Moutasem al-Hameedy – Friday Khutbah 02-08-2024
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The history and context of Islam are discussed, including the rise of Islam as a religion and the misogyny of men and women. The importance of fearing and not believing in Islam is emphasized, as it is a source of evil. The rise of Islam as a religious goal and the misogyny of men and women is also discussed. The speakers stress the need for individuals to free themselves from captivity and become more educated to achieve their goals, while also emphasizing the importance of learning to become a slave to Islam to avoid violence and deception.
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fell more Bella one my little fella. The
Allah was Sharika washado and Mohammedan Abu Asmaa, yeah, you
haladina,
Manuel. Dina, Manu, Tula, Hapa, to party. He wala, tamo, Tun ILA,
unto Muslim, Moon ya Hana, suta, Pura, kakumina, wahala, kamin,
hazaha, wa Beth, Amin, humari, Jalan kethi, wrong
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select he
was
a praise is
due
to Allah.
We praise Him.
We recognize his generosity and kindness, and we seek his
forgiveness and His protection from the evils of ourselves and
the evil consequences of our actions. Whomsoever Allah guides
none can lead astray, and whomsoever Allah guides
whomsoever Allah guides none can lead astray, and whomsoever Allah
leaves to go astray, and none can guide I testify that there is none
worthy of worship and devotion but the Almighty Allah alone. And I
testify that Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa ali, he wasallam, is His
servant and His Messenger. O you who believe fear Allah as he
should be feared and die, not except in a state of surrender and
submission to your Lord. O mankind, be dutiful to your Lord,
Who created you from a single person, and from him, he created
his wife, and from them both, he created many men and women and
fear Allah through whom you demand your mutual rights and observe the
rights of your kin. Surely Allah is Ever and all water over you. O
you who believe, keep your duty to Allah, fear him and speak the
truth. He will direct you to righteous deeds and will forgive
your sins. And whoever obeys Allah, and His Messenger has
indeed attained a great achievement. The best speech are
the words of Allah, and the best guidance is that O Prophet
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa ali, he wasallam. And the worst
things in the religion are the newly invented matters. For all
the newly invented matters and religion are heretical innovation
and bidah and every bidah is misguidance.
When the Muslims emerged with divine guidance from the Arabian
Peninsula, spreading the light of the truth, spreading the light of
the message of submission to the Creator
when they came out, spreading this to the world in good will,
pushing against the forces of oppression,
injustice and evil,
carrying the message that was
previously propagated by all the prophets and messengers,
from the time of Adam alaihi salam, through Nuh,
and then through Ibrahim and his children, Ismail and Ishaq and so
on and so forth.
All the prophets, Musa alayhi salam, Moses, Asa alaihi salam,
son of Mary,
the same message, the same divine guidance to humanity, reminding
them of the reality of their existence and that they should not
waste their.
But when the Muslims, as any other nation were going through the life
cycle of a nation, times of weakness and times of strength and
so on and so forth, but when divisions were wreaking havoc
among the Muslims and external forces were trying to fight and
destroy the Muslim ummah, from from a different front on
different fronts.
But it's only when the Muslims connection to their religion
started going down
that they started to lose the high place that Allah subhanahu wa gave
them,
and when we became infatuated with the dunya,
when this worldly life, no matter how nobly we put it,
and we try to make it look like a religious goal,
when we worship the dunya and it becomes number one in our life,
Allah will take away the strength that he gave the Muslims,
because Allah doesn't do favoritism Allah gave, or Allah
gives strength to the Muslims so they can enlighten other people.
But if you want power for its own sake. While you're worshiping the
dunya, you don't deserve it. You'll become an oppressor. You'll
become a force for evil. Whatever you call yourself, you can call
yourself Muslim, but if you are, if Allah is not number one in your
life,
if you're worshiping the dunya, you will not spread the truth. You
will be spreading falsehood,
and that would be bordering hypocrisy, because you would call
it Islam.
