Muslim Unite Sunni and Shia KHUTBAH : MUHARRAM - BURDENED BY IGNORANCE PART 6

 

THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (30 November 2012) 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.

Committed Muslims, brothers and sisters…

 

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/271816 (11-23-2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpYVwNFZc4

 

MUHARRAM - BURDENED BY IGNORANCE PART 6

For those of you who are conscious of the Islamic calendar, this is the month of Al Muharram which is one of the four sanctity or sacred secure months of the year.

Indeed, the number of months in the sight of Allah is twelve; so it was ordained by Allah on the Day when Allah created the Heavens and the Earth, of which four are in-violable; that is the straight way… (Surah At Tawbah verse 36)

For those of you who are more conscious of the Islamic past or the Islamic history, it was during this month that what is called an Islamic dynasty or dynastic rulers were responsible for what has come down to us in our references as the tragedy or the massacre of Karbala' on the day of Aashura' i.e. the tenth day of the month of Muharram which is the first month of the Islamic calendar. You and I or many of us are aware that this incident is observed every year by some Muslims, (not by all Muslims), with an outpour of emotions; and as emotional as it is when it is considered in light of its details. It was a force of seventy odd committed Muslims clashing with another force of thousands of Muslims. We've said this before and we'll repeat ourselves because repetition it seems, on this occasion, repetition is not enough. There's been a subculture that has built in and around this occasion that has almost put it off limits to our rational consideration of what happened on that occasion. We need to take a more measured and a more analytical approach as to what happened on that day. Before we begin some thoughts about this (by) relying on the book of Allah and the guidance of His Prophet let us clear the air and acknowledge that there are some hadiths that did in fact say the tenth of Al Muharram is a day that should be observed by Muslims because it is the day when the followers of Musa were rescued from the tyranny of the Pharaoh and thus Muslims should be thankful on this day and Muslims should fast on this day or the tenth of Al Muharram. Let us say that there are hadiths that have to be filtered out from hadith literature. These hadiths, (and there's a few of them), that want the Muslims to think or to believe that the tenth of Muharram is the occasion that dates back to Musa (alayhi as salaam) rather the occasion that is synonymous with Imam Al Hussein (radi Allahu anhu). Let us say that these hadiths are the fabrication of the enemies of Hussein in as far as the dynastic regimes that ruled- beginning with Muawiyah and there on. They pumped these types of hadiths to eclipse the occasion and the meanings of Aashura' or Karbala'. Let us also add that there is no other hadith or no other ayah that we know of that tells us to honour a particular occasion of Bani Isra'eel. There are many ayaat and there are many ahadith that pertain to Bani Isra'eel. Almost one-third of the Qur'an itself relates to the adverse and the cantankerous history of Bani Isra'eel but none of them, (once again as far as we are aware), instructs us to observe a particular detail of that history. So here we find a hadith or hadiths that cannot fit into the context of the Qur'an and when that happens we are better off sidelining those types of hadith and this opens up a broader issue of the filtration of the body of hadith from alien hadiths that are in it. Now is not the time for that.

 

We go back to this event in which we have Muslims fighting Muslims. This is a hard thing to swallow but it is a fact of life and we still have these types of occurrences in our societies. (Take a) look around today at our world and what is happening in it and we will see that Muslims are fighting Muslims. As we mentioned previously and we will echo that idea here, Allah teaches us that it is not out (of the question). It shouldn't happen but it is not impossible that Muslim come to blow with Muslims. The ayah in Surah Al Hujurat

If there are two factions or two camps of Muslims who go to war against themselves, your duty is to reconcile them but if one side decides to continue its transgression against the other side then all of you… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

If it was impossible for Muslims to face off at the battlefield we wouldn't have had this ayah but Allah has created us and our human nature and He knows how we will interact with each other. So in this occasion we have Muslims who are facing off with Muslims which we think, (as a humble brother of yours), should open our minds pertaining to two very important issues that have to be addressed by our thinking ability- our God-given endowment of being able to think and reason.

 

The first one is the issue of legitimacy. Do we have, as Muslims in the world, or have we had in our history in the past rulers who were illegitimate? Before we are overwhelmed by the emotional component of this occasion we should ask ourselves: do we have illegitimate power structures that rule over us? This has to be answered. Before we step one step forward we have to answer this question. Do we have rulers and governments and administrations that are legitimate or do we have them as illegitimate? When we define legitimacy we don't do that by going to an encyclopaedia somewhere of to a political scientist or ideologue; we refer ourselves to Allah and His Prophet- they are the ones who will define for us who is a legitimate ruler, what is a legitimate governance and what is not. This occasion of Aashura' has been with the Muslims for around fourteen centuries and still, every year, the Muslims who are observant of this occasion don't communicate to the rest of the people- Muslims or non Muslims- that people can have legitimate authorities and they can have illegitimate authorities. Brothers and sisters- we feel constrained but we have to say it- on this day and tomorrow as much as you'll here about this issue from speakers and preachers and from khateebs etc. and as much as you will hear the word Al Imam Al Hussein (radi Allahu anhu wa alayhi as salaam) and Yazid. You'll hear that plentifully but this is not an issue of personalities per se. This is an issue of methodologies, this is an issue of orientation, this is an issue of principle. Why can't we concentre on this area so that we can raise the smoke and the fog out of this occasion so everyone who knows about it regardless of their backgrounds- whether it is religious or political or whether it is national or ethnic, regardless of who they are- when you present them with these facts they can resonate with these facts and our minds can trump our emotions? The first question that should come to anyone's mind provided our minds are present on this occasion is: was the dynasty or the regime or the ruling family of Yazid legitimate or was it not legitimate. The air has to be cleared on this subject and emotions by themselves are not going to clear the air! Yazid as well as his father Muawiyah have to be defined by the facts surrounding them. There were wars. Aashura's and Karbala' did not just happen out of thin air. There was a background and a backdrop to it. When Muawiyah was at war with Imam Ali (radi Allahu anhu wa radi Allahu anhu). There are many but this is not the time for the many, (so) just to sight one exposé of the nature of legitimacy verses illegitimacy, i.e. the legitimacy of Ali verses the illegitimacy of Muawiyah, thereafter king Muawiyah. One indicator that we never think through our history is we call Muawiyah a Khalifah. He's a king, but this once again indicates that we never think through whatever we were involved. Whichever side you happen to be on, this is a fact of life. The Prophet of Allah had said, (and this was a hadith that is acknowledged by friend and foe), to Ammaar ibn Yasir (radi Allahu anhu) the aggressive faction is going to kill you. When this war at Siffin occurred Ammaar ibn Yasir was killed by the camp of Muawiyah so the Prophet's hadith right now became self explanatory. Now we know who the aggressive faction or side is. Now we go back to the ayah in which the same word is used. OK.

