Sadullah Khan – Jumuah 28 Rajab 1445 9 February 2024
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All present thanks are due to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and we send salutations and peace
upon our beloved prophet prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
Respected Ullama, beloved elders, our dear educators and
fellow learners, I greet you with a universal
Islamic greeting of love, peace and respect. Assalamu
Alaikum Warahmatullahi
Wabarakatuh.
On behalf of IslamicIA College, Mazur Al Furqan
and the extended family, we would like to
wish each and everyone jumamaabarak.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us all
blessed week ahead inshallahamin
And we make to offer our brothers and
sisters in Palestine and for Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to grant them victory over their oppressors.
Ameen.
Our speaker for today is a man who
needs no introduction,
Sheikh Sayedullah Khan. The topic Sheikh Sayedullah will
be speaking about is justice for Palestine
without collusion, favor, or fear. Shukran. Wassalamualaikum.
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 who came throughout history
as guides
and as models of excellence.
May Allah's peace be upon all of them
and we bear witness at Prophet Muhammad ibn
Abdullah,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam
is the final of all the emissaries of
Allah.
Teachers,
learners,
elders, brothers and sisters,
respected youth,
I greet you with the Islamic universal greeting
of peace at this auspicious
hour of
Jum'ah.
We are well aware of the fact
that Palestinians
have not lived free in their own country
for over 75 years.
And for the past 4 months
from the rubble
of the bomb out buildings in Gaza,
they have resisted the most powerful and best
equipped war machine
at the cost of their lives and their
property
but without
loss of their cause or their dignity.
It is so evident
the desire in the state
is not a democracy,
it is an apartheid entity.
It is not a promised land,
it is a settler colonial project.
It is not the Jewish mission of Musa,
a prophet Moses.
It is the Zionist plan of an atheist,
Theodore Helzel.
It is not a nation under siege,
it is a brutal
bullying aggressor.
It is not a promised dream
of prophet Abraham
which has come true. No. It is a
nightmare of biblical proportions for the people of
Palestine.
It is not defense against terror,
it is the conducting of a genocidal
war
in Gaza.
Seizing a people's homeland
is robbing them of their identity,
robbing them of their history,
robbing them of their culture
and trying to rob them of their future.
It must be remembered
that in the latter part of 19th and
the early part of 20th century,
Jews were increasingly
persecuted in Europe
by Europeans
and were searching for their own safe spot
on the planet.
And be very clear about the fact that
Palestine was not always the place considered.
Uganda was seriously considered as a homeland for
the Jews,
so too was Madagascar,
so too was Canada,
so too was Australia
and 14 other countries.
Israel declared
statehood on Palestinian land
in 1948,
a declaration that was manipulated
and manipulatively
engineered
through the 1916
Sykes Pickett Agreement
that carved up the Middle East
in the interest of Britain and France,
and then the next year 1917,
the deceptive
Balfour declaration
when Arthur Balfour,
who was the British foreign secretary at that
time,
promised
Lord Rothschild
who was the British head of the British
Zionist Movement at that time to establish a
national home for Jews in Palestine.
At the same time it must be remembered
that Zionism is not Judaism,
it's not about religion here per se.
Judaism is a religion
while Zionism
is a ethnocentric,
ethno nationalistic,
racist ideology
that has no basis in Judaism
and was founded by Theodore Hebzel,
an Austrian journalist who as I mentioned was
in fact an atheist.
Since 1948,
Jews from different parts of the world moved
to Palestine
and subsequent to that,
Palestinians have now lost more than 80% of
their own land
due to these colonial settlers.
And despite numerous United Nations resolutions
against Israel,
more resolutions against Israel than all the countries
of the world combined
at the United Nations.
Over 5,000,000
Palestinians
were forcibly displaced
and living in other countries.
2,000,000
are still living in Palestine
like prisoners in open air camp, prison camp
with limited movement,
limited access to water
and having to pass through Israeli checkpoints
going from one place to another.
Classified as human animals,
treated like suspect and criminals
in their own land by the Israeli Defense
Force.
The genocide we are witnessing in Gaza
is the culmination of over a century of
European
imperialism.
