Omar Suleiman – Discovering Our Role In Society

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			their brothers and sisters, as the topic was discovering our role. And actually, to be very honest
with you, I was up until about 2:20pm absolutely positive that there was no way that I was going to
be delivering this lecture. Because our flight arrived at 230. I mean, Allah subhanaw taala always
makes a way out for these things. And to be very honest with you usually I'm not quite I'm not very
fond of these topics. Because usually whenever I
		

			see these topics, if out to me what it screams out to many other people, that this is going to be
this as one brother, one of my more obvious called that intellectual amusement about how Muslims
need to be establishing hospitals, and Muslims need to be involved in politics, and Muslims need to
be this and Muslims need to be that. And we need to teach our kids to be the next, you know, that we
need to teach our kids that you are going to be the next president of this country and so on so
forth. Or, well, now it's degenerated. You know, we gave up on President and we moved to Miss USA,
whatever it is, we just need to get Muslims up there somehow. And some way Muslims need to be in
		

			control. And this is the way it should be.
		

			And most people leave that
		

			talk or leave that convention. And what you say to yourself is, you know, Mashallah, good speaker,
and that was a really good lecture. There's absolutely no practicality in it. It's just an ideal
situation that we are not even inst close towards. So we cannot even begin to talk about those
things until we take gradual steps. But dear brothers and sisters, I want to categorize the
attitudes that we as Muslims have towards civic responsibility. And I asked you from the bottom of
my heart, please do not be offended. If you feel like you're being targeted hamdulillah I live all
the way down south, I don't know most of you. So you can't feel like I'm attacking you personally.
		

			But it's just the mentalities that we have in regards to social and civic responsibility. And the
first category of people or the first attitude is based on a model that, unfortunately has been
floated around for the last year, in almost every single gathering. And that is we need to make
Islam relevant. We need to make Islam relevant. And you know, something, I give the benefit of the
doubt to my beloved scholars and directors who sometimes say this, meaning something else, and not
realizing the implication of those who first say that we need to make Islam relevant. Look at the
word make. We need to make Islam relevant. Does that mean that Islam is not already relevant to our
		

			society, it's upon Allah, that's such a dangerous statement. Because within this attitude, you would
have various degrees, you would have the attitude that we need to have some sort of artificial role
in society, where we need to make sure that we get in every single White House gathering and make
sure our pictures get taken. We need to make sure every time the pope comes we give him a nice Allah
hook but calligraphy, we need to make sure that everyone you know we send out nice p essays and we
say we are God's children, all of us are God's children. Let's make Islam relevant. And sometimes
this attitude leads to us compromising very key aspects of our own our own theology and of the
		

			Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. And eventually we start to abandon our principles and we
start to only look for the cameras, just to make sure that the name Islam is being put out there. It
doesn't matter if there is any substance to that name of Islam, make sure Islam has been put out
there. Doesn't matter if we have to compromise our principles. Just make sure Islam is out.
		

			And again, within this attitude within this behavior, there's degrees, some of us will take it to an
extreme. And plus very sincerely think that this is the way we should go about making change. But
their brothers and sisters, Islam has never changed the society in that fashion before starting from
Rasulullah sallallahu. It was send them to the mushrikeen of grace. And actually the entire world
from Ibn taymiyyah Rahim Allah to the Mongols, Allah subhanho wa Taala never gave guidance to a
society and never asked Muslims to act in that role just to make up some sort of artificial, you
know, role that we are here. Doesn't matter what we're doing. But we're here and you should respect
		

			that. And somehow to love this, this leads to many things. And then you have the other extreme,
which is that we cannot do anything for this society, that we're not even supposed to be here in the
first place, that we're not doing our jobs, and we're all terrible people. And we should avoid every
single thing, you know, every single social and civic responsibility. So we cannot get involved in
any form of politics. So you have the first group will jump to the national stage and any political
scientists will tell you that you can't jump to national politics until you've dealt with what local
politics until you are doing things locally. And then you have the other extreme that all politics
		

			are hot, I'm giving food to non Muslims as hot I'm doing these feed the homeless programs is wrong.
This is all wrong. Why are you doing this? These people can get a job, we should be sending our
money overseas, the exact opposite.
		

			And since one did Allah subhanho wa Taala only command us to be a comfort to our society when we are
in control? Because the answer will be well, we don't have a philosopher. We don't have a thin
office. So we shouldn't be caring about these things. We don't have a philosopher. What about use of
alayhis salaam, the idea that working together with other people on things that we agree upon, while
not being complacent and approving of the things that we don't agree upon? That idea is completely
being thrown out. What about use of finding a salon who worked as a lesbian who worked as a minister
for a pagan king? And was excellent at what he did? Does that mean that use of honey Instagram was
		

			endorsing should?
		