If two sides of Muslims find themselves at blows at the battlefield then… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

Allah tells the rest of us that

… we should reconcile these two sides… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

That's the first thing should be done

… but if one side refuses to reconcile then the war effort should be directed against that side… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

So the Prophet of Allah said in one of these statements that foretold future events that you, Ammaar, are going to be killed by al fi'ah al baghiyah. This faction of Muawiyah killed Ammaar so it incurred the Prophet's description al fi'ah al baghiyah. Now, (at this point without pulling in other information), the question is, is this fi'ah of Muawiyah legitimate? Can it have the legitimacy that comes from the book of Allah and from the Sunnah of His Prophet? It cannot! Let's be clear on this. There shouldn't be any question marks and exclamation marks and all these other marks. No! It's clear there is no legitimacy. Now, if we have a ruler who is not legitimate, the second question is… We said there are two issues that have to be cleared: the first one is the issue of legitimacy and the second is the issue of opposition. How are we to oppose illegitimate rulers or illegitimate rule? Opposition is at different levels. You can have a verbal opposition, you can have a media opposition, you can have a popular opposition, and then you can have armed opposition. The question that we have to clarify, (we're sorry to say that after one-thousand-four-hundred years among ourselves we haven't clarified this question), is when do we carry arms to oppose illegitimate authority? Here is where we bring ourselves to Imam Al Hussein.

 

Yazid, knowing that he's illegitimate- he knows he's illegitimate. First of all there is no inheritance of power in Islam. Just because you were born into a certain family and your father was a king then you as a son become a king! There's no basis for this in the Qur'an or in the Sunnah but this is exactly what happened in this case. A son became the king of the Muslims, not the Khalifah- throw that word out. So in his attempt to secure that legitimacy, this Yazid who was in Damascus told his governors in Arabia particularly the ones in Al Hijaz in Makkah and in Al Madinah, to secure the bai'ah of three individuals thereby in Yazid's mind he would have secured his public legitimacy. Abdullah ibn Az Zubayr, Abdullah ibn Umar and Hussein ibn Ali- these are the ones that he wanted to come out in public and endorse his rule. History has its details of Islamic opposition to the Umawi feudalistic dynasty but in as far as Hussein- he wasn't willing and he wasn't going to express his bai'ah to an illegitimate ruler. At this point Hussein wasn't carrying any arms. You see- brothers and sisters, let's take this step by step. Hussein is the grandson of Allah's Prophet. We don't say this with any asabiyyah in it, we say this because of the virtues and the good influence that was generated in the house of the Prophet or the household of the Prophet by the Prophet himself. The Prophet of Allah, who is everyone's point of reference, stayed thirteen years in Makkah and the word armed opposition did not appear in his statements or in At Tanzeel- there was no such thing as armed opposition. To put it in today's language, the Prophet was going on with his own business communicating to people the message of Allah (and) the message of Islam but in the nature (or) the way power structures work, they can't tolerate a person that they think is subversive. So they look at Muhammad ibn Abdullah as a subversive therefore he's not going to be given his full civic character with the rights and the freedoms that belong to it. So they eventually after thirteen years turned antagonistic and not in any sense of the word- they turned antagonistic to the extent that they wanted to kill him. Notice, brothers and sisters, who wants to kill who? It wasn't the Prophet of Allah who wanted to kill anyone, it was these people who were in power who wanted to kill him! So what do you do here when people who have militaries who have the materialistic and financial wherewithal when they turn against you? Now you become their target- you are wanted dead or alive; what is to be done here? When we take a look at the ayaat in the Qur'an we find after the Mushrik society in Makkah turned militaristically (and) antagonist towards Allah's Prophet and those who were with him Allah gave them permission to defend themselves. This was the first time we hear about an opposition that can be called armed resistance. The ayah says

Permission from on high, from Allah, has been granted to those who have been oppressed (or) those who have been offended (or) those who have been aggressed upon or permission has been given to those whom war has been waged against them due to policies and procedures and strategies and politics of oppression and injustice and indeed Allah is capable of giving them victory and triumph. ((Surah Al Hajj verse 39)

This was when the Prophet had to by force, it wasn't out of his own initiative; the fact of the matter is that he was forced to leave Makkah under the threat of the Mushriks arms and the Mushriks intention to kill him and finish him off. What do you do if the character of the same Mushriks of Makkah resurfaces now against Hussein? They look at him (and) they see him as a subversive, an insurgent (and) an outlaw. That's the official perception of this one individual because he refused to endorse a power-structure that is illegitimate. In the character of his grandfather- now oppression and injustice he has been dealt; what does he do? Does he go and think "wait let me go and think of a plan of my own or does he listen to what Allah and His Prophet say in circumstances and conditions like this?" So when war was imposed upon him, he countered that war with a war within his own means. This is where we find a person who stands on principle during that time. Look- some people came up to him with good intentions and with the best advice and they said why don't you go to Al Yemen. There you have a support base and the terrain there will help against what is being planned against you. He could have done that. That was a choice but he didn't. Makkah is supposed to be the refuge. We know from the inception of Makkah, from the Abrahamic history, from its Abrahamic roots that Makkah is a place where Mustad'afs or homeless people go. Prophet Ibrahim (alayhi as salaam) didn't have people of his own (and) he didn't have a country of his own. Makkah became his place of residence. When this type of Makkah now due to the political developments of that time could no longer tolerate persons who it was meant for, Hussein had to leave. This is another area that has to be the attraction of our thoughts. The people of Southern Iraq, Al Kufa in the best possible wording pledged that they would support Hussein. We know from what happened thereafter that they abandon that pledge. This is another area that Muslims have to think about carefully. What do you do when you have thousands of people who say we support you but when the forces show up, when the Umawi regime with its military force i.e. ibn Ziyad on behalf of Yazid show up with their might you look around and where's everyone. What happened? You were the ones who were saying you're going to be supportive but all of a sudden that support evaporated. What happened? Should not this serve as a lesson for leaders or potential leaders or organisers who say that they have such and such support? Can they take that for granted? Has anyone learnt from this? Still, when they abdicated their written responsibilities Hussein stood on principle. What do you do? (In) the last moments in those their final days knowing what was about to occur he could have easily stepped out of that whole thing and said "you know- the balance of forces here are tremendously against my position so this is going to need more time and it's going to need more education and it's going to need more of the stuff that many people say today…" The issue is what happened to principle? Another issue is the issue of death itself. Some people think that when they are brought into the vicinity of death they begin to feel that death is going to occur in a day or two and then they also find that this is something that they can't take anymore. Well, what's wrong? We're all going to die. When we Muslims repeat the fact of death in our salah everyday then when it's about to happen we don't want to be around? What type of commitment are we speaking about? This is what we are saying about the commitment of people in that time and the commitment of the people of our time. The ayah says

