Omar Suleiman – The Truth Needs No Lies
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The speaker discusses the recent prediction of a solar or lunar eclipse and the importance of the Prophet's weightless message. They emphasize the need for people to be clear about their actions and not to give the Prophet a chance to speak to people about Islam. The importance of belief in Islam is emphasized, along with the need for people to be clear about their actions and represent the way of one's life. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of maintaining moral high ground and not lying to oneself.AI: Transcript ©
For that introduction.
My beloved brother, Isham. May Allah bless you
and bless your family.
And thank you to that AI bot,
because
that could have gone a very different direction.
So I'm happy with the way that that
went.
I wanna begin by thanking each and every
single one of you for being here. Honored
guests,
honored ambassadors,
staff,
leaders here at QF.
I wanna thank my beloved brother, doctor Zakir
Naik, Sheikh Farooq Naik as well for being
here. May Allah bless all of you.
And all of the students,
I gather it's a pretty busy time around
here. As I was walking around the hallway,
I almost walked into about 5 graduations. So
congratulations to all of the graduating classes,
and to their families,
and congratulations to all of you for finishing
your final exams.
With that being
said, I'm actually gonna begin with a question.
How many of you have ever seen a
solar or a lunar eclipse?
Can you raise your hands?
Did you all witness the one in Ramadan?
No.
So I wanna take you back just about
a month ago
where we witnessed
a very clear
eclipse
in Dallas, Texas.
People flew from all over the country. Every
single hotel room was taken
to witness
this eclipse.
And I'd never seen one before, at least
not as clear as the one that I
would see that day.
Now it also happened to land in the
last 10 days of Ramadan,
And so half of the people thought that
it was Laylatul Qadr, the other half thought
that it was Yomul Qiyamah.
So it's like an interesting dynamic to see
the way that the community is oriented. A
very hopeful outlook,
and a very very pessimistic outlook that
it either means the beginning or the end,
but it can't mean anything in between.
And I remember it came around salat al
duhr,
and
I walked outside,
and I looked up at it, and I
caught this clear glimpse of it.
And subhanallah, I thought to myself, what a
powerful sign.
And for the first time, I actually appreciated
the context in which this happened in the
life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
With all of us knowing that it was
coming,
with all the forecasts and the preparation, and
the clouds, and knowing exactly when, and having
the preparation with the glasses, and the timing
set,
it was still absolutely
stunning.
Imagine being in the middle of the desert,
with absolutely no warning,
and then suddenly you look up,
and there's a solar or a lunar eclipse.
Wouldn't you think that it was the end
of the world?
Wouldn't you think, Wow, what a strange thing
to happen?
Wouldn't you
understand why the Prophet
was rushing everyone to the masjid
to take the sign from Allah
as a reminder once again that Allah is
in control of time and space, and Allah
controls the fixed and the variable. And the
things that you take for granted
can suddenly
become things that are completely unpredictable.
And all of that is a reminder of
the day in which the earth beneath us
is changed,
and we stand before our Lord
in a completely different setting. You would understand
it
if you if you truly were able to
contextualize it. But why am I starting with
this, and how does it relate to the
topic?
What makes this that much more stunning in
the time of the Prophet is that it
coincided with another event.
If you knew the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam in Madina,
in fact even if you knew him in
Makkah, a few years after he received revelation,
you wouldn't have known the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam as a new father
for the previous
6 children.
You would have known
that he has lost some of his children.
He has buried some of his children, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
But suddenly, close to the end of his
life,
Allah blesses him with a baby boy.
And this was the only time that you
got to surround the prophet
when he was blessed with a child, especially
for the ansar of madinah who loved the
prophet
more than they loved themselves.
And I want you to imagine the mood
in Madina,
when the Prophet
has a baby boy, and he names him
what?
Ibrahim.
Ibrahim. He said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I
am the answer of the du'a of my
father Ibrahim.
The way that we name our children after
our fathers,
Ibrahim, I am the answer to the prayer
of my father Abraham.
And now he has a son, and he
names Ibrahim. And everyone in Medina is so
happy
to see the prophet
as a new father. He's done tahneek for
your children.
He has made the adhan for you. He
has come to your home to visit you.
