Yassir Fazaga – Truth Without Power Is Mere Philosophy
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Salaam Alaikum,
warahmatullahi,
wabarakatuh,
bar,
Oh,
I
love
Muhammad Rasul,
ashwan Mohammed Al Rasool
hai Ya La Salle, fella,
A long way
along.
Rahim
Al habila Abu Asmaa mean was Salawat, Rabbi wa salamu alayhi
WA Allah Ali who sahabih taybi not hearing in
Alhamdulillah. One
Mohammedan SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam Abu Asmaa
bak Fay Kal Hadith Akita Abu lahar al Hadi Hadi Muhammad in
Sallallahu alasallam In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the
Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah. We bear witness that no
one is worthy of worship but Allah, and we bear witness that
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is indeed his final
messenger. The best of speech is the book of Allah.
The Best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, may Allah make us amongst those who listen to the
best of speech, the book of Allah, and follow its commandments. And
may Allah, Subhan Allah, make us amongst those who come to know the
best of ways, the way of Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, and
make us amongst his followers Allahumma, Ameen Allahu, Ameen
Allahu, Ameen yahbhi wa sallam, alayhi wa the
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these verses are from Surat Al and fell the
Quran and
Islam understands
that
we Islam understands that we human beings are not perfect beings. So
the Quran lays out rules to abide by in times of peace as well as in
times of war. Allah subhanta, Allah says
in Nash Raj.
The
vilest of creatures are those who are bent on denying the truth, and
therefore they will not accept the truth.
Some people don't accept the truth because they are bent on denying
the truth. A Levina, kafaru, Fahm, lay up minum, they are determined
on denying the truth. They are bent on denying the truth. No
matter what evidence you present them, they are not going to accept
the truth.
And the Quranic expression here is so beautiful. It doesn't say the
worst of people. In the Sharan, in nashwa,
the vilest of creatures. They are worse than animals. Allah said,
these are not the worst of humans, said they are the vilest of
creatures. What else do they do? El Avina AHA tam in whom, through
my uncle Lima rot in wahum, laity.
They're also those with whom you establish a covenant. But on every
occasion they break their covenant.
See most people, sometime in our lives, we have been through a
contract. We human beings. We sign contracts. At any given second on
planet Earth, somebody is signing a contract, marriage contract,
business contract, whatever type of contract, employment contract,
anytime there is somebody signing a contract.
Why do we need contracts?
See contracts, prevent disputes. That's why we have a contract.
You're not going to argue about this. Contracts prevent disputes.
Contracts establish expectations. What is expected of me, what is
expected of you, in the contract it was written.
Contracts are also important, because they establish
responsibility.
Why are we talking about this? Because yesterday, August, 22
1864
nations got together and they signed the Geneva Convention.
It was a contract between nations where people came together and
they said, look, it seems like we are going at war every time. We
need to have an agreement amongst us. What happens when there is
war? What do we do? So they met once, twice, three times and four
times, and then finally, they came up with the Geneva Convention,
started yesterday, 1964 August, 22
and in it, they spoke about how civilians are to be protected from
killing,
brutality,
torture, discrimination.
They spoke about how aid workers cannot be killed.
They spoke about how medics are not to be targeted. In the Geneva
Convention, it states that hospitals are not to be bombed or
destroyed.
Islam, 1864, and we're talking about the Quran over 1400 years
ago. Allah subhanho wa Taala is telling us. He said, the violence
of creatures are those who are bent on denying the truth. Hence
they will never believe. They are those with whom you make a
covenant, but on every occasion they break their covenant. Wahoom
la Yat aun and Allah said that these people break their
covenants. WA hum,
Laya takun, hum, Laya takun Allahu Taku and these people break their
covenants, fearing no consequences whatsoever. Allah, it sounds like
the Quran is talking about Gaza today. Wallahi, it seems like the
Quran is talking specifically about Gaza. What do you mean?
Allah said, these people, you make a covenant with them, and on every
given occasion, they break their covenant, and they are not afraid
of any consequence. They are not afraid of any consequence. But
see, the Quran does not stop there.
Allah tells us, For in matters of unknown, philharby, for shall
read, be him and khalfa Hum LA, Allah, whom ya Zak Karun.
If you encounter them in war, make a fearsome example for those who
may come after them, so that they may learn a lesson. Wala ya saben
na la Dina, kafaru sabaku in NA Humala ya Raji Zun. And for those
who disbelieve, don't think that you're going to out frustrate us
that like your Zul, you're not really a you do not encounter, you
do not oppose Allah, SubhanAllah. But then the Quran addresses the
believers,
wadahtaming, Allah,
and prepare against them.
Any kind of power strength that you can
why? See the sequence is so brilliant in the Quran, as they
say,
only a free man is able to get into a contract a slave is unable
to do so a person with power is able to dictate what happens in
the contract. The weak have no say but to accept the binding aspects
of the contract.
You really cannot negotiate if you do not have power, because we live
in a time where might is right. Doesn't matter how powerful your
truth is. If your truth does not have power to support it, you
don't have truth, as Muhammad Iqbal beautifully said it al Haqq
bila Kuwa FAL Safa to mahabha,
truth with no power to defend it, to back it, to support it, is
nothing but pure philosophy. At that point you're just
philosophizing. There is really nothing that you can do. It is
just pure philosophy. Why is that there is no power to your truth?
Your truth may be innately powerful in it, but see, the fact
that you are a holder of truth does not make you innately
protected, or somehow you are inherently strong. So Allah said,
contracts are meaningless. Let me tell you how meaningless the
Geneva Convention is. These people are writing the Geneva Convention
simultaneously. They're slaughtering Africans, the same
nations that were there for the humane treatment of the soldiers
and for the civilians, the same people as they're writing this.
They're colonizing Africa. They're colonizing Asia. They are
colonizing South America. They are colonizing Australia. What
happens? And see, that's what happens when criminals put the
law.
Don't expect justice out of that law, when it is the criminal that
is putting it that do not expect justice from that law, because the
law was put in a way that helps that criminal.
So Allah. Subhanta, Allah tells us not the idea of fulfilling a
contract is a big deal. Yayo HaNasi, takura, bakumu Levy, the
nabihi, when Alam said that, you know this notion of be mindful of
Allah subhanho wa taala, many times Allah subhanho wa Taala
speaks of Allah, will ask you because you invoked his name in a
contract or in some kind of an agreement, you said, Wallahi Allah
said, be mindful, because you gave a promise there
in the Hadith, the Prophet salallahu, alaihi wasallam says,
Salah Satun, a husmuma woman come to Hasma, who has To huyama. He
said that three type of people, I shall be their opponent on the day
of judgment, and I am your opponent on the Day of Judgment,
you will surely be defeated. Who are these? Prophet of Allah, the
Prophet sallallahu,
alayhi wa sallam, says rajulunga, a person that was given something
because they invoked my name and they turned out to be treacherous.
War, rajulu, second person, Prophet Allah, He said, A man who
hired a laborer. The laborer did the war, but they did not give
them their money. They did not pay them. What rajulun Ba Iran, a
man who took a free person, sold them into slavery, beat in the
form of human trafficking.
Him, what happened to the Muslims? Where were they? 22 countries?
Anybody did anything? No, we there was actually nothing that was that
was done.
Then what we want see there is something here.
Say that silence is not good, my brothers and sisters, you want to
hear these people coming up, and somebody is speaking, and they
start chanting, free, free. Palestine. I love these people.
May Allah, bless them. Ya Rameen, because it takes a lot of guts. So
he say, What difference did it make? What difference did it make?
See, they say, silence, silence does not torment or silence does
not encourage the tormentor. Silence, silence only encourages
the tormentor, but when people come up and speak, that is when
the tormentor is actually tormented. When people come and
they make these statements, and that's a reminder. I have not
forgotten, if you have forgotten, if you have decided to be
negligent, I have not done that. That's why you love these people.
May Allah, bless these people. Ya Raleigh, they come up and say, and
I am not see in the midst of silence, they say when you make a
statement like this one, it's like a pistol shot.
Maybe didn't kill anyone, but it was heard by everyone.
And many times it's these words that make the difference. So when
you hear them, don't just think, Oh, somebody's just being
disruptive. Disrupting whom you should ask, disrupting whom.
And when you hear who it is disrupting, say, man, they deserve
to be disrupted.
Remember, we not calling people to do this orderly conduct here.
That's not what we're saying. We are celebrating when people speak
up, and that's what we want. Edward Said, put it so nicely. He
said that many times he said,
people are not even given the permission to narrate, to tell
their story. As this African kid every time they're reading books,
and it's the white, European hunter who comes to Africa and
always gets the tiger. Always the tiger is hunted. So the kid went
his dad, and he said, Dad. He said, How come every time I read
the story, the hunter always gets the tiger dad. And the father
looked at him, and he said, Son,
when the tiger gets to tell his story, you will hear a different
ending to that story.
And so far, the tiger has not told the story, but there will be a
different ending to the story when the tiger tells that story, may
Allah increases in understanding AHA in the whole of
a Alhamdulillah, Salat was holy. Him Mustafa, WA Alam and Bihar.
Think about the covenants, the contracts that we have signed.
Maybe it's a rental contract that you have, you're doing good. Maybe
it's an employment contract that you have, are you doing good?
Maybe it is a marriage contract that you have. Are you doing good?
So when we think, don't just think of what everybody else is doing, I
want to know. Ya, Allah, am I fulfilling my part of whatever
contract it is that that I have see. Sometimes contracts are
visible.
Some elements of them are and some of them are not. And that's where
this whole notion of Taqwa being mindful of Allah subhanahu wa
comes in.
You know, we've always said that we don't want to be downers, but
we cannot help when we see wrong out there, because people lose
faith, the Geneva Convention, the United Nations and all these
things, you know, it gets to the point where you say, Are these for
real? And then when you know that these things were actually
established by criminals, you cannot expect the rules that were
established by the criminals to incriminate the criminals. I was
listening earlier today in.
To a legal consultant to the army. And he said that during the war in
Afghanistan, we were clearly told that we are not for this specific
war. We are not abiding by the Geneva Convention.
He said, I am the legal consultant. I am supposed to be
going around talking to soldiers about the legal mandates in the
Geneva Convention. Said that we were told that in this war, we are
not to abide by the Geneva Convention, and what do we do?
What kind of rules do we have? He said, at that point, you're
sanctioning criminal behavior at that point in our deen, that is
never the case. Now you have to love Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. You know how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke
to people, he said that go out there and fight. He would say, let
up to luwali them, do not kill children, because Real men don't
kill children. Real Men do not target children. Said, Let A Tulu
them, let do not destroy vegetation. Don't Don't be evil
against the environment. Do not destroy water resources.
The joy that you see on the faces of these Zionist thugs as they
were destroying water resources in Raza, May Allah destroy them. Man,
these people were having fun destroying they were having fun
destroying water resources in our deen in war. Man, you don't
destroy water resources. Let aktumra do not kill a woman. Let
do not kill the elderly. Let a Tolu shayma atihi, if anybody is
in a
recall, mercenary said, don't, don't. Don't kill them. If anybody
is in their places of worship. Said, these are places that
civilized good people don't go to Salah rasulallah There, such were
the beautiful teachings of Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa
SallAllahu, May Allah bring an end to the suffering of the people of
Raza. May Allah destroy the people who are causing the suffering of
the people of Raza. May Allah make us amongst those who fulfill our
contracts. May we never beat treacherous ya Rameen, may we
always fulfill our responsibilities. Ya Rameen, if
any of us or our loved ones are going through difficult times, may
Allah ease our pain. If any of us or our loved ones have lost the
way, May Allah bring us back to his way. May Allah bless the souls
of our loved ones who have passed away are but I mean, Robin
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salaam alaikum, Allah
Salaam Alaikum, warahmatullahi
wa
salam, before I go into what's happening this weekend, Inshallah,
we have a special announcement For an event that we're doing
September 6 to September 8 with Salam charity inshallah. And the
theme of that weekend is going to be it takes a village activating
our community, and we will be having special guests such as Imam
Sohaib Webb,
Dr Haifa Yunis, former NBA player, Tariq Abdul Wahid, and then Khari
safe Khalid, who was here during Ramadan with us, as well as all of
our local religious leaders. The weekend is going to include a
Friday khutbah on September 6, with Imam sohai Bub we'll have a
Friday Night Live panel, a km night, Saturday family night,
Nashi performances, a basketball benefit tournament for Gaza, as
well as youth sessions and a lot more. So that weekend is September
6 to September 8. You can check our newsletter, our website, the
text messages, Inshallah, for more information on that.
Also that weekend, on Sunday, September 8, there will also be
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11am to 4pm there is a table available outside if you want to
sign up and donate that day. As far as this weekend, Inshallah,
tonight, we have orphans of the world Aisha session with Imam
Fauci. And then on Saturday and Sunday, there are a beginner and
advanced Embroidery Workshop. The one on Saturday is for beginners,
between 12 to 3pm and on a.
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like to participate in that, you must register. There's a link
that's been circulating to register. And then lastly, we have
our summer community brunch on Sunday as well that will be
holding in the Nasim banquet hall. That's from 11am to 2pm tickets
are $15 per person for that, Inshallah, so we look forward to
seeing you this weekend. Is that a