Sadullah Khan – Jumuah
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We leave our kids on holiday, that's why
half the mosque is empty. But nonetheless,
wherever we are, may Allah
grant his blessings on this great day of
Jum'ah.
We are in the month of Rabi'ul Awlul,
the 2nd week of Rabi'ul Awlul,
and this is the period in history
where the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam both
was
born
and when he passed away.
This greatest benefactor to humanity,
final messenger of Allah.
And I have recited 2 verses at the
opening,
which will be the theme of my
presentation here today.
The one verse is
We have not seen the, oh, Muhammad,
except as
a bringer of black tidings
and as a warner
to humanity.
And this mission that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam as the Quran
emphasizes,
He was not sent for a particular people
at a particular time.
Rather, as the Quran affirms,
we have sent here Muhammad
as a messenger
unto
all the people of all the time to
come.
And therefore, the Rasul, for the last man,
Hadith himself,
Israel. Every Nabi comes specifically towards a particular
people.
Iraq, to their people, in particular, each prophet.
But they are so
but I have been sent to all people
of all times to come.
And, therefore, he also said,
I have been sent as a messenger to
the entirety of humanity.
And through the mission of Yirasul,
all the mission of prophets that came before
him reached completion and perfection.
And, hence, among the last verses to be
revealed to Rasulullah,
Rasool
Allah, We have completed our favors upon you,
oh people,
perfected for you your faith, the fundamentals of
your faith,
and we are satisfied
with Islam for you as a way of
life. The same Islam, in essence, which was
taught by all the prophets and reached completion
in the mission of Rasulullah.
But what's dealing Islam which we're talking about,
which the prophet
completed?
It seeks to affect the hearts and the
minds of people
to know the universal path of righteousness,
what we call Siratul Mustaqim
and it does this by means of reasoning,
by means of good moral example,
by emphasizing
justice
and by offering the natural beauty of his
principles
to humanity at large.
And therefore, Islam is not even just a
traditional religion,
it's much more than that. As we often
emphasize,
it is rather a civilizational
force.
It is a way of life
that is spiritually enhancing,
moderately uplifting,
socially relevant,
and universally applicable. I repeat that.
Islam is spiritually
enhancing,
morally uplifting,
socially relevant,
and universally applicable. It's not more applicable to
any place, to any people, to any language,
to any culture at any time. It's equally
applicable
and that is why today is a universal
message.
So our being indeed is a civilisational
force.
Sometimes we use our being to a division
with its narrow,
understandings.
A civilizational
force which sparked the renaissance,
ours
is a leader that positively impacted the world
through Rasulullah.
In fact, John William Draper,
the historian
in his well known book, History of the
Intellectual
Development of Europe, he observes,
and I quote,
4 years after the death of the Roman
Emperor Justinian
in 5 9 569
AD, there was born at Mecca in Arabia.
That man, one woman,
exercised the greatest influence upon the human race,
Muhammad.
Or as Reverend Boswell Smith wrote
in analyzing the life of the prophet in
his book, Mohammed and Mohammedanism,
he said,
head of state
as well as of the church, who was
a Caesar and a poping one, but he
was a pope without the pretensions of a
pope. He was a Caesar without the legions
of the Caesar,
Without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without
a palace, without a fixed revenue.
If ever any man could claim the right
to say that he'd ruled by divine right,
indeed it was Muhammad.
We gathered from all of these and many
other reliable references,
and these are from non Muslims, by the
way,
the comprehensive nature of the personality of the
prophetic character. So when you speak about the
sunnah of the Rasul, it's not only in
how we look and how we dress, because
we focus a lot on that, which is
good.
But for many of us, it ends exactly
there. And then on that basis, we divide
and separate and fight with each other.
The perception that the world has of Islam
depends tremendously on how we, as the Ummah,
practically engage the world around us. How we
relate among ourselves
and how we engage
others who may not be of our faith.
People see Islam reflected through Muslims.
And if Muslims fail the world, then Islam
would have seemed to have failed the world.
If Muslims are dogmatic and never minded
and negative people,
people will assume that Islam is narrow minded,
retrogressive
and negative.
So, it's not what quantitative
numerical position, how many billions we are in
the world, because of numbers counted, battle of
Badr will have been so important, But it's
specifically important
because of the numerical inferiority of the Muslims,
but the moral
and spiritual superiority that they overcame in army
far stronger than them.
So,
it's not what quantitative and numerical position we
occupy,
rather what qualitative
contribution
that we make. It's not what we think
of ourselves.
Rather, it is what we reflect in our
relationship with others.
