Muslim Unite Sunni and Shia KHUTBAH : ALLEGIANCE

 

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Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem.

Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family.

Brothers and sisters in Islam…

Assalaamualaykum wa Rahmatu minhu wa Barakaatuh

 

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/videos/videos/show/14747812-allegiance-imam-asi-south-africa-1983 (00-00-1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se-VZBLUlzo

 

ALLEGIANCE

O you who have pledged yourselves to Allah, don't adopt or position yourselves in regards to Al Yahud and An Nasara as your allies or any position of alliance; proportions or segments of them (meaning Al Yahud wa An Nasara) are allies or in alliance to other proportion of them or segments of them are in alliance with other segments of them, and whoever from among you enters into alliance with them (meaning Al Yahud and An Nasara) becomes one of them… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

These ayaat from Surah Al Maa'idah speak to us about a concept that drifted away from our presence as Muslims throughout the centuries and throughout the years. This concept is one of leadership and authority. In one of the many narratives that Allah and His Apostle from the many narratives that we have described for us the nature and the characteristics and the idiosyncrasies of this leadership- on this occasion and in this Khutbah we will dwell on a particular part of this leadership, of authority and governance. This characteristic is taken from these ayaat. An address to alladheena aamanu- the description of iman and the title of alladheena aamanu with the new advent in that society that was formulated by the Prophet- (is) a word nowadays that is used to apply to any person who may claim "he belongs to iman to faith and to activity" but in reality and the truth of the matter is that this description is not as liberal as it is used nowadays. Alladheena aamanu is a special description that is only allocated to those people in whom iman has settled and flourished in their hearts and has been translated into actions and into deeds by the physical existence of those hearts. Listen to Allah as He is addressing to alladheena aamanu and as He is addressing all of those Muslims who merit the description of iman. Ya ayyuha alladheena aamanu- a word that does not need translation.

O you who have pledged yourselves to Allah, don't adopt or position yourselves in regards to Al Yahud and An Nasara as your allies or any position of alliance … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

The translations of the era of collapse, the translations of the generation of weakness wants us to understand that the word Awliya in this ayah means friends and hence people refer to the meaning of this ayah as Allah saying to alladheena aamanu to not befriend Al Yahud and An Nasara. Obviously a friendship is a contradiction to the spirit of the Qur'an and the guidelines of this divine order for it is permissible for the Muslims to marry Al Yahud or An Nasara; how can it not be permissible for them not to be friends with Al Yahud and An Nasara on an individual level? There is nothing wrong with being a friend of a Jew or a Christian. The events and the developments of the Seerah and the Sunnah indicate how the exemplar attitude, deportment and behavior of the Muslims in that early model of Islam caused Al Yahud/Christians and An Nasara/Jews to identify the qualities of Islam through the friendly relationships that Muslims as individuals had with Christians and Jews. So a friendship on a psychological level is not the intent of this ayah. Then the question is: what does the word Awliya' mean and what is prohibited? What is the prohibition envisaged in this ayah?

O you who have pledged yourselves to Allah, don't adopt or position yourselves in regards to Al Yahud and An Nasara as your allies or any position of alliance; proportions or segments of them (meaning Al Yahud wa An Nasara) are allies or in alliance to other proportion of them or segments of them are in alliance with other segments of them … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

This address is to the Muslims on the collective level not to ally themselves with Zionism and Imperialism, meaning do not be allies with Al Yahud and An Nasara politically (and) economically for Allah describes the nature of the alliance that evolves between and among them.

… segments, proportions, parties and Governments of them are allies one to each other… … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

We can see this in our present day and we can see this in the past throughout our history and with history and the contemporary situation that we have as milestones towards our future we can rest assured that they will be the allies of each other- Imperialism and Zionism against Islam- into the future until the blocs and the camps and the companies of Kufr seize to exist. Can we not see today, in the world that we are in, this alliance among and between the forces of Zionsim and Imperialism in this world (and) how they lock their interests together against the common interests of the Muslims throughout this world and in particular the Muslims who are the targets of these vicious policies- occupation, famine, usurpation, economic exploitation, and the rest of the strategies of Al Yahud and An Nasara who have rendered the Muslim Ummah as a free for all for this combined alliance of Al Yahud and An Nasara? So this address from Allah to the Muslims is a political statement.

O Muslims, O People of "faith and belief" be aware not to enter into any political agreements, into any political alliance, into any political subservience with Al Yahud and An Nasara… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

For Allah has said in the third sentence of this ayah   

… and whomever of you has allied himself, his authority, his political entity, his statesmanship with them (meaning Al Yahud/Zionism and An Nasara/Imperialism) becomes one of them… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

Al Yahud and An Nasara is a fixed and stable description of these two camps throughout history; contemporarily we refer to them as Zionists and Imperialists. This terminology that we refer to them by may change in another hundred or two-hundred years but the description is there to stay regardless of the camouflage that they use to hide behind. Their nature is one and Allah has exposed them. So he is saying to those who count themselves within the Ummah of the Prophet

… and whomever of you allies himself with them (Al Yahud and An Nasara) then he is considered one of them- he has departed from this Ummah of Muhammad, he has left this caravan of iman throughout the years and the centuries … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

He no longer belongs to this iman and this ideology and this faith of Islam. He has become one of them and this is not an opinion of a Mujtahid, this is not an opinion of a Scholar, this is not an opinion of a Faqih. This is the stated, revealed statement of Allah. Hence, very confident as Muslims who are related to this revelation from Allah we can rest assured that these Politicians and these Diplomats who purportedly represent different areas in the Muslim homeland do not belong to Islam, do not belong to the Ummah of Islam, do not belong to the revealed ideology and "religion" of Allah for Allah, and not any human being, has drawn that line and that definition for those who deserve to be called the followers of Muhammad and those who have lost that description. According to this ayah, as we look around and probe the conditions of the Muslims, their political structures, the policies that are formulated for them in their land, we find that the Presidents and the kings, the Monarchs and the Rulers throughout our lands- with one exception all the rest have stricken many alliances, not one, with Al Yahud and An Nasara. And because they have done so, it is their policies, their decisions, their acts that count and not their verbiage and not their propaganda and not what their media says that counts. Being that this is the case, the contemporary issue of the Muslim in our days should not hesitate as obedient servants of Allah or have any reservations about expelling this class of Rulers from our midst because Allah has weeded them out from among us and has grouped them with our historical enemies Al Yahud and An Nasara.  

… for Allah will not guide Al Qawm Adh Dhalimeen. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 51)

Unfortunately we do have among the Muslims who are lacking in understanding of this fact and they continue to ask themselves "why is it that if we are the Muslim Ummah that we are the victims of international policies of Imperialism and Zionism? Why is it when Allah describes us as the best Ummah?"  The answer comes from the ayah itself.

