Waleed Basyouni – To The Children Of Gaza
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The conflict between the Israeli conflict and the Israeli Palestinian conflict is a complex and complex conflict targeting children and vulnerable people. The conflict is also a conflict for Muslims and religious leaders, and the speaker warns against comparing words to reality. The conflict is also a conflict for Muslims and religious leaders, and the importance of protecting children from suffering and being patient is emphasized. The negative impact of killing children in the Middle East is also discussed, including the importance of taking responsibility and building a strong community for children.
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All praise due to Allah and his praise
and blessings and peace be upon our prophet
Muhammad
his family, his companions, and his followers until
the day of judgment.
I bear witness that Allah is the only
one worthy of worship and Muhammad
his last and final messengers
messenger. My dear brothers and sisters,
today I decided that this Khutbah
will be regarding
the children of
Those who alive or those who passed away.
I know that there is no words
sufficed for what they have been through.
No matter how eloquent the speaker is
or how soft hard we have
to never be able to describe the pain,
We come closer to what these children are
going through,
been through,
or their parents and their family.
The most difficult
part of this conflict,
children.
The one who passed away and who
though
they left behind.
And the war is still going.
You know,
in wars
it's always the children who suffer the most.
More than 13,000
children have died
since
the bombarding began on October
7.
Maybe this number increased
cause in some even,
statistics said that about 2 child die every
hour.
Astronomically
horrifying
number
as it's been reported by international organization like
UNICEF
executive director,
Catherine Russell.
She said, I think these numbers
that we're seeing out of Gaza are just
staggering.
We haven't seen that rate of death among
children in almost any other conflict in the
world.
It is really shocking.
Famine is imminent
in northern Gaza
as 1,100,000
people,
half the population,
experience
catastrophic
level of
food
insecurity.
Almost every child in Gaza
is basically
facing
an imminent threat of, you know, famine.
It is very hard.
You know, my brother and sisters,
I know poverty
is very complicated issue,
but feeding a child isn't.
War is a very complicated issue,
but not killing a child, isn't it?
The Israeli Palestinian
conflict is a complicated
issue
but targeting
kids and children and kids
and protecting their life is not a complicated
issue.
And it's not a difficult
thing, a conclusion that you arrive to.
History will judge us
by the difference we make in the everyday
lives of children.
And unfortunately,
it's terrible how
no matter even with these voices that we
hear today, it's not enough
That we have the world
in denial
and in nonsense
justification for the killing of these children and
innocent people every day.
I know that those children who died in
Gaza,
shuhada.
Shuhid, it means a witness.
The adult when he die and consider shayid
because he's witnessing in front of Allah, he
testifying how much he believes in Allah and
in the cause, that's why he died.
For those children,
they will be witnesses in front of Allah,
not over their faith because they're children.
They will be a witness in front of
Allah
over the barbaric
state of Israel
and that government over there.
They will be witness in front of Allah
how passive
we are.
They will be witness in front of Allah
and how the world forsake them.
They will be witness before Allah.
How indiscriminate this war is.
We heard
people say, kill the children of the Palestinians.
Tomorrow they will be Hamas member.
Let's just wipe them up from now.
Let's
solve a problem from the beginning.
We heard these voices,
but also we have to recognize that these
voices are
not necessarily
to be a very common voices.
These individuals
and leaders, political leaders and religious leaders, but
not all of them,
and we are a ummah of justice.
These extreme individuals are exhaust.
And in the other side, you will have
voices extreme as well who said, Let's kill
all the children of the Jews.
I'm targeting kids and and and killing them.
I have no problem with that.
But what I wanna make
a point here
that there is a very big difference between
these two voices.
Yes, both are ill, both are grown, but
there is a difference has to be recognized.
Which
is, Muslims always asked to condemn the voices
that comes from the Muslim side,
from an individuals who do not represent
the mainstream Muslim, the mainstream Palestinians,
and we ask to condemn that, and we
don't see any in any level
the other side or the rest of the
world been asked to condemn such voices in
the other side.
