Muhammad West – Cape Koesieste Culture

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			always we will begin with the praise of Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah will testify that
none has the right to be worshipped besides Allah you send our love greetings salutations. So
beloved Nabi Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam despise his poor family, his companions and all
those who follow his sunnah until the end of time. May Allah bless us to be amongst them. I mean, I
mean, what hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah we continue, we'll continue with our series on the first
Khalifa and the campaign's of hardened Walid Inshallah, next week with the lab, as you know,
tomorrow, great calamity public holiday falls on a Saturday. Unfortunately, for all of us, one of
		

			the greatest merci was, except for those who work on a Saturday, as Pamela. It is, of course,
Heritage Day. And it's important for us to talk about heritage and culture and customs and
traditions, these are very, very important. And the title is what have clicked by cassette tape,
because it's the culture. I know, this Kitco system mentality. We're not talking about that. But
what we talk about is the cape, not Malay, but Cape Muslim culture, because this is a very unique
community, in this part of the world that you will not find anywhere else on Earth. It's a very
unique kind of a community, one of the oldest Muslim minorities in the world, many Muslim minorities
		

			are very new people moving to America and England 5060 years ago, trying to find themselves and we
are very distant from the centers of the Muslim world. If you look further north, Namibia, Botswana,
Islam is really only beginning. So it's very strange to find a Muslim community 350 years, yet the
end of the world that has been here for a very, very long time, and a very unique and diverse
history. We don't come from one community only, not only from Malaysia, Indonesia, but they are
people from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, all came together to form a brand new kind of community.
And so it's important to talk about this and is it important, so Islam, you're in the cape, and this
		

			is not to isolate anyone? If you are new to Cape Town, or what have you, part of this biryani
Alhamdulillah. The Cape Islamic community is a rich culture and rich in tradition, and has played a
major role in shaping the city. In reality, the culture of Cape Town has in many, many ways been
influenced by our presence here. And our history, as you know, many of us we know the history and I
won't go too much into detail. It's it was a history that is built on a lot of sorrow, a lot of
hardship, a lot of oppression, a lot of difficulty, but Alhamdulillah time and time again, by the
Grace of Allah, this community has survived and thrived and move forward. And many of time those
		

			oppresses those people who challenge this community, they have disappeared. Al Hamdulillah we remain
by the Grace of Allah, we know that the one
		

			we could say benefit of colonialism is a terrible, terrible thing or evil a system one and Allah
shows his power, that in the colonialism, they were able to exploit Islam, two parts of the world
that you would not have thought would come because the same people who colonized our forefathers in
in India and Indonesia colonized this land. And so of course we know by that they brought slaves and
this land was really a place of punishment and sorrow you find in tourists letters, he calls this
		

			the cursed land or something like that, in terms of how difficult it was for those people to be
taken from their homes and brought here but they made a point of starting something new. They did
not think about going home. They did not think about giving up they wanted to start something new.
And you can imagine this community slaves. This community had people who are exiles people who were
prisoners, people who are the local Khoisan and you have Subhan Allah amongst them are royalty who
are taken from the of course the our many of the so called Olia Rahim Allah, Allah. They were
royalty mujahadeen Allah who felt taken from the lands and the prestige and growth here with
		

			basically nothing. Even the Quran to one guru couldn't bring the Quran with him. And so many of the
leadership of the of the Muslims here had a great illustrious history in the past they came here
with nothing, Chef Usul from Macassar to guru, and we talked about to one guru, Rahim Allah because
really, he's someone that inspires me and inspires all of us a man who fought he dedicated his life
in learning Islam, memorizing the Quran being a scholar being a judge Icardi traveling the Arab
world's learning Islam, then finding his land being invaded by an outsider and fighting jihad
against them, doing everything for the sake of Allah and then losing and losing everything. His
		

