Sadullah Khan – Jumuah 28 10 16
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Allah
in the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful. All praise is due
to our creator or cherishing or nourishing our Sustainer we bear
witness there's none worthy of worship but Allah will be a
witness. We believe in all the prophets who came in the great
line of divine And we bear witness Prophet Muhammad Ali Abdullah
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa he was happy he was one of them, is
the final of all the emissaries of Allah.
Allah ma for Quran,
principals, teachers, elders, brothers and sisters, to Spirit
youth agreed to the Islamic universal greeting of peace. May
the peace the mercy and the blessings of Allah be upon each
and everyone present. A Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato
Hamdulillah. We are followers of a comprehensive way of life. A demon
shaman, didn't come,
brought to comprehensive fruition by the final final messenger to
determine the been Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam who conveyed to humanity a well preserved revelation, a
revelation for humanity at large as a huddled in us until the end
of time.
Islam that way of life seeks to attract the hearts and minds of
people towards the truth.
He does this by means of reasoning, by good moral example,
the emphasizing of Justice, the universal applicability of its
ethos and the natural beauty of his principles. And all muslims or
muslims are repeat. All Muslims are members of the human family,
which are the best of creation.
Acts Anita cream is Allah says, and each human being by virtue of
being knew of a human being human being is considered as honorable
welcome Lavinia Adam
was in that
bond of family, the family of humanity, they exist the
fraternity of believers. But Allah The first was,
in the verses of the Quran was an example, who are bound by the
ideology of Islam,
a philosophy a religion, a way of life,
which leads culmination in the mission of Rasulullah, but which
in essence, in principle, was perpetuated and passed on to us
throughout the history by all the prophets in essence, it reach,
culmination and fruition in the mission of Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam. But all the prophets in essence, told the fundamentals of
the very same faith.
So Rasul Allah did not start Islam, but rather brought it to
comprehensive fruition by receiving the last revelation as
he was the last in the line of prophets and remains the example
until the end of time. So we as the Ummah, as the whole,
constitute a global community of faith, a community that transcends
the barriers of race, that transcends the barriers of
nationality, of color, of language, of gender, of ethnicity,
of culture, and of time.
And not only that, we are supposed to be an American, wider
a single global community, by bound by the larger principles of
our faith.
We were never intended to be a community divided on end due to
our differences which have existed which do exist and which will
continue to exist. And therefore Allah says in Surah Surah, in
the believing fertility the believing people, they are the
believers as a whole or a fertility.
Firstly obey now where you can
make extra money, conciliation. Now you can't reconcile unless you
have differences. If you are at idle, as they say in law of the
same mind, there's nothing to reconcile you only reconcile,
which is reconcilable, you can only reconcile, which is
reconcilable even in Islamic law and in Roman Dutch law, when this
irretrievable breakdown for example, in the marriage is
irreconcilability, then you go apart, but you reconcile with
reconciliation is possible and the groundwork in the framework is
there for it. So in the middle, we know Firstly,
make reconciliation within that fraternity. What the hula hula on
the moon and be ever conscious of Allah, ever dutiful to Allah.
And be fully aware that if you do so that you may be graced with his
abundant and eternal mercy.
So the Ummah
is distinguished by being followers of Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in abiding by the Quran is a final
revelation, and the general principles of our faith.
The OMA is distinguished by what we share and what we agreed upon
regarding the fundamentals of our faith.
The Ummah is not distinguished, by the way we differ among ourselves
on secondary issues. Hence the admonition in the Quran, to be
cautious, not to create division and allow for the fragmentation of
people of faith.
We will never intended to be a community bogged down in
disputations and discord.
In fact, the overarching attitude and advice of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam, which comes across in numerous
tradition,
method, meaning if Etowah him the one I mentioned at the beginning
of the talk, the solidarity of believers in the mutual love
in their mercy and sympathy. Is that, like your body is an organ
or any part of the body aches, the rest of the body sympathizes with
it. It's a sleeplessness and fever.
