Omar Suleiman – Uniting Our Ummah When Politics Divide

			Begin by praising Allah subhanaw taala and bearing witness that nun has the right to be worshipped
or unconditionally obeyed except for him. And we bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
Salam is his final messenger We ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him the prophets and
messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him, and those that
follow in his best path until the Day of Judgment, we ask Allah to make us amongst them Allahumma
Amin, the brothers and sisters, when Allah Subhana Allah says in the Quran, where Tasleem will be
heavily learned hegemony and one are tougher Waku. What Karuna atma Tala hiya Alikum is coming to
		

			America and for Ella Verbena polo become for us back from being naughty. He is one last answer I
says and hold firmly to the rope of Allah subhana wa Tada. All of you hold on to the rope of Allah
and do not be divided amongst yourselves. And remember the favor of Allah upon you. Allah mentions
his Neshama twice. Some of the scholars here mentioned that this is to emphasize that this is only
by the blessing of Allah as Allah subhanaw taala says in another part, if you would spend what is in
the heavens and the earth, not a left Avena colloquium you would not be able to unite their hearts.
This is something that is purely a favor and a miracle of Allah. Remember when you were enemies, and
		

			Allah Subhana Allah United you and you became brothers, us back to be near mercy, He, it Juana once
again, by His blessing, brothers, united as one and SubhanAllah. When you look at the Society of
Medina, you find a people that could not but be united by La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasool Allah,
there is nothing else that would have been powerful enough to help them see past their differences
and to come together. And to not only start to see one another as human beings, but to see one
another as brothers and sisters. It's one of the great desires of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, when he would make dua, night and day for the unity of the Ummah, for the unity of this
		

			community. Because when we are united, we're focused and when we're focused, we're productive, we're
guided, we are living in accordance with the mandate that Allah subhanaw taala has given to us as an
ummah. Now SubhanAllah. Today, I wanted to speak about a very particular elements of this. And it
was really because there have been a lot of articles over the last few weeks that are asking the
question whether or not the country that we're actually in right now is even sustainable with the
amount of political polarization that exists. And the amount of disagreement that exists around us
that eventually, as people are fed, through their algorithm, everything that they want to hear
		

			everything that they want to know about the world, that they no longer see anyone as capable of
having a near difference of opinion on anything, but they see them as enemies that they have to
destroy. And eventually, people hurt each other people hate each other, and then they hurt each
other. And then it becomes an unsustainable situation. And subhanAllah when you look at what the
Prophet sallallahu, alayhi, wasallam dealt with in his community, without social media, without the
algorithms without that polarization, you still always had the potential of that fire to be lit. And
then suddenly, people that have come together starting to see each other in a certain way. Now
		

			Subhanallah in this situation, we're talking about the companions of the messenger sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. And so I wanted to actually focus on just a few benefits from this and how we start to
see each other once again as brothers and sisters past differences of opinion, legitimate
differences of opinion, I'm not talking about film, I'm talking about just differences of opinion on
different things that are around us, and how quickly those things can be magnified. We're talking
about the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And, of course, the first place to
start is Hadith uttered FCAs one it showed the Allahu Taala and he was slandered. And the Prophet
		

			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam stood up on the member and he said, Yeah, Marissa and Muslimeen many
Ardizzone men Rosalyn cut Bella houfy Ali Beatty. Oh my people who's going to help me in regards to
who's going to relieve me from a person that has hurt my family, and you know the purity of my
family you know the purity of your mother it subtlety Allah Tada, Anna, who's going to take care of
him once and for all sides even more of all the Allahu Taala and who gets up and who's narrating
this? Show? The Allahu anha the one who's the subject of the slander, she she's the one watching all
of this unfold. And she says side of morons got up and he said, an hour of hero come in who Yasuda?
		

