Nouman Ali Khan – Why Aren’t The Muslims United
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The importance of unity in Islam is highlighted, citing examples such as insincerity and common cause in political and political environments. The need for unity is demonstrated through personal connections and the importance of providing oneself with tools to be utilized. The speakers emphasize the importance of building a strong community and the need for people to take care of their lives. The return of Islam to the United States is also discussed, with a focus on the importance of faith and peace in the Christian community.
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The Quran paints a very different picture of
what unity looks like.
It's not driven by an activity.
It's not driven by a giant Eid prayer.
And I
laugh and cry at the same time every
year when I hear people arguing about which
day should we celebrate Eid.
Because we should be united celebrating it on
the same day. And I think of I
I look at that discussion and I say,
really?
If all of us were celebrating Eid on
the same exact day,
that would be unity to you?
Those 20 minutes?
That that's what unity is? You don't even
know that the person you're praying next to
is going their family member is in the
hospital. You don't know.
Today's Khuba is about a very central concept
that everybody knows about, everybody hears about, and
actually everyone almost in the Muslim world, if
not every last one of us, complains about.
And that is the unity of the Ummah.
And the fact that we're supposed to be
one brotherhood, we're supposed to be united.
And it's something that you find
being
violated
every single day. And we all know that
the weakness of this ummah comes directly from
its disunity.
If we were a united force,
even if 4, you know, 4 families are
united, 4 tribes are united, 4 villages are
united, 4 cities are united,
4 countries are united. That becomes a force
what to speak of 20% of the world's
population.
So it is,
you know, something that we all know. At
at the same time, when we talk about
the power and the strength of the enemies
of Islam and the enemies of this ummah,
when we think about genocidal maniacs like Israel
that is trying to,
you know, commit mass murder in front of
the eyes of the world, and the Muslims,
of course, are just standing there and watching.
It frustrates us at our own weakness, but
you can't address that by being frustrated, and
you can't address that by being angry. You
have to address the root of the problem.
Why are we paralyzed?
And one of the most practical answers to
that question is we're not united.
We don't have one voice.
We don't speak as one.
And how do you even get there? That
seems like an impossible thing to achieve.
Right? It just seems like it's so you
forget about the the the resources and the
the the economic, financial, technological,
military resources of those that would wish us
harm. Forget about that. That's not even a
big challenge. The real challenge is internal.
The real challenge is what we have within
ourselves.
And I wanted to
not just give a kind of a rah
rah speech about the unity of the Ummah
because you've heard a million of those and
so have I, But I wanted to actually
start at the root of the problem. Let's
let's think about this another way. Let's if
if you saw a a perfectly good
field,
and there's nothing growing on it,
there's nothing growing on it, and you're saying,
there's nothing growing here. What's the matter with
this place?
You didn't put a seed in, you didn't
take care of the soil,
you didn't water it, you didn't and then
you're complaining there's nothing growing here? Like you
and once you do put the seed in
and you do supply it with water and
you do
make sure it gets plenty of sun, and
you do make sure that the insects and
the infestations that come get cleaned up regularly,
If you're not doing that, then you have
no right to complain.
And if you are doing that, if I
am doing that, then I can't put a
seed in yesterday
and then see where's my tree? I don't
see a tree. What's wrong with this thing?
I I don't forget it. Why am I
bothering?
What do I even have to care?
This is not how maturity works. This is
not how strength works.
You have to nurture something, develop something, cultivate
something, and eventually you get somewhere. And by
the way, this we're talking about Muslim unity.
Forget about Muslims for a second. Think about
the
people that are united not by their love
of Allah and their love of His Messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Think of a group
of people united by their love of money.
Think of a corporation.
Think of a, you know, multi $1,000,000 corporation.
Right? And they have all these different departments,
different different locations,
different offices. Right? And inside those offices, there's
politics.
And those people are not united with each
other. They're trying to cut each other's throats.
