Munir Ahmed – Our Response to EDL terrorism
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We praise him. We thank him. We seek
his forgiveness, guidance and his mercy.
We seek refuge in Allah
from our bad deeds as we seek his
refuge and protection from the bad insiders.
Know that one who is guided by Allah,
they are truly guided. One who is left
to go astray
will not find a guide or a protector
or a helper after that. I bear witness
that there is no God but Allah glory
be to him the creator of the heavens
and the earth and all that is between
them. He has no partners
and I bear witness that Muhammad
peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,
is his slave and messenger.
Allah
says,
no calamity
of any kind of calamity and tribulation
befalls anyone except by the will of Allah.
And for the one who truly believes in
Allah,
then Allah,
He guides him or her guides
his or her heart.
To remind us Allah is fully aware of
all
that is happening.
Allah is fully aware.
So Iman is the very foundation.
If you have Iman,
then Allah
will guide your hearts. Here means
we'll give you comfort and solace
and trust in him
and not to panic
and not to lose hope, but to have
full hope and to have sober and patience.
All that is
encapsulated
in the meaning of and more
of
of
Yahdiqalba
that he guides his or her of the
believer.
And obey Allah and obey His messenger.
Obey Allah, carry on obeying Allah and His
Messenger.
That is our way.
Not when we face any tribulation
or sickness or say, why has God done
this? This is kufr.
Or
if something doesn't suit our desires
and our little mindset
which Allah sent the Quran with and his
messenger with,
we say,
well, I don't think God wants this from
me really
against what Allah said in the Quran and
the messenger.
So now you think you know better than
the messenger that you're getting revelation to tell
you what Allah wants from you?
To say that I think this is what
God wants. Not what the Quran is saying.
What what what the messenger is saying is
Kufr.
You have made yourself God.
You have been deluded.
So here to remind us
Allah is saying so obey Allah and his
messenger.
That's the only
way.
And if you turn away,
that's included in what I've just said. I
think God doesn't want this from me. I
think he wants this. I think,
Make yourself God.
And if you turn away,
for surely, the only responsibility
on our Messenger, Allah says, is to
is to
transmit and pass on the clear message.
And if you turn away in other words
there is no God besides Allah, there's nowhere
for you to go, where are you going
to go? Where are you gonna turn
to? There's no escape.
There is no God worthy of worship except
Allah.
Linking with those who believe again
For and
upon Allah,
the real true believers, they have full reliance
and trust. Everything they know, they are dependent
on him.
I say those as introductory
remarks
to put ourselves in our place of who
we are
and how we are
and that anything that's going on of calamities
and difficulty and tribulation
is.
It's only by the will of
Allah. And if everything's in his control, then
the only way to turn for us is
towards him again
and perhaps to turn to him while we
would not been turning to him,
not trusting in him as and depending on
him as we should have been. This is
a wake up call for us as well.
And what we see as calamity
may actually be an opportunity for you and
me to turn back to our creator. Is
it not so, brothers and sisters?
And in the light of that,
what is our response
to what we've seen in the last couple
of weeks
of the far right,
extremist,
lawlessness,
thuggery,
terrorism,
Islamophobia
that's been going on,
which I'm sure
most of us are aware, except the one
perhaps has been on,
or is it, what's the is it, I
what's the latest PlayStation Now? If you've had
your head down in that for the last
2 weeks, perhaps you don't know what's going
on.
And there may be some people who haven't
got a clue that that is what is
going on, of this thuggery.
This,
brother and sisters, first thing
in regards to our response is to be
aware and to know.
What should we know? That this is a
minority.
This is a minority
significant allowed no doubt
but we should be confident and know and
not
not fan the flames and exaggerate as the
whole society as all all of it has
become Islamophobic and against us and come out
to destroy us.
That would be unjust.
Be careful of fake news
before you believe it and pass it on.
Yeah.
Minority.
Minority are ignorant.
I feel sorry for them, not for myself.
Don't be the victim.
Before Allah, we are not victims.
We have all the hope.
We have all the hope.
They are in the sorry state.
And even though they're allowed minority and we
know there are media outlets, majority of them,
and there are politicians,
not messing any names, but you and I
know who they are. And in fact, they
only expose themselves at this time as to
who they really are. Is that not so?
Is that a positive for them? No. It's
a negative even in this world, brothers and
sisters.
We know who they are.
So the first thing is it is the
vast majority
are good people
of our country,
of us British people.
Yeah. I say us, the vast majority you
and I know are good people.
The kind of people
who
came out in the anti racist march in
their 1,000, brothers and sisters. Most of them
are white disbelievers. Isn't that right?
So vast majority
are anti oldist thuggery. They're embarrassed by it.
They're embarrassed by it. And we must keep
that and bear that in mind.
They're embarrassed by it.
And they have come out and said so.
And we know that already.
Brothers and sisters, this is not new. I
remember being
a youngster
below double figures in the sixties,
and we used to have the skinheads in
those days while I was at primary school
and middle school.
And * out
* out,
most of you won't recognize that, but those
of my age know what that means,
was graffitied
in
many of the streets around us.