The whole community is in celebration.
And then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam receives
the news that Ibrahim is sick.
And he comes out alaihis salatu as salam,
and as Anas alayhi alahu anhu describes the
scene,
he holds his son,
and Ibrahim
breathes his last breaths in the hands of
the
prophet You see a dying child, and you
see the prophet
in pain holding his child,
breathing his last.
And the tears of the prophet
start to fall,
until his beard becomes wet.
And it's a very vivid description. The tears
of the messenger
are falling on his child
as he holds him.
And
here
the prophet
gives us
the famous narration on how to grieve.
The heart grieves.
The eyes shed tears.
We are sad over your death, oh Ibrahim.
But we only say that which is pleasing
to Allah
You get the context?
You just saw your superhero
who you love more than yourself holding his
dead child. And you might feel as helpless
as a parent who lost their own because
you wanna comfort the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, but it's also
You too cry?
Wait, this hurts you too?
Now in that context,
imagine
on that day,
looking up at the sun and the moon
eclipse,
What would you assume is happening?
You would assume,
surely,
the supernatural
sign
that is occurring in front of us has
something to do
with the pain that the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam has suffered, with this tragedy that
the Prophet has
suffered. And the Prophet rushed to the masjid,
and he led them in salatul huzuf.
And after he prays,
the Prophet of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he could have let the people start to
talk because the word started to get out
that this happened because of the death of
his son.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stands
up,
and he says,
The sun and the moon do not eclipse
for the death of anyone,
nor for the life of anyone.
They are 2 signs from the signs of
Allah. And so when you see it eclipse,
then exert yourself in prayer.
For the very first time, I really gained
an appreciation for this hadith in the moment.
And I'll tell you exactly how it relates
to this topic.
There was a sentence that came to my
head, and I'm going to share it with
you.
Real prophets
don't need fake lies to prove themselves.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
had he been what they claimed he was,
could have milked the situation.
What clearer sign than when my son dies,
the sun and the moon eclipse right afterwards?
If anyone had any doubt, any skepticism, I
couldn't show you asra wal Mi'raj. I couldn't
show you so many other things. But this,
look. He could've at least let them talk
and assume,
but he felt it was imperative sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam at that moment
to say, no, no.
This doesn't happen for the death of anyone,
nor for the life of anyone. But these
are two signs from the signs of Allah.
Exert yourself in prayer.
A real prophet
doesn't need fake lies.
He doesn't need any fake signs.
A real prophet doesn't need fake signs.
He's listening to people recite poetry around him,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And as the Ansar sing their praise of
the Messenger, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, one of
the lines of
poetry says, He knows what is tomorrow. And
the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam says, No,
no, no.
Don't say that.
No one knows what happens tomorrow except for
Allah
This is a man shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
who gives you signs. We're seeing some of
the signs of the day of judgment play
out in front of us as clear as
night and day.
Part of being rasulullah
is that he prophesizes.
Much of the revelation that came to him
in the Quran
talked about historical events that would happen
in the future.
Predictions,
prophecies of that which is to come.
The story of the Roman and the Persian
empire.
The prophet could have said, I have an
interpretation. I kind of know what's tomorrow, but
I don't know exactly what's tomorrow. No. No.
No. Don't say, he knows what's tomorrow. Take
this line out.
Only Allah knows what's tomorrow.
He is a messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He is secure in his message.
He doesn't need to embellish
any further
what is already
the most potent beauty of the Quran, that
it is Al Haqq,
the truth revealed
by the truth. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He doesn't
need to embellish anything.
Does he need to have a big house
You know there's a complex,
right? For the Prophet
to impose himself as a leader
upon the people with the way that he
dresses perhaps. They wanted the Prophet
to sit differently. They wanted the Prophet to
dress differently.
They found themselves ashamed at times that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam was the hungriest amongst
them.
Even in hadith Jibril,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam refused a chair
to sit while they all sat on the
floor. So what did they do? They put
some dirt and tried to turn it into
a mound.
So that there was some distinction, because they
said when a would come, when an ambassador
would come, they wouldn't know which one of
us is Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I
don't need that.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam lived in
a hijrat.
The prophet was secure in himself. Even when
he's dying, don't turn my grave into a'id.
