Zaid Shakir – DonT Tell God You Have Problems; Tell Your Problems You Have God
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The speakers discuss the greatest accomplishments of Islam, including his claim to be greater than stars and the success of his nation in generating. They emphasize the need for leaders to reject everything and be strong through Islam, and emphasize the importance of learning and practicing the name of God. The speakers also stress the importance of protecting men and women, and reenacting the father's message of love. They encourage attendees to accept worship and reenact the father's message of love, while also protecting people in their homes and their families.
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Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha illa Allah,
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi l-hamd.
Allah is greater.
Allah is the greatest.
Allah is greater than this gathering.
Allah is greater than this park.
Allah is greater than this city.
Allah is greater than this state.
Allah is greater than this country.
Allah is greater than this hemisphere.
Allah is greater than this world.
Allah is greater than the sky above us.
Allah is greater than the stars beyond the
sky.
Allah is greater than any galaxy beyond the
stars.
Allah is greater than the universe that holds
it all.
Allah is greater than all of creation.
Allah is greater than all of creation.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha
illa Allah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi
l-hamd.
Allah is greater than you and Allah is
greater than I.
Allah is greater than our problems.
Allah is greater than our grief.
Allah is greater than our anxiety.
Allah is greater than our worries.
Someone said, don't tell Allah you have problems,
tell your problems you have Allah.
We say no, we tell Allah we have
problems because Allah is the reliever of all
problems.
But we also tell our problems we have
Allah and we acknowledge that Allah is greater
than our problems.
Whatever is vexing us, whatever is grieving us,
whatever we might be struggling with.
We might be struggling with the hardship and
the burden of trying to raise our children
in this troubled and confused world.
Allah is greater than that struggle.
We might be struggling with scarce and disappearing
employment opportunities in the face of both automation
and discrimination.
Allah is greater than that struggle.
We might be struggling with some form of
addiction.
May Allah give us faith that is stronger
than any addiction but it is what it
is and reality is reality.
Allah is greater than that struggle.
But for us to realize the greatest greatness
of Allah in our lives, we have to
open our hearts to be receptive to his
greatness.
We have to open our souls to be
receptive to our greatness.
We have to open, we have to allow
our hearts and our souls to become mirrors
that reflect the greatness of Allah in our
lives.
And when we do that, we will realize
just how great Allah is.
Brothers and sisters, one of the greatest things
we can do to invite the greatness of
Allah into our lives is to praise Allah
and thank Allah for the blessings he's bestowed
upon us.
Because when we thank Allah for the greatness
of the blessings, we realize how great Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is.
Imam Ali, radiAllahu anhu, karamAllahu wajhah, is related
to have said, that
they magnified the greatness of the creator in
their souls and everything other than him became
small in their sight.
They magnified the greatness of the creator in
their souls and everything other than him became
small in their sight.
Brothers and sisters, magnify Allah in your soul.
Magnify the greatness of Allah in your soul.
Extol the greatness of Allah on your tongue
and your problems, your worry, your grief, your
struggles, everything you might encounter in this life
will be small in your sight.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaha illa Allah,
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi l-hamd.
Don't be an ingrate.
The greatest kufr is the rejection of the
gifts of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la.
And faith is a great gift of Allah.
Kufr is but a rejection of the gift
of faith.
But we should realize kufr is the rejection
of any of Allah's blessings.
When Allah Ta'ala says to all of
us in his book, in the Qur'an,
fa-dhkuruni idhkurkum, wa shkuruli wa la takfurun.
Remember me, I will remember you.
And that's a rhetorical statement from Allah because
Allah never forgets.
It's a reminder and an emphasis for us
to remember him.
Wa shkuruli wa la takfurun.
Give thanks to my blessings and do not
be an ingrate.
Allah is talking about rejecting his blessings.
When Allah Ta'ala says, wa idh ta
'addana rabbukum la in shakartum la azidannukum wa
la in kafartum in a'dabihi la shadid.
If you, when your Lord proclaimed, if you
give thanks for my blessings, I will increase
you in those blessings.
And if you reject my blessings, if you
are an ingrate, you should know that my
punishment is severe.
Wa la in kafartum in a'dabihi la shadid.
Allah Ta'ala has blessed us.
He has blessed us coming and going.
He has blessed us by night and by
day.
He has blessed us with food.
