Sadullah Khan – Jumuah 17 November 2023 2 Jumada AlAwwal 1445
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In the name of Allah most gracious, most
merciful.
All praise is due to our creator, our
cherisher,
our nourisher and our sustainer.
We bear witness, there's none worthy of worship
but Allah.
We bear witness, we believe in all the
prophets.
And we bear witness that Prophet Muhammad ibn
Abdullah
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salaam
is the final of all the emissaries of
Allah. Prophet
al Ulamah,
hufal,
elders, educators,
learners, brothers and sisters,
beloved mothers,
respected youth,
at this auspicious hour of Jum'ah, I greet
you with the Islamic universal greeting of peace.
May the peace, the mercy and the blessings
of Allah be upon each and every one.
As we are talking,
Zionist forces are besieging the Idnessina hospital
in Jenin in the West Bank.
Having forced doctors and nurses
into the emergency department
and
storming the hospital.
They have been able to attack hospitals in
Gaza
for the past few
weeks with impunity
and without anyone
stopping them.
Among those who cared on the ground, and
of course our duas are always there,
our voices of concern
are expressed.
But among those who cared and who were
on the ground
and wanted to make a practical difference in
Gaza itself,
A person responsible for implementing
several South African
emergency
relief projects in Palestine, in Gaza in particular,
attained shahada yesterday morning. His name was Doctor.
Ahmed Abbasi,
head of the gift of the givers,
the operations in Gaza.
He was asked by the people to leave
Gaza,
but he says no. Due to the responsibility
of ensuring that the little aid that people
are getting,
the aid continues
to reach those in dire need.
And despite the insistence of his colleagues,
he stayed on
and he was deliberately targeted as he came
from a damaged mosque.
Him and his brother were shot after Fajr
on the way from Salah, home.
As we stand here, as of this morning's
figures, and Allah knows best,
11,000
families
but displaced.
223
homes
have been destroyed.
42,000
units completely eradicated.
255
schools
severely damaged or destroyed.
95 government buildings,
74 mosques
and 3 churches
and numerous other
facilities.
The facts are indisputable my brothers and sisters.
Palestinians living in apartheid
colonial settler state.
One that has dispossessed them of the land
for over
50 years,
60, 70 years,
has forced them to live in
dehumanizing
conditions
that are worse than an open air prison.
And they are also period periodically bombed besides
what's happening right now.
Persecuted for their religion
and for their affiliation,
devastated economically,
refused even the basics of water and electricity,
trying to break them psychologically,
terrorize them,
periodically massacre them, and of course full scale
right now.
And
the Israeli army leaders speak of mowing the
grass.
You see,
it's now 6 weeks.
We now have statistics and cliches.
So many were killed.
So many were destroyed.
So many were displaced.
And we repeat slogans,
stop the genocide,
cease fire now,
and the most despicable and ridiculous one,
humanitarian pause. You know what humanitarian pause means?
Stop for a while. It's like a person
bullying somebody else, telling the bully just hold
on for a while. I just want to
put a bandage on before you eat him
further.
Humanitarian
pause. What an
inhuman name to give to a humanitarian pause.
Humanitarian pause means those who have been given
their green light to bomb and to attack,
I ask kindly, gently ask, please, man, just
don't fight now till we put the bandage
on and then you continue. And the world
is silent.
Gaza is crying.
Who is there to ease the sorrow?
If Gaza is under attack,
who is there to fight back?
Gaza is being destroyed,
who is there to defend?
We remember and we have repeated this before
and Allah will ask us and Allah ask
them a question in the Quran.
He ask a question in the Quran, a
perpetual question.
What excuse do you have not to stand
up for these people?
Oppressed people,
men, women and children.
Oppressed people. Allah is asking. He's not saying
fight, don't fight. He's asking our conscience.
He's asking, are you human beings?
I'm asking you, Allah says, wamalaikum.
What is your excuse?
It's
not even an injunction do it. It is
so obvious that you're supposed to do it
that Allah asked, what is your excuse for
not doing it?
You'll say,
perform
give zakar. He's not saying something like that.
Help. He's not asking. He's not saying that.
He's asking, evoking our moral conscience
if we have any.
What excuse do you have not to stand
up for these people?
Oppressed people, irrespective of their faith, they happen
to be Muslim and Christian in this case.
But doesn't matter who it is.
Men, women and children who are oppressed whose
cry is O Allah, save us from this
place whose people are oppressors.
Despite the world's betrayal
of the Palestinian people,
we are witnessing
undoubtedly and unparalleled
resilience
in the face of the most atrocious hostilities
witnessed in this century.