It is how many we are, rather how
much good we do. And therefore,
the condition of the current world, as we
look at it, doesn't appear ideal.
The future seems bleak,
but that is exactly where the believer is
more required than ever before. It's in the
darkness that you need the light, Not in
the time of the light that you need
a torch. Because even in the darkness, even
a match will do.
And the Rasul said, hadith documented in Bayraki,
If Allah wishes well for a person, he
grants the person the capacity
to be a benefit
to the world.
So if we are a collective ummah,
collectively,
how much should our benefit be to the
rest of the
world?
This brings me to a second point.
Rasool is a messenger unto all humanity in
all dimensions of human engagement.
He wasn't only an imam in a masjid,
but he also a father,
also head of state, also commander of the
armed forces, also chief judge. And in each
of these,
there's a manifestation
of his comprehensive sunnah.
So second point is,
the universality of the message is 1, the
other one is the universal expecting of his
mercy.
We have not sent you, we accept
as a giver of glad tidings
and a warner, and the other one says,
we have not sent you except as a
mercy unto the world. There must be a
synergy between the 2 because the mercy is
reflected in how he was, Rashid al Munabira,
and the bashar and the the the invar
that he gave must be reflected through his
mercy.
So Allah says,
we have not sent you, oh, Muhammad, except
his mercy,
unto all levels.
Not to Muslims,
not to good Muslims, not to Muslims of
my school or for,
to the Hanafi or whatever. No. Not even
to Muslims
We have sent you not even to human
beings.
We have sent you as a mercy unto
all levels of existence.
Not all human beings, all levels of existence
that which we perceive
and that we do not perceive.
That which we know of today and some
we may not even know of.
We need to understand that.
So,
we find here this notion of rama. And
as we often say, the revealer is rama.
The messenger is rama. The message is rama.
Allah is Ar Rahman.
We emphasize this point very often. So if
the revealer is mercy, the messenger is mercy,
the message is mercy, what should be the
main expression
of the Muslim? What should be the mark
by what people know us? By our caps?
By our Arabic?
No. They should know when they see a
a Muslim, they know this. I must be
a Muslim guy. This there's a mark of
them is their mercy which is so so
absent.
The biggest sunnah
the biggest moon of sunnah
is a sunnah for which Allah send their
Rasul expressively.
And that sunnah is the
expression
of
mercy.
Have
mercy
on those around you so Allah may have
mercy upon you.
In fact, in the sunun of Imamat Tirmidi
and Ibni Sham documents it also in his
book of history.
He said,
said, Na Ali, when he described the prophet,
he said the following words,
Rasulullah,
the seal of prophets.
The most generous
yet the bravest of all. His speech was
most truthful. He was the keenest and most
attentive to the needs of people.
He was getting getting careful to give people
their due. He was the most amenable and
the most yielding of companions. Then he said,
He was that kind of person.
When people saw him, they would respect him
and venerate him. He was acquainted with him
would say, I like him. And people when
they describe him would say, I've never seen
someone like him either before or after him.
And Molin al Tafussein captures some of this
in poetic form.
He said, Rasulullah,
the one who bore the title of the
most merciful one who realize the aspiration of
the distressed.
We help all of those who are in
adversity.
He showed compassion to the unfortunate
despite his own difficulties
and hardships. He was the helper of the
needy, the supporter of the weak, the guardian
of the orphans and the refuge of the
slaves.
So, let me reflect upon that
prophetic character.
He was undoubtedly an embodiment of mercy and
an expression of love.
The question then is,
where is that mercy and love and compassion?
Forget from us to others. Where is it
among us?
Muslims are supposed to be
a single global community,
bound by the principles of our faith.
We were never intended
to be a community divided
by our differences.
Believers are 1 fraternity.
If there are matters that need to be
resolved, reconcile.
For reconciliation
is best.
Perchance the mercy is being withheld, Allah promises.
What
do do this? Reconcile. Be sincere. Beautiful to
Allah.
So that the mercy of Allah descends upon.
If there's a withholding of the mercy perchance,
Allahu Alam, it may be that we're not
fulfilling that isla
and manifesting the taqwa. May Allah guide us.
The Ummah is distinguished
as an Ummah by what we share, what
we agree upon regarding the fundamentals of our
faith. Not by the way we differ among
ourselves on secondary issues. We were never intended
to be community bogged down in disputation and
discord.
Those became divided among themselves and fall into
We are like 1 body. If any part
is afflicted,
any part afflicted, we should feel pain. If
we don't feel the pain, there's something wrong.
Something seriously wrong. We can only truly reflect
the prophetic mercy if we imbibe the prophetic
spirit of care and compassion.
We are in this month of Rabi over
the month of the birth and the passing
of Rasul. We are cognizant of his lifestyle
and example. We cannot truly be following the
sunnah of Rasulullah if we hate each other
as Muslims.
Forget accusing or insulting or fighting.
Said Rasool said, even to look at your
brother Muslim with a look that he may
find displeasing,
Is that permissible for
you? A young ruler, not the word, just
look,
that he finds displeasing.
It's haram for you.
He says, I saw a person narrating a
hadith which he heard. He himself was present.
He said, I saw the Rasul making tawafat
around the Kaaba. And I heard what he
said. What did the Rasul says?
He said
Rasool said, O
Kaaba. He beg it to offer the Kaaba.
And
here's the prophet saying this, O Kaaba, how
pure and how magnificent you are.
And how great and exalted is your sanctity,
oh Kaaba.
But be rest assured
that the one whose life
the one who has the life of Muhammad
in his hands. But Allah in other words
has swear the sanctity of a believer, the
blood and the property and the dignity of
a believer
in the sight of Allah is greater than
your sanctity.
In fact, we cannot be following the sunnah
unless we love all Hadith and Sahih Muslim
rather the whole.
Aude
started a civilizational force. We sparkle renaissance. It's
not a doctrine that promotes destruction.
It is not a deen of suspicion but
a deen of trust.
Our life of inclusivity
that embrace the Ahul Khita despite distinct elements
of shirk in the belief of the of
the Christians.
Distinct element of shirk.
How was the faith of inclusivity
that embrace the
not the narrow minded theology that excommunicates its
own people. I was in a religion of
peace, not a culture of violence.
I was the philosophy of love not an
attitude
of hate.
This is the inherent feature of nature. This
is the secret of our faith.
Worldwide
all conquering love
and abundance
of brotherhood that we spread.
So in commemorating the life of Rasulullah,
we celebrate his life, appreciate his sacrifice,
consider his impact, but we commit ourselves to
implement his noble example to the best of
our ability in our times.
In our times,
look at our compromise situation globally.
Look at what we are focusing on and
look at what we are in the rest
of the world.
The former head
of the Muslim Judicial Council, the respected my
brother, Mohammed Hassan Hendricks, has been put on
the terrorist list.
That means he most likely cannot even travel
to Mecca after this.
What are we focusing on?
They announced yesterday Trump announced the moving of
the capital
of,
of the embassy
which has other implications. Not that he's important,
but they have a lot of ramifications to
this. All over the world, they are protests
including our place in other parts of the
world.
What is it that our leaders are doing?
What are they focusing on? How much of
our fatawa in our coming in our conferences
are able to stifle these global thugs?
What are we busy with?
We,
the we buy so much on
we argue
with It's more become fictionalized.
Prioritizing the most important thing first.
If I have a problem with a brother,
I have a problem with him. He took
my pen, I'll ask him. Somebody throws the
stone to the mosque. I won't be arguing
by my pen. I'll deal with him afterwards.
I'm not worrying about somebody taking the mosque.
They're destroying our masjid. They're bombing us in
parts, and we are busy. Where's my pen?
I can show you Mahak is my pen.
I can show you the Dalil. We are
busy with these kind of things. That is
why we are the subject of discussion in
the world. We are not even part of
the discussion. They do with us what they
want and we foreplay pray
to their poise.
These leaders in the Middle East, many of
them are so sold out to the imperialist
forces.
And then some of us are financed by
these people. They'll be not even able to
see a slave what's happening in the world.
Where is the Ummah? What have we done
collectively to be able to respond to the
realities of the world?
Look very carefully.
Look very very carefully to what we are
doing. The fear of
Oluwiyah requires that we know which issue is
more worthy of our attention. It doesn't mean
that this is not important. Of course, they
are. He's got my pen. He must give
my pen back. I want it back.
By the way, he doesn't go by pen.
I'm just doing it.
What is more worthy of our attention at
this crucial time when the Muslims are being
decimated worldwide
and very often at the hands of Muslims?
Mosques are being bombed by Muslims.
So Zionist doing it. Zionist hand behind either
imperial Muslims are doing it.
What is the culture that drives it? We
should have hadith and Quranic verses that imply.
What is our collective judgment against those people?
No.
The elegant announcement by Trump to move the
US embassy to Jerusalem is a blatant affront
to the rights of all Palestinian people, Christian,
Jews, and Muslims.
This oldest city in the world, one of
the oldest cities in the world, The 2
oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
1 is being bombed to pieces Damascus. The
second one is Jerusalem. The 2
longest continuously inhabited cities in the world both
in Muslim hands,
both in Muslim lands,
both under attack.
