Muhammad West – What Policies did the Prophet (SAW) Instate
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Although we live in a shakedown regime swindler, Manuel Rahim, Al
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Shara
Fillmore, Celine Sayidina Muhammad in while early he was happy he
remained beloved brothers and sisters I said Mr. Aiken will live
with regard to
hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen. Always we will begin by praising
Allah and the shadow Allah Allah is Allah we testify that there is
none worthy of worship besides Allah subhanaw taala and we send
our love and our greetings and salutations to beloved Nabi
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to his pious and his pure
family to his companions and all those who follow his sunnah until
the end of time. May Allah subhanaw taala bless us to be
amongst them. mean I mean when hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. Last
week was the last we spoke about the end of the previous Hegira
year and into a new egeria. We spoke also about the why is it
called the EGD calendar. What event, you know signified the
start of our calendar, the Quran was revealed 13 years before the
era when a businessman was born 50 years before the heater. So why
why did we choose this event? And as we mentioned, this was a he had
a decision by the Sahaba but then a visa Salam. When the person
passed away, there was no God calendar, they just knew that they
were monsters Muharram, Raja Shabbat, Shabbat and Ramadan. They
knew the months and they knew the order the order they knew the
order. But when they said day one, they zero. The Sahaba chose the
Ijarah. And because because of this moment, we as an ummah, as a
nation, we had formed a state. And we went from a position of being a
persecuted minority, to being able to control our own fate and our
own destiny. And really Subhanallah every year, I
mentioned this as the Muharram or the Mahara March, every year, we
have the EGD calendar tick over. It is think about it back then
when the Sahaba started the calendar, it was still a strange
experiment, where this idea of Islam really prevail in a world
filled with enemies. Will this tiny little village of Medina,
this light in the desert of darkness, would it not be
extinguished? And so the EGD aged a year was not just a new year, it
was really an anniversary celebration of we've made it you
know, Spanner like people when they have the wedding anniversary.
It's a celebration commemoration, but it's almost like gains we
survived another year. We made it through another year. And that's
sort of what the word the Sahaba must have felt like, you know,
when they started the state of Medina. And so we must remind
ourselves that we are a continuation of that story. And
every generation of this ummah comes with its own challenges. Now
we all know the global challenges of Palestine, the Muslim ummah is
in a very, very low place, the Muslim ummah, is in a place that
is not one of the the glory days they were that there was times
when we were dominant in the world. And the times when we had
catastrophes were not at the lowest point. They were worse days
than this. And the OMA is in a state of weakness, but also
revival. And one always asks if the reason was here today, what
would he do? If he was here today? What would he do if he was in
charge of the Ummah, if we could bring him back? And perhaps let's
look at what he did when he came to Medina. And he had very similar
challenges that we have today.
He had to fight an ideological battle. The world was in the state
of covered in Janelia. Here to spread Islam throughout the world.
He's the last Nabhi meaning there's no more chances after him.
He has a community that is being
We're bombarded from all areas all over. We have enemies, internal
enemies, external enemies, the coalition is the superpowers. So
while the Muslims are having an issue with the Kurdish, those are
Mickey Mouse stuff compared to the big superpowers. Like when we talk
about our issues, we say, well, we're not on the level of America
and Russia and China. Then he says we lived in a time when they were
much bigger superpowers, the Romans and the Persians.
And also, we sometimes romanticize the Sahaba and we think everything
was Masha, Allah, Allah, Allah badru, Elena, they all were in the
masjid. They were all happy and smiling. These were people with
human problems. They were marriages that were failing, they
will people that will go into bed hungry. In fact, the Sahaba had
huge social issues that we that we experienced, if not more, he has
to transform a society socially. What's the point you have a masjid
beautiful masjid, but the people around you are starving. People
don't have homes. It's raining like we're experiencing now. Then
Ibiza Salam inherits all of this. And so let's see what he does. And
he does many things when he establishes the Madani state. But
three things we mentioned today, and these are lessons for us in as
we build our little Ummah, you're in Cape Town and in globally. When
the Navy's arrived in Medina
he arrives first in a place called Kuba. Kuba is a suburb outside
Medina think of Belleville and town. So he comes to Belleville
and he's going on the in one towards town. And he actually
stays in Kuba, the suburb for a few days. He arrives on a Monday
and he leaves only Friday. So he stays there for days for five days
in Cuba. And the first thing he does that he says alum before he
builds his own home before he establishes anything else. He
takes the salah Havana in Cuba and he makes it into a masjid.
He builds a masjid and when he comes to Medina central to town
again, when he enters Medina, all the people are you know, gathering
around him and they're churning and they all say come to my house.
Here's a come sleep by me. This is the battle cat whatever. He says,
guys leave the camel. It says to the Sahaba leave the camel. Let
the camel decide what I'm going to do. Allah is going to guide her
CASA is the name of the camel that we send them and the camel walks
and then she kneels down in a spot and then Allah has chosen this
spot for the masjid before his own house. We're going to build a
masjid here. And the masjid as we said is the heart and soul of the
community. Before the Muslims in Makkah for 13 years. They were
Muslims, Abu Bakr and Omar great Sahaba they didn't have a masjid.
They weren't allowed to build a machine. But the minute you have
the masjid is symbolic. You are now a community. You have a
presence. And in our context here in South Africa, we know it took
us almost 100 years before we were able to officially have imagined
the Olia and the Muslim community we started we know there were
slaves that were exiled. They weren't allowed to practice Islam
publicly. And what they would do is they would go outside yo wake
up in the street, Masjid is used to be a quarry, open land like a
mining area, and the main would just come to a type of Joomla
unofficially, no budget, and then they would go back to the work
trying to hold on to Islam as best they can. And until two on guru
wrote to Queen Victoria petition petition, eventually our budget
was not given Subhanallah it wasn't given. It took someone a
lady who comes from a slave background. Her parents were
slaves. They worked their whole life to buy a house. Now think of
in our context, how difficult is to buy a house?
Who have you whoever I'm speaking myself who have who have us would
give our house as a masjid not our kids.
This lady gets her house inherited from her parents.
And instead of giving it over to her kids, she allowed to nguru
here's a room in my house, you can use it as the madrasa, the Mother
Teresa here in house. As she gets older. She says you know what? The
Queen of England allows us now to have an official Masjid. But we
are we going to buy a property we are slaves. We don't want to these
are millionaires or billionaires in the Muslim community. We're not
going to be able to buy anything. And so this Auntie says you know
what? Bismillah My house will be the masjid a woman's you.
Lady has been dead for 300 years, but her man she is still standing.
Every single Muslim in this country. Whatever Salah is made
whatever a Quran is recited whatever Nikka is done. It's that
lady's credits on Allah.
So this, who of us will do this, donate our house as the motion.
And so this is exactly where the community begins. And hamdulillah
all these masajid in the area. They have a similar story. There
is something beautiful about a man series built by community. Yes,
you live in a Muslim country the government comes they build it,
the community that had no input in it. Allah says about Majid Kuba,
the first version of Islam. Allah says a masjid was set at a Taqwa
its foundation stone is taqwa before we put a brick way
It used to require all of us to have a meeting the community come
together, guys, we want to manage it when there's arguing and
debating and fighting, which was the Qibla. But eventually we are
united on our taqwa and we say we will start and that first day we
dig the trench. It is taqwa that began it and Allah says this a
masjid like this is the most beautiful type of magic. And all
these massage and even this magic are 150 years old SubhanAllah. And
so there'll be some began by building a masjid, and special so
those who get to build massage it only very special people. There's
a reason why say no. Saint Manabi Ibrahim alayhis salam, and the
beasts malleable the Kaaba is the reason why nobody saw them both
versata number one and the Sahaba why Nabhi is Hawk bolt, Majid Luxa
the greatest massager a bulk of the best of people, and then the
good people build the other massagin and not only building a
masjid one very few people get an opportunity to build a budget. You
don't build a budget every day, but it requires daily someone to
maintain the lights don't just met my Iraqi we don't make dua and the
lights go on. I'll make dua there's a special two other Imam
makes it it's clean. People do this every day every Juma when
before we come in here, someone opens, unlocks and does it before
we leave when we leave, you stay behind. So Allah Subhana Allah
mentions these people in the Quran. Allah speaks about the
mutawa lists the people who administer the masjid Allah says
in MA Maura Yamato masajid Allah, that it is only be fitting that
the misogyny of Allah will be maintained by people, man, I'm
Anna Biller, true believers. In other words, Allah says only a
truth Allah testifies to Imams panela if you have the opportunity
to be a treasurer to be the caretaker the cleaner of the
masjid if you have anything to do with Imagine Allah testifies only
people. Eman would want to do this man. Amina Billa. While y'all will
ask it and you care about the Acura you're not going to do this
waste your time for any other reason because you believe in the
Acura we're Akarma sada you are not just making salah. You
establish Salah making Salah is one thing for yourself, but you
facilitate everyone else to make dua you establish sada what is
Zika and you make sure that the car is being done, where does the
car come in the Mercy This is where we where we Zika is
collected distributed. What am Yaksha Ilala and your fear your
only concern is the pleasure of Allah. Why? Maybe Allah Allah?
