Suleiman Hani – What Do You Stand For
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The concept of standing for is about protecting one's prayer during the holy month, and protecting one's prayer is crucial to their success. They stress the importance of protecting one's prayer, including protecting their health and protecting their legal system. The upcoming Day of Jgment will bring punishment based on wealth and connections, and people will be punished for their actions. fulfilling their right of creation and being a person for justice will be rewarded.
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our homework today is about what you stand for.
The concept of standing in the figurative sense and in the
literal sense as well. What do people stand up for? Oftentimes in
the literal sense, a son or a daughter might stand up when their
parents enter the room out of respect for a cultural
perspective, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when
he would walk by sometimes the Companions would want to stand up,
he actually would tell them not to, you look at the concept of
standing up and you find sometimes it's out of respect and other
times out of fear.
But in the literal sense, you also have a combination of the literal
and the figurative, with the young youth of the cave, US Hubballi
cough and we recite their story every Juma hopefully. And that is
the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam and Allah
subhanaw taala tells us what about Narada of kudu will be him a call
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they stood. It's common for Kalu and they proclaimed for Fabiola
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Hakuna Edenshaw Coco, they proclaimed very loudly, that our
Lord Lord of the heavens and the earth, we will never call upon any
God besides him. Otherwise we would be uttering an outrageous
line. These are young believers. These are young Muslims. Their
story is preserved for us to recite in a timeless text to learn
about the importance of standing for truth, regardless of the
situation and we know the story of the youth of the cave. You also
have the example of standing for Salah the fact that standing is
literally a part of Salah is not the point here. The point is that
often times when you look at the contrast between the believers and
the Muna 15 Who are the Muna 15 and will not feel clean are not
believers, they would infiltrate they would try to create problems
and divisions within the community have tried to assassinate the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam on numerous occasions. And so they
had very little incentive to show up for fidget and for a shop
because it was dark and no one would see you so you no longer
needed to fake the fact that you were there with the community
praying. So Allah subhanaw taala mentioned something interesting
about the way they pray versus the way we are supposed to pray. When
he says subhanaw taala in Al Munna feel cleaner you hide your own
Allahu Allahu Hadi Verily the Mona fealty in the hypocrites seek to
deceive Allah. But Allah our wisdom, were either calm or you
know Salah to calm or Kusa, when they stand to pray. They stand
with laziness half heartedly reluctantly, you will all guna
nurse they want to show off to the people, when a youth Quran Allah,
Allah, Allah, Allah, so all they really want is to be seen by the
people. And they don't remember Allah with much Remember, it's in
other words, they're not worshipping Allah subhana wa Tada.
They don't care about that. The believers are the opposite. You
preserve the Salah, and its quantity and its quality and its
time and its attention. But after Hammami noon, Alladhina homefield,
Salah to him has your own, the believers have for sure succeeded
guaranteed, if you do the following, when you pray, you have
assured and the sixth characteristic mentioned in sudo,
to remote nodes as the first six characteristics here, ALLAH
SubhanA mentioned they also protect their prayer. What does
this mean they protect the prayer in terms of its time and its
quality. How if you were on a slow, it was slow, it was slow,
well, qumola here carnitine. Protect meaning observe the five
obligatory prayers on their rightful times you have the
beginning and end time, especially the middle prayer here. It's also
the prayer. Well, Kumu Lila here quantity and standing true
devotion to Allah. So when we stand to pray, we stand knowing we
are about to converse with Allah. When we stand to pray, we know we
were created to pray, to know Allah, to experience him. When we
stand to pray, we recognize those who rush through their salah. It's
like they don't really respect the law in that moment. Because if you
knew the value of the opportunity to pray to Allah in this world,
Salah is Sliger a link a divine connection between creator and
creation, you will not rush through it and then say I don't
feel anything in Salah. You didn't invest in your salon to feel
anything. You didn't realize you were speaking to Allah, and Allah
was responding to you. So when we stand we stand or whom we rely on
it in? What do we stand for? There are examples throughout history of
standing for justice. You look at the stories of the prophets in the
messengers, the nations that came before and you have examples of
people standing with those who are oppressed and standing with the
oppressors. And the reality of these situations there are many
but look at the rule. The short period of time the rule of Omar
bin Abdulaziz Rahim Allah considered so righteous and so
just as the historians look to his life, they say perhaps he could be
considered the fifth
Have the rightly guided hola up. May Allah be pleased with all of
them. One time the wife of Omar Rahim Allah after he passed away
and he was assassinated, by the way because of his justice he was
assassinated because he started to retract some of the policies of
the, the the dynasty that he was a part of the policies that were
enacted before him, because they were not fair and just to the
people, especially those who are new converts to Islam. So he
started to bring it back to the proper understanding of Islam. And
after a short period of time he was assassinated. But his justice
was to such an extent, that one time, the wife of Omar when they
asked her, can you share something about him something like amazing
about and tell us about him. She said one time during the night, he
started to pray, started to make dua and he started to pray. And he
started to cry and cry and cry and cry. And I worried it would be a
fatal crying like I worried that he was going to die from how much
he was crying. She said he stayed in this state of praying to Allah
and crying until the morning time. And then he began his day fasting,
so he fasted that day, she asked him what happened and long story
short, this is what he said. He said, I reflected on my situation,
remember the position of leadership and responsibility,
accountability that he has before Allah subhanaw taala. So he says,
I thought about my situation reflected. And I found myself now
that I'm in charge of the affairs of the people of the Ummah, the
old and the young, the white and the black, the light skinned, the
dark skinned, I started to think about the lost stranger, the
impoverished, needy person, the Forgotten prisoner, and of course,
others in the furthest lands, and parts of this region, I started to
realize that Allah subhanaw taala, would ask me about every single
person, meaning every single person that I am responsible for,
and that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would argue on
their behalf would defend those who were neglected. And I feared
that I would have no excuse before Allah, and no argument in front of
the messenger salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, and I was so afraid that I
started to cry. And that's what made him tremble and cry
throughout the night. And he said, the more I thought about it, the
more afraid I became. When you take a position of authority, or
you have, and you're given some kind of authority, some kind of
voice, some kind of influence in this world, you're responsible to
use it in a manner that you know, on the Day of Judgment, when you
look back will not be a source of harm for you, but rather a source
of joy, that it will not bear witness against you, that you will
not have the Prophet testifying against you, even within our
ummah. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to make us amongst those who
use our voices wisely and fulfill every responsibility that we are
given along the army. And this is an example of justice in Islam.
But I want us to go back to one of the lengthiest and most common
stories of the Quran. It is a story once again of Musa it said
on Moses and Pharaoh on the Pharaoh. So we know that Musa sent
to one of the worst people in history, we know that he had to
face so many challenges along the way. We know that Fiddler on
Pharaoh was actually given so many signs, so many miracles, you
cannot possibly deny a single one of these, if we were to see one of
these miracles today would suffice. And yet he did not submit
to Allah and yet he did not follow the messenger that came to him. He
refused. And he doubled down on his arrogance. But remember this
we always talk about the story of Musa and Fidel and and sometimes
we skipped over some details that may not seem important. Fit on was
not alone. Fit on had supporters fit on HUD soldiers fit on had the
elite who wanted to get even closer to him. He had his henchmen
his sidekick, his losers, his supporters, his advocates, those
who are welcoming him, thanking him subservient to him. So when
you think about phenom don't think of one entity alone. Because it's
a group of people. It's not just the Pharaoh himself. Although of
course, this is a focal point in the stories. There were people
around Iran that he tried to appeal to through political
ambitions. And so he offered the sources at that time when there
was the conversation, the dialogue taking place, pod, an arm or
intercom laminin will carabin he basically told them what to do.
And he said if you do so, if you follow this command, if you go
through with this, you will be amongst those who are closer to
me. So he is appealing to these individuals through their careers.
You want a position closer to the ruler, go ahead and do this thing
that he's commanding of you. Just like there are people in the world
today who will do anything and compromise anything sometimes
their own families because of their proximity to power because
they want to be close to certain people because of wealth and the
temptation of wealth. May Allah protect us all. They are willing
to compromise on any values if they have any. Just so they can
advance their connections, their networks.
their careers. And of course, this is not a conspiracy. This is the
reality of the world that we are in, we see this every single day.
And they have been exposed repeatedly in a world of
technology where you cannot deny what's happening. They've been
exposed repeatedly by their own statements, their own actions, by
their own supporters and their own followers and their own
politicians. And so these politicians that we see in the
world today, just like here in the United States, we see and I'm
talking about the federal level, those who are advocates of evil,
we see in them what we see in the soldiers of Fidel, a refusal to
accept every sign that you need to follow what is right. Does anybody
in the world today not to know that there is an ethnic cleansing
and genocide in Palestine, it's probably not very a possible
thing, it's probably not something that's very common, because the
signs are all there. The documented documentation is so
clear, human rights lawyers from every background, you have now one
of the greatest splinters amongst those who are advocates for the
occupation before now finally turning and saying this is a
genocide. You have people who are pushing for settler colonial
occupation now say, No, this is a genocide, this has gone too far.
So the politicians of today, just like the soldiers of Fidel are
able to see the signs very clearly, you can't deny what's
happening in Palestine. You can't deny what's been happening, and
you cannot deny the 1000s of videos and pictures of children
who are killed. You can't deny what's happening to the mothers
and the fathers. You can't deny what's happening to the
infrastructure. You can't deny what's happening to the medical
personnel and the staff, may Allah reward those who are putting their
lives on the line, you can't deny what's happening to the journalist
who have been killed. You can't deny what's happened to the health
infrastructure at large. You can't deny what's happening there.
Unless you don't want to see unless there's a greater agenda.
Likewise, the soldiers of fit Island, I want you to imagine
their perspective. They saw a prophet of God, come to the ruler,
and show him every sign that he needs to change, to accept. And
yeah, he refused. And what did they do? They double down on their
support. They follow through, they chased Musa alayhis salam and his
followers, the few believers they chased them to the sea. And as
Musa alayhis salam and the believers seemingly the story is
coming to the end, it looks like the journey of delivering the
message is over. It looks like nothing is going to happen after
this. It's the end for the believers. Kela in a Marriott visa
de No, indeed, my Lord is with me, He will guide us.
Allah subhanaw taala splits the sea for them another miracle of
money. And I want you to think about the perspective, if you
will, the vantage point of those soldiers of phenom, they chase
them down to the sea and saw the splitting of the sea. How many
more signs do you need for you to humbly accepted this is not a
person that you should be chasing after you should be following him
and asking for forgiveness. How many more signs until their
humility kicks in? And they say this is the truth. But no, what
did they do? They chased them in order to kill them. They continue
to pursue them until the last moment, they chased them through
the Red Sea. And what happened as we know, the waves came down,
crushing them and killing them and drowning fear around as well. And
in his last moments, finally, as he sees the end is near, tries to
express that he was wrong, tries to express some regret. So the
reality of this situation is that just like the spineless arrogant
soldiers have fit around, saw enough signs and miracles to
choose the path of truth. But they decided not to. It was too late
for them. They had given they had been given all their
opportunities. Likewise, today, and in this last week, as you see
all around the world, and as you saw, with the standing ovation
over 50 times, politician standing for a war criminal, a terrorist, a
political elite, a Polish immigrant, does not belong in the
Holy Land. A man who was known to be corrupt long before this last
week, and long before this last year. So when politicians and not
everyone in the hall was a politician, they filled up the
empty seats. But when politicians are willing to clap for someone
who just killed innocent children, are willing to clap for someone in
the midst of a genocide are willing to smile and shake hands
and take pictures with a terrorist. This exposes their
reality. And it reminds us once again, it's not about a lack of
signs or lack of evidence for the truth. This is the reality of good
and evil in this world. For some people, they are exposed in these
times that what matters to them, they will bend over for their
masters not for the truth they will not submit. If one of these
people just one of these people who are clapping for a terrorist.
If one of their children was in cousin was killed, they would not
be welcoming. They would not be
Miley, but because Palestinians don't matter to them, because the
overwhelming majority of them also have their own discrimination
against Muslims, their own biases, when it comes to these situations,
they will continue to clap. And we say to them, and we remind them
and those who support them because they are supporters of evil in
this world, you can stand an ovation all you want, just like
the Nazis clapping for a devil, standing and laughing on the
graves of children, clap all you want in this world, these are the
children that will bear witness against you on the Day of
Judgment. And the world around us. We watch what's happening, we will
bear witness as well. And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam will
testify as well. And those who care about justice will testify as
well. And so the reality of this situation, just like the soldiers
of Iran, just like the people of Pharaoh, their support will end
their applause will end their desire for more to be closer to
rulers and political ambitions, it will end their clapping will end
as well. And when they enter the grave, perhaps it will be one of
the greatest things that they regret. Standing with evil and
standing with injustice, this world will end injustice will end
and justice will be restored here or in the afterlife, but
especially in the court of Allah subhanaw taala. So when the
children start to testify, as we saw in this last week, one of my
friends, a medical doctor, he's telling us literally what we've
been hearing for the last 10 months, children are being sniped.