And we ask ourselves how could we ever
fulfill
the role of spearheading?
The Muslims supposed to be spearheading
for all humanity.
And Mu'min is one in whom humanity at
large finds safety and security regarding their life,
their honor and their property. Forget the Muslims.
Humanity at large.
How could we fulfill that role of spearheading
the efforts of the common welfare of humanity
when we are not committed or prepared
to be of aid for those who are
most vulnerable
and brutalized
among our own.
It is so unbecoming of a person of
faith
not to stand up against injustice and oppression.
And therefore the Rasul warned in a hadith
documented
in
the Muslim When people witness an oppressor committing
oppression and you don't stop him, Allah will
punish the oppressor and he'll punish those who
allow the oppression to take place.
Also remember,
all it takes for evil to triumph
is for good people to be neutral.
And the Rasul warned.
Do as you please. You are free to
do what you want, but remember
as you do or as you allowed to
be done, so will it be done to
you. When they come for us sometime,
there'll be nobody left.
Because Gaza is one thing in Palestine, we
all
rise above petty differences, most of us at
least.
And we haven't done anything. You think if
we come for South Africa or for Bosnia
again or something like that, we will do
something?
South African foreign minister Naledi Pando
rightly called out the glaring double standards
by comparing the international criminal court and their
silence
in responding to this
open genocide
in comparison to their immediate response to the
Russian Ukraine conflict
where the ICC
issued
an immediate condemnation.
Up till now the ICC hasn't condemned.
Adel Khadr,
UNICEF regional director of the Middle East and
North Africa.
She says and I quote, the killing and
maiming of children,
attacks on hospital and schools,
and the denial of human access to basic
necessities
constitute grave violation of people's rights and particularly
children's rights.
The situation in Gaza
is growing, is a growing stain.
The situation in the Gaza Strip is a
growing
stain on our collective conscience.
It makes us
wonder. Every one of us should reflect
about the civility of the so called civilized
world.
Imam al Qurtubi in Istafsir al Jamia Al
Hakam al Quran
writes in reference to a particular verse
in Surat Taqeel
pertaining to an incident where a companion came
to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
And he said that before he embraced Islam
years ago,
it was the custom to bury the daughters
alive
or to kill the daughter in some way.
By the way, note,
they justified the burying of the daughter
because she was of no economic value in
their minds,
lacked of physical strength, couldn't do hard work,
could bring disgrace to the family if she
deviates from behavior. They are inferior to males
anyway, so they were less human and therefore
disposable.
How many parallels are that between that and
the Palestinians today? They are disposable.
Something inside these brave generous people
was wrong. These Arabs were known to be
brave. They were known to be generous. How
come despite the generosity,
and the nobility, and the bravery,
they still had this cowardice to be able
to bury their own daughters. Not other people's
daughters, their own daughters alive. And we need
to reflect upon this. And this is the
issue that should evoke our conscience individually.
So he came to the Rasul as companion.
RadiAllahu ani said, You Rasulullah, I I feel
bitter. I feel sad.
Though I know I did something in the
past and Allah forgives me from my past
because I wasn't guided at that time. I
did what people did, but I had a
daughter and she,
I was supposed to bury her. Then when
I took her to bury, I I felt
hurt.
Then I hid it for a while, then
I said okay, I'll do it some other
time. Then my wife would dress her nicely
and then I would want to, and I
said, no. And eventually I said, no. I'm
gonna do it. I cannot bury her, but
I'll throw her down the well.
And he said, I did it very
it was very hard upon me, but it
was the custom.
It was the norm.
So eventually I threw her down and I
remember her calling to me.
And as she fell, I could hear her
cry until I could hear her voice no
more.
And he looked at the prophet and the
prophet was
crying. Tears were running down his cheeks.
And the Rasulullah, muhammad, wa sallam said to
him,
I swear by Allah.
Whatever's in the past is in the past,
and you have changed. But if I were
to punish someone for something they did in
the past in jai liyah, I would have
punished you for this. In other words, it's
such a heinous crime
that you buried your own daughter alive. Not
that you killed an innocent person which is
bad in itself, which in the quranic tradition
and in the judaic tradition, if you kill
one single soul without justification,
the justification
is It's in the Jewish tradition and in
Islamic tradition. In fact Allah mentions in the
Quran,
We prescribed for the Bani Israel and Allah
repeats that prescription in the Quran and we've
spoken about this the last time. Whoever takes
a single life in the estimation of Allah,
it is as if you have killed the
entire humanity. That's other people's.
What about killing your own daughter?
So
this verse,
explains
this incident
and said,
on the day of judgment Allah will make
the child
who was buried alive ask
and it will be on the collective conscience
of people who are present.