You have been assigned combat duty and you dislike it, but it may be that at times you feel you are pre-disposed to something that is bad (and) it turns out to be good for you and at times you are predisposed to something that appears to you to be good but it will turn out to be bad for you but Allah knows and you do not know. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 216)

 

Dear committed brothers and sisters on the course to Allah…

The years that we are speaking about was about the fifth, sixth and seventh decade after the hijra. The years that we are speaking about were sent down to us via the channels of those who wrote this history and the conquerors always write mainstream history. This is equally true in the world at large as it is true in our peculiar history- the conquerors are the ones who wrote this history. They didn't write it in history books, the wrote it by attributing hadiths to the Prophet and by having court scholars who would register events from the point of view of those who were in power and we have inherited all of this and its become a scary discovery if Muslims were to trace the injustice of today to the injustice of those times. The monarchies that exist today are the offspring of the monarchies that existed at that time. Yesterday or the day before the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, (a person who is almost at a rank of Minister), comes out and he says, (we're putting these in our own words but the general meanings is), "these people around who are criticising or assailing or verbally attacking the Saudi king- this Mufti calls him Wali' Al Amr- are sick minds, fasid individuals and are tantamount to the enemies of Islam." We don't know where this person lodges his logic in (and) we don't know where that comes from. The Book of Allah exposes the Pharaoh and the Pharaoh is the description of a person who has tremendous power and uses that power to contravene Allah and His Prophet. When someone speaks about a person in a public position, a decision maker, a king or a president he's not speaking about his personal life. It has nothing to do with his personal life although we know that it is polluted with sins and transgressions. We know that but we're not concerned with his personal life! When this person makes Makkah and Al Madinah off limits to all of the Muslims of the world (and) when Ghazzah is being attacked and maybe attacked in the coming months and in the coming years and we, as Muslims, cannot put our thoughts together (and) we cannot put our hearts together in Makkah?! Why can't we do that? Someone is responsible! An ayah in the Qur'an says

… so that the course of criminals may become explicit and clear. (Surah Al An'aam verse 55)

Who are these criminals? Unknowns?! Crimes against humanity, war crimes and the list goes on- all of these happens as an act of nature or there are people who are responsible for these acts?! The information that comes to us from Allah and His Prophet tells us that we should not identify criminals or we should identify them and when we identify them should we expose the fact that they are legitimate or illegitimate, they abuse power, they have a thriving prison population?! There are no civil rights, no civic rights, no natural rights, no political rights, no rights at all in some of these countries?! A person becomes a ruler because he's born in a certain family and his son and grandson become Emirs and princes because they were born in that family?! Where is the justification, the explanation (and) the legitimacy for this from the Book of Allah and from the statements of His Prophet- we ask! If we ask these questions we are mufusideena fi al ard?! We are faasiqeen?! We are sick in our minds and in our hearts as this Mufti is saying because we are attempting to define and to categorise what Allah and His Prophet are telling us?!

Oh Allah we seek refuge from people like this who have made it possible for all of these years for this tyranny and this despotism to continue in our midst.

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 23 November 2012 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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Muslim Unite Sunni and Shia KHUTBAH : GHAZZAH – WHERE TO FROM HERE PART 2

 

THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (23 November 2012) 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.

Dear brothers and sisters, Committed Muslims…

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/270226 (11-16-2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLr5I2d5pU

GHAZZAH – WHERE TO FROM HERE PART 2

As Allah would calculate and proportion events and things- we began speaking several weeks ago about jihad and all these accusations concerning terrorism and the rest of the negative and unworthy descriptions that are thrown at committed Muslims in the world today and then we have the outbreak of hostilities and warfare in Ghazzah and the occupied territories. This would force us in light of the information and the ayaat that we have from Allah and the guidelines of His Prophet to consider our history. Why have we become a magnet for hostilities from almost every direction? We have been presented with wars that are of an economic nature, we have been enduring assaults of a cultural nature, we have been subjected to occupations and invasions of a military nature, we have been the targets of misinformation and a propaganda type of warfare and this has been taking place at a civilizational level and it has ranged throughout the decades and the centuries of the past and now we see it erupting again. When we take a look at the larger picture we can't help ourselves but think why are other powers of the world so keen on their form of warfare, their occupations and their invasions of our own domain? Why? The answer to that is a simple one without making it a complex one, i.e. there is a factor in human nature that does not want to accept the equality and the brotherhood of the other; that's as simple as it gets and it erupts in the form of racism or religious fanaticism or the different other labels in which they try to justify the unjustifiable. Allah knows this human nature, especially the type that targets we, the Muslims of the world, simply because we are trying with all the deficiencies and with all the depletions of potentials within our own internal house, (that's another matter now). We've gone into that previously on many occasions but outside of that there is almost a constant in human history of aggression and military attacks against us. Any objective person who opens up the books of history will find that we've suffered from inquisitions, from displacements, from, (what is called in history books), the Crusades, from Colonialism, Imperialism, globalism, the New World Order (and) all of the jargon that comes or that goes in that direction. This would place us in the position to scrutinise closely relevant words from Allah and His Prophet to us. There are three words in the Qur'an and in the Sunnah that should be in our minds at times like this. Those three words were al harb, al qital (and) al jihad. These are three Qur'anic words and three words in the hadiths of the Prophet. For those of you who want to refer to these ayaat, al harb in one such ayah in the Qur'an is in the fourth ayah of surah Muhammad. This is a description of the encounter of committed Muslims with military Kafirs and this ayah instructs the Muslims when they are engaged in warfare to carry out their duty. We don't want to go into the graphic explanation of what happens in warfare but this is included in the meaning of this ayah and then after the tide turns against the contrarians to the Muslims, (i.e.) the Kafirs then

The Muslims will deal with them either through amnesty or through ransom until the war settles its score and ends. (Surah Muhammad verse 4)

The word war is mentioned here. There's another ayah in the Qur'an in which the word al harb which means war is mentioned and that has to do with riba' (or) usury.

Allah is putting those who are the managers of riba institutions and riba establishments on notice that He is (or) He will be at war with them… (Surah Al Baqarah verse 279)

This is war.

OK- another word is the word qital and its derivatives. And just to take one ayah or a few ayaat.