			family, his position his home, and coming to this land in the 60s, late 60s and not go to Cape Town
we know he was imprisoned in Robben Island for 13 years we take great pride, along with hundreds of
years before Nelson Mandela and the ANC went to Robben Island. The first blood in the first fight
against oppression was the blood of the Mujahideen in this land, the first fight against injustice,
where the Muslims have stood up for against all kinds of injustice not based on color, or race, but
on truth and bottom. And so for 30
		

			yours Ramallah twang guru was in prison. Look at how we use this time authored books, man, at 67.
You have a life sentence you don't think you're ever going to leave this present? But what am I
going to do sit and cry. Some of us might even say hello so just make that you then I die. But he
said, Look, I might go to the city one day I might get free, go to the city. There are people there
that are Muslim, but they have not been in touch with orlimar. They don't even have a Quran. They
don't even know how to read and write. I'm going to start with Alif pata. This is a judge a
professor, bring himself down to the people of his time, wrote the Quran by hand Subhanallah of the
		

			13 years is fried starts from scratch. And it must have been his sincerity Allah knows best and the
sincerity of we know the lady Sachi for kneecap lady who was born to two slaves, her parents were
slaves, worked hard to get free, worked hard. Her father was the first man as a slave to own a
house. I mean, owning a house now is a challenge. Imagine if you were a slave. And you had to work
so hard to get your freedom. And then you could buy a house. And he gave that house to his daughter,
you are free girl, you, you, you I mean for her to own a property. She was like Sinaloa. And then
she donated that as the magic. Who of us will give her house as the first Masjid in South Africa.
		

			When Google comes out, we making Joomla in the quarry, because we couldn't have a masjid eventually.
Hamdulillah we were allowed to have a machine. But now we don't have land. The only person who has a
house, she don't makes that make this the Masjid. So is that sincerity, that Allah subhanho wa Taala
loves and stays for generations. So we could say the one guru was part of the big things fighting
jihad, armies and politics and governments. And that, obviously, that you would as Allah, but the
seed that really survived, was in teaching Alberta, starting from scratch in a little house around
the corner. That is what put all of us in the skills of goodness. Listen for us. Sometimes we think
		

			of the big, big things, and we forget about the little things that happen around us. And that is the
things that really Allah subhanho wa Taala wants us to focus on. So very rich, and beautiful
history. And as we said, what that generations upon generations, new people came, new problems
emerged, new difficulties came and this culture, this culture has survived until now. And so we ask
this question and you find this conflict, should we even preserve this?
		

			Should we even preserve this culture? Should we even maintain it? We have Islam? Should we even
preserve it? Islam? And there's this discussion between Islam and culture, culture and Islam, you
find cultural practices. Last week I spoke about grumpies and someone asked me what is the Trump is
way in the Quran, you find that MPs, okay, so we need to talk a little bit about culture and Islam.
It's important to note that Islam is the rules and the laws of the law of Allah. And Islam are the
principles and the models that we abide by. We our culture, clashes with Islam, within our culture,
we you find in many cultures, certain practices that are anti Islamic, certain cultures, the man,
		

			the girl pays the dowry to the men, certain subcontinent cultures. If you're a Muslim, this is
haram. It's not for us. So wherever your culture clashes, Islam, you throw it away. But Islam also
allows for culture. Islam is not a predatory kind of culture. The Sahaba did not come from Makkah
conquered the world, and made everybody Quraysh and made everyone and really sometimes we confuse
Saudi culture, Saudi Arabian culture with Islam, that we still have never dressed like that.
		

