Sadullah Khan – Jumuah 02 Ramdaan 1439
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Oh the bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim
Al Hamdulillah
Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Heba Ali
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shaytani R Rajim shahada Ramadan and Liddy unzila fie Hill Quran.
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Allah, Allah, you allow them in the name of Allah, most Gracious,
most Merciful. All praise is due to our Creator, our cherisher our
nourish and our Sustainer we bear witness, there's none worthy of
worship but Allah. We bear witness we believe in all the prophets of
Allah. And we bear witness Prophet Muhammad Abdullah Abdullah
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa he was hired, he was seldom is the
final of all the emissaries of Allah.
Elders, brothers and sisters, we have guests from Lebanon here as
well. And all those who are from out of town who are visiting on
this auspicious day of Juma this first Friday of the holy month of
Ramadan.
I say to you with Islamic universal greeting of peace, may
the peace, the mercy and the blessings of Allah be upon each
and every one as Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
we are once again privileged and honored to witness the month of
Ramadan.
And those of us who are able to fast as the Quran says, from an
Shahida will come with shahada for those who witnessed the month who
are able to fast should fast in this particular month.
But this month is not only about fasting, as central and as
significant as fasting is to this holy month.
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Hadith documented by an
Desai. He said that that come Ramadan, Sharon Barak, furred
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Rasul Allah Allah says it makes reference and reiterates what the
Quran says about this being a blessed month, a month of fasting.
And then he explains about the significance of this month
fee relative and Fisher. It contains a night greater in value
than 1000 months and this picture
As for us trying to understand an indication of the magnitude of the
month that one of his grand knights, the Knights of the
commencement of the revelation of the Quran, will cover the one
night is greater in value than an entire lifetime.
To Muslims. Fasting is a mode of enhancing self discipline, and
opportunity for regulating attitude and conduct for
developing a better self, a self that focuses on the larger purpose
of our existence as human beings on this earth. It is indeed an
opportunity for spiritual rejuvenation.
Increase.
Importantly, who is in Taqwa are pursuing the road and the pathway
towards piety?
From an ethical and moral perspective, the activities of
Ramadan that we engage in should make us contemplate the higher
purpose of our lives, the deeper meaning
of our existence, motivating us to live a life that is meaningful,
balancing our physicality with our spirituality, and therefore,
fasting and in the month of Ramadan is the ideal arena, the
ideal place, the ideal opportunity for contemplation and for
spiritual development.
The very name Ramadan, the very nature of Ramadan, promotes a
heightened level of consciousness.
And we remind ourselves that we say, we are, we are pursuing the
path of spirituality and spirituality for us as both an
external as well as an internal dimension. Of course, internally,
when we speak about spirituality, it refers to the purification of
the self, from the evils of bad intention, from the evils of
deceit, of hypocrisy, of selfishness, of cowardice, of
elegance of prejudice, and outwardly, that spirituality
becomes manifested in our positive attitude in our good behavior,
reflected through a noble character inshallah.
But as Ramadan unfolds,
it behoves each and every person who is fasting, who is witnessing
this month of Ramadan, each one should open a page from the book
of Maha Sabha, from the book of critical self evaluation. We are
so used to being critical of everything else. But Maha Sabha
has he will come learn to hire Cebu critical self evaluation
and to reflect on what is actually being achieved through this month
of Ramadan, what actually is being achieved. We have fasted before
and inshallah we may or may not be alive too fast the next month of
Ramadan. But we have fasted before. ask ourself as we go
through this month, through another month of fasting, another
year of Ramadan, we ask,
What benefits are being derived as this month unfolds?
Which behaviors are being adjusted?
What good practices are being adopted? Which bad habits are
being relinquished? Or lift left out? How does my prayer in my
fasting of Ramadan influenced my attitude and my perspective on
things? How does it improve the relationship with my family, my
friends, my neighbors, how much help increase consciousness in me
have responsibility towards the poor, the needy and the destitute?
How Islam about impacting upon my body, my mind and my spirit?
Why fasting of course,
we are far more aware of the hunger of the poor and the
suffering of the oppressed. And as always like to remind us Do not
forget, the primary purpose of fasting is not to feel the hunger
of the poor, because the poor also fast. In fact, some of them fast
almost all the time. But at least it makes us conscious of being
denied food or abstaining from food in some way. And the culture
of Ramadan therefore, promotes a culture of what we call a spirit
of Ubuntu if I if I made a culture of humanity to others, about the
axon in a way, it's about consciously caring and sharing,
about being compassionate about deepening our understanding of our
society and the world around us, while simultaneously empathizing
with the challenges faced by those
Some who are living around us, it is about implementing the golden
rule of loving for others, what we love for ourselves.
