Suhaib Webb – Palestine & Hypocrisy
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Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran locates being
a believer as a place of consummate challenge.
That's why he says
Indeed, we are constantly going to be testing
you. With
a number of things
from fear,
hunger,
and loss of wealth and lives,
and give glad tidings to the resilient.
And here, the resilience
implies 2 things,
that in the face of extreme success,
I'm resilient on gratitude.
And in the face of let me say
perceived success,
and in the face of perceived test and
trials,
I
meet those with resilience
the sovereign.
So we say that the life of the
believer is between
the Qut and Bast of Allah.
Allah restricting and Allah giving,
and the qat and the bust of Allah
is met with sugar or samar,
and that's it.
Sugar and summer
being resilient and grateful
to stay on the which we've made with
Allah.
My commitment
is to stay committed
with gratitude
and resilience.
As Allah, who subhanahu wa ta'ala, said to
Stay committed as you've been commanded in all
situations.
And that's why the Quran answers, we said
to add the
the
perform
sugar
act in gratitude.
I say that because
just yesterday on my Facebook wall,
I put up a post, and I'm speaking
on my own. I do not represent this
nonprofit before the board starts to sweat.
Disparaging
our current president as being the head of
a genocidal
insane,
massive public
exhibition
of might and power directed towards the most
feeble human beings on the face of the
earth.
And that's why I personally
did not support him earlier or Hillary
in 2016,
and I refuse to support him now, myself
talking, not on behalf of the nonprofits so
we escaped any tax laws.
Then immediately people started to say,
then who we go to? Who we turn
to? We will turn to Allah,
not Trump and not Biden.
What happened to the Muslim world? We became
so weak that we rely on these people
to protect us.
We lost our hope in Allah, we will
turn to Allah
and no one else and to our own
one.
That shows you the answer. Where are we
gonna go? Who are we gonna look to?
Who's gonna help us?
Waida Asa'adakaribariyaniya
Kareem.
What do you mean to us?
We became like Simba in the Lion King.
We look in the water and we see
a bunch of weaklings, a bunch of Arane.
I say that because the topic of my
hukla
is going to be on steps we should
take
as we face the coming election cycle,
especially coming out of the month of Ramadan.
And that incident reminded me of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the best of creation, the
best example we should all emulate.
When he was resting and the man came
to him and pulled out a sword,
And he
woke up, alayhi salatu salam.
And the man said,
who's gonna protect you?
And say the Muhammad
said, Allah.
When say the was being tortured,
Allah. Sayyidina
Yasir
BadiAllahu Anha, Allah.
But if the relationship is not strong with
Allah on my part, I won't be confident
enough to say that because after the prophet
said that to that man, he dropped his
sword.
And then the prophet grabbed his sword and
said, who will protect you? And he had
no answer.
We can learn these
important steps in Surat Al Kahf,
a chapter which we read every Friday ideally
if we're able to,
a chapter whose lessons will never stop. As
Shatabhi says,
And then the more you read the Quran,
you'll never become bored of it. And the
more you study the Quran, its beauty will
increase in front of you.
It's all about attitude.
So the prophet
said to him in a response as a
response to the people of Najran
who came to see him,
some narrations of the Jews, some narrations of
Christians.
But we take about 5 to 6 things
we should focus on in the coming year
so that we can say
You kill someone because they say their Lord
is Allah.
And that's why we begin the Quran with
what Alhamdu?
To remind us to center ourselves on the
alone.
And immediately the secular
colonized infected Muslim mind will say, are you
telling us not to work?
That's the secular colonial reaction to what I'm
saying. You cannot say, I don't be Allah
without intending to work.
You can't say, my lord is Allah, except
you have the intention to make great effort
as we'll talk about.
The first lesson that we take from Soul
to Caft to survive the cave,
not to get Trump,
the verb,
in the coming year,
and that is that we have to have
the right
faith. And we have to be very careful
of the Salafi Suki fighting,
which is simply used by intelligence agencies to
divide the Muslim community and weaken further and
further, even the Shia Sunni issue, which is
a whole another discussion.
