| THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (29 July 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. Ma'shar Al Mu'mineen… Assalaamualaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatuh Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/videos/videos/show/11532624-imam-muhammad-al-asi-on-the-forgotten-dimensions-of-shirk-in-durban-part-1-08-14-2009- (08-14-2009) http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/videos/videos/show/11532615-imam-muhammad-al-asi-on-the-forgotten-dimensions-of-shirk-in-durban-part-2-08-14-2009- (08-14-2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJzUVU6CrQ FORGOTTEN DIMENSIONS OF SHIRK I begin by thanking you for the opportunity to be here with you at this time preceding salaat al Jum'ah. You can only appreciate being in a Masjid when you are denied going into some Masajid. All praise and all appreciation is due to Allah for His design and His decree for whatever comes our way in life. We begin our presentation to you by asking you to be present with your mind. We beg your attention. We, the Muslims in the world, have individuals who are in positions of responsibility who have enormous wealth because they are in Government positions and in Decision-Making positions; we have an array of such Organisations and individuals who want to accuse Muslims of being either Mushriks or Kafirs. This accusation, (to the best of our knowledge), emanates from the area called Arabia and as you know there is plenty of wealth that is located in that geographical area simply because the industrial world are pumping the oil fields and some of the revenue goes back to these self-styled Islamic spokespersons and Scholars and they are very liberal at accusing other Muslims, (in their own words), of Kufr and Shirk- wa na'udhubillahi ta'ala. This has to come to and end. It will not come to an end though if this type of takfir is not brought into the public realm and exposed for the fallacy that it is. We know of many incidents in which Muslims go to Al Hejaz, that's the area in which Makkah and Al Madinah are located, and when they go to Al Madinah and they want to visit the Prophet's Masjid and show their respects to the Prophet we have some of these "holier-than-thou" individuals who impede, disturb, deter (and) defy the expression of love and affection for Allah's Prophet. The Muslims are entitled to express their attachment and their affection to Allah's Prophet. If you were lost somewhere and you felt desperate and you needed information and you needed direction on how to get to your destination and a person comes to you and you know nothing about anything and you're stuck and a person comes to you and says "what is it? Can I help you" And you say "yes, I'm trying to reach my destination." And the person shows you (and) explains to you the exactly how to get to your destinations you'd be very thankful to that person and there's nothing in the Qur'an and in the Sunnah that says you cannot be thankful to a person who helps you out when you are in dire need of help. Imagine a person comes to us, (not to one of us and not to a small number of us; the Muslims of the world now we are quickly approaching two-billion), and he shows us the way to our destination, to Al Aakhirah, to Yawm Al Hisaab, to Al Jannah, to Allah- should we not be appreciative? Should we not be thankful. These people who want to stifle and exterminate these feelings of appreciation and attachment to Allah's Prophet are the ones who have a problem. We, in the encompassing and inclusive sense that we are in, should feel sorry for them, but at the same time we should not let them get away with the harsh attitude that they have towards anyone who flocks to Allah's Prophet and tries to express their love and devotion towards him. If it was only one simple area in which they are exercising this unexplainable attitude we would have had a diminutive problem but the issue is they are spread all around the world and they want us to believe that "the Prophet was something like a postman. He delivered a message and he left." This cannot be. They complicate the issue even more by trying to give it, (what they call), an Aqeedi dimension/a doctrinary explanation so they factor in the words Kufr and Shirk. Obviously if they are Muslims we would like to meet them, to speak to them but they are the ones who run away. They are ones who don't make an appearance. They are the ones who don't talk. Why? What's wrong? If you are confident of your position and if you refer an issue of disagreement to Allah and His Prophet, that's the meaning of the ayah in the Qur'an … if you, the committed Muslims, dispute a certain issue among yourselves then refer it to Allah and His Prophet … (Surah Al Nisa' verse 59) And if they are that type we welcome them. Come- let us open up. They have no right expelling Muslims from Masajid of the world; they have no right denying Muslims access to Makkah and Al Madinah; they have no right acting as barriers between those who love Allah's Prophet and Allah's Prophet's final resting place in Al Madinah. And besides these words, come- to the Book of Allah. They're using the words Kufr and Shirk- OK; let us see who is the Mushrik. Allah in the ayah that you read, we read and all the rest of the Muslims read says … the act of Shirk is not involved/(tolerated) in the governance of Allah. (Surah Al Kahf verse 26) Allah has revealed to us a form of Governance and in the application of this ruling, Governance (and) hukm there is no shareek. Now, let us look at ourselves- who is bringing in Shuraka' with Allah when it comes to issues of Governance, ruling, Authority and the Administration of social affairs? Who's bringing in someone else? Are they the Muslims