This makes us reflect on the current situation. And I want to
ponder for a moment on two recent events.
One, the recent attack on a mosque in South Africa and the second
one, the ongoing tragedy in Palestine. As for the first one,
the mosque attack in Berlin. Whatever the details may be, there
is an evident rising tide of fanaticism, extremism, and the
preponderance of violence in the name of Islam.
There's an increasing interfaith tolerance in some circles, which
is indefensible in relation to our concept of Vasa Thea of moderation
and non extremism.
As Muslims, we must acknowledge the reality
that differences the
differences they have been and differences they will continue to
be.
But the positive attitude that a Muslim should have towards another
Muslim
is encapsulated perhaps in the deletion of Rasul Allah Allah wa
salam, in a hadith documented in the Muslim of Imam Muhammad the
humble way the Rasul Allah Allah wa sallam said, I will must remove
all Muslim women who was who was who attack Taqwa Allah, while
you're Shirou Illa surgery. Tell us, Mara,
trust reasonability, brought
up another bill, he neither oppresses him, nor humiliates him,
no one was down upon him. And then he said, piety is here. And he
pointed to his heart.
Behind me, marine minister, a young, a young, Muslim, Muslim,
among them, who were ma who
went on to say, All things of a Muslim are inviolable, you cannot
violate it in relation to another Muslim, his blood, his wealth, and
his honor. In other words, his life, his honor, and his property.
We should recognize the fact
and the
community, then it gets spread
towards others. How would other people take our community
seriously, when we must understand components of our own community,
and then sometimes deliberately misrepresent ourselves?
We should recognize that in submitting to Allah, building a
wholesome harmonious community is one of our primary objectives as a
community of faith.
We should can confirm the importance of promoting a culture
of dialogue within our faith community, you should affirm the
importance of listening to differing perspectives so that you
can value Islamic plurality as a factor that enriches our
communities, but not deeds that will destroy our community. It is
in the greater interest of the Almighty Raj, specifically at this
most crucial, vulnerable and perilous stage of our history, to
foster and promote conciliation rather than agitation, calmness,
rather than incitement friendship rather than hostility. Let's focus
on that which unites us and minimize our harping on that which
divides us and ensure that if there are negativity, we
neutralize it to the best of our ability.
That is purge ourselves as Muslims even in our families amongst
ourselves
from grudges, purge ourselves from the grudges of suspicion, and in
making rank and hatred. It is his oath to promote conciliation
rather than education, calmness, rather than incitement trust,
rather than suspicion, pursuing his law, rather than the love and
Kyla, let us focus on the preponderance of that which unites
us, rather than nitpicking on the things that divide us.
And secondly, more important point.
Look at the global arena. Look at the situation of our brothers and
sisters in Gaza.
As Palestinians mark the Nicobar or the catastrophe, commemorating
way more than 700,000 Palestinians were forced and expelled from
occupied Palestine in 1948.
In that week, where people are protesting that Nakba, recalling
that catastrophe.
The US opens an Embassy in Jerusalem.
And in the past week alone, people protesting more than 60
Palestinians have been killed.
and over 3000 have been injured.
The indiscriminate killing and rampant brutality meted out to
innocent civilians in Palestine by the barbaric, bloodthirsty forces
of a racist Israeli regime goes unchecked by many world
governments, and spineless Musqueam governments themselves
are not impotently helpless, but a cowardly, silent, many of them
are, with the exception of a very, very few.
Have you all forgotten that both in western Islamic Western and
Islamic law in Roman law and in Islamic law, a so called Allah to
riba silence questions,
is equal to acquiescence.
It seems that our present versions of democracy for the Middle East
could be defined not as governments of the people for the
people, but rather governments, not necessarily elected by the
people who serve the interests of his right in the West, in spite of
the interest of the people,
are these acts which we are witnessing on a daily basis, that
of civilized people, in a civilized world in a modern era?
