Taha Karaan – The Dangers of Assimilating for Muslim Minorities (2 of 2)

			Before she used to have my cousin, he stayed for a number of years passed away on these shores. But
when he left, his position was filled afterwards by men of learning a man or men who could dispense
guidance to others. There was initially him thereafter there was a young guru there after the old
Alama that some of the other fought and preserve. No generation was there, except that they had been
men imbued with the spirit of Islam, imbued with the spirit of perseverance and preservation, who
dedicated themselves to the task that whatever happens, this Calima will not disappear from the
hearts of our children, whatever happens this Deen will remain. And for 300 years, it has been
		

			maintained. Because in every generation, there was care and attention given to its preservation by
men who might not have been the most learned at all times. But definitely they were seized, they
were possessed of a certain spirit. And that's what it was that we have a purpose in life. And that
purpose is to preserve this great legacy which Allah Tala had given us in the years that lie ahead.
		

			From 94 onwards, certain doors that open certain liberties that crept in from being one of the most
conservative nations in the world, South Africa suddenly became one of the most liberal
jurisdictions, it became became the first country in the world to legitimize same * marriages, it
became in just about every sense, a human rights through his jurisdiction, were all ties with
revealed truth as the anchor and the guard and the custodian of morality were cut. It was now
something morality became something to be determined in, in light of each person's own intellect,
his own reason it became a rational exercise, rather than one of Revelation. Reason was given
		

			preference over revelation. And we are living in that particular society in which the role of reason
is constantly being elevated above that revelation, religion has been relegated to the corners of
private enterprise, this is what you do on your own, but at the level of state at the level of its
organs, at the level of society, it will be reasoned in it's an anchored sense, that will determine
the cause that society will take the time such as this, with challenges such as this facing us, what
do we do? Where do we go? In the following 300 years that lie ahead of us? Will we will our
descendants one day be able to look back and say Alhamdulillah, they were people who have taken upon
		

			themselves the duty of preserving this deen and therefore, we are still eating the Kalima La ilaha
illallah, will they be able to say that, or will they be like those others who says, Well, my
father, or my great great grandfather had been Muslim once upon a time. But we had left that behind
us a long time ago, every community has this important duty, something that doesn't lace up on the
shoulders of some unknown, it rests upon the shoulders of every parent, it rests upon the shoulders
of every teacher, it rests upon the shoulders of every responsible member of that community, that in
whichever way I pursue my cause in life, there has to remain within the back of my mind, on the
		

			front of my mind, there has to remain the idea that I have a dean to preserve, I have to impart that
Dean to those initially will have in my household, and thereafter create the necessary structures
within society, the massage the modalities and all of those things, they need to co exist, they need
to be preserved, they need to be sustained, in order that the next 300 years will bring the same
kind of results of the first 300 He has brought
		

			a simple blueprint. A simple blueprint would be let's have a four or five point plan for example,
nothing that we can enforce upon everyone but let's start discussing around the issues and looking
at ways in which this particular minority can not only preserve its existence, but use its existence
as a springboard for the very Dharwar for which Allah Tala had placed us upon this earth. First and
foremost, everything starts from where from the columella ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasul Allah, much
has been said about the schema much will still be said about the schema from forums such as this
from platforms such as this, I just want to bring two specific points out of that Calima to your
		

			attention today. The first is that is not just efficient, La ilaha illa Allah and Muhammad Rasool
Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah is Allah is what we speak, but within our hearts, there has to be not
just one but a multifaceted understanding of what it is all about. Two of those facets I need to
bring to your attention today. The first is that La ilaha IL Allah must be spoken in the sense of
what the love of Allah Allah
		

			Taqwa of Allah, Allah, Allah in place, fear of Allah these plays, all those are specific angles,
specific aspects that will necessarily have to be there. But there's one specific aspect that I want
to speak about and that is the love of Allah Allah. The Quran says we're loving a man who shall do
Balilla those who have a man they love for Allah Tala is most supreme above everything else. So that
idea of love of Allah Allah while we inculcate into our youth into our children into those will be
our future.
		

			become the next generation we inculcate several things into them. They need to be together with that
the love the recognition that leads to the love of Allah Allah. Together with it. Muhammad Rasool
Allah also the love of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, not just recognizing and knowing his
name and knowing his sila but together with inculcating that sentiment of the love of Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam because as he says himself, now you're
		

			gonna have but really he meanwhile he whenever he wonders as human, until you do not love Rasul
Allah Allah Allah Allah is Allah more than what you love your father weighed more than what you love
your children more than what you even love yourself, then you Iman is not complete when those two
elements of the love of Allah Allah and His Rasul Allah, Allah, Allah Allah in place, then the next
aspect of this Kalama becomes easy, and that is obedience and submission to whatever Allah and His
Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam have decreed, without the love of Allah and His rasool Allah, Allah
Solomon placed, Sharia becomes a burden. You'll find it difficult, but why should I do it this way?
		

			Why can't I just do it? Why do I have to get up early in the morning before dawn for failure? Why do
I have to fast in this particular way? Why is our inheritance law structured in this particular way?
Why can't we have it more aligned with something else? Something more along human rights, something
more along the lines of gender equality? No. If you love Allah and His law school, you will take
pride in obeying Allah and His Rasul because it will something it will be something that sustains
and that feeds that love of Allah Tala and His Rasul Allah, Allah Allah was the age in which we are
moving towards the age towards which we are moving is one that says, you should make the decision on
		

			the basis of your own reason. Whatever you decide in life should be made on the basis of what you
reasoned out with your mind. And if you feel that my son should get the same as my daughter gets,
and you will feel that is equality then that is what you should do. That is what reason demands
Allah and his results Allah Allah Allah selendy Man something else, Allah says hamaca and any more
meaning one minute in either called Allahu wa rasuluh Amana Yeah, Cornella homophobia, Rahman Emery
him, when Allah and this was all sallallahu alayhi wa sallam have proclaimed and promulgated any
particular law no Muslim man or woman no believing man or woman has any right to decide anything
		

			else the money which I have earned, if I look at that money and say well this is what I have earned.
And I want to spend the money in the way that I wish and I want to give that money to whom I wish in
in the in the proportion that I wish then you must remember the money is not yours because your app
says what to whom may Manila Hillary, come it's not yours. It is Allah give of Allah's wealth.
		

			That which Allah Allah has given you Allah has given it to you you are merely the agent that should
distribute according to what Allah Tala had set out. So first of all, the love of Allah nice Rasul,
leading them after doing acceptance of the Sharia, as Allah is Rasul Allah Allah is Allah has given
it to us. And as the succeeding generations of Muslims from the Sahaba to data we are in to the very
present day that successive chain that continues of the transmission of ailment continues up to the
present day through which it has been handed down there in lies the pleasure of Allah is Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
		

			With that in place, after understanding the need for the need for the love of Allah, Allah is
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the need for unquestioning EPS acceptance there off, we
move to the next thing, one of the major ingredients of the preservation of our deen in these parts
has been that we have made our ancestors have made the necessary arrangements for modalities
massage, to continue. These must be these must be kept alive, we cannot start diverting our
attention to other things and say no other things are more important. We need to ignore this for a
while. As long as illness preserved in in particular community, Dean will be preserved that they are
		

			Ill miss neglected the day the doors of the institute's of Ireland, close the door, the institutions
have closed their doors. On that day, we can prepare for the janazah of Dean in this country.
Wherever Dean has not been preserved. It was because it had not been preserved. Here we have an
example in front of us, we can see what happened to others. And we can see how we have managed some
of the other islands ancestors manage. Sometimes it was a very low level. Sometimes it was a matter
of slave lodges in the Cape in which you secretly go and impart to people. You know what, you're a
Muslim, and this is the Kalima, at times, it was just an afternoon madrasa. At times it went up to
		

			the level of the dialogue looms. But all of these are part and parcel of the secret the recipe,
which is the secret of the success of the preservation of the in our parts of the world.
		