75 years of brutal racist Zionist occupation
and also
decades of conniving Muslim rulers
who are in collusion with these people.
Rulers
whose even their names are misleading,
they got names like King Hassan and King
Hussein and they're behaving like Yazid.
Armed by the west
and tacitly supported
by these deceptive Muslim rulers,
We are witnessing the dropping of over 40,000
tons.
40,000
tons of high explosives have been dropped in
Palestine
over the past 120 days.
Some bombs weighing 8
100 kilograms each
that have resulted in the merciless killing of
over 28,000
human beings,
mostly women
and children.
And all this
must be acknowledged
for what it truly is.
It is a Zionist quest to systematically
annihilate a people
and obliterate an entire Palestinian population
not only taking away their future
but also trying to take away and wipe
out their past.
But we know
that memory is a weapon.
We won't forget
and we know that oppression is an evil
as Allah reminds us in the Quran
about injustice and oppression.
Even against the enemies.
But Allah says, when people like this, you
can you'll eventually overcome if you're truly believers,
but if there is
a strife against the oppressors, against wrongdoers, against
those who attack you,
Fala, old one, seize your hostility
if others seize their hostility
and let there be no animosity.
Except against the oppressors.
Many Muslim rulers
work in tandem with
and for the interest of the West because
their personal survival depends on it.
Thus,
we are confronted
with a curious paradox.
While 100 of millions of Muslims
are living in abject poverty,
The poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh,
Yemen,
poorest countries of the world are living in
abject poverty
while rulers, when you think of an Arab
ruler, you think of smart cars and gold
and oil.
Their rulers lead an opulent lifestyle
that would be the envy of the wealthiest
people even in the West.
Millions of people are marching for Palestine,
symbolically carrying the Palestinian flag in virtually every
country in the world but Muslims can't carry
a Palestinian flag in Makkah. Why?
Why would showing solidarity
with fellow Muslim brothers and sisters
who are being persecuted
and massacred in broad daylight?
Why would carrying of such a flag just
symbolic,
not even saying anything, not doing anything,
just carrying a flag, offend the ruler.
Is it not an obligation for the Muslim
to always be an activist?
For adal, for justice? For ihsan, for goodness?
To be an echoing voice of conscience?
Or at least to have the empathy at
the heart for the oppressed in the face
of wrongdoing.
Did the prophet
not say in authentic
documented
Sahih from my Muslim.
You begin by acting out against
him.
Whoever sees
injustice and oppression and wrongdoing,
let him change it physically with his hand.
If he's unable to do that, then let
me speak out with his tongue. If he's
unable to do that, even then at least
feel it in his heart, have an empathy
in the heart and that is the weakest
of faith.
Muslim messes
living the Islam
know that they are mandated by Allah
to de establish oppressive systems
and replace them with peace,
but no peace without justice.
There must be social justice.
And no amount of fatawa
by state elected,
government paid muftis
should deter a conscientious Muslim from standing up
for justice.
Recently, an imam of the Haram in Makkah
said,
Muslims shouldn't be divided on this fitna in
Palestine. They should go back to their rulers
and their scholars.
They should not be deceived
into engaging
in those things they have no right to
engage in.
Never mind muftis like this
and kings like those.
We are commanded to stand up for justice
even if it be against the rich or
the poor,
the king or the pauper,
even against our own self. Allah
reminds us in Suratul Nisa, this supersedes any
fatwa of any mufti.
Oh you who proclaim faith, stand up for
justice as witnesses to Allah.
Even
forget anyone else even against your own self.
And that's why Allah has made
upon himself.
Allah is free of want, no restriction, no
beginning, no end.
He said, I have made oppression and injustice
haram upon myself.
Allah is free of all want.
Without limitation, he can do what he wants
as he pleases, but he has made upon
himself.
Allah himself has made
upon himself.
It gives no authority. No king, no mufti,
no ruler,
No sheikh, no mawdi, no imam.
No president, no prime minister. Any authority to
be unjust.
O you who believe, stand out firmly for
justice as witnesses to Allah,
even if against your own selves or your
parents or your kin
and whether it begins as rich or the
poor, for Allah is the protector of all.