And you wage a combat effort on a course and for the cause of Allah against those who wage a fighting or a combat effort against you… (Surah Al Baqarah verse 190)

When this ayah is explained, you have to understand it in the circumstances and in the developing events of our time. If there are others who are launching wars against us Allah is saying

We counter launch wars against them or combat missions, (i.e.) you wage combat efforts against those who wage combat efforts against you but you do not aggress (or) you don't initiate aggression for in fact and in reality Allah does not favour aggressors. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 190)

Another few ayaat in surah An Nisa'

Let there be those who discharge a combat duty on a course to and for the cause of Allah exchanging this life for the life to come and whoever does this combat obligation for the cause of Allah and dies or is killed doing that or is victorious… (Surah An Nisa' verse 74)

It doesn't matter, there's two outcomes viz.

… either you perish or you are victorious we will provide him with an immense reward. (Surah An Nisa' verse 74)

Allah is saying here

Is there something wrong with you or Do you have any questions that you don't discharge your combat duties on a course to Allah and a cause for Allah and for those who are overwhelmed or those who are overpowered men, women and children who say "Oh Allah deliver us from this oppressive social order that we find ourselves in and grant us from You a protector and a supporter"? Those who are committed to Allah they wage this combat responsibilities and duties for the cause of Allah and those who are contrarian to Allah they fight for the cause of Taghut… (Surah An Nisa' verse 75-76)

Now let us bring your minds into the climate of this ayah. Allah chooses His words very carefully, (so to speak). He says

Those who are committed to Allah discharge their combat duty for the cause of Allah… (Surah An Nisa' verse 76)

In our traditional minds there's Allah on one side and there is Ash Shaytaan on the other side- these are the two poles that are far apart (and) opposite each other, but this ayah didn't say wa Alladheena Kafaru yuqatiluna fi sabil Ash Shaytaan. He said

… those who are kafirs they fight for the cause of disproportionate concentrated and abusive power… (Surah An Nisa' verse 76)

This is Taghut. Then the ayah says, hear the word, Allah says

… so wage these combat responsibilities against the allies of Ash Shaytaan, meaning those who have this abusive concentrated disproportionate power- these are the allies of Ash Shaytaan; the conspiracy of Ash Shaytaan is feeble (or) there is nothing much to it. (Surah An Nisa' verse 76)

Ok- these are some of the ayaat.

Then we have the other word, the third word is al jihad. Remember, the first word is al harb- a Qur'anic/ Prophetic word; the second word is al qital- Qur'anic/Prophetic word and then al jihad. Most of the time, because Muslims haven't thought through their own Qur'an and Sunnah, if someone says al jihad then automatically some minds think that this means warfare or combat missions or the like- that's what some people think. Whoever thinks like that is simply saying to you and me "well we haven't thought about what Allah is telling us." Al jihad is a very general word and to put it in a few words of definition it means exerting your effort to exhaustion or exerting your effort to extinction- that's what al jihad is. There is a whole range of activities in life in which you could exert your efforts to exhaustion in and if you are doing it for the cause of Allah (and) in a direction towards Allah it gains the definition of jihad. The reason why Al jihad became synonymous with military responsibilities is because that is the ultimate jihad. What can you do more than give your life or limb for the cause of Allah? Nothing! No one can do more than that so sometimes because there is a concentration on the optimal or the maximalist that can be done with this definition it sort of steals or overwhelms the other meanings of the word. This is what happens here, but if you take a look at the Qur'an and the Sunnah you'll find that al jihad is a word that encompasses all of this. The Prophet of Allah says every Prophet has a form of asceticism or self denial and the self denial of this Ummah is al jihad. We know from reading history books that the self denial or the monistic order of Christians was for a person to become a monk or a type who denies himself or herself the urges of the physical presence in this life- that is the 'rahbaniyyah" of those who adhere to this extent in Christianity. The Prophet of Allah is telling you and me, the committed Muslims, our self denial is to exert our efforts which may culminate to giving of our lives." This is our self denial. When we give the ultimate of what Allah has given us, which is our lives, back to Him is our self denial. That's one hadith. Another hadith says the touristry… This has to be broken down to be understood better because the hadith is literally saying the touristy of my ummah is al jihad. Allah Prophet is (not) speaking about the tourism of leisure or the tourism of today's world. What this means, in context, is when societies interact on the world stage with other societies- people move land to land or from continent to continent (and) there has to be a strategy in which that happens and the strategy that is defined by Allah's Messenger and Prophet for our social and continental movement is this exertion of effort for the cause of Allah. We can appreciate these ayaat and these ahadith in light of what is happening or what is beginning to happen in the past several days.

In the past several days there has been what can potentially become a larger war effort beginning in the Holy Land and then spreading out to other countries and other regions of that geographical part of the world. The Yahudi occupation of Palestine and of the Holy Land says "the Muslims began this war because there were missiles that were launched from Ghazzah into the lands that are occupied by the Israeli Zionists." So they say we began this and because some Muslims are disconnected from reality they fall for this misinformation. This is a day of taqwa. The Imams and Khateebs from this Mimbar on Friday say "Oh subjects of Allah, be wary of Allah or be cautious of Allah or be attentive to Allah…" Well, this is what we're trying to do when they try to perplex us with the disinformation that they present to us. This wasn't begun by us. Let's be frank about this. This began with their bombing of a military factory in Sudan- that's how it began. We did begin any of this. The Israeli-Zionists went on the offensive- not that they haven't been doing other things daily as they do. Everyone knows the type of occupation that is synonymous with them, but this was the trigger for what has been developing in the past few days. So if we understand (and) if we can just bring these meanings of harb and qital and jihad as they come to us from Allah and His Prophet into what is being done to us by the enemies of Allah and His Prophet we can understand where we are and what we have to do.

Dear brothers and sisters, dear committed Muslims…

We, the Muslims, in this world, have gone through emotional ups and downs and the gyrations of conflicting feelings many times before. This is another episode in which the Muslims will experience a heightened emotional reaction to calculated policies that are pursued by Adh Dhaalimeen, Al Mushrikeen and Al Kafireen- in today's jargon, those who are running the show of Imperialism and Zionism. It's about time that we break through our emotional reactions and begin a principled inquiry into what has to be done and how do we go by doing what has to be done. Many Muslims, (and we're not questioning the intentions and we're not here to evaluate personalities and this types of things- Allah knows what's in the hearts of men and Allah is aware of what they discuss behind closed doors much better than me and you), at times like this when we see our own flesh and our own blood being subjected to… What do we have? We have two-million people in what is virtually an open prison in Ghazzah. They categorise this Israeli occupation of the Holy Land as the fifth military nation state in the world. It has hundreds of military weapons; it has access to the research and the development of its enabler, (i.e.) the government in Washington DC. For all practical purposes, if these Yahudi-Israeli-Zionists wanted to use their full military force they can reduce Ghazzah itself to rubble. We don't think anyone in their right mind will argue that. What are we? Are we spectators? We just watch?! We can't do anything to what is being done to us?! Isn't it about time Muslims open their minds with the nur that has come to us from Allah?! We can't open our minds and call for an Islamic meeting of minds and hearts in Makkah? Wouldn't this be the right thing to do at a time like this? And we're not speaking about Heads of State- they are already corrupted and they've already sold their souls to Satan himself- we are not talking about them; we're talking about us. Muslims just performed the hajj a few weeks ago and if Muslims were to declare as they are instructed by Allah and His Prophet to declare their bara'ah from the Mushrikeen (i.e.) their independence from Imperialism and Zionism we'd be in a better position now to respond to aggression. But we can't declare our independence from Imperialism and Zionism in our own holiest of holies (i.e.) in Makkah and in Al Madinah- we can't declare it! The rulers there say "if you say such a thing you are politicising the Hajj." Well, these are the ayaat and these are ahadith- we're not creating things of our own minds. So if we can't do that there then we know that our hands are tied. They've tied our hands (so) we can't do because of their policies and because of their oppression what we should be doing. So it's about time we begin to think when issues like this threaten us. As we said, this may turn out to be in the larger strategy of things a calculated conflict. The Israeli-Zionist elections are about two months away (or) a little less than that and so now some individuals in that artificial entity want to be re-elected so they want to generate popularity and to do that they go and kill innocent people in Ghazzah in the hundreds and in the thousands (and) more than that. They don't care, they want to be re-elected- that could be one calculation of what is unfolding in front of us. Of course, on the other side it could get out of control. There may be a toppling of regimes because of this; but we, the committed Muslims, with ayaat from Allah and with ahadith from His Prophet cannot break out of our emotional reactions, to their schemes and to their stratagems. We can't do that?! This is the time to begin to breakout (and) to think outside of the box that we've been in for so long. (If) we can liberate our own minds and thoughts then we can liberate lands and our territories. There's more that can be said along these lines (but) what has already been said should suffice.

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 16 November 2012 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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Muslim Unite Sunni and Shia Fw: Book Review on "The Detour" by I M Hussaini. A must read for all lovers of ture Islam!

 

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Mohsin Bhai   Salaams

InshaAllah we pray you and family are all doing fine in this blessed holy month of Ramadhan.  Please remember us in your duas as this holy month comes to an end.

 

May I please bother you for a favor. Habiba wrote a review on the above book, that promotes the truth about Ahlebaith.  She requests that if possible please  distribute this email appropriately through your lists.

 

Thank you,   with salaams and duas,        Gulamhusain

 

 

Salaams to all Brothers and Sisters in Islam,

 

Although I have discussed many books with my children, family and friends, I have never formally written a book review. This is my first time and somehow I am driven by some unexplainable force to write this review. I just lost my mother, "Zakira" Fatemabai Jafferali Ismail Rawji, and I was talking to a dear friend of mine Sister Zaheda Bhalloo. We were talking about mothers. Zaheda was discussing the story of The Lady of Light, Fatema Zehra (AS) with her children and she stumbled upon this incredibly magnificent book, which she kindly shared with me.

 

"THE DETOUR", by I.M. HUSSAINI, is a legend about the Book of Fatima. This is a wonderful journey in search of the truth in Islam, a must read for all Muslims especially the lovers of the Ahlebait (AHMS). Although Hussaini has written it as a novel, he does mention that all the information related to the historical landmarks is real.  It begins when the main character Edward Fleming, a Washington D.C based historian cum detective, someone whose analyzes the age of a document and verifies its information, goes in search of his missing partner Kimberly who has been kidnapped in Saudi Arabia, where she was searching for the Book of Fatima, "Mushaf of Fatima." Another main character is Doctor Fayyazi, a Jordanian historian, who hired Kimberly to work as a photography specialist.

 

The writer take us through a touching, spiritual, and a painful historic journey in search for the Book of Fatima. From Fadak to Mecca to various historical sites in Medina, he vividly describes what happened in the history of Islam at each place. How sad that today these places are being demolished and history is being wiped out.  All because of the truth that lies in this sacred work, the 'Book of Fatima;" if surfaced, will destroy the "crowns of today"!  The Mushaf of Fatima is what others believe is a secret Qur'an. Actually, it is the same Qur'an, compiled by Imam Ali (AS) and his wife Lady Fatima (AS). It includes some of their own footnotes, because they experienced the revelations, so it is like their personal diary or journal. Thus we have to believe that yes, it has some additional information that only Allah SWT knows , and I guess that is what the unjust, corrupt and the false rulers are afraid of!

 

The Book of Fatima is preserved somewhere out there for her last grandson Mahdi, the Awaited One to claim. The Mahdi, who will fill this world with Peace and Justice, perhaps he already has it.

Having lived in Saudi Arabia for a few years, I felt as it I was going through this journey with the book characters, for all the places that Hussaini takes us to, are real. I felt as if I have met some of the characters he has described, like Sheikh Essa, Zain, or the likes of Princess Safiya; off course, he says they are fictitious! A true believer feels sad when you come to Jannatul Moalla where many members of the Prophet's family are buried, including the grave of Abu Talib, Uncle and Guardian of the Prophet, along with the grave of Lady Khadija (who is said started writing this Journal), the first woman in Islam, the wife of our Prophet Mohammed, and the Mother of Fatima.

 

Then again, you are filled with sadness when you arrive in Jannatul Baqi, where the only daughter of the Prophet, Fatima is buried, or is she? along with her son Hassan, and three of her grandsons, and many other Holy figures of Islam. A line from the book says, "Dear Lord! Those scattered rocks were the tombstones. There were no markings of any kind. Nothing to indicate where the graves are located; one rock per grave, one rock per person. Then the author takes you to the grand Mosque of Madina, where the Holy Prophet Mohammed is buried. Is the Book of Fatima there? Maybe…

 

Here is an excerpt from the book, Kimberly is talking to Edward , and "Anyway, I discovered new things. I realized that Fatima was not just a woman playing a role in a political debate, or trying to get back her rights that the ruler had confiscated. Fatima established the principle that people could question their governments. She was talking about an ideology where the government is responsible to the people, men and women. And this was not just any woman; she was the one about whom their Prophet was saying that God would be pleased with if she was pleased" Another line says - " People can choose their kings, fine, but they cannot choose Prophets or their successors, that's God's job"

 

At the end of the journey, Edward realizes that the path of truth was right in front of him, then why was he put on this detour … he comes to some conclusions, was it for the true historical events to surface? Was it for him to know the injustice and the atrocities made to Lady Fatima and her household? Will he be able to do justice to her, by exposing the truth? Will he be able to sacrifice like Abdul Zahra?  I guess these are the questions imposed on all of us; can we, in our own way be like Abdul Zahra? Shouldn't we try? After reading this book I am sure you will come to your own conclusion! Please do take the time to read this book, it is such a great eye-opener – true, hidden history of Islam.

 

I pray for the safety of the ones who are fighting for justice, for the author Hussaini and everyone who is struggling in the path of Truth. Let them try to erase, demolish the Holy Landmarks, but Truth will always surface and most important, we have The Mahdi to watch over us. May Allah Bless Brother Hussaini,  I am looking forward to read his next book - Echoes of Fatima!

 

Please feel free to share this review.  Thank you for reading,

 

Habiba Ahmed

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Muslim Unite Sunni and Shia KHUTBAH : ZIONIST AND IMPERIALIST PLOTS TO SOW DISUNITY PART 4

 

THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (16 November 2012) 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.

Dear brothers and dear sisters, Committed Muslims…

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/267105 (11-02-2012)

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ZIONIST AND IMPERIALIST PLOTS TO SOW DISUNITY PART 4

Obviously this khutbah on this day is meant to highlight and to highlight and to inform from Allah and His Prophet concerning what is happening in our circles of activity or in our range of knowledge. One of these issues that seems not to go away, which we are living with day and night, year after year from different sources of information, is that issue that wants to equate committed Muslims with bloody terrorists. We've tried, and we will continue to try, to kill this impression in the public mind. It is wrong, it is false, it is offensive and it is demeaning. No Muslim living today should feel like there is something negative or distractive or savage about his or her Islam- no one! These types of happenings (and) calculated events that are taking place in the Muslim world (and) at the frontiers of the Muslim world and outside of the Muslim world that want us to be inferior in our own selves have no basis on who we are. Brothers and sisters- the hadith is something that has to be scrutinised and it has to be evaluated in light of the word and the spirit of the Qur'an simply because there are many hadiths and some of them are contradictory. So when these accusers want to nail us to a hadith they want to pluck out a hadith that says the Prophet of Islam says I have been ordered to fight people until they witness there is no deity (and) authority except Allah. If a person scans this meaning of this hadith, he will find another hadith that says exactly the same thing except for one word. The other hadith says I've been ordered to fight the Mushriks until they bear witness that there is no deity (and) no authority except Allah. Obviously those who have it to damage Islam of ours are not going to go through the hadiths and are not going to put the hadiths in context and therefore they are not going to relate to the public, (and we are included in that public), the meanings of Allah's Prophet's hadiths. If we are not going to assume this task ourselves the world will continue on its current path of pointing fingers and the path of trying to legally incriminate Muslims because of the ayaat and the ahadith that Muslims belong to.

Take what is happening in today's world. There are many instances in which we look around and we find that certain outrageous things are happening in an Islamic geographical area of the world. Civil strife, civil war, civil conflict- you can point to different areas there and certainly there are things that no human conscience, (not to speak about an Islamic conscience), can agree to or agree with. We don't have to graphically reproduce for you what you see on TV or in the media (i.e.) some of these images that come to us from these conflicted areas in our Islamic territories of the world- those should be in your mind. Now we place that imagery besides the guidance that comes to us from Allah. When the Prophet of Allah dispatched a force of Muslims on military duties he said to them, (this is reported in the books of hadith) set out or commence your military duty in the name of Allah on a course to Allah; they are on a path to Allah so they engage those who are in conflict with Allah. You don't betray in this effort, you don't stab anyone in the back and you don't mutilate the bodies of those who have fallen in warfare and you don't kill an infant or a baby or a child. Now how are we to be judged as Muslims? We're talking about our commitment to Allah and His Prophet? Are we to be judged by the principles and the values and the standards that we understand from the ayaat and the ahadith or are we to be judged by criminal activities that are planned and plotted by those who are avowed enemies of Allah and His Prophet even though they may be executed by individuals or organisations that claim that they are Islamic? Where are we in this midst? Where do you fall? (In) this hadith that was just quoted which should be the guiding light in what is happening in the different areas in Africa and in Asia the Prophet of Allah says set out or commence your military duty in the name of Allah on a course to Allah. These people who are going out with this responsibility, when the military responsibility is due, are not on a course to a battle field. The Prophet of Allah is reminding them that they are on a course to Allah, they are on a path to Allah so they engage those who are in conflict with Allah; you don't betray in this effort (which means) you don't show any betrayal neither to Allah nor to the people on earth and (of course this is a translator's license here), you don't stab anyone in the back and you don't mutilate the bodies of those who have fallen in warfare and you don't kill an infant or a baby or a child. This is part of who we are. This is who we are. But then the images come along in today's world and they present us with meanings that are the opposite of what was just stated of the Prophet's hadith. Where are you? Where do you belong in all of this? Do you belong to Allah and His Prophet? Or do you belong to some of these outfits that are macro managed by the Mushrikeen, the dhalimeen- in today's parlance, by the hegemonic Imperialists and the racist Zionist powers- that's just breaking it down into the general meanings of today. Where are you in this? When the first successor to Allah's Prophet succeeded Allah's Prophet there were eruptions of a military nature, things called hurub ar ridda and they were numerous in those couple of years after the Prophet's passing away. He would say to the commanders or any commander you will find people who claim they have devoted their private lives to Allah. Some of them may be monks some of them may be lesser than that in their religious performances (but) they have promised their lives to Allah. I advise you of ten things. You never ever kill a woman. Now brothers and sisters- we are quoting this hadith and we are moving it's meanings into the English language and we don't want you to be absent minded of what is happening in today's world by those who are saying "they have an Islamic orientation or they have an Islamic strategy or they belong to an Islamic organisation or an Islamic armed group of people." Don't forget this. I can't intrude into the khutbah to fill in these details but have the meanings that are brought to your attention right now coupled with the imagery that is coming to you from all directions about how Muslims are supposed to be killers, murders, blood-thirsty warriors, etc. You never ever kill a woman and you never ever kill a young child and you never ever kill a person in his or her old age- seniors, elders, etc. and you never ever cut down trees or plants that bare fruit and you never ever destroy any building or construct and you never ever kill or maim livestock or an animal that is used for transportation and you never ever and you never ever burn down trees or date palm trees and you don't betray anyone's trust and you don't ever act in a cowardly manner. Remember, these are military orders. Now we ask the conscience in you- when you see whatever you see that is being thought out and financed by the Mushrikeen of our time and then implemented by certain people- they have Muslim names, they have Muslim affiliations (and) they have all of this stuff that in appearance is Islamic- do they meet the instructions in the ayaat, (that we've mentioned previously and we'll mention again), and in the hadiths or the instructions that we are quoting here? Do they meet that or do they not meet that? Brothers and sisters- we are in one of the four months that are sacred, (i.e.), a zone of safety and security in the Muslim calendar al ash'hur al hurum. Dhul hijjah, (the month that we are in), provided some people are aware of the month that we are in! (With) the type of lives that we are living, many people just are aware that we are in the solar month of such and such calendar but they're not aware that we're in the lunar or the Islamic month of the hijri calendar. For those of you who are aware, you should also know that this month is one of the four months of total security. Even the pre-Islamic jahilis used to honour the security aspect of this month- something that today's Muslims (don't honour). We're supposed to have Muslims in today's world who are supposed to honour these meanings (but) not only are they breaking or dishonouring these meanings, they are doing so in this month of sanctity and the honour of life itself. Not only human life, all life. It's because of these meanings that when Islam stepped out of the Arabian Peninsula the people that carried these meanings touched the hearts and the souls of people who were around- because of these meanings. In the first eighty years after Allah's Prophet the Muslims were in lands and territories that were conquered by the Romans or the Byzantines throughout eight-hundred years. In eighty years the Muslims extended themselves into a geography that took eight centuries for European Colonialism at the time, (let's approximate today's world with that world), to be in. The people who became Muslims in that immediate geography became Muslims because they saw that this Islam speaks to their heart and to their minds. People wouldn't have been responsive to Islam if Muslims were butchers (or) if Muslims were terrorists. It wouldn't be a popular response. There has to be some explanation as to why droves and droves of people responded to this Islam. The explanation is that we don't have the character that is being represented to the public today of who Muslims are. We never had that. We never were (and) we never will be terrorists but as we said previously we are not either wimps and we are not pacifists. We are not that extreme in this direction and we're not of that extreme and that direction. It was this Islam that honoured the feelings in man, especially those that are called religious feelings. Muslims honoured the deepest feelings in human nature. We can say with humility, looking back at history and civilisation at that time, that we the Muslims made it possible for non-European Christians to honour their faith (i.e.) for the monotheist Christians to be what their heart wanted to be. The Qur'an itself says about the Torah (in) ayaat forty-four and forty-six of Surah Al Maa'idah- Allah's final scripture speaks about the Torah, the book of the Yahud.

