Yasir Qadhi – Another Pharaoh Has Fallen – Sh On The Liberation Of Syria
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala for every blessing he has given us
and we especially praise him in these days
for the great joy and the victory that
we are seeing from our brothers and sisters
in Bilad al-Sham.
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar
Kabira walhamdulillahi kathira wa subhana allahi bukratan wa
asila la ilaha illallah wahda sadaqa wa'da wa
nasara abda wa a'azza jundahu wa hazama
al-ahzaba wahda la ilaha illallah wala na
'budu illa iyah mukhlisila lahuddeena walaw kariha alkafirun.
Alhamdulillah brothers and sisters I do not think
that any person of Iman was witnessing what
we witnessed except that their hearts were alight
with joy.
Yes I know that there are many questions
that we have and you know many ambiguities
but allow us just the pleasure and the
luxury of enjoying the freedom of our brothers
and sisters who have been persecuted for more
than 65 years under one of the most
tyrannical regimes of the last century.
Wallahi it is not an exaggeration to state
that this tyrannical leader of that country and
his father before him really exemplified the Firaun
of our times.
If anybody really vied for that title in
all likelihood him and his father before him
were the closest that we saw to the
reality of Firaun as Allah describes Firaun in
the Quran.
Inna Firauna ala fil ardi wa ja'ala
ahlaha shia'an yastad'ifu ta'ifat minhum
yathabbihu abna'ahum wa yastahyi nisa'ahum innahu
kaana minal mufsideen.
And every one of these characteristics and descriptions
that the Quran applies to the classical Pharaoh
it applies to the modern manifestation of it.
This tyrannical person known as Bashar al-Assad
and his father before him Hafiz al-Assad
in the entirety of my life on this
earth I have heard nothing but horror stories
from my Syrian friends and colleagues from my
Syrian teachers the realities of the torture prisons
the realities of the repression and the lack
of freedom to be religious people being arrested
merely for praying Fajr merely because they were
seen with the wrong person merely because of
rumors that they didn't even know the realities
too and all of these stories and only
a portion of them are coming to light
and as for what is hidden that only
Allah subhana wa ta'ala knows.
Now dear brothers and sisters what are some
of the lessons what are some of the
morals that we can extract from all that
we have seen much can be said but
time is of course limited I just want
to mention a number of points that I
have been pondering over of them of the
most important of these points is the necessity
and the importance of believing in Allah subhana
wa ta'ala and of turning to him
for aid for comfort for dua for tawakkul
subhanAllah how could our brothers and sisters that
were being persecuted for decades who are not
even seeing the Sun for 45 years of
their existence how could they have maintained you
know their their courage their sanity other than
by turning to Allah subhana wa ta'ala
belief in Allah gives what nothing else gives
and when you have belief in Allah it
gives you comfort it gives you support it
allows you a courage and a bravery it
gives you optimism and hope beyond hope really
the necessity of believing in Allah is manifested
time and time again and this is yet
another manifestation of that that especially at times
of difficulty not that any of our difficulties
can compare to their difficulties but nonetheless the
importance and the blessings of belief in Allah
subhana wa ta'ala as well the consolation
that happens in fact the realization that there's
a day of judgment and the Quran actually
mentions that the preponderance of evil is an
indication that this world is not the end
all and be all Allah subhana wa ta
'ala says in the Quran that if I'm
a general Muslim in a calamity to me
in my record gave it a common do
you think we're gonna make the Muslim like
the criminal do you think that they're just
gonna live and die and that's it no
that's not gonna happen and Allah says in
the Quran I'm a general lady in a
common or I'm gonna study how to kill
most even if it are the amnesty I
don't want to clean a call for job
do you think that the one who does
good deeds and believes in Allah is the
same as the one who causes evil in
the earth do you think that the mutake
and the impious the wicked they're going to
be the same now if we don't believe
in an akhira if we don't believe in
a life after the day of judgment then
in reality it is as if the equation
is the same that those that are good
and those that are bad they live and
they die and that's it when we see
the reality of injustice that has been perpetrated
by this evil tyrannical regime when we hear
of the torture stories when we understand the
reality of what is going on wallahi we
look forward to the day of judgment because
we cannot implement ultimate justice in this world
only Allah is Maliki omid Dean what punishment
even if we were to catch this tyrant
even if we capture some of the guards
who have a stuff that Allah pillaged and
plundered and raped and and massacred dozens of
people the most you know heinous crimes the
most unspeakable violence perpetrated against innocent people even
if we capture these guards and we were
to kill them execute them what of what
good is that how is that justice and
this is why we believe in day of
judgment and we believe in heaven for those
that were persecuted and we believe in *
for those that perpetrated that persecution wallahi we
understand the wisdom of believing in heaven and
* and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions
this in the Quran that justice is not
found in this worth or earth justice is
in the akhira also of the lessons we
extract from the realities of what we have
seen is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
never allows tyranny and injustice to flourish yes
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
sometimes Allah allows leeway for the wicked for
the impious for the tyrant but Allah never
ignores Allah allows leeway but Allah never ignores
Allah azawajal might allow some time but when
Allah takes him Allah takes him and holds
him to a severe reckoning look at the
reality of this tyrant he caused more than
10 million of his people to become refugees
and now this week he became a refugee
in his own land he was causing fear
to so many people and now today he
is living in fear and this is the
Sunnah of Allah if he called the he
Allah never allows tyranny to go unanswered rather
the one who has perpetrated violence the one
who has done so much of them Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will hold them to
account and no nation and no dynasty and
no regime that has been guilty of such
violence shall ever flourish they might be let
go in this world for a while but
eventually Allah takes them and holds them to
account and this is inshallah good news for
our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted
around the world for our brothers and sisters
in China and the Uyghur situation for what
is happening in Palestine and Gaza for what
is happening around the world Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will indeed show us a day
where the evil tyrants are taken into account
and where all of their evil deeds are
brought to an end and only Allah will
give ultimate justice in the hereafter also of
the wisdoms and of the morals that we
can extract from this is the hypocrisy of
those superpowers that stood by in fact indirectly
or directly aided and abetted what is going
on and the tyrant and the tyrant that
was in charge subhanAllah the reality is that
those groups that were formed as a direct
result as a reaction to the tyranny of
this person those groups even if they committed
acts that we don't agree with even if
we're talking about of course the groups of
15 years ago the pseudo jihadists and the
militant groups which I do not agree with
but those groups they were a result of
the tyranny of this person and the Western
world's prioritized the result over the cause and
they made such a big deal about those
groups and they ignored the root cause of
those groups and they made such a big
deal about the immigration of the Syrian refugees
millions and millions of people were fleeing from
this tyrant and so many Western lands were
irritated by the refugees but they didn't understand
they were causing it directly and indirectly by
supporting the cause of those refugees if Bilad
al-Sham had been safe if tyranny had
been stopped if this evil dictator sanctions had
been out against him rather than the people
of Syria if the world boycotted this particular
family rather than penalizing the people for things
that are not in their control then neither
would we have had the rise of these
radical groups nor would we have had the
refugee crises and yet as is the want
the Western superpowers blamed the symptoms rather than
the root causes because they were directly aiding
and abetting those root causes so we have
to be careful about this hypocrisy and this
reality and of course of the points that
we have to ponder over is the fragility
of the nation-state identity the fragility of
these borderlines Syria of course is a product
a direct product of the Sykes-Picot which
is a 1916 secret agreement between the French
and the British and they quite literally divided
up the modern contours of Syria the modern
borders of Syria they go back to a
debate taking place between Sykes and Pico to
British and and French attachés to the embassies
who are arguing over how to carve up
the Ottoman Empire and these false you know
imaginary lines these are not things that we
should be overtly concerned with our ultimate loyalty
and identity is based upon values and faith
it is based upon our allegiance to Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala and our love of the
Quran and our fact that we are all
united by the Ummah of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam brothers and sisters much more can
be said here but now is the time
really of joy and happiness now is the
time of praising Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and
now is the time as well of deep
introspection that we want to maintain dignity and
to preserve the freedoms of this land and
that will require some bravery and courage from
all sides and it will require a compromise
once again from all sides we do not
want to repeat of the past and we
should look at the lessons that we've learned
in the last 15 years from Arab Spring
and pre Arab Spring and post Arab Spring
and my advice to everybody is to act
in a manner that is inshallah meant to
protect the freedoms of the peoples of those
regions so that everybody can be worshipping Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala without penalties without any problems
without any monitoring of the governments and authorities
we want the people to be able to
worship Allah with utmost freedom that is the
real freedom right now we will just rejoice
and ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to protect
our brothers and sisters in Bilad al-Sham
and to allow what happened in Bilad al
-Sham to be a catalyst for other regions
as well in which inshallah freedom and safety
and security and the rights to worship Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala are protected and guaranteed may
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala bless our brothers and
sisters in Bilad al-Sham and the neighboring
regions may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala show us
in other lands as well that which will
be a comfort of our souls and the
coolness of our eyes may Allah allow us
to be instruments of khair and harbingers and
and bringers inshallah barakah and khair through Allah
azza wa jal we ask Allah to be
mafatiha al khair, keys that open up doors
of good maghaliqa sharq, keys that close doors
of evil we ask Allah azza wa jal
to grant us ikhlas, tawfiq, hidayah, and sadad
wa jazakumullahu khairan wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh