Muiz Bukhary – Standing Firm in Faith – Rafah
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The speaker discusses the importance of following prophetic teachings and avoiding fear control in actions. The ongoing terrorist attacks on people's lives are a concern, and the use of the word " Subhan" to describe the destruction and rubble occurring in cities and countries. The crisis of faith and loss of loved ones is urging caution and praying for peace. Vis backwards is confrontational and urging people to not become immune to upcoming attacks on the United States.AI: Transcript ©
We begin by praising Allah
the lord of all worlds, the exalted, the
majestic,
the almighty,
And we ask him to send his choices
to blessings and salutations
upon the final messenger,
our beloved prophet Muhammad
salallahu alaihi wa salam,
his family members, his companions,
and every single person who embraces the prophetic
path,
the prophetic teachings
with akhlas,
with sincerity
until the end of time.
My dear respected elders,
brothers and sisters in Islam, sisters because perhaps
they will listen or watch the recording later
on,
I remind myself and then all of you
all gathered here for salatul jum'ah and those
of you who may listen
and watch the recording later on
to adopt a life of taqwa.
And that is to be conscious
of your maker
and you must do this, oh my congregation,
for believers, for slaves of Allah.
If you wish to attain victory,
if you wish to attain success
in this world as well as the hereafter,
the permanent life of the hereafter,
the life that we are headed towards without
a shadow of doubt. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala make us all from the people of
Tapua, and he may may he make us
from the victorious and successful ones. Ameen.
The blessed
lands
that have
witnessed
and felt the footsteps
of prophets.
Olive trees
have witnessed
centuries
of prayers.
Today,
those skies
are heavy
not with clouds,
but with the cries
of the oppressed,
with the laments,
with the distressed
laments, the blood curdling laments
of the oppressed.
Our hearts
as the Ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
is reported to have said the narration goes
along the lines of these words.
That the Muslim nation is like one body,
is like one body.
And if any part of that body
were to be in pain,
any part,
it can be a finger,
it can be a tiny nail
be in pain,
what happens?
The entire body aches in response.
You develop a fever.
The entire body aches in response.
So, our hearts
turn with aching sorrow
towards
Rafa,
a city
in the Wazah strip.
SubhanAllah.
Those of you who have been following,
it's
it's so difficult.
You see, from the north of Gaza,
our brethren, our brothers and sisters in Palestine
being driven,
being carpet bombed mercilessly
from the north of Gaza
to,
for example, Derul Balah,
and then from Derul Balah to Khan Yunus,
and then from Khan Yunus. Now Rafa,
All eyes on rafa.
It's trending today.
It is trending today.
All eyes on rafah.
You have
interviews.
You have videos
surfacing
of the senseless
violence that is taking place, subhanAllah.
You have doctors
who are being interviewed. You have aid workers
who are being interviewed,
who are depicting
very clearly with their words,
with their emotional
words,
with their pictures,
with videos that they have taken
of what's actually happening.
The ground
situation. SubhanAllah.
The ground situation.
It is the biggest
open air prison
open air prison. These aid workers as they
were make their way towards these lands,
towards these cities, you have high walls,
barbed wire,
forces,
guards,
no one can leave
and as you enter, all you see is
rubble.
You see destruction
all around you. Here we are, seated within
the comfort of this beautiful house of Allah.
Whilst
a genocide is happening.
Later, as we look back at this in
history,
how are we going to, number 1, answer
to our own selves
as to what did you do? How did
you react?
Did you turn a blind eye?
Did you shed one tear?
Yes.
What can be done? It where and it
is subjective.
Not everyone can do everything.
At times your hands are tied. Your resources
are limited. But did you at least shed
one tear?
Did you raise your hands and make dua
for your brethren? Did your heart ache
in response
or have we become immune?
As this genocide happens in front of our
eyes?
In the past
in the past, my dear brothers and sisters,
there was an excuse
where perhaps you would only come to know
of the genocide
after the actual genocide takes place.
