Siraj Wahhaj – On His Time With The Nation Of Islam
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I'm just gonna talk for a few moments.
Is that okay with you?
A few weeks ago, I was in Boston,
Massachusetts, and a good friend of mine, Imam
Abdallah Farooq, he's the imam of Masjid,
invited me to celebrate their 50 years of
being a masjid.
And it was at that moment that I
realized, I didn't realize,
that that was my 50th year of being
a Muslim.
And this is really what I wanna talk
about. The prophet, alayhis salaam, said,
your deeds shall be judged by your last
deeds.
Don't tell me how you're born.
Tell me how you died.
I want to fast forward Yom Al Qiyamah,
a scene that every Muslim ought to think
about.
And every once in a while when you
read the Quran and the sunnah, you will
see that the people in Jannah
can see the people in Halfi and the
people in Halfi can see the people in
Jannah
and sometimes they can talk. Let me give
you 2 examples, one from the Quran.
What has caused you to be in the
hellfire?
We're not those who used to make salat.
Salat is real,
serious.
We have to make it 5 times a
day.
And when Allah
gave the commandment to the prophet,
he told him 50 prayers a day for
a job to be valid
and I returned with it. He was gonna
do 50 prayers a day. 50 prayers a
day. That means, like, every 30 minutes
until it was 5.
Musa said,
Go back
and ask Allah to reduce it. Your ummah
won't be able to do 5.
That's 1. Number 2, this is the one
that
should frighten every Muslim.
When the people in Jannah look down and
they will recognize
some people,
All our brothers,
they used to pray with us.
And they fasted with us.
They made Hajj with us.
At this moment, you should ask yourself the
question, well, what are they doing in the
hellfire if they did that?
It's a warning for us.
We're we're fasting. We're coming to the masjid.
We're doing all
that. Don't you be like those who came
before you.
Don't be like those who forgot Allah
They forgot. They knew it.
We sent down the Torah.
And it is guidance and light, and gave
him, him
isa, in it is guidance and light. What
happened?
You will follow
those who came before
you step by step and inch by inch,
so that if they crawled in a hole
of a lizard, you follow right behind them.
You mean the Christians and Jews for men?
Yes, who else?
It's not just to fast in Ramadan and
pray,
but we must not change
In my conclusion,
I don't know if you know about my
history and the history of a lot of
us who came from what's called the Nation
of Islam.
Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, you know.
It's not how you begin the race, how
you end the race.
If you talk about the aqeedah of the
Nation of Islam in that day,
it was incorrect.
It begins with Allah the
one God, the right one that we worship,
it begins with that and Muhammad
as the sale of the prophets,
he
said there's no prophet after me. So the
nation of Islam didn't have the right aqeeda,
But there's something that the nation of the
nation of Islam
had
that we
don't have.
You know what it is?
We had a thing
you you call it we call it dawah,
they call it fishing.
Fishing means to go out there and get
the people,
bring the people into what we thought was
Islam.
Was it Islam? No. Let me give you
a couple examples.
A man came into the masjid
and he prayed and came to the prophet
and said,
go back and pray because you didn't pray.
So the man, he goes back and pray.
He comes back, assalamu alaikum, assalamu alaikum, salam
farjid fasalli, fa'innaqalamu
alaikum, go back and pray.
So the man said, I don't know a
better prayer than this,
pray as you see me pray. In the
nation of Islam,
you know how we prayed?
We didn't face Mecca,
we faced the east.
We never made
brash,
brukkul.
Never made sajidah.
It's not salat.
I was in the Malcolm was in the
nation of Islam for 12 years, I was
in the nation of Islam for 6 years,
this is how we prayed.
Ramadan,
we fasted but not in Ramadan, we fasted
in December.
So you see, that's not Islam, is it?
Is it correct? No.
But something happened
1975
and you have to understand the the qadr
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the leader Elijah
Muhammad dies
one day
before
our national holiday called Saviors Day.
Why was that significant?
Because almost all the members of the Nation
of Islam was in Chicago at that time.
Had it been another other time something else
would have happened.
And that day we chose the son of
Elijah Muhammad
to be the new leader.
Imam Warrathuddin Muhammad,
his father kicked him out of the Nation
of Islam for a few a few times.