He has blessed us with shelter.
He has blessed us with clothing.
He has blessed us with moderate temperate weather.
He has blessed us with water to drink.
He has blessed us with clothing to put
upon our back.
He has blessed us with faith.
He has blessed us and inspired us to
come here this morning.
For we could be doing so many other
things.
These are blessings we should thank Allah for.
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaha
illallah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa lillahi l
hamd.
Ibrahim alayhi salam, whose life, many critical events
in his life, the pilgrims are reenacting and
commemorating.
Ibrahim alayhi salam is described in the Quran
amongst other things in the following way.
Inna Ibrahima kana ummatan qanitan lillah, hanifan wa
lam yakun minan mushrikeen, shakiran li'an umi,
ijtabahu wa hadahu ila siratin mustaqeem.
Amongst other things, Ibrahim was thankful for the
blessings of Allah, shakiran li'an umi.
He was thankful for his blessings, the blessings
of Allah, which were bestowed upon him.
He was thankful and we should be thankful.
But he's also described as an ummah.
Inna Ibrahima kana ummatan, and we want to
focus on this in the balance of the
first part of this khutbah.
Inna Ibrahima kana ummatan qanitan lillah.
Three things are mentioned by most of the
exegetes, others, but three things they focus on
in terms of Ibrahim being an ummah.
First of all, he was a leader, he
was an imam.
Ummah is from the same root as imam.
Ummah.
Arif mim mim.
Ummah.
Arif mim mim.
An imam, imam.
Arif mim mim.
So Ibrahim being an ummah, he was a
leader, he was an imam.
And each and every one of us should
be a leader.
We should not, we were not given this
deen.
To be followers of those who do not
have faith.
We were not given this deen, this way
of life, to be followers of those who
do not have guidance.
We were not given this deen, this religion,
to be followers of those who don't have
good sense.
We were given this religion to be leaders.
And if there were ever a time when
people were in need of the guidance and
leadership that Muslims can provide, the time is
now.
The time is now, brothers and sisters, when
people are confused as to their very self.
People don't even know who they are or
what they are.
They're describing themselves in unseemly ways.
They're inventing new words to describe themselves.
Words that human language has no precedent to
present.
They're making it up on the fly.
They're pulling many Muslims into a vast social
experiment, the outcomes of which they have no
clue, absolutely no clue as to where it
leads.
And many Muslims, as opposed to leading them,
as opposed to saying to them, as Allah
says in Quran, that the male is in
no wise like the female.
Instead of leading them to human dignity, telling
them the ways in which Allah has ennobled
the human being.
They join their confusion.
Brothers and sisters, the world is in need
of you.
The world is in need of us.
Our country is in need of us.
And we must rise to the challenge.
Rely on the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And you will find strength you never realized
you had.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaha
illallah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi l
-hamd.
You will find strength you never realized you
had, because that strength will not emanate from
you.
You and I are weak in and of
ourselves.
The human was created weak, but we are
strong through Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We're strong with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We're strong relying on Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
We're strong clinging to the rope that Allah
ta'ala extends to us.
We seek your strength in Allah brothers and
sisters.
Seek your strength in Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And don't be deceived into believing you can
rely on yourself.
This is the great lie of liberalism.
That all the human being needs is his
or her individual self.
They can rely on themselves, they can define
themselves, they can be whatever the whims come,
whatever their whims tell them they can be.
Ibrahim alayhi salam told us, Abraham told us
we are Muslims.
Abraham told us we are Muslims.
He has called you and designated you as
Muslim.
We are Muslim and a Muslim is a
human being who realizes his or her weakness
in and of himself.
We're not deceived by that, but realize we
can be strong through Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
We can be strong through Allah.
Brothers and sisters, have the courage.
Ibrahim was courageous.
He smashed the idols.
He had the courage to smash the idols.
Do we have the courage to smash the
idols that people are worshiping?
Idols that are leading people astray.
Idols that are tearing people's lives apart.
Idols that are demanding a worship that destroys
lives and empty souls.
Do we have that courage?
We can find that courage through Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Just as Ibrahim, Abraham found that courage.
He was a leader.
And Ummah, as Ibn Mas'ud and others
say, one who teaches good to the people.
So we should be leaders, not followers.
We're not sheep being led by a shepherd
of destruction to our doom.
We are leaders who should be leading people
who think they're sheep.
And to show them they're not sheep, but
they're human beings.
Dignified, upright, noble human beings.
And Ummah is one who teaches good to
the people.
We cannot stand idly by while people teach
evil to the people.
They fill their mouths with profanity.
Words that many of us who are old
enough, if we spoke those words in our
youth, we'd be admonished severely.
Our mouths would be washed out with soap.
But we've allowed people to use that dehumanizing
language as if it's commonplace, as if there
are no spiritual consequences.
We cannot even say, God darn it.
Some of you are old enough to remember,
what would our parents say to us?
Boy, I don't want to hear you using
the Lord's name in vain.
We were taught to reverence the name of
God.
We weren't Muslims at that point, so we
say God.
But those Christian parents, they taught us to
reverence the name of God.
And not to use God's name in vain.
And we would be admonished.
We would even be physically punished for using
the Lord's name in vain.
Now people use the name of God with
impunity.
And they're taught to belittle God.
When the Muslims, the believers, taught to extol
God, this is the day of Takbirat.
Not just for the prayer, but as we
walk through the marketplace, in our comings and
goings, as we drive in our cars, as
we go to visit our friends, as we
go to eat and share food and break
bread with our beloveds.
Our tongues should be extolling Allah subhana wa
ta'ala.
Throughout this period until Asr of Wednesday.
Allahu Akbarullah on Maghrib of Wednesday.
Brothers and sisters, we have to get back
to some of that old time religion.
We have to teach people.
Young brother, don't talk like that.
Don't use that language.
Young sister, don't dress like that.
Don't act like that.
A lot of the sisters are old enough
to remember a time when their mothers or
grandmothers said to them, that's not ladylike.
Now if we said that to a young
lady, that's not ladylike.
She'd be insulted.
You sexist pig, don't talk to me like
that.
No, we have to teach what we were
taught.
Because what we were taught was a remnant
of prophetic teachings and guidance that sufficed us.
We have to get back to that and
not be afraid.
Ibrahim was not afraid.
He taught monotheism.
He taught tarheed and he taught prophetically informed
character, etiquette, adab, akhlaq in a world of
shirk.
He was alone but he wasn't afraid to
be alone.
We have each other.
We have millions of Muslims in this country
and we have Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We need to teach people good and finally
he said an ummah is a qudwa.
It's a moral exemplar.
Someone who is not afraid to challenge themselves
to be better than what our world, our
society, our society, our culture has made us.
A qudwa, a moral exemplar for people.
None of us are perfect but we should
strive for perfection.
We should have the courage, the willpower within
ourselves to strive for perfection and we shouldn't
be afraid of it.
We should be like that young Arab said
one time, لَيْسَ الْفَتَىٰ مَنْ قَالَ كَانَ أَبِي
وَلَكِنَّ الْفَتَىٰ مَنْ قَالَ هَا أَنَا ذَا That
a courageous young person isn't one who says
my forefathers and my ancestors were this or
that.
I don't want to hear anyone talking about
what the Muslims used to be and what
the Muslims used to do.
This is our time.
What are we doing and who are we?
We should look at them for inspiration and
motivation but if we're not doing anything, if
we're not standing for anything, if we're not
representing anything, then we shouldn't talk about what
they did and what they stood for and
what they represented.
If that can't inspire us, تِلْكَ الْأُمَّ قَدْ
خَلَتْ لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَلَقُمْ مَا تَسَبْتُمْ وَلَا
تُسَّلُونَ عَمَّ كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ This is a nation
that has passed away and this is interpreting
the verse figuratively because literally it's talking about
the previous ummahs but we're talking about the
previous generations.
This is a nation.
تِلْكَ الْأُمَّ قَدْ خَلَتْ They are gone.
They're not walking on this earth any longer
physically.
Their influence is here.
The spiritual energy they generated while they were
in the world is here but they're physically
gone.
تِلْكَ الْأُمَّ قَدْ خَلَتْ They will have what
they earned.
Our great Muslim ancestors who preceded us, who
built the empires, who built the architectural wonders
that we point to, who established the intellectual
greatness that we read about.
They're gone and they will be rewarded for
the great things that they did.
وَلَكُم مَا كَسَبْتُمْ And you will have and
be rewarded for what you did.
We will be rewarded for what we did.
