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The speakers emphasize the importance of supporting vulnerable families, charitable efforts, and aid distributing aid in the region. They stress the need for individuals to show their actions and acknowledge their weaknesses, as well as the importance of justice and mercy. The speakers also emphasize the need for individuals to show appreciation for others and avoid offense, and call for action for future events.AI Generated Transcript ©
Everyone, and welcome back to day number 17
of Ramadan 360
with Al Maghrib
Institute for warming up with us here,
and
so many of you who've made the time
to join us early for today's session. And
for those who are welcoming each other, catching
up,
Nemo, yes, hope everyone is doing well.
How has your day 17 fast been so
far? Yes, I know there's a lot of
hype as always, well deserved,
for our beloved Sheikh Omar Salam to be
coming, you know, joining us for Ramadan 360.
I think this is, of course, his 4th
year running that he always comes and speaks
to our audience and speaks to his students,
masha'Allah. So we're looking forward to that. Of
course, today he's gonna be speaking on the
topic of justice, insha'Allah.
How's everyone doing by the way? I know
we're we've been talking about this Ramadan dip.
We've officially crossed that halfway point and then
some. So how is everyone like, you know,
how's your energy level? How's your, I guess,
your productivity, your affectivity
when you're when you're trying to go through
your Ramadan routine? Is there anything that you're
struggling with? Let us know just as we
warm up because we have some time before
we officially formally begin the session Insha'Allah for
today. So it would be lovely to hear
from you excuse me, from you all.
Jazakamalakher.
Going you're getting back into the routine, Alhamdulillah.
You're back after 2 days. Welcome back, Laibah,
with with, I know you're busy Alhamdulillah. Haliyah,
welcome.
You're getting better with it. Says you can't
wait for tahajjud. You're a little bit low
today. Who is that? Sorry, I missed it.
Arisha.
By the way, as you guys are coming
in, as as you do for all Ramadan
360 sessions, please take a second to rename
yourself on Zoom. I know some very familiar
names are joining us very consistently, but,
it's good to to to remember where everyone's
coming in from as well because, mashaAllah, we're
corner to corner to corner of the globe
just like the Ummah, alhamdulillah, this community.
Malika
from New Jersey. Delilah from the Philippines, you're
getting better. Alhamdulillah. Amazing.
Out of curiosity oh, you're unable to turn
your cameras on. Let us change that. Someone
needs to remind me of the tape.
Let me just quickly
give you guys the ability to do so.
Join us on screen. Jazakah will look here
for that reminder. Nemo,
Leila says today you felt energized. I'm always
energized when Sheikh Omar is coming on as
well, so I'm excited, I'm glad that you
feel that way as well. It's about it
from Aya. Aya why you're struggling with the
Hajid. I know now the the routine is
it's wearing on some of us. Can anyone
share,
just some advice that you have for what's
your secret to staying productive while you're fasting?
How you're maximizing the most of your schedules
these days? Any tips that others can benefit
from. I find, especially during the Quran reflect
sessions that we have every single day, that
there is so much good advice that we
get from other people, about how they're tackling
their their challenges as well. Let's see if
what let's see who I
protein shakes for suhoor. Okay. Okay.
Say that do it after Iftar. Do what
after Iftar from Turkey.
Welcome. Welcome.
Let us know what what it is it?
What's your what's your secret? What's your,
you know, secret to to getting effective to
being effective in Ramadan to maximizing your energy
to doing the most Ibadah.
Oh, as Janet says from New New York
that you have a Ramadan journal that helps
that helps you,
big time Alhamdulillah. Halima from London is, you
feel like you're not balancing your routine this
Ramadan very well. I can feel that. I
think it's a struggle that many others are
experiencing as well. Jazakamalakha for sharing.
Okay. And Leila says, I put an alarm
on my phone, like, 1 hour, and then
when it goes, I do dhikr. Okay, Masha'Allah.
Is that every hour, or is that, like
an hour before suhoor or an hour before
iftar, all blessed times. Halya, you set a
timetable with a to do list. That's amazing.
Hassan says colostrum and dates, mashallah.
Amina says caffeine pills during suhoor. Okay, that's
another I've heard those before, subhanAllah.
I know some folks like, will like to
break up their tasks into
manageable chunks and just break up their day
a little bit so that it's more they
can be more effective during those periods of
times. I know there's a lot of, like,
productivity apps and tools out there that people
are using as well to kinda stay on
top of things. Yes, Ramadan Journal, amazing to
hear it,
Masha'Allah, a lot more folks have joined us.
Welcome, welcome,
for those who are joining us for day
number 17. It's getting scary because we're getting
really, really, really close to these last 10
nights, and we have a surprise with Amalgib
as we always do with our final webinar
for the last 10 nights insha'Allah, so look
out for that,
this upcoming Saturday, mark your calendars, we'll share
more about that later inshallah. Just another boost,
another effort to make sure that you guys
are maximized and energized before you go into
these lesson nights. You're changing your routine for
a week to stay up from Iftar till
suhoor,
for the last 10 days, that's good. Masha'Allah
Layba, amazing to hear. Okay, awesome.
I think part of what helps keep us
going, at least, I don't know about you
guys, but for me is having a daily
kind of routine of coming to Ramadan 360
and having this motivational reminder just to keep
me going, give me one more
way to connect, to feel energized in my
ibadah, or to give me inspiration in my
duas. Alhamdulillah,
that has been a huge blessing
in this community as well, for sure.
And I see, mashallah, many more of you
guys are joining us for today's 17th day.
And I know many of you are really
excited and looking forward to having Sheikh Omar
Suleiman join us. I mentioned to you guys
as well throughout,
the, you know, the Huayta sessions and throughout
the past few days that that we have
many charity partners who make Ramadan 360
possible every year,
and today's charity partner that we're gonna highlight,
it's Islamic Relief Day, Islamic Relief Canada Day,
at Ramadan 360. So, we wanna definitely highlight
some of the amazing work that they do.
And I know a lot of you guys
have questions, especially with, you know, like the
the insanity that we've been experiencing Gaza and
all the the difficult information that we've been,
hearing about the the the starvation and the
famine and so many, like, you know,
impossible words that we're seeing all attributed to
the same suffering of the same people, our
brothers and sisters.
And we are hearing so much information about
how aid is not getting in and they
don't have access to the necessities of life.
Alhamdulillah.
There are some charities and we've been very
careful of the charities that we work with,
mashallah, have had,
have presence in Gaza well before October 7th
and well before this, this current, you know,
genocide that's happening. So Islamic relief Mashallah has
been in Gaza since since 1997, since basically
my entire lifetime.
So, mashaAllah, they've built a whole infrastructure. They've
built systems in place to make sure that
they're assisting and relieving some of the suffering
of Ghazans,
well before this conflict took place. And alhamdulillah,
they've been well equipped to then take on
a lot of the the challenges of getting
aid into distributing aid, getting resources and food
and water, that a lot of other, you
know, folks that have been trying to get
in with all of their their fundraised aid
have had struggles with. So that's one of
the big, benefits of supporting Islamic Relief. I
know Fazleen has dropped that link. Please do
keep that link in your mind today, and
please donate generously. It's islamicrelief.
Caforward/amagrib.
I know it says dot ca, but it's
accessible for anybody around the globe. You can
donate wherever you are, Insha'Allah. And one of
the things that we try to do in
Ramadan is to maximize and to diversify our
donations. So I encourage you guys to make
this effort one of them. We know, subhan'Allah,
the facts just get worse and worse and
worse coming out of Palestine that over 74,000
Palestinians have either been injured,
oh, sorry. They've been injured and 32,
almost 33,000 have now been killed. And this
this status is from a few days ago.
So every, if subhanAllah used to have a
poster at the protest that I had all
the statistics of the amount of injuries
and deaths and children and everything. And every
single time I used to go out, I
had to keep updating it because the numbers
just keep, subhanallah, increasing and increasing. So now
at this stage, 1 in 25 people in
Gaza are now either injured or killed. That's,
like, harrowing statistics. And we know that, you
know, over almost 2,000,000 people are on the
brink of famine right now. So it's an
emergence or emergency emergency situation, and,
we're blessed to have folks on the ground
like Islamic Relief who are able to distribute
aid, who are able to they spend
$30,000 a day and increasing on just on
on hot meals in Gaza and Ramadan for
Ithar
and Suhoor.
So if you're if you're supporting Islamic Relief,
especially through us, especially through this time, please
know that it's going towards a great cause.
And they have a lot of statistics,
especially because we have all this information about
how it's difficult to get Aidan of exactly
where the money has been going and exactly
how they've been utilizing the resources that you
guys have been donating through. So please consider
supporting them. I have a quick reminder inshallah
coming from them, and then we're gonna be
jumping into our session in a few minutes.
