Condemning The Charlie Hebdo Attack

Yasir Qadhi

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Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi shares his state of mind and gives us an honest opinion on the recent killing of the cartoonists in France. He also sheds light on the clear double-standards and hypocrisy that sets the undertone of the mindset of the people.

The Shaykh asks of these people as to what is the use of the ‘freedom of expression’ when clearly one does not even have his or her way when it comes to choosing one’s attire.

The Prophet ﷺ was sent as nothing but a source of immense love and mercy to the world, with  his Seerah being standing testimony to the innumerable incidents of forgiveness and love. His honour has to be guarded with full conviction and mocking of the Prophet ﷺ is promised a punishment by Allah SWT like no other.

The Shaykh implores us to seriously ponder upon the context of violence, why it happens, why is the Seerah being placed out of context and much more. The  political and social powers that influence the minds of the radicals need to be checked into place so that these untoward incidents do not see the light of the day. Islamophobia and institutionalized racism against Muslims has to stop if we are to be allowed to practise our religion in peace and tranquility.

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Rarely, All praise is due to a loss of Hannah horchata we praise Him and we seek his help. And we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls in the consequences of our actions. Indeed whomever Allah subhana wa tada guides, none can misguide him, and whomever he missed guys, the nun can guide him back to the straight path. I bear witness and I testify that there is no deity worthy of our worship other than Allah subhana wa Tada. And that Mohammed Sall Allahu Allah, he was setting them as the final prophet and the most perfect worshipper of Allah. My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, Allah subhanho wa Taala has reminded us in the Quran, to be conscious of him to have Taqwa in

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many verses of them he says, Yeah, you hola Dena, Armando taco La La kulu Conan sajida use, como yo la come through back home, woman you are in the water sutra. hufa differs 1000 alima or you believe be conscious of Allah have Taqwa of Allah, and say your good speech and whoever does so that Allah subhanho wa Taala will bless him and forgive him. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has indeed won a manifest victory. My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, the status the macom of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is higher than any other macom no human being deserves the honor and the love and the respect that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam deserves. Allah subhanho

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wa Taala says an old bill meaning I mean unfussy him, the prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves. The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves. Loving the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a necessary part of a man believing in Him following him defending him. All of this is a part and parcel of us as Muslims. Allah says in the Quran, called in contempt to hipbone Allah, Hafiz Tabby, Rooney, yo, como la jolla, la fille de Nova con, if you say that you love Allah, the process of is telling us in the Quran, Allah tells him to say this, if you say that you love Allah, then follow me. Only then Allah will love you fret Toby Rooney, yo, como

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la. The only way to attain a loss love is to love the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and to follow the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the hadith of Bokhari Fela Thurman kunafa he was the hell out What will a man there are three things whoever has them will taste the sweetness of faith. Number one, on yakun Allahu wa rasuluh. I have a mercy oma that Allah and His Messenger are more beloved to him than anything besides those two. This is the number one way of tasting the sweetness of demand and attaining the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And the lies of the Sahaba clearly demonstrate this. Bob once came to the Prophet system, and he said, you have a school

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of law. I love you more than anything except myself. I love you more than anything except myself. And our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Not yet, Omar, until you love me, meaning not you haven't reached the level until you love me even more than you love yourself. So Omar thought for a while and he realized, in fact, I love the processor more than I love myself. So he said, Yeah, rasulillah I love you more than I love myself. And so the process that I've said and more now you have reached a man, you cannot have a man until he'll below and hope for Russell is more than hope of yourself and hope of any other person and the lives of the Sahaba demonstrate this through so

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many episodes. We don't even have time to go into the incidence of the clo how many times the Sahaba defended the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam even at the cost of their lives, risking their own lives, I will butker

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Abu Bakr Siddiq rushing fourth and maccha when there was a mob attacking the process and him and he had nothing to defend himself with except with his hands. He's picking up his hands until he was bloodied and beaten and bruised, so that aboubaker could not walk for a week because he wanted to defend the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam we all know the story of the cave. And in Ladakh era, Abu Bakar was wanting to take the bite of the snake rather than the Prophet sallallahu I think he was setting them. We know the incident of how many of the Sahaba side is putting his back and he said, Yasser Allah seek protection through my back, I will be your I will be your ransom I will be

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your protector, I will die rather than you and he stands up because he doesn't have a shield. He doesn't have an armor. He uses his body as an armor so that arrows come and strike him in the back. How many are the incidents of the Sierra and we can go on and on about the love of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam that's how the whole babe that's how the whole Bay when the college captured him and they wanted to execute him and they made a festival out of it. And they took him outside the city and they were mocking him and throwing pebbles at him and and they were waiting

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To kill him and he was standing there waiting to be killed and Abuja Hello. One of the leaders remarked that he said, oh, whoa, babe, Abu sufian said, Oh boy, Don't you wish that your Prophet Mohammed was standing here and you're in your house right now. Don't you want to swap now? And hope he said well, ah he I would rather die than a thorn prick the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is the love of the Sahaba you can kill me over and over again. I will not even want a thorn to prick his finger. This is the love of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So haven Ahmed visited the count of the Muslims. And so hate was the dignitary of the Arabs. He was the nobleman of

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the orange. He had visited kisara he had visited the Caesar he has visited the Najafi of Abyssinia he had seen the Emperor's and he visited the Prophet system at that time he was not a Muslim, and he went back to the kurush amazed and astonished and he said omashola courage of people of courage. While law he I have never seen any group of people who love and respect their leader more than us helleborus with a license and respect Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I have been to kisara to Caesar tuna Joshi. None of them respect their leaders as much as the companions respect. Their prophet SAW so many described details that I have gone to in my Sierra and this is not the time to

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do that. And we love our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for so many reasons. We love him because of what he came with. We love them because the Lord chose him. We love him because the Oregon came down to him. And most importantly, we love Him because He embodied the perfection of humanity, the noble characteristics, the best embodiment of being a good human being is our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam as Allah says, In the Quran, Allah Allah who can tell them your manners are the best manners the most perfect manners are the manners of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and of course we love him, and we want the world to love him. But there have always been

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people who oppose him. There have always been people who mocked and ridiculed him for whatever reason, they didn't want to give up their status. They didn't want to give up their powers. They didn't want to give up their false gods. Whatever reason, there were people that oppose him, and in his lifetime, he showed us how to deal with his opponents and how to deal with those who mocked and ridiculed him. The Sierra is full of such incidents. The Koran is full of so many verses that especially the makansutra and we'll get to the madonie sutras in a while, especially in the consumers that Allah subhana wa Taala says that were added on in jehlen turn away from the ignorant

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will make fun of you. Allah says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam regarding those who mock him phosphor husafell Jamil, go ahead and overlook a beautiful overlooking don't stoop to their level. Allah says return harshness with good and you will find the one who hates you will in fact end up loving you all of these are explicit Quranic verses and one of the most important stories of the era that we teach our children, a story that we grow up hearing the details of over and over and over again, is the incident of thought if the incident of thought if when our Prophet system was bloodied when his shoes were soaking with his own blood, when he had no protector other than Allah

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subhanho wa Taala. And Allah then sent him all of the forces of this world he handed over the angel of the mountains and said, Do as you please, that you have every right to destroy them. And what did our profit system do? What did he do we all know this story? He said no, and he had every right to destroy them. What law he if any group deserve to be killed and and and eliminated, it is that group, but what did our processing them say? No, maybe their children will become worshippers of Allah. He was merciful to them thinking of the future. And imagine now thought, if as we know is a major city of Islam. Our mother Isha narrates that in Medina, our processing was sitting when a

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group of evil people came in, and they went after Conan and some of the Hood Hood who rejected Islam and they mock the process and they would say things and wink and one of the things they would love to say is Assam or Alaykum without the lamb. Assam in Arabic means the plague disease death, Assam Aleykum not a Salam or Aleikum, a samurai they come and they would wink at one another look what we're saying. So it means May you be destroyed May the play come upon you. And the Prophet system said why they come and Alisha was behind the curtain and more and more people came and the winking is going on, and she could not bear it anymore. From behind the curtain. Her voice came out and she

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said why they come with Sam well, Cordoba Allahu Allah. May Allah curse and Lana and the plague be on you. How dare you say this to the Prophet so seldom, the people were shocked and they left in their haste are processing him set to Asia, or Asia. Have you ever seen me be vulgar? Have you ever seen me be vulgar? He Ciao

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stylized Arusha, why did you speak like this to those people? And I said you had a solo? Didn't you hear what they said? Didn't you hear they're making fun of you? They're not saying a set on why they come. And of course, the process of them knew. And he said, Oh, Arusha. Didn't you hear my response? Why they come upon you as well. You wish me the death? I wish you as well. Let's see whom Allah will give it to. You may do. You set it back in a beautiful manner, in a beautiful manner. And you leave it to Allah subhanahu wa, Tada. And the incidents go on and on and on. And yes, it is true. And we are not denying that there are incidents in this era, just a handful, just a few, where some people

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combined their rejection of Islam with also being a political threat, with also doing things that will be harmful to the state. So their ridicule was not just really cool, personally to the process. Now, it also represented a strategic threat for these people, there is no denying that some incidents of the zero demonstrate that the law was handed to them. And yes, they were punished for what they had done, and nobody is denying this. But the fact of the matter is that the general rule that our processes demonstrated throughout his life was the rule of mercy. The fact of the matter that had Ethan Bahati, our mother I Isha says memorize this had these brothers and sisters, those

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who think they know the Shetty out without even having read a single book of fit for a single book, have had it memorized what our mother says, as reported in the most authentic book, she says, well, law he the Prophet system never took revenge for anything because of a personal issue. Man takoma Rasulullah saw some laughs He never did he take revenge for anything for a personal reason, except if it was something for the sake of a law for religion, yes, but not for himself. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, knowing this reality, knowing this reality of the Prophet system, and His mercy, and of the laws of the shediac, it is truly tragic that some misguided people, people that

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honestly had no knowledge of Islam, they had not studied the Sharia. They did not get a fatwa from a reputable scholar, frankly, they were known for their criminal records of the past that some people became angry and agitated at some cartoonists, and they kill them and many people in their staff as well, knowing what the prophet system was, and knowing what the Sharia tells people to do, would have prevented this tragedy. The fact of the matter is that we have no qualms saying that killing such people and murdering them is something that goes against the religion of Islam. It goes against the Sunnah of our Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, those who thought that they were defending

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the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, rather ended up harming his image and harming the prestige of Islam, and they have caused much more damage than any potential good that they think they would have done. And my dear brothers and sisters, there are those who are saying, oh, Islamic law and the books that say this and that about blasphemy. You know, firstly, you are not a scholar, or you who have done this deed, go to the scholars of Islam, you do not open up a textbook on medicine, then become a doctor, you do not open up a textbook at archaeology or whatever, and then become an art. It doesn't work that way. You have to study and be trained. And I do not know of a single atom in

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the whole world of whatever method of whatever methodology or theology who says that alone Muslim anywhere in the world can become judge, jury and executioner and just go and start killing people and rampaging especially in a land that never claims to be ruled by the laws of Islam. Even if you think some laws are Islamic in an Islamic State, you will go to the court and you will get the judge and the government How about when the state is not Islamic? And the laws are not Islam? How can you take a book of fiction and then cut and paste it and then bring it into a society and a land that is not ruling by those laws will law he This is ignorance on top of Johanna on top of cowardice? Well

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law, he the people that have done this have harmed Islam, much, much more than zero benefit at all has been gained. such actions have no place in Islam, and those who claim to be defending the Profit System, I say to them loudly and clearly. I swear by a law, you have done more damage to our profit systems reputation than anything that the cartoonists and the saturates could ever have done. At the same time, as we condemn that violence. And as we dissociate ourselves from their actions, and as we say, we have nothing to do with their fanaticism. We also have to point out that that violence is not occurring in a vacuum. And that simply by pointing out some of the other reasons that might have

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led to this act, we are not justifying, nor are we sympathizing. But just like in America, when some mass shooter goes on a shooting rampage in a school or in a theater, and then the media comes and talks to

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About his childhood and what happened, and why did he flip? Similarly, we also want to talk about these people overall their personality, what are the social, the economic, the political circumstances, not to justify? Because we're lucky these people have damaged us and our religion more than anything that cartoonists could have done, but simply to explain and clarify that it is indeed a two way street. They say that this is about the freedom of speech. But I want to ask, Is it really about the freedom of speech? Is it really about the freedom of speech? Can we ignore the power dynamics, the socio political circumstances, this cartoon was a catalyst. And underneath,

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there was a lot of fuel ready to be sparked up? The cartoon was a catalyst. What happened was not just because of the cartoon, dare I say, and this is my opinion, that if there were no other circumstances and the cartoon appeared, people would not have been killed. Yes, we would have been angry, and we deserve to be angry, we have the right to be angry, we have the right to be offended. We don't have the right to get physical. We don't have the right to harm, but we have every right to be angry and offended. That is my right. If you think it is your right to offend, it is my right to be offended and to express offense. It's not my right to harm. But I do say that there were other

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circumstances that created this violence. What hurts the Muslim community, even as we very clearly say, we have nothing to do with the terrorists that kill these people. What hurts the Muslim community is that from our perspective, there does seem to be a double standards. A few decades ago, this country, this part of the world, especially, was well known for the way that it treated and it portrayed African Americans look at the cartoons that were drawn, look at the portrayals of African Americans as being subhuman, literally like istockphoto la, an animal, a chimpanzee with gloated lips, and this and that these types of images were common in the 20s, and 30s. And even up to the

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40s and early 50s. Some of these have trickled down to mainstream cartoon such as Tom and Jerry and others, if you look at the those cartoons, some of these images that are deemed to be so offensive, and they are will lie, they are disgusting, and so racist and so bigoted, they were mainstream in America. Now, who amongst these newspapers that are defending the freedom of speech will want to print such such images and such cartoons, we don't find those images being printed. Similarly, in Nazi Germany, in the 20s, and 30s, you look at how they portrayed the Jews, they would protect portrayed them as satanic, satanic bank men, as people with plenty of wealth with crooked noses.

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This is how they were portrayed with hunchbacks very evil people. This is how they were portrayed. Now, who amongst those people who are defending the quote, unquote, freedom of speech, will want to print those same images in their magazines, they don't do that. And the fact of the matter is that this very magazine that printed these very pictures of our profit system, two years ago, they fired a one of their own journalists, they fired him, and they took him to court, because he wrote a column that was deemed to be anti semitic. And it was, I mean, to be honest, he was very crude, he made fun of the Jewish people in a manner that is not befitting of a human being, and he stereotype

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them, the point being, there seems to be a double standard, almost 15 countries in Europe have laws against Holocaust speech denial, to say anything about the Holocaust in a derogatory manner to make fun of it, to deny it happened to simply say that maybe the numbers were different, not 6 million, 5 million no formula. And again, I want to be clear here, I am not saying that it's not my, I'm just quoting, if somebody says it, and in those countries, you will be sent to jail. And there have been a number of very famous cases of people who have been criminalized and been persecuted by the authorities for holding opinions, no matter how. And again, I want to be clear, I'm not a holocaust

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denier. I think that the Holocaust was a great tragedy that, that Hitler was a great was it was a demon who did a lot of evil things. We're not defending what happened. But we are saying, why is it that in your own countries, in your own countries, it is not allowed to make fun of the Holocaust, and yet it is not just allowed but encouraged to make fun of that which we hold sacred. You talk about freedom of expression, but you are the ones who are banning a Muslim lady from expressing herself in her modesty. You are the ones who are banning the niqab, you are banning so many symbols of Islam. And then you talk about freedom of expression you talk about about freedom and liberty.

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But the fact of the matter is that your own Muslim populations have suffered first from colonialism over so many centuries. And then from the way you are treating your own North African immigrant community jaw problems, education problems, multiple institutionalized racism, and anybody who

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has been to France or knows the French Muslim community knows exactly what I'm talking about that the Muslims of France really and truly have it bad in every single area of life from the time they were born up until they die. They're facing institutionalized racism, they've been getaways. They've been ostracized. They don't have the same opportunities for education for job slurs all the time, demonization, what do you think is going to happen. And here I get to the issue of power dynamics brothers and sisters, a little bit of psychology here. When, when the media when the politician makes fun of a powerful person, this might actually be funny. When the media makes fun of the

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government, this might actually become funny. But when a powerful person, the media, the government makes fun of and satirizes a minority, all of a sudden, it's not just funny anymore, it's actually scary. And we see this in African Americans here in this country. And in the Jews in Nazi Germany, when the dominant majority starts demonizing a small minority. That's not funny anymore. Because we're talking about a people who feel threatened. And not only feel it, but they act they are there genuinely suffering financially and economically. And we add to this as well. The rising tide of Islamophobia in these lands, the fact that the far right parties in Germany of all countries, we

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would think that Germany would be the the one who learns from its own history, less than 100 years have gone by since Nazi Germany since they were they were pogroms against the Jews, since there were mass protests against the Jews less than 100 years later. And we see 30,000 people in the streets of Germany protesting against Muslims saying Muslims out of our land, Muslims, no Muslims in Europe. Isn't this going to terrify? It terrifies me. And I'm in America. It terrifies us. And we're 1000s of miles away the hatred, the mob mentality that is taking place, all of a sudden in that environment, when the dominant culture makes fun of the minority that is under siege, under siege,

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all of a sudden, you will get people who will flip over this is not to justify, I have said it before. I'll say it again, we have nothing to do with those terrorists, and they have done wrong. But we are also saying the other side is not fully innocent. This is what we are saying the other side is not fully innocent, because you're not being fair about the freedom of speech. Rather, you want the freedom to insult us and not others. This is what you're asking. And my response is that I am not asking for that speech to be criminalized as a Muslim American, I understand. We have the First Amendment, we cannot ban speech. But what I am saying look at those double standards, you

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politicians and media personnel cannot talk about African Americans using let's say the N word. You cannot talk about Asian Americans using the slur beginning with ch you cannot talk about any ethnicity. Saying something bad. You cannot talk about homosexuals using a term beginning with if you don't use these words. Why? Because you don't want to offend not because you're going to go to jail. But you respect people's sensibilities. Is it too difficult to understand that we as Muslims love our Profit System infinitely more than we love our race? Well law you I would rather you insult my race a million times, go ahead and salt me in salt, my mother and father will allow you to do

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that. But do not insult our profit system because you will truly you will truly bring about something in me that I will have to control. And I am not saying that anger is justified. It's not we don't want to act upon it, but insulting our process of just to insult him because there is no artistic value. This is not even if it were an academic debate about the pros and cons of a certain aspect of the shediac. Even then, well, it would not make Muslims that irritated. But the purpose of these cartoons, the purpose of these images, is just to throw it in your face, go ahead and do what you want to do. That type of attitude will lie that is what caused them to get angry, and not just

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the images themselves. The portrayal of our process has happened for over 1000 years Muslims, not all Muslims believe that is how long to paint and draw. Some Muslims have even drawn the process some but in a respectful manner. Of course, I don't think it should be done. But it's not that we're against drawing the process of that's not why this happened. This happened because you're intentionally insulting. And I swear by Allah, we all know this. If we were to go for no reason and stand in front of a stranger and start calling his mother this and his mother that and his mother this. What do you think the stranger is going to do? What do you think he's going to do other than

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punch me and I deserve to be punched? I would say this is my I'm not saying the law. I'm saying if I were to do this in front of a stranger and start insulting his mother using vulgar words, what do I expect will happen to me? It is stupidity and foolishness as well. And this is not to justify because if he were to hit me, I could go to the court and the court would cite in my favor, but the judge would tell me you were stupid for doing this even though the one who will go to jail be the one who hits me My point being my dear brother

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and sisters, that we are not talking about just Muslim anger because of the portrayal of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam. Rather, there are a lot of social, economic and political issues here as well, you cannot ignore the invasion of Muslim lands. And the fact that there really is this dichotomy of quote unquote, Islam versus the West, both the far right, and the radical Islamic parties, they both have the same view of us versus them. And we in the middle need to be very clear here, we are neither them nor the radicals, we are neither on this side nor that side, we are the middle path. And we say that we would want you to respect our profit system. But if you insist on

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doing what you are doing, well, then we have no obligation to love you to respect you that we don't respect you for doing this. Yes, we have every right to hate you. But we also are not going to be violent and anybody who is violent, we will try our best to bring them back. But at the same time, just like you use your wisdom in not insulting other ethnicities, other minorities, we asked you do the same for us as well. And if you insist on doing whatever you're doing, then Allah Subhana Allah will be our judge in the next world. My dear brothers and sisters, in the end of the day, what happened happened, and we condemn the Muslims. Apparently they have just we just heard the news that