			Islam did not force itself in areas which were not haram, it maintained, if that's the cuisine of
your people, if that's the way you'd like to dress, if that's the colors you want, as long as you
keep it, you keep your language. In fact,
		

			there'll be some Solomon said, the Jews may know that these flexibility in our religion, really,
I've been sent with a truthful lineage religion. This was when the Abyssinians came to the northeast
was masjid and they were doing kind of an exhibit, showing off the culture doing a kind of a show.
And the Sahaba said, Dr. Lau, can we allow this leave it we is flexibility in our religion, these
times for enjoyment, and it's a place for our culture. And one of the beautiful symbols of how Allah
allowed leniency in the culture is he revealed the Quran not only in the dialect of the Quran, the
Quran was always in Arabic. But there were other tribes who spoke a different style of Arabic like
		

			you have Ozzie Australian English, British, the Queen's English or the King's English now, right,
the South African,
		

			manual, so whatever you want different types of the same language. Allah allowed the Quran Allah
revealed the Quran in those dialects, but of course the Qureshi the the Arabic of the Prophet Salam
that was the highest and is the the best, and that when the visa Salam conquered Saudi Arabian
Peninsula, he kept some of the GI Helia practices which were in conformity with Islam, many things
of Janelia which was good, throw it away. And so we have Islam we don't need your system. He kept
		

			those things which were, which were good. And the Sahaba, as we said, when they conquered Egypt, for
example, they didn't destroy the permits. They didn't destroy all the heritage of all these lands,
even though it was under the control for under Islam for 1400 years, these artifacts remain. And
Islam allowed culture to maintain, so long as he does not go against go against the tradition. And
so we might ask the question,
		

			tomorrow, his heritage, the
		

			heritage is not about just the sisters you eat, and the dress situate and the widower, and all of
that. Those are outward symbols of your culture. Heritage is what our forefathers has given us, the
good and the bad. And we might sometimes have this view, do we even need this heritage? Should we
give it over to our generation our kids and say, Yes, we are Muslim, but we also have a presence in
this land. And we learn certain things, what good is our culture? Some might even say in the line of
Quran and Sunnah. What good is the and one of the benefits of this culture is that it was modeled.
And if you really study this culture, it was modeled on the basis of Islam. I want you to think
		

			about this very clearly. You will not find tomorrow I'm doing a heritage day, talk to non Muslims. I
cannot talk about Cape Malay heritage without talking about Islam, you cannot find a person says I
want to be a Cape Malay, I want to do all the practice of Cape Malay, but I want to be a Muslim.
That doesn't work. Because every almost everything that is in our culture was somehow modelled on
Islam, our our, our customs, our habits, Booker,
		

			LeBron, you know, all these, how we do our analysis. This was because it was a community that tried
to give Islam over Oda Ma, and you can think of the beauty in it, Rhoda Ma, who wanted to give Islam
over to a people who were not academically, you know, the ones sitting in dark rooms, how do you
teach people to practice the Islam, you can teach them to read a book, or you can live show them how
you live your life. This is how you eat around the table. This is how you invite people to your
house, when someone gets sick. This is what you butcher, when someone dies, this is the ceremonies
you do. And so they developed a model that highly qualified Alama to a very, very illiterate
		

			community, sincere community gave Islam over in a cultural form, in a practice form, sometimes
Alhamdulillah they will mistakes. And we can see that now we have maybe the foresight to see where
things didn't go according to Islam as it should have. And those things we can talk about. But the
purpose of this, the culture survived. And with that Islam carry through. Now I want us to think
about our kids, they're going to be part of a globalized world, where they're going to see European
culture, they're going to see Western culture, they're going to see, you know, their friends in
China or in Japan, they're playing anime and all these different cultures and, and groups and
		

			associations. You want to be part of your Manchester Club, where you all black steam, or your as I
said, your your enemy clique, whatever it might be, who are you part of what is your identity? When
they go out in the world, they must be clear who they are, that they are Muslim, yes. And they have
their own identity, their own culture. But underneath all your different things that you wait, there
is a default culture of what makes you who you are. And so, culture and our heritage is a means by
which we preserve our deen. In a world where it becomes multicultural. Everyone is sort of together.
And it gives us a sense of identity and is now one of the beautiful things of this religion. And
		

			this culture was it took people that were very broken slaves,
		

			if you will, 300 years ago, you were told that because of the color of his skin, you were inferior,
you will mistake that there is a hierarchy in the sight of Allah that God favors a certain the more
pale your complexion is, the closer you are to God. In fact, there are pictures of him, many of the
women of Issa, that's what God looks like. Right? And the darker you are, the less like God you are.
And you have people from all different parts of the world, different languages. And yet this could
be said, we're going to start a new command. We're not Bengalis anymore. We're not Indonesian
anymore. We're not Malay anymore. We are in Cape Town we Capetonians now, we are Muslim Capetonians
		

			are we going to start a new identity that will make us different to the rest of the people? Yeah.
And it will give us in cerveza that this will give us strength, this will be something we identify
with. And when I say that goofier it means something in the past it means something even if it means
something today, in the past, the guy always had an equal feel he doesn't realize the guy who is an
equal fear we can trust him.
		

			The Imam dressed in a certain way. You know, you have respect for such a person. non Muslims have
the respect for such a person, a lady dressed in a hijab. Okay very strict. And Allah says this in
the Quran. Yeah, you wouldn't be Allah says this in the Quran. Oh Nabi saw Salam said
		

			Your wives webinar Tika and your daughters when he says, in all the ladies of the Muslims, that they
should cover themselves who are the Jollibee, Danika, Aetna and you're off now why Why should our
ladies wear hijab? Why should they dress like a Muslim so that they may be in the, you know, not be
seen no. So that they may recognize also they may stand out that you're a Muslim, that you stand for
something different. And subhanAllah when you are in your offices, when I'm in my office with all
different kinds of religions and cultures, we stand out for good things that this is what my culture
teaches me, my religion teaches me and I weigh those symbols proudly. And so it is perhaps for this
		

			reason, and Allah knows best that Islam survived in the VVD hostile environment, we cannot deny that
this very simplistic form of giving Islam overthrew traditions and customs and culture is a way in
which it outlasted the Dutch colonial powers. It outlasted the British Empire in our loss to the
perfect
		

			Islam piggybacked on this culture. And kept it, you know, kept our people a sense of identity of who
we are. I say this always, people know, if it's 12 o'clock, one o'clock on a Friday, we don't
schedule a meeting because they go into the mosque. It is just no now in this part of the world.
People know if it's a work function, there are Muslims, they it must be catered for halal. We don't
ask. It's known. Most parts of the world Muslim minorities don't have this. You need to choose a veg
option, or whatever it is, but you're not going to that is the world is you know, getting the but
this culture, this community of certain its identity, this is who we are, what are we about
		

			Alhamdulillah in gave that gave us that Riza that honor.
		

			And as we sit in the role in the 21st century in the world going forward, and we need to talk to you
about our kids who they are what is the young men and women they're going to be they should be proud
of the of the heritage. We are built on the backs of people like to build on the backs of people who
struggled and suffered and fought through the challenges we also learn that every community had its
challenges every time had the problems, our problems, crime, load shootings. panela make it easy.
Back in the time of one guru and electricity Subhanallah right candlelight learning the deen over
candlelight Alhamdulillah but they fought the problems. They didn't pick up and leave Subhanallah
		

			maybe they couldn't leave but they didn't Subhanallah just give up and throw in the towel. I think
of our forefathers. Like in District Six for example. You You know your whole life is dedicated to
that masjid, you to preserve the masjid to protect the masjid, you get taken up and thrown in a pot
which part of Cape Town that you never live. You can either become angry and defeatist. Or you can
say we're going to start a new managing a new community. And so we every time every place our
forefathers were thrown, they saw that imagine
		

			look at its panela wherever they went, they started a new magic today. It's so difficult to start. I
mean new months, it's with all our resources and all our knowledge and all our opportunities. So
difficult to find new magic starting but those people with very little materials, very little
knowledge, little freedom. Wherever they went, that community got together the boots and said okay,
we are here now, we're finding ourselves in the islands. Okay, we never thought we'd end up yo
Mitchell's plane. Let's start the managing. Firstly, we will do the magic, then our kids need to
learn to start with the SATA madressa we need an imam to teach our kids we're gonna appoint an imam.
		