And what do these companies do? They have
multimillion dollar investments into team building exercises,
and company cohesion, and
office parties, and all this kind of stuff
just to get people to feel united with
each other, and to not undercut each other,
and to develop a sense of belonging to
each other. But what is it behind all
of that? What is it that's uniting these
people, these professionals?
What is uniting these engineers and these programmers
and these accountants and these designers and all
these people at this giant office. What unites
them is a common cause. We all gotta
make more money.
Right? And what are we gonna what are
they gonna celebrate at the end of the
year? Well, our sales went up 20%.
This is what unites us. This is why
we're an unstoppable force. Like in their mind,
it's this financial incentive that's what unites them.
That's what drives their their entire motivation.
So the first thing that I could tell
you is, there are people that otherwise would
hate each other's guts,
but they're united by a common cause. And
sometimes that common cause is not that significant,
it's just money,
or it's just fame, or it's just there
could be 2 athletes that hate each other's
guts,
but they're on the same team and they're,
you know, they're fighting for the championship.
They're acting like a team. They're united.
He's not gonna not pass the ball because
he doesn't like the guy. He's not gonna
do it, and if he does, his career's
over. They're gonna act like a team. But
even in those kinds of settings, what I'm
these examples that I'm giving you in all
of these kinds of settings, one thing is
common,
insincerity.
I'm only united with you because we need
to win this game.
I'm only united with you because we need
to make these sales.
Other than that,
you can fall off a cliff. I wouldn't
care.
Other than that, I would not be in
the same room with you. I don't you
know,
you know, I can't stand the thought of
you or the sight of you. You understand?
So there's there's a there's an agenda, there's
a material agenda
that unites people, other than that they couldn't
care less. There are people and and when
you think of politics, you think of, you
know, the Democratic and Republican party, and almost
insignificantly the independents. But even if you think
of these parties, you think, oh, they're on
1 the Democrats are all together, the Republicans
are all these these people inside their own
party, they hate each other's guts.
They would love to destroy each other, even
within one party.
Allah says, You think their hearts are all
united? Their hearts are all over the place.
You think they're 1? They're all over the
place. So the question that is,
when Allah is calling on us to be
1 Ummah, that we are in fact 1
Ummah,
then we have to ask, what is it
that is uniting us?
What exactly is it that's uniting us?
And if
that
force that unites us is anything short of
the most powerful,
If the if it's the most powerful motivation
that unites us, then the unity itself will
be strong.
But if the thing that unites us is
something less,
then the unity itself will be weak.
It'll be as weak as our the thing
that brought us together.
So for example, now we're sitting in this
masjid in Fort Worth,
and we're we're all coming from diff some
of you are coming from work, some of
you are coming from home, some of you
are coming from your businesses, you're all coming
and sitting here in this masjid together. You
know, the men here, the women here, the
children here.
And all of us that are here together,
we're united by this desire to worship Allah.
That's what we're united by.
But actually, right after this is done, we're
all gonna go back individually.
So even though there's a few 100 of
us, even a 1000 of us, if we're
all together, we're actually a bun a 1000
individuals. We're not united except by an act.
We came and performed an act together, and
then we left.
That's it.
This was not this was not a demonstration
of unity.
This was a demonstration of a common objective.
Just that's all we had, a common objective.
All all of our objective was to make
salatul jawa, that was it.
This does not show that this community is
united
in any way.
This doesn't show that.
This is about, because our purpose is it's
a it's a sincere purpose, it's worship. But
if you're just united by an objective and
that's all it is,
then as soon as that objective is over,
your unity is over.
Nothing else matters.
I just want my kids to go to
the masjid. I just want my kids to
learn some Quran. I just want to be,
you know, I just want to feel the
feel connected to Islam in some way. That's
all that if that's all your connection is,
then that's all it is. There's that once
that is met, you have no other interest,
you have no other purpose.
The Quran paints a very different picture of
what unity looks like.
It's not driven by an activity.
It's not driven by a giant Eid prayer.
And I I I laugh and cry at
the same time every year when I hear
people arguing about which day should we celebrate
Eid.
Because we should be united celebrating it on
the same day. And I think of I
I look at that discussion and I say,
really?
If all of us were celebrating Eid on
the same exact day,
that would be unity to you?
Those 20 minutes?
That that's what unity is? You don't even
know that the person you're praying next to
is going their family members in the hospital.
You don't know.
You don't even know this guy this this
woman just lost her business, or this one
just this one just lost their dad, or
this one just, you know, lost their job,
or this one's going through a health crisis,
or this one's going through you don't know.
So what's the unity? A picture that shows
lots of people standing together? That's unity. We
have artificial,
meaningless,
I would argue, artificial and meaningless
standards of unity.
And that's why when we complain that we
don't have unity,
our our complaint is also meaningless.
It's the same as what I mentioned before.
You're standing in front of a field, nothing
is growing, and you're like, hey, nothing growing
here.
Wow. How come it's not there already for
me? It should already exist and I could
just walk into a garden. No. No. No.
Unless you're ready to be the gardener, there's
nothing to nothing to complain about.
So let's take a step back a little
bit and think about that. Just and I'm
I'm I'm first and foremost gonna talk to
the men, and I just want you to
just, sisters, bear with me. Your turn
will come. If not today, one day, inshallah.
But for now, I'm just gonna address the
men. For for many men in the Muslim
community, and I've had many, many conversations with
lots and lots of men across the Muslim
communities
in the world and and also in the
United States. One of the most common things
you hear from men, the feelings that you
get from men, everybody needs something from me.
My family needs something from me. My parents
need something from me. My kids need something
from me. My wife needs something me. My
in laws need something from me. My boss
needs something from me. My community needs something
from me. My this everybody needs something.
And if they get a phone call,
even if before they pick up a phone
call, it's not gonna be about
them. Hey. I just wanted to say, salaam.
Are you doing okay? Is everything alright with
you? Let's get together sometime. And even if
someone calls and says, assalamu alaykum, how are
you? Already in your head is, how are
you? But what do you what do you
really want?
What is this about? What's, you know, what's
this call for?
Nobody's getting in touch with you because they
care about you.
They're getting in touch with you because they
care about something you can give them.
So you're just either you're a cash register
or you're a service dispenser or you're a
connect that's all you are. You're just there
to be utilized.
You're you're a tool to be used. And
that's it. Nobody else cares about you. Nobody
actually sees you for who you are. Right?
And then you come to the masjid, then
you hear Muslims are all brothers. Assalamu alaikum,
brother. And you give each other hugs, and
salaams, and dua for each other, and all
of that, that's great. And the moment you
say, hey,
can I talk to you for a bit?
I'm busy. I'm I'm kind of busy right
now because
I
nobody has time for you.
Nobody has time for you.
And
take it a step further when you in
in many families,
people depend on you.
They depend on you. You have your providing,
for example,
right? And then all of a sudden you
get sick and you lose your job.
Not only do you lose your job,
you lose your respect in the family.
People will look at you the same way
anymore.
Nobody calls you and they used to call
you all the time. They don't call you
anymore.
They don't they don't check up on you.
Nothing.
In fact, they're avoiding you as best as
possible. You know why? Because all of a
sudden you went from someone who was giving
to someone who might be asking.
So let's take away from someone who might
be asking.
If this is the condition even inside of
our families,
even inside of our families,
what do you imagine is the condition when
we
expand it a little bit to a level
of a community?
What what what happens then?
What happens when people feel nobody actually cares
about them?
And we happen to live in a society
the United States is different from
Denmark. It's different from Germany. It's even different
from Canada. Let me tell you something that
you already know about the United States.
This is the this is the poster child
of capitalism.
And capitalism is you gotta look out for
number 1.
You gotta nobody cares about you. You gotta
care for yourself.