So there's very little that you can do.
But today, because of the advent of technology,
because of social media,
because of phones and videos and the internet,
we are witnessing it live and we have
these
tyrannical
statements
where there is complete disregard
for human rights,
for the sanctity of human lives.
Children,
subhanAllah.
Infants
being bombed, being killed mercilessly.
Mercilessly.
So, you see these videos surfacing
of destruction and rubble
all around.
There are claims that these attacks
are precise attacks.
Precisely
coordinated attacks on specific targets, but when you
look at the video surfacing, it does not
look like it is
anything to do with precision. It is just
my mass carpet forming.
And as these aid workers going,
they tell
us that there is the constant sound of
drones.
The constant sound of drones,
sirens.
You have 3 types of drones,
one drone that constantly goes about surveillance,
the monitoring every single move,
Even if you see people are displaced,
their homes are bombed, their homes are destroyed
to rubble,
and when they try to come back
after the destruction has taken place, to perhaps
look for their loved ones,
look for their children,
look for their belongings, they are bombed again.
They are bombed again.
So you have drones,
surveillance drones. You have drones with machine guns
attached
to fire at will,
and you have drones with messiahs.
So there's the constant sound of drones overhead.
Just imagine.
Just imagine life.
Just imagine every single day.
How? Try to put yourselves. Put yourselves in
their shoes. Can Can you even think of
a normal day with drones going about? You
never know when a bomb is going to
land, when a missile is going to come,
crashing down. When your home
or, you
know, if you can call it a home,
your tent perhaps, your little structure is going
to come crashing down.
A father
carries his child. His child's face is torn
apart, mangled.
Oh, fathers in the crowd.
How much we love our children?
Then think of the pain, think of the
anguish. He rushes
to the hospital.
And when we say hospitals today, we have
ample hospitals to choose from.
We have ample hospitals to choose from. We
have medical plans to cover us. Oh, if
you can't find the treatment locally, go to
Mount Elizabeth. Go to Singapore.
Go to the US and get your treatment.
No hospitals.
You know of the famous Ashifa hospital?
Bombed.
Now, you have make shift clinics that are
trying to be hospitals. Doctors in the crowd
would relate. Look at the trauma they're dealing
with. Look at the violence they're dealing with.
They're not equipped. They don't have ICUs. They
don't have medical equipment to deal with that
kind of trauma.
So a father rushes his child with a
mangled face, jaws hanging,
blood all over, rushes to the hospital. Did
I say hospital? Make shift clinic.
He rushes his only hope. He's crying out
you Allah. Help us. Help us. And the
doctor reassures him.
The doctor gives him confidence. The doctor fills
his hope.
We're going to try to do our level
best inshallah. We are going to save your
son we are going to save your son.
And he places his tawakkul in Allah.
He tries to fill his heart with hope
only to come back later
and see
the site where the hospital was is bombed
and destroyed.
His child gone.
The doctor that tried to reassure him gone,
bits and pieces,
the entire hospital in rubble.
No power,
no electricity,
no food,
no water.
A little bit of a crisis and many
of us were running abroad, why we could
not do with the power cuts, with the
power
outages. Constantly no power. No food.
No water. No clean water. No medicine.
And
they're trapped,
cornered.
50, 60, 70 percent women, elderly, and children
below the age of 12
being killed mercilessly.
But subhanAllah,
their spirit,
their courage,
their resilience,
the smile on their faces.
You've seen the videos, my dear brothers. Their
statements full of iman,
full of sobri,
full of courage,
never
questioning the plan of Allah.
Rather,
saying statements
like
this has brought us
closer to Allah, Allahu Akbar.
This has brought us closer to Allah,
A father
weeping and lamenting over the loss of his
child.
Yes. Tears are flowing from the eyes.
The heart is heavy but we will never
say
We will never say something except that it
pleases
Allah. We are not going to question the
plan of Allah.
We will join our families soon in Aljannah.