… there has to be an amr bi al ma'ruf and a nahi an al munkar  … (Surah Aal Imran verse 110)   

But do we see this amr bi al ma'ruf and this nahi an al munkar? What can be a more ignonamous munkar than have the authorities who are controlling our lives formulate our policies and our decisions in conjunction with the Kuffaar and the Mushrikin and Yahud and Nasara- Imperialism and Zionism? This is the grand munkar that is responsible for the sad state of affairs of the Muslims and the Muslims are not standing up as one body to combat this cancerous munkar that is eroding the very existence of Islam throughout the Muslim Ummah. When the Prophet says O People- Allah says to you engage yourself in the act of al amr bi al ma'ruf and an nahi an al munkar before such a time arrives when you will ask Me and I will not answer you; Allah is saying O Muslims- al amr bi al ma'ruf and an nahi an al munkar when you will ask Me and plead with me and I will not answer you; you will want Me to give you some things and I will not be forthcoming; you will want Me to grant you victory and triumph and I will cease to grant you victory and triumph. Isn't this the condition of the past generations, of the past years of the Muslims? A closer look at the purpose and the reason for this condition (and) we find the absence of a leadership that listens to Allah and obeys him very devoutly. The leadership that has been usurped by the enemies of Islam in a long historical process that has rendered the rest of the Muslims today without any Islamic leadership except for the Islamic leadership that has emerged in the past few years only to be the target of the combined forces of Kufr in this world all put together which only credits this leadership and testifies to it's originality and to it's authenticity. Then Allah goes on to describe the present day usurpers of power who are in control of the political decisions and the economic policies of the grand munkar under which the Muslims are labouring today.

… these defeated/inferior Muslims say "we're afraid that things are doing to turn against us"… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 52)

What does this leadership that has usurped the authority and the power from the consensus of the Muslim body say if it is confronted by an independent stature and stand that it has to take vis a vis world Imperialism and Zionism? When it is exposed to the ideology of Islam and to the reasoning and logic of Islam, what does it say?

… "we're afraid that we will be inflicted by mis-haps and reversals"… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 52)

These usurpers of the consensus of the Muslims, these usurpers of the power of the Muslims, these usurpers of the authority of Islam have more confidence in Zionism and Imperialism than they have in Allah for they have exposed themselves. 

… "we are afraid that if we take the independent stand away from Zionism and Imperialism we will be inflicted reversals in our strategy"… (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 52)

The same words we here today, not only from this leadership, but from the proxies of these leaderships (i.e.) people who where the amamah and the jubbah, people who talk from the Mimbar of Rasulillah week-in-and-week-out say "they are afraid that if Islam takes an independent in this world they will be inflicted with reversals and with mishaps." Allah has described them for us.

… may it not be that Allah may afford to grant them victory and triumph and a conquering policy against the combined forces of their contemporary and historical enemies and foes … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 52)

Is it not possible for Allah to do so? Yes it is, but only for those people whose iman in Allah is unshakeable. But this leadership has a very flimsy iman indeed, if it has any iman at all, because it fears the powers of Imperialism and Zionism and does not fear the power of Allah. It fears that it will be reversed and put into a process of retreat if it wants to be independent and rely upon Allah and Allah alone but it does not fear reversals and retreats when it relies upon the power of the concoction of Zionism and Imperialism and their agents wherever they are.

… when this victory comes from Allah and they are exposed to the public opinion then they say "they were sorry for their clandestine and for their covert operations against the Muslims, against those who struggled in the path of Allah. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 52)

 

When they were confronted by obstacles and hardships it only reinforced their iman. In another ayah Allah describes this vanguard of Islamic activity and jihad.

When Muslims are confronted with seemingly overwhelming odds it only reinforces their iman, their confidence and their reliance upon Allah and they say Allah is sufficient for us and He is the best disposer of affairs. (Surah Aal Imran verse 173)

Then what happens after those excruciating moments in life?

The obstacles turn into rewards... (Surah Aal Imran verse 174)

This fear- that translates into policies by the regimes throughout the Muslim ummah and their fifth columnists wherever they are- its importance is with Ash Shaytaan who displaces the source of fear and the source of hope in their hearts and that translates into the policies and the decisions and the alliances that they have with Yahud and Nasara, with Zionism and Imperialism. (Surah Aal Imran verse 175)

 

And then Alladhina Aamanu, (those who were addressed at the beginning of this ayah), look at all of this affair and sarcastically ask are these politicians- these so-called Muslims- the ones that in the most solemnest of ways said that they belonged to the Muslim ummah, to the activity of Muslims? … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 53)

They exhausted all their vocabulary politically, journalistically, in the media; everywhere they go they used to exhaust themselves to portray themselves as if they were the champions of Islam, they said to you in no uncertain terms that they are with you and of you and from you; for your courses, for your interests, for your future- Islamically, economically, politically.  

… their policies, their instructions have failed and they have lost in this confrontation. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 53)

 

All of you who belong to the house of iman, whoever renounces his deen by an act of allying himself politically, economically and all of those who are encompassed in that political and economic act … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 54)

This amounts to renouncing Islam even though Islam may be a word that you masticate with your tongue thousands of times a day but your act testifies to the abortion of Islam, to the assassination of Islam, to the annulment of Islam.

… then Allah will bring forth people that He loves and love Him … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 54)

How are they described? What does the love of Allah mean?

… they are very meek and humble towards their brothers and sisters in iman but they are very forceful and belligerent against the Kuffaar and the Mushrikin … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 54)

This is what loving Allah means.

… they wage war for the cause of Allah, in the course of Allah; once they are embarked on this course they are not afraid of anyone who is trying to undermine their drive by waning or by offending them … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 54)

These ayaat- brothers and sisters in Islam- go on and the ahadith culture these ayaat with explanations and with guidelines. It would behove us here to look at our affairs as Muslims and to acknowledge that quantity is not a factor in this progression towards Allah. Allah says

… many a time a group whose number is limited has been successful and triumphant over a group with abundant numbers with the permission of Allah … (Surah Al Baqarah verse 249)

This spirit and motivation of Islam that is present here as is present in Washington DC as it is present in many other parts of the Muslim ummah and in many other areas in the Muslim world has to go through a process in which Allah cultivates it. Do not be weakened by the fact that there are many other Muslims out there who are not participating in this Jum'ah prayer. It would have been worse for those Muslims who are outside to come and to participate and intermingle within the culturing process and then when the time comes for trials and for tribulations and when Allah wants to test the quality of the iman here those elements who were within these ranks and files begin to cause the whole operation to disintegrate. It is the blessing of Allah that by acts such as this- acts of confronting the Taghut- that the leadership of the Muslims begins to formulate; a leadership that is confident and relies upon Allah, that is meek and humble towards the Mu'mins and that is forceful and belligerent towards the Kafirs. This is the only way a Muslim leadership can come into existence. A Muslim leadership never grew out of libraries or bookstores; it grew out of the battlefields and being combatants for the cause of Allah. Allah in this ayah is telling us

