Sadullah Khan – Jumuah 24 02 17
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In the name of Allah, most gracious, most
merciful,
all praise you due to our creator, our
cherisher, our nourisher, and our sustainer.
We bear witness that none worthy of worship
but Allah.
We bear witness. We believe in all the
prophets who came in the great line of
divine,
and we bear witness of prophet Muhammad ibn
Abdullah
is the final of all the emissaries of
Allah.
Mister the elders,
teachers, principals, students,
elders, and young ones agreed to you with
the Islamic universal greeting of peace
at this auspicious time of Jumah in this
beautiful house of Allah.
We also welcome many guests who are here
for various weddings of prominent families
and we ask Allah
to make their stay here a joyful one
inshallah.
We are living in a time in history
which seems increasingly to move towards extremism.
Whether political extremism or religious extremism.
And this is a worrying phenomena
which could eventually victimize all of us
and also scar our future generations.
Extremism whether
radicals, religious radicals,
whether conspiracy
theorists,
whether bigots or racists or xenophobes.
Extremism is born in the deep insecurity
that comes
from an intolerant perspective,
which sees the world
not as a spectrum
of colors
with a variety of understanding
but rather sees the world in terms of
black and white and perhaps a bit of
gray.
Extremists have unquestioned certainty
about their position.
That they consider their perspective and their view
as absolutely
and completely true.
But not only that, they do that to
the exclusion of other views.
Very proud of the country. And we are
very
proud of the country. And we are very
proud of the country. And we are very
proud of
the country.
Fact that we have to be very careful
about the fact that we have to be
very careful about the fact that we have
to be very careful about the fact that
we have to be very careful about the
fact that we have to be very careful
about the fact that we have to be
and in religious circles, those who differ with
them as being heretics
or as being deviant.
And in this way, whether politically or religiously,
extremists
have the tendency to legitimize
the
the or the demonizing or the attack on
those whom they differ with or those who
challenge them.
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Extremists are preoccupied
with their so called opponents or detractors.
You'll find so much effort is gone into
some specific matter to the exclusion of other
major matters.
They often display
open hostility
to those who differ with their perspective in
the midst of the world. We have to
make
sure
that
we
are in the midst of the world. Everyone,
everything is someone else's fault.
But in gentler form and more regularly nowadays,
they use sarcasm
in the attacks.
The intention is the same. To demean and
belittle
those who differ.
An extremist though, doesn't easily allow himself or
herself
to have empathy with those whom they disagree
with.
They don't see them as
complete human beings in the way if you
want
because
they undermine their aspirations, their need, their understandings
that they may have.
And this opens
the door to intolerance and hatred
rather than compassion.
You see, extremists
are only successful
when people are desperate.
Contented people
aren't attracted to extremism.
But desperate people will follow anyone who offers
offers a seeming way out of the
prevailing difficulty.
The danger and the concern is that extremism
is on the increase at the highest level.
On the wall stage,
the election of Donald Trump to the American
presidency
is a political disaster
that could result in a global catastrophe.
He has experienced open feelings of racism, of
xenophobia,
global war, global warming den denialism.
A man who does not have the temperament
of any kind for
public political office.
A billionaire with appalling ethics,
and no regard for the truth.
And certainly no respect for difference of opinion.
He placed the ban on 7 Muslim majority
countries, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and
Sudan. None of these countries have ever committed
or been charged with terrorism on American soil.
In fact, of the 9 11 attackers,
the 19 of them were led to be
involved. 15 from Saudi Arabia, 2 from the
Emirates, 1 from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon, none
of them are on the list.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
Trump was anti immigration.
But you need to understand, it's not about
Trump, it's about the mentality of extremism.
And here is the man who holds the
most powerful political office in the world, whether
we like it or not.
The most powerful political office in the world.
And he has
impact on the world and how it unfolds
and events unfold in the world. Be very
clear about this. It's not insignificant.
But I'm using him as an example to
understand
at the highest level in the world so
called, this is happening. What do you think
is happening
at the lower levels?
Is anti
immigration but the president of a country of
immigrants.
Anti immigration
but but he is the president of a
country
made of immigrants.
He seems to disdain anything foreign
yet he wears an Italian shoot,
a shirt made from Bangladeshi cotton,
stands behind an Ikea podium made in Sweden
with a bulletproof glass made in France,
reading a speech of a 4 ks Sony
projector teleprompter which is made in Japan, flashing
a Rolex watch which is made in Switzerland,
standing next to his wife who's from Slovenia,
giving a lecture in Arizona which is land
stolen by Americans, stolen from the Mexicans.
So much for being all American.
But now,
he is in a political position of the
most powerful man on the planet. And there's
no doubt about that.
Politically.
But he is not alone. And that's the
danger.