So, look forward to that. But for being
with us, and we'll be I'll see you
guys soon inshallah at the end of this
reminder.
As
a we've been in a
state of heartache for 5 agonizing months.
For 5 months, we have not just observed,
we have borne witness to the atrocities
and devastation
our brothers and sisters in Gaza are facing
each passing day,
leaving us shattered.
Hamid beer, down somewhere.
The cruelty that the people of Gaza are
experiencing at this very moment,
the suffering,
the brutality,
is unlike anything we've seen before.
Many of us have loved ones still in
the heart of Gaza that we worry about
daily,
myself included.
The prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said,
the Ummah is of 1 body.
If one part is in pain, then the
entire body is in pain.
I,
we,
feel that now more than ever.
Sometimes it feels like we can do little
from our corner of the world,
but every effort counts.
Alongside raising funds,
Islamic Relief has advocated fiercely, demanding a ceasefire
and arms embargo,
going to parliament
and talking to those in power in the
Canadian government
to push for change.
We've worked with other Muslim organizations here in
Canada to aid recent evacuees,
ensuring that the families are supported
with all their financial and resettlement needs. And
back home in Palestine,
Islamic Relief is on the ground now,
having continuously provided aid since 1997.
We have offices with staff and volunteers
who have been distributing all emergency food and
medical supplies that we've previously stockpiled
and continue to procure
every day since the escalations began.
We are working alongside the Ministry of Health,
UN Humanitarian
Organizations,
and local partners
to ensure that your donation reaches the most
vulnerable
through medical aid, water, food, and fuel.
Islamic Relief is committed to allocating all collected
donations
at every opportunity we can to fund both
immediate emergency aid and long term recovery in
Hasa.
As a global family, Islamic Relief has been
able to spend
$13,000,000 to date in Khazza,
with $30,000
spent daily on hot meal preparation,
and that number grows every day
through constant support like yours.
Please continue to give,
continue to advocate,
and continue to pray.
Together, we can strengthen our solidarity
and keep bringing relief and hope to the
people of Palestine.
Donate tonight and be a part of the
impact.
Shazakam alaykum for watching that, brief reminder from
Islamic Relief. I know it's difficult to see
every time,
subhanAllah,
to see the suffering and to see the
numbers and and and just the the feeling
of powerlessness, but this is one way that
we can contribute. And alhamdulillah, Islamic Relief is
on the ground already in Khan Yunus,
in Deir al Balah, in Zawaida and Rafa,
delivering daily ready to meal, ready to eat
meals. They've distributed 6,000,000 of them so far,
and they're also distributing hygiene kit kits and
clean water, and having psychosocial support for children
from the trauma that they're experiencing right now.
So please do support them generously in their
efforts. May Allah make it heavy on our
skills. May Allah make it accepted and successful.
Aminir Belal Amin.
With that said, I know we are now,
and that's again, the link is islamicrelief.caforward/amagrib,
Insha'Allah. And as a community, every year, we
come together. I know you guys have supported
generously the programs that Almagrib has put together,
but I I'm always just humbled by how
much good that we can do and how
much, subhanAllah, immense,
benefit that we can provide and the relief
that we can provide to others, in the
Ummah who are not as fortunate as us
to be comfortable, to be safe, to have
shelter, to have food, to have safe to
have all their family members living and and
and, you know, happy around them this Ramadan.
So, I know it's not, you know, it's
a difficult message to hear again and again,
but may Allah make it easy, for them,
it's it's hard for us to hear, it's
so much harder for them to experience.
With that said, we are now on, on
a we're covering a very apt topic for
today on day 17th of Ramadan 360. And
for those who haven't been new, who are
newer to this experience, or who are still
joining us more recently for 22 years, Ammagrib,
has has, you know, been
using we're working towards our goal of making
Islam easy and accessible for the masses and
providing you guys with authentic knowledge in a
way that you can relate to. And alhamdulillah,
Sheikh Omar Suleiman has been one of the
the major sources of that through Al Maghrib
and for the entire Ummah, alhamdulillah. He's been
an instructor with us, for I can't I've
lost count of the years now, more than
half of that time for like 13 ish
years, subhanAllah. He joined us in 2011,
and he's been teaching classes since then. And
I know, Sheikh Omar doesn't love,
these bios and I'm sure he can probably,
I don't know, he'd probably be a millionaire
if, for every time he heard the, you
know, I, you know, he doesn't need to
be introduced,
he needs no introduction, etcetera, that part of
the bio. So I will introduce him, this
time. You've heard a little bit about him
already. Of course, he's the founder and president
of Yaqeen Institute For Islamic Research. You know
him through his being an imam at Valley
Ranch Islamic Center, an activist and active voice
for us in the entire Ummah, during this
genocide and full of theme. And alhamdulillah, as
I mentioned, an instructor with Almagrib Institute, for
over a decade now. He's taught I I
was pulling up the numbers. He's taught over
90 programs, not counting this stuff, not counting
all the appearances that he's made through Ramadan
360, through our webinars, through, you know, all
these bonus sessions that we make available to
the public. This is just full classes that
he's taught, alhamdulillah, with us to benefit the
Almagrib student body, and
he teaches courses on Almagrib online for on
topics like tazkiyah and finding your Islamic purpose
and, you know, spiritual conditioning and others. Many
of you have already taken or you've benefited
from those topics and hamdah through him. And
of course, he tours on-site with us for
ilm nights around, Canada, the US, and UK,
and the world at large. The latest couple
have been on, the story of Ayuba alayhis
salam and the promises of Allah. And Alhamdulillah
today, he's back with us to be covering
the topic of justice, that I think we
really need to hear from, subhanallah right now.
Jazakkumullah, for making time to be with us,
In your busy schedule, Sheikh Omar, it's a
pleasure to have you back on Ramadan 360.
Alright, Sheikh. I know I've taken a little
bit of your time this hour so it's
a pleasure to see you and it's a
pleasure to to
have you back with us for a student
audience. So I wanna pass it over to
you inshallah to start benefiting us on the
topic of justice this
Bismillah. Subtitles by the Amara dot org community.
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept all of your
fasting, your recitation, your duas, your sabaqah, your
piyam. May Allah make it heavy on all
of your scales. May Allah
allow us to
collectively, but the night,
manifest
that I will that we seek in the
world and
be a source through our duas of Rahma.
For our brothers and sisters in Gaza. May
Allah alleviate their pain. Allah grant them victory
over their oppressors.
This nasal sound is just the Dallas allergy,
so don't worry. I'm okay. I know that
a lot of people are gonna be wondering
what's going on. I'm just getting hit by
the pollen of the spring time here in
Dallas.
Sister Hafsa Zakhmaloha to the Al Makarib team
for having me,
for
topics that's extremely relevant to the moment, and
it's relevant to every moment. But, I think
especially right now, when it comes to the
pursuit of the pursuit of justice,
you know, so often we look at what's
happening
far away from us, and
that can do 2 things. It can paralyze
us in regards to our efforts
with our brothers and sisters overseas.
It can also make us distant from the
immediate actions that are needed to be taken
so that we could, ourselves, be people of
added be people of justice and make sure
that we're not just looking at the bottom
in the TV screen or in our computer
screen or phone screen,
and cursing that bottom. But that we're also
interrogating the potential Vadim that's in the mirror,
potential oppressor that's in the mirror. And that
oppressor could even be just an oppressor to
ourselves.
And that's especially true in Ramadan, where we're
supposed to be so much more introspective.
So, SubhanAllah, I wanted to talk about an
ayah that, is very near and dear to
me, but I wanna give it a little
bit more context,
when it comes to the story of its
revelation
because it's it's so profound. It's so powerful.
You hear it in
every Jummah, almost every Jummah.
And this is something that we trace back
to
in terms of its usage, every single Jummah.
It's
such a comprehensive
of the Quran, and the fact that the
Salaf saw it as fitting
to remind people of it in Jum'ah, which
is supposed to be the greatest reminder, right,
that weekly reminder
that we are all supposed to have to
be remembering Allah
in the hereafter,
speaks volumes about how weighty it actually is.
But there's a story behind its revelation
that is deeply profound, and it involves a
very interesting companion of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. So it's earthman.
And then mother is very different from earthman.
I found will be allah. And
And one thing I've noticed about companions that
share a name with a much more famous
companion
is that their stories are that much more
likely to be diminished. Right? So, you know,
I I mentioned the and
Khaled ibn Said being one of the first
Muslims. Right? The first Khaled and one of
the first Muslims.
The same thing is true definitely for Ifman
ibn Madhurun,
That had his name not been shared with
Uthman ibn Affair
I think he would be a lot more
famous
in our in our redeem.
And
I say that, you know, noting by the
way he's he's, you know, according to many
scholars, the 14th or 15th person to accept
Islam. So he he and his wife Kholeb
bin Hakim,
known as the matchmaker,
are, the matchmaker of the prophet,
the one who actually suggested,
our mother, Aisha,
and so that
to the
prophet are 14th, 15th converts to Islam. Right?
So they're that early into Islam.
Ifma
is the brother-in-law of Omar Khattab
Okay. So he's
actually,
Omar's,
wife,
Zainab bin Ben Arun. So Omar's wife's brother.
So Omar's brother-in-law through his wife Zainab bin
Ben Arun.
And he's the uncle of Hafsa and Abdullah,
may Allah be pleased with them both. So
he comes from a strong family, obviously, a
family that's rooted in
very strong principles and morals.
Again, I think that when we look at
Umar Khattab
and what he went on to become, this
is something I mentioned a few times in
the in the Ramadan series this year,
you know, of how he sort of took
his background and he turned it into a
force for good rather than a force for
evil.
There are strong beliefs
within that family. What I mean by strong
beliefs here
is that whatever
they believe,
you know, whether good or bad, there's a
strong sense of dedication that you find within
that family altogether. Right? And that's for for
good and for evil. In the case of
Uthman Minaroon,
he's someone who was noble before Islam,
and so the notion of justice
resonated deeply with him,
before Islam.
And you you you essentially find that, you
know, there are people
the majority of whom who accepted Islam,
you know, that were from the Mustafa Afin,
that were from the weak and the vulnerable,
that immediately found truth in the Adil of
Islam, found truth in the justice of Islam,
and found much relief in it, and they
are the majority. And then there's this small
group of people
that would have benefited from the injustices of
Jahiliyyah,
but that had an aversion to it because
of their fitra, because they were noble already
on the inside. And Allah
came to polish those gems, or sent the
revelation to polish those gems through the messenger
of Allah
and to make them the luminaries that we
have today. So UHman belongs to that latter
class. Right? There are people that are on
the other side,
right, that are from the elite class of
Mecca that could technically benefit from all of
the exploitation, that could benefit from all the
tribalism,
But they're the types. They're the types that,
you know, that want to take part in
these packs of justice, that want to live
up to a reputation of justice and that
ultimately feel like,
you know, there's something inherently wrong with the
exploitation that exists in society.
And of the size of his nobility is
is, you know, that Earthman of and was
one of the few people who wouldn't drink
alcohol before Islam.
And he said, why would I do that?
He says, you
know, why would I drink alcohol
and lose my mind and then cause people
that are lesser than me,
to laugh at me. Right? Because of being
being an idiot. You know? Why would I
be a fool like that? So so you
can kinda get an an idea of the
personality here.
All of that to introduce the aya, that
we are mentioning today. There's narration from
that the Prophet
was sitting in Makkah,
in in in his courtyard,
and Uthman ibn Uthman
passed by him, and he smiled at the
prophet
So the prophet said to him: Why don't
you sit down with me?
So I said, of
course, oh, messenger of Allah. So I sat
down with the prophet
and he said that suddenly, while I was
with the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
while he was speaking,
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
suddenly his attention turned towards the heavens. Right?
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
looked away from me and he stared at
the sky.
And the beauty of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was or one of the things that's
very beautiful about the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
of course, that he used to make eye
contact with you, when he was speaking to
you. So suddenly the vision of the prophet
turned towards the heavens,
and clearly the prophet
was receiving
revelation.
And so I asked the prophet
you know,
what is it that happened?
And the prophet said:
The messenger of Allah came to me just
now and and when the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam says, Rasulullah,
when Rasulullah says, Rasulullah, who's he talking about?
He's talking about Jibri Alaihi Salam. Right? So
the Rasul to the Rasul is Jibreel. So
when he says,
he's saying the messenger of Allah being Jibreel
Alaihi Salam came to me
and
he revealed
to me these ayahs
in the or this ayah in the
and joins justice, and doing good,
and spending on your relatives, and he forbids
indecency
and shamelessness
and tyranny,
and he warns you so that hopefully you
will pay heed.
So this verse was revealed in
he comments about this incident,
he says, what that he can ask the
Karla Iman of you can be what happened
to Mohammed and Sallallahu Alaihi wasalam, that that
was the moment that
Iman really settled in my heart. Faith really
settled in my heart, and I really loved,
the prophet
So he's saying and of course the scholars
use this narration for multiple things,
you know, one of them to say that
there are levels to the settlement of faith
in the heart, that is not just simply
I believe,
faith really settled in my heart and there
are levels to loving the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And that is when he's saying that I
truly loved
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So when it comes to this narration, there
are a few things to mention here as
well that,
you know,
it's one thing to have been present with
the prophet
and to witness them receiving revelation. So one
part of this, what earth man could be
saying
is that it was incredible to me to
be in the presence of the prophet when
revelation came to him or something so beautiful,
powerful, clearly,
not prepared in advance, came to the prophet
and with such clarity and coherence and beauty
and profundity just came out of the mouth
of the
prophet So that's part of the, you know,
the settlement of iman in his heart and
the love of the prophet
But the second part of that is the
nature of the verse itself.
Right? How comprehensive this verse was,
and how it would speak to
a person like Uthmana Bin
Meroon
And I say this, subhanAllah, to start with
that because
we're witnessing, of course, in real time people
embracing Islam right and left. I've never seen,
subhanahu, so many people embracing Islam.
Many of them are citing, obviously, the resilience
of the people of Gaza,
And in being introduced to Islam through the
resilience of the people of Gaza,
they also come to appreciate
the notions of justice in Islam, the notions
of,
you know, of of moral clarity in Islam
that we have, subhanAllah, that are within the
Quran.
They're they're comparing the resilience of the people
of Gaza to their own lack of resilience,
and they're comparing once they get introduced to
Islam through that resilience,
the justice and coherence of Islam
to, Jawr al Adyan, to the, to the
incoherence and injustices that they see in everything
else around them. And so these types of
things are going to resonate
with certain types of people more than others.
Either they have been on the receiving end
of gross injustice, and so
the the message of justice in Islam is
deeply refreshing to them, or
they
have seen the hypocrisy.
They've seen it from the other side,
and the nature inside of them, the goodness
inside of them, their fitra would not allow
them to be at ease with the injustice
even if they technically could benefit,
from that injustice. Right? It just doesn't seem
right. So this verse
this verse
who says about this verse that this is
the most comprehensive
verse in the Quran. This is the most
comprehensive ayah in the Quran.
And that is why you find the the
people in Jum'ah,
using this verse and this that's traced back,
as I said, all the way back to,
the salaf.
It combines within it the notions of justice
and mercy. It combines in it, the notions
of,
what is embedded inside of you already and
then how you act upon that. It combines
the intention of the lawmaker
himself,
Allah
as well as the expectation
of the one who is to be law
abiding being the Muslim, the one who submits
themselves to Allah
It gives
a bottom, you know, a standard that we
are called to uphold as a matter of
obligation, and then a standard that we are
to aspire to
as a matter of pursuing excellence. So it's
the most comprehensive
verse of the Quran.
And let's break it down a little bit
and how it sort of really deals with
justice. Number 1,
the scholars mentioned that Allah
does not command you with something he himself
does not do.
Now granted that
there's nothing like
Allah So it's not like Allah,
is bound by the same things that you
are bound by.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not command
you something that he himself does not do
in regards to justice. He says
puts the Oh, my slaves,
I have made oppression, injustice,
haram for myself,
and so I have made it haram between
you as well, so do not wrong one
another.
Who could prescribe upon Allah other than Allah?
Who could forbid for Allah other than Allah?
Who could hold himself, who could hold Allah
to a standard other than Allah
So Allah is saying
that this matter is so heavy, is so
weighty,
that the ultimate authority, Allah
does not allow for himself
injustice.
And by the way, this solves a major
aqid of, you know, issue for multiple people.
Right? Because so many of us get caught
into the details,
and this doesn't seem just, this doesn't seem
just, or this doesn't seem right. And I
don't know what's you know, how is it
that this is happening to this person, or
how is it that this will happen to
this person in the hereafter?
And you're judging things based upon surface level.
And who knows what is beneath the surface
is also
he is
the just. Like Allah
is named justice. Al Adil. Right?
So
who are you to step into this and
say that, well, know, this doesn't seem right,
and this doesn't seem just. No. A lot
is saying the law is just.
The legislation is just.
The seen is just. The unseen is just.
Justice does prevail.
And of the first rules of the day
of judgment or the first proclamation,
no one will be wronged. So no one
will be wronged by Allah.
And so Allah is in his justice,
not placing upon you a standard of justice
that he himself does not apply.