… the mobilising of the Muslims is a way to accomplish and acquire fiqh regarding this deen … (Surah At Tawbah verse 122)

Brothers and sisters in Islam- this is only the beginning of a process by which all the Muslims in this world are day-after-day increasing their confidence and their reliance upon Allah. There is no media report the growing momentum of Islam here in South Africa to the other Muslims around the world. There is no media effort to report for the Muslims the other grass-root efforts that are increasing everywhere else in this world but this momentum has begun and a worldwide leadership for the Muslims has also begun and this leadership is forced to wage war against the combined forces of Yahud and Nasara in front of the eyes and the ears and the senses of the rest of the Muslims of this world so that they may take a stand for or against Islam, for the cause of Allah or against  the cause of Allah. This will be the process of this indigenous Islam here in addition to the Islamic State and the rest of the grass-roots movements in this world that will constitute a hujjah against the other Muslims who are going to be watching or acting as bystanders for Allah sees and knows the intimates of their hearts and He will cause them to account for their stand for or against Islam wherever they are. The Prophet of Allah says the best leaders you have are the ones who you like/love (and) they like/love you; you grace them and they grace you; and the worst leaders that you have are the ones that you hate and they hate you and you curse/condemn (them) and they curse/ condemn you.

 

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi in 1983 in South Africa. 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 : STRUGGLE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEERAH PART 6

 

THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (20 January 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 …

 

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/188614 (01-13-2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8QcVbIcbw

 

STRUGGLE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEERAH PART 6

We follow in the footsteps of Allah's Prophet as he teaches us and all generations how to socially and politically and militarily behave but some Muslims display an attitude and a behavior even though they confess with their tongues and with their words their dedication to Allah's Prophet but when it comes to their actions and their policies they act in a different manner. We followed Allah's Prophet as he was moving in on Makkah. He was expelled from Makkah under a death threat. He went to Yathrib which became his Madinah and during seven and eight years the legitimacy of Islam began to nibble at the illegitimacy of the Mushriks. And finally we spoke about, (what we called), Umrah Al Hudaybiyah and Umrah Al Qada'. One of the stipulations of the Hudaybiyah agreement was Muslims will be permitted the following year to go to Makkah or to come to Makkah to perform their Umrah. Now we take a closer look at what happened when the Muslims now were performing their Umrah in Makkah.

 

First of all we noticed that the popularity and the official status of Quraysh and its legitimacy now were no longer what they were in all of the years before. There was an erosion of the Mushrik or the Qurayshi control and the legitimacy over Makkah and over other parts of Arabia. So now that the Muslims were given three days according to the Articles in Al Hudaybiyah to perform their Umrah in Makkah they entered Makkah and we said that the heads of the Mushriks could not tolerate this. They were fighting the Prophet verbally, socially, economically, politically, militarily for the past seventeen or eighteen years. Now the Prophet with two-thousand Muslims entered Makkah and not only entered Makkah but are also performing their tawaf around the Ka'bah. The Mushrik heads could not tolerate this so they withdrew from Makkah and went out to the surrounding higher elevations, to the hills around Makkah and watched the Muslims as they were inside of Makkah. The Prophet at this time ordered Bilal (radi Allahu anhu) to ascend the Ka'bah and to begin to express the adhan from the Ka'bah. Brothers and committed Muslims- you're going to have to visualize this in all of its psychological and social variables these two sides which were at war for all of these years one side, which was the Prophet and the Muslims, having a person like Bilal who was a slave in the dispensation of Quraysh, in the territory of Quraysh. Just seventeen or eighteen years ago he was tortured by Quraysh and was going to die because of their torture (and) now they look at this person and they see that he is standing on the Ka'bah and he is saying the adhan. When they saw this there were couple of individuals who couldn't control themselves. They had to express what was inside of them so Ikrama ibn Abi Jahl said, (which means), Allah has honored Aba Al Hakam- that's the nick name of his father Abu Jahl- now his son is saying Allah has honored my father because my father now cannot listen, cannot hear what this person is saying, (this is in reference to Bilal when he was vocalizing when he was publicizing the adhan). Safwan ibn Umayyah said the same thing. Suhayl ibn Amr, this is the person who was writing (or) was participating in drafting the agreement of Al Hudaybiyah, put his hands over his face because he didn't want (or) he couldn't believe his eyes (and) what is transpiring in front of him. The feelings and emotions that were circulating in the psychologies of these officials and these elites were feelings of what we call today racism and nationalism and classism and all of these other feelings that come to the fore when people at that high materialistic rank in society look at those who were slaves, those who were oppressed and now they see that they have gained status in this new coming of Islam. The Mushriks had to watch two-thousand Muslims now who were going around the Ka'bah and the Prophet leading them in prayer, in as salah. These three days to these Mushriks seemed like they were a life time; they would not end! Remember Al Hudaybiyah did not stipulate, it didn't say, there's nothing in the agreement of Al Hudaybiyah that these Mushriks had to leave Makkah but they left because they could not bear being side-to-side with Muslims now who are a new community that has come of age and now because of the power factor it has gained this popularity in the Arabian Peninsula. So the Muhajirun who were expelled from Makkah were going back to their own homes, to their own neighborhoods, visiting their relatives and they were doing this in security. There were no threats. Why? Because Quraysh now felt the power presence of the committed Muslims. After these three days were over Suhayl ibn Amr- the same person who was communicating with the Muslims when they were writing the Hudaybiyah agreement- came up to the Prophet and he said to him your time is over now. The three days that we agreed upon in Al Hudaybiyah have lapsed now you can leave. It just happened that the Prophet of Allah had proposed to the aunt of Khalid ibn Al Waleed and was going to marry her. He wanted to marry her in Makkah so he told, he asked, he wanted to invited the residents of Makkah, the decision makers in Makkah over to what we call today a banquet, a good amount of food that is attended by a good amount of people and then to attend also "the Prophet's wedding." This same guy tells Allah's Prophet we have no need for your food or for your festivity. Now brothers and committed Muslims, (we want to mention here something very important because many people read this); there are books on Seerah, this information is present here and there at least for us who try to polish the information that we have. Now you can read this and just go by it with out understanding the significance of it. The Prophet of Allah wanted to psychologically conquer these people in Makkah. Had they had accepted this gift, (i.e.) the Prophet's wedding and his invitation to have food together they would have psychologically signed off their defeat, but they refused because they didn't want to psychologically cave in to Allah's Prophet. This would have amounted to the liberation of Makkah via a banquet and a wedding and they weren't about to tolerate that so he told him you can leave. In this atmosphere we read Allah's words (at) the beginning of Surah Al Fath.