Brothers and sisters, make up your mind to
try to the best of your ability to
do something great, meaningful, and significant in this
world.
Nothing can stop you if you rely on
Allah.
Nothing can stop you if you rely on
the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Make up your mind you're not going to
be a follower.
Make up your mind you're not going to
be petty.
Make up your mind you're not going to
be insignificant.
Make up your mind that you're not going
to be someone who people point to and
say yeah those Muslims they talk about this
and that but look at them.
No.
Make up your mind like that young person.
Here I am.
I'm not perfect but I'm doing my best
to stand for something.
I'm doing my best to be somebody.
I'm doing my best to make a positive
contribution to this world as long as Allah
ta'ala keeps me in this world and
relying on Allah.
Anything in human terms is possible.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa Lillahi l-hamd.
Aqoolu khawli hadha wa istaghfirullah li walakum wa
li sa'iril mu'minin ya qawmi astaghfirullah.
Astaghfirullah.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, inna Allah wa malaikatahu yusallun
ala nabiyyin, ya ayyuha alladhina amanu, sallu alayhi
wa sallimu taslima.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaha
illallah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa Lillahi l
-hamd.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaha
illallah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa Lillahi l
-hamd.
Allahu Akbar.
Alhamdulillah, Allah ta'ala has blessed us.
These days are days of festivities but they're
days to remember Allah.
The Prophet ﷺ described this day of Eid
and the three days of Tashreeq.
So, qala ﷺ, hiya ayyamu atlin wa shurbin
wa dhikrillah.
That they're days of eating and drinking and
remember Allah, remembering Allah.
So, brothers and sisters eat and drink and
remember Allah ﷻ.
Visit your friends, your neighbors, your relatives, make
amends with people you might have had fallings
out with.
This is the time and ask Allah to
forgive your sins on this day.
This is a day when people are liberated
from the hellfire.
The and the previous day, these are days
of liberation from the hellfire.
And as we eat and we drink and
we remember Allah ﷻ, let us remember all
of our brothers and sisters who don't enjoy
the blessing that we enjoy in this world.
And never forget, someone might say, you said,
I thank Allah and thank Allah and I
don't see any increase.
The increase might not necessarily be in this
world but the increase will come.
When you do good in your relationship with
Allah and you do good in your relationship
with your family members and you do good
in your relationship with your neighbors and you
do good in your relationship with your fellow
citizens, then you're a muhsin.
And Allah loves the muhsineen.
Allah loves those who do good in all
of their relationships.
But the increase for the muhsin, literally, the
greatest increase and one we should all hope
for.
And just as we said Allah is greater
than this world, the increase, the greatest increase,
the world could not contain if the world
were to witness one instance of that increase
manifested.
This whole world would be rendered, would be
split asunder.
The heavens and earth and everything in it
would be obliterated.
And so that increase has been been reserved
for us in paradise.
Allah ﷻ tells us, Those who do good
in all of their relationships, starting with their
relationship with Allah ﷻ, they will have good
and they will have an increase.
What is this ziyadah?
On the day of the increase, those faces
will be radiant, gazing upon their Lord, however
that will be.
The increase is the beatific vision, the increase
is the ru'ya.
And this is the great Eid.
The believers have the weekly Eid, the Jumu
'ah.
And we have two annual Eids, Eid al
-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
And then we have the greatest Eid of
all and that's the Eid in Jannah.
And the Eid in Jannah will be the
day that we are blessed with the ru
'ya, with the beatific vision.
That will be the Eid in paradise and
that's greater than anything this world could ever
give us.
And that, that
is the great increase for those who do
good and for those who are thankful, the
shakireen.
That is their greatest benefit.
So if you don't see it in this
world, be assured that you will see it
in the next.
And when that occurs, the mirjannah will make
you forget this world and the ru'ya
will make you forget everything else, every delight
and pleasure in Jannah.
And that is the greatest Eid.
But we have this Eid, so enjoy this
Eid and enjoy your family and enjoy the
blessings and bounties of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala and extol the greatness of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala as you go through these
days.
Ameen.
Allahumma inna na'udhu bika min al-hammi
wal-hazm, wa na'udhu bika min al
-azzi wal-kasal, wa na'udhu bika min
al-jubni wal-bukhri, wa na'udhu bika
min ghalabti al-dain wa qafri al-rijal.