who express their love and compassion to Allah's Prophet? Are we the Muslims who want to go visit Allah's Prophet in Al Madinah guilty of this Shirk pertaining to hukm or are these Rulers in Arabia guilty of this Shirk that pertains to hukm? They brought the Imperialists in! They are condoning Zionism now. They are even telling them "we will finance your wars of against fighting and struggling Muslims" for their rights and their destiny. Who's guilty of Shirk here? … the act of Shirk is not involved/(tolerated) in the governance of Allah. (Surah Al Kahf verse 26) The facts speak for themselves. They have military bases. Did Allah's Prophet have military bases in Arabia when Arabia was independent of the powers of the world and would only answer to Allah? Why do they turn this around and say because we love Allah's Prophet we have become Mushriks? Where do they get that from? In another ayah Allah says, (come listen to what Allah is saying) … And has no Shareek, no rival, no competitor, no partner no Associate, no parallel when it comes to matters of dominion, ownership, possessing wealth … (Surah Isra' verse 111) Who's guilty of this Shirk? We the simple Muslims who come to Allah's Holy Sanctuaries with compassionate hearts? Are we guilty of this Shirk or are they who have brought in to this Holy Land into a place that is the dominion of Allah and given the avowed enemies of Allah and the committed Muslims a say where it does not belong? (Take a) look at the word Shirk. In another ayah in the Qur'an Allah says … Shirk is a gargantuan form of oppression, tyranny, Despotism, Dictatorship, injustice. (Surah Isra' verse 111) Allah is teaching us, do you want to learn? Come to Allah and His Prophet. (Take a) look at the world today, where are the largest expression of tyranny and injustice in the world today? Where do you find them? In the communities of Muslims around the world who admire Allah's Prophet, who admire Allah's Prophet? Is that dhulm adheem or is the forces of Imperialism and Zionism to which they perform their Hajj in Washington, European Capitals and Tel Aviv? Those are their ritualistic politics and then at the end of the day they say "Muslims cannot show our affection for Allah's Prophet?!" This has become Shirk? We've never heard of this. The Prophet of Allah and others of his generation showed compassion and mercy to small children. Once a person shows his son, in the presence of Allah's Prophet, how he loves him; he kisses him and then Allah's Prophet approves of this; and then another person says I've never in my life done something like this to my own children, to my son. And he says what can we say and what can be done if Allah has extracted rahmah/this expression of rahmah from your heart. We say the same things to these types of individuals- what can we do if Allah has taken from your heart the passion and the compassion that are due to Allah's Prophet. We don't want to open up chapters of history; we want to tread mildly in this area, but you know at the beginning of our Islamic history that a dynasty took over and the household of Allah's Prophet was denied access to decision-making, (this is the best way it can be put); they were denied access to decision-making because now the Muslims had a family that was ruling. It is haraam for the family of Allah's Prophet to be part of the decision-making process at the highest levels but it is halaal for them, beginning with the first Dynasty and continuing to the current Dynasty that rules in Arabia! Halaal for them what was haraam on the Prophet's intimates! This is the topsy-turvy world that we are in and then they come to us with the configurations and the costumes of piety and fearing God and all of this other stuff. Don't be deceived by appearances. What they are doing that is costing us money and lives speaks much louder than their empty words and their shallow feelings. May Allah guide us so that we can extend our responsibility to guide those who are going astray in, of all places, Arabia. When the Muslims first exited Arabia into the world fourteen centuries ago into the wilderness of the world they took with them the responsibilities given to them by Allah and His Prophet and they honoured those responsibilities the best they could with all the internal and external problems and challenges that they had. Today those who exit Arabia go to other parts of the world with their limousines to the red district areas of certain cities, to the casinos. One level of the Treasury Department in Washington DC is occupied by the King and the family that is ruling in Arabia. They come to us with one face and - and even with the passion and compassion that we have to Allah's Prophet there still is a deficit; as much as we try our best to live as if we are in the presence of Allah's Prophet- they want to come and try to annul of this. What do they want to do? What will satisfy them? We don't know. If we wanted to go to Khaybar- that's the area where Allah's Prophet and his first generation of committed Muslims defeated the pre-Zionists of today- try to go to Khaybar… What's wrong with these people who are running Arabia? With our feelings and emotions that are due to Allah's Prophet, they will not let us visit him; and also to add insult to injury they will not let us to go to the areas in Arabia where the Muslims defeated Yahud! Who are they? Where do they come from? What book do they refer to? Wa Salaamualaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatuh This presentation was presented by Imam Muhammad Al Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah in Durban, South Africa on 14 August 2009. 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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