Don't build this huge massive tomb for me.
I don't need that. Send your salawat on
me wherever you are, it will reach me.
It will reach me.
I don't need it.
Now you understand
what makes him so stunning
That when you saw him, you weren't just
captured by his beauty.
You were captured truly by his essence.
Know, the scholars talked about, they said, Who's
more beautiful? The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam or
Yusuf Alaihi Salam?
Said, The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam
had the jamal of Yusuf alaihis salam. He
had the beauty of Yusuf alaihis salam. And
truly the way he's described sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is a stunning
man
I mean, when you looked at him, everything
about his features was absolutely stunning and captivating.
But they said that the beauty of the
Prophet was covered in his
in his essence, in his honor, in his
respect. His was covered in his jalal
His beauty was covered by a cover of
glory. So much so, that you find the
narrations of the sahaba
that I can't just Some people say, I
never looked at the prophet I never stared
at him because I put my head down
when I was in his presence. It was
too much.
He was so respectable.
He was honorable
not because of
what he projected
of a worldly superiority,
but because clearly he is a man on
a mission
sent with something of truth.
And that's why
when Tufayd ibn Amr Dawsi came from a
daws
and he's a respectable man, a doctor,
and he's someone who's the chief of his
tribe. The people of Mecca wanted to preempt
the meeting with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
So what did they tell him? They said,
He's a sorcerer.
Said, Look, if he talks if tufail hears
him speak, we're in trouble
because a respectable man will know a respectable
man. An honorable man will know an honorable
man. He'll see him and he'll know something's
up. We have to fill his ears with
a bunch of nonsense
before he gets to him. And what do
we have to deal with constantly
when we're talking to people about Islam? First,
you gotta pour out all the garbage that
they've heard about Islam
before they can hear you. You have to
disarm,
remove the layer. Now let me tell you
about Islam, after telling you everything Islam is
not.
So they wanted to fill his ears with
so much,
that he wouldn't give the prophet a chance
because they knew if he gave the prophet
a chance, we'd be in trouble. It would
speak for itself.
So they said, he's a sorcerer. So what
did he do? He put cotton in his
cotton in his ears. Think about a man
walking around with ear plugs doing tawaf.
You know what he said? He said, I
looked up the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and I said, he doesn't look like a
sorcerer to me.
He doesn't look like the soothsayer. He doesn't
look He doesn't have that look. Let me
hear what he has to say. And then
that was it.
Abdullah
Abu Musalam, the chief rabbi of Madinah, the
chief rabbi of Madinah, the most respectable Jewish
scholar.
He knew the signs were there, but he
said, as soon as I saw the prophet
shalallahu alaihi wa sallam,
I knew that's not the face of a
liar.
He looked the part sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Real prophets
don't need fake signs.
He looked the part. And then when he
opened his mouth salallahu alayhi wasalam, it confirmed
what you could already tell about him.
With all of that, dear brothers and sisters,
let me bring you to the verse of
the Quran
that I'd like to discuss and decipher in
today's
context, especially
with what is happening in Palestine. But first
let's just start with Islam.
After the most
profound and captivating verse in the Quran,
Until the end of the ayah.
An ayah that is so beautiful that if
you were to read it to anybody
in the world, Muslim or non Muslim,
they would be able to appreciate this beautiful
comprehensive description of God. Even if they weren't
Muslim, they would say, what a beautiful description
of God that you have. What a coherent,
compelling, comprehensive,
beautiful description of god that you have.
The next verse after that verse is,
There is no compulsion in religion.
Truth has already been made apparent from falsehood.
You don't need
to embellish this further. The truth is already
clear.
There's no compulsion in religion. And subhanAllah, there
are two stories
that are encompassed in this verse.
The first part of it,
Many of the scholars talked about
the reasons for its revelation, and they talked
about stories that happened around the revelation of
that verse because there were different realities as
time went on in Islam. In Makkah, you
had a bunch of children who embraced Islam,
and their parents were oppressing them. And so
that's one dynamic you have to work through.
And then in Madinah, you have a different
dynamic altogether.