And he can only hold himself to them.
SubhanAllah.
And, of course, the first person
shaded under the throne of
Allah on the day of judgement, and when
you look at the categories of the 7
that are shaded under the throne of Allah
You'll often find that of the second 6.
Right? So you have number 1, and then
you have this the the last 6
that there's a shift in the order. Either
the narrators
are narrating the hadith from the prophet
and, you know, narrating the 7 shaded under
the throne of Allah.
And, you know, they were calling the order
differently or or the prophet
spoken in different contexts, and therefore,
the order that the prophet
himself used of the 7 that are shaded
under the throne of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
would have changed
from time to time.
But all of that being said, there is
one category that always stays the same, and
it is imam una Adil,
a just ruler.
A just ruler who is accountable to a
just lord.
A just ruler who, no matter how much
power he has, understands that his power is
only bestowed upon him by Al Qadr Al
Qadir Al Muqtadir, by the one who has
all power and decrees all things,
and who is
by the way,
you should, of course, tune in to Sheikh
Hamar Shukri series on the names of Allah.
If you're not, it's absolutely stunning.
But
Al
Imam understands Imam understands
that that, you know, above me
is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So no matter
how much power I think I have,
all of it is nothing but a drop
in the ocean, and I'm accountable to that
greater power. Now that imam un-'Adil,
really
sets the equilibrium for society then.
It's so beautiful when you have a just
ruler, it is so refreshing when you have
just leadership,
because everything else falls in line.
Corrupted. The rulers and the scholars.
Right? So the ruler sets the leader, sets
the tone.
And that is true in our many ecosystems
of leadership as well, because
that each one of you is a shepherd.
And so when you set the tone of
justice,
you set the equilibrium right in society,
in in your in your own ecosystem.
You have the culture, you have the ethics,
you have the practice, you have the standard
that you hold yourself to.
And anyone who,
has embraced their role as a shepherd understands,
subhanahu, that the first people that will call
you out on your hypocrisy
are going to be your flock.
So parents with your children, you can tell
your kids to memorize the Quran all that
you want. You can tell them about how
wonderful the prophet
is, and you can tell them about how
they have to, you know, act in a
certain way in public and with their social
circles, and in these places.
If they're not seeing that Quran and that
Sira in you,
it's all just theory. And
if anything, you're not teaching them justice, you're
teaching them hypocrisy. You're literally teaching them nifaap.
You're you're teaching them that as long as
we get this right and we have a
good public, you know, image,
it's okay to not have that, you know,
implemented altogether
amongst our flock. So, imam
sets the tone by holding themselves to a
standard.
Allah
holds himself to the standard,
and
could not impose a standard on Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala because he is a rub and
you are an abd, and we're okay we
we submit ourselves to that. So Allah imposes
upon himself a standard,
and that is how weighty the matter of
justice is and how important it is for
us then, cause all of us are under
the throne of Allah
So whether you're sitting on a throne, under
the throne of Allah
being a king in the metaphorical sense, or
anywhere under that, which, I would assume that
no one here is a head of state,
or or a king, or a prime minister,
then that means that your flock shrinks, your
domain of authority is less and less and
less and less. But as long as you
attribute that domain of authority to the ultimate
authority,
and then hold yourself to the standard that
the ultimate authority holds himself to, then justice
does prevail. Right? Then justice does prevail when
we all sort of take that into our
own
many ecosystems that Allah,
has given to us. So
Allah
Allah
commands you
with justice and excellence, and Allah
holds himself
to the standard
of justice and excellence. He is
in who he is, justice and excellence.
And Allah
never fails to show
excellence to the,
to to those who show
and by the fact that Allah
allows us to exist and Allah
provides for us constantly those whom he loves
and those who he does not love, those
who believe and those who disbelieve.
Allah shows Ihsan to every single one of
his creation
by virtue of that creation existing.
Right? That is already,
you know,
a manifestation of Allah's ihsan,
Allah's excellence
to you. So Allah
commands justice and excellence. Allah holds himself
to the standard of justice and excellence, and
no one could impose upon Allah,
anything but
what he imposes upon himself
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So this is the setting of the tone
that comes from this verse.
So he comments on this, and he says
that there is,
there's
a relationship here
between the Abd and Allah, the Abd and
the Rab, and then the Abd and the
other Ibaad.
So basically, servant
to lord and then servants
to other servants. So Allah has already established
that he will be just with the servants.
Right? So as far as Rab to Ibad
is concerned,
in the Haram to Dhulma Al Anafsi. Allah
made a Haram for himself to wrong. Allah
will not wrong. So we know that from
Allah, we already get Adil and Ihsan.
Right? Then you have
how we reciprocate,
then you have how we treat one another,
and all three of those things
are related,
to one another. So
he says that,
with Allah
from the servant to
the
That it is
that there is,
there is consistency between what you do in
your private
and your public acts
of worship for Allah
That a person is consistent
between their private and their public lives.
So, you are not hypocritical with Allah
and that you only worship Allah
public or you only hold yourself to the
command of Allah in public, but then in
private, you disobey Allah
and you make your actual,
you
know,
your actual
intentions
known to Allah
So this is hypocrisy. Right?
That a person publicly
shows obedience to Allah
and privately
disobeys Allah
intentionally. This is not referring to the secret
sins that a person struggles with, by
the way. That's a very important distinction to
make here. Okay?
This is referring to a person who only
puts on the cover of obedience to Allah
when other than Allah is around. But when
Allah
is the only one watching this person, that
person sheds the garment of obedience
and proudly
embellishes themselves,
with or debases themselves rather with the garment
of disobedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Not
a person who is struggling with certain private
sins, is ashamed of those sins, and is
trying to get rid of those sins.
So
with Allah
is that you make consistent your public and
your private life, as it relates to the
contract, the covenant
with Allah
Right?
Is
as
says that your
is better than your your
secret becomes better than your public.
Okay?
That you worship
Allah even more so in private. Meaning, there
is good that you do in private
that the public is not aware of.
There's good that you do in private that
the public is not aware of. Right? So
it's it sort of flips the equation, and
that's excellence with Allah
And, of course, here in
as the prophet
when he was asked the Hadith of Jibreel,
what is Islam?
What is excellence that you worship Allah as
if you can see him? And if you
can't see him, then you know that he
sees you. And so here there's something very
beautiful and profound that you're so aware of
the sight of Allah
upon you. The one who knows that Allah
is watching them is not concerned with the
other eyes in the room. It just doesn't
matter at that point.
Right? Whether there are other eyes or or
no one else is watching,
I'm really concerned with one sight, and that's
the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
Hassan is that you're worshiping
Allah
with the knowledge of his sight upon you
constantly,
and you're trying to do better in private
than you do in public. So in public,
you still,
don the garment of obedience and abide by
the covenant of obedience to Allah
But in private, you embellish the garment of
obedience with voluntary voluntary acts of good just
for Allah,
just to try to please your lord. And
that is Islam. Right? So Islam
in the domain of Ibada,
refers to
the extra acts of worship. It refers to
your. It refers to your secret sadaqa. It
refers to everything that is beyond what is
required of you. At the end of the
day, if you wanted to give it like
a simple definition, everything that is beyond what
is required of you, seeking the pleasure of
Allah
Right? So in Allah
already shows you Adil and Ihsan.
As far as you responding to Allah
you respond with Adil by abiding by the
covenant that Allah has given to you,
an and excellence.
And, of course, by the way, this is
this is really profound even for the companions
to try to grasp,
you know, the very famous hadith of Mu'adhib
bin Jabal
where he was riding with the prophet and
the prophet said, yeah, Mu'adhib bin Jabal, and
he said in the bake,
what is it, oh, messenger of Allah? Here
I am at your service.
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam called his
name 3 times to get his attention.
And he said, do you know what the
right of Allah
upon the services?
And said, what is it? He said that
you worship Allah
without attributing a partner to him.
And then he called again.
You have Mo'ad of Jabbal. And Mo'ad said
He said, do you know what the right
of the servant is upon Allah? And it's
like, wait a minute. We have a right.
Haqq upon Allah, how do I have a
haqq upon the one who created me?
Who assigned me a haqq upon al haqq?
Who assigned me any right upon Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala?
Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam is saying, do you
know what the right of the servant is
upon Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala? Ma'ad said, what is it, You
Rasulullah? Allah and his messenger know best, he
said that Allah will not punish him.
May Allah
not punish us. Allahumma Ameen. May Allah subhanahu
wa'ala not punish us. May Allahumma Ameen. Allahumma'ala
allow us to enter paradise
in the highest level of
with no form of punishment and no form
of questioning.
