The Revival #29
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The speakers discuss various topics including the Islamic Spirit, the fall of the previouscentalty, the rise of nationalism and racism, the importance of de funds and building institutions for peace, and the need for strong and effective instructions to prevent violence. They emphasize the need for de funds and building institutions to solve real world problems and build a strong umossurability, as well as the importance of handing out handcuffs and thanking participants for their work. The speakers also touch on the rise of nationalism and racism, the need for strong and effective instructions to prevent further violence, and the importance of creating a strong and independent community for peace.AI Generated Transcript ©
Yeah.
Are you again? Yeah. Yeah. No.
No. Oh, okay. Yeah. Just did. Yeah.
Know there's a lot of questions. Is Eid
gonna be on Wednesday or Thursday? And I
spoke to the
head of the Mann Keker Society, and he
said he doesn't know. So
even he didn't get the update yet, so
we'll just have to wait and see, Insha'Allah.
Before we start the lecture, our,
hofad who lead us in Salah, they need
to to leave for another engagement. So we
wanted to express our heartfelt thanks and shukr
to them for leading us during this month
in Tawawih.
And,
it's always an honor and a privilege,
to have
people, who have memorized the Quran and come
and stand here at Bu'Anu. I know we
don't believe the full Quran, and so we
appreciate that they make time for us. And,
of course, to the
for choosing
to do your Ibadat,
to have your salahiyah with us. That's a
great honor for us. So
we give, a shukar first to,
Akari
Abdulaziz Brown, for, leading the salah. Kari Abdulaziz,
please come forward.
And, Ed Bu'Anil, So the 1st year that,
Qari is with us, but, inshallah,
one of many. There's lots of,
prizes that we give. So This is for
the brown family. It's 4 of them? One
bag? Okay. That's for every okay. Four people.
Yeah. It's a lot there's a lot of
things in there, Insha'Allah.
K. So yeah. JazakAllah Khair. And then to
just to mention, all the other names, Kari
Abdul Hamid Brown, if you can all come
up as well.
Kari Musa Brown.
I think Hammad is not here tonight. Hammad
as well and Abdul Rahman? Abdulrahim.
Abdulrahim.
Okay. He's Abdul Hamania. Abdul Hamia.
So much.
We also oh, saw a picture? Done? Okay.
You're done.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. No. No. Then the now we
caught up,
Mohammed
Zia Danslow?
Okay. Oh, sorry. We still
okay.
It's, pictures pictures.
Yes. For the records. For the records? Okay.
Standing on the podium. Okay.
And Ziyad's younger brother, Rayyan.
Rayyan, this is a
first time standing in front,
and,
I think, alhamdulillah, we were all nervous with
you,
but you've you've done well. Alhamdulillah, we appreciate
it, and inshallah, Allah grant you many, many,
years as as a Hafid and to lead
us in Salah. I mean, shukran so much.
I'm sure you'll be so stronger next year.
Next year,
shukran so much. If you can pitch it
quickly.
Okay. I'm gonna sign.
And then,
Mohammed Zunaid was really was leading the kufad.
He's not here this evening, unfortunately.
Couldn't make it. His father will be here.
Oh, is his is dad here to accept?
The the longer thank you ceremony a bit
later. It's a lot of Bilals,
so we have to, we'll keep them for
a bit
later.
Yeah. So we'll move to the lecture now,
Insha'Allah.
We move to the lecture.
What did we give out there to everybody?
Is that
a A scarf or something? A
towel. A towel.
You get a towel. You get a towel.
Everybody gets a towel.
Okay. Okay. Shukran,
everybody gets a a low price. That's
the Barakah you had Burano. Alhamdulillah.
Right.
We continue our series,
the revival
of the Islamic Spirit. And as I said,
it's a very difficult way. You always wanna
end off and then lived happily ever after.
But, unfortunately, as we know, we are living
we're living in the in the the the
where the series ends is is is is
is where we are right now. And we
know that we are in a bit of
a a low point in the Ummah.