We have indeed given you a manifest victory. (Surah Al Fath verse 1)

(You) see, when some people read these ayaat they immediately think about a military victory that the Prophet of Allah and the committed Muslims with him achieved against the Mushriks of Makkah. Even though that is partially correct, it is not exhaustively correct because the military victory was pending. It needed another year-and-a-half to two years to take place. When these ayaat were revealed in this context, this fath mubeena was meant to display for us the social breakthrough that Allah's Prophet scored against the population and Mushriks of his first enemies in Makkah. In the other ayah in the same surah- Surah Al Fath, ayah number twenty-seven- Allah says in this context

Allah has authenticated his vision to His Prophet by facts and by the truth of the matter… (Surah Al Fath verse 27)

What was this vision about?

… you will of a certainty enter Al Masjid Al Haram in a state of security, without any fear… (Surah Al Fath verse 27)

Then Allah says to them- because you have to recall here how they were thinking about the agreement of Al Hudaybiyah between the Mushriks and the Muslims. The Muslims were thinking- wait a minute here, we have capitulated. In a sense we have surrendered to the power of Makkah. The Prophet of Allah was trying to teach them and to teach us that if you are socially above your enemy (i.e.) if you have defeated your enemy in a social sense and then you are on your way to defeat them in a psychological sense that means that the military defeat is just a matter of time. This is the lesson that has to be learned from this because you hear this and we've been hearing this on many occasions in the past years. Whenever Muslims want to sign some type of surrender which they may call a peace agreement or a non-belligerency agreement or a bilateral agreement of understanding, whatever, and all of a sudden you have people who are in religious garb quoting to the Muslim public what happened at Al Hudaybiyah. There's no resemblance (and) there are no parallels between what happened at Al Hudaybiyah and what is happening in today's world by those who are apologetic and those who are higherlings of Governments and Officialdom. After Al Hudaybiyah (and) before Makkah was liberated, meaning what happened in the time-span between two and three years between the beginnings of Al Hudaybiyah and the liberation of Makkah. Yemen was won over to the Muslims. Yemen became an Islamic territory. Areas to the South of Makkah became an Islamic domain. Areas to the East and South-East of Makkah became part of the Islamic order in Arabia. There was a correspondence between the Prophet of Allah and the ruler of Bahrain, the Prophet of Allah wrote, (what we call in today's average or pedestrian language), a letter to the person who rules in Bahrain. As a consequence of that the ruler and the people of Bahrain became Muslims. The same can be said about Oman. It was just a matter of contact between Muslims and the people living in this area and they became Muslims. Inside of Makkah some of these well known enemies of the Prophet and the Muslims up until now became Muslims. Khalid ibn Al Waleed who was like the Minister of Defense or the Minister of war became a Muslim after these events of Al Hudaybiyah. Another person, Amr ibn Al Aas, who was dispatched by the Mushriks of Makkah to speak to An Najashi in Africa to hand over the Muslims to Makkah. This person during this time became a Muslim. Uthman ibn Talha, who you may call the Guard of the Ka'bah, also became a Muslim. So what do we have now? Makkah is still under the control of the Mushriks. The Muslims went there for their Umrah called Umrah Al Qada' but Makkah is now not under Islamic control. On the way back, the Muslims were returning from Makkah to Al Madinah, the Prophet of Allah heard some Muslims saying but we still think the Mushriks had the upper hand in all of this. Remember all of these details unfolding in front of their eyes which was an obvious social breakthrough into Makkah; it wasn't a military victory, but some Muslims felt that they, in one sense or the other have been shafted, (so to speak). They said we have been blocked from Al Bayt because they thought to themselves three days! What is this? We can't we have access to Makkah and to Al Bayt all the time. Three days! This means the Mushriks still have the upper hand. And we wanted to take the camels and the sheep and whatever livestock there is to perform the sacrifice there but still se were only given three days. So what does this mean? To them it meant that still they are the underdogs, (so to speak), in all of this. The Prophet of Allah responded to them saying, (and we quote)… You see, we were not in the middle of those events. We didn't live Al Hudaybiyah, we didn't go to Umrah Al Qada', we were not there present in Makkah. All of this didn't affect us. We are reading about this and trying to understand it with a distance of a thousand-and-four-hundred years or so but even people who were in the thick of all of this needed Allah's Prophet to summarize all of this for them. What did he say to them when they still thought they were the underdogs in all of this? They still didn't have the weight and the status that Allah's Prophet was confident of. He said to them what you are saying is awfully incorrect. What we've just gone through, (this past year from Umrah Al Hudaybiyah to Umrah Al Qada') is the most significant breakthrough. Why? The Prophet explains it. The Mushriks now are satisfied with having you stay your distance away from your country or their city-state, Makkah, and their territories because it was done not by war. Before they had this honcho attitude. They had this powerful image that they confront you, now they are satisfied with writing an agreement with their own hands, (so to speak), with the hand of a pen and not with the hand of a pen. This is a transition. This is an improvement. This is a success; the Prophet of Allah's trying to explain to them. Now they come to you asking you. Al Hudaybiyah was what? Al Hudaybiyah was a meeting of two sides in which each side was asking the other side what are the terms we are going to agree to. Before this, Quraysh in Makkah didn't have this attitude towards the Muslims. They didn't want to ask them how can we solve this issue that we have between us. Now, they've come down. Quraysh and the Mushriks and Makkah have climbed down from their power status to speaking to you to find a solution. Now they desire that you reach an agreement of security with them. Before Quraysh were so swollen headed with power that they would not consider the Muslims, especially when it came to their security. Now, they had to sign-off or sign on to an agreement with the Muslims concerning their own security. They've seen of you something they dislike. Their presence in Makkah in those three days irritated them. Therefore Allah has given you a sense of victory over them. You've returned with no casualties. None of you have died in war or in conflicts as these events are unfolding. You've gone back home with the rewards that come along with this from Allah. This amounts to the most significant, the most important, the most monumental breakthrough there is. Then the Prophet reminds them have you forgotten the day of Uhud? Remember, this is one of the most troublesome and most bloodiest day in the twenty-three year history of the Prophet's lifetime of commitment. When the ayah in Surah Aal Imran and other ayaat of the Qur'an speak about how the Muslims were facing off against Quraysh at Uhud. The ayah says

Here you, the committed Muslims, are in the middle of Uhud when these Mushriks from Makkah are behaving the way they have been and when they were pursuing you with their arms and with their army you were abandoning your positions, you were running away, you were fleeing the battleground and you were not waiting for anyone; you were not even looking left or right, you were just escaping… (Surah Aal Imran verse 153)

That's who you were just five or six years ago and that's who you are today. And then He said

… and you forgot the day of Yawm Al Ahzaab in which the Mushriks came and laid siege to Al Madinah; the confederate forces of Arabia came at you from positions that are at higher altitudes and from positions that are at lower altitudes… (Surah Al Ahzab verse 10)

In other words they came to besiege Al Madinah from all positions conceivable. When the Muslims listened to this, then they realized what had happened. They realized the position of power that they are in compared to the position of power that the Mushriks have descended into. In other words, the Muslims at this moment after closely listening to Allah's Prophet realized that they were in an ascending order and the Mushriks of Makkah were in a descending order. So sometimes even when people are involved- Allah's Prophet is speaking to committed Muslims who were living these events- and even though they were living and sacrificing, some of them dying and losing their limbs and their families and their positions, they could not visualize the success that has gone into these years of struggle and of sacrifice until Allah's Prophet brought it to their attention. So now we had what amounts to an official recognition of Islam. Now Quraysh officially recognized the Islamic social and political order in Arabia. It was no longer now a crime to be a Muslim. Before, Quraysh used to consider anyone becoming a Muslim to be equivalent to a criminal who is wanted by law. They turn the legal system against a person who wants to become a committed Muslim. That no longer is the case right now because the Muslims now have come a long way. What happened also, (which we think should be mentioned and is important), is that there were other people in Arabia who were either slaves of criminals. The criminals and the slaves both were in the custody or the ownership of certain tribes. When Islam reached this level of power and was on its way to liberating Makkah physically and militarily (i.e.) liberating Makkah physically and militarily was just a matter of a year or two. Remember, most other areas in Arabia became Islamic. You think about that for a moment, (please don't let your mind race ahead). The Prophet of Allah who was born and raised in Makkah began this Islamic mission in Makkah and Makkah was virtually the last place to become Islamic in all of Arabia; not all of Arabia became an Islamic domain (but) virtually all of Arabia became an Islamic domain, an Islamic country and as it was becoming an Islamic country there were tribes… Because we're speaking about a time period of a couple of years- Umrah Al Hudaybiyah, Umrah Al Qada'; during this time period many tribes and many people were coming to Al Madinah and to the Prophet and saying now we are Muslims. Now we want to become part of you. We owe our allegiance to Allah and to you: O Messenger of Allah. So Makkah now became an isolated pocket. The Prophet of Allah went to Makkah in Umrah Al Qada' two years before the end of his mission with two-thousand Muslims. When he went to liberate Makkah he went with ten-thousand Muslims. In the matter of two years there was an acceptance of this Islamic reality by the people in Arabia. Some of these people, (as we said), were slaves and others were criminals and they also wanted to become Muslims so when a certain group of them came to the Prophet of Allah and wanted to express their willingness and their adherence to Allah and His Prophet he said to them whoever from these two categories of people of either the slaves- there were slaves in pre-Islamic Arabia- or if they were criminals agreed to an allegiance with Allah and His Prophet and they became part of iqamah as salah…- which is a social effort of socializing as salah. As Salah is not only meant to be a personal, private communication with Allah. Aqamu as salah is when you are in social communication with Allah (and) when as salah becomes a social value in life, in society- … and so is the case with az zakah… Aatawu az zakah is a system of purifying the circulation of money in society. (and) there's no longer a slave-master and there's no longer a warden in the prison. The Prophet of Allah is now in-charge, and anyone from these two categories of people (i.e.) slaves and criminals in Arabia who came with an open heart and commitment to Allah and His Prophet shall not be forced back to those who owned them, (in a sense). Whatever was due on them because of a crime- someone killed someone else or someone took money or possessions from someone else- is no longer is the case. It becomes now their right to become absolved of that. This is important- brothers and sisters- if we come to an Islamic society. If there is a transition from a jahili society to an Islamic society there is a legal precedent right here- criminals are free, those who are in bondage are free. Can this civilization match these legal precedents of Islam? Of course not. You can see what they are doing today. Makkah was liberated socially; Makkah was liberated militarily but Makkah was never liberated psychologically. Even up until this day, Makkah needs a psychological liberation. That is not going to be understood by those who misunderstand Allah's Prophet, his policies, his strategies and his struggle.

 

Brothers, committed Muslims…

Not many Muslims bring the actions and the struggle of Allah's Prophet into their lifetime. When we speak about Makkah, we're not speaking about some historical city that now longer exists on the map. It is a city to which all of us during our prayers we orient and we direct ourselves to it. The Ka'bah is there. That liberation of Makkah by Allah's Prophet took a much more sincere and in-depth understanding of what Allah says to mankind as represented by Allah's Prophet. How alien it has become to speak in these terms to today's Muslims. If you come and tell today's Muslims Makkah is not liberated they come and say "what are you talking about?! All the people who live in Makkah are Muslims." Yes, and all the people who were living in Makkah at that time were followers of Ibrahim (alayhi as salaam). You could not follow any Mushrik and tell him you are not following Ibrahim or Isma'eel (alayhima as salaam). That's what they thought they were doing just like today's Muslims think they are following Muhammad. You can't argue with them because this is engrained in their culture, it is engrained in their families, in their education, in every particle in them- that's what they believe (i.e.) they are followers of Allah's Prophet. But what they believe is one thing and the facts on the ground is something else. Makkah right now doesn't belong to Muslims! Just today you have one of these Prime Ministers visiting that land. The British Prime Minister goes over there and the king and his royal family sack one of their own (i.e.) the person who is the head of Al Amr bi Al Ma'ruf wa An Nahi an Al Munkar has been fired. What is this? A token of loyalty to the Kafirs in the West? Explain this to us? Of course, this will not play in the media, it will not play because they don't want your mind to focus and to concentrate on issues like this. The Arabian Peninsula and that whole territory that we are speaking about during the time of Allah's Prophet. Didn't we mention Al Yemen? Didn't we mention Bahrain? Didn't we mention Oman? Didn't we mention other parts of Arabia? Who's in control of them now? Ask yourself- are they Mushrik compatible rulers or are they rulers who are ruling according to Allah and His Prophet? Of course, especially in Saudi Arabia, when it comes to the criminal code in that country they apply these penalties to those who broke the law who belong to the lower classes. They don't apply their own laws (i.e.) the penal code (or) the criminal code in their own kingdom to those who are stealing the wealth of the Muslims. "Oh No! You can't apply this! Don't think about them?!" They don't want Muslims to think this way. A petty thief who comes from Pakistan or Bangladesh or some African country and he probably stole what he stole because he wants to live or make a living for his family- just in this past week a father from Saudi Arabia goes online and wants to sell one of his children for money to support his family. This is not a joke, this is real! So are these people who are in control to Makkah that we are speaking about closer to the Mushriks that we are speaking about in the Seerah of Allah's Prophet or are they closer to the committed Muslims who we are speaking about in the Seerah of Allah's Prophet? All you have to do is understand what Allah's Prophet was doing. We ask once again- for you to think- when Allah's Prophet finally militarily and physically liberate Makkah, why did the seat of power, the Government of the Muslims reside in Al Madinah? Why didn't the Prophet go to Makkah? He spent all of his lifetime to liberate Makkah and finally when it was militarily and socially liberated he did not move back to Makkah, nor did his successors move back to Makkah. Why? Is this question to remain unanswered? Are we to remain empty-headed without information that can answer this question? It's a matter of history. It's a matter of fact. From the time of Allah's Prophet till today, Muslims never had, (of course we're bringing it into the vocabulary of today's language), their capital in Makkah where-by it belongs in Makkah. This (should) also explain to some Muslims who see that after the Prophet passed away why didn't the successorship to Allah's Prophet go to the Imams after him? The same answer. The reason why the successorship to Allah's Prophet did not go to the Imams after him is the same reason why the capital of the Muslims during Allah's Prophet's time when he liberated Makkah was not placed in Makkah. But who's going to understand this? Only people who think!