Nobody's coming for you. So we already breathe
capitalism in every day. And on top of
that, in your personal lives, in our community
lives, it's demonstrated over and over again that
even though there is
some level of camaraderie between us, salaam and
du'a between us,
It doesn't go past formalities.
It's not actual brotherhood.
Here's a litmus test for what real brotherhood
looks like. If I'm if I'm really going
through a crisis,
is there something terrible I'm going through?
Is there someone I can call
immediately? Who would I think of calling immediately?
And would it be the brothers at the
masjid?
Would it be the people I hang out
with? Would it be the peep who who
would it be? And if you have that
those people in your life, then you have
some level of brotherhood in your life.
But if you have to think twice, if
I tell this person, what are they gonna
think of me?
If I tell this person, how will they
use it against me?
You have to calculate whether or not you
should share what you're what's troubling you with
someone because you don't know if they're gonna
go talk to 20 other people about you.
You're gonna become the interesting topic on on
a, you know, at an 8 dinner.
You know what this brother told me I
was going through? Oh my god.
You don't wanna become somebody else's entertaining story,
so you keep your mouth shut. You know
what that means? You don't have brotherhood in
your life.
You don't have, you know, the the the
sator that a believer is supposed to give
to the other believer. You you don't you
simply don't have it.
You don't have and and let's take even
another step before I come to the ayat
that I really wanna share with you today.
Take another step. There are people in our
community, young men, older men
that fail.
Failure is a part of life.
You fail in an exam. It happens. You
fail in a job interview. It happens.
You can also fail in your deen.
Some young man can go through some depression
and start drinking alcohol. It happens.
This this occurs.
Somebody might end up in haram situations, might
go down a path, drugs, alcohol, you name
it. All of it. The worst of it.
And they could keep going down and keep
going down. You know what? When they fall,
if you had a family member, if you
were walking with your child and your child
fell, what would you do?
You just pick them up, scrape them off,
help heal though. If they cut, if they
you put some put some band aid on,
put some antiseptic on. Let's heal this person.
Let's fix them. What happens in our communities,
in our circles when somebody falls?
Oh my God. Astaghfirullah.
Look at the youth nowadays.
You know what I found out? Abdul Karim,
you know what he's doing?
I saw him coming out of this place
or I I saw him doing this. I
saw him.
Bro, somebody should talk to him.
You know what that is? That that person
may be doing a sin.
I would argue you're doing a much bigger
sin.
You're doing a if if that is a
crime against Allah,
you running your mouth about the dignity of
your fellow brother to other people,
and then saying Astaghfirullah
as if you genuinely care. Because if you
genuinely cared, number 1, your mouth would be
shut. And the only time it would open
is to go reach out to him and
give him a hug and say, hey, I'm
here for you if you ever need to
talk, and it will die with me. That
would be you as a brother.
That would be you as a brother, but
that's not brotherhood. This whole I'm so concerned
about our youth and artificial conversation, this is
not brotherhood.
This this is I I don't know what
that is. Back stabbing at least. That's what
that is. But that's the reality that we've
created for ourselves. And then we have the
audacity to say, why isn't the Ummah united?
The billions of us. Man, can you show
me a dozen of us united? How about
2 dozen?
How about a couple of 100 before we
talk about billions of people being united?
So now I'll come back to what was
happening with the Sahaba, and what did the
Quran praise so much. This is one of
the most fascinating places in the Quran.
Very briefly, I'll tell you the story.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was given a remarkable
victory at Khaybar.
Before Khaybar, Muslims were basically bankrupt.
Basically had no money.
After Khaybar, all of a sudden we were
millionaires.
Millions came in, in assets the way you've
if you want to count it in today's
values. Millions in real estate, agriculture,
recurring revenues,
all of that, all of a sudden came
into Madinah.
And just before this happened, the Muslims were
barely getting by. I mean, there are narrations
of the Prophet himself sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
having to turn his daughter away because he
didn't have food to even give her while
she was starving for 3 days herself or
2 days herself. And he had stones
tied to his belly because of the, you
know, the the the pains in his own
stomach. This was the state of the Muslims.