They're getting the smell of mask from the
from the martyrs.
The smell of mask. They're witnessing miracles
happening in front of their eyes. And their
statement is our iman is now stronger.
Our iman is stronger. We do not question
you Allah why are you putting us through
this? Why is the rest of the world
is enjoying? Why are our children being massacred?
Why are our women folk being
humiliated?
No.
They're full of courage. They're full of iman.
They're full of sabr, and their faces still
beam with smiles, with happiness. You've seen the
faces of those children.
SubhanAllah.
Despite the trauma, despite witnessing, you ask anyone
there the statement of these aid workers, my
dear brothers and sisters. You start you talk
to any
Palestinian, any Palestinian, and he'll tell you within
his network, within his social network, he has
lost so many loved ones.
Oh, perhaps
my son was killed. He may have 4
children, 1 child killed, bombed.
Easily 4, 5 lost, dead.
And 10, 20
seriously injured,
maimed,
limbs
lost, mangled. SubhanAllah.
This is what is happening there.
So we, as the Ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, we must ache in response.
We must ache in response.
We must not. Some of us are going
through a crisis of faith amidst of this.
They are rising in their iman.
They are witnessing the help of Allah.
They are seeing jannah in front of their
eyes
and we sit within the comfort
and the luxury that we have
and we are now having a crisis of
faith.
Why is Allah doing this? Where is Allah?
SubhanAllah.
How pity.
Look at their iman in the midst of
it, just like Ibrahim alaihis salatu wasalam in
the midst of the burning fire,
his connection with Allah was strong.
He was commanded. We are heading into his
season.
He was commanded to slaughter his son.
Did he turn around and question y'all what
what
what is this? Why am I to slaughter
my son and a son that he got
after so long
after so
long? Did he question the plan of Allah?
No. He complied
and until today we celebrate,
we commemorate,
we remember his sacrifice
by slaughtering animals and feeding the poor, feeding
the needy, feeding the hungry. He was commanded
to leave his wife,
to leave Hajar alaihi salam and his son
Ishmael
in the middle of nowhere.
Yes. Mecca.
But was it developed
Mecca like it is today with the number
of hotels,
a number of restaurants,
nothing.
Just the desert.
He was commanded leave them there.
Leave Hajar and your son Ismael.
Divine command from Allah.
Did he question Allah
why? How
how is this humanly? How am I to
leave them? Who will look after them?
He left them and until today,
millions
millions
last time the
official figures were 3,000,000 plus and this time
they're expecting a much bigger crowd.
Millions flock to
Mecca. Why for what to do shopping?
Amusement parks?
Holiday?
To perform Umrah, to perform Hajj, to perform
the rituals,
to perform
remembering our mother Hajar alaihi salatu wa salam
as she ran back and forth
drinking from the water of zamzam that gushed
forth then and is gushing forth until today.
My point being up after sacrifice,
after beautiful patience
comes about beautiful results.
So definitely,
the Palestinian
people
are an amazing people. They're powerful in terms
of their resilience. They're powerful in terms of
their courage.
There is there is
nobility.
There is honor for the people of Gaza,
for the people of Palestine.
So you might be thinking I'm Sri Lankan.
What do I have to do with this?
Yes. We are Sri Lankans.
They are also the Ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam.
So let your hearts ache in response, oh
my brothers,
oh my sisters.
Do not become immune.
You see, you have pros and cons to
being exposed to this,
to the genocide.
One is to make yourself aware, and another
is to, you know, keep scrolling. You become
so immune to it. Oh, it's another attack.
It's another killing. It's another bombing.
We become immune to it. Do not become
immune.
Keep empathizing. That is the key thing. Think
of your own children.
Think of the comfort of your home. You're
able to go back to what you call
a house, a home. You've got your roof.
You've got your air conditioning. You've got your
247 Internet. You've got your solar power systems.
You've got food in your pantries. You've got
your vehicle parked safely in your garage. You've
got bank accounts. You've got your businesses. You've
got your assets. You've got your holiday homes.
