Sadullah Khan – Reminder
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The history and character of Islam, including the implementation of Islam's free expression of choice and the importance of freedom, are highlighted. The negative consequences of police brutality and the lack of human rights in South Africa are also discussed. The transcript provides records of deeds and records of deeds, and the importance of freedom in actions and values is emphasized. The journey to freedom is discussed, including pursuing justice, achieving it in a way that is not just a straight line, and pursuing justice and achieving it in a way that is not just a straight line. The speaker emphasizes the need for individuals to be a voice of their faith and achieve their goals.
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Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful. All praise is due to our
Creator, our cherisher our nourishing 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 the Prophet
Muhammad Abdullah Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa early he was
happy he was Salam is the final of all the emissaries of Allah.
Listed elders, brothers and sisters respected youth. I greet
you with a Islamic universal greeting of peace at this
auspicious time of Juma Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.
The concept of freedom is the distinguishing quality of human
beings.
And each and every human being has the right to be free.
Freedom therefore, refers to a state of being in which any
individual is able to get choice in forth a choice in behavior, or
a choice in speech or association. And also the ability to avoid
doing so. But without violating similar freedoms on the part of
other people.
From this statement,
and this understanding, we did use three points. One, Freedom has
both the dimension of doing something or not doing something,
in other words, the choice to do something, or the choice not to do
something. Secondly, there are limits and restraints to the
choice that a person has in that freedom. Because that freedom to
do or not to do, should not impinge upon the rights and the
freedoms of other people. And thirdly, because freedom implies
the notion of choice, the individual is accountable for the
choice of action or thought or deed that they engage in, and
therefore, must be the consequence of that choice and of that
freedom.
Today, is a holiday celebrating Freedom Day in our country.
And annual commemoration on the occasion with
almost 20 million of our citizens and our compatriots queued
historical cues we saw to take part in the country's first free,
non racial and free democratic election in the year 1994 24 years
today, has passed since that particular historic occasion,
peace, unity, dignity, the preservation and the restoration
of human rights were the hallmarks of that freedom they on the 27th
of April 1994. And each year, like today, marks in some ways, the
liberation of our country, and our people from a long period of
colonialism and of white minority *.
The question we ask, after 24 years of commemorating Freedom
Day, 24 years after the first free democratic election, the question
we need to ask, is our country truly free?
They might not even have the facts, though. We have come a long
way. In many instances.
So many of our citizens have not yet tasted the fruits of the
promises. That was NTP anticipated after the election in 1994. And
unfortunately, we are held captive by reality in South Africa suffers
from a crime epidemic where people feel unsafe, where we have an
incredibly weak and corrupt inefficient government with a
reprehensible
intimidates attitude towards combating crime. And many of our
political leaders have betrayed the solemn commitment to build a
free and fair and just society in a post apartheid South Africa to
meet the needs of the poorest of the poor, and to alleviate the
suffering of the needy and the disadvantaged.
We are held captive by effective law in order and underpaid and
understaffed and efficient police force were criminals when free.
And the notion of accountability seems absent. And the wheels of
justice seems to turn extremely slowly, if at all,
the vast majority of our people are still living in abject poverty
with a pitiful service delivery and a crippling unemployment rate.
We are in a society where some are still continued victims of
unaddressed injustice of the past, that they are not afforded the
opportunity to survive and live with dignity, where some are so
preoccupied at looking only at the past, that they are able to look
ahead and plan the path for a better future. And on the other
hand, they are some was so engrossed in enjoying the
privileges that they do have to destroy, forget to address the
rights of those who are in need, and those who are denied.
So when self centered economic enrichment, exploitation of
political authority and office and position and selfish political
power, combined, then we have what we call a recipe for them, which
of course means darkness, as well as oppression, injustice and the
gloom of darkness and pessimism, then Foster's and festers and all
elements, these are all elements, contrary to the very notion of
freedom for which people have fought.
In Islam, we find the Quranic concept of freedom is described
with many words in many expressions,
her freedom, the protection or even salvation, follows the
reaching of a target achieving a goal for law, total well being or
success, the flowing and the flowering of potential fulfillment
of Layton qualities, all of these
terms and terminology used in the Quran or in the Hadith.