This was the governor of Badinah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam starving. And then after khibr, all
of a sudden millions have come in. Now
let's think about this for a second. The
Muhajirun came from Makkah. Yes? They came from
Makkah. They left everything behind.
But the people in Madida were poor to
begin with.
They weren't rich. They didn't have a 3
bedroom house. They didn't have a 2 bedroom
house. They didn't even have bedrooms.
But now all these people came, and they
gotta stay somewhere.
And so what what did the Ansar do?
What did the migrants of Medina or the
the the Ansar of Medina do? They housed
the Muhajirun.
Now they barely had enough food for themselves,
now they've got more mouths to feed. You
understand?
And those people, they're a major, major expense.
Then on top of that, not only is
that an expense, 6 months after the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gets to Madida, we're
getting ready for war, but it is about
to happen.
And when you're preparing for war, if you
know nothing about war, you should know war
is expensive.
Who's gonna spend the money on war? Well,
the mujahidun don't have any money because they
left all of their money behind.
Who's gonna do all the expense?
Who's gonna have to make all the money
and spend it? It's gonna be the so
the so the so are taking care of
the wajiroun
and now they're financing the bulk of whatever
they can come up with to fight for
the cause of Allah from their perspective.
The soon as soon as they accepted Islam,
they don't have their private life anymore.
They have to share their little tiny space
with somebody else. They can't eat a meat
meal by themselves. Somebody else has to share
that meal with them. You know, nowadays, they
say this immigration problem, we should have built
a wall.
Right? They're they're go they're living it. They're
living it. It's easy to it's easy to
read in a textbook, oh, the ansar were
supporting the mala jirim. Bro, If somebody comes
to your house and stays with you for
6 months, your your cousin, your brother comes
over for 2 days, 2 days is the
limit. You're
here for 8th. 8th is done.
See you next 8th. And you know what?
I'll come over next day to your house.
Somebody decides to stay in your house for
6 months, a year, indefinitely.
Eventually, you're gonna get annoyed, man. You're gonna
just it's gonna start catching up.
You know? Okay. You're my brother in Islam,
but can you not sit over there? That's
my spot. You're my brother in Islam, but
you ate the chicken. The one chicken I
had, you ate it.
Who took this orange? Who did this? Who
did that? Only who left this mess?
God, man.
Wouldn't it start building up? They're human.
They're human.
And on top of that, they're going to
war. And the majority of the shahada, the
majority of the people that were killed
in both Badr and Uhud were the Ansar.
They were the people of Madinah.
So we're spending,
we're giving up our homes, ever getting killed.
All of this is happening, and it continued
to happen.
And they kept giving, and giving, and giving,
and giving, and giving, and finally we're millionaires.
What happens?
We got the 1,000,000. So if I'm an
Ansari,
and I'm not, but I use my imagination.
If I was one of the Ansari, I'm
like finally, time for some refund.
Something will come back.
Right? So I'm waiting for the announcement because
I spent all this money. I gave my
housing. I'm gonna get something back now that
we have all this ghanimah. Listen to these
ayats.
Whatever Allah acquired, made a allowed to be
acquired
that you know, through His Messenger, min ahlulqura
from the people of those towns, minikaybar
fallillah it belongs to Allah. Number 1, a
share goes for Allah.
That's it. I won't explain what this means
another
time. Okay. Okay. Okay. Umrah, I understand. I
understand. Next, walil Rasool.
Oh, next one he goes to the Messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The Rasool and his
family. Okay.
Alright, that's fine. Walidil kurba,
and close relatives.
Walmasakim walyatama and orphans.
And Amdi Ansari looking around like
okay. Okay. Orphans.
Maybe I'm next
and poor people.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Now the poor people are
done. Can we
can we get to us now?
And even people who are traveling and they
need help, money will go to them.