So as Muslims, we acknowledge that all those considered as part of
the Islamic faith by the vast majority of Muslims
throughout history will be treated by Muslims as Muslims. And we
acknowledge the fact that differences there are differences
they have been and differences, they will continue to be.
But the person does not overtly
deny the fundamentals of our faith. Such a person is deemed our
brother and our sustained faith without prejudice.
We can hold no such person under suspicion.
Since we have been commanded in the same Surah avoid suspicion, eg
Stoneybrook has been in the back of one, avoid much of suspicion,
for some suspicion himself can be lie.
We are obligated to honor people with a duty of a muslim taking
seriously the injunction of the rasool Allah Allah Salam Hadith
documented the muster of Imam Muhammad the humble as well as a
Muslim Muslim women Saleemul Muslim woman discern the way the
Muslim is that person from his words and deeds all other Muslims
are safe. Well minimal I mean, who knows him while I'm while him
unfussy him and then what Bill is everyone in whom humanity at
large, even beyond the Muslim find safety and security regarding the
life the honor and the property? Thus no Muslim should find any
excuse to wantonly make any Muslim individual or group irrespective
of the school of thought, the deliberate subject of attack, or
the focus of unwarranted negative attention.
The positive attitude of a Muslim towards another is encapsulated in
the prophetic guidance as a Muslim a whole Muslim lie of him who
while I have lived who was through a toque, Hula, hula
the has been the minister, a young, Muslim, cultural Muslim or
Muslim haram on the Mohammed who Hadith in the masjid of Imam
Muhammad, humble, and Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, he
neither oppressing nor humiliating, nor looks down upon
him, and piety is here. And there also said Allah who is, according
to this report, pointed three times to his heart. It is a
serious evil for a Muslim, that he should look down upon his fellow
Muslim, or things of a Muslim, inviolable
For his birthday faith, his blood, his wealth, and his integrity for
his
lasting harmony and understanding starts from within the community.
And then that could spread the same respect towards those beyond
our immediate community. How would How would other people take a
community seriously, which must understand components of itself,
and thereby sometimes misrepresenting each other? We
should recognize that is submitting to Allah. Building a
whole sub and harmonious wholesome community is one of our primary
objectives. We should confirm the importance of promoting a culture
of dialogue within our faith community. Allah calls upon the Al
Kitab. Among the Christians with element of shitcan they believe.
It doesn't mean we agree with the views, but it has an approach, an
ecumenical approach of openness of inviting of engaging despite a
distinct element of Schick among the Christians who are considered
closest to us, according to the Quran, despite the belief being so
distant from us, as far as the hate is concerned. So we should
affirm the importance of listening to and learning from differing
perspectives. We should attempt to explain our own perspective and do
so in a more dignified manner, intelligible and in offensive.
We are concerned globally about the rising tide of fanaticism. And
sometimes we have to answer for the fanaticism of other people as
if it emanates from our faith.
We are concerned about the rising tide of fanaticism, the
preponderance of violence in the name of our faith, growing
interfaith resentment, increasing interfaith intolerance.
And this,
to me somewhat signifies a substantial departure from the
revered path of what's the theme of moderation.
I advise myself
and all of us Inshallah, that we affirm the importance of listening
to differing views, learning from other perspectives, so that we can
value Islamic plurality as a factor that enriches our
communities, as he has done throughout history. We should
commit ourselves to engage in dialogue when necessary and
possible with sincerity and patience, and such engagement
should not be with anger and discusses discourtesy
and without considering those things that dif that we differ
about as insurmountable barriers to our our brotherhood
infertility.
You see, our identities Islam
because we are too caught up in Salafi and Sufi and Sunni and chi
and Barelvi and Deobandi, we somehow lose be all of that no
problem with being calling yourself whatever you call
yourself and justifying why you are Salafi and why sooner to call
yourself. Defer to Salah for soon, whatever you call ourselves,
whatever be be what you be sent me couta is Allah my bosses? But
armacell Man Do you to say you'd be home in his RV or have a hobby
or some Eco Ciabatta? You're all of these things, but show me Are
you muslim as well? If you were you would have no barrier to
finding a Muslim as your brother Muslim. Because you emphasize your
culture, or your mother or your then you find people I'm a Sufi,
no problem, by definition that you have the problem with the Salafi
or whatever it may be. It shouldn't be like that. It's
almost camps by brother, Muslim brother raise a Sufi or Salafi
whether it's salami standing or sitting doesn't matter.