He's also part of a more contemporary wave
of right wing extremists,
neo fascists,
authoratory authoritarian populists
who have been elected to power by their
people.
For example, Narendra Modi in India.
Benjamin Netanyahu in occupied Palestine.
Abdul Fata Hasisi in Egypt. And also there
are people who may potentially come to power.
Politicians like Nigel Nigel Farage in Britain, Marine
Le Pen in France, and Keith Welders
holders in Ireland.
Some of them are even worse.
And this wave of right wing, sometimes neo
fascist authoritarian populism
country.
So,
we have a very strong culture. We have
a very strong culture.
But with prejudice, blaming vulnerable groups, often ethnic
or religious minorities for everything that goes wrong
in their country.
Coming closer to home. South Africa like many
countries in the world are in a very
dangerous juncture.
We also confront confronting authoritarian
populism
in South Africa. Both Jacob Zuma and Malema
are examples of these.
They all present themselves as men of people
of the people
and they have
alarmingly
authoritarian
tendencies.
In our country,
just recently,
94
psychiatric patients died of negligence.
And corpses of psychiatric patients were found with
head injuries, unexplained bruises.
Relatives were informed about the deaths of their
loved ones
and the transfer of these mentally ill patients
was seemingly
due to business opportunities.
We live in a divided country.
Social cohesion is wonderful
but it's not the reality.
And while the middle class
matters
and they talk about endlessly about race,
class is a central divide in our society.
What Robert very often spoke about.
Certainly, race is an important issue but class
not race determines people's life chances.
The Marikana massacre has brought this reality home
to many.
It has blown our political discourse into fragments.
How can we talk so easily about race
as a central issue in our society when
the mining
has made some civil Ramaphosa a multi billionaire?
Or when
Zuma grows 5th of the Arora mines while
workers at that mine
of all races
begin to starve after months without pay.
How can we talk so easily about trade
unions as the defenders of the workers when
workers at Marikana
are just as angry with the National Union
of Mine Workers as they are with their
bosses.
How does this extreme another form of extremism?
How does extreme situation persist in our country
which fought in noble struggle against discrimination and
injustice?
And where so many bravely offered their lives.
People of Israel. And we are very proud
of the people of Israel. And we are
very proud of the people of Israel. And
we are very proud of the people of
Israel. And we are very proud of the
people of Israel. And we are very proud
of the people of Israel. And we are
very proud of the people of Israel. And
we are very proud of the people of
Israel. And we are very proud of the
people of Israel. And we are very proud
of the people of Israel. The
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still living in the most unequal country in
the world.
We struggle for equality
yet remain unequal.
We replaced corrupt extreme racist
who were imposed upon us and now we
are dealing with self serving corrupt leaders that
we have chosen.
Coming to the Muslim situation.
There's a disturbing trend of a rising phenomena
of new littlest amongst Muslims,
especially among young Muslims. Coming from particular quarters.
We incline
to rigidity and excessiveness
in the understanding and implementation of faith.
Sticking closely to the very literal meaning as
they understand it.
Ignoring
other necessary factors of legal deduction and deeper
connotation of the text.
About the context, the original context, And importing
that context into a contemporary context.
Ignoring varying perspective of scholars throughout history. We
held various understandings.
And contrary to the very spirit of Islamic
imperative, of flexibility,
of facilitation,
and of simplicity and accommodation,
Have these extremists,
self righteousness,
blinded themselves, have their self righteousness
blinded them to the acknowledged Islamic legacy
of agreement on the permissibility
to disagree.
Part of Islamic legacy is an agreement on
the permissibility
to disagree.
Just because something by the way is done
in the name of religion or Sharia.
Maybe very careful of this. Very often people
ban ban the about names.
The Quran is the Quran. So, you know,
the Quran is the Quran is the Quran.
So, you know, the Quran is the Quran
is the Quran. So, you know, the Quran
is the Quran is the Quran. So, you
know, the Quran is the Quran is the
Quran.
Name
of the sharia, it's not about hate.
It's not about punishment. Many Muslims, they say,
masha'Allah, Muslim country. Why? They cut off the
head of the thief. There's no proof of
Sharia.
It is the thieves cutting the hands of
smaller thieves.
Sharia is not about hate.
It's about not about punishment or about vengeance,
about killing.
Rather, Sharia is all about human goodwill,
about justice for all, about positive universal values.
The values and principles of the Sharia have
been clearly enunciated
and stated and reiterated throughout Islamic history.
Ibn al Khaim
in his
said, and listen to what he said. This
is centuries ago.
And he's an extremely orthodox scholar with very,
very, very
strict perspective on how he sees things.
Yet he said,
Sharia in its entirety is justice. In its
entirety it is mercy. And its entirety it
is a benefit. And its entirety is based
on wisdom.