Yes, in the masjid committee, there's a lot of Khilafah and
fighting and you know, it's not always hunky dory, but you come
there for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala when I'm Yasha
Illa Allah, then Allah Subhanallah the Eisah Allah says perhaps and
as we know that I've seen you should know this take a side note,
whenever Allah says for Assa may be perhaps it is taken to be in
sha Allah it will be the case for Allah says the Isola, hakuna
minimal 13 And perhaps these people would be people on to
guidance
to be the mutuality of the masjid to be a custodian of the masjid is
a great honor.
And we have Alhamdulillah opportunity for you the Sunday at
our AGM to be able to worldly of this Masjid our AGM is coming up.
This organization is not only a masjid, it is a nursery school. It
is a soup kitchen. It does publications, it teaches classes
of being done.
Opportunity, all of us hope and desire one day I want to do it
very few take that desire and translate it into activity. And
very few still have when things are tough, because it means you
will have a meeting eight o'clock at night after work. It means that
you must now be burdened with some if you're the treasurer to go
through bank statements, all the boring stuff, but only special
people that Allah selects have the perseverance. So that and wallah
you how many people do we sit on the bid side before they pass
away? Not a single person will tell you and his bed when he's
about to die. You know, I had this promotion and I was on this. I had
this bonus in my career, the only things you will remember and the
things that you will say my dad was on the masjid committee, my
dad built that Masjid. My dad helped that soup kitchen. No one
cares about how much hours you put at work. The only people who cares
about how much I was you put at work or your kids who don't see
you at night. Those are the only people that feel it. Your boss
doesn't care, your job doesn't care. opportunity to have
something on your CV with Allah that is meaningful, be able to
easily have a masjid. That's a great opportunity. So even though
you're not in the masjid five times a day, who can do that? The
machine is operating five times that's your investment in your
akhira opportunity inshallah. So the first thing that everyone does
before he built his own house, we need a multitude because this is
the heart and soul of our community. This is what it means
to be a Muslim community we have a place of worshipping Allah, our
job in this world is not to conquer the world. It is to
worship Allah subhanho wa Taala and that is the place of worship.
Also the masjid is not just for Salah it is the Center for our
community problems. When I besides Masjid was a place of refuge
people have homes they came to the masjid a lady wants her husband
she comes to the masjid a lady complains about her husband Masjid
classes are needed the masjid
This is the place where we fix our, it's our government or
parliament. And Allah says, Whoever builds a masjid for the
sake of Allah, Allah guarantees your house in Jannah
Allah guarantees you you will get you take care of one of my homes
in the dunya not Allah lives in the masjid, of course, but this is
for Allah sake, I will get into your place in Jannah. So this is
the priority. So there'll be some builds the masjid. And now it's
symbolic, we are a community.
And the stronger our massage and massage committees, the stronger
our community, when you have mojej that have no committees or no
Imams, that tells you that community does not have the
priorities in order. A strong committee, the most it also by the
way, is not measured by how beautiful the architecture is.
that obesity is most it was a very simple structure. It didn't even
have a roof proper.
Then obese was mostly it was a very, very simple thing. But it
was filled with pious people. A Masjid that is administered by
good people, and people will come to it to make salah. That is
what's important is the people that make the masjid special. So
we hope Insha Allah we, that's a lot of marketing, but it's an
opportunity for you. Allah will ask you, you had the opportunity.