And,
last night, we concluded with the the end
of the Khalifa or the end of the
last Khalifa. The office of the caliphate still
remains vacant and it has been a 100
years
since we had no Khalifa. For the first
time in our history, however,
was,
abolished in 1924, the 3rd of however, was,
abolished
in 1924,
3rd March, when Kamal Musafa Musafa Kemal Ataturk,
declared
Turkey a republic. He ended the Ottoman Empire.
He ended the sultanate. And with that, the
caliphate ended as well.
So
interesting
interesting,
and everything goes back to the hadith. The
says
that
I will remain with you as a Nabi
for as long as Allah wants and then
Allah will take me away, and that will
end Nabuwa. Nabuwa will come to an end.
Then Allah will raise,
then there will be a Khalifa, a
caliphate upon the methodology of the Nabi.
There will be
a succession of harifas on the methodology of
the Nabi,
and it will last for as long as
Allah wants in another hadith. He says for
30 years, and then Allah will raise it
and take it away, and he will replace
it with a
this hadith
means to bite but it means, like, a
good kingship.
A
just kingship will replace
the age of the caliphate.
So it's not like the
not like the Khalifas on the methodology of
the Nabi. Now these are kings, but these
are good kings, and they will remain for
as long as Allah wants it to remain.
Then Allah will remove that kingship, and he'll
replace it with a tyrannical
kingship or tyrannical
ruler rule rulership over the Muslims, and that
will remain as long as Allah wants it
to remain. Then he will remove that, and
he will return it back
to the Khalifa of
We know we had some great kings that
were good.
Some have mentioned that the tyrannical
rulership was when the caliphate ended, and we're
living in the times of non Muslims ruling
over us. Could be this. Some have mentioned
that, you know, long ago, the tyrannical rulers
have have have come and and we are
now basically waiting for Imam Mahdi, Allahu Alam,
but it falls in line. Every history plays
out as the Nabi Salam had mentioned.
Although we should not be fatalistic,
some have said, well, we just sit and
wait. The next Khalifa will be Imam Mahdi.
It might be the case, but we also
don't wait until
that happens. However, what have we seen in
the last 100 years? So perhaps now we
can get some sense of what's going on
in the world. Why are things happening in
the world?
It was because
with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and
the fall of all the Islamic states, it
was an sort of
victory lap for the European powers and European
ideology. It wasn't just a military victory. It
was that secularism is right. We need to
remove religion from from government, from economics. Religion
is only something you do in your masjid,
at your janazah, at your wedding. That liberalism
is the way to go. People are free
to choose and live how they want. And
Western ideology now creeps in into
our ethics, our morality, our identity, our sexuality.
Now
the Western paradigm is seen as the ultimate
rights. That is the way to go forward.
And everyone who's not aligned with Western ideals,
you are backwards, and you need to catch
up. This is what's been happening for the
last 100 years. And there are many Muslims
who subscribe to that. We have been programmed
that this is the only way that if
we don't become westernized, we'll remain backwards.
There were, of course, attempts
to push back to revive the caliphate. In
fact, the 1st major ulama conferences, global conferences,
was about establishing a caliphate. This was immediately
after the fall of the of the Khalifa.
They had conferences in Jerusalem, conferences in Cairo,
conferences in in Indonesia, even Geneva,
trying to put together who would be the
Khalifa. Some names were motivated. The king of
Morocco,
the Sharif of Mecca, even the kings Saudi
kings were were were nominated to be Khalifa,
but there was no consensus. And, ultimately,
this project kind of fell through the roof,
and there's been no further attempts really,
on a global scale to reestablish the caliphate
at the moment.
But because of that, you had many grassroots
movements
that rose up. And this is the tension
between what we call political Islam. We have
Islamist parties.
We have groups that are calling for is
for for for for politics to remain in
the hands of,
we we're not gonna separate between Islam and
the politics and the government. And therefore, groups
like now you understand why we have groups
like,
there's a group called the Khalifa movement who
ultimately resulted
they started off to establish a caliphate in
India.