			And does that mean that Islam is not socially relevant? And this is the thing there's a big
difference between saying we need to make Islam relevant and Islam is relevant. It's true Luca
alayhis. Salam did not come to this people and say oh, my people, your clothes are dragging on the
ground. And this is your problem musataha salaam addressed the problem time along with introducing
and the prime aspect of introduction is to hate that to hate would rid you of these ills. Muhammad
Sallallahu it was Sunday, Allah subhanho wa Taala did not ignore the young girls who were being
buried alive and wait until the Medina period where all the other town were coming. But at the same
		

			time, Prince, the principal the key aspects of Islam were being introduced. And what about the story
of Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam
		

			when he was a minority when the Muslims were a minority, and this is where the extreme comes in, are
we not supposed to be socially relevant when we are a minority and only wait until we establish
khilafah and everything will be okay. And then we can be socially relevant.
		

			I want to just let you know the small story many of you have heard it, where a man comes to the
leaders of race and he complains to them that Abuja Hall has taken a hack from him that Abuja Hall
has not repaid to him a duck. And the leaders, of course, want to have a little bit of fun. So they
tell him they say why don't you go to this man named Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he's
going to make everything okay for you. And they're saying it as a mockery. When the man shows up at
the doorstep of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam does He say I'm sorry, I don't work in this
government. This is a non Muslim society. You have to go figure out how to do it yourself. Or does
		

			Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam walk with that person to the door of Abuja had bang on the door
of Abuja had to demand the right of that person and Abuja had runs and goes and gets the money and
gives it to that person. And then the man goes back to operation says, Thank you. Thanks for
referring me to Mohammed Salah lahardee was worked out well. They go to Abuja halia. Abuja What
happened to you? Well, actually, they called them a heck of what happened to you. He says, what law
when Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came when he knocked on the door, and I opened the door, I
saw two lions on his shoulder is about to devour me if I did not return the Huck to that man.
		

			Since when are we not supposed to be a place of comfort in our society, if we're a minority, so
these are two extreme attitudes, and then you have the idealistic
		

			Which is Oh, look at us. We're sitting here talking about homeless shelters and, and feed the
homeless programs and feed the hungry programs. Look at the Jews, they have hospitals, and they have
this and they have that. How come? We're not like them?
		

			Why don't you start with the feet of homeless program? Why don't you start a clinic and your
messages once a week? Why don't you start something small, and then we'll talk about hospitals, then
we'll talk about moving up that ladder. But don't just sit back and talk about it. Allah subhanho wa
Taala has ordered you to be a source of comfort to your society. How are you doing that? And Subhan
Allah, even with the core issue of the cat is the cat is one of our Pillars of Islam. And from the
hadith of Morocco, the law to Allah and when he was sent to Yemen, vital civil law, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and he was commanded, take from their rich and give to their poor, the LMR,
		

			without any exceptions, will at least say it's nice to have to give the cat in your locality.
		

			Because you are supposed to be relevant to your society don't make Islam relevant. Islam is already
relevant. And then there's the fourth category, dear brothers and sisters, where we just sit back
and criticize every effort.
		

			And let me tell you for a fact, every single effort is going to have its flaws. Every single effort
it's going to it's going to have its loopholes. And this is not just specific to relief work. This
is in general, when you're talking about the dour, when you're talking about Islamic work, whether
it's relief, whether it's passing out why it's non pamphlets, or putting up billboards, whatever it
is, it's going to have its loopholes. But don't sit back and criticize the people who are doing it.
Because you yourself, don't want to do that you yourself do not want to get involved. And we go back
to the very early attitude of the mushrikeen towards a bucket of soda called the low tide, who was
		

			giving his money right and left. And when he freed it out, are they allowed to I'm afraid for that
unbelievable price. What did they say? They said, Well, he probably had to deal with with Bilaal and
he owed him something, you know, they had a deal before and Rebecca said that I'm going to for you
as a result of that deal.
		

			was a huge number.
		

			And let the team Allahu
		

			Allah subhanho wa Taala praise abubaker is the vehicle they allow Thailand who in the Quran, that he
would be freed from Hellfire, the one who gives his money to purify himself. We are not here dear
brothers and sisters, to completely give up our Deen and to compromise on everything, just to get
our pictures taken. At the same time, we are not here just to talk out of game and talk about this
future idealistic society, when we have a philosopher and everything is okay. It's somewhere in
between there we are to be a comfort to our society. Start small, you know, something dear brothers
and sisters, if you were to take dessert to your neighbors on the day of AIDS, that can reverse
		

			three years of programming from Bill O'Reilly about what Islam really is. Small steps panela small
steps when was little muscle a lot he was sent him said that jabril and he slammed into me. And he
kept on commanding me with the neighbor had gone into unknown. So
		

			I thought that he was going to give him from my inheritance. Because of how much jabril Ania. Sam
kept emphasizing this point to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And I would just end with one
story. You know something Subhana Allah actually.
		

			It's amazing how we always look for others to pick us up and we don't look to pick others up. And
this is a story from a very beautiful scholar. His name is Mohammed Hussain Yaqoob is from Egypt.
And he was telling the story of one of his students who came to him. And he told him that, you know,
he's going to join some deviant group and he's going to go sit in the messages and everything is
going to come to him.
		

			And he told them, what led you to that? He said, Well, I was walking. And I saw a bird that had a
clipped wing.
		

			And the bird was just sitting there. And then another bird came and started to feed it started to
bring it food and started to bathe and started to take care of it. So I said, Ah, that's the
tawakkul that's what it's supposed to be like so I'm just gonna go wait in the messages until Allah
Subhana Allah does the same thing for me.
		

			And then he came back to chef Mohammed Hussein yaku very upset. And he said, This whole thing is
just all wrong. And this is this whole tawakkol thing doesn't exist. And he said Subhana Allah. Why
are you being such a fool? Didn't you think to be the bird that was bringing the food instead of the
bird that had the clip wing and that was waiting there for the other birds to bring the
		

			Food for it.
		

			It's a very small and funny example. But at the same time it was lived. And it was reflected
reflected Subhanallah in the behavior of a son of asylum. And I'll just mention one more story and I
promise this is the end of it. But Subhanallah You know, this example, is actually the one that
would keep an Islamic worker going in the society.
		

			I Beloved, in the Mubarak regime a whole lot on one of the greatest scholars this oma has ever seen.
Beloved Mubarak Rahim Allah, his neighbor was a Jew.
		

			And I'm the loving Mubarak before becoming a scholar. Many very few of us are aware that he actually
wasn't very scholarly. In fact, he was very away from the deen of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Very rich
inherited a huge amount of money from his father, you know, used to have parties in his home used to
engage in very, very major acts of sin and this obedience to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And then Allah
subhanho wa Taala guided him and this is a whole story in and of itself, Allah subhanaw taala guided
him and he became the beloved and robotic that history knows today. a whole lotta Allah, huge
scholar, and students would flood his home flooded the messages anywhere he went, there was a crowd
		

			to learn from him Rahim Allah to Allah.
		

			So after he became this great scholar, and everyone knew who he was, all of his students wanting to
go move in next to him because they would follow him to his home. They would take him whenever he
comes out of his home, they would be at his service, they would keep asking him questions. They were
after him so they wanted to buy the home that was next to him from the neighbor who was a Jew.
		

			And it turns out that every single day of the loving Baraka, hey Mahalo for he would go to his own
house, he would stop at his neighbor's house. And he would give him groceries and he would give him
things before he would go to his own home and give to his own family.
		

			So they go to this man, and they say, How much do you want for this house? So he says, $1,000 for
the value of the house, and $1,000 we're having a dilemma because your neighbor,
		

			you know, something's gonna let you know what our neighbors get out of us in this country. We park
on their lawns, we block their driveways on the day of Gemma. We probably don't talk to them
whenever we come out. very rude.
		

			panela Imagine if people felt that way about us. If people actually were happy that Muslims were
here. If we live the way that we're supposed to live, and I'm not talking about again, the grand
ideal stage, don't even think about that stuff right now. Start from yourself. Start small, and
watch what Allah subhanho wa Taala will do. Like there is not a single person in here who cannot
contribute to acne relief, either financially or with your time. What we saw in Louisa, was
absolutely incredible. We are we don't have the community of New York we don't have the community of
these huge cities. We have a very small community. But Allah Subhana hoods Allah bless that effort
		

			over there that it is recognized nationwide. The effort of Aigner relief right now is being
recognized nationwide, not because we get our banner up in many places, and we make sure that our
pictures taken all the time. But if you ask anyone who works within FEMA now, or Catholic Charities,
or red cross all of them, no, it can relief USA. And I cannot even begin to tell you how many people
have accepted Islam because of this effort. And you might think it's all a game. But I saw with my
own two eyes, people accepting Islam in large numbers, not because we gave them a copy of Quran not
because we talked to them a lot, not because we made sure that we were very, you know, stern with
		

			them, and we made sure that we held on and we isolated ourselves from them. It was because they saw
what Islam is really all about.
		

			It's not just getting your picture taken. And I want every single doctor in here and I know we have
a lot of doctors in the Muslim community Mashallah. Every single doctor, think about establishing a
medical clinic in your community, even if it's just two hours a week in relief would provide you
with everything that you need. Anyone in here, brother or sister, brother or sister. If you can just
manage to establish once a week of feed the homeless program, start simple get together make 50
sandwiches and they'll give it to somebody
		

			to start small and do something we just cannot sit back and look at this ideal picture because that
picture is far away right now. So we can only ask a lot of hands on and this starts with myself.
Because I know how far this work has to go. We can only ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to make us
amongst those who live up to that role without compromising their principles without compromising
the example of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but instead following it
		

			As much as possible and being a comfort to our society, even as a Muslim minority Lama, I mean, does
that mean like they're full of holy
		

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