And one of those narrations that al Masruq
ibn Ajda mentions
is that there was a man whose 2
children before the Prophet
declared prophethood
Work this out with me. Okay? Before the
prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam received revelation,
his 2 sons became Christian.
Now by the way,
Christianity
is far superior
to the idol worship of Mecca.
And back then you have
the the the people, the the the people
who were monotheists.
They were hanifs. They believed in one God.
Some of them like Waraqab Nunofal became biblical
scholars. They were looking for the truth in,
and they were trying to see through
the scriptures of the people of the book.
And so it's likely that their embracing of
Christianity
before the prophet receives Islam comes from a
place of great nobility.
Look how complex the situation is.
So the father of these two boys
hasn't seen his sons for a long time.
They traveled to the lands of the Christians,
right? Somewhere into the Roman Empire.
And their father embraced Islam. So he was
an idol worshiper when they became Christian. Their
father embraced Islam,
and then he sees his 2 sons coming
to Madinah, in the delegation of the Christians
holding crosses.
After Islam.
Subhanallah. How the tables have turned.
So he goes up to them,
and he he's very aggressive with them, and
he says, I will not leave you until
you bear witness that he is the Messenger
of Allah. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So first,
he was angry at them because he was
an idol worshiper. Now he's angry at them
because he's a Muslim, and you have to
become Muslim right now.
And Masruk says, this is around the time
that the verse was revealed,
No, no. There's no compulsion in religion. The
prophet
said, No, you don't. This is not how
this works. This is a religion of iqnah,
not a religion of This is a religion
that convinces you, not a religion that compels
you. This is not how this works. Why?
The truth doesn't need to be forced down
anyone's throat.
Give them a chance to hear, and they
will embrace it themselves.
Sit them down and say, By the way,
let me tell you about rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and take you to meet this
man
He comes from the spirit of the same
religion
that you embrace, perhaps seeking monotheism.
And here he is the brother of Isa
alaihis salam, Rasulullah,
the Prophet of Allah as well.
So come listen to him. But they tried,
or he tried a different approach.
No. No. We don't need this.
And subhanallah,
this is the power of the message.
Allah
did not require of the Muslims to spread
Islam
by forcing people to become Muslim. It is
actually antithetical
to the message of Islam. So even when
there is battle, when there is jihad, when
there is conquest, and all these historical realities
in Islam, the population is not to be
subjected to Islam. They don't have to become
Muslim. Persia remained
Zoroastrian
for a very long time. Muslims were the
minority even after
the conquest of Persia. Because there was this
idea that we don't force people to say,
Treat them fairly.
They have the jizyah, they have their way
of living, their religious communities are preserved. But
no. We're not gonna force them to become
Muslim. Now,
are there bad examples in Islamic history where
that wasn't applied? Absolutely.
But we have a pretty good sample size.
And we take pride in Umar bin Khattab
entering Jerusalem,
and not going in there
and saying, this church has got to go.
Fax saying the opposite.
When he's invited to pray 2 rakahs in
Bethlehem,
in the holy sepulcher, and he says, No,
no. If I pray 2 rakahs here, I
know how Muslims are. Later on, Muslims are
gonna come and turn this place into a
masjid. Let me walk out and pray 2
rak Let me pray my salah there.
And subhanallah, there we have masjid Umar.
I don't need to force you to become
Muslim. You'll see the beauty of Islam yourself
in due time. It will come to you
as well. This is what the scholars mentioned
of the hadith of the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam, ajibarabuna
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is amazed by those
Those who entered Islam
after being in chains. It's not a literal
chaining people and forcing them to become Muslim.
What is the prophet
talking about? That after battles took place in
these places,
the children
of many of those who fought Islam, in
fact some of those who fought Islam and
were defeated militarily,
became the greatest torchbearers of Islam.
The carried
Islam. The Persians, the former slaves,
they carried Islam.
They loved the religion, they embraced it, they
became the scholars of this tradition. Imagine,
Allah
sees these people, they enter into Islam so
beautifully. They didn't take it by compulsion.
But they took it after being convinced,
and then became its greatest practitioners.
Allah
does not need this to happen.
The end of this ayah, by the way,
because the other story
So imagine the father who's trying to force
his kids
to become Muslim
after they became Christian.