So when the Muslims became infatuated with the dunya, and
there was struggle or with different nations, but then
eventually, when the Muslims, when, when the European nations
became advanced in science, and they started to have more of the
dunya, more of this life. They started to have technology. The
Industrial Revolution. They had inventions. When the French army
landed in Egypt under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte,
they brought a lot of their scientists. They brought a lot of
their inventions. They brought those hot air balloons that could
carry passengers, and the Muslims were mesmerized by that. The
Muslims started doubting themselves and their religion.
They started looking up. Why? Because they already started
worshiping the dunya. So those who possess the dunya, they became
their role models.
And that's why you hear statements from Muslims at that time, when
they went to Europe to study famous statement that was said by
many, unfortunately Muslim, famous Muslim figures, they said we found
Islam in Europe, but we didn't find Muslims because you're
defeated. That's why you say this.
Because you yourself are suffering from inferiority complex, because
you worship the dunya and you see it the ultimate goal. That's why
you completely taken by that. That's why you completely thrown
out of balance. Whereas Rahu Binu Amr, that great Muslim, when he
saw all of the civilization of Persia, it didn't mean anything to
him, because the light of faith is far more important, is far more
impressive than the Muslims lost any level of confidence. They
started wanting to emulate the West, not eve not only in
civilization, not only in science, not only in even social sciences,
but even in how they apply Islam. So you had people who called who
called themselves reformers, starting calling the Muslims, the
Muslim women, to start taking off their hijab, thinking the hijab is
what holds the Muslims backward.
And these were mere copycats who had no level of intelligence. They
called themselves intellectuals at the time,
and they were just defeated from within.
They felt inferior, and they wanted to build a philosophy and a
project around that inferiority, when in reality, these people had
no place in the Muslim ummah. These people had no visa, no voice
in the Muslim ummah when the Muslim ummah held on to the book
of Allah, Subhanahu wa and
you know what? We still living in this phase.
We still living in this phase
when we worship Allah,
when we hold on to the.
Of Allah, and we know the reality of this life, and we never worship
this dunya, because we know that Allah created it as tools and
means through which we serve Him and we worship Him. Allah will
bring the dunya to us. Allah will bring the science to us. Allah
will bring technology to us. Allah will bring wealth to us. Because
that's what the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi
wa sallam said mankind, JAMA, Allahu, alashem, laho wa jal
bihiwa at a tudunya, wahi arahima, those who have Allah and the Last
Day as their main goal and ultimate goal, Allah will bring
their affairs together, and Allah will give them a sense of
abundance and wealth within themselves, and then Allah will
bring the dunya to serve them, even if it's against its will,
because Allah created the dunya to help us worship Him. So when we
fulfill that purpose, Allah allows the dunya to fulfill that purpose,
which is to serve us worship Allah.
But when we want the dunya for ourselves, and we say, yeah, the
Muslims have to be strong, Muslims have to be rich, Muslims have to
be educated. Haqi Bapt, it is true. It's good for the Muslims to
be wealthier. Generally speaking, it's good for the Muslims to be
more educated. It's good for the Muslims to be more civilized in
terms of technology, that's true.
But are you seeking this for Allah? Are you seeking this for
yourself? But you just found a nice way to sugarcoat it and put
it under the umbrella of Islam? Do you treat other matters in Islam
at the same level of priority, that would be a reality check.
So we Muslims need to free ourselves. If we are not free in
our hearts,
we will not be free in our circumstances,
if we're not putting Allah before everything everything we love and
everything we crave and everything we aspire, if we don't make all
our personal goals secondary to Allah subhanahu wa and what Allah
wants, we're going to continue to pay The price. Yes, we will
continue to pay the price
if Muslims don't worship Allah properly, and they don't make
Allah subhanahu wa their main and their top priority, if they get
all the wealth in the world, if they get all the science and the
knowledge and the technology in the world, and if they dominate
world's resources, will they bring any goodness to the world? No, by
definition, no. The name, the title, doesn't guarantee anything.
And
Allah subhanho wa Taala told us, in order to free us from the
captivity of this world, laurina Phil belad Mata, uncle, Khalil.
Don't be deceived and deluded by what the disbelievers have,
power,
wealth, technology, whatever they have. Don't be deceived by that.
It's all short lived. It's all temporary.
What sets you apart as a nation is what come to your own matriliness.