So it's like there is a relationship of
give and take, even though it's all give
and and and and truth because even your
ability to worship Allah
is bestowed upon you. You couldn't worship Allah
if Allah
did not give you the ability,
to worship him, the gift of worshiping him.
So this is as it relates to Allah
So you show him at least the same
amount of regard when you're not seen by
the people.
And Ihsan, excellence is to even go above
and beyond, to show him even more regard
when you
are,
alone,
you know, and and and, you know, in
those private moments of
Khazluwah, with Allah
And he said,
So he said about
the,
al Fasha,
and there are different ways to break this
part down, by the way.
Fasha,
any deed then that is manifested of disobedience
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is shameless.
Why? Because the believers to have shame with
Allah Allah in public and in private. That's
the Hayat with Allah
So are
going to be the, you know, any deed
that then departs from that covenant with Allah
in this context would be
a
And then in this, tafsir,
here,
that that which is public,
okay, when it comes to,
that sin, so that evil.
And,
here would be either that which is private
or,
that which is,
harmful towards
people.
So
here's the thing that that you can break
this down. There's either usually, when you see,
you know, categories of sins that come together,
if Allah mentions one category of sin, then
it refers to all categories of sin. So
if Allah mentions al fusook, then it refers
to all forms of disobedience. If nothing is
mentioned with it. If Allah refers to al
Fahih al fawahish,
it refers to all forms of sin. When
they come in an order like this, it
refers to either the degree of severity or
the degree of its,
publicity,
or
the party that is involved.
So either you're going from a more major
sin to a minor minor sin,
and, you know,
you want to try to, in your to
eliminate all sins from major to minor, or
it is speaking to
the public nature of sin. And, obviously, the
worst sins are the ones that are done
in public.
Right? That are boasted about, that that people
are proud of.
Not because of what not just because of
what that says about your regard for Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
you know, or your lack of regard for
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, but also the trend
that you set them to to inspire,
more people to disobey Allah
And then the, you know, the the least
then of severity in this regard would be
the least public sin, and that's the one
that you struggle with in private.
Or, of course, as I said, the party
involved. So some of the scholars said that
al Bahih,
refers to the sins that are committed against
people. And there's something deeply profound here
that when you wrong someone,
then it's not just the forgiveness from that
person you need to worry about.
Let me put it to you this way.
How we usually talk about this concept. We
usually talk about this concept
by reminding that of the conditions of Tawba,
there are 3, which is regret,
seeking forgiveness,
and then,
repentance to Allah
and then there's a 4th condition if it
involves someone else, which is the restoration of
that person's rights.
There's another side to that coin,
which is, let's say that you wrong someone,
and that person, out of their forgiving nature,
forgives you without you ever having actually taken
the steps to deserve that forgiveness.
There's still another party that's involved, which is
Allah himself.
Because by violating the creation of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala unjustly, you've actually violated your covenant
with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala himself.
There's a a story with Imam
Ahmed that someone came you know, people used
to apologize to Imam Ahmed all
the time later on in his life because
there were people that beat him, people that
backbited him, people that I mean, he lived
a very hard life
He was dragged in the streets,
and the majority of the public, unfortunately, fell
into
fell into
the slander of Imam Ahmed Rahimullah, the torture
of Imam Ahmed Rahimullah. I mean, there were
there were a lot of people that were
complicit,
and so it became common for Imam Ahmed
at the end of his life to just
have people coming in and, you know, break
down into tears and ask for his forgiveness.
And there was one person who came to
imam Ahmed
and asked for his forgiveness for backbiting him,
and imam Ahmed said, I forgive you if
you don't do it again.
And his son, asked him his son was
surprised by the answer because it seemed like
that was a less gracious or forgiving answer.
Imam Ahmed
told him that, you know, the condition of
not returning to it again is because I
don't want him to disobey Allah again. Right?
I want this person to remove the habit
of backbiting. So, SubhanAllah, that's even out of
love and care for the person. But, yeah,
I forgive you, but don't do it again.
Right?
Because
I it might lead to your destruction. Right?
So even if I can't keep forgiving you
every time, and I can't forgive you for
the backbiting of someone else,
And you still have to deal with Allah
forgiving you for your transgression against the person.
All that to say that if you've wronged
someone,
and even if that person in their forgiving
nature says, you know what? Forget about it.
You still need to seek forgiveness from Allah
for wronging that person, because that was also
a violation of your covenant with Allah
Right? So you have to turn back to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and,
you know, seek forgiveness from Allah Azzawajal always
as the primary party. So al Bawi, when
you wrong someone,
you know, it requires that, that conversation with
Allah
as well as the forgiveness,
from that person or the rectification
of that person.
Now
the last part of this,
this is where, subhanAllah,
the part that fits society as it exists
today, and particularly, by the way, relates to
the Palestinian cause,
as as the discourse around it today is
happening.
You know, that the scholars basically mentioned
that without Al Adil, there can be no
Ihsan in society. Without justice, there can be
no peace. It sounds familiar. You know, by
the way, it's actually a famous slogan, right?
No justice, no peace. And you'll find quotes
from, like, Martin Luther King Junior that,
peace is not the absence of war, but
the presence of justice or the absence of
tension, but the presence of justice. That, basically,
there is no you know, peace is not
quiet.
Peace is peace can only truly exist when
there's added, when there's justice. Justice is actually
the foundation
of peace.
Why is this so important in the context
of the Palestinian people? I mean, this is
the most obvious manifestation of this.
The constant notion of why can't the Palestinians
just shut up and accept
their slow erasure from this earth.
Right?
You know, like, we had peace before October.
Palestinians should just accept
this growing apartheid
over 600 Palestinians that were killed before October
in 2023,
you know, the thousands of new settlement units,
the slow ethnic cleansing and genocide that was
happening,
why can't you just accept this reality for
yourself?
So I think it's it's self explanatory.
Right?
There you know, all of this was violence.
Right? Israel has been committing a genocide against
the Palestinians
for decades now because there has been an
attempt to remove
everything Palestine,
everything Palestinian from the face of the earth.
And this idea of just shut up and
accept your fate.
Stop, you know, stop resisting this.
You know?
Why can't we, you know, why can't we
have peace? Why you know?
Every other group of people
or I don't wanna say every other group
of people, but at least the ones that
the west favors, right, is held to a
different standard, which is there is no peace
without justice, including the standard that the west
holds for itself.
But those that are the enemies of the
west and, of course, the Palestinians, unfortunately, are
the primary victims of the west,
in this regard,
you know,
they should accept
living
in complete humiliation, under occupation, apartheid,
and basically just let it all play out,
you know, in slow fashion. SubhanAllah.
No justice, no peace, what happened to them?
Right? What happened to that? So
Allah commands you with justice and
beauty excellence.
And
he says something so beautiful and profound here.
He says that true, beautiful,
ethics or virtue cannot exist in society
with the presence of the ugliness of lust,
with the ugliness of injustice.
In fact, it can even become a scapegoat,
it can become a means of escape. So
what do I mean by that? Or what
does he mean by that?
You
know, he you know, people that give charity.
I'll give you somehow everything just becomes so
clear now.
Mashallah, the president of the United States building
a humanitarian
peer,
you know, for the people of Gaza,
while financing the bombs that are dropping on
the people of Gaza. How beautiful. Right? What
beautiful charity that is. You know? Or when,
the state department had the nerve to say
that we have provided more aid to the
people of Gaza than anybody else. More humanitarian
aid to the people of Gaza than anyone
else.
I mean,
yeah.
I don't need to say, you know,
hypocrisy has never been so clear to to
even non Muslims.
Right? You're financing
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
of bombs dropping on people, and then you
say, look, we're also giving the handouts.
Take it back to a Meccan society,
Abu Jahl
was very charitable, but Abu Jahl was benefiting
from a system of exploitation
that preceded that charity.
So he wants the benefit of the exploitation
and the praise of the charity.
Right?
And so,
you know, charity can sometimes become an excuse.
These beautiful virtues and ethics that get preached
in society
can become an excuse.
But very few people want to deal with
the reasons for
that Volum existing in the first place.
Right? Because then the mask comes off.
Here in the west,
if you wanted to
feed the homeless people,
Very few people are gonna get mad at
you for feeding the homeless people. But start
talking about vicious inner city policies that displace
the homeless and make things worse for them
and and, you know,
inflation or or rising
prices and and just all types of economic
injustice, then you're infringing.
Then you're you're you're getting yourself in a
shaky territory. Don't go there.
Go give sandwiches to the homeless people. Don't
talk about why they're homeless.
Don't talk about why homelessness is growing. Right?
So the conversation
about virtue and beauty is always more welcomed
the public domain than the conversations about justice
and injustice.
But Allah
You murubu l'Adl Abdul Ihsan.
Allah commands justice before he commands excellence, because
there is no beauty without justice. There is
no excellence
in the presence of oppression.