The other side will be
coming if it ever come in the news,
as some
random individuals,
even those individuals
are religious political leaders, but it will be
just a random
odd, you know,
against the norm, blah blah blah.
It will be input in a very very
limited
capacity.
While when it presents what some of these
Muslims said, it will be
a brush that will paint
the whole entire resistance.
The people who fight for their freedom,
the people who say no to occupations.
That's a very big difference between how these
two
images
represent it unfortunately.
But you know what's the most important
difference is?
Is? The reality
The reality is that we have Palestinian
kids dying every day.
If it's not by bomb, it is by
starvation.
It is by the lack of adequate, you
know,
medical, you know, care.
That's the reality.
Don't compare empty words to reality.
Yes, there is innocent children killed as well
on the other side,
but there is no comparison between the
numbers or
the magnitude of it. And we will always,
always as Muslims, stand against
killing and targeting any children, innocent people.
In midst of all these,
I remember what
Allah said,
When the girl who buried alive
will be asked in the day of judgement
by Allah for what sin
she was killed?
In the past,
she might be
a hole was dug
and she was buried in that
grave by her parents
or father.
Today,
she's buried
by the rubbles,
by the bombs.
Not individuals,
tens.
We have brothers and sister in this community
lost over a 100 of their family members.
A 100.
In one hit, one of the brother told
me he lost 20.
And many of those people who are telling
us and sharing their stories only from our
community,
talking about how children are are are suffering.
To Egypt
I I I ask myself,
why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when he talks
about this, he said, when the child will
be asked?
I always thought
the one who should be asked is the
criminal,
the one who buried her.
The one who killed that child will be
asked in the day of judgment.
But the eye is saying that the child
will be asked.
You come to realize when the scholars talk
about this, they said, it's basically to honor
the child that Allah will speak to the
child,
and to humiliate the criminal that he doesn't
deserve to be even talk at.
At.
Also,
it is more suffering for the criminal,
for the one who the killers
when he sees and hears
how the
person who
been
killed is speaking about their experience,
is speaking about their feelings.
You know, when you bring someone to the
court and you bring, you know, the family
or the one who been, you know, raped
or somebody been
harmed or whatever, and you bring them in
the stands and start talking about what's happening
to them,
and you see the person who
the criminal listening to all this, it's so
painful.
Before
the suffering in hellfire.
I realize
when Allah said for what sin, for what
purpose you've been killed, that there is no
excuse for killing children.
There is no excuse for using them
as a human shield.
There is no excuse
for
indiscriminate
kill for children.
There is no excuse for considering them, you
know, a collateral damage.
There is no excuse for all this.
I understand from this that all children will
go to Jannah.
We understand that with this verse that all
children will go to Jannah because that child
who Allah talked about in Quran is a
child of a non Muslim
who buried her before Islam.
And so that means after Allah honor the
child, will let them go to Jannah
and put the parents
accountable.
So it doesn't it doesn't matter where the
child's parents are, from what religion they are,
Muslim or Buddhist or Christian or Jew, children
children should be protected.
Even the children of your enemy, you're not
allowed to touch. Nabi
forbid killing enemy in war, children in war.
And
forbid
targeting children.
Ask for a child whose parents are not
Muslim,
parents who are warrior, people who are in
conflict zone. What do you think of those
innocent children who are killed in Gaza today?
What will be in the day of judgment?
It's hard.
There's no doubt losing a child is a
trial
which cannot be tolerated except by a person
who is a patient believer,
who is content with the degree of Allah
and I'm amazed by how the parents dealing
with that.
His stepdad from Bresno.
Ibrahim was
in the process of death when Nabi saw
his son like
dying in front of him. And Nabi was
in tears. Abdulham asked him,
This is a mercy. Allah put it and
compassionate that Allah put it in the heart.
Then he said, the eyes weeps
and the heart grieves,
but we see only what our Lord pleased
with.
And we grieved over being separated from you,
You Ibrahim,
O Ibrahim.
It is sad, it is hard to be
separated from your child.
But Hazbin Mus'ud said,
There is none of you except
that he is a guest
and his wealth is borrowed,
and the guest will allow will always depart,
and what is borrowed must be returned to
who it belongs to.
And we will surely test you with something
of fear and hunger
and losses of wealth and lives.
And the hardest test when you lose some
of the lives of the closest to you
which is your children.
But Allah give a glad tiding to those
who are patient. Those who say we belong
to Allah will return to Allah.
In Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
A woman came
to him, I buried 3 of my children.
You have a thick partition from * fire.
Anyone who lost 3 of his children before
they reach the age of puberty,
wall enter jannah, and that person is patient.
They say, 2, he said, 2. 1, he
said, 1.
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
when your child die.
Allah the exalted asked His angels whether they
have taken
his servant's child.
They replied that they have.
I had said, he said
that Allah will tell the angels,
then
you have basically
have taken the fruit of his heart.
This is said, you know, the fruit of
his heart.
Then he
said that Allah that the angels say, Yes.
Then Allah will say, What did my servant
say? Then they said,
They basically,
upon the replying, they have praised Allah and
said, we belong to Allah and to him
do we return.
Allah said, build a house of praise for
them
in my in my paradise.
Told us that these children who depart today,
what will happen to them?
Nabi said,
These children from the moment even if it
is a miscarriage,
so it's not even born yet.
What will do these children in the day
of judgement?
The child will drag his mom
with his court
to the jannah if the mom delayed in
entering jannah.
These children will pull their parents to jannah.
And in Nabi
a man used to attend his gathering and
his child comes with him.
Child died. And the man was depressed and
told him,
if you wish, I will pray to Allah
to return your child to you. And if
you be patient, you will see your child
in the day of judgment,
calling you to enter Jannah from any gate
you want.
This what happened to the children of Azza.
Waiting for their parents to invite them to
enter jannah from whatever gates they want in
jannah.
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us the
moment they die,
the moment this child die,
any children of the believer when they die.
He saw dream and the dream of the
prophets are true.
And he saw what happened to children when
they die.
And where where they go when they die.
We came to a very green area.
Many bushes, many it's a big garden,
have so many colors,
beautiful colors of that spring.
A man who is very tall, I can't
even see his head, he's very tall.
And I run this man so many children.
Then he asked the 2 angels with him,
Who's this man and what is the scene?
This man is Ibrahim alaihis salam.
These children are the children who born upon
fitra and die
while their child were their children.
Any children, even the children of the mushrikeen?
He said even the children of the mushrikeen
reported by Bukhari.
And Imam Ahmed Raheem Allah reported that there
is a special area in Jannah.
When the child die,
it's a mountain
or a a a *,
and it's so green like a garden.
And Nabi said, Ibrahim and his wife Sarah
are the one in charge of children until
they meet
their parents.
And when the day of judgment comes, they
are responsible to make sure that they reconnected
with their family.
You wonder what happened to the children?
Their souls are cast inside
birds that they fly and they enjoy paradise.
And the
basically they return to nests
right
by this throne of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And
said
to Abu Huraira, and once Abu Huraira, somebody
asked him, said, I have a child who
died. What will happen to my child?
Then Abu Huraira said,
I'll tell you something that it will bring
comfort to you about your losses.
And the losses of these children are our
losses.
That
told the when
a child die, they will
it is means, there's someone who freely enter
any place.
Yeah. And he the moment the child die,
he is in Jannah allowed to enter any
place, never said no to him. Even if
it's not his status or rank in Jannah.
He can go like children can go everywhere
and they open every door, you know. Ask
Ali Mudin, child also pray go to his
office all the time. My office No. Nobody's
the children like that. In Jannah like that,
they go everywhere they want.
Until the day of judgment comes,
and we will be waiting at the gates
of jannah,
looking for their parents.
And when they see their parents, they go
and they grab them,
and take them to Jannah.
That's what happened to them.
Children, yes, children. And the moment they walk
into the Jannah,
the debated and the strongest opinion, the moment
they walk into jannah,
Allah turned them to the age of 33.
Because everybody in Jannah will be in the
age of 33.
But you see them in the age that
they lost
them, until they walk in through the Jannah.
As Ibn Abbas
said,
It's been reported that the prophet said in
in their thirties, they enter. And that concept,
even the hadith maybe is not the most
authentic in the in the turbidity, but the
concept is something agreed upon between the companions
of radiAllahu andhu
This
is a big topic and and along but
I want you to see
what you can see with your eyes today.
Something of what beyond what is happening
in front of our eyes. That will not
reduce the pain. I mean, it will not
it would doesn't to justify that what happened.
But in the end of this Khutba, I
wanna mention quick points. Number 1,
this calamity that we see in Gaza is
not restricted to the children of Gaza only
or that conflict in that part of the
world.
Unfortunately today, over 400,000,000
children
live in countries where there is war
and violent conflict,
and they're forced to be misplaced
facing
unsecure
future.
So this is a big issue that's not
only related to one part, but we should
care about all children around the world.
Number 2,
children killing children is haram.
Nothing can justify
killing children,
using them as
a human shield or collateral damage or this
nonsense should stop.
3,
anyone who participate in killing them directly, that's
a direct impact.
But there is an indirect impact and participation
in killing these children as well. And each
one will be hold accountable according to their
degree,
and according to their
participation. They're not equal in sin, but all
responsible.
Not that the one who directly killed them
is is a responsibility,
but also those who supply them with weapons,
those who supply them with bombs
are also responsible for that.
Starting from the president up to the congress,
to the senators, to the people who vote
for that,
for that decision to be made,
all responsible for it.
Also,
responsible for the kill of these kids and
anywhere, those who recruit kids to be soldiers
and give them weapons.
Also those who launch rockets
or launch attack against
their enemy from a civilians area, where they
living, and knowing that this will cause to
a damage to the civilians,
are also responsible for the killing of these
children.
Everyone based on their level.
And that's nonsense of not caring for the
life of children has to stop.
Those in the media
who justify the killing of children
and casualty of war, and this is how
war it looks like,
Those who say now,
if I've been elected or I am if
you know, or those who are just because,
what, we stopped a shipment of what,
5% of the bombs that we send into
Israel?
The president, like
maybe
30,000 out of 100 of 1000 of bombs
and he making a political stunt out of
it? Even this, some people coming like our
senators here in in in at Ted Cruz
and
others, that he doesn't deserve a single vote
of you,
saying that this,
you know,
this
for the security of Israel, blah blah blah,
those people also responsible for the killing of
these innocent
people.
Those on the media speaking on propaganda,
you know, the justification
and the, you know, inhumane the Palestinians
is are responsible for this killing as well.
Those who their hearts never
been affected or moved by what happening there,
Those who don't care.
Just the numbers.
Have their share in the sin.
Finally, we have a responsibility toward these children.
You know my brother and sisters, only the
dead have seen the end of the war.
Only the dead. The living one, not yet.
That's not over yet. And it's not one
war, it's not then, so it's gonna happen
as long as the complex continue.
That's why it is important for us to
make sure that we take serious steps,
a long shot, a long term, a long
commitment.
Some
people think that I'm sinful because I I'm
no. You you do what your Allah will
never hold you responsible for the killing of
these children because you don't have the capacity
or ability to to make that stop.
But you do what you can. You make
the dua, you make the donation, you do
the you know, you lobby, you go vote,
you make sure that you don't give your
vote to those who are ill, those who
have no regard for the human's life.
You propagate the you basically
propagate the the truth, not the falsehood.
Helping these orphans,
those who are left behind. And know the
reason I give this whole because I was
inspired by 1 family here in our community.
They sponsor a family from
Gaza to come to take a treatment because
they were, you know, injured in the war.
I was inspired, touched by that.
Maybe the family even listened to my chuppah
today.
It's nice.
Saving their life, the doctors who goes, the
people who donated to save lives there,
even though now everything is shutdown with what
happened in Rafa.
We should
sponsor their education, sponsor
people to come
for treatment,
whatever we can do.
Taking care of their orphans, helping whatever whoever
left behind,
it's hard. I can't imagine what they're going
through.
But it's easier to build a strong children
than to repair a broken man.
Let's not wait until they became an adult.