What did you say? And leave it to you. The second thing that I
recently did
not enough to have the masjid because you're in the masjid were
Hamdulillah we feel good. When we go outside, I'm still hungry. My
kids are still crying. I have social problems. And so the reason
is priority in this first stage, you don't find rituals being the
enemies, we did not there was no hijab, alcohol was still allowed,
there was no Hajj. So what are you doing Rasulullah you're not even
giving Sharia, I need to fix my society's problems. And this is
where you find the concepts of Hua, brotherhood, all the things
that we talk about when one part of the body hurts the entire body
hurts. These Hadith are now mentioned at this time, we need to
work together to form a new community, a new society. And look
at this beautiful Hadith that Nummies is a Muslim is the brother
of another Muslim, he never hurts him or praises Him and He does not
fail him. When a Muslim is in need, we assist one another. And
whoever removes a analysis, a worldly grief, we're not only are
you focused, your brother has a problem in his dunya whatever
helps him in his dunya problems, Allah will make sure that you are
removed a Arcada problem that FTM Allah will take care of your
Nakara take care of your brother in the dunya. Allah takes care of
you in the akhira on the day of judgment, and whoever shields a
Muslim from harm in this dunya Allah will shield you from harm in
the Accra. You can't outdo Allah, you do good in the dunya. Allah
will outdo you in goodness and the akhira. You are not a perfect
believer, if you eat your fool, and the people around you, your
neighbors are hungry. And so that is indeed a very, you know, now we
see the strategy of the man. He's not just a nubby. He's a leader.
He's a CEO, he's a politician. He's a president, he takes a
census, how many families do we have? How many miles do we have to
feed how many men ladies if we get invaded? How many? How much armor
do we have? And he began, you already realize your Rasulullah we
showed homes, the more hygiene coming from Makkah they don't have
homes, the refugees were in the desert. Water is already scarce.
Now it's even more scarce. We don't have enough water. So what
do we do?
Then a visa salaam looked at this problem. And he came up with an
ingenious strategy. He said, guys, this is a this is the problem we
have in our community. We need to make sure everyone is eating.
Everyone has a house, everyone is safe. I'm not going to tell the
rich, you give me your money. And I am going to say Brother, you
take care of that Brother, don't take care of the whole community.
You just look after one person.
You look after one person and there'll be some partner up. He
says Who of you are willing to assist you 101 Assist will take
100 a day and you just take care of one family. And this is the
beauty. He made a big social problem an individual problem I'm
not asking you to fight crime, the whole country's crime or solve the
homeless issues. Just take care of your kids Mother Teresa, just take
care of your magazine on the corner. Just take care of the
youth in your area your own children seek your if everyone
does that, or hamdulillah and so he had this policy called the muah
ha a deeper sense of brotherhood where one family bonded with
another family and mashallah this is with the unsired of the people
of Medina Excel. The Sahaba of Makkah was so shocked they said
I've never seen a more generous people, they share the food they
share their homes in fact their house they said you take off I
take off as well my brother what you need, whatever you need, it is
for it is for you. And of course He then looked at resources scarce
resources, when the very I mean think about that. I always reflect
on this in our country. We have a team person that controls
everything and a 90% that struggling how do we redistribute
this wealth? Yes, so the those who are wealthy need to partner and
genuinely love you. When you give charity tune the attacks we force
you. You might say well Allah, I want my key what I give my
Kids, I want that child in California to feel the same. I
want I would hate for my child to be sleeping on the road in the
rain. So how can I expect someone else's child to be going through
that? That's what's gonna be some taught, but also your strategic
when the unsalted wanted to give the businesses and the farms to
the margerine. You said no nationalization of the farms. He
said no, because if we break the farm structure, then we're going
to have even a bigger problem in terms of resources, we need the
best people managing our resources. Charity is one thing
when it comes to business and efficiency. We need the best
people managing our resources, and therefore he did not allow the
answer to give up the farms. He said, you can share the profit ask
the ammonia homogeny to help you. They are business people. So you
do the farming, let them do the marketing, the selling, but let
them not, don't give them your land and then they don't utilize
the land. And then of course, Hana time is always against us
beautiful, the more hygienic they come as refugees, some of them are
able to come with their money
with mon Rajan was one of those who came as allowed to come with
his money and he now invests in this community, this new
community, he comes to Medina and he sees that water is in scarce
supply and the people will own the wells of Medina are the Jews
mashallah, who is ahead of the curve? Right? They just they just
have it and so now when they understand supply and demand long
before No, no, they all seem to have a degree in economics right?
