| THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (12 March 2010) webpage: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=182501078290&ref=ts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_street_mimbar/ PLEASE e-mail Suggestions & Criticisms to khutbahs@yahoo.com It is in such a manner that We make plain Our signs so that the course of the Criminals may become clear. | Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem. Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family. Ma'shar Al Mu'mineen … Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/khutbassermons.htm 06-04-1999) LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS The predicaments/conditions that we are in oblige us to understand our responsibilities and our future. Certainly you have in the Apostle of Allah an exemplar/model of perfection for those of you who are anticipating Allah and the final day and are conscious in recalling the presence and the power of Allah. (Surah Al-Ahzaab verse 21) The fact/issue that many preachers/speakers want to scan over/dodge is the issue of the character of a leader. Allah has presented us with the optimum characteristic of a leader in His Messenger. After the Prophet spent over 20 years- 13 of them in persecution, torment, frustration, despair, grief of sorts in Makkah and after going to Al Madinah and after building from scratch the Islamic State and after gaining the power that he gained in Al Madinah- he returned in the year of Al Fath to Makkah, how does a leader with power behave? This is an area that many people want to avoid because it will draw attention to the leaders who are in power in our time; but we will not avoid this issue, we will speak to it. The Prophet, (in front of his tormentors i.e. Quraysh and the establishment of Makkah when they put down their arms upon his return to it the year before he passed away), said to them you- the folks of Quraysh! Allah has relieved you of the upper classman-ship of this pre-Islamic era/jahiliyyah culture that you belonged to and of magnifying your ancestry, i.e. Giving your tribal affiliations a status in society. Are we not from Adam? And Adam comes from clay." and then he recited Oh people, We have created you from male and female and rendered you as (shu'uban) derivatives of each other and (Qaba'il) correspondence to each other so that you may mutually come to know one another; the most honorable of you as far as Allah is concerned is the one who is most conscious of Allah's power presence/immediacy. (Surah Al Hujuraat verse 13) The character of this leader is not intoxicated with power. When people have power, they don't know how to use it. They don't know how to behave as normal human beings when they have it. They sip from the cup of power until they are intoxicated; but when Allah's Prophet had power, he wasn't intoxicated with it, subservient to it or abusing it. This moment in his life, (in addition to the other many moments), demonstrates how a leader should be when a leader has power at his disposal. He could have easily picked out the tormentors of the Muslims in Makkah and said "we're going to take them to court and prosecute them"; he didn't do that. He said you the people of Quraysh- Allah has alleviated from you that pulse of jahiliyah… i.e. the nationalist, tribal, sectarian, racial pulse- all of it is gone. … no long should anyone of you feel that he is proud because his fathers/grand-fathers/ancestors were so and so- all of this gone. We begin from the beginning. All of us right now are reborn. … all of you belong to Adam and the fact of the matter is that Adam is made of dust and dirt. There is no abusive power, persecution and prosecution of those who could in the courts of today be the victims of a witch-hunt and a dragnet. The successor to the Prophet assumed the highest office in the land and he went out to milk the goats and sheep for the babies/infants of the martyrs. Can you imagine the leaders of today going out to bring milk to those who have been affected by a just war? He said I hope that assuming this position and responsibility of succeeding the Prophet does not take away from me the good habits that I had before assuming this office. Another successor to the Prophet was walking in the street. There were no guards around. This is not a fairytale/illusion. This is the fact and the truth. He was walking just like any person in the street, and then he sees an old man who has extended his hand and wants some financial assistance and he asks who are you? This person, (thinking that this individual is a regular person), says I'm an old man and I ran out of money. I need assistance. I'm a jew. This old man was a Jew who complained, (not knowing that this was the ruler of the Muslims), that when I was young I paid my jizya/money that was due by me to the Islamic State, but now that I am old I have no longer any money to pay nor to spend on myself. This is a Jew with the history that they have in Al Madinah against the Prophet which this ruler of the Muslims lived through day-after-day. When he became the ruler of the Muslims did he have the feeling of superiority/intoxication with power? No! He dealt with the fact that he saw with his own eyes and he said to this old man wallahi this is not justice that we have administered to you. When you were young, we took the jizya/type of tax that is due upon you, but when you turned old we neglected you. This is not fair. Then he said to those who are in charge of dispersing the finances of the Muslims: give him and his likes that which is enough for them and their families. Can you imagine king/President so-and-so in Muslim lands being able to address such issues without even feeling that they have power. They didn't feel it. Not only did they have power, but they were becoming a "superpower.". Islam was growing/expanding/diffusing into the four corners of the world and they were acting like the simple people that they have always been. Nothing changed in their lives after they acquired all of this power. On another occasion, the successor to Allah's Prophet saw a girl/small child a few years old who couldn't walk straight. She would walk a short distance and then fall down and then walk again and fall down. Then