Brother Malcolm X, Malika Shabazz
put it so beautifully reaffirming this quranic directive
when he says, I am for justice
irrespective
who it is for or who it is
against.
Justice is paramount.
And as for those who tell us to
keep quiet
and not speak out against unjust rulers and
authorities, remember
our beloved prophet Muhammad
in a hadith documented in in the Muslim
of Imam Mohammed ibn Hanbal. He said,
They will be leaders after me.
They won't
judge or lead according to my guidance,
nor behave according to my sunnah.
Those who support them, who stand by them
despite their falseness and their lies and their
deception,
and those who aid them in the injustice
and the wrongfulness,
they are not of me. Well let's to
be new and I got nothing to do
with them.
Justice you see is non negotiable.
Justice is non compromisable.
No wonder
Allah has intimately linked justice.
Since Islam's message
is ideologically based on tawhid,
Islam's message
fundamentally and ideologically based on tawhid, the principle,
the foundation of our faith. No tawhid, no
Islam.
Islam is ideologically based on Tawhid.
Ethically, it's inspired by Hassan,
my goodness.
And practically,
it focused
on the hokukul Ibad, the rights of the
people, and adadaistima'aia
on issues of social justice.
The Meccan Mushriks
did not harm the prophet or harass the
prophet
and his small group of followers in the
Meccan early period
because they were praying in a certain way?
No. There were Christians also there. There were
other people there.
There were no formal prayers in Makkah for
the 1st 11 years.
Formal prayers
until the maharaj.
It was the prophet's call for the elimination
of false gods
and the social economic justice and his implementation
in society
that irked this Muslim elite and the macan
chiefs.
That is why they were prepared to offer
him certain things. They offered him whatever he
wants
and utba ibn rabiya, a chief among the
elites of Makkah, with the approval of the
political leaders of Makkah engaged the prophet.
If you want wealth, we will gather money
how much you want, you'll be the richest
among the people of the Quraysh.
And if you want to be chief or
in position of other authority, we'll do nothing
without consulting you.
If you want to be king or the
ruler over us, we'll make you our ruler.
But the prophet's attitude
is well captured in the response he once
gave to his own protective and guardian uncle
Abu Talib,
who spoke to the prophet about the dangers
that he would face from the ruling elite.
He warned him that if you continue with
this,
the harm that could come to him if
he continues with his mission. Andir Rasool gave
that famous reply, documented the seerah,
Oh my uncle, I swear by Allah, even
if they give me the sun in my
right hand and the moon my left hand,
I'm not gonna deviate.
Either I become successful or they wipe me
out, but I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna give in to this. I'm
not gonna compromise on this.
You see, what they were concerned was was
the social political impact of the prophet's
message.
The prophet's message of Tawhid would affect the
idol worshiping at the Kaaba.
And that time, of course, the Kaaba was
full of idols
and people from all over the region up
till Yemen in other parts came to the
Kaaba to worship there.
No idols, no worshipers coming there. No worshipers
coming bad for the economy.
Economic thing,
besides religious
belief.
And those who followed the prophet were mostly
poor. Remember what some of the people said
the opposition, nobody follows you but this come
of the earth. Women,
children, youth, and the poor. Nobody.
Shabd ibn Abu Bakr said, Khadija,
at that time
who followed the prophet?
Let's come of the earth. That's what they
said.
Not to know that they were the leaders
of a civilization eventually.
Those who followed the prophet in those early
days were mostly poor, young women.
And that part of society most neglected by
the rulers and still most neglected by the
rulers today and they would demand equality and
justice
and that is bad for the rich people
and the powerful elite.
They want to be in control. They want
to keep people subservient to them. That is
why the people who were tortured were who?
People like Bilal
radiAllahu anhu.
An African slave.
A people was were killed. Alayasir Shumaiyah,
the first lady
who was martyred, the first person who was
martyred in Islam.
Why do you think the prophet and a
handful of his companions
were boycotted for 3 years at Sheba Abu
Talib? No no marriage with them. No dealing
with them. No trade with them. Why?
Why did the Muslim have to make Israel
to Abyssinia and Rasul himself to Yathrib?
Why late in history was Imam Hussain killed?