So the minute that the Majidi came to Makkah the price of water
increased if you want from the wealth elite the cost so much and
the people couldn't afford this so say North man asks this Jewish man
sell your well to me, I want to buy the well so the man gives a
ridiculous price 10 million Rand for the well man says I only have
like a million Rand. So this is the even though the well is worth
a million now the price is good. You need to give me a 10 million
so if someone says Okay, how about this? I buy half your well said
How you gonna buy half my Well, one day you use the well. And one
day I use the well
the Jewish Catholic guy stupid, because if I get his million I
still get to pump as much as I want on my day. So I get 3 million
Rand for free. So same with mass is fine. Let's do that. So say
North man bought the well on certain days. Then with man said
on my days that water is free. Everyone wants to water can take
it for free. So of course the Jewish guy no one bought water on
his day, his well became useless. Where's everyone is pumping on
with mindset. Then the Jewish guy came to his mind and says, you
know, don't you buy the other half now also my office useless. And
I'll give you a very good price and say North mass is no problem.
And then he bought the well complete. And he said now the
entire wealth is worth that. Well, he's still going Medina well well
over
three times that say North man, then our businesses you guarantee
Allah has given you Jana, one of that is this. So you can get your
agenda by setting up a soup kitchen.
You don't have to be say North Manuel and Sahaba. You can set up
a soup kitchen here. You can help someone give blankets out here and
guarantee your agenda.
So all about the budget only. So it says budget is not my thing.
help the community in some way. And then the last thing is
probably we can talk more about this. But then we also live in we
and we did this successfully as a community in Cape Town, Muslim
minorities, Alhambra, they work well together, our Masjid our
schools, Alma dresses, but then it's on us and we forget the rest
of the non Muslim community. We only 2% This 98% Suffering
struggling. What denialism did was he made alliances with the non
Muslims, the Jews of the community, and he said, we are one
city, we help you and you help us. We support you and protect you and
you do the same. And there was a charter that he had with us. And
so Subhanallah this beautiful Hadith and every Salam conquers
Medina today this I mean, this time is all elections, different
countries have new presidents. When a visa Salam is now the
president of Medina, and they are many non Muslims. We're looking
who's this guy? What's he going to do? The rabbi, the chief rabbi of
Medina, he says the first time I met the NABI Salam, he gave the
speech very simple speech. He said, Yeah, people are asking you
know, so what do you commanders what must we do? What's going to
happen? What's the new agenda? What's the parliament going to do?
He says all my people have to salaam spread peace. My command to
you is be peaceful, make Salam, a Santa Monica and be peaceful, make
peace. No one was fight anybody else was able to arm and make your
focus to feed a hungry person led you as our agenda as imagined the
president of South Africa is first addressed. We are going to
prioritize peace. And we're going to prioritize feeding the hungry
while similar hum and be good to your family. Keep close relations
with your family good to your mom, your daughters, your children, be
good to your family. While some luminescent Iam and they make
Saadawi no one sees you at night, make Salah at night, touch it to
the whole agenda to be set and very beautiful and do those four
things. You will enter Jannah very, very easily. Make peace,
feed the hungry, be good to your family make Salah at night when
people are sleeping. You're guaranteed you'll go to Jana
Besana. Easily you will get to Kiana Express first class. We all
hope for that first
clastic Express, and this is how it is. And so in sha Allah. If the
Robinson was a year, I believe he would do the same Allah knows
best. And these are not things that we need to strategize and
think deeply. But these are things that we can do. So ask all of us
to get involved in these initiatives to help and build the
next chapter of the Muslim community globally, and for the
Ummah in South Africa particularly in inshallah we thank everyone for
supporting the Mahara March it was was was highly successful. More
than 1000 people came in spite of the rain, but again, only by the
support of our community was impossible. And then our AGM as we
said the 21st of July Sunday Hopper Steen we hope to see you
the give your comments your part of this machine. And then lastly,
a very special birthday notice to obeyed. He's always in the
background, every single lecture we do weekends whatever evenings
is always the in the background. You sometimes plays games but he
is monitoring the slides will hand him Allah grant him a long life
and Baraka Allah bless him. He's in the masjid quite a lot to Allah
grant him to always be attached to the masjid and grant him all the
best in his studies and his future Amin was ALLAH Sina Muhammad wa
salatu salam was sitting at home Nairobi Alameen Sudan