And not particularly these words in the Quran, regarding freedom.
three aspects to human freedom that we have referred to let us
view it from an Islamic perspective.
When the issue of human freedom and Islam
it begins with the notion that we are born free the majority of our
Christian brothers and sisters, they have to believe that we are
born in sin and therefore somebody has to redeem for our sins and pay
with their blood or their lives. In Islam. We don't have that
notion that anybody dies for the sins of anyone else, nor that
anyone is accountable for anyone else. Well, as he was, you know,
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Quran, that clearly indicate individual freedom, accountability
rather for what we do. So we have gone free, we're not born in
original sin without bearing the brunt of anyone else, guilt and
wrongdoing. Second,
given the fact that human beings are free to choose,
and therefore we were somewhat less than angels in the sense that
they don't deviate from the commands of Allah, La Yasunaga,
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maroon that angels were Allah compatible in all that they do,
but they don't have the free choice,
to disobey.
So in one way, they are purer than us. On the other hand, we have the
capacity to rise above that, in Allah Allah kala kala Mala Iike
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they act upon pure reasoning compatible with the divine, never
deviating. Then he created animals and bees they act upon instinct
and desire and passion that Allah created human beings that has both
the angelic capacity, capacity of doing good in a purity but also in
the animalistic dimension of desire and lust in short, and once
ingredients on and so forth.
Base appetites and Bee's Knees like the animal for men, who are
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to that person that human being, whereas both the angelic as well
as the animalistic propensity, who rises above, can rise above the
angel, if they choose to do by choice to do what is best and
good,
then the rise above the angels, we have no choice to do that. But we
can also go lower than the animal
despite having reason and logic, to act upon our basic instinct and
desire as the primary motive of our behavior. So
we need to realize that we have free choice, but
we have the innate ability within ourselves to distinguish right
from wrong. When left sin were Massawa. Not necessarily Muslim,
wala loves movement, not the knifes of a believer or a Muslim.
When they've seen the soul itself. The individual self in this case,
has the inmate capacity when they've seen what Mercer for Allah
Maha voodoo Raha Taqwa it has innate capacity, the natural
disposition to be able to distinguish wrong from right. But
after the Hammonds occur, elevated, successful indeed are
those who purify themselves occur the government and debate are
those who choose to become involved in that which is
nefarious and negative and evil.
You corrupt yourself in that process.
Because we have the notion of choice in our action, that
comprise accountability and its consequences for action, whether
it be the political level or the individual level, social level,
whatever level it may be,
we have a consequence and therefore, Allah says in the Quran
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the accountability, the Quran is
tied to the next, if you can free yourself from the accountability
and the consequence of your deeds were cooler inside for each human
being with tied to his neck, so to say, he is bound or she is bound
by the deeds.
And those deeds are documented and will be brought forth, documented
in whichever Allah knows, whichever way and will be
presented to us on the Day of Tiama. These are the records of
your deeds
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Sufficient are your deeds as a testimony against yourself.
Whoever chooses to be guided to choose chose to be guided, have
chosen to be guided for his own good. And whoever chose to go
astray or deviate or denigrate or lower themselves have chosen to do
so at their own peril, but the pay the consequence of that.
So it's important to remember in Islam, that freedom means freedom
to do good, not freedom just to do anything. And therefore in the
Arabic language, the word
that implies a freedom, it also has the connotation of Kurama of
nobility and, of nobleness.
Freedom never exists, like anything else, never exists in a
vacuum.
A type of freedom that respects the other is what you're talking
about. But freedom from moral obligation, freedom to do what is
good, that freedom from doing what is right, freedom, for truth, for
justice, for virtue, and for righteousness.
I have traveled hamdulillah to many, many countries.
And many of my friends I see here some of them will just come back
from overseas and for their testimony to the fact as much as
you appreciate other places. South Africa is among the best countries
in the world.
diversity of people
rich in mineral resources, sufficient food beautiful
landscape, wonderful weather, waiting for more rain inshallah.
Freedom of religion and expression will not fall in most countries,
especially Muslim countries. A proud legacy of struggle, a proud
legacy of struggle may have indeed come a long way in a short time.
And don't undermine or underestimate that.