Those who did it and those who witnessed
it.
She will ask for what crime was I
killed.
What answer will we give
when we know that over 2,600
children are definitely buried under the rubble? They
were buried by their fathers, but they were
buried nonetheless.
And we witnessed it.
And if that child asked,
uncle, for what crime? Usadullah, you give so
many lectures.
What crime did I kill for and what
did you do about it? What answer will
we give to Allah on that day?
There was a person by the name of
Zayd bin Amis
and deliberately made bringing these stories to attention
of the Sahaba, so we can reflect.
Introspect.
It's okay to blame the Arab rulers and
all of that stuff. They've always been sell
out anyway.
But to reflect on ourselves
and what is happening in our society and
what we allowed to happen.
There was a person, a Sahabi Zayd bin
Amir bin Nufayd,
Within the period of Jahiliya,
the same time when people were burying their
daughters alive, when the other Sahabi buried his
daughter or threw her down the well, At
similar time, there was a man called Amir,
Zayd bin Amir bin Nufayd.
And he was in that period of Jahili,
he said something is wrong with this thing.
How can you bury your daughters alive?
So what he would do, he would go
to people who are going to bury their
daughters alive and say, look, give it to
me. I'll take them out of town, keep
them safe, grow them up and marry them
in other cultures where, you know, they don't
have to be buried.
So it means there was a consciousness in
the people. This body being accustomed because why?
In his heart it has fitrah was there.
Something is wrong because Allah made us. You
don't need a religious directive.
Religion only guides you further. It gives you
the parameters but within ourselves we have the
innate capacity.
And each and every self,
we have fashioned it in such a way.
Each and every self. Mostly or non Muslim.
And
it knows its capacity. It knows the distinction
between right and wrong.
Society can corrupt us. Ideology can corrupt us.
Culture and custom can corrupt us. Yes. But
innate capacity
you see children with asthma, they're not prejudiced.
We make them prejudicial.
Children are not born prejudicial. We make them
prejudicial. Don't play with that one there. Don't
go there. Don't do this.
Some of the things are good, we teach
them. Some of them are prejudicial.
So they grow up not prejudicial. We make
them prejudicial.
So each and every soul is born with
the innate capacity. Each soul, each human being,
with the capacity to dis distinguish wrong from
right. Successful
are those who keep themselves pure.
Debased others, those who allow themselves to become
corrupted.
Now we are in that phase,
allowing ourselves to become corrupted.
So this,
Zayd bin Amr bin Nufayd used to negotiate
with parents, take their children and bring them
up and take care of them. He later
became embrace Islam and he became a companion
of Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
But in his time, how many people were
there? These Arabs would feed 100
unknown pilgrims who came to the to worship
the idols at the Kaaba. They would feed
them generous. Come come eat by my house.
Come please, you're a pilgrim from other parts
of the world, from Syria, Iraq, from wherever
they came, from Egypt or Yemen. Come, I'll
feed you. So you'll feed people you don't
know. That's how generous they were. They would
fight to defend you. That's how brave they
were.
Yet the same people with that bravery and
generosity,
and in our case our technology and our
advancement and our civilization,
yet those same people
did not extend their humanity to their own
children.
How can a man doesn't know anybody feed
100 people out of his own and then
go home and bury his daughter alive?
Something he sees is still wrong. How did
it happen? He's not a bad guy.
He's he's generous.
He's brave.
And this is the lesson.
You see,
the killing of those innocent
is against the inherent nature, basic nature of
a human being.
But
because it became a practice.
It was condoned
because it was a practice.
And then people got accustomed to it.
And then
when they got accustomed to it, it was
considered acceptable.
When it became acceptable,
it was incorporated
as part of the norm, as part of
the custom of that society.
And the governmental
religious authorities of that time,
the governmental and there are so many of
them, boy,
governmental
religious authorities
endorsed
this injustice
And it became
religiously acceptable.
And that my brothers and sisters,
is the height of the bidda as Rasool
was talking about.
The dua after salah and we debate about
these things. You introduce things
which is very foreign to the very common
sense of human beings.
But in added dua which you can make
before salah, after salah, where they're making jama'a,
not making jama'. We issue that's why we
in this dilemma. We argue about these issues.
That is a biddah that they were able
to
interpret things like this.
Olamah this week in Makkah have said, you
can't fight Israel because our government got a
contract with them. And you Islamically,
Masha'allah,
Islamically you can't break your contract. Why did
you make a contract in the first place?
Because you are silent then, and now you
throw the Quranic verse.
Keep to your contracts. It's true there's a
Quranic verse. Now the Quranic comes relevant
when they were siding with the oppressor.