What have they got
other than tents and camps that can be
bombed any moment?
Any moment.
And they're being driven driven driven. If you
look at it, if you have
some information about it, you'll see the entire
Gaza script. They're at the end at the
border of Egypt.
They have nowhere to go.
They thought a few days ago that it
was a ceasefire
and they were celebrating
the fact that
some time to breathe, a breather.
And then the next minute,
Rafa, which was designated
as a safe zone,
They cannot be attacked there. Again, carpet bombing.
Carpet bombing. So just imagine.
And then, when these aid workers reached out
to them
Look at the resilience, my dear brothers. Look
at this.
Just a few days before
Rafah was attacked,
there were messages from
people there towards these aid workers, towards these
doctors. All of this is online on interviews.
You can see it. Where they were happy.
It's good news. Cease fire has taken place.
A court order has been decreed. The world
is awakening,
and they were happy. They were celebrating that.
And then just few days later, immediately bombing
of Rafa. And when these aid workers again
reached out to these people who had reached
out, most of them were killed, most of
them were martyred, and those who were alive,
they thought they would be devastated. You know
what their response was?
We place our trust in
What else are we to do?
What else are we to do?
We place our trust in Allah.
Look at the resilience. Look at the strength.
Look at the courage.
Mothers coming, rushing out of the rubble, carrying
their children, showing victory signs,
saying that our children are victorious. They're going
to be martyrs. They're going to be in
Jannah. They're in paradise.
They're not giving in
the spirit.
Allahu
Akbar. This should serve as a lesson for
us as we witness this happening, my dear
brothers and sisters.
Get closer to Allah.
Them being in the middle of the bonfire,
they are getting closer to Allah. You and
I witnessing it.
Hey, we don't even have a response to
say
in front of our lord when Allah asks
you, this happened to your brother. What did
you do?
Our hands
are tied. Then let us at least get
closer to Allah. Let us wake up. But
let when we pray, let us make dua,
let us weep, let us cry, Let us
turn to Allah. Let our hearts ache. Then
at least when we stand in front of
Allah, we can say our hearts ache to
response, you Allah. I shed tears you Allah.
I raise my hands in dua you Allah
and that is all I could do.
My dear brothers and sisters,
our hearts ache in response and we pray
for the people of Gaza
That Allah eases their affairs.
That Allah fills their hearts with patience.
That Allah rewards them every step of the
way.
The words of the messenger ring in my
ears.
Not even a thorn pricks a believer.
Along the lines of these words, if my
memory serves me right, sins are forgiven, ranks
are raised. If by a single thorn, then
then just imagine bombs dropping on your head.
Just imagine your home being reduced to rubble.
Just imagine your net worth going to 0.
Just imagine children being murdered, infants,
your own children being murdered, your spouse being
killed, your parents being killed,
you losing limbs.
Just imagine the reward.
Just imagine the rank in the eyes of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So So we sincerely
pray, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ease their
affairs. May Allah raise them with the shuhada,
with the ambiya, with the salifoon.
May Allah, may Allah open our hearts towards
making dua for them, towards helping them in
every way possible. May Allah not make us
immune to the senseless violence is taking place.
May Allah ease their affairs. May Allah ease
their affairs. Allah, a'isal Islamawal Muslimen. We sincerely
pray for the Muslim moon. We sincerely pray
for our brethren in Palestine. May Allah ease
the affairs of those in Gaza. May Allah
ease the affairs of our sisters there, of
the young children there. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala help them. May Allah raise their ranks.
May Allah provide aid towards them. May Allah
fill their hearts with iman. And may Allah
fill our hearts with iman, with sabr, with
the understanding of to to look at everything
through the lens of
not to question the divine plan of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. And just as how he
united us here in this Masjid, may he
unite us in the garden of Jannah, in
the companionship of our beloved prophet
Muhammad
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