arafu, I have
created you, not just male and female, but I have created you
into different races, in different tribes, so you may become mutually
acquainted. That taruf mutually acquainted. Is a huge explanation
to it. It is not just knowing one another's name. Masha Allah,
you're from Bangladesh. You are from Somalia. Masha Allah, what's
your name? Harass in the story, no to become mutually acquainted with
one another is exchanging benefits, is getting along with
one another, is making use of each other's ideas, exchanging even
economic interest. This is what I awanu alibi watapa. This is when
Allah subhanahu wa says, assist one another, and that is on
goodness and piety, but do not assist one another on what is vice
and hostility. So Allah subhanahu wa has given us the formula as to
how to coexist with one another. And do not think for one moment,
and I will tell you why. One of the main reasons why I have chosen
this topic today is I went to a mosque not long ago where I did
the Juma, and the complaint that I received from there because
practically half of the mosque were people from Somalia. And the
complaint that I received is the way that they are being treated
from our local Muslims, and the way they look at them, and they
speak to them as if they are totally foreign. They forgot one
thing, all these people coming to mosque now, whether you are from
Somalia, whether you're from Bangladesh, from Pakistan, from
Arabia, from United Kingdom, wherever you came from, in that we
are all brothers. And on the basis of in Namal, minoona, we have to,
we have to coexist. Allah, subhanho wa taala, says, wala
Shah, buchala, jala, Nasr om Matan, Wahid, it was the will of
Allah, we could all be one, ummah. Everybody in the world could be
believing in Allah, Subhanahu wa taala, but Allah says no, wala,
yaza, ALU na mukh, talifin, they will differ with one another.
There is going to be differences in Lamar book, except those whom
Allah's mercies upon them, and therefore I created them. There
will be difference of opinions. There will be difference in
arguments. But at the end of the day, we need to respect one
another's differences. And this is what is known as
something that we lack if you do not have the a double I left the
ethics of differences that we have, then you cannot really
coexist with one another. And therefore, Rasulullah Ali wasallam
taught us masala minoona to him, what a Rahu him. What are to him,
come as *, just a little Wahid, either she coming or doing today,
ala who said it will just be sahari alhamma, sir, that's the
main the believer. He is his mercy. Through His mercy and His
compassion, you're like one whole body. If one part of the body
complain, the entire body will feel that pain and therefore, show
me, show me in the world, in a constitution where it says, for
manshay, a falu, mean woman share a faliq for Allah. Subhanahu wa
says, for those who desire wants to be a woman, Alhamdulillah, and
those who do not want to be a woman, you don't want to embrace
it, you carry on Allahu. Subhanahu wa Taala says, la ikra, Hafid
Deen, there is no compulsion. We cannot force people to become
believers, but if we show them the beauty of Islam and how we respect
one another, even through our differences, and we show them in
our character and behavior, how we accept them in the deen of Islam,
you will find everybody would want to be in the dean.
Of Islam, and they want to coexist with us. May Allah, Subhanahu wa
Allah bless us and protect us all the time. Let us remember one
thing, my dear brothers and sisters, when our beloved prophet,
Muhammad Sallallahu, alaihi wasallam came to Medina, to
Munawwara, the first lecture, the first Khutba, he says, Anas
asylum. Aham watamuta Am was mankind. He didn't say, Oh
Muslims, oh believers. Prophet sallallah. SallAllahu says, Oh
mankind, spread peace, connect with your families and feed the
poor and pray at night when people are asleep. Prophet sallallahu,
Sallam built the message. For what purpose? The purpose of the masjid
was to bring about unity between the host, the host, and the
khazaraj, the oath and the Hazrat were at loggerheads all the time.
For years they were fighting. There was hostilities, but
Rasulullah established a masjid. All of you are going to come to
the masjid and you're going to coexist, and you're going to learn
how to respect one another. Today, our masajid has become the source
of difference. It has become the source of breaking up of the
Ummah, and this was not the purpose of the Masjid. The purpose
of the masjid is we all come together, stand shoulder to
shoulder, whether we're rich, we poor, we never mind where we come
from, for which part of the world, in Namal, we all make Salat
together. We stand in one soft Alhamdulillah. We are brothers,
and we learn to coexist, even through our masajid, because that
was the purpose of the establishment that rasulallah
established the masjid Fatah, Allah, iba Allah wa as be
conscious of Allah subhanahu. WA and reconcile amongst ourselves
in Namal min una ikhua to Asli ho mayna, akhoi Kum wah wah lahala,
kutur Hamon, may Allah Subhan wa Taala bless us and bring about the
true brotherhood of Islam amongst ourselves in Shay Allah and may
Allah subhanahu wa through our unity, through our coexistence, if
we as a global Ummah can coexist with one another, Wallahi, my dear
brothers and sisters, Zionism will be walked over. We can walk over
them, but we need to unite our hearts. We need to unite our
minds. And that is one thing Allah subhanho wa Taala has created us
all. The most powerful weapon is the mind of the human being. So
don't expect everybody to think the same. We think differently,
even your own child think differently to what to the way you
think. But Allah subhanho wa Taala has given us the tools and the
ability to be able to accept us ourselves with our differences
that we have, and to coexist. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us
all that in sha Allah, may the Almighty Allah subhanho wa Taala
bless us and protect us at all times and bring ease to wherever
it might be difficulty in the world. Wa Akhi rudah, wana an
alhamdulillahi, rabbil, Alam Abu.