And open racist comments in school elsewhere
were not uncommon. It didn't damage us. It
made us stronger, brothers and sisters. I don't
feel any scars from that.
Okay? But the vast majority of local people,
indigenous, they were wonderful, brothers and sisters, as
they are now. We are good neighbors. We
had brilliant teachers. I never forget them till
this day
who helped me, who taught me, who were
loving to me, kind to me and good
friends
yeah, and even good authorities
helping
and caring
and showing their concern.
So it takes me back to that time.
So this thing is not new. In 2008,
in Living Islam, as some of you may
have been there, I gave a talk
called don't get mad or angry, get even
better.
And the situation was similar.
At that time, it wasn't the EDL. It
was a BMP,
Just new words and now they say, oh,
there's no EDL. It's the same kind of
people. Ignorant.
Yeah. And the Zionist was still doing what
they're doing now. The Zionist apartheid genocidal state
of Israel was doing in 2008.
Yeah. What he's doing now.
When I look back at that talk
and I think the scenario is the same.
It's not new.
It's not new.
It it's a chance, an opportunity for us
to realize
who we actually are and what we need
to be doing.
So
don't generalize.
And the brunt of all this, brothers and
sisters, being taken by the police and buildings
and cars, hasn't it?
Even though mosques are being targeted except the
brunt of it, you've seen it.
They've stood in the way. Follow the law.
They're there to protect us. If the country
becomes that the whole state and the police
now decide we're not going to protect Muslims,
yeah, they are a legitimate target, then maybe
the advice will be different. That has not
happened, brothers and sisters.
That has not happened.
They have taken the brunt.
Yeah? And one of the nicest things I
saw, and it was in the media,
was our brothers and sisters, whether at the
mosque or otherwise, giving out cups of tea
and biscuit to the police officers.
That's the kind of response.
That's the kind of response
that's needed.
Yeah.
And the police
made clear announcement.
They said,
if you
feel any kind of threat,
any comments,
ring us immediately. We will take immediate action.
You don't even have to give your name.
That's wonderful.
That's wonderful.
And they're offering
free grants to Moss to put in security
systems. And apparently, we've had a security system
put in with that grant, have we not?
Where in Europe do they do that?
I tell you, not in Germany, not in
France that they're giving free grants for most
to have security systems put in. That is
in our country in UK.
So it's not all negative negative
negative
to press the panic button and cause absolute.
And
part of that, what should we do?
Yes. Don't just sit at home and say
we should close the mosque. No, more of
you come to the mosque.
What are you afraid of?
This is our country, this is our home.
A mosque is a place to come to
turn to Allah. So if you are doing
less so, come more.
Yes, be vigilant and be careful. Don't be
stupid.
Yeah.
But
come to the mosque.
And most of our brothers and sisters,
what's required is from us is sabr,
and we forget that.
Sabr
in this time. Sabr,
nearly every other page in the Quran mentions
sabr.
Sabr is not just patience,
sabr is fortitude.
Continuing, being steadfast
in doing good, in being good but being
patient
being patient.
And
if you are all patient and steadfast
and mindful of Allah,
for surely that is from
the
firmness of resolve. In other words, Allah's praising
that kind of behavior
of having sabr.
Not only as an individual but as a
community.
In Surat Al Asr, he's talking to us
as a community.
Those who are
exceptional
or are an exception to being losers are
those who all believe.
Do righteous deeds.
They cooperate and enjoin one another to truthfulness
and justice, and they cooperate and enjoin one
another to
to patience
and fortitude.
The opposite
of that
is losing the head,
is to be angry.
It is not a quality
of believers, of those
who are mindful of Allah, of
to have anger and rage,
that is not the quality. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala talks about
and
he says,
In describing al Muttaqeen from the previous ayah,
Allah says they are the ones who spend
in times of prosperity and adversity.
They spend in times
of prosperity, of adversity, on good things in
the way of Allah.
Yeah. Well,
and those who control their anger,
those who control their anger,
and those who pardon
other people,
humanity,
talking in general,
Surely Allah, for Allah and Allah loves those
who are
the righteous like these kind of people with
this kind of quality.
Anger and losing the head
and behaving like the thugs
of, right, come out, we'll take them on,
right, putting on balaclava and shouting Allahu Akbar
on the streets to take them on
is not from the.
It is from ignorant behavior, brothers and sisters.
Balaclava, why do you need balaclava unless you're
going to do something which is unlawful?
Allahu Akbar is not appropriate. Say Allahu Akbar
in your sujula in your salah.
This is not war going on
which Jawah Abdullah has declared war.
War is declared by a state.
Nobody told you to come out. It is
against the law to take the law in
your own hands. So let the police deal
with it. To come out and to behave
like the thugs who are behaving out there
in the opposite direction to them is making
them our teachers. They are not our example
and teachers.
Allah's Messenger is our example and teacher. Believers
in
our example and teachers.
All of it
is a carrot being dangled, is it not,
brothers and sisters?
Or
in fishing, they say using bait. This is
a bait
that has been
dangled out to provoke to get a reaction
so that the reaction can be shown everywhere.
All of it is Zionist backed,
and it's not a conspiracy theory.