Every matter which abandons justice,
every matter which promotes tyranny, every matter which
opposes mercy, every matter that supports cruelty, And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing that. And
we are going to be doing
that. Can never be part of Sharia
irrespective of how you try to interpret it.
So in other words,
justice for all,
mercy,
welfare of humankind
was the meaning implementation
that is what Sharia is about. More than
that, for those who don't like Ibn Khaim
Al Jazi,
because of his perspective, Imam Al Khazadi on
the other perspective.
He is derived the core values of the
or the the the objective of Sharia. And
he said,
the purpose of the objective is
by this we mean the protection of the
objectives of Sharia which are 5.
Protection of religion, protection of life, protection of
property, of intellect, and of the family.
So with this kind of it's not new
stuff.
It's a old stuff.
Because some students come now with recent graduates
as if they've now found Sharia that all
the people who came before them haven't read
all these books.
So, we have to be careful
about the people who
are in the world. We
have to be careful about the people who
are in the world. We have to be
careful about the people who are in the
world. We have to be careful about the
people who are in the world. We have
to be careful about the people who are
in the world.
The truth is from Allah, those who want
to accept, they are welcome to accept, and
those who want to reject are welcome to
reject.
It's their choice.
And they must bear the consequence of their
choice. But the freedom to choose is theirs.
Like, prophet, Dean.
Like, a compulsion. And by the way, because
you may think he's
to safeguard their children,
send them to Jewish school and Jewish institutions
and Jewish hospitals, so to say. So the
children became Judaism. In other words, they followed
the Jewish tradition.
When Islam came, when the Surah came, these
some of these people in Madina now became
Muslim. So, they wanted to force their children
who are now big 18, 19, 20, 21
independent children. They wanted to force them now
to come back to Islam and this verse
was revealed to ban Muslim parents from forcing
their children to leave Judaism to come to
Islam. This is the context of the revelation.
Any school of law, you can check out
the the, As Babu Nuzu.
So I'm not misquoting Terence Mclike, Rafi Dean
and taking somewhere and
look at the connotation, the direct original context
of the revelation.
We have to be a leader in the
church. We have to be a leader in
the church. We have to be a leader
in the church. We have to be a
leader in the church. We have to be
a leader in the church. We have to
be a leader in the church. We have
to be a leader in the church. Not
in the world. They are not
in the world. They are not in the
world. They are not in the world. They
are in the world. They are in the
world. They are in the world. They are
in the world. They are in the
Quran is the same. So, the Quran is
the same. So, the Quran is the same.
So, the Quran
is
the same.
He said,
He says, these divisions are the branch of
a tree.
It's fruit which you see is manifested through
extremism.
You see,
the reaction of the extremists do not want
any pluralism.
It's their way or no other way. What
is right is the way they see it.
They pray God themselves. Even God doesn't have
an alternate view except what they think God
says. So you can't tell them what you
The words of Allah. That in itself is
much greater sin than any you can form.
They view the world in black and white.
The same. And I'm going to tell you
that the world is going to be the
same. And I'm going to tell you that
the world is going to be the same.
And I'm going to tell you that the
world is going to be the same. And
I'm going to tell you that the world
is going to be the same.
They have the monopoly of the truth.
Truth is as they see it.
You see, an incident, you know, is
He's
contemporary with Imam Shafi. Some dispute exactly the
content and the detail but nonetheless, there was
that we can learn. Imam Shafi spoke one
day and one of this this you know,
if no Abdul Aala was upset by something
Imam Shafi said, student and he walked out.
Imam Shafi went to his home according to
some reports. But the wisdom is important. The
wordings are always exactly accurate.
Don't try to be triumphant and win every
argument when there's a difference.
Sometimes winning hearts is more important than winning
an argument. I'm going to go to the
world. I'm going
to go to the world. I'm going to
go to the world. I'm going to go
to the world. I'm going to go to
the world. I'm going to go to the
world. I'm going to be a leader in
the church. I'm going to be a leader
in the church. I'm
going to be a leader in the church.
I'm going to be a leader in the
church. I'm going to be a leader in
the church. I'm going to be a leader
in the church. I'm going to be a
leader in the church. I'm going to be
a leader in who does the wrong. Hate
sin with all your heart but forgive and
have mercy on the one who is sinful.
Criticize speech but don't be insulting to the
speaker.
Our job like the doctor, is to cure
the sick one.
To cure the ailment. Treat vigorously
the ailment but not to oppose the one
who is sick.
World.
The fire is forbidden the resources.
It's haram for the fire to touch the
person. Hadith and the Muslim of
The fire is forbidden for that person who
is kind, who is gentle, who is easygoing,
and who is loving towards other people. To
people, not to Muslims.
To people.