Allahumma aqsim lana min khashyati kama tuhulu bihi
baynana wa bayna ma wasiq, wa min ta
'atika ma tuballiquna biha jannatak, wa min al
-yaqeeni ma yuhawwinu alayna masa'iba al-dunya,
wa mat'i'ana bi asma'ina wa
aqsarina wa quwwatina ma ahyaytana, wa j'alhu
l-walita minna, wa j'al th'aran
ala ma th-dhalamana, wa unsurna ala ma
ma'dana, wa la taj'al musaybatana fi dinina,
wa la taj'al al-dunya akbara hammina,
wa la mablagha ilmina, wa la tusalif alayna
bi dhulubina man la yukhafuka, wa la yurhamuna
ya urhmur rahimi, wa afwuna, wa ghfirana, wa
rhamna, anta mawlana, fa unsurna lil qawmin kafireen.
Ya Allah we ask you in this place,
this blessed place, we ask you amongst this
blessed gathering, we ask you on this blessed
day, on this blessed occasion that you forgive
everybody here and those beyond the confines of
this gathering.
Ya Allah we ask that you erase our
sins from us and that we emerge and
leave this musalla cleansed like the day our
mothers first gave birth to us, cleansed as
a white garment is cleansed by all stain
and impurity, cleansed as the earth is cleansed
by rain and sleet and snow and *.
Ya Allah we ask that you accept our
worship, that you accept all of the worship
that the hujjaj, the pilgrims have sent forth
during their struggles to get to the sacred
precincts and to worship you and to reenact
the rites and to engage in the acts
and rites of worship there in the sacred
precincts, that you accept from that multitude Ya
Allah, you accept from that multitude and you
accept from everyone not in the sacred precincts
who have left their homes and dropped what
they were doing to come out to the
musallas all over this land and all over
this earth to worship you Ya Allah, to
seek your forgiveness Ya Allah, to reenact and
to enact the sunnah, the way and the
tradition of your messenger Muhammad ﷺ.
Ya Allah accept that from us, all of
us, Ya Allah we pray that if those
amongst us who might be struggling with whatever
they be struggling with, may it be personal,
may it be related to their marriages, may
it be related to their friendships, may it
be related to issues with their neighbors, may
it be related to their work, may it
be related to their struggle to identify exactly
who they are, whatever it might be Ya
Allah, we ask that you guide them, that
you lift any affliction from them, that you
lift any hardship or burden from them Ya
Allah, Ya Allah we pray that you make
things easy for our mothers especially the single
mothers who are struggling with might and main
to raise their children by themselves, often times
juggling between the duties of the house and
the duty of a job they might have
to out of necessity maintain outside of the
house, Ya Allah we pray that you bless
all of them Ya Allah, that you strengthen
all of them Ya Allah, that you bless
them to realize that every hardship, difficult and
struggle if they undertake it with a good
intention, with a good niyyah that is worship
of you Ya Allah, that is elevating their
rank Ya Allah, that is elevating their station
Ya Allah, that is driving away their sins
Ya Allah, we pray that all of our
menfolk Ya Allah, who might be struggling to
find adequate sufficient work, who might be struggling
in this dehumanizing environment to affirm their masculinity
and to affirm their leadership in their home,
to affirm and to assume the role that
Allah has placed upon them when he declared,
الرجال قوامون على النساء that men are the
protectors and maintainers of women, that you strengthen
them Ya Allah, you bless them with aad,
the wherewithal to take care of their families
with dignity and honor Ya Allah, you bless
them with the compassion in their hearts to
go through the world like Muhammad ﷺ, the
exemplary man who had the courage, the most
courageous of people on the day of Hunayn,
when the arrows of Bani Hawazin were showering
down upon the Muslims and people were fleeing
to and fro, that every man in this
gathering had the courage of Muhammad who is
going forth through the * of arrows with
his camel, with his mule and declaring, أنا
النبي لا كذب، أنا ابن عبد المطلب I
am a prophet and that's no lie, I'm
the son of عبد المطلب I'm the son
of عبد المطلب أنا النبي لا كذب، أنا
ابن عبد المطلب أنا النبي لا كذب، أنا
ابن عبد المطلب that we have the prophetic
courage to our extent as non-prophets to
say that I am a believer and that's
no lie I'm a follower of the son
of عبد المطلب I'm a believer and that's
no lie I'm a follower of ابن عبد
المطلب I'm a believer and that's no lie
I'm a follower of ابن عبد المطلب May
we leave this مسلمة يا الله with that
firmness and that strength and that conviction in
our heart that we are believers and that's
no lie and we're not faking it that
we're the followers of ابن عبد المطلب صلى
الله عليه وعليه وصحبه وسلم يا الله relieve