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 13 January 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 : STRUGGLE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEERAH PART 5

 

THE STREET MIMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (13 January 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/186142 (01-06-2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxloUu5qJDI

 

STRUGGLE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEERAH PART 5

We are living in developing times. We try our best to address (or) to speak to and to speak of these developments through our understanding of Allah and His Prophet. We have been, (in the past khutbahs), taking a closer look at some details that have been pushed aside through the pressures of tradition and monotony. We will try to continue on this course (to) relate those times with these times. We spoke in the last khutbah about what we call umrah Al Hudaybiyah. The Umrah that preceded which many Muslims are at least technically familiar with what is called Al Hudaybiyah. We said that around one-thousand-and-four-hundred Muslims went out from Al Madinah to Makkah in a peaceful, nonbelligerent manner. We also said that the history of Allah's Prophet before that was a history of civil protests or civil disobedience. This does not come through to the average Muslim of our time. It doesn't appear that Allah's Prophet is a person of civil disobedience. So something is wrong with our reading of his history and our interpretation of his Sunnah if he is not presented with the character of a person who is commanding and is formulating a public and a social movement of disobedience. Something is wrong! This is what's happening in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Masajid around the world in our generation.

 

We mentioned the agreements of Hudaybiyah which we summarized in four issues. One of them was that the Muslims now have agreed with the Mushriks- Al Madinah agreed with Makkah that there is going to be a period of ten years of non-belligerence, no wars, no battles, no bloodshed. One of the other Articles of Hudaybiyah is the tribes, the power configurations of Arabia are free to enter into agreements. No restrictions, no bullying. They now have the freedom to choose whether they want to be with a descending Makkah or an ascending Madinah. Another Article in this agreement was whoever leaves Quraysh or Makkah and goes to the Prophet is to be returned to Makkah and whoever leaves Al Madinah and the Prophet and goes to Makkah is not required to be returned to Al Madinah. Some people just look at some of these Articles and they just stop there! They don't see the overall context (and) the background that led to this (and) the movement in which this happened. They just take this out of context and they say, (more or less), "look- we Muslims are peaceful people. We are so peaceful that we can sign a Camp David or we can sign some other document that spells injustice." Muslims cannot be a party to injustice officially or in a popular sense! It cannot happen it cannot happen. It never happened! We don't have one example of it from the Prophet's life. A year after what we called Umrah Al Hudaybiyah- in fulfillment of another Article of Al Hudaybiyah- which was the Muslims wanted just to perform the Umrah. They were going to Makkah just to move around the Ka'bah but when they sat down and signed this agreement of Al Hudaybiyah the Mushriks of Makkah imposed a condition telling the Muslims you go back. We are not going to permit you into Makkah but the following year, meaning the year to come, you may come and perform your umrah. So here they are a year later and the Muslims are once again without declaring any war- because that was part of the agreement, ten years no war. So now here they are returning. Last year their number was around one-thousand-four-hundred this year the number is around two-thousand and the Muslims were moving towards Makkah. The Prophet of Allah this time he had one-hundred mounted knights travelling with or part of these two-thousand Muslims travelling on their way to Makkah. He also had the Muslims armed with their personal weapons. Like we said previously, the culture of that area of the world is you're armed. There's no such thing as "gun control" as it is called today. Everyone is armed. So with they didn't go to Makkah with what we call today heavy weaponry. They didn't go because they were planning a war. The way they went was in a defensive position. Sometimes when the word defensive is used in Islamic presentations or Islamic literature it's an apologetic word. The Muslims did not go in Makkah in an apologetic mode; they went preparing for the worst. They honor their word but they can't guarantee that the Mushriks or their enemy's are going to honor their word. So they proceeded to Makkah. What happened here? As the Muslims were approaching in this form (and) in this configuration Makkah what happened? What happened here is very descriptive of the power relationship between what used to be an arrogant, overweening Quraysh and now a more humbled and a more down-to-earth Quraysh. They saw (and) they heard all of this so they felt threatened. Quraysh, Makkah, the Mushriks felt threatened even though the Muslims are not in any war here. They're just moving to fulfill the agreement of last year- we are coming to the Umrah, we're coming to this tawaaf around the Ka'bah. So Quraysh now feeling intimidated, even though the Muslims objective is not to intimidate, sent one of their emissaries to the Prophet to try to figure out whether the Prophet is going to militarily take on Makkah. Because these people have treason and treachery flowing in their veins they think also the Muslims and the Prophet have treason and treachery flowing in their veins so they sent this emissary- let's talk. What's the purpose? Why are you coming here? There's one-hundred people here now who are mounted. The Prophet said to them, (and we quote), I don't know that I've treated anyone who is a senior or a junior except through trust and fulfillment of my word. This is in reference to last year's Hudaybiyah- ten years of non-belligerence. I'm a person of my word he is saying in his own words. The Prophet is still speaking to this Emissary- it's not my intention to budge into their society with my weapons but as a matter of precaution I have these weapons within reach. That's how he explained what appeared to Quraysh to be a preparation for a military clash. What happens now? This person goes back to Quraysh and assures them- Muhammad tells me that he has come in a peaceful journey to Makkah. The Mushriks of Makkah now leave Makkah. Not all the population of Makkah left Makkah but these leaders and decision makers and officials who were responsible for the past almost twenty years of a war against the Prophet themselves take to the hills around Makkah. For three days they permit the Muslims- two-thousand strong- to enter Makkah and go around the Ka'bah performing their tawaaf. Remember, just a few years ago- it was only seven years ago that the Muslims were wanted dead or alive. A decision was made by these same leaders, who are now in the mountains fearing the Muslims (and) watching them inside of Makkah, to assassinate Allah's Prophet. Now things have changed. Reading this integral and central part of our history we understand this to be, (what is called today), minus all the filth