You see the believers are intended to be
an ummah. A community that serves as a
standard, as a model for others.
That you can be a testimony, a symbol,
and a standard for other
people. It is the absence of this stand,
this this balance, this
provided by this
by this
Islamic
ada that is balanced
and and justice that extremism creeps in.
And that's why you find hulu, excessiveness.
The natur, harshness, the shuddud, severity,
the taroof, extremism creeping in in all its
forms. And there are so warned in Hadith
documented by Imam Al Nisai.
I warn you
extremism.
The communities before you were destroyed because of
the extremism.
And he warned thrice in that hadith documented
by
Muslim where he said,
extremist are destroyed. Extremists are destroyed. Extremists are
destroyed.
So these are strange times.
A world in which a crazy Trump
had linger on the nuclear button.
Where the Guptas have their hands in the
national treasury.
Where Muslim fanatics have their guns pointed at
other Muslims.
All the wars being fought at present.
All of them. Don't tell me who's behind
it. Because we are fools for being for
falling for the trick. So we are guilty.
All wars being fought on the world now
at the present. All of them are fought
in Muslim lands and all of them fought
up between Muslim against Muslim.
Something is seriously wrong.
Never mind who you blame.
The fact that we allow ourselves even to
be used by others, it's still our fault.
Muslim fanatics have the guns pointed to other
Muslims. These are dangerous times indeed.
And if we allow such norms to set,
we will never be able to undo them.
We're living in the age of enlightenment
but it's the age of extremism.
The 2 doesn't match.
Extremism and operation is
and enlightenment is light. Is opposed.
Light and darkness is opposed.
We are in the world. We are in
the world. We are in the world. We
are in the world. We are in
the world. We are in the world.
We are in the world. We are in
the world. We are in the world. We
are in the world. We are in the
world. We are in the world. We are
in the world. We are in the world.
We are in the world. We are in
the world. We are in the world. We
are in the world. We are in
a paradox.
If we do not have and I'm I'm
making this very very clear. If we do
not have the sense to realize
the need to stem the tide of intolerance,
we and our children will be drowned in
the blood of extremism.
I repeat.
If we do not have the sense, politically
and religiously by the way, to realize the
need to stem the tide of intolerance,
we and our children will be drowned in
the blood of extremism.
The preponderance of violence in the name of
Islam, growing interfaith
resentment.
Intra faith intolerance.
Isn't it part of Wasatiyah?
What we need at this time
of global crisis,
we need leadership in the style of Rasulullah.
Not quoting the prophet.
Not looking like the prophet only.
Not only singing for the prophet.
I'm going to articulate in expression,
warm in engagement,
relevant in message,
courageous in action, revolutionary in approach, in the
world.
We are in the world. We are in
the world. We are in the world. We
are in the world. We are in the
world. We are in the world. We are
in the world. We are in the world.
We are in the world. We are in
the world. We are in the world. We
are in the world. We are in the
world. We are in the world. We are
in the world. We are in the world.
Economy. We are very excited about the progress
we are making. We are making progress. We
are making progress.
Offering optimism
rather than pessimism.
Harmonizing
rather than polarizing.
A leadership that is relevant, practical,
realistic, and pragmatic.
I leave you with a reminder that our
task as Ummat and Wasafa,
balanced community,
is exceptionally urgent. The
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fulfilling the Sharia objectives
of the protection of all human dignity.
I leave you with a reminder of the
hadith which I quote. If I give 10
a year in this mosque, 8 times I
will quote this Hadith. And I want you
to be indoctrinated by this Hadith. Hadith documented
by Imam Al Bahaqi where there are souls
said, never forget it. Embod this Hadith into
our psyche, into our mentality, and try to
live by it.
We are going to be a leader in
the world. So, we are going to be
a leader in the world. We are going
to be a leader in the world. We
are going to be a leader in the
world. We are going to be a leader
in the world. We are going to be
a leader in the world. We are going
to be a leader in the
I must see whether I'm Muslim. Never how
much I read, how much could buy given,
how much Quran, Allah, and Qira, and Kasida.
I must judge for myself and I ask
you to do the same. Do I fulfill
this criteria? Never mind I make
salah 7 times a day, we'll go for
Hajj every year.
Ask yourself, do we fulfill this criteria as
well of Hadith?
Because the Hadith is together in but it's
separate also in Sahin
Muslim. The same. So, we have to go
to the same level of the same level
of
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He is the one in whom humanity at
large finds safety and security
regarding their life, their honor, and their property.
May Allah save us
from the self righteousness of the extremist.
And may Allah
grant us
kind of kindness and compassion.
Allah is kind and gentle. Lust kind and
gentleness
in everything.
Allah has granted the capacity for kindness and
compassion to attain those things which
violence and extremism
could never accomplish.