Such kinds of democracy is an insult to our collective
intelligence. How angry are people of conscience all over the world,
mostly men otherwise, by the arrogance of the Zionist occupiers
how disgusted by the Unashamed bias of much of the Western world
towards Israel, how disappointed at the impotence of Arab rulers
and many Muslim rulers, how dejected at the inability of the
Ummah to rise beyond petty differences and work for the
Commonwealth, of the global community of faith. Look at what
we are busy with, and look at how they are busy with us. Look at
what we have as you look at our faith our look at our what we are
preoccupied with in our faith, and see what the world is doing to us,
while the person with us while we are doing can shop for up beyond
the winter, and the winter will be too and while we busy on that
issue with your busy for the past several 100 years. Look at what
they do to us. It is the height of stupidity, the height of
blindness, not to be aware of this to prioritize the breaking of a
window in the masjid while somebody's broke going down the
mosque and you arguing who broke the window. That's what we are
busy with who broke the window while someone is bombing the
mosque, we want to look at who broke the window which student was
it? We are busy with this kind of things were being destroyed and
isolated, taken for a ride. In the meantime, we are busy with
insignificantly bytes
and not new ones, my own ones that have been resolved already.
So
while so many of the righteous amongst us or the self righteous
amongst us are concerned about the Akita of one another, when
designers bomb us, they don't bomb a particular group of us, they
bombed us with the she, the Sufi, the Salafi, the Hanafi, the
Madhavi.
The they bomb all of us, we are busy fighting among ourselves,
building massages and massages and fighting and so on. Mashallah, in
the meantime, they burn all of us.
As we hope for peace, and as we realize there can be no real peace
in the absence of justice. We pray that Almighty Allah subhanaw taala
guides the hearts of influencing people of conscious people of
conscience and people of conviction. people of conscience
and people have conviction all over the world, whether they be
Jew Christian, whether Muslim to work for the welfare of humanity,
and the goodwill of all of Allah's creation.
We are in the month of Ramadan.
We can't come out of Ramadan, the same way we went into Ramadan.
Otherwise, it may be a Ramadan wasted.
I always remind ourselves those who first are referred to in the
Quran in surah Tauba as a sai hone those who are on a spiritual
journey at Hebrew in the lobby doing the army do your own rock
your own. You don't
even know who you are and you leak or what while haffi doolally do
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those who returned
who commit themselves to Allah to the commands of the Divine who
gratefully praise the Creator. Though Allah thankful to those
fasting ones who are on a spiritual journey, who humbly bow
and sincerely prostrate before Allah, who command what is
universally accepted as good and who forbid that which is wrong.
on all the while maintaining the boundaries set by Allah, for such
people, Allah says, By Shil, meaning, give them the glad
tidings as people of faith.
If you are indeed spiritual wayfarers, if you are indeed on
the journey, on the transcendent journey, towards the attainment of
taqwa, the pinnacle of human development in a chronicle, and
Allah had gotten the height, and none of us know of course, when
we've attained them, only Allah knows. Only Allah knows that. But
as we go on the transcendent journey towards the attainment of
Taqwa in sha Allah, we must scrutinize
Re is this journey currently taking me I'm in the second day of
fasting and next week will ask and the week thereafter and then eight
will come.
Are we becoming better human beings, more considerate, more
caring, more compassionate?
Come in saw him how the human crme in laju Ouch. Rasul said Hadith.
There are so many who fast and they achieve absolutely nothing by
the fast except hunger and thirst. May Allah save us from being of
those? Are we becoming better human beings that are human
beings?
more considerate.
You see many people that make more happen this year, very good. You
will make more atoms on the better, but doesn't mean you
become better human being.
If only a quiet baraka and you work for yourself, it doesn't make
you better.
Are we becoming better human beings? more considerate, more
caring, more compassionate? And before you answer yes, think
yourself way. If I give you a page, if you give me a page, can I
see where?
For myself? Are we becoming better human beings more considerate,
more caring, more compassionate? Are we journey from self
centeredness? Worry about ourselves to social consciousness?
Are we moving moving from self righteousness to righteousness?
Where do we start in our journey? And how far do we intend to go?
I conclude by reminding us that fasting is indeed an exercise in
the pursuit of divine blessings of divine approval, and attempted
manifesting the best of ethical values and moral practices a month
of high intensity spiritual development of character building,
and of the pursuit of that Taqwa. In chromic. Manga liath Kocoum. We
asked Allah subhanho wa taala. To grant that we have in our hearts
in our minds.
A commitment to the truth,
a desire for justice, a sincere attempt to reform ourselves,
because each one of us
requires repentance and guidance. Good looking at the Michael Powell
good looking at them upon all human beings.
They commit error in this and hydrocotyle iannetta baboon, and
the best of those who repent. And the best of those who serve are
those who repent. And part of repentance is to regret the wrong
we do to analyze what needs to be done and to do what is best. A
call kolyada was tougher Allah wa salam aleikum wa rahmatullah