Okay. And then Allah says by the end
of this ayah, he says
whatever the whatever policy the messenger gives you,
take it.
And whatever he stops you from, stop yourself,
right? Okay. Now in the next ayah, next
recipients,
For the bankrupt
migrants
who were kicked out of their homes and
were expelled from their own assets and their
wealth, who pursued a pleasure of Allah.
You have to, and they've pursued the favor
from Allah and to and to please Him.
They're the next recipients.
That's a lot of recipients. All but that
money is now being
split up, but who hasn't been mentioned yet?
The Ansar have not been mentioned,
and the alsara were the ones who spent
most of the money,
and they haven't been mentioned. And then finally
Allah gets to them and says,
But just look at how Allah talks about
them. I just I did all of this
just to tell you how Allah talks about
them.
Those people who made ample space in their
homes,
and they made ample space for faith.
Just like you open your home, they open
their iman.
Now Allah is telling us something. Part of
my iman is how much space am I
do I make for my fellow brother?
That's part of my iman.
Iman is not just in salah. Iman is
when I open up my heart for my
fellow brother. And Allah says these people, they
had open hearts. In other words, I was
pretending to be annoyed that the Ansar were
not mentioned. The Ansar never felt that.
They didn't feel that.
They had a just like their iman,
their hearts were open.
They opened up their homes and the and
the iman.
That from even before them.
These words are so easy to recite,
so hard to understand.
He says, they love those who migrated towards
them, You Allah.
They love those
who migrated towards them. You know, if this
was talking about you and me, it would
be they barely tolerate those who migrated towards
them.
They're almost on the verge of killing those
who migrated towards them.
They're wishing those who migrated towards them went
back home.
By the way, this is what the munafiqun
were saying.
This
is what the munafiqun,
the hypocrites were saying, they should just go
back home. That's what they were
saying. So what does it mean opening your
heart for your fellow brother,
taking care of everything they need, not just
financially because this this didn't just require financial
help. You understand? This required you making space
in your heart for someone to just literally
take over your home
and you know, endlessly.
And so Allah says,
And they don't allow for any discomfort in
their chest because of whatever responsibilities they were
given.
They never feel discomforted because they're helping someone.
They're never feeling discomforted because that's my brother,
that's my sister, That's my family. Allah said,
that's my family. This bond of La ilaha
illallah, it's thicker than blood. That's all that
matters. Family first.
Umma first.
This is this is their mindset.
When you think of an immigration crisis, you
were living in America, so we're thinking about,
like, Mexican immigration or illegal immigration or whatever.
Right? Refugees and all this kind of stuff.
Go to the Muslim world.
Go to Pakistan, you have Afghani immigrants.
Go to go to Malaysia, you have Indian
immigrants,
Muslim
also.
Go to, you know, go go to different
Muslim countries, and you have other Muslim immigrants.
Go to Turkey, you have Syrian immigrants.
And they're both Muslim.
They're both Muslim.
What's the conversation like
from the Muslims to those who migrated towards
them? What's what's the attitude in all of
these places and dozens of others? What's the
these they talk about them the same way
Trump talks about immigrants.
Same way. Actually, they talk about it worse.
Trump is nicer
by comparison.
Look at that and look at what the
Quran is saying.
And how many people are actually stopped at
the border and are living in basically camps
around the Muslim world from other Muslim countries,
can't even get in.
And and therefore generations,
like kids are born and raised in those
camps,
in those camps.
And they give other people preference over themselves,
even though themselves they are starving.
They give preference over themselves.
They lay themselves out for others
even if they're starving.
This is a pretty high standard.
Allah described Allah the the whatever monies came
in, go to Allah, go to the messenger,
go to the poor, go to the fukara,
go to the Muhajireen,
and then he described the the Ansar in
a way that like
he's
such a long ayah just dedicated just to
the Ansar and what they do and how
much Allah appreciates them.
And he ends with,
Whoever can protect themselves from the greed
and the selfishness
that they have inside of themselves.