that goes with the word), a political movement. This Umrah Al Qadha' which followed Umrah Al Hudaybiyah is considered a political movement. Why? Because Allah's Prophet wanted to make it clear to public opinion in Makkah and all other public opinions around Makkah that Islam has become legitimate. It's no longer a crime, like it was in previous years, to be a Muslim. Now, the Muslims go around the Ka'bah. Are they doing this in today's religious sense of the word? The Ka'bah had three-hundred-and-sixty idols in it and the Muslims were performing tawaaf around three-hundred-and-sixty idols. With the way today's mind thinks, is this a religious Umrah? If this is a religious Umrah, why are Muslims performing their tawaaf when there are three-hundred-and-sixty idols in the Ka'bah?! Remember, we are not here yet at the time when Muslims enter Makkah and liberate it. Makkah is still under the control of the Mushriks and the Muslims have gone now to the Ka'bah and made their tawaaf when the Ka'bah is still in the image of the Mushriks, controlled by the Mushriks, adorned by these idols as per the Mushriks. Think- Muslims- of Allah's Prophet and what he was doing; understand what was being done. At this point it appears that Quraysh was not honoring the agreement of Hudaybiyah because it was faithful to it's word; it was honoring the stipulations of Hudaybiyah because it was fearful of the Muslims. This was change in the power configuration in Arabia. We want you to pay close attention to this- sisters and brothers- when the Muslims performed this Umrah they performed it to reflect or to project an image of strength and might. Why do we say this? What makes us say this? When the Muslims performed that Umrah as per the Prophet's instructions they took that white cloth- remember, today when you Muslims go to Makkah this is a lost detail in history but we want you to be conscious of it so that maybe next time when you go to the Hajj you will understand what you are doing instead of going to motions and movements mindless and senseless- and they put it over their left shoulder and under/in the armpit of the right shoulder so that the right shoulder is exposed. This was not something perchance or something that didn't have meaning. It was something that was required. The Prophet of Allah instructed the Muslims to do this to deflate all the propaganda of Quraysh and the Mushriks of Makkah because their propaganda machine was saying to the rest of public opinion the Muslims are weak. The Muslims are in bad economic conditions in Al Madinah. The Muslims are suffering from disease and poverty. The Muslims are ravaged by pneumonia and fevers of sorts. All of this was part of the Mushrik Makkan propaganda echo chambers. The Prophet of Allah wanted the Muslims to expose their right shoulders so that these Mushriks who are watching know the Muslims are not emaciated, the Muslims are not weak, the Muslims are not inflicted with these types of diseases and plagues that Makkah is talking about. Remember when the tawaaf around the Ka'bah is performed it is performed counter-clockwise. That means the left shoulder that is covered is towards the Ka'bah (and) the right shoulder which is exposed is towards the outside where viewers- these Mushriks who now have fear in their hearts- can see and evaluate who these people are. When they looked and they saw …  Another detail that you have to know is the first three rounds around the Ka'bah were jogging rounds, meaning you don't just walk. You go around the Ka'bah at a faster pace. So these Mushriks saw the Muslims in their first three rounds around the Ka'bah going around it with vitality and with bodies that are strong. This is a projection of power. This is something that has become a sha'eerah, a demonstration of our Hajj. Everyone does that now. If you go through the fiqhi books and you read about this you will find that the Fuqaha' agree that it is encouraged if not mandatory if you can to perform the first three rounds of tawaaf around the Ka'bah at an accelerated pace and to expose your right shoulder to the outside world. Now we ask you and we don't simply do this to harm anyone's feelings and we don't do this to prove anyone's ignorance, we do this to try to alert you to the fact that what we do in our Hajj (and) this is only one detail of that Hajj- some of you have already been to Makkah to the Hajj and to the Umrah and some of you have performed this tawaaf around the Ka'bah but what we do has become meaningless. These meanings, as they were originally initiated in the Hajj don't come to our minds. We don't think that we are there projecting power?! We don't think that we are there to show and make an appearance and to display and to manifest and to demonstrate our power?! We don't do that! This has been taken from us in these hundreds of years of the de-politicization of the Muslim mind and it's about time that we recapture these meanings. The Mushriks looked, observed, watched, monitored the condition of the Muslims, (and) the physical appearance of the Muslims and they said to themselves the following are these the ones that you claim have been ravaged by diseases and pneumonia? They are more versatile, they are more vital than so and so. Meaning they were impressed by what they saw of the appearance of Muslims. This brings us to the point- the appearance. The Muslims were projecting or demonstrating their power. So this is a demonstration. Don't get drawn into the secular world because the demonstration in the polluted context of a godless, secular world has negative connotations. This is the way a demonstration has to be. This is what is required of us (i.e.) to go to Makkah and to project our power. But what do you do when people have taken away this meaning? They didn't do it overnight. It wasn't done by one signature on a piece of paper. It was done throughout generations; hundreds of years of eroding the political and the ideological and the military message in our Islam, in our commitment to Allah until we wound up today the way we are (i.e.) going to Makkah and not really being the characters that we are supposed to be there. Let us say (or) let us come to today's mind (i.e.) those who say "demonstrations are not Islamic." First of all, if they understood their own history, they wouldn't say this.

 

The fact of the matter is some of them have the amamah on and some of them have a reflection of an Islamic character and these things- they come and say "demonstrations are not Islamic." Their definition of demonstration is taken from the secular world and if we impose the secular definition of a demonstration, well maybe we can say it's not Islamic; but is that who we are? We borrow our definitions from those who don't belong to Allah and His Prophet the same way these types are doing?! They know part of our character is Al Amr bi Al Ma'ruf and An Nahi an Al Munkar. They know this. OK- let us say we put together a crowd of Muslims who want to object to tyranny and injustice and with their collective Islamic character motivated by civil disobedience- which is the history of Allah's Prophet- and they express themselves in public; what's wrong with that? Is there any ayah or is there any hadith that says a Muslim cannot express Al Amr bi Al Ma'ruf and An Nahi an Al Munkar with a collective voice and with numerous numbers? Where? Show us? Present us with the ayah or the hadith. (to the) contrary, don't we say this is one ummah?

