Saad Tasleem – Celebrating while Gaza is in Pain
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The upcoming celebration of the Goddamn Day is focused on celebrating the worship of Allah and the return of the Book of Allah. The speakers stress the importance of celebrating the datch and the return of the Book of Allah to strengthen the people of the United States. They also emphasize the need to be joyful and celebrating the worship of Allah, and to support one another and strengthen their umighteen. The speakers stress the importance of accepting differences in worship and emphasize the need to support one another.
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My dear brothers and sisters,
we have just spent a whole month
with divine revelation.
We have spent a whole month with the
book of
Allahu
which Allahu
described for us as a mercy, as a
reminder, as a cure for the problems that
lie in our hearts.
O humanity,
an instructive warning has come to you from
your Lord.
And a cure to any ailment, any sickness,
any sadness that is found in our hearts.
And a guidance and a mercy for
the believers. My brothers and sisters,
in the very next verse, here Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala describes the Quran for us in
the very next verse. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says,
says,
say, by the bounty of Allah
and the mercy of Allah
in the bounty and mercy of Allah
That they should celebrate,
they should rejoice
in that.
That is better than anything that you collect
or that you amass. So my brothers and
sisters, here is a command from Allah
that we should rejoice,
that we should be happy. But happy in
what? Happy in the guidance from Allahu, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Happy
in the cure for our problems, the cure
for our ailments. The book of Allahu, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. My brothers and
sisters, we celebrate,
we are happy.
But for what? For the dunya? For what
we have collected? Because Allah says,
that this reminder that has come to you,
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahuahuaihi wasallam is
better than anything
that you could gather or amass or collect
in this life.
That
is what we are celebrating
today. We are not celebrating the dunya. We
are not celebrating our worldly possessions. We're not
celebrating our clothes or our cars or our
houses. We are celebrating
a month filled with guidance from Allahu
We are celebrating
the Ibadah, the worship. We are celebrating
our ruku and our sudood and our dua.
That is why this day is very, very
special. In the whole year,
there is only one more day that is
as special as this day. We have today,
Eid al Fitr, and the only other day
that we celebrate the worship of Allah who
subhanahu wa ta'ala is Eid al Abha. There
are no third days like this, a day
on which we are rewarded for celebrating
by Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Celebration
and joy
is worship today, my brothers and sisters, and
this is not found
in anything else. If we try to celebrate
the dunya, Allah
says,
Do not be prideful and joyous.
Allah does not like those who are prideful
and joyous in terms of their dunya, in
terms of their worldly possessions, in terms of
their worldly things. Allah says do not be
prideful,
do not be joyful in that. But when
it comes to celebrating
the month of Ibadah, when it comes to
celebrating the worship of Allah
Allah instructs us, commands us to worship Allah.
Allah who,
tells us
about this month that we have just gone
through.
Quran, the the month
of the Quran, the month of Ramadan in
which the Quran was revealed. The end of
this verse my brothers and sisters, Allahu Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says, wali took milu lu i'dda.
Why? What is this month for? So that
you may finish this month, complete this month,
complete the prescribed period by Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
So that you may glorify,
exalt Allahu Subhara Wa Ta'ala
for the guidance that Allah has given to
you.
Perhaps
you will be grateful.
So the worship today is our celebration,
and our celebration
is worship. That is why this day is
so very, very special. You know, we celebrate
a lot of things during the year. We
have a lot of things that we get
happy for. But today is the day that
we get happy for Ibadah. We get happy
for the worship of Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I know, I know my brothers and
sisters,
that you may be finding it difficult today
to be joyous and to be happy and
to celebrate
because of the genocide that we are watching
with our very own eyes
unfold to with our brothers and sisters in
Gaza and Palestine. And as we are watching
what is happening with our brothers in Sudan,
as we are watching what is happening with
our brothers and sisters in Yemen, as we
are watching and seeing what is happening with
our Uighur brothers and sisters in China, and
so on and so forth, you may be
feeling
like it is difficult
to be joyous today,
but I want to remind you
that we are not joyous once again for
the dunya.