I may defer I will discuss it we'll debate
and argue we have to go out there and belittle him because of our
differences. We are so fragmented, over 10 million Muslims have left
Muslim land to go to so called Cousar lands for safety and
security while the Muslim world watches by.
This is the time for us to get involved in secondary says the
house is burning.
And we worried about the menu that you're serving for supper.
So
our identity is Islam. Our allegiance is to Allah. Our guide
is the Quran, our leaders, the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, every Muslim brother, who's considered Muslim by the
consensus. I don't mean people who are deviant people who come with a
new faith. I'm saying Muslims have been considered as Muslims
throughout history, but a large majority of scholars, every Muslim
is my brother, and every human being my family, and the whole of
the universe is my responsibility. That's how a global citizen things
we have to take a holistic look and the foundational message of
the
Quran the foundational message, the exemplary lessons taught by
the Rasul Allah, Allah He, he was Harvey was in the essential moral
priorities of the individual believer and the ethical
parameters that universally guide believers in interacting with
among themselves and with others. We come from a tradition with an
associate,
Muslim, a young fella he never knew the it's not halal. Basically
put it bluntly, it is haram for you to even look at your brother.
Look at him was the look that he finds displeasing, even if you
didn't intend it is haram for you to look at your brother, what's
the look that you find just pleasing? How five we deviated
from that? How much you know implementing at the expense of so
much other sunnah, sunnah,
supposedly, so ours is the religion of peace is always said
the culture of violence. I was the philosophy of love, not an
attitude of hate. Our Deen started a civilization. There's something
which I said of boast or even above my faith. It's a historical
reality. In fact,
our deal started a civilization which sparked the Renaissance.
It's not a doctrine that promotes destruction. Ours is a faith of
inclusivity that embrace the Al Kitab not a narrow minded theology
that excommunicate its own people.
We should I believe,
be committed not to wantonly make any Muslim individual or group the
target
of our tax. If there are differences that speak
if people highlight things a cause problem,
engage and try to neutralize that. But we ask Allah to protect us
from those who make the universal ever relevant Islam, a cause of
major conflict by by infighting over insignificant issues, who
turn minor points of difference into major ideological conflicts,
said you all have this in the name of Islam. And as always remind
ourselves, we are weakened bow divisions, and our enemies are
strengthened by our disunity.
It is in the greater interest of our Ummah, specifically at this
crucial and perilous stage of our history. It is in the interest of
the Ummah, to foster and promote conciliation, not agitation to
promote calmness, not incitement to promote friendship, hostility,
let's focus on what unites us rather than harping on what
divides us, because we are weakened by these
kind of engagements much strengthened by it. Let us purge
ourselves from grudges and suspicion. Let's not become
reckless, not that any of us may be of any political forces of
outside influences when something happens in some part of the world.
Suddenly we get fighting over murder because some financial
somewhere else may be involved in something and now we jump at their
best. I don't see it happening. I'm just saying it happens in some
parts of the world,
ourselves from grudges and suspicion.
Let us purge ourselves from grudges and suspicion, find ways
and occasions for elevating rancor and hatred, to time for the new
kindness
to near ones in D ones amongst ourselves and the fostering of
love for those of our faith. That's also Allahu alayhi wasallam
one said,
Shall I inform you
about that? Which is better than degree than prayer and fasting and
charity? To Dr. Silva tell us what is it? It's laughable that a lot
of miracle of the mean directly crme was
shall inform you. Well, I will tell us, Islam for that has been
reconciliation. Because
chaos among yourself. Alienation among yourself. fighting amongst
yourself is like cutting your own throat. We are always encouraged
to work towards a resolution rather than dissolution. For
soulful reconciliation is always best Akula call Jada was the
federal law the movie welcome was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah