Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem. Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family. Committed Muslims… Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/videos/videos/show/11910021-understanding-moral-perfection-khutbah-imam-muhammad-al-asi-06-02-2000 (06-02-2000) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2pCdVQjZg UNDERSTANDING MORAL PERFECTION In our time, Allah has privileged us to live when one of the most critical decisions in our centuries of being has to be made and it has to be made in this generation and the coming generations; and this decision is a qualitative change in the way we adapt to/serve Allah. If we understand this, we understand why what is happening to us in the world today has taken on phases/stages of the deployment of force against us. Let us say that the Muslims have not exercised their capacity to be averse/hostile to dhulm/offensive policies and those who are responsible for it. This is a fact of life that no one can deny. The Prophet of Allah had to go through what we are required to go through and we have to make that leap ahead. There's no question of Allah's Prophet being of superior moral quality. He says but I have been commissioned to perfect moral quality; but that's not the only functioning capacity that the Prophet was in or when he was in that capacity he exercised it in all of his activities. It is common knowledge to you/any Muslim that the Prophet of Allah was forced- the same forced that is being used against the Muslims today was used against him. The instruments may be different. At the time they had spears/knives/machetes/arrows/swords; today they have machine guns/fighter bombers/weapons of mass destruction/the nuclear threat but in essence the use of force is not new. The Prophet eventually, because of the use of force and because of his dedication to Allah, Allah calculated that when they wanted to use force against him Allah wanted him to have a base in Al Madinah. These are not haphazard calculations. If you work for Allah, Allah will provide you with what is needed in the peculiarities of those circumstances … and he who is conscious of Allah's power Allah will offer him a way out of the circumstances (in which human forces are deployed against those who are committed to Allah and are confident in His power presence here and now). (Surah At Talaaq verse 2) The Prophet went, he had to go from Makkah to Al Madinah- what was called before Yathrib. When he first arrived, one of the first things he did was to draw up the declaration/document of Al Madina called in Islamic literature called As Sahifa/Sahifah Al Madinah/Dastur Al Madinah. When the Prophet drew up this document one of the first things he did, when he gained power to counter effect the opposing power that were in Makkah, was to describe the power presence of the Muslims in Al Madinah where the Prophet was now exercising authority- the authority that he receives from Allah. When he did so/referred in the Watheeqah/document of Al Madinah that he just drew up, how did he characterise people? In this document there's reference to only three categories of people- Al Muhajireen/Al Ansaar/ Al Yahud meaning those who were forced to leave Makkah because they had no power- this a power definition of people; and then those who provided support/power for the Prophet and the Muslims once they arrived in Yathrib and then Yahud who did not agree with the Prophet who were opposed to him from a power position. They had financial power/religious clout in Al Madinah and they had their alliances with other factions in that area. Why didn't he refer to people as Musalleen? That didn't occur in this new document that he drew up! Why didn't he refer to people as Muttaqeen/Sa'imeen or any of the other purely ritualistic descriptions that have become the common language of today's Muslims? Why did he refer to these three categories of people specifically and no one else? Because Al Muhajireen/Al Ansaar/Al Yahud represented a proximity to the exercise of power. This in particular is the area that the current Muslim thought process has not worked on and obviously Muslims are responsible for exercising power- and when they do they will do it in a clean way. They will not be tainted by it even though inevitably there will be individuals who will abuse/mis-locate/shun power but these are individuals and these are aberrations. Our central responsibility is to focus on this issue and to be concerned with it the same way Allah's Prophet was concerned with it. We all read the ayaat of the Qur'an. Allah says … but governance belongs to no one else except Allah… (Surah Al-An'aam verse 57) In another ayah … there is no one who doubles with His judgement… (Surah Al Ra'd verse 41) meaning there is no authority/person/power that can legitimately double as Allah or precede/ follow Allah's ruling/judgement/laws. Allah says there is no annulment of Allah's command. Yeah! But you live in a world in which there are many forces and powers that are doubling in multiple fashions besides and in exclusion to Allah! These are the forces of Shirk; but how do Muslim Scholars who substitute for the Kafirs/Mushriks want you to understand Shirk? They want to bring your mind down/reduce your intelligence/insult your capacity to think and tell you "Shirk has to do with ascribing deities to Allah in matters of the graveyard." The whole Muslim Ummah has become a graveyard! Look! Wherever you look- East/South/North/West- any direction you want to go and the Muslims are being buried because of the use of brute force in their own lands. These forces of Kufr/Shirk open up warfronts at will. Remember Allah says … and Allah does not have anyone share/compete/rival Him in His judgement/laws… (Surah Al Kahf verse 26) Yeah?! … and praise Allah who has not a begotten a son/child and has no rival in issues of dominionship/ ruling/Sovereignty... (Surah Kahf verse 26) Shareek and Mulk are two words that go together; not the Shirk that comes from accusations that "some people are worshipping at graves." This is an insult to Muslims. Who's the Muslim who worships a grave? Where did this come from? The whole Muslim Ummah is worshipping Kafirs/Mushriks because they are the imposed forces/powers on them! That they don't want you to think! You are not supposed to understand the issue at this level. You are supposed to carry this word of Shirk and begin to put on a microscope and identify the intentions of Muslims who go to the graveyard and then accuse them and say "they are Mushriks." When we no longer can identify the Mushriks in the world we begin to use these words against us and generate hostilities/animosities among the Muslims and the Mushriks are sitting pretty. At a distance they watch this commotion in Muslim lands- the Muslims are incapable of understanding what Allah is telling them and they are incapable of identifying who we are and they are laughing all the way to the massacre zones in Muslim lands. The Prophet of Allah had a task/mission that was to see to it that the committed Muslims are empowered. He did not go about that by reconciling himself to the status quo of the Kafirs. He did not go about that by sending out some Muslims to the major forces of the world at that time and lobbying them for the cause of Islam. He went about this as he was instructed by Allah and he became the character now that we cannot see! The Prophet of Allah himself participated in twenty-seven military operations beginning with Wadaan and ending with Tabuk. The Prophet of Allah was not a draft dodger/conscientious objector. He had to identify the forces that are hostile to Allah/the Qur'an/the Prophet/the committed Muslims and communicate with them with the language that they understand. Why did he do this? Because he is teaching us that there is no other way to do this. If there was some other way to reach a peaceful understanding/accommodation with the hostile forces around that cannot bear to hear about Islam/Allah/the Prophet/the Qur'an the Prophet would have shown us and that would have become the Sunnah that is binding on us; but there is no other way! This is the hard way. This is the only way. These forces of Shirk/Kufr have to be met at the battlefront and the Muslims are just beginning to revive the military character of their Prophet and this comes shining through in Chechenya. Why are the Imams in the Masjid afraid to mention Chechenya? We hear there is a law in Certainly in the Apostle of Allah you have a prototype/living model… (Surah Al Ahzaab verse 21) Where do you have it? You don't have it from the Mimbar/in the Masjid?! If these people today who claim "that they are following the Prophet" were there in the time of the Prophet, they'd tell him "to go and reach an agreement with the forces of the day/to sign off on military contracts that will protect the Muslims in Al Madinah." This is the Sunnah of the Saudis. They sign off with the Mushriks so that the Mushriks/Kafirs protect them in Makkah/ Al Madinah. Then they come to you and say "well brother- you're supposed to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet." And you ask him "well brother- what does the Sunnah of the Prophet mean?" And they tell you "the Sunnah of the Prophet is…" and then they begin on these private affairs of the Muslims "… the miswaak/tooth-brushing/brushing the teeth/putting perfume/good scent/musk on Fridays before you come to Jum'ah prayers/ entering the Masjid with your right foot and exiting with your left foot/sleeping on the right side/eating with your right hand." They speak about issues pertaining to your personal affects and then after they're done ask them "what else has the Prophet in his Sunnah?" They say "oh brother- you do this and you'll be in good shape. You do this. This is what is required." As if the Prophet did not exist in his adversarial role pertaining to the Mushriks/Kafirs! This is no longer a Sunnah. And if anyone wants to begin to think that this is a Sunnah they should be thrown into prison- which characterises what is happening in the world today. We ask these types of Muslims "did the Prophet spend ten years in a military mode with his military uniform on, (so to speak), so that I will know how to brush my teeth/put musk on Fridays on the clothes that I am wearing?! Is that what it was all about? Ten years of being exposed to death becomes a matter of me knowing how to eat from my plate!" The Sunnah has been reduced to the common sense/natural/intrinsic thing! It would be silly to say that the Muslims gave up to say that the Muslims gave up their lives for some petty/private/personal issues that we can all learn in a few weeks! Why have they been spending years/generations on something that we can all learn in a few weeks? Then, if there's a brave mind out there that wants to know the definition of who is a Kafir/Mushrik the final definition comes back to a fellow Muslim- the Muslim in the street/the oppressed Muslim who becomes the Kafir/ Mushrik?! We wish they had the integrity to point the definition of Kafirs/Mushriks to those who are ruling in Muslims lands. No! They are also exempt like the true Mushriks/Kafirs who are there masters. They are exempt and then the definitions come out to our neighbourhoods/ friends who we grew up with- these become the Mushriks/Kafirs even though they are people of the Qiblah/the Qur'an/the Prophet?! This is where we are. (Do) you see how comfortable they look at us? (Take a) look… The green light now is given to the Russians to extend their military war operations to other parts of The Muslims in the Philippines/Central Committed Muslims, brothers and sisters… In bringing back the image/vision of Allah's Prophet no one should expect this whole issue of identifying who Allah's enemies are (to go away). We wish… Some people say "why do you speak about enemies. Rarely is there a khutbah that there is no reference to Allah's enemy." the answer to this is number one- is it/is it not true that there are enemies of Allah/humans who are committed to Allah? Do they not exist? Is this part of our imagination? Or are there hardcore political criminals who are satisfied by shedding the blood of a particular type of Muslim? Not any Muslim! A Muslim who consumes his life without any thought given to kufr/dhulm/shirk is a certified Muslim by these enemies of Allah. They don't want this Muslim to be hurt even by a thorn; but the other Muslims who want Allah as their Superior/Sustainer in their moral selves/societies are the types that draw our attention to these enemies. It's easier for us to pretend that they don't exist but if we do it is at a dear cost to us. (For) how long can we afford to remain oblivious of those who are igniting wars in our hearts/minds/communities/ lands? If we were to reduce this scenario to Makkah, (for those who don't have the geographic/demographic capacity to watch), as the whole Muslim Ummah is going up in flames, Makkah is burning and the Muslims are fiddling because they are incapable of defining who their enemies are. When the day comes and we have the freedom… Muslims don't have freedom, even in the This khutbah was presented by Imam Mohammad Al Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 2 June 2000 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in |
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