			That is priority for us. And that is how the deen survived and Allah gave him the dunya as well.
Allah preserve the dunya as well. And this is for us to remember Subhan Allah in the face of
challenges we don't throw in the towel and give in we continue the fight and we do the basics Allah
once. So in a global village, our this is who we are, it is our brand, we are part of something
bigger. We are part not just of Islam, and the history we take Alhamdulillah the history of Harlan
Waleed and the Sahaba and the history of the of Salahuddin it's all part of how we see. But we're
also proud of our contribution in this land. You know, we're not a spectator style history, this
		

			golden age of Islam, we also have our own chapter to write. And it is also Subhanallah, a buffer
against predatory and negative ideologies. sad reality. Many young people, if I look at our young
people, if they went through their life, and they maintain the Islam and they married a Muslim girl
or a Muslim boy, and they continue to practice Islam, many a time it wasn't because of a conscious
choice. They just found themselves in a Muslim group of friends and they bumped into a Muslim
partner, the minute they're outside of the comfort zone, and they're part of a group that challenges
the identity or they meet someone they fall in love with someone who isn't a Muslim. That's where
		

			you find the becomes problems. Now really, how strong is that Islam? The power of association is
very, very important. It preserves it preserves who you are. And so on top of that, and beyond that,
we say, we also offer salute
		

			Since the problems in the world, the crime, the corruption, we say we have a solution for this. And
we love that solution. I was just told in the at work. Youth, one of the reasons why Alhamdulillah
that many Muslims find themselves successful at work is because we have a system of time and a
system of dedication, if that's the case, that our Dean teaches you discipline, it teaches you to be
to work on time, and that if someone pays you a salary, it's a hack. I need to make sure I deliver.
That is what our DNL yes, they say it's culture. We said, This is what Rasulullah taught us.
Everything in our culture that is good is from Rasulullah Salallahu Salam. And so through us loving
		

			walleye when you love your deen, you might feel odd and awkward. But when you love your Islam,
people will admire you. People will respect you. People will hunger for that what you have, like
when you first we hungry but the hunger to have what we have of of enjoyment in our deen it might
feel a bit odd I'm the only one picking up and going making Salah you know, saying Guys, I need to
leave the meeting I need to perform pray. But people will admire you for that. And so we want and
this is for for those of us when we become old and shalom Allah grants a long life. We don't want
what our forefathers fought, bled and died for to disappear. We don't want Islam to disappear in
		

			this land. And we don't want of course, our culture and the heritage that we have in this thing. We
don't want that this community dissolves away, like many, many Muslim communities throughout the
world disappeared. And so it is our time to write the next chapter and give our kids something else.
And how do we do that? As I said, it begins our culture is based on insha Allah based on being a
Muslim,
		

			our culture is meaningless if it's disconnected from Islam. And as Allah says, In the Quran, I mean
in the light at Qualcomm in Allah Allah, Allah Mojave and when it talks about heritage and culture,
who is the best of all cultures, is the Qureshi culture the best is the mainland culture. The best
is the Cape Malay, the Indian culture, the cockney culture, the base, Allah says, when he talks
about culture, those who are closest to Allah is the best. Doesn't matter what you eat, what colors
you weigh, so long as it is connected to Allah, that is the base, and we remind ourselves, Islam,
your first identity in nominal Muslimeen I'm first a Muslim, a Muslim is one who submits to Allah
		

			and obeys the rules of Allah. And in that I'll talk about in tomorrow Inshallah, if you have any non
if you have any non Muslim friends who are interested about Islam, or culture, we will assist or
whatever, tell them to come to the masjid tomorrow. In live in o'clock tomorrow morning, we'll talk
to them about our heritage. But as I said, we cannot talk about our heritage. We don't talk about
Islam, our religion, what does Islam mean? It means to submit and to surrender. And when you
surrender to the higher power, you will find peace and tranquility in salaam comes in
assalamualaikum then you will find peace in that, that Allah subhanaw taala in Medina and Allah
		