he asked but who is she? It turns out that she is one of his relatives. He asks but why is she in this state. She can't even maintain a straight posture. He was told because the share of that family is not enough to feed the whole family. He enquired where does the income of that family come from? And he realized that it comes from the Muslim budget; and as much as he felt for that young child, he could not violate his trust over the Islamic budget and he says to his own blood and kin with these feelings of pity towards the child with his heart being moved by the scene that one of his own blood cannot walk right. He says your share is just like any other Muslim's share. Between you and I is the book of Allah meaning I can't do anything about this as much as I want to. These are the characters that the Prophet of Allah moulded through many years of hardship. Compare these leaders and figures with what we have today. We had an ailing king in Saudi Arabia, (who is now dead), because during the course of his life he used to stuff himself with the haraam. He has fed himself with the haraam. He has gambled with Islamic resources and finances. He suffered from an assortment of ailments because of indulgence and was shuffled from one hospital to the next. At 80 years old, they were trying to save his life which was not worth being saved! (He was) a person who could not even speak straight! Has anyone of us heard him speak? Leaders are presented to people. They run interviews with them. Why haven't you seen CNN, BBC or the rest of these international news media and outlets keen in the past years- he ruled since 1982- go to him and have an interview with him?! Let us listen to what he says! Because they know they will expose their own selves. He was one of their flunkies and they don't want the public to know who he is, so never present him with an interview. For those years- sure enough you can check the achieves on this- there's no interview with such a person because there's nothing of any substance for him to say! (If) he is asked about a massacre around the Haram in Makkah, what is he going to say? (If) he will be asked about his rendezvous in the casinos/night-clubs/brothels of Europe and America, what is he going to say? (If) he is going to be asked about the wealth from the natural God-given resource that is beneath the sands of Arabia and what he has done with it, what is he going to say? (That) we have hundreds of billions of dollars with Yahud and Kufaar and Al Mushrikeen and all the enemies of the Ummah?! There's no straight answer that he can give and there's no mind to improvise an answer by him. So we don't see him in front of the cameras. Then, we, the Muslims had an Imam, (who passed away), who is on the order of the generation/individuals who were brought up and nurtured by Allah's Prophet. We had an Imam like that, but who are the Muslims who have the mental and moral courage to say so? Very few indeed; and this is the problem with the Muslims. When they have an Imam, they don't know they have him. If Allah is offering them a leader they turn to others who are less qualified to lead them- this is the problem with today's Muslims. How much more do you want when Allah presents Muslims with an Imam and they don't have the heart/brains to acknowledge his leadership? Even after ten years of the Imam's teachings/values/principles/standards, who today is capable or willing to speak frankly of the attributes and foresight of that Imam? Muslims had enough time to look around, rethink the issues and reconsider what is now history and come out and say, (even though belatedly), "we had an Imam." It's an occasional celebration. Even the words of the Imam are no longer pronounced by those who say "they are in his line." Remember, he used to speak about Al Mustaqbireen i.e. those who are enthralled with power; there's no longer much reference to these Mustaqbireen! Why? What happened? Are you true the person or true to the principles? If you are true to the flesh and the blood, the flesh and the blood are all over. If anyone deserved eternity, it would have been Allah's Prophet. He didn't live forever; his flesh and blood are over, but he lives in the principles/values/standards that he has invigorated by Allah's supervision. Remember, ten-to-fifteen years ago, the United States government (was) rightly stated as Ash Shaytaan Al Akbar. What happened? Shaytaan Al Akbar has shrank? Or has this Shaytaan become an angel? The tricks/follies/evil of this Shaytaan are more pronounced now then they were ten or fifteen years ago. There's barely anywhere that Shaytaan A Akbar goes in this world except that he is faced with hostility and hatred and rightly so. We don't want people to fall in love with/admire Ash Shaytaan. Certainly Ash Shaytaan to you is an avowed enemy, consider him an avowed enemy. (Surah Al Fatir verse 6) The Imams words concerning the family that runs Arabia as if it was a real estate that belongs to it are very clear. What happened? Something has made this family acceptable? As far as we know, there hasn't been a change of heart by this ruling clan. It still stands for the evil that it represented for the last decade and the decade before. It celebrated 100 years/one century of coming to power, as if Rasulullah did not say Allah has relieved you of the upper classman-ship of this pre-Islamic era/jahiliyyah culture that you belonged to and of magnifying your ancestry and they reversed the Prophet's saying and they give themselves the privilege of upper classman-ship of this pre-Islamic era/jahiliyyah culture and magnifying their ancestry. They speak highly of their ancestors, the founders of Saudi Arabia who were British agents. What happened? These are the types that have become decent Muslims? Then, Israel- they Yahudi political abomination that stands for the convergence of all injustices of history… (Take a) look at these leaders in Muslim countries trying to reach an agreement and some type of peaceful coexistence with Al Yahud. How can this be? If anyone is listening to Allah and what He has to say about these Yahud how can they sit with them and sign away the words of Allah, the meanings of the Qur'an and the details of the Prophets life? How can anyone do