They weren't able to establish a Khalifa, but
they managed to establish Pakistan.
So from that movement, when India got split,
when England left, there were a group that
said, we want a country that is based
on Islamic ideals.
And, of course, it's about how is this
possible?
Majority is Hindu. They said, well, those areas
that are Muslim, they wanna live under Sharia.
So that became a country called Pakistan. Bangladesh
and Pakistan were together. So this Khalifa movement
actually resulted in the formation of Pakistan. And
then we see like,
we see
all these names,
Jamiatul Ulama, Jamiatul Islami,
even Tablik Jamat, all these grassroots levels, groups
are trying to revive and reestablish Islam. You
also see, like we spoke about even Taymiyyah,
the ummah knows we're in a bad state.
How do we fix it? Many would say,
let's go back to the original sources. We
fight against bidah. We end tasawwuf, all these
things.
You know, Salafi'ism, all of these groups. You
understand why these groups are there? Because it's
a reaction. We want to get back. We
wanna be strong again. How do we fix
the problems?
While this is happening on the ground, there
are many the, you know, the world
changed from colonialism to post colonialism.
Even though England won the war, France won
the war, they could no longer keep their
colonies.
And country by country, they became independent.
So many countries are really brand new. I
mean, I think in in in the, if
you look at Algeria, we spoke with Algeria.
They were fighting we spoke about, Amir Abdul
Kader. He fought in the 1800 against the
French
colonialism. They were only given their independence in
1960.
1960, subhanallah. They've been fighting for over a
100 years to get rid of the French.
And so many of these countries are new.
They are trying to figure out how to
govern, how to establish themselves, how to undo
the mess that the colonial powers have done.
In in the in 1 year, I think
it was also 1960, in 1 year, 17
African countries became independent. It was called the
year of Africa. And so all these countries
are entering a new age,
and you would see that different
different countries had different types of rulers. You
had those countries where the colonial power left,
but they left a puppet government or a
puppet monarchy.
Those monarchies and they keep bolstering them, supporting
them. Some of them are the wealthiest countries
in the world because the colonial powers kept
them there and want them there.
Other groups,
they were put there as colonial puppets, but
then the military overthrew them. That's why you
have constant coups, 1 got the military taking
over. Many of the African countries, the military
is in charge. Why? Because they took control
once the colonial powers left, and that's why
you have civil wars,
nonstop civil wars. We'll see I'll show you
a slide that of the 50 Muslim majority
countries, 36 of them went through some kind
of civil war in the last 100 years.
This is the legacy of colonialism,
the legacy of once the colonial powers left
remember, they created brand new countries out of
nowhere. Think about Cape Town, for example. Just
I'll give you an example. We'll talk okay.
Let's talk about the rise of nation states.
We'll talk in a minute. So therefore, we
have civil wars, revolutions.
The Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini. What is this?
What's happening? The people are tired of a
secular government, Western government, and they want an
Islamic kind of rule, and that's what happened
to the Iranian revolution. And you have, of
course, in in in in the Middle East,
you had the Arab Spring.
Muslim Islamist Islamic parties overthrew their military rulers,
but then overnight or 2, a year or
so later, the military came back into power.
And so we constantly have this in political
instability.
And then Nabi Salam also speaks about a
time like
this. Hudayfah radiallahu alaihi wa'an who asked the
Nabi some about all the weird things about
dajjal and the end of times and qiyama.
He said, you Rasool Allah, when things get
bad, what do you advise
me to do? So the Nabi says, when
things are, like, upside down, you don't know
what is good from bad, stick to the
jama'ah. Stick to the majority of the Muslims
and stick to its
leader. Don't be a fringe movement. You stick
with the Jama'ah and you stick with its
leader. So then he said, you Rasool Allah,
what if there is no Jama'ah
and there is no leader?