			Allah O Messenger of Allah. I'll take care of him in Canada minute Oh Stogner Monica, if he's from
an iOS will take care of him. And if he is from our brothers from a husband's if he's from the other
tribe in Canada, and it's windy and cause
		

			A large amount of toner for Anna, if you told us to do away with that person, we would do away with
that person as well for Anna Amarok, whatever you command us to do, we're going to do it on
Messenger of Allah. And she says that Sarah regada got up well, who says we'll have lunch? And he's
from the other sub tribe. Now Subhanallah we don't say hello, squirrel, huzzah. Raj, we say the
unsolved because to us, they're all one. We love the unsolved we praise the unsolved and Allah
refers to them in the Quran as the unsought of the onslaught of the unsolved but those old wounds
were there. And so the old wounds got triggered. This man from an else said, if he's from our people
		

			will take care of them. And if he's from an huzzah Raj from the other tribe, will take care of him
as well. And Sarah didn't know our brothers from Al Hassan. And he stood up and he settled the
Allahu Anhu says, and this is what I want you to pay attention to. She says, What can Roger in Saudi
Ha, this is so beautiful.
		

			Isha is the one who's being slandered. She says, sadly, mineral Baba was a good man. He was a pious
man. He was a pious man. But she said to her, that Wilhemina he was overtaken by the heat of the
moment, and some of the old divisions of jelly of the days of ignorance. Aisha is the one who has
the most to lose in the situation. And she feels like it's important to actually qualify what's
happening here by saying, Look, sad, immortal, bad, makes a mistake here. But by the way, he's a
good man. He's a good man that slipped for a moment and went back to those days of tribalism. And he
responds back and he says, conduct Allah Amarula. He learned talk to who will talk to you or Allah
		

			partly, or you stood up and he said to the other side, he said, if he's from us, you will never
touch him. You will never be able to overcome him. And then she says, we'll save them and for leave
from the first tribe. He got up and he said to Sarah Dibner, bada Kepta Lambro ally, Lana to Lana
Hofer in NACA Munna, fic, 232 and 115.
		

			You have lied, you better believe that if he's from your people, we will take him out, and you're a
hypocrite arguing on behalf of the hypocrites.
		

			And then it all became yelling and screaming back to the old days back to the old wounds, and the
prophets lie some understanding on the member disappointed, standing on the pulpit, disappointed and
Subhanallah in this moment, and these are companions of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, what
ended up happening, it wasn't about the issue anymore. They become they became quickly Team Hosts
and team hazards very quickly, they went back to being team Osen team hazards instead of just being
Muslims, which had been nurtured over that entire time. And who gets away as a result of the
distraction, who's looking at that not disappointed at all and saying, I dodged one, the actual
		

			hypocrite the actual nathnac, the actual person who caused all the problems is sitting there going,
I'm glad they're fighting each other. Because now he gets to walk out of the masjid peacefully,
while great people start to argue with one another again, because they stopped being team on my team
Islam, they stopped being just Muslims. And they went back to being else and has Raj and who stands
to benefit the actual evil party's stand to benefit most from that? Because it becomes a
distraction. It's Pamela, when you talk about political polarization in America, how often more
often than not almost always the same corruption that is present and the Republican Party is present
		

			in the Democratic Party. It's the same group of people that control and pull the strings and they
stand to benefit from poor people all trying to fight each other. Over what over defending their
platforms, defending their parties, and drifting back into that because we are as human beings,
naturally tribal, Muslim, or not Muslim. We can descend very quickly into my team. That's my team.
You're on my team. He's on my team. She's on my team. That's it. And so when anyone from my team
slips, I'm going to overlook it.
		

			But when anyone from the other team stirs something up, let's all gang up on that person. And what
does Allah subhanaw taala say? Remember who you were and remember what you became, you became a
people of la ilaha illAllah Muhammadan rasul Allah, you became a people that stand up and pray at
night you became a people that spent of your wealth for the sake of Allah, you became a people that
were willing to put your lives on the line. Don't go back to that the Prophet sign says don't go
back to being Cathar striking at each other's necks. What's wrong with you don't go back to that.
But we're human.
		

			And the companions are the best human beings after the prophets of Allah. They didn't go further
than what that happened, but sometimes it gives us a good
		

			In fact Subhanallah the best two people of this ummah, Abu Bakr and Omar, may Allah be pleased with
them. The best two men after the Prophet slice Allah, I was just reading about the disagreement that
they had because guess what they disagreed sometimes the CHE Han of this ummah, the two shakes of
this ummah, they disagreed sometimes. And in this one particular disagreement, it was actually some
of the context of certain hoods riots where they started to raise their voices in the presence of
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. almoradi Allahu Anhu expressed an opinion different from
Abu Bakr Siddiq while the Allahu Anhu. Now these two men love each other, they love each other. But
		

			what a double back up on the Hello, I'm Jose, he said Matt Arata, Ilahi laughy you only expressed a
different opinion because you want it to differ with me.
		