			Islam, the only way of life that Allah is going to accept is the way of life in which you submit to
Allah. When we do that, in our business, in our family, you would find everything goes right. The
second part, which is very important, after we teach Islam to our kids, it's important to teach them
about the identity. When you learn about hardening Malik, for example, and what we've done, we learn
about the crusades, we learn about Spain under Lucia, it gives us a sense that we're not just a what
they show us on TV, if you took your identity what a Muslim is on TV, you owe it to us, your
backwards you live in a cave, that that's what your your deen is that you don't have a legacy. But
		

			when you study our, our rich heritage and legacy, it will change your perception of yourself and
your religion. And so know who you are, know the contributions that were made in this land and
throughout the world. Many of the great scientists for hundreds and hundreds of years were Muslims.
There's a time span a lot. When we talk about the golden age of Islam. They said that if they were
Nobel Prizes, from the seventh century, until the 15th century, every single field would have been
won by a Muslim for 700 years, in every field of science, their greatest contributions by people who
sit La ilaha illAllah. Today, we wait for the West to solve our problems to give killstar disease
		

			what are they going to do? When are they going to give we wait for solutions? We don't make
solutions. And as I said, so important to know, your heritage, who you are and your identity. Number
three, Association. We know this very famous Hadith Whoever imitates a people is one of them. And
the reason salaam Manta Shabaab becoming forming whatever ways the clothes of a certain people, he
dresses like them, he wants to copy them. He wants to emulate them, then you are from them. So we
are not copycats. We don't copy people we only copy Rasulillah Salam and we have our own identity.
So we should tell our kids who are exposed to bigger cultures, global cultures. That's for them.
		

			This is for us. When you stand by your own identity you ever seen cerveza and then lastly, as we
said, Be proud
		

			and express your Islam. Even if you are the stranger than everything says Islam began as something
strange. It was odd in the time of going to be salam for a Muslim to practice his deen and the time
will come will be odd to be a Muslim Alhamdulillah we don't have that problem walking in the masjid
wing, though we don't have that in this country. I was asked Subhanallah because I was in New
Zealand. Oh I was in Australia when that New Zealand shooting them as you will remember Allah
Grantham shahada genital fellows. And I was asked by the newspaper, do you as Muslims in South
Africa because you also a minority, worry about someone coming to the masjid and shooting you up and
		

			bombing your mother? I said, Honestly, we have no such worries, we worry someone's gonna steal the
shoes. That's the only way we have.
		

			And that was a strange thing because he said in other parts of the world, the Muslims have security
at the masjid because they're in such a hostile environment. Alhamdulillah our forefathers fought
those battles. There was a time when they were strangers, they will look on and they will, you know,
abuse and go into the masjid might have been dangerous. But they fought and fought and made
themselves present in this community. Eventually the community loved them because they added value
hamdulillah it's a wonderful structure to build on. So don't be shy. If the Muslims have old good
practice the Islam when was illegal to be a Muslim, surely you and I can take five minutes from our
		

			time to make salah. Surely you and I can have to weigh our Islamic attire, when the time when it's
when it's when it's appropriate when we have to do it. And may Allah Subhana Allah bless us and
maintain what we have here. I mean, just a quick announcement again, as I said, it's a heritage tour
tomorrow but really, it's a dour tour. If any of you have non Muslim friends who are interested then
there's a number of functions happening but I think the the primary one is going to be tomorrow in
the masjid in sha Allah I think 11 o'clock and that's when we will talk about Islam and then against
Pamela we calling is to all the men we have enough women for meeting three two we looking for men
		

			between the ages of 30 and 50 the some one asked me now when are the married men going to be able to
find a second I was inshallah we know today but make dua make dua inshallah Zack Lafayette or Salah
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