So
let's not talk about, you know, and and
it's it's nauseating right now because I'm already
seeing it, especially in Ramadan.
Those of you that know me know that
I do not like to shame masajid or
or go after organizations. It's not my nature.
It's not my nature to do this with
individuals. And I'm not gonna do that here.
But I'm gonna say that, you know, to
hear the platitudes of
let's have an interfaith of thought with your
Zionist politician right now.
Let's have them come to our Masjid. Let's
just pretend you know, look, we have to
just we have to work together. We have
to have peace. We're not gonna have peace
without discussion.
May Allah forgive you.
May Allah forgive you. I I I don't
know what to say. May Allah guide you.
May Allah forgive you.
I've heard the platitudes. They're extremely hurtful.
They're extremely hurtful. They're extremely disappointing.
Right?
And then you already have these state department
finance peace initiatives where let's have a Palestinian
and Israeli talk to each other because if
Muslims and Jews can just talk to each
other,
then everything will be okay.
No. I'll I'll talk to those
Muslims and Jews that are in the streets
together that are protesting the injustice of the
of the Israeli regime against the Palestinians.
That's the type of interfaith that I'm down
with right now. You know? People that can
come together and agree upon
a very obvious blatant injustice, not those that
try to soften
or put put lipstick on the pig of
injustice.
Right? The volume that is there.
But those that actually, you know, recognize that
beauty cannot exist in the presence of this
ugliness.
So be careful with the whitewashing
of or or faith washing of Zionism
and the injustice,
the
decades long injustices
of Israel against the Palestinians, and then also
take that,
you know, into your own local community
and how we look at everything else because
this is Puranic. Beauty cannot exist without rectifying
the ugliness.
And so we have to deal with the
ugliness of the vodim in order to get
to the virtue of beauty and unlock the
potential that we have
as believers,
as human beings, with the good things that
Allah has given to us as well. May
Allah allow us to rid ourselves, 1st and
foremost,
in our own lives
and rid our societies of it as well.
May Allah
allow us to not be amongst those who
wrong themselves with shirk. May Allah allow us
to be people of tawhid, people of monotheism,
people who
who respond to the call of Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, with ihsan, may Allah allow our
private to be even better than our public,
may Allah forgive us for our sins, the
public ones and the private ones, the major
ones and the minor ones,
that which we have committed and that which
we are to commit. May Allah forgive us
for all of our sins. May Allah
allow us to be amongst those
who,
uphold justice
around the world.
And may Allah give our brothers and sisters
in Palestine and around the world justice
and the beauty that they deserve.
There's so much to derive from that talk
for being both educational and raw with us,
for this session. We do have a lot
of questions that I've been getting, you know,
privately for, the q and a portion, inshallah,
for the talk. We'll try to squeeze in
a few minutes for the q and a,
but before we jump into that, we have
a beautiful reminder,
so inshallah, Sheikh Omar will have you right
back in a few minutes. But I do
wanna bring onto the stage,
our wonderful brother from Islamic Relief in Canada,
to kind of you know, we just we've
been speaking in this talk that people of
justice are people of action, so inshallah, he's
gonna share with us a few of the
actions that we can take inshallah and some
of the great work that Islamic Relief is
doing on the ground. Sheikh Saddiq,
please, come on to the stage.
It's an honor to be here, JazakAllah Khin,
and my dear sister Hafsa.
To all of our wonderful,
you know, guests or or or or or
brothers and sisters who are joining, and, of
course, to our beloved
teacher
and mentor, Sheikh.
Right now, as you know, we're facing,
one of the most painful moments that I
can recall,
in my lifetime.
I never thought that we would watch
a genocide
unfold in real time
and that we would
all collectively
be witness,
in real time as well to the suffering,
the ethnic cleansing,
and the slaughtering
of children,
of innocent men and women,
of journalists,
of hospital and first responders,
of the very people that are working,
in education,
professors,
teachers,
various facilities
for cancer institutes,
for the those who are,
who have hearing
disabilities,
all of these things, and they're being targeted
and assassinated
essentially.
And their only fault
is being
part
of that region of the world that believes
that colonization
is wrong, that believes that resistance
is a God given right. And that believes
that all human beings should be entreated
in a way of honor and equality,
you know, regardless of whose
place or who claims a land. Those are
god given rights.
Islamic Relief Canada is
one of those charities right now
who are working on behalf of our brothers
and sisters around the world.
We are here essentially at this point, Islamic
Relief,
and all of us are responding. Why?
1st and foremost, we're responding because we have
the brave mothers and the women of Palestine.
We stand up and we are alongside them
for their sacrifices have been so significant
where you have seen
they're still nursing the child.
For the brave mothers that continue to try
to find any means
to make sure that their children
are laughing and smiling and still whatever that
she can sacrifice, she gives
both in her from her own body
to every everything she can give for their
for her children.
We are here for them.
We're here for those beautiful children,
infants that are in the incubators that were
abandoned
in the hospitals,
and they were left there to die.
We are here for children like Yezan,
who 10 years old, he
his in entire body
vanished
vanished
because he didn't have a morsel of food,
and he died in a most famished state
due to malnutrition
that was orchestrated
and created by the Israeli military.
We are here
because we are an Ummah.
Sayedna Muhammad
He told you and I
that time,
And this is such a
beautiful description of what we're feeling
That the movement is what? It's the the
believer is the one who in their mercy
amongst themselves,
in their love amongst themselves,
and their gentleness and kindness of themselves are
like one body that if one part of
the organ of this body hurts,
the entire
body is is is suffering with a sense
of sleeplessness
and
and a fever.
We are all feverish, my brothers and sisters.
We are all hurting.
We are all in in terrible pain right
now.
I want us before we start to to
talk about what is what it is that
Islam is doing is to think right now
and ponder for a moment that while we
prepare for our,
I want you to imagine
today, Insha'Allah,
I'm inviting my beautiful brother and his family
or my beautiful sister and her family with
their 3 or 4 beautiful children, and I'm
inviting them to my home to eat with
me.
I will make sure that they have the
best food, Insha'Allah,
and that they will eat with me. And
there is this beautiful presence because that's what
we're here for right now. We are inviting
our brothers and sisters today.
Islamic Relief is looking right now
to
feed
100 families today.
We're looking to feed 100 families today, InshaAllah.
And we know that we can do it,
InshaAllah, with your support.
We know that those children that are looking
at eating grass
and animal feed,
with your help,
$25 can go a long way in supporting
6 people, a family of 6, to have
Iftar
Everyday,
And if you we give $25,
we can take care of a family for
15 days.
This is how easy it is.
$25. That's that's not even, missing a coffee
every second or third day. We're our sacrifice
is little. You Allah. You Allah.
How can we forget
our beautiful Hajj, our jitou?
When we think of Khaled Dabhan, when he
when he talked about his beautiful,
beautiful granddaughter.
We see in that scene when he said,
the soul of my soul,
that she is my soul, and all Gaza
and Palestine and all of those who are
oppressed. You are the soul of our soul.
That all the souls are indeed like one
body when in in in line in a
line together that we are indeed connected.
We want to be amongst them right now,
Insha'Allah Ta'ala, amongst those that respond, yeah, Allah.
And Allah
has given you and I that opportunity.
Insha'allah, right now, Islamic Relief is on the
ground.
Very, very active even under these dire circumstances.
And there are a lot of questions about
how does aid get in there when we're
seeing this blockade, we're seeing all of these
restrictions.
We're seeing air and and land and by
sea, a blockade that's con continued for over
17 years. Well, my brothers and sisters, Islamic
Relief has been there since 1997
in the Gaza Strip. We've been there in
every single war that has not even war
the onslaught and siege that has occurred. Islamic
Relief has been there.
They have a robust system
of different strategies
to try to make sure logistically,
there were places where they had medical
items still
accessible.
They did have places where they were placing
food in storage.
But what is really amazing is that with
the United Nations food program,
Islamic Relief has really been at a at
a an advantage of making sure
that things are accessible like food.
So lots of food is coming through through
gift and kind. And
Islamic belief is able now to distribute almost
150,000
meals, hot meals ready made that are nutritious
for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. So
that they can, insha Allah,
that they can, insha
Allah, enjoy that moment of Iftar.
That they're not opening their Iftar on air,
but that rather
that
to your giving that
they can enjoy this.
We are at at the time right now
where we're getting
through this,
or staff on the ground.
They're able to screen
and process and oversee
all of the distribution.
And this is an advantage that
continues to be something that Islamic Relief continues
to to push for, to make sure that
whatever is being sent is being distributed in
the best way, the most efficient way, and
in a way that reaches the most number
of people.