Like I need protection
from a part of myself.
Inside myself is greed and selfishness. All of
us have it, Allah says we have shuh.
And we need protection not just from shaytahan,
not just from the enemy, I need protection
from my own shuh.
People who can be protected from that inside
of themselves,
those are the people that have achieved success.
I want myself, I want you,
in our immediate circles, to start rethinking what
unity means.
Because the unity in the Quran is actually
a unity felt inside. It's not just a
unity that looks like unity.
It's not like unity just just the same
words, or we dress similar, so we're unified,
or we have the same we we follow
the same madhab, therefore, we're unified.
We have we have the similar length of
beard, so we're unified.
Our our ankles are above the same height,
so we're unified.
We like the same speaker, so we're unified.
All of this is nonsense.
All of this is meaningless.
True unity. You see your brother.
The moment they say salaam to you, everything
else, every other filter disappears.
That's
it. That's all you get. They say salaam
to you, they are your brother. You're there
for them. They're there for you.
We will not
know what unity means if we don't build
it,
if we don't cultivate it. And you and
I can cultivate it when we start individually
in our own circles
to start building unity, to start actually connecting
with people.
Last thing I'll say about this, I'm I've
taken too long already. The last thing I'll
share with you is that I've been in
the I've been in the Muslim space and
khutbas and duroos and activism since I was
18, 19 years old. This is going back
like 25 years, 26 years. I've been in
this space a long time. I've been in
halaqas and with, you know, hanging out with
Imams and people that are doing Islamic conventions,
conversation, all the all this circle, right?
And you know, you make friends in that
circle and you talk, you talk about Islam,
you talk about the problem of the Ummah,
you talk about this Ayah, or you talk
about the hadith, or you talk about history,
you talk about all kinds of things.
You know, one thing for 25 years nobody
ever talked about in my circle and I
never talked to anybody about?
What they might be going through in their
personal life.
There were people in my circle that were
struggling with all kinds of things, depression, anxiety,
even sometimes suicidal ideation, a difficult divorce,
child custody,
deportation,
all kinds of things are going on. You
would not know
because they know something.
This is not the place to talk about
those things. These guys don't care. They just
care about the halakal.
They just care about, can you can you
do this program or can you do that?
Can you do that's all they care about.
That's all. And by comparison, I went to
a church
just to see what they do,
Just on a Wednesday night.
And in local church here in Texas,
they make a circle. First of their singing
and all that stuff they do 5, 7
minutes. They spent an hour, you know what
they spent an hour doing? The minister, He
said, hey. What's your name? I haven't seen
you before.
My name's Frank. Tell me about yourself, Frank.
This this this. Tell me, Frank. Is there
something we should pray for?
Yeah. I just my daughter won't talk to
me.
Let's pray for that.
Everybody, let's pray for Frank.
Next guy, next guy, next lady, next lady.
What are you going through? Let's make a
dollar for you. What are you going through?
Let's make a dollar. Can you imagine?
They're doing that and these people don't know
each other. And by the end of it,
they're giving each other hugs.
And this guy comes to me, Hey, I
had the same thing happen with my daughter.
We should connect sometime. We should talk sometime.
That means a lot. And I'm watching this
in awe.
We're supposed to be the people of Haqq.
Right?
We're supposed to be the people Adilatinaal
mumineen.
We're supposed to be Firuna'ala and Fusim. All
of these ayaats, I saw them being practiced
by people that don't even share our faith.
And all these years in the masajid of
Allah and the community,
and I don't see this.
I see barely a glimpse of it. We
need to nurture care.
We need to nurture Uhuwa.
That's where unity comes from. It doesn't come
from videos and speeches and talks. It comes
from you and me actually connecting, deeply connecting.
May Allah make us a people of genuine
unity and may Allah allow us to be
sincere with one another and and let go
of artificial,
you know, connection and attachments and replace them
with the strongest, deepest, and most authentic attachments.
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