The birth place of civilizations, Jerusalem.
The city central to both to the Abrahamic
phase of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The religious secretaries of Jerusalem
is and its religious reality is an integral
part of Islam.
It's mentioned that Masjid al Aqsa is mentioned
by name. Allah linked it up with Makkah
when you link the Kaaba with Majil Al
Aqsa.
Don't strain yourself for any journey except to
3 mosques and one of them is.
All of this indicates the significance
of Jerusalem.
Consider its religious
and meritorious
nature of its existence.
Historically and religiously, Jerusalem
is and has always been and will forever
be significant to Muslims.
And all be reminded that Muslims refer to
Jerusalem as Baytul Maqdis,
the sacred place,
a place over which we have no control
at the moment.
We need to be cognizant of the fact
that the relevance is Islam is not determined
by the importance
we as the faithful consider within ourselves
but rather how our all embracing
universal faith responds to the global realities.
Relevance is not measured by teaching the Shahada.
You see, let me just give you an
example.
When the revolution occurred in Mozambique,
some people turned 1 or 2 of the
mosque, 1 of the mosque in particular, it
was stable. And people said, Astaghfirullah.
How can you do this? The people said
this mosque was here. It was meant for
the Indian people of the area. It had
carpeted. It was the first three of those
were air conditioned when people didn't have water
during the outside. So this mosque was never
relevant. It was a place for the rich
to come, feel comfortable, come before fajr, put
on the marshal, the air conditioning in the
resort, and
and people outside didn't have water. They didn't
have water to drink. How relevant was your
marshallallahu
mosque? Completely relevant.
So when they took over and the Muslims
fled,
where they read money to other parts of
the world, Portugal and everywhere else, They changed
it. Now, they'll be lying to a stable.
Not because they were showing a point, they
needed a stable.
Yom, that mosque was not relevant to the
people. It was a beautiful mosque. I'm sure
many people went there for the opening, Masha'Allah,
and Kari Sadullah went to this Tirah and
so on.
At the end of it, it was not
relevant.
Now how obscene is it that people turn
the mosque into a stable? How obscene was
it for you to have that kind of
mosque in an area where people didn't have
water?
Because the whole world is a mosque.
It's more important that people around you are
fed
If you talk about all the way at,
because you can pray anywhere. You don't need
a structure to pray in. One of the
things that Rasul was given, and we speak
about it.
Any place that's clean is a mosque.
Anyway,
so
relevance is
not determined by the importance we attach ourselves
or how numerically strong we are and how
many massages and muslimis we have. No. That's
numbers of
people. Relevance is determined by the desire we
have to see to the needs. What the
Quran say?
We guide you to the 2 paths.
You don't choose the uphill path. What is
the uphill path?
I gave up 2 khutbas about this fire.
You don't choose the uphill path.
What is the uphill path?
To free those who are in difficulty and
hardship, in bondage.
To free those
on the day when they're hungry, not in
Ramadan when you feel like being generous to
get more fa'afar
So we can go to Jannah. We
get more Ajahn, I believe. But we are
so generous in Ramadan and the rest of
the year because you know why? I'm securing
my Jannah Even in our giving,
there's a selfishness. What do I get? So
I won't give now. Tomorrow is Ramadan. So
I'll get 10. I'll give tomorrow. Let him
starve in the meantime so I can go
to Jannah.
Even now giving, there's a sense of selfishness.
To feed those
who are hungry on the day they need
it.
Not yesterday.
Now when they need it, feed them.
Or to have the filthy one in the
dust Nobody wants to see her. It's filthy.
Don't touch it.
The poor one covered in dirt.
If you can do that, this is Quran
not hadith.
Then and only then are you of those
who have iman.
Because you are the one who facilitates patient
perseverance
and facilitate the expression of mercy
to which there is who came.
So to reflect the prophetic spirit,
we have to imbibe the sunnah as Tariqa
The Muhammad and Tariqa,
the upright way of life.
Commendable,
implying
moral behavior,
exemplary conduct
and this emanated from the prophet's deep rooted
piety.
From his noble humanity, from his compassionate spirit
and from his high morals.
As for those of us who claim to
follow the sunnah,
may Allah make us of those who are
benefit to the world,
who are source of alleviating the hardship and
facilitating ease.
May he may he make us to be
true followers of the sunnah of the Rasul
in how we look in the length of
our beard, in our cap, in our turban,
and also, more importantly, in how we love,
how we express compassion, how we are representative
when the people see, they say that man
must be following Muhammad.
Those who are just, those who are compassionate,
who are neither harsh nor deviant
nor extreme.