What if there's no jama'ah and no leader?
So the Nabi said, then avoid all these
groups of fighting one another.
Don't get involved in this group fighting or
that group, this one causing civil war again,
that's one. You, and even if you need
to be alone, but you keep yourself out
of the fitna as best you can. And
so we have a highly disunited Umma.
In the time of the caliphate of the,
and with all their faults and all their
failures, there wasn't a concept of I'm Turkish
or I'm Syrian or I'm Arab. There was
still a feeling of an ummah. That when
you waged war against one country, it was
all of us. Even though no no one
jumped in and supported them, but it was
a feeling of ummah. Now
this is a Arab problem. It's a Palestinian
problem. It's a Burmese problem, a Kashmiri problem.
It's not my problem. And this is one
of the the the the the rise that
we see, the the disunited
fragmentation of the ummah and the rise of
what we call nation states. Now we have
everyone is forming their own country.
And you can think about this, everyone forming
their own country. Give you an example. Let's
say, for example, Cape Town became independent. Now
there's a party that wants to cede. You
see you saw that? There's a political party
that wants to make, like, a cap exit.
You know? Cape Town must exit the rest
of South Africa. Now imagine the or the
Western Cape exits. And now in the Western
Cape, we have sort of countries. We say
Sea Point, that's for the Zionist. That's the
Jewish country. So then, obviously, the Muslims are
gonna say, well, I wanna have my own
country here in the Bucca. You must have
my own country. Now what happens to the
Muslims living in Seapoint
and the Jews living in the Bucca?
Because of this rise of nationalism,
you saw the biggest atrocities in human history,
the holocaust, genocide,
because this idea
of you are aligned to a national ethnic
group
and you only look after yourself and the
others are alien and foreign. This is what
gave rise to extreme racism,
extreme Nazism, fascism, and why we saw the
Holocaust. You didn't have this in the Ottoman
Empire. Yes. You for 100 of years,
Muslims, Jews, Christians,
Arabs, Kurds, Turks
lived side by side. They all spoke their
own language. They all followed their own religion.
There was hostilities, of course. There were times
of extinction, but there wasn't genocide.
All of this happened after World War 1,
and that's why you're gonna see in World
War 2, you have a holocaust. You have
a holocaust. And so as I said, with
the rise of Muslim countries, there are about
50 Muslim majority countries. 36 of them has
seen war, has seen some type of even
genocide in the last 100 years because we
don't have a united front. We're a massive
ummah,
1 third of the world's population,
but each one is being picked off 1
by 1. And no one stands up and
no one does anything. It was strange. When
we speak about it, it felt so strange.
How could the Crusaders conquer Jerusalem and no
one do anything? Well, they're doing exactly now.
How can a small group of people invade
Palestine and the Muslim Ummah around watches and
not not do anything? Our, you know, great
grandkids will say the same thing about us.
May Allah grant us a Tawfiq.
But there is something positive.
Without the Khalifa,
without the pope, without a clergy,
without political power, without economic power,
being oppressed and all of that, we are
still here.
This ummah still stands. This ummah still remains.
This ummah will not give up its religion.
Religion has lost out throughout the world.
Temples and churches, synagogues are empty. It's only
that are open. You'll only find a masjid
that is up whole night from Maghrib until
Fajr, 27th Ramadan.
Everybody
across across South Africa. Now imagine a tiny
Muslim minority in the middle of in the
bottom of the world. What about heartland Islam?
Islam is still here. Whereas religion has receded
and given in to this
wave of atheism,
Islam still holds the flag, still raises the
flag for religiosity.
And so this is something which Allah promised
that
this ummah will not fall through external forces.
This will remain until the
will go through good days and bad days,
but it will never end. Yes. We'll fight.
We'll have disasters, but the ummah will remain
forever. And the for Allah promises
that as there are low points, there always
be a
revival. That wave of revivalism will come. Either
we will live to see it or even
better be part of it, but it will
come. It is a promise that Allah
has made. In conclusion, and I you know,
we are over time now, to what reflections
or way forward for us as a ummah.
Going through the series, we find certain common
threads.
If you want your country to be weak,
fight against one another,
argue and debate,
ally with your enemies,
depend on outside forces.
Should
stop thinking and researching.
Should spend more time criticizing one another. That
is the path to destruction.
And, of course, the path forward is
that if we want to fix this ummah,
some of the things, the ingredients that we
need to do to fix this ummah is
we need to, number 1, decolonize our minds,
remember our long history of success and power
in Israel. I think that's one of the
first things. Look at that. We genuinely conquered
the world. We have a winning formula. This
is not theoretical.
We really this deen has shown it will
take a group of Arabs in the middle
of nowhere in the desert to rule the
world.
And as Saidna Omer said, we were nothing
before Islam, and when we leave Islam, we'll
be nothing again.
We have shown also that this we have
seen a 100 years of secular rule. It
hasn't brought us anything.
It hasn't brought us anything. So it's not
even a theoretical discussion.
We also need I think if you look
at all these revivalist movements, it always began
with the ulama.
And what at the end of the day,
if there's any blame and perhaps that is
why
we see that hadith, that very scary hadith
on the day of Qiyama, the very, very
first people who put in jahannam, not Ibelis,
not Firaun, not your mother-in-law sisters. The very
first person that's going to jahannam are the
ulama.
Very scary. The worst people that go to
jahannam, the ulama. And so
this deen
is held and it's preserved through its ulama
or it falls through its ulama. We need
strong,
good, successful ulama.
It is in our own interest as Muslims
to make sure our ulama and our ulama
bodies, our shayuk,
are well established, that they are
independent, that they can think clearly. So we
need good and strong ulama. And then we
need other skills.
We don't need a we don't need a
community of only and sheikhs. We need doctors
and lawyers and engineers and plumbers. But not
doctors and lawyers, engineers and plumbers will only
work for the next holiday. Work for the
ummah.
Bring your skills. Bring your wealth. The reason
is how beautiful is it when Allah joins
money and a good man puts it together.
Skills and a good person have the focus
of I wanna build this ummah. I wanna
be part of it. That's how together we
build this ummah.
And we put our differences aside for a
common good. We need to, of course, look
at
grassroots.
We are, subhanallah,
illiterate from the dunya perspective, as Ummah speak,
illiterate from a dunya perspective
and illiterate from a deen perspective. There is
a we don't need a Khalifa to tell
us that that our kids, each one must
take responsibility.
Our kids must have this, you know, we
are umma of Iqra, and so we build
from that, building institutions.
We need to solve real world problems. The
deen is not something only in the masjid.
We need to feed people, build houses, take
care of women that are destitute. That is
what the Nabi sun came to do. He
fixed the society.
So before we need a Khalifa to tell
us that we, at a community level, need
to do those things. And with that,
economic self sufficiency, soft power, engaging in politics,
and
with those ideas and thoughts, may Allah grant
this ummah to revive itself.
Remember that ummah will always remain. Islam will
always remain strong. Allah
is always there. And we make dua that
we will see and live through the next
wave of revival. That we will be part
of it and not for the sake of
our history and names to be done. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala write for us that
we, the next chapter of the ummah, of
Izzah, it will be us that writes that
chapter.
Amin.
Thank you so much. This was a a
a wonderful series for me, and I hope
it was beneficial to you. Allah accept from
us. Amin. So our last
bit of
q and a and it befitting, who was
the last caliphate?
The last Khalifa of the Ummah, what was
his name?
Abdul Majid the second. Abdul Majid the second,
and I said he died sadly, very sadly
in France, but alhamdulillah is buried in in
Madinah. From Sayyid Abu Bakr to Abdul Majid,
that is the last line of the caliphate.
Sister
Buly?
She here?
Not here.
K.
Anti fighter.
She here?
Okay.
And and Mohammed Saliksali.
We continue with our
any announcements?
Okay.
You should keep this one.
Now this this is for the online.
Okay.
Oh, I know. It's okay.
Sorry.
I
don't think so either.
Go.
I never done
like this yesterday that we started Ramadan.
And
number 1
pushes us and
asks us
to bring out the best in us.
And the best in us is normally associated
with being of benefit to others. And I
think many of us, if not all, can
testify that we've witnessed some act like that
during the month of Ramadan.
And
as for the tradition here in Burhan,
we would like to show and express our
gratitude
to everybody involved
in all the proceedings
during Ramadan.
And so we start, of course, with
our Sheikh who's had a
a fantastically engrossed series. It was like
a Burhanu
revival channel here. You know? It was really,
really wonderful.
Then to our assistant imam
Majidi,
who's able to assist it with the Ishaa
of Ito Sanat.
That's right. And then we have with the
Talip who's always standing in for whatever needs
to be done.
We had our Bilal,
Hameem, and his team,
and we had
our our runner questionnaire runner, May Moon, doing
whatever he has to do.
And we had uncle boy
who behind the scenes make sure that the
mask just functions. It's clean. Everything is as
it should be. Very invisible,
but his actions
for Salatul Leil
really, really has been wonderful.
I haven't, and I've missed out on the
on the huffas,
but, Sheikh has done that. But particularly
for Salatul Layl. My goodness.
You not only
kept us awake, you entertain us with your
beautiful visitation of the Quran, alhamdulillah. So desakkulillah
for that.
And now to hand out
some gifts of appreciation.
Sheikh, you've you've you've received yours to Zarkla
for that.
Okay.
And then,
Majidi,
please. Okay.
Like, like, hey. Come. We need some pictures
here.
Take
a
picture
here.
Then,
Lukman.
Is Lukman here?
Yes. Please,
Lukman.
It's a pleasure listening to you,
Come come to stand here for the pick.
Otherwise, see Yeah.
Okay. We've got a editor in chief.
That's okay.
And Zade? Yes, we do. We have Zade
here?
Zade.
Here we come.
Oh. Okay.
You need to record our end of the
video. Mhmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's not here.
Are you still here?
Then Inam
Inam Saleh.
Not yet. Not yet.
Okay.
Then Hamid Khan,
our beloved leader,
and trainer of all the youth.
For Art Peters. Art's not here. Art is
not here.
Adnan.
Adnan is here.
David.
Ibrahim Abrams.
Okay.
Abdul Aziz, is he here. Absence.
Okay.
Absence.
Riyadh Peters.
Yazid Emeran.
Yep. Ebsen. Ebsen.
Ebsen.
Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen.
Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen. Ebsen Williams.
Mikael Adams.
Zachary Adams.
Come stand here for the big wheel. It's
a big for you.
Okay.
And we've had Raee Khan?
Just not here. Not here.
Okay.
And Rian Sari.
Mohammed Sali Sali.
Hanif Sali.
Adam Kasim.
Adam Kasim.
Adam.
Ali Adams.
With the use of Dua.
An obeyed Basir,
and it's for you. So
Let's see all to the electronics and the
digital stuff. Okay. Is
here. Where is? Is. Is.
And
So that's that is it. Just
a a few words before we begin with
Alayhi Salaam.
No doubt Ramadan brings with us a strong
sense of community.
Oh, okay.
Come all the together, please,
for the picture.
Okay.
Okay. Just a few last words from me,
is just to
just to say that, you know,
as I said before, Ramadan brings in a
sense of community, but the sense of community
translates into
being a Jama'at this mosque here.
But we can't have a Jama'at
if there's nobody that shows up. And so,
clearly,
with you being here and and being with
with us in Jannah,
it just completes the picture.
And,
so a little pat on your back for
making the effort to be with us here.
Okay? Small one. Yeah. Okay.
But lastly,
we'll make dua.
Allah grant
you all a a need, which is joyful
And that's,
And that's,