We are joyous today
for the guidance of Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
For our iman,
because the biggest blessing that we have in
our lives is not our wealth, is not
our children, is not our possessions,
it is our deen. It is guidance from
Allah
That is what we are celebrating. We are
celebrating
the honor that Allah gives by guiding us.
We are celebrating the fact that Allah
has guaranteed victory for those who are believers.
Allah
says,
Do not
become weak.
Do not become grieved.
You will be victorious. You will have the
upper hand, but there's a caveat.
There's a condition.
That condition is
as long as you are believers.
And that is what our brothers and sisters
in Gaza and Palestine are teaching us today.
We find that they are celebrating
not for their dunya because their dunya has
been taken away from them. Their families have
been taken away from them. Their houses, their
living areas, their children have been taken away
from them. What are they celebrating?
They are celebrating
the strength of their iman. They know that
even if the world has abandoned them, that
Allah
is with them. They are keep they keep
saying,
Allah is sufficient for us.
That the believers when they are tested and
tried, they only get closer to Allah. That
it is through tests and trials that our
status as raised. Allah,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, told us that
the most beloved people by Allah are tested
the most severely.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, he said it
is the prophets
who are tested the most severely,
then the most like them and the most
like them, meaning being tested and tried, makes
us closer to the prophets of Allah
If Allah loves a people, He tries them.
And so that, my brothers and sisters, are
what is what we are celebrating today.
As it was a sunnah of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, I would just like
to take a minute or 2
to address my my sisters in Islam.
My dear sisters,
as Allah
tests us and tries us, and as we
hold on to our iman,
likewise, my sisters, Allah will
test you and try you.
But Allah who
has honored you my dear sister in Islam.
You know, we hear
of the wife of Imran mentioned in the
Quran,
and that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us
that she had vowed that her child in
her womb
would worship Allah.
And so when she made this vow,
she assumed that Allah will grant her a
boy, a male child.
But when she gave birth,
she gave birth to a female. Allahu
tells us,
When she gave birth, she said, my lord,
I have given birth to a female.
Meaning what?
Meaning, even though her expectation was a male,
Allahu, subhanahu wa ta'ala, gave her a female.
Now, did she say why?
Did she say, no, I wish I had
a male? No. She said,
or in one recitation,
that Allah is most aware
of what I have given birth to, meaning
this happened by the divine decree of Allah
There
is wisdom in Allah that my child was
not born a male, my child was born
a female.
And then Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reminds us
that a male is not like a female.
What is the message here? The message here
is that Allah
my dear sister has made you a female,
and the female
has a has an honour
and a way of worshipping Allahu
that men do not.
This is why we find who was this
daughter that was born to the wife of
Imran, it was none other than Mariam alaihis
salam. She
says, I have named her Madhyam. And today,
Madhyam alaihis salam
stands as an example
for all women across the world, even non
muslim recognize
Mariam alaihis salam.
My dear sisters, yes, your challenges may be
different and yes, women and men have a
lot in common, but we are not the
same. We are equal with Allahu
but we are not the same. We have
many differences, and you will find people telling
you that differences make you bad.
But our deen teaches us that Allah has
made us different so that we may strengthen
one another.
That is why Allah has made us different.
The way you, my sister, can worship Allah,
and submit to Allah, and sacrifice for Allah
is different than the way I can submit
and sacrifice to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But
it is only when we come together.
It is only when we uplift one another,
when the men uplift the women and the
women uplift the men that our ummah becomes
strong.
Who is persevering
in Gaza?
Is it just the men,
or is it our dear sisters who are
holding the fort? Our sisters and our brothers
working together, Allahu, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, says,
that the believing men and the believing women,
they are allies and protectors of one another.
That is the strength of our ummah, my
dear sisters, and this message is from our
brothers as well. That as we look at
our ummah
being divided, we have to stand together. We
have to be there to support one another
and our differences is what makes us great.
I ask Allah
to accept our worship in the month of
Ramadan. I ask Allah
to make it an
Ramadan through which we're granted paradise. I ask
Allah
to relieve our brothers and sisters
all over the world of any distress and
any difficulty that they are going through. I
ask Allah to accept their dead amongst the
shuhada, amongst the martyrs. Ask Allah
to free the land of Palestine.