Allah mentions,
in this verse, the trustworthy handhold,
that is referring to an opposite scenario.
Qaysib Nabdad says that one time
a man walked into the masjid, and he
had these signs of beautiful humility. So he's
talking about the 2nd generation of Muslims, the
tabi'in. So this man walked in, and he
had these beautiful signs on him of humility
and and worship.
And so the people started to say,
That guy is from the people of paradise.
So he said, I got curious, so I
went up to him and said,
the people are saying you're from the of
Jannah. He said, SubhanAllah, people shouldn't say what
they don't know.
And he said, but
the reason they say that
is because I had this dream once.
By the way, the man is Abdullah Abu
Salam
the rabbi of Madinah who became Muslim. Said,
I had this dream in the time of
the Prophet
that I was in this garden,
and in the middle of the garden there
was a pole.
The bottom of the pole was in the
earth.
The pole extended
all the way through the heavens, and at
the top of it, there was a hand
hold.
And so I walked to the pole,
this beautiful garden,
and I looked up, and then I was
told, ascend.
And I said, how am I gonna get
there? And then an angel picked me up
all the way to that handhold, and I
gripped onto that handhold, and then I woke
up holding onto that handhold.
So, I told the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam what happened.
The Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Islam
He said that this garden is the garden
of Islam. This pole is the pole of
Islam. And he says, As for that handhold,
It is the trustworthy hand hold that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about in the Quran.
It is
And he said,
You're going to be upon Islam until you
die.
You're not just a rabbi who got caught
in the moment.
No, no. You're going to become a scholar
of Islam. You will remain on Islam until
you die. Subhanallah. The opposite equation. You have
a man that tried to force his kids
to become Muslim, and you have a rabbi
who had every reason not to become Muslim
from a worldly perspective,
who saw through all of it, who embraced
Islam, and became one of the greatest scholars
of Islam.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks to this reality
of the truth speaking for itself.
Why is it, O people of Makkah,
Allah
lectures the people of Mecca, and says, What
is wrong with you all?
Consider that this may be from Allah
and a witness from the children of Israel
has embraced it, and he believed, and you
had pride.
What's wrong with you all? This is your
own brother.
This is your tribesmen. You know his character
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You knew him for
all of these years. You should've been the
first to recognize the truthfulness of this man
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But you disbelieved, you
had pride.
Why? What happened to you? What got in
the way?
Whereas this man,
all the way in Madinah,
a Jewish rabbi who has everything to lose
in terms of position,
immediately says, this is the truth. What's wrong
with you?
A man comes all the way from Persia,
escaping
the chains of his father, escaping death, goes
around the whole world to end up being
enslaved
over 13 times, until he's in Madinah to
embrace the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Salam
al Farasih radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, What's your problem
that you can't see this man? You can't
understand the truth that's in front of you?
Here's the Quran recited from afar, and hears
about Rasulullah
never actually meets him face to face, but
falls into tears recognizing
the truth.
And says,
Had I not been in the situation of
kingdom, I would've gone to him
so I could carry his sandals for him.
Why is it that he recognizes and you
can't recognize?
Is the problem
with the truth, or is the problem with
the barriers that you have put between you
and the truth?
The barrier of tribalism,
the barrier of wealth,
the barrier of power,
the barrier of ego. Is the problem with
the message of the Prophet
or is the problem
with the recipients or the intended recipients of
the message?
And Allah is saying, you are blinded
by your own
idols. You are blinded by your own tribalism.
You are blinded by your miscalculations.
The tribalism is getting in the way
of something so obvious to you,
something so self explanatory.
Now let's bring it back to this ayah.
There is no compulsion in religion. The truth
does not need to be forced down anyone's
throat.
Truth has been made clear from falsehood.
There are different words for truth in the
Quran.
There is guidance,
so there is
guidance and being astray.
There is alhaqqwalbatal,
truth and falsehood. And there is arusht wal
ghayi,
clearer guidance
and clearly being lost.
And the scholars mentioned that of the beauty
of this is that arusht is the most
obvious manifestation
of truth. It is when a person clearly
is acting upon rightful guidance, when their path
has clearly been laid out for them, and
they are doing all of these things
with divine
guidance,
and divine planning behind them,
and achieving the most beautiful
of realities.
Is that a person has been guided
in regards to their actions, not just in
regards to their knowledge. They get it. Allah
is moving them in directions.
Means that you look at a person who's
guided, and you say, That person is on
to something.
Is
May Allah
give them victory.
Is
When even a person who is full of
the most garbage Zionist influence and propaganda can
look at them and admire them if they're
honest with themselves and say, what do they
have?
What is that?
Ar Rashad is the obvious fulfillment and purpose
of truth. Ar Rashad
was how the companions carried themselves when they
went when they went to other lands, that
other people looked at them and said, Wow.
They're onto something.
Malcolm X at Hajj Medaka Shabaz
was asked this question about how Islam
conquers.
And he said, Islam
and I quote, Islam has made inroads into
countries it never conquered. It just entered and
then spiritually conquered.
Because the proof was in the pudding. The
proof was in the manifestation.
You looked at the Muslims and you said,
There's something there.
They're onto something.
Is that clear guidance.
Is the clearest form
of the clearest form of being astray.
Meaning, you can see the example of someone
who clearly has no purpose, no integrity, no
principles,
no fulfillment,
no real life.
The difference between
the living and the dead. It is clear
as night and day when you look at
the output. The people
of Arusht are so different from the people
of Al Ghay.
It's obvious.
And Allah says,
It is already been made clear. The evidence
has been laid bare, and the output of
that evidence has been made laid bare as
well. The people,
they represent it as well. You can see
the manifestation
of both of those two realities.
So those who disbelieve in all of that
which has been set up as a partner
besides Allah and believe in
they are holding on to that trustworthy handhold.
There
is absolutely nothing that will come in between
them and that trustworthy
handhold. The truth is compelling. The truth is
beautiful. The truth is self explanatory.
You don't need
anything more
except to look at it. So the question
is, why do people stray so far away
from the truth?
And this is where the Quran also gives
the explanation.
You can't force someone who doesn't want to
believe
to believe, because you can't tell someone how
beautiful the sky is if they insist on
closing their eyes.
I can't help you.
If you don't wanna see it,
I can't make you see it.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that it
goes back to being a matter of the
heart.
They
said, our hearts are wrapped.
We're not interested
in hearing what you have to say.
Can you imagine,
Abdullah Abu Ubay bin Salul
sitting in the masjid of the prophet for
9 whole years listening to his khutbas and
still not embracing Islam? Not only still not
embracing Islam, still wanting to undermine him at
every single corner.
What's the difference between the story of Abdullah
Abu Ubayb bin sitting in the masjid of
the prophet
for almost a decade, and dying
a disbeliever,
a malicious disbeliever,
a hypocrite,
and Thumama
who was a hostile chief to the Prophet
shalallahu alaihi wa sallam. But he sat in
the masjid for 3 days and said, Okay.
I get it now. I wanna become Muslim.
What's the difference between the 2?
You have to want the truth for it
to be granted to you. That is actually
of the beauty of guidance, is that when
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that you will
not be guided except that he permits it,
Guidance is too valuable for Allah
to force it on you. You have to
at least express to Allah
a willingness
to be guided, a desire to see the
truth, then Allah
will open your heart to the truth.
But at the bare
minimum you have to want
it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, when they turned
away, Allah turned their hearts away. Allah is
not gonna force it on you. You don't
want
it? You don't have to have it. But
the truth will still stand clear as night
and day. The evidences will be laid bare.
The beauty will still shine and you will
not be able to cover it no matter
what. So what happens?
There are people that just don't wanna see
it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala diagnosis in another way.
There are people that have purchased misguidance
with guidance.
Allah gave you the currency of guidance, and
you went and you bought error instead.
I want you to think about this, dear
brothers and sisters.
In my reality,
I see people who see the beauty of
Islam,
who see the beauty of
what the prophet
has brought forward,
who see the beauty of living a lifestyle
in accordance with the lifestyle of the prophet
coming from
absolutely
contradictory backgrounds.
And then you see someone who had a
salam given to them from the day that
they were born. Their parents taught them how
to read Quran. Their parents taught them how
to pray.
And you purchase
misguidance with guidance.
Let me take this away, and let me
go buy this instead.