Because we're not trying to be pessimistic, but being realistic
because motivates us
To know what we need to do.
So we have diversity of people rich in mineral resources,
sufficient food, beautiful landscaping land, wonderful
weather, freedom of religion and expression very re in the world
today, proud legacy of strong, proud legacy of struggle.
We have indeed come a long way in a short time. But even the people
fought and died for is much more than that.
24 years after the first democratic election, it feels as
if we have made indeed some great strides in the face of
considerable adversity, coming out of an era of apartheid, and
colonialism. But for those who are in authority, we still have a
break a string of broken fundamental promises
from those who are entrusted the baton of freedom by those who
literally paid with the lives for that freedom.
And nothing is more emblematic, more exact, an example or a
deflection of the 1994 democratic transition than the Laurel
undertaking by those who came to power
to right the wrongs of a party to undo the rungs of a party, but the
promise to level the playing field through rolling back the poison of
the party, its crimes among which was, of course number one,
inequality, injustice, poverty, and unemployment, all of which was
promised, as an integral part of the undertaking of 1994 the
election
and undertaking which recognize the fact that freedom should mean
emancipation, from poverty, from unemployment, racism, from bigotry
in all its forms, and discrimination, and all levels of
inequity and injustice. Freedom should mean a better life for all
of us, irrespective of the color of your skin.
And by that standard, the journey to freedom is still a long way to
go.
So we have indeed traveled a long way on the journey to freedom. I
struggle with so many people were involved with so many paid with
their lives, a struggle in which many Muslims too played an
essential role from Mobic Acharya to Ahmed Timo from Abu Bakr to go
right Ibrahim from Rahima Moosa, who led the march to de la Omar in
our community from buying decide to fatty mummy, in fact, from the
time of Tron guru, from the time of Tron guru to Ahmed Kathrada,
and of course never forgetting the martyr Imam Abdullah Haroon, after
whom the very road on which this man stands is named.
After whom the very the mosque which we are in, is named the road
is named after him and
they are all in some way or the other.
perpetuated the commander of which we are reminded every Joomla in
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Certainly, Allah commands justice and goodness and magnanimity to
your near ones and dear ones, Allah for both all forms of evil
of corruption in all forms of injustice. Allah admonishes you,
so that you may perchance reflect,
reflecting about what is right,
doing what is best, pursuing what is just is always the hallmark of
a true believer, reflecting upon what is right.
Doing what is best, and pursuing. What is just is always the
hallmark of a true believer, in fact, so significantly this notion
of the pursuit of justice, that in the Quran Allah says ARD who who
were Acropolis Taqwa be just for that is a closest expression to
piety,
justice, and the manifestation thereof is the closest expression
to piety according to the Quran. So I'll be the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam manifested this notion of doing
what is right.
reflecting upon what is good, and pursuing what is just in one of
the traditions documented by a bank. That also said Allahu Allahu
alayhi wa sallam said,
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Allah has advised me sincerely in private and in public justice in
all circumstances, whether I'm angry or happy,
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to forgive those may have wronged me to be generous to those who may
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relation with me. What are some typical among the key the craw one
other eyebrow, he said, and that my silence should be
contemplative. My speech should always be mindful, and my looking
should be insightful, that what I see I learned from it. And then he
concluded, while mobile ma roof 100 most of those were implemented
his right and prevent what is wrong.
So as long as the journey on the path to full freedom continues, we
as Muslims, who have been an integral part of that noble
struggle to ensure that there is a genuine focus on freedom, a
genuine focus on freedom for all the people of our land, a
continued pursuit for peace, for equity, and for justice.
Remember, that we as people of faith should always be a voice of
conscience.
people of faith should always be a voice of conscience, activist for
freedom and justice, because that reflects the mission the prophets,
of which Allah subhanho wa Taala reminds us in Surah Al Hadid
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miss Zan, Lea Kuma Nasser locust. Allah says in surah, Hadith,
chapter 47 of the Holy Quran, verse 25, he says,
surely Allah has sent prophets throughout history, not the last
prophet or the first one, or the biblical ones that we know have
mentioned in the Quran. Otherwise, the correct answer will not be.
We've seen prophets throughout history with clear guidance and
clear guidelines. And we have revealed within the standard of
the book
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