We're able to also,
secure lots of food and items and drinking,
like, with the clean water through procurement,
contracts, and and purchasing those items
from the within
the various organizations,
the 17
that we currently work with, and also to
working
across the different areas.
We're not only in southern Gaza. We're also
in central Gaza. We're also
We're in in in Northern Gaza. We we've
been trying to send things there, but, of
course, there are definite, challenges with that with
the current, situation with the Israeli military. But
that doesn't mean that the work won't continue.
Logistically,
they continue to work to make sure that
these items are purchased. And this also protects
the brothers and sisters from overinflate
inflation.
And insha'Allah, for those who are looking for
more information, you can go to Islamic relief
dot CA, and you can access all of
this information I'm sharing with you Inshallah. And
you can also reach out and speak to
any of us Inshallah.
We can share that. We also have been
working
with both,
different
actors within Egypt
and
both non state actors and the government to
try to make sure we can get trucks
in to
Gaza, and we've been successful
to working with Jordan, the government Jordan also
working with different, nongovernmental actors and also,
with in coordination to try to get these
trucks within. And we've been successful.
But we're not celebrating
the few trucks we can get in because
much has to be done. We need this
to be an opportunity that
that every one of us can start giving
and making sure that for the next 15
days, $40,000
is all it takes.
$40,000
if collectively
is all that we're asking our brothers and
sisters that are joining us today
to think about and to just whatever
you can give. $25
can inshallah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give beautiful
shorbatadas.
So this lentil soup and give them, mashallah,
nutritious vegetables and even meats. Alhamdulillah.
Can you imagine that, subhanAllah, they're sitting at
your table because on yawmulpiama,
when Allah
will look and look and make you see
your deeds,
it may very well be that those beautiful
people that ate from your giving come
as in the metaphoric
table
that you're presented with. And they come and
sit with you and say, yeah, I love
this person bed me.
This person remembered me. When I was thirsty,
I never had a a drink of water
for 3, 4 days, clean water.
It would it somehow was delivered to me,
and it was delivered to this person. It
was delivered to you from you, you, you
Allah. You
to this person.
So this is what what we wanna aim
for my brothers and sisters is this
giving as much as we can. $4
is what it costs to cover the cost
of a meal right now.
Inshallah, we can all do. I know with
the mere numbers that we have this year,
this is this is is probably
less than what we can give.
But today, we're aiming to take care of
100 families for 15 days. That's $25
for the remainder of the month of Ramadan.
And Insha'Allah
Ta'ala, we are going to be able to
do that. Now
the
Islamic Relief has spent already $18,000,000
right now
within the,
the the different aid projects that we've been
doing within Gaza. We've been able to distribute
daily a 150,000
meals
within this area. That's
tens of thousands of families that are benefiting.
We need that that support to continue, and
we can't do it without you guys. And
insha'Allah ta'ala,
we don't wanna obviously take more time than
I'm sure that your brothers and sisters wanna
ask our beautiful Sheikh Ahmed more questions. And
as they say, you don't wanna
come in between Sheikh Ahmed with and anyone
else because everyone's gonna say,
We wanna talk to Sheikh Ahmed. But I
do wanna remind us once again.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
he said that there will there will not
be a there will be a, a group
of people
that will continue fighting and standing up
against an oppress oppression.
And they will never be dissuade even by
the betrayal
of those who actually were supporting them initially.
And they will fight for the truth. And
where are they from, You Rasool Allah? Where
will they be from? And say from Bayt
al Maqdis or Aknaab Bayt al Maqdis.
They will be from the region of Palestine
and the people of Palestine.
And I remember one of my teachers, he
asked he said that in Syria,
Sheikhdib had asked,
had explained this hadith.
And the students
said, but tell us more about the people
of the the these the selected people that
would defend.
And you know what his response was to
teaching to this student?
He said, rather than you wondering
who those people are, where they are, ask
yourself,
how do you become part of that group?
And he is that is. So
I'll I'll end with that. I think that's
what we're gonna do. I want everyone here
in their giving. Through your giving, you can
be part of that group.
Thank you so much, my wonderful sister Absa,
for giving me the time. If you guys
want more information, Islamic.ca.
You can contact myself, the team at the
office.
Alhamdulillah.
We pray we pray for victory.
We pray for justice.
And we pray
That those beautiful Palestinians and I will end
with this for my sister.
Forgive me one moment. Sorry, brother. I just
wanna make be mindful because I know Sheikh,
Umur has to leave right now. So I
wanna make sure we squeeze in a couple
of Yeah. Of questions before we leave. But
I'm good. I I promise. I'm I'm good.
I just want us to pray just one
thing. Oh, Allah, grant us the
ability to speak to the shuhada of Razzani.
An honor to have you with us. And
everyone, Jazak, please do heed that advice and
that request inshallah. Let's let's get that ball
rolling. I know what this community is capable
of, and we know right now that the
majority of the world has abandoned the people
in full esteem. So let us not abandon
them. Let us be their protectors, their providers,
those who feed them, those who do as
much as we can within our capability right
now. I know we're running a lot beyond
schedule inshallah, so we'll keep dropping that link.
That's almugar. That's islamicrelief.
Caforward/amugar.
With that, I'll just bring, Imam,
Omar Salamanca back shift. I know it's been,
quite a long session and I'm honestly, I'm
unable to keep up with the amount of
questions I've received privately.
So I'm gonna do my best, inshallah. The
last one I saw was, how do you
show slash display justice in your house, especially
with your siblings or difficult family members?
Well, I think that justice
is, you know, when it comes to,
people that don't show you kindness is to
not show them the same type of hardship
that they show you. Ihsan is what is
beyond that. Right? So if you have family
members that
are,
and not all family members are the same.
I know that a lot of people don't
like when I talk about this. Right? But
there is, of course, when it comes to
parents,
it's already you know, they already have a
a delegate above you that
is is very important to honor. So not
all family members are the same.
But, like, you have those that are sort
of on equal footing. You have those that
are,
you know, even that that that owe you.
Right? So your children and stuff like that.
So abuse is never allowed in shaya regardless
across any layer.
But, justice needs to be,
implemented by not responding to evil with that
which is evil. Is to show kindness in
return as well. And so if you show
kindness, this is true for the stranger,
then
you'll be even more rewarded with your family.
Beautiful.
The next question we'll just take the last
one, just to be mindful of the time.
And I know you guys are waiting for
Quran reflect as well with this.
The question is, is it best to persevere
when the on the receiving end of injustice
or is it best to avoid or try
to escape it?
Say one more. Can you say one more?
Sorry. It's a great question. It's is it
best to persevere when on the receiving end
of injustice, or is it best to avoid
or escape it?
That's a tough one, because you shouldn't reciprocate
harm intentionally initially. Yeah. Right? So you don't
put yourself
in harm's way intentionally. But
some people are called to persevere, because the
goal of what they are seeking is greater.
Right? So someone right now who's staying in
Palestine,
right, persevering by maintaining,
then they're in a state of ri'baat. They're
in a state of holding it down. Right?
But that's very hard to apply to, like,
a personal family situation,
you know, without getting into, like, specifics. Right?
So look,
family ties are the most delicate ties in
Islam, and so they should not be cut
off unless there's a fear,
associated with that tie. Right? So it's just
very, very difficult to,
to cut off, you know, family time. But
when it comes to, you know, our own
individual lives, the general rule is that you
don't
do Volm, nor do you accept Volm for
yourself.
Islam doesn't teach you to accept oppression for
yourself.
You try to rectify it, and you do
so without becoming a lot of yourself, without
being an oppressor yourself. Now justice is to
put the person who's oppressed in a place
to where they can choose whether to take
vengeance or forgive, and then encourage them to
forgive after you've given them that choice. Not
to tell them in the midst of their
suffering,
suffer peacefully.
Right? It's to try to do everything you
can to put that person in a position
to show grace and then encourage them to
grace. Right? Encourage them to ihsan in that
situation.
So that's where the sort of community failure,
you know, comes into being. And and and
the people the the surrounding cast. I always
tell people, like, when you think about Ayub,
the
story of Ayub,
don't just see yourself as Ayub,
or not Ayub,
are you the wife of Ayub,
are you the 2 friends of Ayub,
that had a hurtful conversation that he overheard?
Are you
the society that shunned him? Right? Where do
you fall in? Right? So may Allah make
us amongst those who uphold justice in their
individual lives, as well as in our community
lives.
Also my apologies to Estebatemia.
I know I'm taking and I'm I'm eating
into her time, so may Allah bless her
and reward her. And,
just did a quick scroll. It's good to
see so many of you,
former students
from different parts of the, of of the
world. So
to all of you for tuning in,
today.