… in it there is guidance and light… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 44)

Ayah forty-six of Surah Al Maa'idah speaks about the Gospel, Al Injeel

… in it there is guidance and there is light… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 44)

So Islam did not and the Muslims who understood it were not confrontational with those who wanted to locate themselves in At Torah and in Al Injeel. There is nothing confrontational about this- something that some of today's Muslims can learn a lot from. The Prophet of Allah sent a person by the name of Hatib ibn Abi Balta'a in the seventh year of the hijra with a message to Miqawqas- that was the title of the ruler in Egypt to speak to him- about Islam. Miqawqas was a Coptic Christian. Remember, in today's world right now there is an attempt to get some type of tension and some type of warfare going on in Egypt between Muslims and Christians. What did Hatib ibn Abi Balta'a say to the potentate of Egypt, Al Miqawqas? We quote and it is that you have a deen in reference to Christianity. You will not leave it or you will not abandon it your deen except for something which is better than it, which is Islam. Allah will compensate with something better which you may have relinquished if you decide to move from Christianity to Islam. We're paraphrasing and trying to breakdown the meaning for you- if your heart and your mind is convinced of this Islam in preference over your Christianity you'll be exchanging something good for something better. (Do) you realise in these words there's no conflict, there's no tension (and) there's no bad feelings? And the good news which Moses spoke of the coming of Jesus is like the good news that Jesus spoke of the coming of Muhammad (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon them and upon all Allah's Prophets). Remember Hatib ibn Abi Balta'a is still speaking to the ruler of Egypt, he said it is in the same manner that you call upon the people of the Torah to accept Christianity that we call upon you to accept Islam. There's no difference; meaning we are doing the same thing you are doing. Listen how moving this last sentence is (of) Hatib to Al Miqawqas is. We are not telling you to avoid the deen of the Messiah, we are ordering you to obey the deen of the Messiah. You don't sense in any of this any bad feelings, any confrontation, any incriminating words- nothing of that sort. As we have mentioned previously and we restate it here again because this information doesn't come easy; it's not available. You can't go back to textbooks and read about this. It's not taught in the formal educational systems but a hundred years after Allah's Prophet, of all the people who lived in Egypt and geographical Syria and Iran, of all those populations only about twenty percent of them were Muslim. I should think this factor alone should rest in your mind for a long time for you to think about it. Muslims were not there to impose or enforce Islam in the emotional and even in the mental realms of individuals or peoples. In the case of Egypt, (one of these places now where we have these trouble makers who are still behind the scenes planning their future troubles and mischief), around two-hundred years- to be precise a hundred-and-eighty-seven years after the hijrah seventy-seven percent of the people in Egypt became Muslim. Twenty-two percent were Christians and about one percent were Jews. This massive populous transformation was done by the conviction of peoples, communities (and) individuals themselves. It could be simply explained with so much contradiction in the internal context of the Christians themselves. The fact of the matter is the local or native people in these areas who were either Aramaic or Syriac or Coptic- but they were not Europeans, they were not Byzantines, they were not Greeks and they were not Hellenistic in their thinking; that Christianity, (as we said previously), when it went to Europe it was Europeanized. It wasn't Europe that was Christianised! So when this new Europeanised Christianity wanted to come back to these areas, now we had intellectual problems, philosophical disputes and internal Church conflicts in which those who had power in Europe from Europe began to persecute the Christians who were in God's good time to become Muslims through their own goodwill and freewill. This is part of who we are and this is attested to by scholars and researchers and orientalists who come from that context. Not only are Muslims speaking this, (if) you do your research on the subject you will see that the fair minded and objective researchers will tell you what is being said in this khutbah. (Is this) anything surprising? Waraqa ibn Nawfal, the Christian in Makkah who Khadijah (radi Allahu anha) the Prophet's wife upon receiving the first words from Allah took him to Waraqa ibn Nawfal

Read/Proclaim in the name of your Lord who created (Surah Alaq verse 1)

He knew from the unpolluted knowledge that he had that this is genuine, this is the word of God and the Heavens to humanity and he was positive.