			I will work it and Omar. But there was hurt sometimes. You only said that you only suggested
something else because you want it to be different from me. And that's when they started to argue.
		

			Now, of course, this is Abu Bakr and Omar and not only did they reconcile in the moment and not go
too far with this, they took Islam far and wide in ways that we're still benefiting today. Always,
always Subhan Allah because they put Allah first and they put the messenger of allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam first. After those moments, they were able to come back and get back to Allah
rasool Allah every single time because they had bigger goals. And sometimes we have to be reminded
of what that bigger goal actually is, and how we actually come back to something that is
		

			uniting. That is more important to us than anything else. The brothers and sisters Subhanallah there
are legitimate disagreements and there are disagreements that are far out of the realm of what is
legitimate. But when you see a person next to you who says Lila Allah, Muhammad Rasul Allah, your
brother, your sister, who says La ilaha illAllah Muhammadan rasul Allah,
		

			you have to always keep that perspective ahead of you. You have to be able to put that ahead of you
over and over and over again.
		

			And not let things that are secondary to to hate and everything is secondary to to hate. Everything
is secondary tonight, Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, become a source of this type of disagreement. It's
human nature. But it is prophetic call. It's the call of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that
always get back to who you are and what you are supposed to be. We're human beings. And sometimes,
sometimes we're going to disagree now Subhanallah right now I'm talking about politics. And, you
know, the political polarization. Some of you probably don't care about politics at all. You're
like, I never fight anyone over any politics. I just don't care. I don't read the news. I don't get
		

			involved. But it's just one example of what leads to a lot of heated discussions and you'll see a
lot of people arguing on two sides of the political aisle. And it says if there were Latin Bara is
to a political party or to a political figure rather than to Allah and His Messenger, sallallahu
alayhi salam willing to cut off ties to insult and cut off ties and Mark people who say Lai Allah,
Allah, Muhammad Rasul Allah, who you hope to see in Jana next to you.
		

			But here you are. You cut it off, you know, subhanAllah there was a brother who once said something
very profound. He said, You know, when I signed up for the shahada card when I said lie Allah Allah,
Muhammad Rasul Allah, there wasn't a tick box that said Democrat or Republican, liberal
conservative, I didn't have these tickbox you know, I had to sign Salafi Sufi I had to go wanting to
use a series like I didn't know when I said Lila Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, I'm gonna have all
these tick boxes here in front of me. What happened to Lila Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, the very,
the very basic of habla Allah, the rope of Allah subhanho wa taala. And it's important for us to say
		

			that despite all of this, we do have red lines. We have red lines in our differences of opinion, we
have red lines, and our disagreements are key those are red line.
		

			Our P that is a red line. Our Aqsa is a red line. Definitely, the blood of our brothers and sisters
is a red line. You know, you can have differences of opinion on very real things. But like if it
gets to the point where you are now insulting Allah Subhana Allah clearly going against Alana
messenger slice Allah, clearly going against your brothers and sisters actually putting those
things, these are red lines. But their brothers and sisters, there's a lot in between those red
lines, we're just as human beings, sometimes we're going to have these disagreements, we're going to
have discussions and you have to still see your brother and your sister as your brother and sister
		

			and not succumb to
		

			the dominant way of discourse, where people just quickly hate each other and people quickly cut each
other off. You have to remind yourself and I have to remind myself we're all on the same team. We're
all on the team of Lila Mohammed and we're all on the same team. And we have to see each other
		

			There insha Allah to Allah as tawassul been happier to our sub sub in joining one another in good in
truth and enjoying one another in patience trying to bring people to that rope of Allah Subhana
Allah to Allah and have them go through and the rope of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah is the Quran as
a scholar say, Well howdy Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the guidance of our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has many of the scholars edited the book of Allah and the guidance of
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and we want to have as many people as possible hanging on
to that. And one of the promises that we are seeking to make to people is that if they prioritize
		

			Allah and the messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, then it sorts out the worldviews it sorts out
the differences. It doesn't stop making us human. It doesn't stop making us differ all together, but
it does unite us around a purpose that is greater and that cannot be exploited by corrupt people and
evil people.
		