Why?
Do you not see the value of what's
been given to you?
There are also those, and this is what
the scholars mentioned of the beauty, subhanAllah, of
how Allah Azzawajal
mentions sometimes,
is that there's a difference between purchasing misguidance,
and there's also a person who's been bought.
So let's come down
to Islamophobia
and Israel.
Let's talk about
the blinders
that are on people's eyes.
Let's talk about a world in which people
can sell
every single moral fiber that has been bestowed
upon them to purchase
error.
You wanna talk about those who have been
bought
by falsehood?
Look at every single politician in the United
States that's been purchased by APAC.
That is called being bought by falsehood.
A person who has their own children
at home. And you know what? They run
home, and I guarantee you that some of
them, if not all of them, genuinely love
their children, and genuinely cry when their kids
fall down,
and get a cut on them,
or when they have to go to the
hospital,
or when they die. But have absolutely
no issue
looking into a camera and saying, I don't
care about the kids of Gaza.
Those children don't matter to me.
Those children hold no value to me.
Those are the people who have been bought
out.
Purchased
by lies.
Purchased by propaganda.
Become mouthpieces
of the greatest forms of evil
that we have ever witnessed in our lives.
These are not just the mouthpieces of the
propaganda
that we see today. And you wonder as
you see otherwise decent human beings
justifying genocide across your screen.
But it's people that sell their souls, literally,
to industries
of bottled, industries of falsehood.
Whether it's political,
or cultural, or social, or religious. And you
wonder, wow. How did an otherwise decent human
being become so
evil,
become so
sick.
Because for some,
they've been purchased by falsehood.
Now when it comes to Palestine, when it
comes to Palestine
and Islam,
you think of everything that the Islamophobia industry
has put forward to try to demonize Islam,
to try to vilify the Muslim community.
And despite all of that, we cannot keep
up with the amount of people that are
embracing Islam.
It is absolutely
stunning
to see how many people can see through
all of that.
The 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of dollars
that say, don't even consider this to be
an acceptable
religion, to be an acceptable way of life.
Don't even approach the idea of it possibly
being truth.
Yet somehow they're becoming the world's best Muslims.
The people of Gaza
are supposed to be humiliated on camera
as they are dying, yet they are inspiring
spiritual life around the world.
Despite every single
form
of propaganda
employed, the tools of propaganda
employed against the Palestinian people and Islam, which
nurtures the Palestinian people and nurtures their resistance
to this tyranny, despite
all of that.
People are coming to see the truth of
Islam.
People are coming to see the truth of
Palestine.
Now here's the thing.
The truth eventually shines.
It eventually breaks through
the layers of falsehood
for those who are seeking truth,
for those who want to open their eyes,
for the Abu Luhbal Salams of the world
today,
that despite having every reason to not believe,
are sincere in their pursuit of truth and
truthful narratives, of the truth of faith and
the truth of politics, of the truth of
the way that the world works, and they
managed to peel back those layers.
And they manage to peel back those layers.
And that frustrates
the purveyors of falsehood. So what do they
do? They lie more.
The lies get more outrageous.
And then the suppression of the truth becomes
more outrageous.
And you know what?
I say this to us as Muslims,
that we have to maintain the moral high
ground at all times. We don't need to
lie.
We don't need to lie about 40 babies
being cooked in ovens.
We have thousands of babies that have been
cooked on your screens.
We don't need to lie to you about
what actually is happening
in regards to the Palestinian people. We don't
need to lie to you about history. Let
history speak for itself.
The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam held the moral high
grounds in regards to being a Muslim. They
are not our teachers.
The messenger of Allah
refused to employ the same tactics against him
that they employed against them.
He refused to apply the same tactics against
them that they applied against him.
Think if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
divulged some of the secrets of Abu Jahl
and Abu Lahab.
Some of the secrets
of Umayyah.
Because wasn't he the secret keeper sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam? Wasn't he al Amin? Think about
how many times Abu Lahab or Abu Jahal
and these people confided in the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam with something deeply personal to
them. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't
get nasty with them. No, no. We don't
do that. Imagine if the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam took the bodies of Abu Jahal,
and an akhna subnu shraikh, and he cut
them up, and he put them up, and
did tamfil.