What we mean by the Aqidah is the
Aqidah of the Quran that all Muslims believe
in. Alhamdulillah from the Chachi's,
you know, hanging out in the in the
house
to the,
you know, at the Makan place.
Everyone believed this to the kids in Islamic
school. If you say that who's your Lord,
they say, Allah. Who's your prophet? Muhammad Rasoolullah.
What do you believe in?
Nobody gets into the specifics of Akida except
people who are completely
immature and untethered from the responsibility of scholarship.
And unfortunately, we have to start holding Shu
and Imams accountable
who push this agenda of division amongst specifically
the Sunnis.
Look at our community that's someone really.
Those bombs don't care if you're Ashari, Sophie,
Salafi,
Lakers,
Celtics.
It doesn't care.
That bomb actually understands Muslim unity more than
we do that's why it can defeat us.
Our enemies understand Muslim unity more than we
do that's why they can defeat us, but
it is we who do not understand unity.
We who are always constantly divided
and actually would invite Shukh and Imams who
will destroy our unity. And now you see
where we are on the issue of Palestine.
We can't even get a bottle of water
in Palestine.
But we have time to call this imam,
deviant,
this sheikh is wrong, this person is on
the wrong, Minghahaj,
these people, this is a cancer
that needs to be stopped by you. We're
not going to allow this kind of division
anymore.
We don't have time for this.
So what I mean by that,
as all of them that they have of
Islam say that they
say,
and prays our prayer and eats our the
behalf is from us.
His son even to me, he stood at
that, he said the last thing I ever
heard him say in his life was
I will never make to fear of anyone
who faces a kibla. This is even taking
the imam of some of those people they
claim to follow.
His
student, Abu Hazari quotes him as saying, The
last thing he heard him say was I
will never make fear of the Muslims. This
is the imams of those people who are
creating these divisions in our community.
Oh, we need the strong that
that creates that
that creates.
Those kind of believers.
When they see difficulty,
I know what this is what Allah has
promised us and his messenger.
And increase their iman to test.
It doesn't weaken their iman. So we see
alshab al kaf, their imam is with Allah.
So the Sephora story became the cave.
The delights and pleasures of dunya were found
in a cave, why? Because it's for Allah.
As Shaul says, to be injured for what
you love is not injury. If you love
Allah,
then sacrifice is not a problem.
And Allah has bought from the believers,
and their entire life is bought for Jannah.
Life is the place to suffer, Jannah is
the place to.
The second quality
is to use the gifts you've been given,
And I wanna say this to young people,
stop learning from TikTok content provider providers
who are creating divisions amongst the Muslims.
You are wasting your youth
on people who may be plants
by the Musa and other intelligence
agencies
to make you waste your youth.
When I was in the West Coast 15,
16 years ago, we were working.
We weren't fighting.
And when you find, as Imam al Ghazali
says, if you see someone constantly attacking the
imams and the leaders,
run from them. Doesn't mean you don't criticize
them,
but be careful.
Look at those young people in.
They understand youth as a commodity,
not in the western sense, in the commodity
for genuine.
Let me show you a transaction that will
save you from *. One of them is
to use your youth sister,
Not just simply to hope to be an
influencer
but to be influenced by Allah as messenger
is the best goal. Are you influencing or
are you influenced?
Usually,
if you're on the trajectory
to start being able to sell purses and
you know, shoes
and protein
shakes and you do this and that and
advertise new serums even though I'm too young
to even worry about a wrinkle,
you've been influenced.
You got played and
are you willing to speak on the issues
of Palestine?
Are you willing to speak on the issues
of Afghanistan?
Are you willing to speak on Sudan? Are
you willing to speak on black America? The
prison industrial complex? The military industrial complex? Well,
I'm gonna lose my followers then you're influenced.