			And so you stop seeing your brothers and sisters as teams, you stopped seeing that a you know,
anytime. And it can be something as small as your Whatsapp group, it can be something as big as
whatever it is on social media. Anytime this person says something, I don't care if it's good, I'm
going to disagree because that person is not on my team. And anytime someone on my team says
something, I'm going to support it. This is exactly the Janelia the prophets lie some condemned on
sort of a haka volume and one of Rome support your brother, whether he's oppressed or whether he's
an oppressor. How do we support the oppressor, stop him from oppressing, he's still your brother,
		

			you're still on the same team, stop him from oppressing, but your goal, your goal is to have as many
people holding on to this rope as possible. Some of the people you know, some of the scholars
mentioned that sometimes Subhanallah when you do the opposite of nasiha. When you start to offend
someone and you start to come really aggressive at someone, you might make their opinion worse than
it already is.
		

			Someone's still within the red line. And then because you're lobbing shots at them, and you're
fighting each other and yelling at each other and calling each other each other names, that person
might say something that's going to take them out, just because they're mad at you and just because
of the heat of the argument. Shot at all we Rahim Allah said something beautiful about the rope of
Allah subhanaw taala he said, if you're trying to kick someone off the rope of Allah, it's like you
got your brother or sister hanging on by a thread and you're trying to stomp them off of the rope of
Allah Subhana Allah and kick them into hellfire. What's the difference between you and the shaitan
		

			trying to get as many people kicked off as possible into hellfire as possible. That's not who we
are. It's not who we are. Our condition of light illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah keeps us united as
brothers and sisters. And sometimes when we say something to each other, we take it back. We
apologize, we come back to each other and we try as much as possible to make room on the rope and
I'll see how to build people up to say, let's get as many people as possible holding on to this rope
of Allah subhanaw taala and protected bit in the nighttime, and not let our egos take us away from
our prophetic way. The way of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Tada sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam Allah has to do, while at about one or two just as to whether to hustle. While our teenagers
who work who know about Allah Juana so beautiful Hadith in Sahih, Muslim, he said, sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam don't envy one another, don't hate one another. Do not spy on one another. Don't go
fishing around on one another. And do not become people that raise prices on one another and try to
exploit one another. But instead be able to Allah, Atlanta, the servants of Allah and brothers and
sisters on that condition that we're all there about of Allah. And with this idea in the scene of
the controller, the controller is an interesting place, if you read about the Day of Judgment. You
		

			know, we often talk about the marathon. And indeed there are some people at the scale on the Day of
Judgment, who will have their good deeds taken away because of their Tunc. In fact, that's what the
profit slice and I mentioned is the majority of people going bankrupt on the Day of Judgment.
		

			That running Tunc was running fingers, they offended they hurt, they abused, they backbiting
whatever it may be. Then you have those people that make it to this controller. The controller the
profit slice that I'm set is the bridge right before gentlemen. Right before agenda. It's the
brothers and sisters that made it you're going to Jana with the night it may Allah make us from the
people of Jamaica, people that said, people that said and that acted in righteous ways in ways that
were satisfactory enough for them to be on this bridge right about to get into Jana.
		

			Then some of them have hard feelings towards one another.
		

			Some of them have some hard feelings and Allah is not going to let you into Jana. With those hard
feelings Subhanallah in this situation, it's not even an obvious transgression. The way that the
transgressions happen in are dealt with in the grave and at the scale and things of that sort. It's
the brothers and the sisters that used to always go at it. It's the brothers and the sisters that
tried to avoid each other in the masala and now you're looking over and you see that person next to
you on the Contura
		

			and imagine getting
		

			held up from Jana.
		

			Because you need to work this out between yourselves.
		

			How silly would we feel? How silly would we feel? I can see Jana over there and I want to get in
there. But I need to work this out.
		

			May Allah subhanaw taala remove from our hearts removed from our hearts those grudges and that
malice May Allah Subhana Allah protect us from it may Allah azza wa jal allow us to enter into
Jannah as brothers and sisters around their prophet slice I'm gonna for those that are that llama I
mean Akula Kalia there was stuff that I do recommend certain Muslim infrastructural in a hula for
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