Saying this brings up an important question and that is our internal character among ourselves, i.e. how we behave towards others is one issue (and) how we behave towards ourselves is another issue. One of these issues should never undermine the facts and the objectivity of the other issue. As all of this was unfolding in our interaction with "the world of the other" how were we behaving towards ourselves in that timeframe? We were at war with ourselves. This may have a positive meaning and it may have a negative meaning and it had both of these meanings included in it. The ayah in the Qur'an in Surah Al Hujurat

If there are two factions or two camps of Muslims who go to war against themselves, your duty is to reconcile them… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

The first thing we learn from this ayah is that it is possible that something like that will happen. It has happened, it is happening and it will continue to happen. The issue as far as we are concerned is are we going to learn from our history, are we going to learn from our mistakes, are we going to learn from our experience (and) are we going to learn from Allah and His Prophet? This is the immediate issue that concerns us. Some people who have their own imposed understandings would think Mu'minum, committed Muslims, internal fighting?! It may happen.

If two camps of committed Muslims come to military blows against each other then (Allah says) the popular sentiment… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

Allah is speaking right here not to the leaders of these two camps, He's speaking to the popular sentiment, the heart of Muslim population, the masses of Muslims

… your duty now is to reconcile the differences that brought them to the warfront… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

Now, in English, the internal fighting is done by the foot soldier- thousands (or) conceivable millions of people on both sides but the ayah doesn't say you reconcile the millions of peoples to themselves, because that's not possible. So the ayah didn't say fa aslihu baynahum. It said fa aslihu baynahuma. The reconciliation has to be between the leaders on both sides.

… but if one side decides to continue its transgression against the other side then all of you… (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

Now Allah's speaking to all of us

… become one force against the aggressive side. (Surah Al Hujurat verse 9)

Did this happen in our history? Yes, it happened. Will it happen in the future? Sure, it may happen. Let us end this portion of the khutbah by quoting Al Imam Ali (radi Allahu anhu) when the meanings of this ayah were exemplified at Siffin. He says we engage ourselves in the battlefield of Siffin. When he says we he is speaking about all the Muslims who were involved. He says our Sustainer is one and our Prophet is one and our expression of Islam as far as its objectives are concerned is one. This whole affair that we are all in is one except for the matter that has divided us pertaining to the blood of Uthman (radi Allahu anhu), (that's in reference to the assassination of the third successor to the Prophet), while we, (meaning the side of Ali), are innocent from the shedding of that blood. We didn't participate in that and we didn't go to war with the people of Ash Shaam because of the impressions of what these, (in reference to what became known in Islamic history as Al Khawarij), have on their mind pertaining to at takfir and the internal divisiveness of this deen. We only fought against them so that we may have them return to al jama'ah. Now this is a most used word- al jama'ah. They are as far as our deen is concerned our brothers. Our Qiblah is one. Our perspective is that we abide by the truth to the exception of them and I sincerely plead and hope that anyone of us or anyone of them whose heart is pure and dies in this affair that Allah will cause him to enter Al Jannah. You take these hadiths and these ayaat and you put them together and then you juxtapose them with what is happening today. Do we have to be more precise and say look at what is happening in Syria with the potential of it spreading to other places. Put all the images, the words (and) the impressions that come your way from the media besides these ayaat and these ahadith and then position yourselves. Are you with the schemes of takfir and taqtil (i.e) the accusations of kufr and the mechanations of warfare that are plotted and planned by the Mushrikeen and the Dhaalimeen of today and then implemented and executed by those who have Islamic images? Where do you belong in this- closer to Allah and His Prophet or closer to Washington and Tel Aviv?

Dear brothers, dear sisters, dear committed Muslims…

We think you all are aware that what we are seeing unfolding particularly in Bilad Ash Shaam is the tip of the iceberg. There is much more plans for shedding Muslim blood and unfortunately these plans dictate that Muslims do the shedding of their own blood. Right now these words Sunni and Shi'i are beginning to gain a life of their own. Only committed Muslims who are entrenched in reality are exempted from the sectarian spewing of what will lead to the fulfilment of the master Zionist Imperialist plan. Let us give you a demonstration of what we mean…

Some Muslims are hypersensitive. If that particular Muslim is a Sunni he is hypersensitive if you tell him "some other Muslim became a Shi'i" and you can look at it the other way around. Some Muslim who is a Shi'i is hypersensitive if he is told "a particular Muslim as a Shi'i became a Sunni." We don't know why that should be. If we honoured the freedoms that we lived up to pertaining to Christians and Jews, we can't honour that same freedom when it comes to we the Muslims?! Let us tell you of an observation we've realised through these years. In the Sunni parts of the world it is made difficult for a Shi'i Muslim to go and speak his mind and conscience about Islam. It's not an easy task- believe us. In some places if it is done with maturity and sincerity and brotherhood and love for the other it's not a problem but unfortunately most of the time it's not done like that; it's done to score against the other. It becomes difficult. We want to repeat this. It's difficult in many parts of the Muslim world for a person who is a Shi'i Muslim or who is a Muslim of the Shi'i persuasion to speak his mind and heart on the Qur'an and the Sunnah and things Islamic. In the Shi'i part of the Islamic world the difficulty is not in having a Sunni Muslim or a Muslim of the Sunni persuasion to go and speak his Muslim mind and heart on the Qur'an and Sunnah and things Islamic. The problem here is the Sunni literature its not made to circulate in the Shi'i populations. So on one side we have Sunnis who don't want Shi'i scholars and on the other side we have Shi'is who don't want Sunni books?! However way it manifests itself, this is something we have not out grown. A further illustration of this is a news article just a couple of days ago in Algeria- a Muslim country. Over ninety-five percent of the population is Muslim. Fifty Muslim Algerians every week are becoming Christians. If that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do- that's where their heart is. But why is it that Muslims don't show the same thoughts and feelings? This is a much more significant step. When a Muslim becomes a Christian it's not like a Sunni becoming a Shi'i or a Shi'i becoming a Sunni. The leap here is much further and this process takes years. The Churches that are in Algeria who are supervising this- in the past four years six-thousand Algerians became Christians- is the Catholic Church. There's a process of about four years to authenticate that that particular Algerian Muslim has become a Christian but this type of issue doesn't play. Why is it that when a Sunni Muslim becomes a Shi'i Muslim or a Shi'i Muslim becomes a Sunni Muslim that plays and it plays to the sensitivities and the negative feelings among Muslims but this other subject doesn't make it to the light of day? Once again, there's a master plan. You either open your eyes and see what's being planned or you do something else. This is not the time to go to sleep. It's not the time for us to close our eyes. Our body is bleeding however way you look at it and when we hurt and when we are in pain we should be wide awake.

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 2 November 2012 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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