all of our brothers and sisters who don't
enjoy this freedom that we enjoy who don't
enjoy the ability to gather as we've gathered
who don't enjoy the safety and security that
we enjoy يا الله relieve and protect our
brothers and sisters in Kashmir and our brothers
and sisters in Myanmar for those who have
returned to their homes and those who are
still in refugee camps in Burma and in
Bangladesh or elsewhere that you protect all of
our brothers and sisters يا الله we pray
that you hold the hands of those who
have launched this ummah into wars against each
other destroying each other, destroying our resources depleting
our resources, destroying innocent lives destroying homes as
we see in Yemen or Somalia or as
we've seen in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere
that you refrain the believers from unleashing anger
against each other that you replace that anger
with love يا الله that you replace that
anger with love يا الله we pray that
you bless and relieve and protect our brothers
and sisters in Idlib, in Syria يا الله
those who have been promised refuge who've been
promised sanctuary who've been promised safety and now
that promise of refuge and sanctuary is being
violated in the most brutal ways يا الله
protect them and seize the hands of those
who have unleashed violence against them that you
protect our brothers and sisters in Palestine يا
الله whereas the world's attention has been diverted
to those other places that we've been mentioning
are exposed to the systematic usurpation of their
land the continuing unmitigated destruction and bulldozing and
explosion of their homes protect them يا الله
يا الله return them to their land يا
الله bless their lands to be lands of
safety, security and peace يا الله that you
protect all of the Muslims in places like
Libya or places or elsewhere that you protect
our brothers and sisters in West Africa يا
الله and lands like Senegal or Gambia where
the leadership has been able to maintain safety
and security for the people يا الله extend
that safety and security for them and expand
it to the neighboring lands bless the Muslims
in Sierra Leone يا الله bless them to
never experience the kind of hardship and affliction
that they went through a few decades ago
يا الله bless them to never have to
have their hands chopped off to ensure that
they will never vote again يا الله bless
them to never go through that hardship bless
our brothers and sisters in Nigeria يا الله
bless the leadership with wisdom bless those who
have gone out against the Muslims claiming they're
Muslims yet declaring war almost exclusively on the
Muslim community such as Boko Haram bless them
to understand this religion to give them the
good of understanding من يرد الله به خيرا
يفكره في الدين the one Allah wants good
for He gives them a good sound understanding
of the religion bless them to understand this
religion يا الله bless them to understand the
sanctity of the lives of innocent people and
of the sanctity of the lives of a
believer bless them with that understanding يا الله
to pull back their hands from the destruction
of their very land and bless their hands
to build their land to use the wealth
of the great country of Nigeria their great,
great wealth to build a society that will
be a real life Wakanda and not some
Hollywood version to use that wealth to build
a real, strong, viable, exemplary nation يا الله
bless all the people throughout Africa and all
the people throughout Europe and all the people
throughout the Americas bless those people who in
the face of violence and femicide have to
leave their lands and seek to migrate northwards
bless them with safety and security in their
own land and if they attained our border
bless our leadership with the humanity and with
the compassion to treat them with dignity and
respect to keep mothers united with their children
to make it easy for people to seek
asylum and to eliminate our policies that may
be contributing to the hardship in their lands
يا الله bless us to be people of
compassion bless us to be people of mercy
bless us to be people of strength where
strength is required to protect the weak to
guard the innocent to preserve the lives of
those whose lives might have been desanctified by
the criminals who far too often raise their
ugly heads amongst the innocent communities of humanity
يا الله, يا الله, يا الله we ask
you in this time, this place we ask
you amongst this blessed gathering we ask you
through the greatness, your greatness that we extol
to your incomparable immeasurable, incomprehensible greatness يا الله
we ask you أمين أمين أمين الله أكبر
الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله
الله أكبر الله أكبر ولله الحمد المبارك العام
وأنتم بخير والصلاة على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه
وسلم