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they were killed by the police, and will law hate these people. They have done a disservice to Islam. Look at what has happened that because of their actions, those cartoons this magazine was an unknown magazine. Hardly anybody had heard the name less than 50,000 people subscribed to it. Now because of this, it is front page news. Those same pictures have been portrayed and publicized in front of millions, if not billions, of people. Because of this. People are now hating Islam, and hating our processing and because of this cartoonists around the world are saying we will make fun of Islam. We will make fun of the process of look at the stupidity of these Muslims. And it's

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typical as typical, overzealous and under educated, always overzealous and under educated. They think they're doing something good. Just like a guy that just like ISIS, just like all of these groups, they think they're doing something good, but they end up harming much more than bringing about any good. Our process of them showed us the best way. The best way to defend his honor is to follow his son and we follow his son by demonstrating his character and what was his character. One other son Naka Rahmatullah mean, he was Rahmatullah the mean. So when we embody that and when people see the Rama in our lives, when they see how good we are, how kind we are, how loving we are, how

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peaceful we are, what law he is, this is the way to defend the honor of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam May Allah Subhana Allah make us of the true followers of our Prophet sallallahu Sallam bhadrakali working for him when I finally will be my femur is ridiculous Hakeem otomatis marone was stopped for a lot of the money welcome. What he said was similar to the Memphis tofu in Navajo food or Rahim.

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Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah hiwot hadn't I had a summer there lady Amelia Donna mula wollombi, akula. Hakuna had, my dear brothers and sisters, we all are facing the bitter cold here in the city of Memphis. And the last few days have shown us the coldest days for the entire year. And all of us sitting here are wearing jackets, even though we are inside, and our heaters are on and in our houses we have fires on and we thank Allah subhana wa Taala that He has given us the mechanisms and the means to take care of ourselves and our families. Even though even though this code is not as bad as many other places in the world, the fact of the matter is that it is not that cold here

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compared to other places up north. But we are not accustomed to this. So as we protect ourselves and our families, my dear brothers and sisters, let us also make sure that we think about our Muslim brothers and sisters who don't have the luxuries of protecting their own families who have come from climates warmer than that even event Memphis who have never tasted the cold at all in their lives. And I refer here primarily to our brothers and sisters, the refugees of Syria who have been scattered millions of them, over four to five millions of them have been scattered around the various lands, many of them are in shelters that will lie people in this country would not even give

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to their dogs. They're living in shelters worse than that. They're living in cabins, literally just an aluminium cabin. That's it. No ventilation, no nothing. And the cold is much worse than Memphis. It is snowing right now in places in in Lebanon to the borders of Turkey. And those brothers and sisters forget about central heating. They don't even have jackets and clothes to cover themselves with properly and there's plenty of video and and footage online for this. And it is so sad to point out that hunt dozens of children dozens of children have literally frozen to death overnight simply because they don't have a blanket or a cloth to cover

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themselves with these are people who are living lives just like us, the middle class living normal lives until what happened to them happened in Syria and now they are scattered in other places, brothers and sisters, not just draw, but we need to make an active effort to do what we can and Mashallah we have a large Syrian community here in Memphis, may I suggest in May I strongly advise you brothers and sisters to tell us how we can donate our clothes, how we can donate blankets, how we can ship them to these camps, you have the personal connections find out and we will announce over here in Charlotte without any registered charity that is that is approved we will help and

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collect funds or you can do it yourself. But the point is that as we are protecting our family and our children, we should also look at those who Allah azzawajal is testing in different ways and of the ways we thank Allah is by helping those who are less deprived than we are so brothers and sisters in Islam, be generous in whatever Allah has given you realize this code is so easy for us to bear we go from the heated the heated mustard to our heated cars and just from here to the car and we're rubbing our hands and just rushing to the car. Imagine if there was no heated mustard and there was no heated car and there was no heated office and there was no heated house. Imagine if

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that is all you have and not just you but far more painful your children how would you deal with that realize that there are millions of people living in this manner right now and it is really followed upon us to do whatever we can May Allah subhana wa tada make their situation easy for them a llama and he died for a minute allama lotta nephew has a job resemble ilaha illa for Raja wala Jain and Illa later when amor de la Ilaha feta when I see it on India softer Allah fildena worry one in La Nina Saba hoonah v man,

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