			Another factor that's of importance. Another factor that's of importance in the preservation of deen
is that
		

			in the pursuit of alien, and in this in the preservation of oil in evitable II, not from today from
the time of Sahaba to the present day, there have always been differences of opinion. There have
been there
		

			differences of opinion and they will continue to be difference of opinion, consensus is something
that appears very, very attractive consensus is also very, very difficult to achieve. So, while we
are not always able to achieve consensus on each and every point, what needs to be understood is
that there will be differences. And the question is how will we negotiate difference in our ranks,
certain Alama will go this way, another argument go the other way, what needs to happen thereafter?
Will we then embark upon a campaign to slander one another, just because of the fact that we differ
in opinion, there needs to be an understanding that as mother hip differ, as individuals will
		

			differ,
		

			there will always be these differences of opinion, there needs to be the understanding that we need
to respect and negotiate differences give it a specific place, what OSHA or a booker La Jolla Nasaan
Matunga. If Allah Tala has a wanted, you would have made everyone want everyone believing in the
same thing, everyone following the same opinion. But while I as Aluna Mata defin, people will always
differ. This is one of the greatest tests that Allah Allah plays in front of this ummah, you will
never you will find differences amongst yourself, you will find for different mother him, you will
find differences within one particular Mother, you need to understand that at times the point of
		

			view where you stand is not quite based upon the same kind of principles where a person of a
different method or a different community would stand. So there needs to be the large heartedness
and the latitude to contain difference and not to condemn difference, differences will always be
there. And lastly,
		

			in any society, where there's a minority and a majority or even two equally numbered communities,
there will always be a certain dynamic in existence, that dynamic is one of attraction, the one will
try to attack the other towards itself. The one will try to attack no one is static, no one is
static, the one is always drawing the other towards itself. So this particular community of ours, if
you do not become proactive, you will become the victim of that particular dynamic. If you do not
stand up and invite towards your way of life and live the kind of life that Allah Tala had ordained
you to live, live the kind of life that Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam and set the example for, then
		

			you will inevitably become attracted by that particular force of attraction, which inevitably exists
within various different communities. If you do not invite if you do not fulfill the function of
Dawa, for which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sent when Allah Tala said What are en
Illa Allah Hebei, if ni here was the Raja monniera, he was sent as a as one who invites towards
Allah and his community by extension was also given that very same duty to command what is right to
condemn what is evil and to bear the flag of guidance brought by Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam if we do not actively fulfill that role, then we will passively be drawn towards the other.
		

			So, a simple plan of action is that maintain some of the other sustain the love of Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam before the love of Allah Tala in the hearts of every member of the community,
most most, especially our church, our children, so that by extension, what will happen, it will
become a matter of pleasure, and not one of difficulty for them to live according to the Sharia,
which Allah Tala has put in place without asking any questions. Thereafter, maintain the tradition
of ailment, whichever in whichever form, it exists within society, from the most primary levels up
to the most tertiary levels, the preservation and the transmission of alien needs to remain alive
		

			only then will Islam continue. And then we need to know that in this exercise, differences will
arise. We need to know how to negotiate differences, how to accommodate differences, not how to
condemn them. And lastly, to constantly be proactive in conveying our way of life, by word by deed,
but more especially in the way that we live ourselves in the way that we project, the image, the
lifestyle of our NABI sallallahu alayhi salam to others, thereby becoming those who will call others
towards Allah, not necessarily by publication, by writing by speaking but just by being the Muslim
that Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam would have wanted us to be, when on the day of Tiama he will look
		

			at us with that smile and say Alhamdulillah this particular follower of my OMA he has acquitted
himself well in the task of conveying my message to others. Allah Allah give us all the Tofik and
the hedaya to work for the preservation of our deen in these ways mentioned and so many other ways,
as are not mentioned here, all towards the same ultimate purpose. Lita guna Calima to Allah He He
OLALIA the word of Allah Tala be supreme above everything else, legal hero who Allah de Nikoli so
that Allah Allah will take this Deen elevated above all other at the end all other religions that
task depends upon how well we acquaint ourselves of our lives as Muslims working with Dawa Anna and
		

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