Why?
Why was Imam Shafi'i Abu Hanifa imprisoned?
If you're a Salafi, ask why was he
mitzimiya?
Why was
Mittaimia imprisoned?
And if you're a Sufi
ask why was Sheikh Yusuf al Makassar exiled
and why was Twanguru imprisoned here on our
urban island?
There were social political considerations
that bothered the ruling elite.
Because others were praying, people were fasting from
where they came. It wasn't purely the prayer
and the fasting or purely the religious duties
that was bothering them.
It was the impact on society.
So if you do not want to be
a voice of conscience, you're welcome.
But please,
if you are in leadership, religious or otherwise,
please do not make excuses
for the prevalence of
or silence those
who are opposed to injustices.
The Ummah is supposed to fulfill the task
of
Ummah commanding what is right, fulfilling what is
wrong.
How could we ever fulfill the role of
spearheading the efforts for the common welfare of
humanity, not Muslims, of human.
No.
The nahs for all of humanity, how can
we do that
if we are not committed or be or
prepared to be at the aid of the
most vulnerable
and brutalized among our own whom we are
seeing being massacred
in broad daylight
as we speak.
How could we compromise to the heart to
hearken to the call of the oppressed,
if in this dire hour of need, we
are not able to help or even be
conscious enough to want to do something.
It is so unbecoming of a person of
faith
not to stand up against injustice and oppression.
Not to speak out against the oppressors, whoever
they may be. Whether Muslim or not, The
prophet said Allahu alayhi wasallam warned, hadith documented
again,
People if people see oppression and they see
an oppression of oppression and they never stop
him, seize his hand and stop him,
preventing him. Allah will send the punishment upon
them, the oppressor
and the passive onlookers.
Forget the oppressor, the passive onlookers,
And then you will make dua and Allah
will not respond to your dua.
Allah will not even respond to your dua.
I didn't do anything. I just kept quiet.
I was watching. No. You're not you're an
activist. You're a mumin. You're a voice of
conscience. You're not supposed to be quiet.
We are supposed to be khalifatullahhi
fil ard.
Managers
and visitors of Allah's
affairs on earth.
Let us not be cowards,
selfish,
lethargic,
self centered and indifferent.
Let us never, never be of those who
disappoint Allah in our collective responsibility
of khilafa
and may we never be of those
whose dua Allah rejects.
I leave you with an abdua,
a dua that I have very often quoted
from this from this member, this mihrab.
A dua of the prophet that he made
regularly according to Sahil Bukhari, fejofileilis
who make it in the darkness in the
middle of the night.
A dua so relevant in so many circumstances
but more so I believe in these times.
Rasoolah made the dua.
At the end of it, I'll conclude with
this dua. Say Amin, and don't be shy
to say Amin. People lose their voices. Imam
said, daleen, you look at the imam. Say,
Amin.
The Prophet said, when you see imam said
baleen, people say a mean. And the a
mean the angels say a mean. When the
a mean of the angels and the a
mean of those who are following coincide,
Allah forgives the sins of everyone present.
You may dua you don't say Amin.
You say Rasulullah
Say something.
Not watching a show here.
Rasulullah made the dua.
Rasulullah said, oh Allah, look at the beauty
of this dua and how after our times.
Oh Allah, I seek your protection, I seek
refuge in you, oh Allah,
from anxiety and worries.
You go to a doctor, why do I
have sickness, depression? Because you got anxieties.
Oh Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from
anxiety and worries,
from
grief, from incapacity, from the inability to do
something,
from laziness,
from selfish
stinginess,
from cowardice,
from the burden of death
and from the *
of other people.
We say shukran to jisarullah Khan for his
eye opening words. May Allah
grant him a long and healthy life Put
the joy, InshaAllah, Amin.
Alhamdulillah.
Once again, Islamic College has the honor of
officiating the Jum'ah. The first adhan will be
made by Hafid Abdullah Palika, and the second
adhan will be made by Abdullah Ubaidullah Ismail,
who are both students at Islamic College. I
kindly ask if all musalis can please stand
and fill any gaps so that there is
no time wasted between the Khutba and the
salah shukran.