You're the best nation ever brought forth to mankind. Why?
What makes you better? Your name, your title, your ethnicity, your
language? No, none of that.
It's the worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala is that you become a
force of good, enlightening people, guiding them to the truth,
saving them, freeing them from captivity. For shaitan and the
soldiers that the servants of shaytaan in this dunya,
that's the excellence. That's the source of excellence of the Muslim
ummah. That's something we shouldn't forget. That's something
as parents we shouldn't forget. That's something our children
should never forget. We need to know our place in the world. We've
lost ourselves,
and the price that we pay is hefty,
the price our innocent brothers and sisters that are dying,
that are dying every day, the price the paying is hefty
in the lahatme, Allah does not change the state of a people until
They have changed themselves for Allah come for staff here.
Alhamdulillah. Rabbi Lamin o Salatu was salaam alai, Salin
Sayyidina, Muhammad in WA Allah Ali. He was happy. He ajmein
wabado. It's
important for us Muslims to understand.
Understand how history unfolded, how the Muslim civilization that
actually brought and carried the torch of justice, fairness
and true humanity and even science and advancement to the world.
And it's important to know that
civilization was interrupted by forces that claimed civilization
to themselves,
the years and the times of colonialism that were pure
occupation, that disrupted the flow of many nations and on the
earth
we still living the consequences of that.
And although many of the lands, seemingly Muslim lands, seemingly
were freed, the reality is that our hearts were not freed yet,
and you can't free yourself only through intelligence or through
education or wealth or anything,
the only way to free yourself is by becoming a slave to Allah
subhanahu wa in the true sense of the word,
in the true sense of the word. And if you are a slave to this dunya
in any way, any shape or form,
doing enough, then you are not fully a slave of Allah,
and that comes with a hefty price.
So we should not take this slightly.
We should be always aware of something like this. Remind
ourselves on a daily basis of who we are and what we are, the
history that we have, the recent history, and how a lot of our
circumstances and a lot of our thinking is a product of that who
engineered this, who shaped the way we think,
and we are adopting this unquestionably
that makes us slaves in our hearts to other than Allah.
If we don't wake up, and don't expect anyone to wake you up, if
you don't take that seriously in your own personal life, you're not
going to wake up. And if you don't wake up, you as you breed, you
will be breeding slaves, slaves of the dunya, slaves of the
disbelievers, slaves of systems. And that means you are
perpetuating
the weakness of the truth.
And a lot of humanity is denied access to the truth because a lot
of Muslims, simply, I'm not saying they're not inviting to Islam.
They're not even living Islam in their own life.
If your child doesn't see the embodiment of true worship of
Allah and prioritizing Allah, Subhanahu wa in your life choices,
everyday choices, they're not going to believe this lip service
that you give them, the kind of lectures that they know are empty.
You yourself don't even believe in them because you don't adhere to
them. They see the discrepancy and the hypocrisy.
So they don't trust you. They don't believe you. They look for
another role model. And they have no shortage of that. There's a lot
of influences online. There's a lot of examples wherever they go
to be so called educated. They have a lot of those examples who
are just going to take them down these routes that lead eventually
to the hellfire.
We have to wake up.
We have to wake up. And this is not an incitement to any hatred,
any violence, anything on the contrary,
Islam is an invitation to the truth. Islam is an invitation to
light. Islam is an invitation to justice. Islam is an invitation to
the highest moral standards.
And there is a lot of lying and deception against Islam to defame
Islam and give it a bad name. Why? Because these are the servants of
shaytaan, and they know that Islam spreads by itself,
and Islam dominates, and they know this power. They know this
inherent power and strength in Islam, and they don't want it.
They don't want it.
So they fight it under many guises. We ask Allah to guide us
and make us firm on the truth and help us fulfill the mission that
he entrusted this ummah with, Allah meaning,
Allah
mean,
Philistine.
Allah,
Shad Muhammad, Abu Asmaa,
hanya Allah swallow,
hanya
Alain fala,
qadam qamit in swanay,
SWANA,
Allah
Allah.
We
Alhamdulillah, mean, Abu Asmaa, Mohini, Maliki, Medini.