You're influencing no one.
You're a joke.
You sold out. This is what it is
to be a sell out.
But those youth and so to can't brothers,
they're not out hating on women. All my
problems are because of girls. Right.
You know who says that?
A man that has a lot of problems
he doesn't wanna face,
So he blames it on women.
But look at these young people who sold
the calf.
That's why Allah mentions him over and over
again. It was called
In rhetoric, if you wanna show how something
is important, you keep mentioning it. You don't
mention the pronoun. In
that
keep saying youth
youth
youth
youth,
and remember this khutba.
It should be an earthquake in your life.
It should crack the foundations of your Twitch
account.
If you don't use your youth, bro,
you failed.
The third
is to have a strong will.
Even though their youth and even though they
are physically weak because they have the right
aqidah and they understand whatever blessing I have,
let me use it for Allah.
They
use it for Allah. They're strong.
And here it should be
here the language is playing around.
It says, we strengthen their heart their heart
when they stood. You think it means when
they stood, we strengthen their heart because to
remind you, you have no strength, no power,
but with Allah.
But the point is when they stood
for something right,
Allah made them strong
and strengthened their will.
The next quality
and this applies to all of us
although it's spring break so I'm targeting
specific learning audience today.
I'm done. You didn't get burned by the
sun, which is the sun you may get
burned by him.
Can Allah protect us?
There's no break from
also. Look how they come out of my
youth in America when you're 18, you can
do you can do bad stuff. When you're
21, you can go to the club.
We're like when you're a man or a
woman, now you can worship Allah.
You could be the slave of Allah. It's
a very different way of thinking.
But the next is very important that we
need to think about it, and that is
to take all the prerequisites we need to
protect ourselves.
And we find ourselves a path
4.
Number 1, the cave.
The cave, of course, is a metaphor
for us for shelter
that we protect each other. And ideally, the
is
the masajid.
It's our masajid. They have to be a
place where people can come and find safety
and security from the challenges of this country,
the
Islamic rhetoric that we've been dealing with for
decades,
and now the
international
military
driven Islamophobia
against Palestinians
whether Muslim or not.
Number 2,
respecting even the creatures around us, the dog.
Imam Abu Tobi says about the dog in
sometimes
a dog is a better friend than a
person.
The third is community.
They have each other. Even though they're small
in number, they're able to help each other
out as we'll see in a second.
Community organizing, critical mass.
We don't have to only think about the
federal election. We should for president, we should
be thinking about down ballot. How do we
scale down ballot to build alliances with politicians
who may be even down ballot, but are
good people.
Are good people
who understand that there is no more dilemma
to call for a ceasefire
and hold that country Israel accountable for war
crimes against humanity.
There's no more to live in that decision
making,
but they have each other.
You have the laihimaajama'at.
He said Allah is with the group.
Why is it that we love to divide?
SubhanAllah. We're so divided as one new brother
told me he became Muslim, he said, I
never saw people love like Muslims, I never
seen people hate like Muslims
And he'd only been Muslim for 1 week.
I said, you
went to the hall welcome to Islam class.
He said, no. I just went to Tarawee
every night
and saw the parking lot
and also
financial
When they walk from the cave,
take the money.
Money with principles.
People said you wanna be just like APAC.
No, we don't.
We wanna be Norpac.
We may have money, and we may have
financial influence, and we may have that kind
of play,
but we do not do anything that goes
against
basic human morality
and our dean.
So even though they woke up after such
a long time,
they have money to help them. We have
to think about that money is the field
of choices.
It's needed.
We need to be supporting candidates that we
find are aligning with our values,
supporting institutions that are doing great work, supporting
imams and Shu who are on the ground
educating people.
Absolutely. Supporting charities that are working to end
this catastrophe. Absolutely.
But with the principle, Fadi, I'm gonna be
you have, and scale to Ahmed. The first
thing to work on is halaflu.
300 years of sleep could not take them
from their principles. SubhanAllah.
