Suhaib Webb – Palestine & Reformations
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For those brothers and sisters who are new
to Islam or those who are visiting the
community, what I just read in Arabic is
traditionally what's read to open up a Friday
sermon
that extorts us to faith, extorts us to
piety, to social responsibility,
and also reminds us of the foundations of
mainstream
orthodox
Islam. One of the most important things that
a Muslim is aware of is the
obligation of the moment.
And that's why, for example, in books of
we find that
or
has different degrees. There's like different levels of
intensity of what is obligatory.
What imam, Ibn Qayim called Fardul Wat.
The obligation of that moment
in which
a sheikh Ahmed Zaruk,
he said a very beautiful statement.
He said that the ability to
prioritize
what's really important
over what's secondary
importance,
and its importance,
is the way of the righteous people.
And that's why some of our teachers would
say whoever has been gifted to see through
the clouds of a moment and identify what
is the most important obligation upon that person
at that moment,
this is a sign of tofia.
This is a sign that Allah
has guided that person to be successful.
And it's very rare. That's why the word
is mentioned only once once in the Quran.
That my
success,
and here it means in line
with Sharia compliance,
is only from Allah.
And to be negligent
is to ignore
the obligation of a moment,
the obligation of
a certain time.
And the obligation of this moment
is Palestine.
And the obligation of this moment
is for everyone who can
to utilize
their ability
and their strength and their support
to amplify
the situation happening
in Falusti.
If we understand that being able to address
the opportunity of a moment or the obligation
of a moment is from tawfiq,
then that means there is going to be
obstacles to that because there's always obstacles to
success.
It happens.
That's why it's called a set.
Means that you knew something but you forgot
it later, like we
had it.
Means to neglect something.
Not to care about something.
All of these we are warned about in
the Qur'an.
Don't be negligent.
So it's important that we
approach this issue
in a number of ways.
Number 1 is we educate ourself about its
importance.
Number 2, that we're aware of those obstacles
that may present themselves in our lives
that will keep us from addressing
the obligation
of the moment.
So that's what we'll talk about briefly today
in this short chubba.
The first is that
the issue of wazat
is an issue of the ummah.
That the issue of Palestine
is the issue of an ummah.
And one of the things that's tried to
take us away from seeing that is the
modern state
and the creation of the modern state within
the Muslim world and modern borders
and the amplification of ethnicity
such that it is given
over being part of the ummah.
But if we look at religious texts,
we find
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the Quran,
the greatest success of the Prophet
as a Prophet his greatest miracle after the
Quran
is considered
Al Isla.
The night journey of the Prophet
which was physical, not spiritual, not a dream.
It happened to him physically.
And in that moment of great success
of Tawfiq
Allah says
glorified be the one who took his ab.
He didn't say
he didn't say
he didn't say Muhammadin.
Alaihi Salam. He said because
'abdihi' means servant and slave because at the
greatest success of the Prophet he was in
full servitude to Allah.
So now when I'm having success in the
office or success online or success gaming or
success on campus, I have to remind myself
the duality of success is not only to
achieve
but to achieve com compliant with Ubudiyyah,
to be the Abd of Allah,
the servant of Allah.
Also Allah said,
In the 5th chapter of the Quran, Allah
refers to this area as Arb Muqaddas,
as sacred ground.
There are also hadith of Sayna Rasool, salallahu
alaihi wasallam, that
encourage a rebat,
set the best place for anyone
to stay in defense of the Ummah.
And he mentions this area that was known
as Askallan.
But part of that area is Gaza. And
we see these people, subhanallah, their sacrifice,
what they're going through
is indescribable,
unbelievable.
Such this hadith was embraced
that you find the grandson of Sayyidina Amr
ibn Sattab Radiallahu Anhu, he died in Rebaat
in Gaza.
He died there. He went there for rebat.
Sayyidina Sufyan athawri,
the great scholar,
He used to go there, and he stay
would stay there 40 days at a time
to be on the borders to preserve
the safety of sanctity and defend
the hooma of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Imam al Ghazari rahimrubillah.
One of the reasons that he went and
stayed at al Quds
for so long was because of this hadith
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
Even before the time of the Messenger of
Allah,
has great importance
such that
the Prophet's grandfather,
Hashimi ibn Abdul Munaf,
who introduced
those journeys
that are mentioned in the Quran.
The journey to the north was to now
what is known as ghazan.
And that's why yesterday I saw a flyer
put out by the Zionists
that said the Gaza Hashiv, they actually know
the real name of the place.
Is
but its actual name is
named
after the grandfather of
who's buried in Gaza, who his
grave is next to a masjid.
And that's why in the battle of Tabuk,
the prophet
the Christians came and met him and they
said, these are some of the personal items
and wealth of your grandfather that we are
returning to you. And say
he actually distributed this amongst
Badi Hashim, subhanAllah.
And Abu Sufyan, his relative Abdul Shams, who
was the the the brother
of
the prophet's grandfather,
he distributed
amongst the
amongst his family because also his brother,
Hashim, he died with him in Gaza.
You can look at Islamic history
and you will find
the importance of this place.
The Prophet mentioned it in the hadith I
talked about earlier,
But Sayyidina Abu Bakr when
he sent on
his first expedition,
the first city that fell
to the sahaba and their students was Gaza.
And that's why Sayyidina Umar al Fattab
he established a masjid there known as masjid
al umari
which was destroyed subhanAllah by the
Crusaders but then rebuilt by the Turks.
And Imam Ibn Kati rahi mohullah in Albidaiwanihi
described in the gatherings of the eventaimia
And he mentions that it was packed with
people.
There are great scholars that came from Gaza.
Imam Sayna Imam Shafi'i,
Radi Allahu Anhu, his origin is
And
that's
why Imam Shafi'i said,
and in one of his poems he wrote,
I miss gazza. I long to go to
gazza.
It deceived me after I left it. You
know when you live somewhere, you don't like
it, but when you leave it, you love
it.
May Allah bless this land and bless its
soil.
Al Hafath Imam ibn Hajar, his name is
Askalani
because he was from
that area. And that's why that area amongst
the people of knowledge, not amongst the awan,
amongst the scholars. You know the name for
it?
The place that seeded scholars and seeded
those who know Allah.
Outside of all of the fashionable
history,
what should be at the forefront of our
concern
is murder
and the loss of life
and the destruction of civil society
in colonization
and Eurocentricism
and now under genocide, Job.
The continued experiment of America in conquering and
destroying
and licking societies
in half
and locating the occupied
as the occupier,
the victim
as the murderer.
And that should cause us to be motivated
enough.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
as related by Imam Abu Dawood with a
good isna,
he said that there will be a person
punished
in his grave
to the extent that he will say to
those,
what did I do
to deserve this punishment?
And those Malaika will say
you passed by oppression
and you did
nothing. That takes us now into 2 important
areas that we should be aware of.
Because there are 2 groups
that influence the mind of Muslims more than
anyone else.
One is a group who is focused on
the literary meaning of text
without responsible interpretation.
The other is a group that focuses on
spirituality
without any regard for text.
That's why Sayedan Sheff said,
Don't be either of those. Be in the
middle.
And one of the challenges that Muslims face
in holding our responsibility
outside of the other issues related to decoloniality,
having a mind that's rooted in nation and
state and language instead of a right a
mind rooted in human values
and the responsibility
of being a human being
is
this challenge, the textual challenges and then the
spiritual challenges.
Presented in smooth ways on TikTok and Instagram
and through writings as a way to dissuade
Muslims
from being committed to removing
this
in incredible injustice.
Because we have to be honest,
The remedy to the issue of Palestine
is not a ceasefire only. It is Palestinian
Liberation
from being colonized
and oppressed.
If you can't say that, don't talk.
Because 4 hours of not being bombed, you
need 2 hours to make sure it's it's
true. You need 1 hour to get your
wits together, and the last hour you're worried
about when the bombing will start again. How
is that humane?
That is psychological
torture.
So, how do we push it?
Number 1, we have to be careful of
agents and sellouts.
We have to be care of people. I
don't care what kind of thobe and turban
they got on.
I don't how religious they are and how
long their beard is. If they are discouraging
you
from caring about the oppressed
and pushing into injustice,
you should be careful of them.
You should be careful of them. Sayyidina Aries
ibn Malik radiAllahu anhu, he narrates that no
one was braver than the messenger of Allah.
This is one of the shana'id of Sayyidina
Rasul
He's brave.
Alaihi said that to salami, he said,
He was the bravest person
that I ever met in my life.
The first is the idea
that is pushed by some people that this
is from Allah and since it's from Allah,
you should just accept it.
For you to oppose
what Allah has decreed
is somehow you violating
Tawhid.
This is absolute
nonsense.
Has nothing to do with any basic 2
year old book on theology whether you're Hanbali
or Kalani,
everyone agrees on this.
That there is a difference between what Allah
has decreed and what Allah has commanded.
What Allah has decreed is conditioned on what
he's commanded. If he has decreed for you
and I something wrong, we stick to the
command. If he has decreed something good,
then we go with it.
And that's why in you
find the foundations of Islamic social justice.
I like to use the word human justice
as well as
commitment in the story of Sayyidina Musa. Because
if that's the case, that argument that whatever
Allah has decreed, you should just
accept it, be quiet, don't don't make a
fuss,
then why would He have sent prophets?
Because the prophets oppose His decree.
The decree is the test.
Allah decreed that Abu'laiha will be a kafir
but he commanded the Prophet to call him
to the haqq. Did the prophet say, well,
Allah decreed Abu'laha be his kafir. I'm done.
I have to, hamdulillah,
just give up.
That my people around me are doing fahesh.
Just be quiet, just go with the show.
They'll say, This is not this is illogical.
But we find Sayyidina Musa, why can he
not be quiet?
Why does Hadr say to be,
This is literal not figurative.
You will not be able to be patient.
Why? Because you're a you're a
and a messenger will not be able to
be quiet
because Allah has decreed and commanded them to
be the people of because
what I'm about to do is going to
challenge what you've been commanded to do.
And you will not be quiet in front
of a violation of the command.
So what happens? He destroys property. Sayyidina Musa
cannot be quiet.
He kills
someone. Sayyidina Musa cannot be quiet. He refuses
to be paid for his work. Sayyidina Musa
cannot be quiet because it is not possible
for a prophet to be quiet
when the decree
violates the command.
And that's why Khadr says to him at
the end, the last thing he says,
This is not from my command. This is
from the command of Allah. So then say,
Namusa knows, I'm dealing with the heavy hitter
here.
That's what Allah commanded him. This is what
Allah has commanded me. And neither of us
can violate his command
in phrase in the face of the relative
that we're dealing with.
So number 1, the idea that you, you
know, just take it. This is what Allah
has decreed
Goes against the teachings of the prophet and
goes against the foundation of the moral test
mentioned in the Quran
over and over and over again.
In
we have commanded
and shown
the difference between guidance and misguidance, and people
are gonna choose. What's this choice?
Who created death and life to test you.
This is the test.
When the whole world around me is on
fire, do I grab a pail and put
it out Or do I burn myself with
everyone else?
That's why Allah
says,
Allah is with those who are resilient. When?
When that contradiction
happens.
And that's why Sayyidina Ismail, he says to
his father,
Do what you were ordered because the command
is what we have to stick to. We
have to submit to the command instead of
submitting to the world. And the essence of
submission is what?
Islam. That's what Islam is. Its guts, its
foundation. Is that when everything is contradicting what's
in the book and sunnah, I stick to
the book and sunnah.
That's why I'm
to Allah,
not
to
you will finally what? Saabed.
Resay it with this test.
So the first idea that is out there
at times
is the idea of surrender
to the decree of Allah
which neglects the command of Allah.
But that will make us more relativists.
But that is not who we are. And
that's the reason filk is important.
Because Fiqh teaches me the ruling for the
moment.
We ask Allah
to give us basirah.
We ask Allah to allow us to see
what is truly the call of a moment.
We continue now to center our discussion around
what's going on
in in Palestine,
in Gaza, the West Bank.
We ask Allah
The other thing that I hear
sometimes people sharing,
talking about,
is the idea that again,
surrendering to Allah
is a means to neglect.
In Islamic law are very important.
Wasila means the means to do something. Like
wudu is wasa'il
for
salah.
But this again
only
reveals that that person
is remedial in their understanding of Islam
and deficient in their scholarship. Because
we have a great axiom in Islamic law.
That means take on the ruling of their
objectives.
Another way we phrase it in
Whatever allows me to complete an obligation became
an obligation.
One of the greatest obligations
which say,
mentioned
which is
certain
is the establishment of justice.
That's why the role of the scholar
is to be a person who establishes justice.
That's why Allah
mentions
those scholars
who are true to their scholarship in the
context of angels.
Allah testifies that there is no guy but
him as do the angels, as do the
scholars. Why? Because just as the angels did
not that the angels are kept from sin
by the grace of Allah, the true scholar
who has true knowledge will be protected from
sin by that knowledge, by the grace of
Allah. They will do the right thing. They
will not fall into
negligence.
But what we find people telling people is
things like protest are haram.
Why? And why are those people saying that?
They're sitting there from countries where
we know what's going on there? Scholars, they
have a gun to their head.
In fact, recently I was here someone told
me protesting in America's haram because this is
sedition against the state.
I said, really? But
the the the leader of this state encourages
people to protest. That arguments are
doing
dumb. Then he said,
we know what that is.
But when there is a limited ability to
make change,
certain means,
rulings change.
We don't have the political power to change
what's going on in Gaza. We don't have
the military power to change what's going on
in Gaza. We don't have those
more perhaps political ways the Muslim governments are
a complete disaster.
They're not leaders.
They are babysitters
to enforce the colonial agenda
on the Homa. In fact,
Quds will not be liberated until Mecca and
Medina are liberated,
until Cairo is liberated, until Baghdad is liberated,
until Damascus is liberated.
And people don't like that kinda talk because
that talk brings it on till Karachi is
liberated.
We haven't had one prime minister finish his
career in Pakistan.
That's not because of the Buxton people. That's
because of outside influence.
So the Muslim world is being babysit by
people who are benefiting
from colonial investment.
That's the reality of our our our nation.