such a thing? But this is what happens when Muslims are adrift. This is what we have today. No one has the courage to state the facts and the truth!? As if everything the Imam has said has been but in reverse! "Don't speak about Ash Shaytaan Al Akbar or those are not the right words." If those were not the right words, then why didn't they say that to the Imam in his life? They were silent. Now, as the years go by the years peel off the layers of camouflage that these people have. These years have peeled off the camouflage of many people who are extending their hands to Ash Shayateen Al Ins wa Al Jinn from Tel Aviv to Washington through Riyadh and Cairo. Let us for the record say that when the time comes to pay the price for this… People think that they can get away! You can't get away from Allah! You can play tricks on me/another Muslim, but you can't play tricks on Allah. You will not be able to get away with this- whoever you are, wherever you are. If you are sincere to Allah, you don't have to go through Washington or normalizations of relations with Ash Shaytaan or having a cordial relationship with those who are ruling in Arabia. The intentions/plans that they harbor/are thinking of are characterized by hostility and bloodshed towards us. If you want to test the reality of having a good relationship with the clan/tribe that is governing in Arabia, bring them to the fact that no Muslim, (regardless of the Madh'hab, nationality, location or whatever), disagrees on the hostility represented by Zionist Israel to all of us- past, present and future; and if this Saudi family/clan is sincere, have it place its hands on a pledge that will take on the Israeli Zionist leviathan. If they agree to that, then there is reason to believe that there is some good that is brewing beneath the surface. If they don't agree to this strategy, then they are in cohorts with the Israelis and with the United States and all of this is an interval that will pass and once again they will have their guns pointed towards the true Muslims. If we have learned anything, it should be that the Imam's words ring true today as they did in the past years before that. Remember- brothers and sisters, committed Muslims- Allah's Prophet says whoever dies without having an allegiance to carry has died a non-Islamic death or has died on a tangent of nifaq or hypocrisy. We ask Allah to forgive those of us who were overwhelmed with ignorance at the time and we ask Allah to give us the strength to make up for lost time and to place our trust in Him at the beginning and at the end and to surrender ourselves totally and utterly to Him in such a condition. Muslim on As Siraat Al Mustaqeem… Other Muslims in other parts of the world are at the center of attention. For one- the Muslims in Kashmir. There is a potential for a widening of hostilities in that part of the world that can draw in other resources and the involvement of other Muslims. Why at this time do we have a potential conflagration in the making on the Eastern flank of the Muslim Ummah? Is it coincidental that while on the Western flank of the Muslim Ummah, there's another charade that is being played out, i.e. the depopulation of Kosova. What has happened in the past few months, (if not in the past year)? Media babble aside, for all intents and purposes, the final result we have today is the virtual depopulation of a Muslim region in the world, and NATO and Milosevic, (the so-called good guy and the so-called bad guy), are two hands that belong to the same body. Regrettably, not many Muslims can see it that way. This is part of the problem. Also, what is happening in the Balkans compliments what is happening in Kashmir. Also, unfortunately not many Muslims can see it that way. When Muslims don't even have the courage to identify their leader as a first step in the right direction, how are they going to have the brain network to realize what is happening to them in the East is related to what is happening to them in the West? We have some distance to go, but the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step in the right direction. The Imam, (may Allah's blessings and mercy be upon his soul), has placed the Muslims in that direction with the right step to be taken and the fruition of this is obvious in the way the Israelis- these legendary enemies of Allah and the committed Muslims- left areas that they occupied in Lebanon. These Hizbullahis, who are on the path of the Imam, didn't say "they are going to go through Saudi Arabia, Washington or Europe." They knew who their enemies are and they knew what had to be done and the Israeli proxies who withdrew from Southern Lebanon did that for the first time since the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Never had the Israelis withdrawn because of the use of force. (It is) true that they withdrew from Sinai and parts of Palestine, but that was a negotiated settlement. They reached an accommodation with the illegitimate government in Egypt to seize hostility. There was a price that was paid, but Hizbullah did not give any word that it was going to seize hostilities. It used force and it caused the number four military machine in the world to withdraw. Imagine if there were more than the hundreds of Hizbullahis in Southern Lebanon; imagine several thousand Hizbullahis in Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. What would have been the predicament of today's Zionist Israel? This is a step in the right direction and this is what will bring relief to the Muslims in the Balkans all the way to Muslims in Kashmir. This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammed Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 4 June 1999 on the sidewalk of Embassy Road in Washington D.C. The Imam previously led the daily and Jum'ah prayers inside the Masjid. His speeches were revolutionary and thought provoking, and eventually irritated and threatened the Middle-East Ambassadors who control the Masjid. Finally, the Imam, his family, and other Muslims faithful to the course of Islam were forced out, into the streets. This khutbah originates from the sidewalk across the street from the Islamic Center, currently under seige. |
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