Why? Because he didn't accept the theology of
his father,
And that one man, Wawrathuddin
Muhammad, led all of us to Islam.
And now that's why now for 50 years,
I've been I've been a Muslim, alhamdulillah.
But this is the issue that I want
to say to you.
And
I
need
another one here,
and I need another one.
Yeah. Here.
You stand here.
I gotta ask you a question. Right?
Do you know martial arts?
Yes. Yes? Good. You know martial arts? No.
No.
Not good.
No. No. No. No. One other question. Do
you know how to fall?
Yes.
You know how to fall.
Now,
in the nation of Islam, not Islam really,
we cared about the people.
We didn't call what you call what we
call dawah. They didn't call it dawah. They
call it fishing.
Fishing meant to go to the people to
invite them to what we said was Islam.
Islam. Now,
I,
one person,
quit my job
to sell a 25¢
newspaper called Muhammad Speaks.
Me alone
knocked on thousands of doors,
inviting these people what I thought was Islam,
because I love them, I want them to
have it, so I'm knocking on the doors.
And one day, I'm walking down the street,
Eastern Parkway, and I see a building. I'm
gonna go in the building, knock on the
doors, and and and sell the Muhammad speaks
newspaper and write them to Islam.
But I looked in the hallway, because we
were always observant, and I saw 2 men
in the hallway.
The one on the right looked mean.
No.
He can't even look mean, he's so good.
And the other one on the left, he
looked more reasonable.
So I walked in the hole, I my
first question, should I go?
You say yes. You would go?
No.
So I I went in.
The guy on the right, who looked mean,
I took a Muhammad Speaks newspaper
and put it under his arm,
and took another one and put it under
his arm and said, give me 25¢.
The one on the right, the mean looking
one,
he took a gun out of his pocket
and said,
you just can't rob a Muslim.
Put the gun back in his pocket and
give me 25¢.
The one on the left, give me 25¢
for the paper.
You did good.
What's my point?
The point is even though the nation of
Islam,
Malcolm x, Muhammad Ali,
were not true Muslims,
but he had the respect of the people.
Imam Talib from Harlem told me one day,
Imam, there was a black woman with a
hoodie on walking down the street of Harlem,
and there were 2 young men following her.
So she
picked up her pace.
They picked up their pace.
She began to jog,
they began to jog.
She started to run, they started to run,
and they were just about to grab her.
And her hoodie fell off her head revealing
Quima,
and they stopped.
And so, sister, we're sorry.
We're sorry.
Why?
Nation of Islam.
Wrong aqeedah,
but love for the people.
How many of you were born Muslim? Raise
your hand.
I want you to look around, please look
around.
Okay.
How many like me
converted or reverted to Islam? Raise your hand.
Look around.
Handful of people.
Why?
Why?
No one was better at dawah than the
prophet
and his companions. Look at them.
I got would you give me 2 more
minutes?
Take my time.
Don't ever tell me to take my time.
Mistake.
A big mistake.
Listen. Listen. Listen.
I'll I'll wrap it up with this inshallah.
Aisha
asked her husband the messenger of
Allah. Has there been a day more difficult
than Uhud?
Remember Uhud? Uhud
was a battle that we were gonna win.
You know, in the nation of Islam, the
brothers had what's called general orders. We had
to learn, right, from the military.
One of them, general order number 5, quit
my post only when properly relieved.
In Uhud, we had the battle won,
but the Muslims, they disobeyed the prophet alaihis
salaam, and we lost the battle. As a
result,
85 Muslims died in that battle, including Hamzah,
the prophet's uncle, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
and
the irony of that battle,
though we lost,
who became Muslim?
Abu Sufyan,
the head
of the Koran, he became he became
Muslim.
Ikram ibn Abi Jahali
became Muslim, the leader of the right the
left flank,
Maqalid ibn Walid, they become Muslim. Amr ibn
al As to become Muslim
in a battle that they lost.
The prophet alaihis salat wasalam
care about the people, so so many people
they,
alhamdulillah, became Muslims. This is my my my
last point.
We have to go after the people.
We have to go after the people
and invite them to Islam
to join this wonderful,
wonderful religion.
May Allah
bless all of you
and help us and help us to do
the work of dawah
in America.