| THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (22 April 2011) 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. Ayyuha Al Mu'minun … Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/videos/videos/show/11910008-hizbullah-khutbah-imam-muhammad-al-asi-05-26-2000 (05-26-2000) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYHhGVNDBF8 HIZBULLAH The words that feed our existence/nourish our lives/nurture our behaviour/guide our way/ deliver us to Allah have more tangible meanings when they dwell in the flesh/become walking individuals/moving societies/active movements who testify to the truth of Allah- come what may. The Prophet's wife was asked about his ethics/morality. And she said his mannerism were the Qur'an. The Prophet was a walking Qur'an. Today's Muslims, with all the loud things they say about Allah's book and Allah's Apostle, they have lost the sense of standing up for Allah. In this extended night of Muslims on Earth we have one of the most eloquent and long range lesson that Allah has presented to us and the rest of humanity. This lesson is confined to those who have placed their confidence in Allah and went ahead with their responsibilities and duties without getting disrupted/detracted by statistics/propaganda and by the forces that are irritated with Allah and His Prophet. These several hundred/few thousand individuals in an Ummah closely approaching one-and-a-half-billion individuals have sunk in a lesson that has to be studied/understood by friend and foe equally. They tuned out of the propaganda that is stuffed into our ears. They stepped out of the information world that deliberately takes us out of this direction but they tuned in to Allah and they signed this contracted with Allah and what is more important in this regard is they stayed their course. They were listening when Allah was saying to them From among the committed Muslims are men who are truthful to their covenant/insist on honouring this agreement with Allah… (Surah Al Ahzaab 23) What comes after this? You sign an agreement with Allah, (so to speak), and what happens out of this contract with Allah? … there were those who gave their lives and those who are anticipating to give their lives who are expecting to give their lives but in the interim/meantime they did not wobble/seek shortcuts/magical formulas… (Surah Al Ahzaab 23) This is the frontline that the ayah takes those who have contracted themselves with Allah- the moment of departure; some of them have already departed and some of them are in waiting status. … there is no equivocation when you sign this contract, (with Al Bari/Al Khaliq/Al Muhaymin/Al Aziz/Al Jabbar/Al Mutakabbir.) (Surah Al Ahzaab 23) They want ahead. For the last twenty years they weren't saying "Oh Allah- when is victory arriving" because they weren't in it for an arriving victory; they were in it for a departure to Allah. Compare them with the opportunists who are around who are in it for the dunya/ positions/power- corrupt political, (the western definition of this), power. They were in it for Allah. They were approaching Him and they were ready for Him and they continue with all odds against them. Were there any CNN/BBC/satellites commentators/broadcasters/opinion makers covering Hizbullah in South Lebanon? They were no where to be found! This was a silent victory in the making as far as the information services around but this was a high decimal victory in the making as far as Allah and His Book and His Prophet are concerned. What did we/they have in the past twenty years? We've always made reference to our presence on the frontlines and that's exactly where Allah expressed Himself- at that frontline; but in the past twenty years what were we told by the mouthpieces of Ash Shaytaan? We are told that the Israelis are the sixth nuclear power on Earth after the five big powers/ superpowers, (as they describe themselves)- the United States/China/Britain/France/Russia- then Israelis/Yahudis came in number six. Go and tell that to Hizbullah! Were they going to accept this line of the Israelis having hundreds of nuclear weapons/warheads? They are selling their military technology to self-styled superpowers in the world. They take American technology, (the accurate word for that is they steal it), and then they sell it to the Chinese. They place their hands on the deepest secrets of the United States and they sell it in other parts of the world. They have their industrial military factories and then they have a strategic military understanding with the United States- so what?! Allah is the Superpower and they, (Hizbullah), proved it. This is where in the ears and the hearts of these dedicated Muslims were unlike those who present themselves as political/savvy/shrewd/complex/sophisticated Muslims who opt for negotiation sessions. What does Allah say if we are listening to Allah the way they are listening to Allah? They were told, (as we/every sincere/decent Muslim is told They were told "all these people have propped up their forces against you… (Surah Aal Imran verse 173) (Take a) look at these alliances/military blocks/the public pact that we hear about and the more sinister secret pacts that we don't hear about- there's a whole world out there that is against you, the committed Muslim. How are you supposed to think about this? "Oh my God let us go and seek some protection and understanding with the United States" Everyone or almost everyone knows that accesses to the United States comes by knocking on Yahudi doors- so let's do that. When this propaganda takes its affect/toll upon the people they look around to the committed/dedicated Muslim and say "look- the world is against you!" Allah's taking us by the hand through by the rhetoric/empty words/fancy propaganda and saying to us "don't be mislead. Don't listen to all of that. Listen to what I have to say to you." They've been listening for the past twenty years to what Allah has to say. They tell us "we're supposed to fear these powers who are armed to their teeth by the most destructive weapons of mass destruction that man has ever known." What is the affect of all of this on these committed Muslims? … it increases their commitment to Allah… (Surah Aal Imran verse 173) This is the affect. What does all of the propaganda/rumours/misinformation/distorted facts do to committed Muslims? It reinforces their Iman. The more they try to threaten/bully/ intimidate/terrorise us, in proportion to all of that, the more we add on to our Iman/ commitment to Allah. … and they state for the record "enough for us is Allah." (Surah Aal Imran verse 173) We don't need superpowers. (Take a) look at Yasser Arafat/the other leaders/strongmen in all of these countries around our occupied Holy Land. What have they been doing for the past fifty-two years? They have walked every direction except the direction of Allah! They have exhausted every diplomacy except the diplomacy of the Qur'an! They have adopted every ideology except the ideology of Islam! They have adhered to every Sunnah except the Sunnah of the Prophet and they've gone from bad to worse to worst. Where they are today? This is a mighty lesson for Muslims to understand and then to adopt this as a model. We are aggressed upon. We are victims of vicious aggressions. What do you do? (Do) you kowtow to aggression? No! … and those who are aggressed upon opt for Allah's victory. (Surah Ash Shura verse 39) (Take a) look at our condition as we've been trespassed by aggression almost everywhere. Where is there a Muslim presence in this world that hasn't been visited by aggression? What do you do? What have we been doing? We've been running to the negotiating tables and the negotiating tables are sick-and-tired of us! We have been running to the United Nations like cry babies and those in the United Nations and those who are running the show there say "oh- these are the Muslims! You can do with them whatever you want to do!" Not in the case of these Muslims in South Lebanon who have taught the other Muslims a lesson that should not be forgotten. In dealing with the same Israeli occupation/aggression the Palestinians… You see- in this Masjid here, you may not know but in the past ten years there have been Palestinians who go into this Masjid who are part of the PLO syndicate in Washington DC who are opening up channels with the United States/Saudi diplomacy/the Yahudi lobby. They can't see themselves here with people who they should identify with before anyone else. They have been displaced and they see with their own eyes Muslims who have been displaced but they prefer to rub shoulders with the higher classes of diplomats in a usurped Masjid! Where have they gone? They told them, (this is how hard it is for the facts to penetrate into their heads), nine years ago in Madrid "you negotiate with us." The Yahudis told them that and all of the political structures around the Yahudis including the superpowers/Arab Governments reassured the Palestinians "if you negotiate, put down your arms and reach an amicable conclusion of this affair with your adversaries you will be given back Gazzah and the West Bank." The only reservations were concerning Al Quds. They said "we will leave that for final status negotiations" They put all of this within a time frame. The Yahudis said "they would give up a certain area at a certain time" until finally a few years ago they should have given back all of these occupied territories to the Palestinians. The Palestinians have been negotiating away their rights at every meeting and up until now the best that can be said about the whole process is that the Yahudis have given them back forty-six percent of the West Bank and Gazzah- less than half of what they said they would give back to the Palestinians. At the same time as these negotiations were going on Hizbullah in Southern Lebanon was not negotiating at the tables/conference halls/international forums/world capitals. That wasn't their approach. They were negotiating at the battlefield. They were communicating in the language that has brought results. Virtually all of South Lebanon now has returned to its rightful owners. How did they do this? Can anyone present us with atrocities/terrorism/ violations of international standards of the conducts of war by Hizbullah? Can anyone quote us an incident in which these warriors of Islam violated their higher standards of the Qur'an and the Sunnah or the standards of man in their warfare? And because they is no such incidents it is a clean victory that all Muslims should be proud of. How about the military brass? (Take a) look at these Arab/Arabian Governments who are signing military contracts and they've been doing so now for generations and they haven't brought their people just one military victory! Can anyone point to an Arabian Government that has brought its Muslim population in the past fifty-two years when they spent hundreds or billions of dollars on their military budgets combined and scored one military victory? We just ask them for one and they can't present it to us. What does one of these Persian-Gulf states do in the past couple of months? They enter into one of these all time high figure military contracts in which the United States is going to sell them top of the line military fighter aircrafts for tens of billions of dollars. For what? Because they want three little islands in the Persian-Gulf. If these Arab/ Arabian rulers had any dignity at a time like this they would say in honour of Hizbullah and to honour the success/victory of these combatant Muslims in the South of Lebanon through all of these years: we will give these islands as a token of our appreciation for the supporters of Hizbullah. But no! It seems like deep down in their strategic thoughts Zionist-Yahudi-Israel is not the enemy, it seems like Islamic-Qur'anic-Iran is the enemy. With all of these weapons that they are buying and with all of these statements that are making they have failed to produce for us a fraction of what Hizbullah has presented to us and to the rest of the Muslims in the world. How did Hizbullah do this? Did they do this by perfecting the brushing of their teeth/placing moral police in front of the Masjid to make sure people meet their standards of Islam/by trying to win over Western public opinion/by asking for financial support from the Saudis/Kuwaitis and these others in the Arabian Peninsula? No. Had they opted for that they would have been just like the other Islamic groupings around who are still groping in the dark to find their direction to Allah! They did so because they adopted the message of the Qur'an without the Saudi/American/Yahudi pollution along these lines that interfere with our relation with Allah and His book and with the Prophet and his Sunnah. … indeed Hizbullah are successful. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 56) … indeed Hizbullah are victorious. (Surah Al Mujaadalah verse 22) This is a moment that should change the balances of power in the area and it should change the equations in the minds of sycophant Muslims who have been busying themselves all of these years to curry favour with the Mushriks/Kafirs. Now you can see the masters of the international power cabal have been booted out of Muslim territories for the first time with their tails behind them. And when these Yahudis come and say "no one is thanking them for this?" Thank you for what?! For doing what you were supposed to do many years ago?! If there is any thanks that is due to these Yahudis its at the moment that they realise that they are guilty of having an Israel (and) for supporting all the Jahiliyyah systems in all of the other surrounding lands. This is the first case of victory that shall be followed by other victories and Allah's words are appreciated more by those who lived these years at the frontline who gave their lives/dear ones and now other Muslims and non Muslims- this victory also had its fringe benefits for those who are not Muslims- who now are able to go back to their homes/towns/ lands and resume to their normal lives. As far as the rulers- the wimps- in the area, the clock should begin to click against them because their coarse of action have not met the standards. We congratulate Hizbullah and we will never forget those who made this possible in the years that have pasted and those who have suffered and are still suffering in prisons and detention centres because they stand up and they say "Our Sustainer is Allah" and by saying that they rival with false statements of Kings/Presidents who say "their Sustainer is the United States/Europe." (Brothers and sisters, committed Muslims…) We thank/glorify/appreciate/exalt Allah who says Certainly we will give victory to our apostles in worldly life and on the Day witnesses will be resurrected. On a Day when excuses will avail no one/alibis will not be of any value to those who have wronged themselves; when they incur Allah's condemnation and when they deserve an awful settlement/place to settle. (Surah Al Ghaafir verse 51-52) Stating what has happened in the past week with the positive reverberations it will have among Muslim people from the Holy Land to other areas in Africa/Asia. It may take months/ years for other Muslims to regain the long lost confidence that they should have and place only in Allah. In the meantime we are not as naïve as to think that these Yahudis are not sharpening their knives for other massacres/forms of warfare in the area. Certainly that is on their mind. They have been responsible for the virtual exhaustion of a population in Iraq as a matter of this overall warfare against committed Muslims in the world. Now one of the instruments of international Yahud is to signal one of their proxies- Russia- and to move this warfare into Central Asia and once again into Afghanistan. The United States is trying to team up with India against what they are observing is a gradual spread of Islamic commitment through the issue of Kashmir in Pakistan. Ash Shaytan dwells in the political temples of Yahud and Ash Shaytan thrives in the political minds of Yahud. We are not as silly as to think that the withdrawal of occupying forces from our land is the end of Yahudi outrage/ill policies towards committed Muslims. They will probably try to re-double their clients in the area and bring in a more solidified manner the Arabian Governments against the segments of committed Muslims in their own populations. What does this say to us who are tuned out of the Yahudi mind and tuned in to the Qur'anic mind? What does all this do to us? It reinforces our commitment/bolsters our Iman/raises our spirits/reinforces our determination. What do they think? They want to scare Muslims. Recently in the past week the Yahudis made noises from Tel Aviv, the occupied territories, saying that "part of their official policies is to kill/assassinate Muslims who they consider to be a threat to their security." Who are they scaring? If we can't get them here for justice we will be waiting for them across the line of departure from this world for ultimate justice in the life to come. If they think our weapons cannot reach them in the occupied territories, our moral weapons will reach them on the Day of Resurrection/Judgement. We will follow them up until that moment in front of our Creator/Sustainer. The more statements they make against us, they know through experience the stronger we become and that is why they choose/prefer to remain relatively silent and that bothers them because it erodes their own morale when they know that they can't even take a public position and make public statements against us. Whichever they do they are losing and whatever choice they opt for Allah's committed covenant bearers are gaining and the foretaste of that is in Southern Lebanon. We, the Muslims, will continue wherever we are to move forward and you, Yahud, wherever you are you will continue to lose ground because truth and justice will prevail. You can't hide forever and Muslims are not going to go away. This khutbah was presented by Imam Mohammad Al Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 26 May 2000 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row 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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