Then you didn't there was no Quranic verse
for that.
And then we go with it.
And the fatwa is passed.
People are being arrested now in Mecca for
wearing the Palestinian scarf. You know that.
We have family, relatives of people in Johannesburg,
why in Makkah right now who are arrested
for purely wearing a scarf.
Imam from Turkey was arrested for telling someone
something about Gaza. Not speaking in public. Speaking
to someone and they showed a picture of
him talking and arrested and changed until they
released him.
How can this happen in Makkah?
How does it happen in Makkah? We are
the fatawa.
We need to ask this.
We need to ask this. It became a
norm. That is the bidah.
The best
of speech is the speech of Allah.
And said best guidance is the guidance of
Rasulullah.
And the worst of things are those things
that are introduced into the faith that are
not part of the faith. Not your duas.
The sullamai du'a, whether you read after salah
or not. That's not a major bida.
It's because we get caught up in this
kind of bidah arguments. We can't fight the
major bidah.
The worst of things are those that interjected
into the faith,
and it becomes the norm.
Such kind of
as is misguidance.
The poor guy making Duas and say, oh,
you can't make this and no Palestine.
Political thing.
That is why we're catching the hiding we're
catching now.
Our focus, our priorities is completely messed up.
So,
people,
not only Muslim, but even non Muslim. Majority
of people are standing up. Lawyers and so
on in Europe have got together
taking them to to the criminal court,
to international court. So be very careful, you
know, prejudice don't assume that everyone is against
the Christians or the Jew or Christians or
the Muslims who are in Gaza. There are
people who are vice washing their conscience. And
perhaps next time I will speak about that.
But we need to look at ourselves very
carefully. Look very carefully at ourselves.
We need to consider boycotting those products
tied to entities that propagate and strengthen
these kind of human actions but please be
factual in what you say. Don't just add
names to things.
We need to appreciate those who may have
been involved and they said, okay we are
withdrawing and we're not doing this anymore.
Appreciate that. Take them at the for they
are doing. Appreciate that as well.
Consider redefining our purposes of travel.
Focusing
on looking at how we connect with the
people we go to and how we may
be indirectly empowering those people
whom we are visiting. It doesn't mean you
can't visit. It doesn't mean you mustn't do
your obligation. It's just be very careful
how
your rands and dollars are being spent to
empower those who are enslaving our people, who
are allowing the enslavement of our people.
Check how our money is in are used,
even if it be for seemingly religious purposes.
Because it may go to authorities who do
not serve the cause of Islam and the
Muslims
and the oppressed.
You see?
Whichever way
the children are being killed, and I focus
on that particular
incident.
Whether by parents, burying their daughters, throwing them
in a well, or letting them being buried
under the rubble,
When Allah lets these children ask us a
question of their kiyama, we will have to
answer
and for much more.
On the whole,
the people of the world, the masses are
raising their voices of protest
and echoing the calls of conscience.
While most leaders of the world, most leaders
of the world are doing nothing.
And the Muslim rulers,
bar very few, in the Organization of Islamic
Conference
and in the Arabic Summit who met recently
are seemingly lame ducks
all sitting in the row, not realizing their
bosses could shoot them the next.
International law
and global institutions
have been exposed as a farce.
Subservient to economic and political pressures.
Truth and justice have been compromised.
In fact, our very humanity has been undermined.
Many in the world seem to have lost
their moral compass,
and we have an urgent need among ourselves
to raise our level of consciousness in what
we do, how we engage,
and why we do what we do.
You know, that Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
and of course we need to look at
the reality, the dilemmas we face, and deal
with the practical realities
that we are witnessing and facing.
I'll leave you with the Hadith of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That like the verse of the Quran which
is why don't you get up and fight?
And when the girl is asked or the
child asked, why was I buried alive?
Or allowed to be buried alive?
He
said,
Some of what has reached us from the
prophets of the past
is a continuous message from the prophets.
And we're witnessing that from our leadership in
the world,
and from the Western powers, and from the
media.
When you have no sense of shame,
there's a time you do as you please.
As you do, so shall you be paid
back.
This
is for that, powerful,
reminder. Allah grant us the ability inshallah to
make any changes in our lives if we
lack that, strength inshallah. Allah grant us his
strength. Allah
everyone is welcome, inshallah, in on Palestine, inshallah.
That is this coming Sunday morning,
inshallah, ed Muhammad, yeah, majid. Everyone is welcome.
It will be an interactive, and Sheikh will
be part of the panel as well.
So she maybe will be, but I'm sure
Sheikh will be.
Long.
A
long workbook.