These people of the EDL, they have strong
connection with Zionists and Israel.
Look at their comments, what they talk about,
this
Islamophobia,
how they link Israel into it and Hamas
into it.
All being stirred up from over there to
take the eye off
the real genocide that's still going over there
on a daily basis.
On a daily basis, 20, 30, 50 people
are being innocent, are being killed by those
wretched genocidal maniacs
called Israel.
All of it is to try and do
that. Don't fall for it.
Don't fall for it.
Now is the time to show the strength
of character.
And don't forget our brothers and sisters in
Palestine despite this bait.
Calamities
and disruptions like this, brothers and sisters, are
an opportunity.
They're an opportunity
now that
Islamophobia raised its ugly head
to remove
remove the curtain of ignorance from Islamophobia
and the kind of ideas ignorant peep people
have about Islam, is it not? Who's going
to do that? No messenger is going to
come. The final one came and left the
between you and me.
And before we realize that, we need to
know that Allah says about the prophet Muhammad
saying, I,
we have not sent you down except as
a mercy,
not to the Pakistanis and the Arabs.
Dila'Al Ameen to the whole of humanity
is being sent as a mercy
to white, yellow, black, red, all races.
He's actually their messenger as well as our
messenger, we need to realize that. And before
that, Allah,
Allah
doesn't say
Allah,
Lord of the worlds, of all nations of
all people.
That is Allah.
It's not for us to keep.
We need to realize.
And
it is only a reminder the Quran.
A reminder for who? For the whole of
humanity.
This message,
we have it on our shoulders, brothers and
sisters. This kind of time is an opportunity
for us to be
brothers and sisters our goal
is higher,
our purpose is higher but we need to
reawaken and realize that. Our goal is not
just dunya, is it? A bit of damage
to a building, a bit of damage to
a car, our goal is higher than that.
Allah has sent us after the prophet
as ambassadors,
as lights to give light and guidance to
those who are in darkness, brothers and sisters.
Are we not to?
That's what our purpose is. We have a
greater mission, a greater purpose
to give iftar and preference to the hereafter,
to Jannatul for those,
not to Duniya,
chasing us. This is perhaps to wake us
up and make us realize stop chasing just
after dunya. You have a greater purpose in
this world brothers and sisters.
Allah says,
You are the best of people
for the benefit of humanity,
not you are the best of people, full
stop.
You are the best of people brought forth
for the benefit of humanity.
You stand for that which is right and
just, You stand against all that which is
evil, false, and wrong while you all believe
in Allah.
That is our mission and purpose.
A nation,
an Ummah,
a nation of justice.
Things I talked about in my past khutbaaz,
those who are upright, just,
just honest.
Yeah. Thus we have made you an Ummah
of the middle way, those who are just
and truthful
so that you could be witness
so that you all could be witness to
witnesses to humanity
as a messenger
is a witness upon you.
One of the tafsir of that comes from
the prophet
of this
aya, how the people of Nuh
will lie on the day when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta Ask Nuh
did you warn your people? He says, yes
I did You Allah. And when His people
are asked they will say no warner came
to us,
No one came and warned us about anything.
And then Allah will ask, Nuh alayhislam,
who is your witness
that you did
warn and give the message to your people?
He says,
Muhammad and his Ummah, sallallahu alayhi salaam.
Witnesses to humanity
is showing by our life and our example
and our character, brothers and sisters,
What the Quran is, what this message is
really about.
So we open our doors
to those who want to damage and those
who are full of hatred. Open the doors
of the mosque. Welcome.
Come and have tea and biscuits. Come and
have lunch with us. Open our homes to
these people. We welcome you to come and
tell us what is it that is
frightening you and threatening you about us.
Welcome.
This is our approach, brothers and sisters.
This should be our approach.
It requires wisdom.
It requires sabar.
Yeah. It requires a realization
of who we are and what we have
of benefit
to humanity.
That we stand for kindness
and for justice
and morality
and mercy and forgiveness
and neighborliness and
all of that
must be first shown by example from us
is it brothers and sisters?
So Allah says in mentioning jihad he says
And do not obey the disbelievers.
That includes in following their example,
in their ignorance,
what they're doing, don't do that.
If it's against our deen, which it is,
to behave in a manner.
Yeah. Instead
struggle and strive with the disbelievers.
Yeah. With it, with the Quran,
the greatest of Jihad, the big Jihad,
the greatest struggle is with the Quran means
do Dawah,
show them the Quran,
Show them the Quran. And how do we
show them the Quran? The prophet is a
walking talking Quran. Is Ummah supposed to be
like him?
Our example,
our character,
our dealings
is what's going to open the hearts to
the truth
and theirs
their them being saved. Is it not, brothers
and sisters?
It requires
it requires
asm.
It requires
firm resolve to have that kind of. It's
a gift from Allah, but it's linked with
our iman.
It's linked with our iman.
May Allah
forgive us, guide us,
make us lights and ambassadors to the truth
and to the religion of justice.
There is only 1
There
is only 1 creator.
There is no god worthy of worship worship
except Allah
And the believers,
all of them rely only upon Him.