Children are being shot point blank in the head, in the chest,
in front of them in the hospitals, they are dying, and people are
sleeping on the steps of the hospitals because there's nowhere
to go. And of course, the doctors, the nurses, the medical personnel,
may Allah reward them for their bravery. They are standing there
and at times, the one who's brought to the hospital is their
own son and their own daughter, their own mother and their own
father, their relatives and their neighbors. And so yes, they will
be standing in the corner of Allah testifying, testifying not just
against Netanyahu, not just against those who are there
committing the genocide, not just against the IDF, and all the
soldiers and their supporters, they will testify against the
politicians of this country who are standing with injustice,
because their desire is not truth. Their desire is not equity, their
desire is not peace in this world. And on that day, they will be the
most humiliated of people. Because the military industrial complex,
can't protect you in front of Allah, your money, your political
career cannot protect you in front of Allah, the degrees that you
have, and the things that you build in this world cannot protect
you in the court of Allah. And so maybe you'll beg for help here.
Maybe you go to your connections in your wall still here in this
world, the people that you think are rich and seemingly powerful,
they will be poor and they will be disgraced. They will be humiliated
on that day. And the most humiliated of people on the day of
judgment are the people of arrogance in this world. The Day
of Judgment is so severe that Allah subhanaw taala describes it
from a lot of different angles, so we don't forget.
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people are standing on that day they will appear before Allah,
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Kowloon FCMB Mikasa but on this day, every soul will be given to
what it earned, your rights were taken, they will be given back to
you and you will be given rewards. You took the rights of others you
will be the most disgraced of people, the rights of your family,
the rights of your community, the rights of innocence in your
society, and for you to stand as well with the people are being
oppressed. May Allah subhanaw taala forgive us for shortcomings.
Allah subhanaw taala says at the OMA to condone FCMB Mercosur but
low volume, low volume no one will be treated with any injustice. No
wrongdoing on that day. Allah Subhana Allah Al Hakim, the judge
will restore things as they belong in Allah has said here on hisab.
Allah subhanaw taala is fast in his reckoning, so those who are
waiting for the reward, they will have it in a short period of time.
And those who are going to be given their punishment, they will
be experiencing the punishment of standing on the Day of Judgment,
just like they stood in this world for evil, they will be standing
for 50,000 years, just as they stood for a terrorist and a war
criminal, they will be standing in front of Allah and many of them
will be punished as they are standing. The anticipation of
waiting for the punishment itself is punishment. And they deserve
that and much more. It has not been difficult in the last 10
months to explain to people who wonder why is there a Hellfire in
the next life? Why is there a punishment the afterlife? Why
don't people have evil cease to exist has not been very difficult
to say look at Amazon. Look at what's happening in the world.
Look at evil rulers from all backgrounds. Look at Bangladesh in
the last few weeks and of course the last 15 years look at Sudan
and what they've gone through for
long time now with repetitions and recurrences. And we can go on and
on and on and on with injustice in this land, look at the police
brutality, the racism that's still embedded in the system. How many
people have to be shot by police in their homes, for people to say
there's clearly a battle between good and evil in this society, a
battle between good and evil in the world, and staying quiet and
isolated and cut off and individualistic is not a solution.
Giving up because it's overwhelming is not a solution,
saying it's too much I can't do anything about it is not a
solution. There's always something you can do. There's always some
capacity that you have. So these people may think they are
untouchable. They may think they are with the status quo, the
structures that give them connections and the ability to get
away with their evils. But on the day of judgment, their wealth,
their connections, their ambitions, their status will mean
nothing, and not just on that day, but as soon as their souls leave
their bodies and they enter the grave. They will see they will see
and the believers will see what justice is actually about Allah
subhanaw taala is not swayed by any kind of political connections
that you have in this world. And also Pathan, his court does not
care how much money you have in this world. Unless you use it for
good ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada will allow the innocent children to
speak up and to testify against their oppressors what either mode
or to so enter to be a you then been put in that when the infant
girl is asked for what crime was she killed should imagine how many
children of others and other lines will be speaking on that day. So
reminder for us. The more you see injustice, as obvious and ugly, as
it is in this society and around the world, we are required to be
even quicker and firmer and standing for justice, not just
with one cause at an international level, but stand for justice in
every way and be ready to meet Allah subhanaw taala be ready for
your departure from this world. And ask yourself Did you fulfill
the right of Allah? And did you fulfill the right of the creation?
Did you feel fulfilled the right of Allah throw you bother what He
commanded on his terms? And did you fulfill the rights of creation
the people around you and the people around the world? Your
parents, your spouse, your children, your relatives, your
neighbors? Did we do everything that we could