An honor as always to have you back
on with Ramadan 360. We look forward to
continuing to benefit from you from 3430 series
and everything that Yaqeen is putting out and
inshallah having you back on-site inshallah with us
very soon. With that, Jazakkum Lakkar for the
beautiful community that has been with us. I
know it's been a lot of energy today,
and I hope that you guys really do
take that, that,
opportunity to support and to make a difference.
I know I've been hearing a lot of
questions just really quickly before we jump into
our Quran reflect and you guys get a
chance to now share, and the benefit from
Musa for the short bit of time that
we have remaining. A lot of people are
asking how is aid getting into Gaza? I
know the brother, had mentioned a little bit
about, you know, the the partnerships and the
local connection and the fact that Islamic Relief
Canada has been in Gaza since 1997, but
just to give you guys some insight from
the information that they've provided and you can
find more on the website is that since
October 7th to,
beginning of March of this year, they've got
200 and sorry, 2,200,000
medical supply items, 6,400,000
ready to eat meals and then 4,245
food vouchers, fresh produce, blankets, mattresses, clean water,
so many things that we're seeing that I
know we can't reach everybody, but subhanAllah that
they're doing their part with as much capacity
as they can. And we have to make
sure that we maximize their efforts and we
make sure that nobody in Gaza goes hungry,
to the best of our ability. So please
do donate generously. With that said, let's jump
into our Quran reflect. I know it's gonna
be a shorter session probably than normal, inshaAllah,
but we still have time to benefit inshaAllah,
so we look forward to that.
Hopefully,
Sheikh Omar's apology made up for my apology
as well. Insha'Allah Thank you. Let's jump right
in.
I was actually
hoping that he would take all of the
time because
I think taking questions would have been much
more beneficial.
But Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Alright. Let's begin.
So the topic of Adil is a very,
very,
important topic, and we can see the fact
that,
you know, in the Quran, there's 2 different
words that are used to refer to justice.
There is,
the word,
which is mentioned
19 times in the Quran for justice,
and then there's also the word,
which is mentioned over 20 times.
And there's a slight difference between the two
words.
We see that,
is defined as justice as in the opposite
of
lul, the opposite of injustice, meaning the absence
of would lead to
injustice.
And it is typically the word is typically
used when you're dealing with, any in in
relation to multiple people at a time. So
so for example, if a person has, you
know, multiple children,
then they have to treat them with,
meaning they have to give each child
what each child deserves.
And if they were to give all of
their attention to one child, that would
be unjust
towards other children because it would cause other
children to actually
suffer.
Right?
And adal
is not,
is not equality.
It is not to treat everyone in the
exact same way
because
everyone's needs are different.
Right? If you have, for example,
2 children,
one is a baby and the other is
8 years old, both children have very different,
needs.
Right? If you have 2 family members, 1
is your parent and the other is your
sibling,
again, both of them have very different needs.
And and their their positions, their relationship to
you is also very unique, so you cannot
treat each person in the exact same way.
Sometimes we think that the concept of justice
is what we what what we think is
equality,
or in Arabic, it is called Musawat.
But adir is very different from musawat.
Musawat is that you treat each person in
the exact same way, but adir is that
you give each person what they deserve,
what they need,
and that could vary from person to person.
Now the word pist,
is also used for justice in the Quran,
and,
it is said, is, justice that is,
that is al bayin abwahir,
meaning that is very, very evident, that is
very, very clear.
And some say that it's it's more, like,
tangible. Any it's you you you see it.
Alright?
Like, for example,
if a person is weighing something on a
scale,
alright,
then before they put something on the scale,
they they wipe the scale clean, alright, to
ensure that nothing was there from before
that could actually add to the weight of,
you know, what you are weighing.
So,
so we see both of these words are
used in the Quran. Sometimes,
you know, some urnamas say that there isn't
really much a difference, but others say that,
that
is in relation to others.
And
is justice that is very, very manifest, that
is very, very evident.
Now we see in the Quran that Allah
commands us to be just. Right?
But he doesn't expect us to be,
just beyond our capability.
Because especially when you're dealing with family members,
right, no matter how hard you try,
you are trying your best to be just
and fair with them. But tell me, what
is it that children always complain about?
Right? They will say that you're not being
fair. Right? This is unfair.
Any
parents try
so
hard
to be just with their children, to be
fair with them. But the number one complaint
that I think all children have, regardless of
their age,
is that
my parents are not being fair with me.
Right?
This is not fair. This is unfair.
And, you know, there comes a time where
I I think, when children themselves become parents
that they that they,
you know, see that, yes, their parents did
try their best.
But we see in the Quran, you know,
for example, Allah
mentions that
this is in the case of a man
who has multiple wives that Allah
says that you will never be capable
of being
completely just between your wives even if you
eagerly wish to do so.
Any this is beyond your capability,
and especially when it comes to your feelings.
Right?
You you know, the fact that you get
along with someone.
And even with your children, this is the
case. There's one child who is
very cooperative. You know? They listen. You get
along with them. And then there's others there
there's other children who are,
you know, who are generally you know, they
they fight. They argue. They complain.
They resist.
So,
any it's
because of the difference in their manners, of
course,
you know, you don't get along with everybody
in the same way.
So what does Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala say
then? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
expects that we don't,
completely
lean to one side
and that we don't follow our desire.
Right? And this is something that is mentioned
in several places in the Quran.
And also that do not follow the desire,
lest you,
or you will or you will not be
able to be just.
So it Allah
is the only one who is
capable of perfect justice.
Right? Perfect justice
is not in our capacity.
However, what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala requires from
us is that we do our best.
And wherever we fall short,
we we ask Allah
to
compensate
over there out of his mercy.
There there was this a few more things
I wanted to share, but,
Hafsa, what do you think? One reflection?
One reflection? That's a lot of pressure on
one person. Can we do 2 2 reflections?
Okay. Sure. 30 seconds each. 30 seconds each.
We got 2 hands. Bismillah, Aziza, you go
right ahead.
No time to waste.
Aziza, 321. Give us Oh, there you go.
Lykham. Lykham.
The what?
Okay. So in in talking about being just,
I feel like sometimes we are not just
with ourselves.
You know, we try to be just with
everyone else, but
we don't,
take care of ourselves spiritually,
physically, mentally.
And I feel like that is something that
is really important because,
let me try to do this very quickly.
When you spoke about Amana, you spoke about,
Allah blessing us
with our bodies and everything.
We really don't, you know, be just. We
don't take care of ourselves the way that
we should. So I think
that, being just is not just with everyone
else, but we need to do it with
ourselves as well.
Beautiful. Aziza,
let's hear from Razan, inshallah, as our second
and final reflector. Razan, go right ahead, Bismillah.
Bismillah.
Bismillah, I know you have to head out,
so we'll still hear from Razan Insha'Allah, but
I just wanna make sure that you don't
miss your flight
or the the airport. So
we'll catch you tomorrow for tomorrow's Quran reflect
session but let's hear from Razan.
Oh. Justice, the more you realize
how much our religion is grounded in standing
up against operation.
Always with the one liners, Rizan.
I really appreciate your contribution today,
and I see another hand up, but I
do wanna be mindful. I know you guys
have been really patient with the timing for
today. It's been an amazing session with Sheikh
Omar, with brother Sadiq's reminder, with Usadda Taymiyyah,
and to all of you for your patience.
I know, especially with, you know, reminders and
charity appeals with all the things that that
need to be covered, especially in the situation
in fall is being sometimes we run a
little bit long in the time, so please
forgive us, for the shifting of the timeline
a little bit today. Tomorrow, we'll be back
to normal for our regularly scheduled programming, but
please, please, please, the purpose of that appeal,
the purpose for for making sure that you
guys had all the information at your fingertips
and and that you're aware of everything that's
happening, what's being done on the ground in
Palestine is so that you guys support and
help to alleviate that suffering. So the link
once again was islamicrelief.caforward/almaghar,
but you can, again, support from anywhere around
the world, and it's really our time to
take care of our our broken and tired
and beloved and hungry and orphaned brothers and
sisters and guys that we know too well
what's been happening there. You guys have seen
it all over your screens over the past
6 months. It's just it's inexcusable. I know
not not as if we're excusing it, but
it's it's impossible for us not to do
everything within our capacity right now. You know?
And I don't wanna go too too long
because I know I can't handle that either,
but, please, please, please, you know, support that
link, share it with others, spread it. May
Allah make it a huge source of care
and may Allah alleviate their suffering permanently.
But please take that reminder, take that time,
whatever amount that you are annoyed, put that
into your donations inshallah.
And we'll see you guys tomorrow,
for our, our next session for Ramadan 3
60 day number 18. SubhanAllah getting close to
20 now. Tomorrow's topic is going to be
care. Assalamu Alaikum.
care. Assalamu Alaikum.