Crucified them on sticks to send a message
to the Meccans, don't try this again.
Instead the Prophet
freed their children,
and kept his hand open to them, and
his heart open to them. We're not like
you.
The truth doesn't need falsehood.
Our message
is too pure to be tainted
by what contradicts it. This is true about
Islam. This is true about Palestine.
This is true about Ghazza. This is true
about truthful narratives. Let the truth speak for
itself, and make sure that you represent it
truthfully.
Oh you who believe, be mindful of Allah
and be with the truthful.
Let the way that you carry yourself in
business, in your interactions, in the way that
you speak
be truthful.
Show that nobility and that dignity.
Do not become foul like they are foul.
Don't lie the way that they lie. Don't
resort to their tactics.
And you know what ends up happening? Subhanallah.
In one of the conversations
between haraql and Abu Sufyan before Abu Sufyan
became Muslim is look at the people.
Are they growing or are they decreasing? Despite
all of this persecution,
are the number of followers growing
or are they decreasing? And Abu Sufyan had
to admit,
despite being, at that time, the biggest Islamophobe
possibly alive,
that they keep on increasing despite our persecution.
They keep growing in number. And he said,
that's the sweetness of faith.
It enters into the heart, and then nothing
can suppress it. You can't do anything about
it.
There are more people in the world saying,
than ever before.
There are more people in the world saying,
Free Palestine,
than ever
before. They are so afraid that they're trying
to criminalize
words and slogans,
redefine them, misinterpret them, disperse,
suppress,
because nothing is working, because you can't keep
putting lipstick on a genocide.
You can't put lipstick on a part side.
You can't lie about the prophet
this long, eventually people will actually read about
him. You can't tell them what's in the
Quran this long, eventually people will check out
the book themselves.
You can't keep lying, and expect the lies
to hold. Eventually,
they will fold. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will make sure that the truth rises. Once
again, as it always does century after century,
time after time. And I wanna leave you
with one last message. You know, Orwell said
something that was very profound. He said, the
further
that a society drifts away from truth,
the more it hates those who speak it.
The further a society drifts away from truth,
the more it hates those who speak it.
If you wonder why there's so much suppression
of Islam and the Muslim community in different
parts of the world, that is a sign
of the power of Islam.
If you wonder why there's a suppression of
the message of Palestine around the world, that
is a sign
of the message of Palestine.
And you can see by the way,
the Elon Papes of the world,
and the people
that
speak from
the legions of apartheid against apartheid,
and say that our history is constructed
upon falsehood and oppression and occupation.
And you
don't see
many Palestinians
or Muslims
that are saying, yes. They have no right
to this land. They have no right to
defend themselves. They have no right to this.
They have no right to that. Although, unfortunately,
we do live in a world where probably
of the most disgusting creatures in the world
is a Muslim Zionist. And those are 2
very contradictory words. They exist.
And you have anti zionist Jews,
people
that have seen
the falsehood of the narrative that was given
to them,
and that are discovering the truth. The point
is, dear brothers and sisters,
cling to the truth, and imagine yourself in
this world with the ideologies, the political, the
social, the cultural ideologies.
Imagine yourself like Abdullah Abu Salam,
holding on to
holding on to that trustworthy handhold.
When Islam becomes unpopular,
when our value system is deemed regressive,
when our causes are deemed barbaric, when our
community,
and our ummah is
misrepresented
and maligned,
When they say about the prophet what they
say. When they say about the Quran what
they say,
I'm holding on to this trustworthy handhold.
Until the day that I die,
Oh Allah, oh turner of hearts, make our
hearts firm upon your religion. Make our hearts
firm upon the truth. Let us be people
of truth. Let us uphold the truth. Give
victory to the people of truth, and let
us stand with them in a free Palestine,
and pray in a liberated Masjid Al Aqsa.
Liberate the hearts and the minds of people
from the poison
of Zionism, from the poison of the propaganda
that has dehumanized our people. Liberate their hearts
and their minds from the Islamophobia that has
stopped them from seeing the beauty of Islam.
Guide our hearts. Guide our minds. Guide our
eyes. Guide our actions, guide us to that
which is pleasing to you.
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