People don't care.
They care about themselves. They give good talks.
As one brother said, I saw 1 leader.
He said, if they kill one more baby,
I'm gonna have another concert. A concert?
A concert?
Where you take pictures and put it on
Instagram and you feel good about yourself? The
death of children now is a fashion moment?
None of them have pulled their Israeli embassies.
None of them have shut them down.
Because if they really cared about this, they
would at least pursue
diplomacy.
Basic diplomacy.
So what can you and I do in
this country?
We do what we can.
What I commanded you to do, you do
your best.
We're limited to what we can do. We
are law abiding citizens, alhamdulillah.
Look how we act through our protest compared
to other people. I was in New York
City 2 days ago, there was a woman
from the Zionist, she was spitting on us.
She was 80 years old.
She was spinning on us. I said, Are
you 80 or 2?
Like subhanAllah
And that's why people hate us because we
give back with what's better. We've melt people's
hearts. How many people became Muslim just in
the last month? How many people started to
read the Quran just in the last month?
How many people were moved
by the great morality? We are the
supreme community in the world. Look how we're
demanding people feel sorry.
At least
shamed at seeing the death of children and
women and babies and people laugh at us
because that's not how we are.
We're forbidden to harm people,
except in the case of necessity, but always
children, never.
So what is one of the means we
have? Protest.
Are there evidences for protest?
Because here comes the textual side of it.
Where's the evidence? This is bida. First of
all, bida doesn't apply to this. Your thinking
is a bida
because you don't know what you're talking about.
Is related to specific issues of
not things with the Sharia is silent on.
But this is the mentality that came into
the the
But when saying no, Amal made Hijra
did he not go by himself? Did he
not announce his hijra in the face of
the disbelievers?
Is that not a former protest?
Sayyidus,
when he made a hijrah, did he not
announce his hijrah to everybody and gave all
his wealth and went to Medina? And the
Prophet sent him a good transaction.
In the time of Sayyidina Al Hussain, did
he not engage in protest?
Sayyidina Aisha, was there not a protest? You're
gonna say this is bidah?
Then you're making an attack on the sahaba
which causes us to wonder if you're actually
really from Ahl Sunnah.
And it continues.
300 of his students after his death
marched
against corrupted government and took a stand
and were killed.
So here, of course, we're talking about law
abiding
demonstrations.
But we have examples of this.
The others we should donate to charities that
we trust
and charities that are transparent and on the
ground.
Whatever we have we should support them.
Number 3, we should educate ourselves.
We should be teaching our children the map
of India,
the map of Palestine,
the map of parts of Africa that had
been transformed, so we will never forget
where the Muslims were and where the Muslims
are
and what history lies in those sands that
belongs not just to us, but to all
the communities who lived there before they were
colonized.
And finally because of time, we'll address this
tonight. How do we overcome the guilt?
Many people say they feel guilty. They feel
a sense of anguish.
We'll talk about that tonight. We ask Allah
to
help us.
As for taking and using
we have so many hadith. For example, the
most glaring, the authentic hadith when sayin Nurisa
will return to the earth.
There are more than 70 hadith that are
authentic
about the return of Sayyidina Isa. They'll listen
to those people that say he's not coming
back.
One of them says that when he arrives
to the area of Shem,
he will walk down the stairs. He will
not
descend to the earth because once you get
in the area where physical laws
apply, you have to take Esbab. Now you
have to walk down the the minaret.
So whatever means we can use to help
people that is legal and will bring benefit,
we should invest in them.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
by all of his names and attributes
to help us see through this moment and
be on
and to fall in line with what the
sharia
teaches us about
preservation of life and honor and family. These
are from the ma'asid of our deen.
We ask Allah
to bring unity to the Muslims. That was
gonna be something else I talked about. We
don't need to divide and fight now. We
need to work together to help one another
and coalition build with other people as we're
seeing now young people doing across the country.
We ask
Allah
to
protect those children in Gaza
and in the West Bank
and in Palestine.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to bless
and protect the mothers
and the people that are not talked about,
the elderly.
We ask Allah to protect
all of the people there. We ask Allah
to help us to strategically
scale
our power as a community so we can
have an impact on the world around us
and specifically what's happening in this country and
the attitude of power towards
those who are unjustly
being oppressed.
We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Ask Allah to enter us into paradise without
any reckon. We pray for Palestinians in this
country. We love you.
We support you. We're here for you.
And we ask Allah to put us in
a place to strengthen and support you and
be there for you. I received a phone
call yesterday from a friend who told me
that his aunt called him, somehow got in
touch with him from Balestar and said, we
have no food.
Khalas?
Nothing.
Another friend he called me, his uncle lost
67
family members in 2 days.
So we want to remind our brothers and
sisters from Palestine
and to
and we are with you and we will
use our power and our platform
to make sure people hear the truth of
what's going