What a listen.
We'll stop here. We'll continue the second and
finish it quickly and talk about the last
few remaining qualities we should think about.
The next quality is interesting because it comes
after the acquisition of wealth and that is
the quality observed
being indifferent to the opulence of this world.
Not to neglect this world,
but
to not be I like to tell people
is not about what you have. It's about
your mindset. Someone asked Imam Ahmed Alhambal,
if I'm a millionaire, can I be someone
who's indifferent to the dunya? He said, yes.
As long as it doesn't occupy your heart,
it occupies your hands.
We need the wealthy.
Most of the great imams in history were
funded. Imam Al Bazari, Imam Imojania,
Imam Al Bazzari, Imam Abu Dhabi were funded
by
generous donors.
That's a part of life.
But here we see the men were 2
gardens,
and the one who is blessed actually is
cursed.
And the one who he loses is actually
blessed.
That's why says
Why didn't you remember Allah when you were
given this great garden? Why didn't you stay
centered on Allah?
The last three qualities and we'll finish because
of time
are to be careful of the plans of
Shaytan. That's why in Suratul Kahf, suddenly you
find the story of Shaytan and Adam.
Because Shaitan
comes at us through 3 ways.
Number 1 is anger.
Especially when you're fasting, you see people on
edge, Even though there is one shaitan left
with you, by the way. Not all of
the shaitan are locked up. The one you're
born with, Al Kareem, does not leave you
in the month of Ramadan. Brothers, now you
have an excuse with your wife, of company.
Pay
me
later. And so my wife
She said, tell
your.
2nd
is desires. Shun what? Usually with young people.
That's why we say when you're young, prefer
fear over hope. When you're old,
for the Shabbat. You should fear Allah in
your youth. But when you're older,
you give preference to hope because as you
leave this dunya, want to have hope in
Almana.
And the last is negligence.
I'm gonna take care of it one day.
That'll be fine. I'll take care of it
one day. How do you know you got
another day? If you die today and you're
19, tomorrow, you die, you're old today.
And the last two lessons is knowledge.
Religious knowledge
and material knowledge. I don't like the word
secular knowledge, and material knowledge.
To constantly be invested in learning and growing
and developing our religious skill set as well
as our professional skill set to scale the
community. How many people, Marshall, in my life
have helped me in areas with my work
which I know very little about building websites,
publishing books,
doing even counseling when I was an imam
helping in the community.
Those skills are extremely important.
And finally,
power.
And that's what we learned from.
We often neglect power. We think that religion
and power are enemies, but Allah is
He gives power to who he wants.
But our power is not the power to
inflict pain or to control.
We're not allowed to force anyone to become
Muslim,
but we need power to do good in
the world.
And we see the catastrophe
the the the catastrophe of the the the
loss of
the complete
devastation
And the Gaza is largely because we have
Muslim leaders
who are the extension of the plantation mentality
to watch and make sure that Muslim stay
domesticated
and have zero interest
in using power to heal a fractured wound.
Not talking about military power. They didn't even
suspend their diplomats.
They didn't even close the Israeli embassies.
What does it tell you? They have
0 investment
in anything but their stomachs.
We are a Ummah with no power. Look
what happened in Pakistan last year. In Ummah
with no power and there's a greater lesson
here.
We shouldn't just focus on
the current president of America as the one
who's the corporate.
Muslim leadership is also sending a salient message
to us
that when you are devastated and destroyed even
if you are the weakest on the earth,
we will not help you.
Until they're removed and changed,
we will continue to suffer like this.
So we have to think in America for
building power within the frame of the law
because whenever you give a speech like this,
your enemies will say you're asking for absolute
lunacy, which I'm not.
I'm saying we have to continue to build
power through institutions and organizations that will defend
our rights in this country and protect us
with the goal of one day creating reform
in the Muslim world so we can get
rid of the shayatim
Farayna.
So ask Allah
who