And, indeed, this is your ummah, [when it is], one ummah; and I am your Sustainer- and, thus, conform unto Me. (Surah Al Ambiya' verse 92)

What better to prove that we are one ummah than to come together. We come together in Al Jum'ah and in al jama'ah. On Fridays we are together; when we pray our jama'ah prayers we are together. What do these prayers (and) the ayaat speak about? What do we say in our prayers? Aren't there ayaat in our prayers that we recite from this Qur'an that speak about jihad? Who understands jihad as being only a personal responsibility? Isn't it a collective responsibility in its overall meaning? The same thing with the ayaat that speak about qital/fighting- isn't this an armies responsibility rather than an individual's responsibility? When we speak about financial transactions, when we speak about the laws of inheritance, when we speak about the longest ayah in the Qur'an that teaches us how to transact a financial deal and the other ayaat… We can probably come across half the Qur'an that speaks about our collective character! So why is it that the collective character of the Muslims is unwanted? We can understand why it is unwanted by those who disagree with us but we can't understand why it's unwanted by those who at least on the surface agree with us? Why don't they want the Muslims to present themselves in their numbers when they have these numbers? What's wrong with that? In today's world when Muslims are beginning to wake up to these meanings we have certain Governments and regimes who are beginning to confiscate Masajids? These Masajid were there- and some of them for hundreds of years- but because the spirit of Islam was not in it, it was alright. "You can go and perform your prayers mindlessly and meaninglessly- that's alright; we encourage you to do that; but if you recapture these meanings of solidarity in civil disobedience… oh no! Close down that Masjid or take it over. Torch them!" In certain areas in the West Bank they're torching Masajid, they're lighting them with fire and destroying them. They're passing laws (that) "you can't express the adhaan in public." In certain countries this has irritated and annoyed them so much that they're saying "if you want to voice your adhaan, that voice or that sound or those decibels cannot go out into public" in other words, you keep your adhaan within the four walls of the Masjid. The adhaan was meant to speak to, communicate with and arrive at the ears of everyone in the public- they don't want that. They're passing laws. In certain countries they're thinking the minaret can be only a certain height. Meaning they want to bring down this symbol of this Islamic demonstration of power. That's all. We had these for a long time but no one was speaking about it being against the law to build a minaret that is above a certain height?! But not they're beginning to pass these as laws! It's all because the Muslims are beginning to awaken and they are disturbed by this Islamic awakening. Allah says, speaking to the Muslims when they go to the Hajj in their yearly numerical projection

… so that they may witness or be witness to their own advantages and benefits. (Surah Al Hajj verse 28)

The way people go to Makkah and Al Umrah, because this (Hajj) is a yearly affair (but Umrah) is not once a year. The Hajj is once a year but the Umrah is not once a year. The Umrah is a continuum throughout the year even though the Saudi ruling clan has even prohibited the Umrah during a certain time in the year. How did they do that? Where did they come with this legislation? Can they substantiate it from the Qur'an or from the Sunnah? Of course not! But they take orders not from Allah and His Prophet but from Shayateen Al Ins wa Al Jinn.    

 

Dear committed Muslims…

Because of the gaps and the vacuum and the vacuity that has set in to the Muslim public mind it appears to some people that it is odd and out of place in a Khutbah like this on Fridays to be speaking about a life-and-death issue that affects not only the Muslims of the world but the populations of the world. A person like yours brotherly here realizes the distance between where we are and where we should be. We say what we're going to say knowing and cognisant of that distance. In today's threatening world, who is living Islam and doesn't feel threatened? Those who feel very secure are not living an Islam and an iman from Allah. Right now is not the time to deal with them. We're speaking about those who are living this commitment and this conviction with Allah (and) for Allah- that's who we are speaking about right now. War is in the air- not like it hasn't been there. Those of you who have been living Muslims or living Mu'mins in the past ten/twenty/thirty years know that war has always been in the air fermented by Adh Dhalimeen, by tyrannical systems (and) by corporate deadly interests. We've been living this and we're on our way out. Most of our life now is behind us. There's only a least amount of years ahead of us. We're speaking to (maybe) our generation. Are we Muslims to be deaf, dumb and blind when there are threatening enemies moving against us? Is that what's required of us? Where do you find a justification for that in the Book of Allah or in the history of His Prophet? That's not what is required of us! If a war is coming our way we open our eyes and we open our minds and we assume our responsibilities. Is it haraam on us- the Muslims who should be enlightened by Allah and His Prophet- to say that Governments from Washington DC to European Capitals and even to the land of the Haramayn are stirring the hostility pot so that they can justify using the weapons of mass destruction that they have. We just made a transition from how Allah's Prophet dealt with the powers of Makkah to how we, the followers of Allah's Prophet, are required to deal with the powers who control Makkah nowadays. In those days, the superpowers of that time left the Arabian disagreement to the Arabians in Arabia; in our days they have their hands in the cities and in the statelets in Arabia. (There are) military bases- they don't speak about that so much anymore. They want that to go off our mental radar! Why? Are they scared to say that they have such-and-such military bases in Islamic Holy Lands. Are they scared to quote the facts? Are they scared to tell us how many foreign anti-Islamic troops are stationed in Islamic Holy Lands? Are they scared?! Tell us! Come out with the truth if you have the courage to do so! But we can understand that that's part of their warfare- its psychological warfare, its propagandistic warfare, its media warfare, its perception warfare. It's all of that and much more. But how about us? Allah has given us the vital information to look at these facts and say if the Israeli-Zionists in Tel Aviv and their sidekicks in Washington DC are planning war against us the least we can say is "we know what you are thinking and don't expect us to go down like cattle and sheep." This becomes more sinister as they are trying to ignite internal Islamic issues. They will try to light a match to any perceptive disagreement among Muslims so that we are internally inflamed by our own rages and by our own revenges. That's what they are trying to do. What do you want us to do on a day like this when we are to remind each other of taqwa, of Allah's power and authoritative presence that trumps all of their powers and all of their false authorities? This is what taqwa in its grain means. With all of this information circulating in your mind be assured of Allah's power presence and Allah's authoritative presence. What are you going to do? OK- they take their vessels and they put them on certain water beds in the world? They position their missile systems in certain areas of the world and then they feed the public certain information that will try to justify launching wars in our part of the world, in the Islamic geography of the world. If they want to launch wars in their part of the world, we wish we could help them but because of their "exceptionalism" or their "chosen race mentality" or their "supremacy mind-set" they will not entertain our positive feedback so they can stew in their own wars but to bring those wars to us and say to us "in your Masajid it is haraam to speak about this issues"  they have to think that we are dumb and we are dummies! We are not!    

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 6 January 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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